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Coaching giant remembered as true volunteer Assistant swimming, diving coach Joe Hendee dies year after brain cancer diagnosis Zac Ellis Editor-in-Chief

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Assistant swim coach Joe Hendee celebrates during a meet on Saturday, Jan. 24, 2009. Hendee, who died Sunday, was an assistant with the swimming and diving program for more than 30 years.

Joe Hendee never viewed Tennessee as a stepping-stone job. The UT assistant swimming and diving coach knew what he loved, and what he loved was the Vols. “That’s just who he was,” Geoffrey Sanders, a senior on the swimming and diving team, said. “He was a Volunteer through and through. He lived and died with the Vols.” When Hendee, an assistant in the UT swimming and diving program since 1978, died Sunday at 50 after a year-long battle with brain cancer, the university lost a coach who represented Tennessee for more than 30 years on the pool deck. “You just can’t even put it into words,” Sanders said. “He was the glue that held our program together.” Hendee’s effect on the program helped propel the Vols into national prominence. After starting out as a student assistant in 1978, Hendee was hired in 1983 as the university’s first full-time paid assistant coach under legendary swim coach Ray Bussard. During Hendee’s tenure, Tennessee amassed a 177-32 (.847) dual-meet record. The Chattanooga native helped the Vols churn out three SEC championships and one national championship. Hendee also oversaw the training of 92 individual SEC champions, 15 NCAA champions and more than 100 All-America selections. Hendee was also irreplaceable within the Knoxville swimming community, serving as the head coach of the Knoxville Racquet Club in the summer for 20 seasons. It was that attitude of generosity

that stuck with UT swimmers who were touched by Hendee’s caring demeanor. “Anything and everything that you needed done with Tennessee swimming or anything that you ever needed to talk about,” Sanders said, “Joe was always there.” Sanders, who was recruited by Hendee out of Enloe High School in Raleigh, N.C., said Hendee’s genuine personality stuck out when compared to other college coaches. “A lot of swim coaches, they try to be used car salesmen,” Sanders said. “One of the things that really stuck with me about Joe and the University of Tennessee was that Joe wasn’t trying to sell athletic accomplishment. “He would say you could be an All-American, you could be an Olympian, but at the same time, it was much more than that. It was a lot more of coming to the University of Tennessee and becoming a true volunteer in every sense of the word and really honoring what it means to wear the orange and white.” Sanders still remembers the first time he met Hendee. The UT coach was making rounds at a junior national swim meet in California when Sanders noticed Hendee’s attire: A large bucket hat, complete with Hendee’s initials, and bright orange tennis shoes. “He came up to me and said, ‘Hey, my name’s Joe Hendee,’” Sanders said, “and the first thing I said to him was, ‘... from the University of Tennessee?’ “You could tell from the shoes, there was no question.” Hendee took a leave of absence from UT in August 2010 after becoming diagnosed with cancer earlier that summer. Those remaining within the program, however,

made sure Hendee’s years of service were not forgotten. The swimming and diving program organized a team to participate in UT’s chapter of Relay For Life on April 15. Every member of the program took part in the event, which raised $8,686 — the largest fundraising effort by one team at this year’s Relay event. The inspiration behind the group’s effort was obvious. “Joe always said, ‘Fight the good fight. Finish the race. Keep the faith,’” Coleman Weibley, the UT swimming and diving program’s operations intern, said before the group’s Relay appearance. “We just want to stand behind Joe and fight cancer along with him. “He has always been willing to drop everything to help someone, so now it’s our turn.” The dedication Hendee showed in his tenure at UT was mirrored in his work ethic. With no collegiate swimming experience beneath his belt, Hendee made the most of a passion for swimming by starting out as a student assistant upon graduation from UT. But Sanders said Hendee was a true “student of the sport.” “Every chance he had to talk to someone about how they’d trained a certain person or what stroke technique was, he’d do it,” Sanders said. “You’d go into his office, and he’d have books all over the place about swimming.” Much of Hendee’s knowledge came from well-known experts of the craft. “I remember he had emails from Bob Bowman, who was Michael Phelps’ coach, about how he trained Phelps,” Sanders said. “He never settled. He was always striving to get better.”

Taliban arranges Afghan prison break Associated Press While ground fighting eased during the long Afghan winter, insurgents in the former Taliban headquarters of Kandahar were apparently busy underground. The Taliban say they spent more than five months building a 1,050-foot tunnel to the main prison in southern Afghanistan, bypassing government checkpoints, watch towers and concrete barriers topped with razor wire. The diggers finally poked through Sunday and spent the night ferrying away more than 480 inmates through that same tunnel without a shot being fired, according to Afghan officials and the Taliban. Most of the prisoners were Taliban militants. The extraordinary prison break, following a recent wave of assassinations here, underscores the weakness of the Afghan government in the south despite an influx of international troops, funding and advisers. It also highlights the spirit and resourcefulness of the Taliban despite months of battlefield setbacks. Officials at Sarposa prison in Kandahar city, the one-time Taliban capital, say they discovered the breach at about 4 a.m. Monday, a halfhour after the Taliban say they had gotten all the prisoners safely to a house at the other end of the tunnel. Government officials corroborated parts of the Taliban account. They confirmed the tunnel was dug from a house within shooting distance of the prison and that the inmates had somehow gotten out of their locked cells and disappeared into the night. Kandahar remains relatively warm even during winter and the ground would not have frozen while insurgents were digging the tunnel. Police showed reporters the roughly hewn hole that was punched through the cement floor of the prison cell. The opening was about 3 feet (1 meter) in diameter, and the tunnel dropped straight down for about 5 feet (1.5 meters) and then turned in the direction of the house where it originated. But access was denied to the tunnel itself, and it was unclear how the Taliban were able to move so many men out of the prison so quickly. Also unclear was why guards would not have heard the diggers punch through the cement floor, and whether they supervise the inside of the perimeters at night. A man who claimed he helped organize those inside the prison told The Associated Press in a phone call that he and his accomplices obtained copies of the keys for the cells ahead of time from “friends.” He did not say who those friends were, but his comments suggested possible collusion by guards. “There were four or five of us who knew that our friends were digging a tunnel from the outside,” said Mohammad Abdullah, who said he

had been in Sarposa prison for two years after being captured in nearby Zhari district with a stockpile of weapons. “Some of our friends helped us by providing copies of the keys. When the time came at night, we managed to open the doors for friends who were in other rooms.” He said the diggers broke through Sunday morning and that the inmates in the cell covered the hole with a prayer rug until the middle of the night, when they started quietly opening the doors of cells and ushering prisoners in small groups into the tunnel. He said they woke the inmates up four or five at a time to sneak them out quietly. They also didn’t want too many people crawling through the narrow and damp tunnel at one time because of worries that they would run out of oxygen, Abdullah said. The AP reached Abdullah on a phone number supplied by a Taliban spokesman. His account could not immediately be verified. The Taliban statement said it took 4 1/4 hours for all the prisoners to clear the tunnel, with the final inmates emerging into the house at 3:30 a.m. They then used a number of vehicles to shuttle the escaped convicts to secure locations. Reporters were not allowed into that building, but officials pointed out the mud-walled compound with a brown gate and shops on either side. The city’s police mounted a massive search operation for the escaped convicts. They shot and killed two inmates who tried to evade capture and re-arrested another 26, said Tooryalai Wesa, the provincial governor. But there was no ignoring that the Taliban had pulled off a daring success under the noses of Afghan and NATO officials. “This is a blow,” presidential spokesman Waheed Omar said. “A prison break of this magnitude of course points to a vulnerability.” At least 486 inmates escaped from Sarposa, most of them Taliban fighters, according to Gov. Wesa. The Taliban said they had freed more than 500 of their fellow insurgents and that about 100 of them were commanders — four of them former provincial chiefs. Government officials declined to provide details on any of the escaped inmates or say whether any were considered high-level commanders. The highest-profile Taliban inmates would likely not be held at Sarposa. The U.S. keeps detainees it considers a threat at a facility outside of Bagram Air Base in eastern Afghanistan. Other key Taliban prisoners are held by the Afghan government in a high-security wing of the main prison in Kabul. Pentagon spokesman Col. Dave Lapan said the military command in Afghanistan had “not Tara Sripunvoraskul • The Daily Beacon been asked by the Afghans to provide any assistance” such as intelligence help in looking for Lillian Schaeffer, sophomore in studio art, plays with her friend’s dog, Wilow, in the the escaped inmates. grass outside the Humanities Building on Monday.

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Players and coaches on the UT softball team watch from the dugout during a game against Mississippi State at Lee Stadium on Thursday, April 21. The Lady Vols went on to win the home series, winning two of three games against the Bulldogs in Knoxville.

1954: Polio vaccine trials begin On this day in 1954, the Salk polio vaccine field trials, involving 1.8 million children, begin at the Franklin Sherman Elementary School in McLean, Va. Children in the United States, Canada and Finland participated in the trials, which used for the first time the now-standard double-blind method, whereby neither the patient nor attending doctor knew if the inoculation was the vaccine or a placebo. On April 12, 1955, researchers announced the vaccine was safe and effective and it quickly became a standard part of childhood immunizations in America. In the ensuing decades, polio vaccines would all but wipe out the highly contagious disease in the Western Hemisphere. Polio, known officially as poliomyelitis, is an infectious disease that has existed since ancient times and is caused by a virus. It occurs most

commonly in children and can result in paralysis. The disease reached epidemic proportions throughout the first half of the 20th century. During the 1940s and 1950s, polio was associated with the iron lung, a large metal tank designed to help polio victims suffering from respiratory paralysis breathe. President Franklin Roosevelt was diagnosed with polio in 1921 at the age of 39 and was left paralyzed from the waist down and forced to use leg braces and a wheelchair for the rest of his life. In 1938, Roosevelt helped found the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, later renamed the March of Dimes. The organization was responsible for funding much of the research concerning the disease, including the Salk vaccine trials.

Crime Log April 23 A male student reported that the Alpha Gamma Rho house’s first-floor kitchen window had been broken around 12:15 a.m. April 24

A student reported that some contents from her purse had been stolen from Room 253 of Hodges Library some time between 10:10 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. on April 20. The victim stated that she had attended class in Room 253 and had forgotten the purse when she left the area to attend other classes. She — This Day in History is courtesy of realized some time after 2:30 p.m. that she history.com. did not have her purse, so she traced her

steps back to the library, locating the purse in the “lost and found.” The victim did not check the contents of the purse until she got home and found that her student ID and Texas driver’s license had been taken. Two male subjects, one student and one unaffiliated person, reported an armed robbery that occurred in their apartment on Highland Avenue in the Fort Sanders neighborhood around 9:45 p.m. More information about this investigation can be found in the e-mail sent by UTPD to students, faculty and staff on April 25. — Crime Log is compiled by Robbie Hargett.

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GOP hopes to defer gun legislation Associated Press

Girl Talk to headline Volapalooza on Friday 2011 Volapalooza: The Kickoff to Commencement concert will be held Friday at World’s Fair Park featuring headliner Girl Talk with special guest Matt Costa and opener The Kingston Springs. This year’s concert is presented by Campus Entertainment Board, Cultural Attractions Committee, Student Government Association, URHC, Aramark, All Campus Events and WUTK. All UT students may enter free with ID at the gate. Tickets for the general public can be purchased at www.knoxvilletickets.com or at the UC Central Ticket Office for $15 or $20 the day of the show. As a part of the Kickoff to Commencement ceremonies, graduating seniors will be allowed early entry at 6:00 p.m. for a special Senior Hour with free food and giveaways. Gates for the public will open at 7:00 p.m. with the concert starting at 7:45 p.m. Any questions, comments or concerns should be directed toward the Office of Student Activities at 974-5455, or email at colin@utk.edu. UT Psychological Clinic to host free anxiety and depression screenings As part of National Anxiety and Depression Awareness Week and Mental Health Month, the Psychological Clinic at UT will be hosting a free anxiety and depression screening day to provide public education about the conditions and offer referrals for individuals suffering from these disorders. The screenings will be conducted from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on Thursday, May 5, at the Psychological Clinic. Screenings will be conducted on a walk-in basis by graduate students in the clinical psychology Ph.D. program and supervised by licensed psychologists. Anyone interested in learning more about the symptoms of depression and anxiety — either for themselves, a friend, or family member — can attend the screening day and receive a brief consultation about these symptoms and the importance of seeking treatment. Referral information also can be provided in handout format so that individuals can pass it along to other individuals who may be interested in treatment services in the Knoxville community. The clinic also can provide a brief consultation

and referral information to individuals who know a friend or family member who may be suffering from depression or anxiety. This event is open to the public. Staff member honored by Tennessee Science Olympiad Board of Directors UT employee Rai-Lynne Broach Alexander has been honored by the Tennessee Science Olympiad Board of Directors with the 2011 Service Award. Alexander was honored for her contributions to the Tennessee Science Olympiad State Tournament. David Stanislawski, director of the Tennessee Science Olympiad and president of the board of directors, gave her the award at the tournament awards ceremony in early April. Alexander is an administrative assistant in the Governor’s School for the Sciences and Special Programs office, within the College of Arts and Sciences. Stanislawski said Alexander has been the behind-the-scenes cohesive force driving and organizing much of what happens at the state tournament. She has coordinated the tournament since 2004, working with three faculty directors over the years. For the past three years, Jeffrey Kovac, UT professor of chemistry, has directed the state tournament. As a team, Kovac and Alexander have advanced the tournament in many ways and earned high praise in program evaluations. On the day of the Tennessee Science Olympiad State Tournament, roughly 1,000 participants, including students, coaches, and parents from across the state, are on campus competing in events, and more than 160 faculty and student volunteers help with the competition. Alexander oversees the communication, logistics, facilities, catering and scheduling for the event and is on site that day to make sure everything runs smoothly. Alexander is a 2002 UT Knoxville graduate in ecology and evolutionary biology. A former science student, she enjoys watching students compete in the tournament and demonstrate their knowledge and skill. She also enjoys interacting with the faculty at the tournament. The 2011 Tennessee Science Olympiad State Tournament is sponsored by the College of Arts and Sciences with support from the UT/ORNL Science Alliance, the College of Engineering, and the College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences.

Gov. Bill Haslam and Senate Speaker Ron Ramsey are working against a bill to allow faculty and staff to carry guns on the campuses of Tennessee’s public universities. But the two Republicans have arrived at their positions for different reasons. Haslam told The Associated Press last week that he wants to leave it up to administrators at each school to decide whether to allow guns to be carried, while Ramsey claimed the proposal would unfairly dominate media attention while several other important initiatives are pending before lawmakers. Supporters of the measure say they would leave it up to administrators to ban guns on campus as long as they are willing to guarantee the safety of students and staff. Haslam called that standard unrealistic. “It’s very hard on a campus — or in a lot of other situations — to guarantee anybody’s safety,” he said. “So that language is worrisome.” The measure sponsored by Sen. Stacey Campfield, R-Knoxville, and Rep. Andy Holt, RDresden, also is opposed by both of the state’s higher education systems and by the police chiefs’ association. The bill is scheduled to be heard in the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday. “I’m discouraging the sponsor from bringing it up this year,” Ramsey said. “That’s not some-

thing that needs to be brought up.” The number of Tennessee handgun carry permit holders in January was nearly 308,000, a 40percent increase since the same month in 2009. Over that same period, about 1,600 permits were suspended or revoked because of criminal charges or orders of protection in domestic violence cases. Ramsey said the only major gun bill he wants to pass this session is one that would ban businesses from prohibiting their employees from storing guns in cars parked on company lots. Haslam also has expressed support for the measure, despite objections from the business community that it would violate property rights. “I want to concentrate on what I think is meaningful and what will help Second Amendment, gun carry permit holders the most,” Ramsey said. “And I do think that guns on campus is a sideline that we don’t need to be getting to right now.” The House last week advanced a measure to allow judges to carry guns in courtrooms as long as they go through the same weapons training required of law enforcement officers, including a 16-hour safety course and annual eight-hour refresher courses. Republican Rep. Jim Coley of Bartlett said he will seek similar training standards for faculty and staff to carry guns on campus. But the proposal’s prospects are uncertain given the vocal opposition to those rules among several committee members on the judges bill.

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‘Left’ fails to de-value women, as columnist claims In his April 14 column, Treston Wheat, now apparently a feminist, tackles the admittedly tricky issue of the rights of women in Christian doctrine. Some brief points: 1. Within the Church, it is the right that emphasizes patriarchy. The “egalitarian evangelicals,” along with other “liberal” Christians, are the most influential exponents of gender equality in scripture. Atheists often attack traditional Christianity for patriarchy, but traditional Christians often respond by affirming patriarchy. This is not a left-right or atheist-Christian issue; it is first and foremost a debate within Christianity. 2. Atheism, appearing in this column for rather lonely looking psychological reasons, is not uniquely an article of “the left.” There is a long tradition of left theism, and the current overwhelming association of traditional religion with the political right is a recent occurrence. The writer of our “under God”-less pledge was a Christian socialist, William Jennings Bryan (of Scopes fame) gave the Cross of Gold speech, revivalist movements were often progressive, etc. Similarly, the American right-libertarian tradition, along with many neo-conservative thinkers, has a high atheist count. Ayn Rand, anyone? 3. Secular accounts of values exist. No, really, people have been working with this stuff for centuries. Many centuries. Apparently, this is news. Materialism, up to and including the straw-man crudity tacitly equated with atheism by Wheat, does not contradict claims to positive values. Only certain meta-ethical claims — these being, in my view and I think most professional views, unnecessary for values — are contradicted by materialism, such as giving ethical values the same ontological status that one gives a rock. We chug along quite nicely without doing that, thank you. 4. “(Wheat does) not understand why these Christian leaders will say women cannot enter the clergy when Deborah was a prophetess and Phoebe was a deacon in

the early church.” See the oddly absent 1 Timothy 2:12 et al. (I take it there was no room for both the most relevant verse on the matter AND atheist-bashing.) For traditional Catholicism, just see et al. Judging by Wheat’s argumentation method and list of examples, he appears to be under the impression that “liberals” charge traditional Christianity with holding women in pure contempt and feel that they can never be suitable vessels for God’s will in that tradition. That’s simply not the point; from this and other columns, I suspect a lack of attention to feminist literature. What feminists oppose in traditional Christianity is patriarchy, that women have a defined role in society, particularly one which is subordinate to men — husbands and fathers. The cheerers and jeerers of Biblical patriarchy do not claim that women are never praiseworthy in scripture. That’s so untenable that even Wheat can deconstruct it. Rather, it is that they are praiseworthy in their role: childbearing, obedient wives. In my view, there is room for serious consideration for the egalitarians on this issue, especially given the results of secular Biblical criticism. But unless we allow ourselves to seriously doubt the canon itself, we’ll find ourselves agreeing with most modern scholarship, secular and religious, and centuries of orthodoxy in seconding the following claim: The Bible subordinates women to men. It does not subordinate them unconditionally. It does not claim that women are worthless. It gives them a place and tells them to stay there. But no, it’s the “left” that doesn’t value women ... It’s “atheists” who don’t value women ... As though we lack a centurieslong track record of those who defended patriarchy and their opponents, these including many gender-egalitarian secularists and the left, particularly socialists (both atheist and not), to consult ... (For the curious: Many feminists are uncomfortable with men self-identifying as feminists.) Jesse Parish senior in mathematics jparris8@utk.edu

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Effects of new bill potentially devastating T he Social N etwo r k by

Elliott DeVore Many of you may be aware of the “Don’t Say Gay” bill (SB0049) that local congressman Stacey Campfield has been trying to push through Tennessee legislature for quite some time. Most recently, it passed through the Senate Education Committee and will be entering the Senate floor. If this bill is enacted, it will prevent the discussion of any aspect of sexuality, other than heterosexuality, before ninth grade. Campfield’s bill states that children before ninth grade should not be exposed to homosexuality, because human sexuality is a complex subject and is best reserved for discussion in the home. What I don’t understand is how homosexuality is more complex than heterosexuality? I wonder if the boys in my sixth-grade class thought heterosexuality was too complex when they smuggled Playboys to school? What devastates me most is that this bill will prevent teachers from discussing the bullying that lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered (LGBT) students experience. Being gay, I have personally endured a lot of bullying as a child. Children can be relentlessly cruel to each other, and being attacked for being LGBT is one of the most painful and ostracizing things to experience. I can’t even put into words how insecure and lonely I felt at times when I was in middle school. The way I walked and the way I talked were popular targets for taunting — because my peers thought I was gay. I cried alone, too ashamed to tell anyone, even my mother. Approaching my teachers about this bullying was never an option, because being bullied for being “a sissy” or gay wasn’t valid in many of their eyes. I was just supposed to toughen up and deal with it … or “act like a boy.” A survey by GLSEN (Gay Lesbian Straight Education Network) of more than 6,000 LGBT students found that 64.3 percent of students have felt unsafe in school because of their sexual orientation. This was compared to 18.1 percent who felt unsafe because of their religion and 8.9 percent because of their race or ethnicity.

The study also found that 86.2 percent of students have been verbally harassed with terms like “faggot” or “dyke.” Likewise, 28.9 percent of the students had felt so unsafe in school that they have skipped a class or the entire day in the past month. A reported 37.8 percent of students reported being physically harassed (pushed or shoved) because of their actual or perceived sexual orientation, and 17.6 percent were physically assaulted (punched, kicked or injured with a weapon) because of the perceived or actual sexual orientation, with 11.8 percent assaulted as a result of their gender expression. With these figures it comes as no surprise that LGBT youth are five times more likely to commit suicide. I wonder if Campfield read any of these reports? This bill will also prevent schools from having Gay Straight Alliances (GSAs). It has been shown that LGBT youth who have supportive social environments and GSAs are less likely to experience depression or be suicidal. Eleven-year-old Carl Joseph Walker-Hoover committed suicide in April 2009 because of daily torments for being gay, despite constant pleas from his mother to the school for help. Lawrence King, an eighth grader in California, was murdered in February 2008 at his school for being gay. This is clearly an issue we must address. Society must acknowledge that people are coming out as LGBT at much younger ages these days. Preventing schools in Tennessee from addressing the needs of LGBT students through anti-bullying policies, classes or GSAs is stripping our young students of their right to human dignity and emotional soundness. Is it not the duty of educators to provide students with the healthiest environment in which they can flourish in every aspect of their lives? It enrages me to the depths of my being that Campfield and other conservatives try to politicize this as asserting “the gay agenda.” This is not an issue of politics; it is one of human dignity, respect and human lives — children’s lives to be precise. Passing this bill will allow the emotional degradation of children across the state. This bill will prevent our educators from addressing the bullying of LGBT students, from serving as a beacon of hope for those students who feel alone, depressed or even suicidal. Shame on you, Sen. Campfield. Your lack of integrity is appalling, and if this bill passes, your selfish political agenda will have a devastating impact on the lives of LGBT students across the state. Repercussions from this bill will be truly unforgivable. — Elliott DeVore is a senior in psychology. He can be reached at edevore@utk.edu.

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It is to that point in the semester where everyone is either overly stressed or overly excited. Only one more week of classes and Hodges Library will bear maximum capacity, only to infuriate all of the territorial students who have self-designated cubbies on various floors. Group study floors, from this point forward, will lose the intended use of academic help and discussion from peers and become, instead, social networking hot spots. Outlets to plug in your computer will be unobtainable unless you find the guy clever enough to bring his extension cord and sell an open socket to you. There are those of us who will become sleep deprived over the next two weeks, and there are those of us who will treat these next two weeks just as any others. Whatever the case may be for you, it is said with confidence that every single student is ecstatic to at least be through with his or her current course load, if only to take on new classes for summer. Perhaps many of you are heading home for the summer, or maybe you’re staying in good ol’ Knoxville because, let’s face it, your life is here now. Wherever the next few months may take you, the challenges are certainly not over. There are working adults (parents, mostly) who laugh at the notion that our lives are hard now. I’m no good at math, but even if I were, I don’t think I could count high enough to calculate the number of times I’ve heard an elder say, “You think life is tough now? You just wait.” How discouraging is this? You mean to tell me that, on top of never getting adequate sleep, being a full-time, working student, worrying about maintaining a grade-point average and making sure bills are paid on time (or paid), somewhere around the corner, life is going to add something else to that already horrific list to make it seem more unbearable?

I mean, save me the trouble and tell me where to sign up for my “Mrs.” degree, am I right? After some serious alone time and contemplation of this catch-22 called “life” or “living” or whatever name you want to give it, I ran across a quote in “Dear John” (a Nicholas Sparks book) that struck me as all too appropriate: “When you’re struggling with something, look at all the people around you and realize that every single person you see is struggling with something, and to them, it’s just as hard as what you’re going through.” For the adults who can’t tell us enough that “life only gets tougher,” I find that their lack of understanding is from a general lack of perception of this thought. Everything you are and everything you’re doing, they’ve already done. The stages of our lives are not new; everyone crossed the same bridges. As you get older, I think you forget just how terribly difficult those bridges were to cross. Victories after crossing these bridges are usually tattered with comments like, “I did it when I was your age,” and, “It wasn’t nearly as difficult as you’re making it.” But sometimes it is. Sometimes the week of finals is so unbearably overwhelming that you feel like you are, literally, never going to sleep again. Sometimes the week of finals requires the comprehension and memorization of far too much material, and as my statistics professor would say, “Your brain is a sponge and will only hold so much, and your sponge is full now, so leave” (give or take some eloquence). Either way, difficult or not, it’s not a choice. You have to take final exams, you have to study and you have to pass. No matter where you’re going this summer, no matter where you’ve been this semester, no matter what your final grades turn out to be, you have to plainly do the best you can and be done with it; you can’t give up, and you can’t give in to discouragement … ever. The best you can do is to do the best you can do, and you have to be honest with yourself about what your “best” is. But for the love … keep looking up. “Mama used to tell me there’s nothing on the ground but your feet.” — Ashleigh Disler is a junior in journalism and electronic media. She can be reached at adisler@utk.edu.

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‘Hanna’ offers twist on stale thriller genre All-star cast, including Eric Bana, Cate Blanchett, unable to support flawed script Will Abrams Arts and Entertainment Editor Coming dangerously close to being too weird for its own good, “Hanna” arrived in theaters to provide a different approach to the typical spy thriller. The film follows its title character (a flawless performance from Saoirse Ronan) as she and her father (Eric Bana) engage in a plan to rid the world of a corrupt intelligence operative (Cate Blanchett). Trained in the wilderness of Finland, Hanna is not an ordinary teenage girl. Skilled in various fighting styles, dozens of languages and stealth, she is the perfect weapon. As the film points out on several occasions, this has left her with no idea as to how to function in the real world. Playing out as a mixture of spy games and fairy tales, “Hanna” shoots for an audience that has grown tired of tasteless “Bourne” copycats. While the idea of a child being a trained killer isn’t

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the newest (“Leon: The Professional,” among others, has used it), it is used just sparingly enough these days for it be refreshing. It doesn’t hurt that Ronan finds a way to, yet again, be the best part about a film she appears in. The young actress picked up an Oscar nomination for best supporting actress in 2008 for her role in “Atonement,” when she was only 13 years old, and hasn’t looked back since. Her role in “Hanna” is both innocent and deadly, tragic and beautiful. Of course, it would be a mistake to forget about her costars Blanchett and Bana, who deliver great work as well. The former does an impeccable job of keeping her character in line with the mood of the story, while Bana is believable as the young assassin’s father. Even Tom Hollander (“Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End”) gives an exceptional performance as the contract killer out to find Hanna. His character is far from his usual prudish roles and would fit well with Malcolm McDowell’s Alex of “A Clockwork Orange” fame.

The structure of “Hanna,” however, doesn’t stand as strongly as its acting performances. Ranging from creative to misguided, the film at times wants to be weird just for the sake of being weird. The film aims to be a tale similar to one that could be found in a Brothers Grimm collection (which periodically appears throughout the film). Though the idea is unique and interesting, audiences looking for an overabundance of violence may feel cheated. The scenes that do contain Hanna’s killer skills are few and far between; the bulk of the story is devoted to Hanna’s exposure to the outside world for the first time. Having been stuck in a cabin for the first 16 years of her life, the girl stands out quite a bit when placed in social environments (a concept the film uses for comic relief more than o.nce). “Hanna” is a coming-of-age tale set within the world of espionage that, much like its protagonist in the opening scene, just misses the heart.

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THESPORTSPAGE

Tuesday, April 26, 2011

UT tennis falls to Florida in SEC semifinals Vols escape Ole Miss in first round, cannot overcome early deficit to Gators in next round Preston Peeden Staff Writer Winning one championship is great, but repeating is even better. With the increase in prestige, there is also an increase in difficulty; it is even harder for a team to repeat than to win the first time around. This is a lesson that the UT men’s tennis team learned this past weekend at the SEC Championships in Gainesville, Fla, as they failed to survive past the second round . Fresh off achieving their second consecutive SEC regular-season title, as well as being ranked No. 2 in the nation by the ITA, the Vols were poised to continue their winning ways in tournament play. In the beginning, it seemed as though they would. The Vols’ first matchup in the tournament was against Ole Miss, a team the Orange and White had handled easily in the regular season. But this match was different. The Vols opened up strong in doubles play, clinching the first two matches and securing the doubles point. Following this, the Vols earned two quick wins in singles from sophomore Tennys Sandgren and senior John-Patrick Smith, both in straight sets, to make the score 3-1. With only one more point necessary for victory, the Vols had to wait for more than an hour for senior Matteo Fago to clinch the necessary fourth point. The marathon match began an hour after its initial 6 p.m. start time and lasted until 11 p.m. After the match, head coach Sam Winterbotham, though pleased with the victory, was not happy with the team’s overall performance. “I thought we started really well, but we got a little loose in the middle,” Winterbotham said. “I would have liked us to get ahead and stay ahead. We’ve got to refocus for tomorrow.” Unfortunately for the Vols, this lack of focus was not corrected once they took the court in the semifinals to take on the

George Richardson • The Daily Beacon

John-Patrick Smith jumps for an overhead, as teammate Boris Conkic watches, during a doubles match against Florida on Sunday, April 10. Following a disappointing second-round loss at the SEC tournament, the Vols look to learn from their season heading into national-tournament play.

Diamond Vols drop series to Georgia Lauren Kittrell Staff Writer The Diamond Vols continue to face a rollercoaster of wins and losses, hopes and disappointments, as they trudge through the season, now at 22-17. Tennessee faced the Georgia Bulldogs on Friday and opened the weekend series with a promising, though close, win. Senior third baseman Matt Duffy hit a game-winning walk-off single to make the score 5-4. “I was a little nervous, because the game was on the line, and you never want to let your team down and want to get that big hit,” Duffy said. “I’ve never walked off in my life, so that was pretty cool. I was just looking for a pitch to drive, and luckily, he left one up, and I got a hold of it.” The win was the Vols’ third straight after their two victories against Alabama, and it put them on a path to win the series. Coach Todd Raleigh said Duffy’s hit was the perfect follow up after Georgia intentionally walked senior second baseman Khayyan Norfork. “I knew Georgia would intentionally walk (Norfork),” Raleigh said. “I came up and told Matt before Khay (Norfork) hit. I think it’s a good play. I don’t blame them. Duffy is a little injured, and Khay is one of the toughest guys in the league to double up, so I thought it was actually a

pretty good play. “Matt just had one of the best swings we’ve seen from him all year. This was huge. To get two in Tuscaloosa, (Ala.,) against Alabama, who’s leading the (SEC) Western Division and then to come back and do this on a Friday night is huge for us.” On Saturday, the Bulldogs brought the Volunteers’ three-game winning streak to an abrupt end, though. Georgia pulled ahead early in the game and held on to beat the Vols 8-6, despite the efforts of redshirt freshman Jon Reed over the last 4.2 innings. “That was the most encouraging thing all day,” Raleigh said. “That’s the best he’s pitched by far. We stretched him out to (near) his career high in pitches, and he did a great job. If there’s any silver lining, I thought he did a good job.” Tennessee met a further disappointment and bowed to the Bulldogs on Sunday, as the teams battled for the series win. Though the Vols recorded more hits than the Bulldogs and had the game tied through the third inning, they were unable to come out with the win, losing 5-3. “That’s a tough one,” Raleigh said. “We get 12 hits, they get seven. They make an error, we don’t. It was probably the most frustrating game we’ve had this year. We had so many chances. We need every win we can get at this point. I felt like it was a good matchup.

“Their starting pitcher had been struggling, and he struggled (again today) and didn’t last long. We just couldn’t get anything going against their bullpen. I thought (Andrew) Toles and Nick Williams were great today. It’s great to see freshmen show up and play in the third game of a series.” The Vols will face Middle Tennessee State on Tuesday and travel to Cookeville on Wednesday to face Tennessee Tech.

Florida Gators. Despite an easy victory over the Gators in the regular season in which UT cruised to a 7-0 shellacking of its rivals, the situation Saturday was different. UT opened strong in the doubles, winning two of three matches. But the Vols’ dreams of repeating ended almost as soon as the singles matches began. “Florida came out in singles and they competed, and it was a real match,” Winterbotham said. “We’re in Gainesville, and the guys have the experience. We know what’s coming. We knew how to handle it. We just didn’t.” In singles play, the Vols struggled to find their footing on the Gator’s home court. Following two quick defeats for the Vols, Smith — who went into the match carrying the No. 11-overall ranking in singles play, to go along with a five-match winning streak — was handled by Alexandre Lacroix in straight sets, putting the Vols in a nearly insurmountable 3-1 deficit. The Vols did not give up, as Rhyne Williams fought through a tough match to win in straight sets, making the score 3-2. This, however, proved to be a last gasp, as the finalpoint came from Billy Federhofer, who clinched the match for the Gators by beating Fago in three sets. The magnitude of this victory was not lost on Florida head coach Andy Jackson, who was more than proud of his team’s showing. “Our guys are really excited, because we played an extremely good match against a championship team,” Jackson said. “We know it’s one of the best four teams in the country, and they’ve already won an SEC championship. We’ve got a chance to win one tomorrow.” For the Vols, the season is not yet over, but an important lesson needs to be learned from this weekend, one Winterbotham summed up on Saturday. “We’ve got to learn,” Winterbotham said. “For us to win a national championship — which is our goal and what our team is capable of doing — we have to be able to handle these situations.”