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Updated bus system works to conserve energy Metropolitan Planning Commission, said.

In order to have non-attainment status, an area must have air quality that does not

“Most individuals make the remark that they already ride the bus and take their bikes when they can, but the logging is the only way to

ments work closely with Knoxville Area Transit to ensure that individuals take into consideration alternative transit available in the area.

on air quality alert days.

“Air quality action days are funded through the CMAQ (Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality) program,

meet federal government requirements. Individuals can log on to the Smart Trips website, and there is a college portal for students.

The program takes out the hassle for citizens to get started with carpooling through Smart Trips’ matching database found on its site.

track the improvement of air quality,” Ashouri said.

The website allows all participants to track their own progress and to really visualize how they are personally improving the air quality of the area.

Both the City of Knoxville and Knox County govern-

KAT general manager Cindy McGinnis said the organization applies all of the efforts of the Smart Trips initiative, including promoting an increase in biking and pedestrian activities.

“We coordinate all the time with Smart Trips,” McGinnis said. This includes free fare

designed to encourage people not to make as many auto trips,” she said.

When the grant money goes away, so will the free fare program. For complaints on bus schedule irregularity, McGinnis said that with help from the new transit center on Church Street and a new

automated vehicle locator system, individuals can look for the real time location of each bus using a desktop computer.

“Dispatchers will also have access to that information and will be able to space the buses out more evenly.” she said.

McGinnis also said that once a new rider gets over the hurdles of understanding the bus schedule, it will become easier.

“I personally ride the bus,” McGinnis said. “My goal is to ride the bus exclusively for one year.”

University students receive a discount on semester bus passes through the Central Ticket Office. To make the pledge on reducing personal energy use, visit http://smarttrips.knoxtrans.org.

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‘Art’ seminar centers on stress management Brandi Panter

Kevin Letsinger News and Student Life Editor The month of May is dedicated to the Smart Trips program.

Smart Trips has existed since 2003, working to map commuter routes to better conserve energy for routine trips.

With more than 70 businesses participating, up from just a handful when the program first started, Smart Trips has drastically reduced the air pollution in Knoxville.

“The results are quite effective, considering that only a few years back the greater Knoxville area had non-attainment status, and now we have the results that show that we are in attainment,” Alisa Ashouri, Smart Trips coordinator with the

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The Baker Center is to host on June 15 the program “What Health Care Reform Means to Doctor: A Program for Doctors and Administrators” that will talk about issues about federal health care reform legislation.

Chris Barber Staff Writer The UT Baker Center will host a summit for the medical community and related fields on June 15 to discuss the impact that the new federal health care reform legislation will have upon their practices.

The bill, more than 2,000 pages, undoubtedly contains a depth of technical and broader instructions and regulations leading to improved health care for the American public.

The program, “What Health Care Reform Means to Doctors: A Program for Doctors and Administrators” is a collaborative effort among professionals in the field to learn and utilize the most from the new law.

Dr. Michael R. Caudle, senior fellow and director of the health policy program at the Baker Center, said the purpose of the event is to “create an ongoing dialogue between the Baker Center and physicians about which policies need to be worked on.”

Caudle has operated his own practice for 25 years.

The event will also feature Stead Health Group Inc. president Dr. Stan Stead, as the keynote speaker. Stead is widely regarded as a national authority on health care economics and payment systems for physician and hospital services, information technology and quality health care.

Stead regularly advises the federal government on a sundry of health care issues and has an expansive history in both academics and as a practicing anesthesiologist. He currently holds an academic appointment at University of California, Davis.

The June 15 dinner will have a panel discussion moderated by Caudle. Panelists will include Stead, Dr. Jack Lacey, senior vice president and chief medical officer for University Health System and Dr. Doug Leahy, who practices with Internal Medicine Associates of Knoxville. The program will also be broadcast via webcast. “(The event is) not a political rally for or against the new reforms and that there is a lack of understanding of the details,” Caudle said.

The health care legislation will demand adaptability and pragmatism from both the local and national medical community. On this, Caudle said “many of the opportunities and challenges presented are in the eye of the beholder.”

One of the new reforms are the new incentives provided to doctors for transitioning from paper to electronic records. This is an attempt to provide better coverage to patients by keeping a more accurate record of their medical histories and avoiding difficulties such as lost documents and illegible handwriting.

The Baker Center is striving to host a bipartisan, unbiased avenue leading to mutual clarity toward the new legislation. The June 15 event is not a conclusive gathering but rather the beginning of a continuing endeavor to better understand the law and thus provide better coverage, more support for primary care and preventive medicine to all people.

Ultimately, as Caudle noted, “the health care reforms are still a work in progress.”

Managing and Chief Copy Editor One of the world’s largest non-profit organizations visited Knoxville on Wednesday night to educate locals on the importance of stress management.

Members of the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church, located on Kingston Pike, and other residents were treated to a workshop entitled “Health and Happiness,” sponsored by the Art of Living Foundation, founded in 1981 by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar.

“The program stresses humanitarian work, workshops on self improvement, non-violence and stress relief,” said M.K. Anand, Art of Living faculty member.

The workshop, Anand said, is part of a statewide initiative to promote non-violence and non-aggression by means of educating students with simple re-centering exercises.

The program, which targets at-risk groups such as students and incarcerated individuals, operates under the philosophy that a stressfree environment leads to a less hostile attitude and execution of actions.

“We believe that behind every criminal, there is a victim, a victim of stress and circumstance,” Anand said.

Anand himself testified to the importance of stress-management skills. As a nuclear engineer, he often found himself geared towards stress and aggression, part of which he said came from an intense curriculum and competitive work environment.

After participating in stress-relief exercises, Anand said, “I was able to handle myself better, become re-centered, more focused and less stressed.”

The evening, which was led by Swami Pragyapad, focused on deep breathing and meditation exercises.

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ART continued from Page 1 Pragyapad, an advanced chemical engineering graduate of the Indian Institute of Technology who has visited more than 25 countries and four continents, spanning from Argentina to Asia, teaching the Art of Living program, encouraged participants to “not think of a monkey for five seconds.”

As partakers struggled not to invision a monkey, Pragyapad pointed out that it is impossible to control the mind and force it into meditation. He instead encouraged pupils to allow their thoughts and feelings to carry them

throughout meditation and to be relaxed in their resting mind.

Pragyapad spoke of the importance of physical care for mental well-being. He encouraged members of the audience to be especially mindful of their diet, paying close attention to how food impacts energy levels.

Energy was also a central point of contention throughout the seminar, with attention being paid to how diet, sleep and exercise can aid in the alleviation of stress.

When asked about the program’s central teachings of non-violence and peace and how it relates to stress management, Pragyapad said,

“Why is a person violent?

Anger. What causes anger?

Stress.”

He added that the motivation of teaching stress management in prisons is to rehabilitate prisoners into society with an outlet for dealing with anger in hopes of preventing repeat offenders.

Pragyapad summarized his teachings and the philosophy of the program as he pontificated on the definition of happiness during the closing session.

“Everyone wants to be happy,” he said. “Everyone thinks that happiness is difficult. In reality, all that it takes to get to happiness is a deep breath.”

Tenn. may honor Isaac Hayes with section of I-40 NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Legendary late soul musician Isaac Hayes may get a commemorative stretch of highway in his home state of Tennessee.

A measure to designate a section of Interstate 40 the “Isaac Hayes Memorial Highway” passed the state

Senate unanimously Thursday.

The House approved it without opposition in April.

The commemorative stretch would be near Memphis, where Hayes had a home until he died of a stroke in 2008 at the age of 65. He was raised in Tipton County, north of Memphis.

Waffle House worker calls police from hood of car MURFREESBORO, Tenn.

— A Waffle House employee has survived without serious injury after three teens took off without paying and he clung to the hood of their car.

The incident occurred in Murfreesboro, and Andrew

Brian McKnight says he wasn’t trying to be a hero but climbed onto the hood when the driver tried to run over him in his escape.

The Daily News Journal reported that during the fiveminute ordeal on Sunday the car reached speeds up to 60 miles per hour.

McKnight — who lives in Eagleville — managed to fish his cell phone from his pocket and call 911.

The driver stopped shortly before police arrived.

Police charged 18-year-old Christopher Allen Miller of Murfreesboro with aggravated assault and reckless endangerment. Two minors who were in the car were not charged.

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Carpenter back after health scare Brotherly duo proves less is more The Associated Press NASHVILLE — It's no small miracle that Mary Chapin Carpenter is out with a new album and hitting the road again for the first time in three years.

She suffered a pulmonary embolism in the spring of 2007, a life-threatening condition that occurs when one or more arteries in the lungs become blocked, and was forced to cancel the tour promoting her Grammy-nominated album, "The Calling."

"One of the things that was so hard about getting sick was the period of time that followed when I wasn't working — writing and performing, just doing what I'd been doing for the past almost 30 years," she said in a recent interview. "It really threw me. I really questioned my identity and my purpose in life."

When she recovered enough, Carpenter, 52, picked up a pen and began to create what would become her latest effort, "The Age of Miracles." The album, released in April, peaked at No. 1 on the folk albums chart and No. 6 on the top country albums chart.

"The writing of this record, certainly a large part of it was almost like a narrative of coming out of that experience," she said.

"The title song puts out the idea that we may live in an age of miracles if we're lucky enough to believe in them," she added. "There is so much out there in the world to be inspired by, to connect to ... and when you are in a place in your life where things are so dark

and so hard to figure out, if you are some how able to reach those conclusions, then that's a pretty amazing thing."

Two songs in particular refer directly to her health scare, including "Holding Up the Sky" with the line, "Life astounds us in an instant, changing all we know," as well as the song "Iceland."

"It certainly wasn't about the country of Iceland or the recent volcano," she said. "But rather just using the notion of a very far away, dark, cold place to be a metaphor for this sense of dislocation and fear and loss and doubt that followed my illness."

Carpenter says fans wont find any "toe-tappers" on this record, like her 1990s hits "Down at the Twist and Shout," ''I Feel Lucky" or "Shut Up and Kiss Me." "It would be sort of an affectation to try to do something like that over again," she said. "I think I knew going into the studio that this record in particular would be a fairly quiet, meditative record."

The album features guest vocals by Vince Gill on "I Put My Ring Back On" and Alison Krauss on "I Was a Bird."

More than anything, Carpenter is looking forward to performing in front of her fans.

"The connection between the band and us on stage and the audience has always been just one of the great rewards of my life," she said.

Carpenter's national tour kicks off June 19 in Charlottesville, Virginia and ends August 19 in Vienna, Virginia.

Jake Lane

Entertainment Editor Most great things in life come in pairs: fruit-flavored popsicles, two-for-$2 beer and jeans all come to mind. For Nashville fraternal duo JEFF the Brotherhood, this could not be more true.

As co-founders of the Infinity Cat label and veterans of the now-defunct teenpunk fiasco Be Your Own Pet, Jake and Jamin Orrall have seen and played in bands of all sizes, but as their rising success shows, less is often more.

“Any show that’s packed with a good audience is my favorite,” Jake Orrall said in relation to the band’s recent string of bigger rooms and crowds. “If it’s five people or 600, it doesn’t matter as long as they’re packed in front of the stage having a good time.”

Though their style is implacable with a specific genre, JEFF exude the essence of the garage-psych rock revival that has surged forward over the last decade, starting with the Brooklyn

‘Lost’ series finale marks end of era

Jake Lane Entertainment Editor

Jake Lane Entertainment Editor “You can let go now.”

“Lost,” a show never known for being succinct, summed up its ethos in five simple words as the doors opened to a great white light and the castaways were given their final reunion.

Six years and 100-plus hours of television later, the most head-scratching television show in history drew to a close in an ending which for some proved to be prophecy come true, while others still ponder just what the hell happened and if it was really all just a dream.

For me, “Lost” embodied a

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corner of entertainment welltrodden, but never fulfilled, that of self-recovery through community. When Oceanic 815 is shown dismembered and in several stages of chaotic self-destruction in the show’s pilot, the survivors quickly band together and save those who they can and establish order. Though their reasons for coming to the island only come to light later, these flawed, yet brave castaways start to jettison the detritus of their former lives and embrace their “new lives” given by the island.

While for most of us, the ability to conveniently crash on a desert island and obtain tabula rasa may sound neither appetizing or feasible, watching these characters grow over six years provided one of the most realistic depictions of how people can function together once their prejudices and notions of society dissipate. While many factions formed and enemies rose from the shadows of the Island’s jungle, those characters who we saw through to “The End” always strove to do the right thing together,

with the exception of midseries martyr John Locke.

Though he had his finger closest to the Island’s pulse and purpose, Locke’s fundamental loner status was one of the more poignant cautionary tales of the show, best described by Jack Shephard’s season one catchphrase, “Live together or die alone.”

Now that the show has ended, along with fellow rulebreaker and mind-bender “24,” it seems a pall has been cast on TV. The majority of new shows rearing their pointed heads like antennae to heaven are comedies, the balm for our tired, beat times, but what of these shows that promise betterment through unity? I fear that we are heading for a serious regression in terms of entertainment, a statement I don’t make lightly as most commercial releases are so pandering and puerile they don’t warrant ingestion by moldable minds such as those of fickle Americans.

Granted, a television show will never save the world.

The idea that broadcast programming has replaced

gospel of any degree as people’s moral compass seems an appropriate conclusion. When we take useless human troglodytes and make shows such as “Jon and Kate” et al., ad nauseum, then call that “reality,” the last vestiges of human rationality seem to have been cast to the wind.

So in the end, a great television show has ended, and we are all the worse for it.

Though it ran its course, unlike the unjustly canceled “King of the Hill” that my predecessor endorsed, “Lost” was a breath of life into a stagnant medium. But as any EMT can tell you, one breath cannot resuscitate a dead man. It takes much, much more.

breakout of 2001 with The Strokes and Yeah Yeah Yeahs and gradually disseminating across the globe. With the release of the band’s most recent album, “Heavy Days,” the duo has distilled their ethic into a word, indicated by the album’s three songs with “heavy” in their titles.

To wit, this association is only intensified by their frequent performances with label mates and best buds Heavy Cream, with whom they have just finished a twoweek tour.

From sweaty, hole-in-thewall punk festivals like Chaos in Tejas to overblown rock happenings like Bumbershoot, JEFF’s exposure has grown exponentially from their Nashville basement. At their last performance in Knoxville in December, the Orralls slew the crowd with acid-bent guitar jams, piss-break beat box jams and a fog machine.

While Orrall said their stage setup hasn’t gotten bigger, the recent upgrade in stage sizes have allowed the band to beef up their onstage chops.

“Recently I’ve been preferring big, more-open stages,” Orrall said. “We’ve been getting more comfortable with the size of the crowd.”

Also with success has come some of the finer points of professional rock ‘n’ roll, such as a booking agent.

When asked where he was most looking forward to playing, Orrall blanked temporarily and laughed as he checked the upcoming tour itinerary.

“I never know where we’re going these days, ‘cuz we have a booking agent now,” Orrall said. “We booked ourselves for the last four-and-ahalf years. Brooklyn’s going to be awesome. I’m really looking forward to Montreal, and we have a lot of friends in Chicago. Those are what immediately come to mind.”

JEFF the Brotherhood will play the Pilot Light Sunday with Heavy Cream and Natural Child, another Infinity Cat band who Orrall said have been called “the greatest rock ‘n’ roll band in the world.” The show begins at 10 p.m. and admission is $7 for those 18 and up.

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Kernell’s hack of Palin e-mail immoral Robby O’Daniel Editor-in-Chief Former UT student David Kernell was found guilty on April 30 of a felony and a misdemeanor, two of four counts charged against him, for the hacking of Sarah Palin’s personal e-mail account in September 2008. Over the span of about 21 months, he transformed into an unlikely political lightning rod.

There’s two prevailing opinions on Kernell. Both simply parrot trial prosecutors Greg Weddle and Mark Krotoski and defense attorney Wade Davies. One contends that Kernell should be punished to the fullest extent of the law, while the other brushes aside the matter as simply a college prank.

The anti-Kernell side says the hacking was a personal and political attack, and Kernell should be made an example of.

It’s believed to be personal because screenshots and information from Palin’s private e-mail account – gov.palin@yahoo.com – ended up on the Internet, regardless of how it got there.

Palin’s entire address book and inbox became public, including daughter Bristol Palin’s cell phone number. Bristol was home in Alaska and said she received “hundreds” of anonymous phone calls and text messages. The prosecution pulled at the heartstrings, painting a picture of victim Bristol, without parents at home.

But the reason why Kernell even got the idea was from the media controversy of Palin conducting state business on a personal e-mail account. This is not against the law, but what about the idiocy of it? Using Yahoo as a personal account for such sensitive information and having such easily guessed questions is absurd. Former Palin staffer Frank Bailey, who created the account for Palin on Yahoo at her request, testified that he told hubby Todd, “You have to get off Yahoo. It’s not secure.”

In this case, “hacking” might be a misnomer. It usually brings to mind complicated Internet scheming, not a few clumsy clicks to Wikipedia and assorted biographies. The three Yahoo “security” questions asked for Palin’s birthday, zip code and where she met Todd, all stupidly easy to find.

And Bristol was only home without her parents because her parents were fresh on the campaign trail. At some point, there has to be personal responsibility. At the time, Bristol could not even sign a contract for her own cell phone. If their house really is in the “middle of nowhere,” as Bristol testified, and their family is full of public figures, why is she placed in such a precarious situation to begin with?

The hacking is called a political attack because of what Kernell was viewed as. According to a May 27 article in The Telegraph, he was not vocal about politics. He’s a self-described “Obamacrat.” His Facebook told us so. In addition, he’s the son of a Democratic state representative. And, of course, this message he posted as “Rubico” on the board 4chan hurt: “There was nothing there, nothing incriminating, nothing that would derail her campaign as I had hoped.”

Another poster responded later, “At least give someone else the password, and let them ruin her life.” FBI agent and forensic examiner Stephen McFall testified that three minutes later, the password was shared.

That is what is damning for Kernell. All the passing remarks from Davies and others about how Kernell was just engaging in a “college prank” go out the window when considering the fact that Kernell’s entire intention was to harm the McCain-Palin campaign and Palin in general.

Even when the contents of the inbox were mostly boring (pictures of family, clerical items from her time as governor), the password was still posted, with all the contents leaked. Heck, one trip to WikiLeaks today, and anyone can see everything still.

And even though Palin was wrong to use a private e-mail address for state business, even though Palin was ignorant to use such faulty security for said e-mail, even though it was mindachingly easy for Kernell to “hack” the account, that does not make it right. Too many confuse the fact that Kernell found nothing with how important his actions were. What was Kernell’s intent?

And even if all sorts of conspiracies had come out with the inbox materials, Palin would not have had it coming to her. Private is private.

Still, even with all that, I find it hard to understand the mindset behind some that still wish for further enacted upon a 22-year-old, who is putting his college career on hold and waiting for what will shape the future of his life.

Perhaps it is unfair that Internet crime is so hazy and inconsistent that countless can have their e-mail accounts hacked by ex-lovers or acquaintances, yet, with a public figure, the severity of the moral infraction becomes so much greater. And perhaps it is time to close the book on a case that has dragged on long enough.

— Robby O’Daniel is a graduate student in communication and information. He can be reached at rodaniel@utk.edu.

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Editor’s note: This column is the first of a weekly series on politicians and historical figures who ran for the presidency or came very close to the office but were not presidents.

This is a trying time for our great country.

Never before has an election meant so much to so many, and it is likely to never be so important. America is more divided today, by political parties, than she ever has been in the past. The unity we felt after recent disasters is over. We are a nation divided, with two paths to choose from. There is only one person who can lead us into the future, however. I speak, of course, of good ole Clinton.

Let’s be honest for a second: George W.’s (aka Dubya’s) presidency did not live up to expectations. It was not all his fault, however.

It’s fairly well known that Dubya is not the brightest man of our time; however, by contrast his vice president is known to be an evil mastermind. In all likelihood, the power-hungry John Adams derailed a potentially great first term for George Washington. That is why George “no middle name” Clinton wants your vote for vice president in 1792!

The Honorable George Clinton, unlike those other smucks running for office, has dedicated his life to the people, to the country and to republican ideals. Most importantly, good ole George is not an arrogant prick like Mr. “High and Mighty” Adams. Adams is so cocky he named his son after himself. Can you believe that? Clinton, however, very unselfishly named one son after George Washington (George Washington Clinton), and a daughter after Washington’s wife Martha (Martha Washington Clinton). George and Martha Washington are two people who truly deserve to have babies named for them.

Clinton strives for greatness, but at the same time, he understands his limitations. Unlike the pretentious Adams, Clinton does not aspire to hold the highest office in the land. He merely wants the vice presidency. He is content to leave the presidency to great men like Gen. Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Jay, Alexander Hamilton or John Cena. Those are men who truly deserve it and will, in all

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likelihood, achieve that office.

Clinton, unlike that power-grubbing little worm Adams, is content to stay as a midcarder.

He realizes his strength lies in challenging weaker opponents for the lesser titles. Benjamin Lincoln, Aaron Burr, John Rutledge and Kofi Kingston are the type of men he challenges. He knows his place in the business, and he will not make an unnecessary push for the top.

Compare this to Adams, who had every intention of challenging Washington in 1789.

Thank the good Lord that Hamilton swooped in and “ensured” (if you know what I mean) Adams did not get as many votes as Washington. If it was not for Hamilton (even a Federalist has his good days), then Adams might have actually challenged Washington for the presidency. The last thing we need is a rat like Adams as world champion.

Clinton cares more about civil rights then he does power. He refused to support the new Constitution ratified a few short years ago. He believed it did not do enough to protect the people. He wanted an outright declaration of rights. Clinton fought hard for the inclusion of the Bill of Rights, something Adams did not deem necessary. Adams would just as soon live under the tyranny of Parliament again. If you want to live in a nation under King Adams, go ahead and do not vote for Clinton.

Clinton has also done much more for this nation then Adams. While Adams was getting in cozy with the monarchs of Europe, Clinton was busy feeding the troops at Valley Forge.

Whereas Adams was content to defend the British criminals who fired on unarmed civilians in what is known now as the Boston Massacre, good ole Clinton actively seized estates from known Tories. Clinton was furthering the Revolution, all the while Adams was undermining it.

Clinton has a lot of fight in him too. He failed to win the vice presidency in 1789 and was beaten by none other than Adams. This defeat would have ended the careers of a normal man or at least buried them as a serious contender.

Clinton, however, refused to become another Jamie Noble, and he put back on his tights and jumped back into the ring. That is the kind of man we need — someone with heart.

Come this November, you will have an important decision to make. Will you stay the course and allow a weasel to occupy the coveted title of president of the Senate? Or will you do your American duty and give the title to someone who deserves it? George Clinton for VP in 1792!

I love chicken.

Is anyone like me in that I am compelled, obsessed and drawn beyond my natural will to consume chicken fingers at a rate that would obliterate the average man’s liver as well as his will to contemplate anything more profound than this week’s meal deals at local chicken finger establishments?

OK, so that description is only half-accurate at this time. I have severely cut my intake of fried chicken to a manageable dose, generally about two chicken finger meals per week.

Otherwise, my appetite turns into an insatiable monster whose hunger for the carbohydratecovered goodness of a fried chicken breast cannot be tamed. However, my writing this (and your reading it) confirms the latter portion of that description. Simply stated, I have opinions about chicken fingers, and gods be damned, I will share them.

So, for you readers who have no interest in learning of our city’s location on the chicken finger continuum, turn away now, ‘cause things are about to get technical.

Before the good stuff, though, know my specific aim: to describe, with as much transparency and accuracy as possible, the offerings of Knoxville chicken finger establishments to Mr. and Mrs. UT student. In order to do so, we must level the playing field a bit to minimize the influence of idiosyncratic offerings that serve as novelty in the wellestablished chicken finger industry. My thoughts are thus directed to the tried-and-true elements of a good fried chicken meal. I will now define the terms on which I will judge chicken finger establishments.

The basic building block of all chicken finger dinners is the “plate.” The plate is often dubbed

the “box” (for to-go purposes) or less often the “platter.” Sub-plate components must always include chicken fingers (fried or grilled and three to six in number), fries and a variation of buttered toast often termed “Texas- style.”

Without a meal combo that includes all these, a restaurant may not be considered for my evaluation.

Secondly, I will consider the “slaw option.”

Many restaurants that offer the plate also offer a small, tasty side of cole slaw to complement the fries. Generally, due to cole slaw’s waning popularity in the South, some restaurants allow the customer to substitute it with extra fries or another side of toast. This is the slaw option, which is an important (but not necessary) aspect of the plate offering.

Third, endless sweet tea must be offered with the plate. No explanation is necessary.

Of course, other aspects that directly affect the plate’s enjoyment will be considered, as well. This mostly takes the form of customer service quality but may also include important aspects such as location and (especially) price.

Typically, the cost of a plate ranges from $4 to $7, depending on what meal deals are available at that time and day. Other options, like a free sweet tea Sunday, will also add merit to the plate experience. It needn’t be stated that speed of service is also a top priority.

These are the essential ingredients to a good chicken finger experience, and I will evaluate Knoxville’s offerings on these alone.

Hopefully, if you share my enthusiasm about good fried chicken, my weekly reports will provide direction and practical advice to fellow chicken lovers if not existential insights into the role of gallus domesticus in your daily life.

If you have any particularly good suggestions that you feel may escape my quest for the ultimate chicken finger plate, feel free to e-mail suggestions.

Let Chicken Finger Fridays begin!

— Cody Swallows is a senior in the College Scholars Program. He can be reached at cswallow@utk.edu.

Friday, June 4, 2010

The Daily Beacon • 5

SPORTS

Men’s tennis team falls short of title 11 track-and-field Vols qualify

for national championship

Matt Dixon Staff Writer For the third time in school history, the Tennessee men’s tennis team fell just short in its bid for a national championship, falling in the finals of the NCAA Tennis Championships to USC, 4-2, at the Dan Magill Tennis Complex in Athens, Ga., on May 26.

The championship match began with the No. 2-seeded Volunteers (31-2) winning the doubles point to gain the early edge, but the Trojans would go on to win four of the six singles matches with the final match being stopped after USC (25-3) clinched its second straight national title. "(I’ve) got to start with congratulating Southern California," Tennessee head coach Sam Winterbotham said following the match. "They did a phenomenal job in the singles.

They deserved to win today.

Not because we tried any less but because they played to win.

I think we didn't. We wanted to win, and maybe we wanted to win a little too much.”

Tennessee’s No. 3-ranked doubles team of J.P. Smith and Davey Sandgren defeated USC’s No. 9 team of Robert Farah and Steve Johnson, 8-6, and the Vol team of Matteo Fago and Edward Jones clinched the doubles point with a victory over Jaak Poldma and Jason McNaughton, 8-6. No. 12-ranked Rhyne Williams and Boris Conkic were leading in their match with Trojans J.T. Sundling and Daniel Nguyen 7-4 before the match was stopped.

The momentum turned for the Trojans’ favor in a big way when the match went to singles.

USC won the first set in five of the six singles matches.

The Trojans picked up their first point of the championship match when the No. 3-ranked Johnson defeated Tennessee’s No. 36 Conkic 6-3, 6-2. UT’s

Kevin Huebschman Sports Editor

Tia Patron • The Daily Beacon

Davey Sandgren approaches the net earlier this season.

Sandgren and John-Patrick Smith advanced to the NCAA doubles championships final match but lost to Virginia for the second year.

Williams, the No. 46-ranked singles player, won his match against No. 89 Poldma, 1-6, 6-2, 6-1, to give Tennessee a 2-1 lead in the race to four points.

No. 1-ranked Smith then fell to USC’s No. 9 Farah, 7-6 (7-3), 6-4, and No. 121 Peter Lucassen defeated Tennessee’s Fago 6-3, 64 to give the Trojans a 3-2 lead.

The Vols needed victories from both No. 111-ranked Tennys Sandgren and No. 115 Matt Brewer to comeback and earn the program’s first national title.

Sandgren fell to USC’s Nguyen 6-7 (3-7), 6-1, 6-0 to clinch the championship match for the

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Trojans and Brewer’s match with Matt Kecki was stopped with Brewer leading 3-6, 7-6 (7-3), 54.

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Heading into the final week before the track and field national championship meet, the Vols’ squad ensured it would be well represented in Eugene, Ore., as five Vols and six Lady Vols qualified at North Carolina A&T’s Irwin Belk Track over last weekend.

UT Director of Track & Field J.J. Clark said he wasn’t surprised by the number of qualifiers he’ll bring to the championship meet, but he wasn’t sure a couple of the athletes who advanced would do so.

“We had a couple surprises,” Clark said. “I always knew Kimarra (McDonald) could advance. She managed about a 3-second (personal record) to advance. I knew our vaulters, pole vaulter men, could advance, but they didn’t have the best outing in the SEC, so it was good to see it all come through.”

The vaulters, sophomore Robert Rasnick and senior Brad Holtz, were the first to qualify on Thursday, as both cleared 17 feet, 2 3/4 inches to qualify. Holtz finished 11th, and Rasnick, with fewer misses, finished eighth.

Senior Matt Maloney was the first of four to qualify from UT on Friday, finishing 12th to take the final qualifying spot for the men’s javelin with a throw of 219 feet, eight inches.

Seniors Phoebe Wright and McDonald became the first two Lady Vols to qualify, finishing first and fourth, respectively, in the same 800-meter heat. Wright’s time, two minutes, .87 seconds, was the fastest by a collegiate woman this season, while McDonald knocked three seconds off her personal best with a 2:04.19 mark.

Clark had high praise for Wright, who came away with the only first-place finish for UT over the weekend, saying she was closing in on an elite group.

“It’s very promising,” he said. “She’s entering into world-class range. She just has to continuously focus, and she’ll be fine, but I was very proud of her to go in and execute, as she has done all year.”

The final Lady Vol qualifier for the day, sophomore Ellen Wortham, ran a personal-best 57.55 seconds in the 400-meter hurdles to finish fifth in her heat.

The final day of the NCAA East Preliminary Round nearly doubled the number of qualifiers for UT, as two Vols and three Lady Vols earned their spot in the championship meet.

Vol seniors Kyle Stephenson and Evander Wells, after failing to qualify in the 100 Friday, both qualified in the 200, as Stephenson finished fourth in his heat with a season-best 20.82 time, and Wells finished second in his heat, with a 20.63 mark.

Sophomore Brittany Sheffey was the first Lady Vol to qualify Saturday, running a careerbest 04:18.74 in the 1,500, good for fourth among all qualifiers. Senior Jackie Areson followed, running the 5,000 meters at 16:27.36 to finish ninth overall.

Areson’s qualifying run comes on the heels of her indoor season success, where she finished third nationally in the 5,000 and fourth in the 3,000, but she doesn’t believe she’s at her best yet.

“I feel like I still have a lot more to go, so that’s what’s motivating me now,” Areson said.

“I know that there’s always more in there for me, just because I’ve been improving so much from the last year (or) two years.”

Freshman Lady Vol Martinique Octave was the last to qualify, when she, along with Wortham, Wright and McDonald finished third overall in the 4x400 relay with a time of 3:33.69. The squad is the first from UT to appear in the event since 2006.

Although both Areson and Clark admitted some of the qualifiers may have been surprises, Areson said they can do nothing but help the team.

“I think just the fact that having more people than most thought we were going to have at nationals is a starting point,” she said. “We can only get better from there.”

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THESPORTSPAGE

Friday, June 4, 2010

Lady Vols head to College World Series Matt Dixon Staff Writer A no-hitter heading into the final inning of game one set the tone, and a line out with the bases loaded to end game two sent the Tennessee softball team to the Women’s College World Series.

The No. 15-seeded Lady Volunteers (47-13) upset No. 2-seeded Michigan (498) on the Wolverines; home field in Ann Arbor, Mich., winning the first two games of the best-of-three Super Regional series on May 27 and May 28. The victories send the Lady Vols to the WCWS for the fourth time in six seasons and snapped the 36-game home winning streak, dating back to last season, the Wolverines sported entering the series.

Tennessee co-head coach Ralph Weekly was pleased with his and fellow co-head coach Karen Weekly’s team’s play but was also complimentary of the Big Ten Champions.

“Things just went right out there for us these last two days,” Weekly said following the game two victory. “… I am so proud of our kids for their effort in this incredible atmosphere. You have to give a ton of credit to Michigan. They are a great team.”

In game one, the Lady Vols jumped out to a 3-0 lead in the top of the third inning thanks to a Michigan fielding error and a clutch twoout, two-RBI single by center fielder Kelly Grieve.

The Lady Vols added another pair of runs in the top of the fifth inning as Grieve pushed another run home with an RBI single and later an illegal pitch

plated the final Tennessee run on the night.

That was all the Lady Vols needed as freshman pitcher Ivy Renfroe threw a complete game two-hitter, with both hits coming in the seventh inning.

Game two saw Tennessee again jump out to an early lead.

Second baseman Lauren Gibson was hit by a pitch in the bottom of the first inning to bring home left fielder Raven Chavanne.

Back-to-back solo home runs by Nicole Kajitani and Erinn Webb extended the Lady Vols’ lead to 3-0 in the bottom of the second inning.

Webb added another solo home run in the bottom of the fourth inning to provide sophomore pitcher Cat Hosfield a four-run cushion.

The Wolverines got on the board with a two-out, two-run home run in the top of the fifth inning, prompting Tennessee to bring in Renfroe to try and close out the series.

A solo home run by Michigan in the top of the sixth inning ended Renfroe’s 21-inning scoreless streak in the NCAA Tournament and made it a one-run game.

The Wolverines would load the bases in the top of the seventh with only one out, but Renfroe would record a strikeout followed by the line out to shortstop Ashley Andrews to end the Michigan rally and the series.

The upset of Michigan surprised many around the country, but not a Lady Vols team that has gotten better as the season has progressed and seems to be peaking at the right time.

“We’ve been counted out

Andy Westbrook • The Daily Beacon

Ivy Renfroe pitches against Florida earlier this season. She had twelve strike-outs during the Michigan series last week to help advance the Lady Vols to the Women’s College World Series. from the beginning,” Grieve said. “We didn’t start (the season) off very strong, but we went back to work in Knoxville. The big key to our team is our freshmen and without them, we

wouldn’t be (in the WCWS) right now.”

“Its great to get here.

That’s why I came to Tennessee because everybody wants to play on a stage like this.”

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