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Interim dean to replace Libraries’ Dewey Chris Shamblin Staff Writer Linda Phillips, UT Libraries professor and head of scholarly communications, has been named interim dean of UT Libraries. Phillips came to UT in 1977 from the Ohio State University’s Agricultural Technical Institute Library.

Phillips is succeeding Barbara Dewey, who is leaving to become the dean of University Libraries and Scholarly Communications at Penn State University. Dewey said Phillips is a good successor and that she will bring her knowledge and experience to the library program.

“Linda Phillips has a broad knowledge and understanding of traditional and 21st century research library programs,” Dewey said. “She is well known among UT faculty and considered a great university citizen. She understands the research and teaching process at a high level.”

Phillips believes she can bring a lot to UT Libraries through her work and previous experience.

Phillips said she brings nearly 40 years experience as an academic librarian to the interim dean position.

“Much of my work has involved experimentation with new technologies and services,” she said. “So I get excited about helping students and faculty push the boundaries of traditional learning and research.”

Phillips’s work encompasses the creation of local digital collections, including digitization of library holdings, the launch of Newfound Press, the libraries’ peer-reviewed digital imprint and leading community outreach efforts about the libraries’ scholarly and economic impact on society.

“From 1997 to 2007, I managed the library’s

collection budget, which offered considerable experience collaborating with librarians and other faculty on getting the most from limited resources,” Phillips said. “We’ll be searching for a permanent library dean, and I’d like UT to be in the best position possible to attract star-quality leaders.”

Phillips believes she is well prepared for the position and feels as though her experience and work as the head of scholarly communications will help her as she takes her new position.

“As head of scholarly communication, I’ve collaborated with faculty and students across UT’s diverse disciplines to envision how scholarly publishing cultures are changing,” Phillips said.

Phillips said students leading the new undergraduate research journal, Pursuit, are using Trace to publish the journal online.

“The UT Scholarly Communication Committee is sponsoring ‘roadshows’ in the departments of its members for faculty and graduate students to discuss scholarly publishing trends in their discipline,” Phillips said.

“The library’s digital Newfound Press is publishing peer-reviewed, open-access scholarship and partnering with UT Press. All of these experiences are building community within and beyond UT to provide learners and scholars with maximum access to quality information resources.”

Douglas Blaze, dean of the College of Law, is leading the search to find a permanent dean.

In the meantime, Dewey feels as though the library program is in capable hands.

“She will bring the University Libraries through the transition to a new dean in a smooth and competent way, all the while making sure the libraries continues moving forward in its strategic directions,” Dewey said.

Phillips will officially begin her duties as interim dean on July 1.

UT gardens to begin summer day camps centered around nature ity is “Don't throw it; Grow it!”

“Campers will get their hands dirty while learning The UT Gardens is proud to about flowers, trees, worms premiere its first series of and more,” Smith said. The unique summer day camp “Grands and Me!” program will opportunities for children ages allow the sessions up to six camper/grandparent teams, 4 to 12. and they Camp will spend attendees are July 26 divided by from 9:30 age: Lil' a.m. to Gardeners 1:30 p.m., (ages 4 to 5), identifying Explorers f lowers, (ages 6 to 12) herbs and and Grands & vegetables Me (ages 6 to a m o n g 10 with a other intergrandparent).

Ian Harmon • The Daily Beacon e s t i n g Each division contains Last Friday five student plans.

The gena varied and interns helped set up a mart h o r o u g h l y ket in UT gardens. The crops eral fees e d u c at i o n a l were grown on the Organic are $15 per set of activi- Crops Unit at the ETREC to camps sesties that all bring awareness to farming sion for Lil' Gardeners, ages are sure and preserving farmland. $25 for to enjoy.

Emily Smith, education Explorers and $30 for Grands coordinator for UT Gardens, and Me. The fee increases $5 said in a press release that, “At per session for non-member the UT Gardens, we believe children. At the moment, all that kids and gardening natural- sessions are full, but waitlists ly go together, so we are excit- are available. To register, coned to introduce a new series of tact Emily Smith at (865) 974summer camps and programs 7151 or e-mail her at specifically designed to teach esmith27@utk.edu.

In addition, Smith and UT children about the wonders of Gardens are also launching a the natural world.”

This sentiment is reflected monthly series of education in the design of the kids' activi- programming for adults, famities. The Lil' Gardeners, for lies and children. Susan example, will be able to partici- Hamilton, director of UT pate in the “Buggy Boogie” Gardens, will host “Go Green!” where the children “will dance on June 15 where adults will the morning away while learn- learn how to minimize their ing about how insects move use of harmful pesticides and fertilizers in the garden by idenand sing in the garden.”

While all of the activities are tifying helpful insects and comintended to stress the impor- panion plants.

Similarly, Smith will host the tance of healthy outdoor recreation and the virtues of botany, workshop “Roses and Noses” there is diversity as well. The on June 19 for children ages 5 Explorers will be included in to 12 accompanied by an adult, “Veggie Ventures” and become which will explore the diverse more acquainted with the wide fragrances of many different world of garden vegetables. flowers, and each family will The motto of this specific activ- create its own fresh flower arrangement.

University targets energy savings

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The City of Knoxville is starting a four month long trial at Caswell Park to bring awareness to recycling. A goal is to save money by reducing trash pickups. They are placing the recycling bins next to trash cans to promote the recycling.

Kevin Letsinger

News and Student Life Editor UT focuses on many ways to be more energy efficient through its many efforts and programs.

Gordie Bennett, sustainability manager of Make Orange Green, said there has been a 10-percent reduction of electricity per square foot on campus since September 2008. The university is planning on installing quite a few water and electricity meters to better monitor individual buildings’ energy use.

“University students through the ‘green fee,’ a part of the facilities fee, goes to support environmental projects,” Bennett said. “The (allocations) committee has decided to place $400,000 over four years toward a solar project on campus.”

A program very early in the making is a “car-sharing” project. It is intended for short-term use, so individuals with a UT ID card could have access to vehicles for personal use with reservations online, similar to Zipcar programs of major metropolitan areas.

“This would allow someone who lives in Tennessee to get by without a car,” Bennett said. “(Just) to check out a car to go home or visit the Smoky Mountains — for daily or hourly trips.”

As far as the Knoxville metropolitan area goes for commuter students, the Knoxville Recycling Coalition works to provide information on recycling options in the city.

“Depending on where students live, there are many different options,” Pamela Bishir, director of education for the Knoxville

Recycling Coalition, said.

Bishir said the best thing for students is to utilize the convenience centers placed around the community.

“Start small and then just add to it,” Bishir said. “It can be overwhelming to go from recycling nothing to recycling everything.”

She added that becoming comfortable with recycling one thing makes it easier to go from there.

“The point of recycling is to divert waste from landfills,” Bishir said. “Regardless of what is used the most, if it can be recycled, it should.”

Bishir emphasized recycling as much as possible.

“You should try to recycle everything,” Bishir said.

“Aluminum is wonderful and is recyclable forever. It never loses integrity. Plus it’s good in the market.”

Bishir hopes to see more recycling centers in the future, saying that, even though they already have a lot of recycling centers, as more people recycle, their facilities will have to grow to match the demand, “and that’s our hope.”

The Knoxville Recycling Coalition does join the university in collaborative efforts and has recently joint organized the recycling at Destination Imagination with great success.

As for new innovations in the recycling realm, the coalition has just started to recycle Styrofoam.

“We are the only people in the area to recycle Styrofoam,” Bishir said. “It’s not that it’s not recyclable, just that it wasn’t cost-effective.”

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Bonnaroo features eclectic mix Jake Lane

Entertainment Editor To paraphrase a popular motto on campus, it’s Bonnaroo time in Tennessee.

One of the country’s biggest festivals, drawing as many as 90,000 fans and averaging above 70,000 each year, the festival and its founders have helped re-establish Tennessee’s rightful place on the musical map over the last decade.

Festival season, which traditionally begins with California’s Coachella in April, coincides with the mid-spring to early fall months when bands spend most of their time on the road. In the last two years, Knoxville gained

the special distinction and bragging rights as the host of the first star-caliber festival on the calendar, with the Big Ears Festival that occurs a month before Coachella. Though quite a bit smaller, as most shows are restricted to small theaters and clubs, Big Ears holds its own in terms of ingenuity and imagination with lineup choices and musical eclecticism.

And though Big Ears has garnered great reviews and adulation from the music community, Tennessee’s crown jewel in the sweaty, sun-baked four-day weekend be-in Bonnaroo, whose melding of jam-band festie fodder with Alist pop stars, music geek icons and all of the freaks in

between brings a greater social significance.

“To me it’s – I get a little bit more excitement playing festivals because there’s a lot of other bands that I admire,” Weezer bassist Scott Shriner said. “It feels a little bit … not competitive, but I guess I’m a little bit extra inspired because of all of the talent and energy that’s around.

For a band whose exposure to larger audiences relies more on word of mouth than radio play, festivals such as Bonnaroo often provide the perfect place to test new material and carve a niche with impressionable listeners.

“We actually played Bonnaroo shortly after ‘Boxer’ came out in 2007, and it was

one of the early indicators that things were going to go well,” The National guitarist Aaron Dessner said. “I remember the tent was packed, and it was one of the first times in the U.S. that we really had like a really warm receptive festival audience.”

Founded by local promoter and UT alumna Ashley Capps and Superfly Entertainment in 2002, this year marks Bonnaroo’s ninth showing, and while festival attendance has ebbed and flowed, something can be said for the consistency the weekend festival has experienced in a time where musicians struggle to sell tickets to individual concerts.

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Bobby, a junior in Architecture views the projects in the Ewing Gallery. This summer the Ewing Gallery is featuring the Art and Architecture Honors Exhibition. The gallery is open Tuesday through Thursday 12-4pm.

USC hit hard by NCAA sanctions LOS ANGELES — Southern California has received a twoyear bowl ban and a sharp loss of football scholarships in a report on the NCAA’s four-year investigation of the school.

The NCAA cited USC for a lack of institutional control Thursday in its long-awaited report, which detailed numerous violations primarily involving Heisman Trophy-winning tailback Reggie Bush and men’s basketball player O.J. Mayo.

The NCAA found that Bush, identified as a “former football student-athlete,” was ineligible beginning at least by December 2004, a ruling that could open discussion on the revocation of the New Orleans Saints star’s Heisman.

Members of the Heisman Trophy Trust have said they might review Bush’s award if he was ruled ineligible by the NCAA. The NCAA also ordered USC to vacate every victory in which Bush participated while ineligible. USC beat Oklahoma in the BCS championship game on Jan. 4, 2005, and won 12 games during Bush’s Heisman-winning 2005 season, which ended with a loss to Texas in the Rose Bowl.

“I have a great love for the University of Southern California, and I very much regret the turn that this matter has taken, not only for USC, but for the fans and players,” Bush said in a statement, according to an ESPN report.

“I am disappointed by (Thursday’s) decision and disagree with the NCAA’s findings. If the university decides to appeal, I will continue to cooperate with the NCAA and USC, as I did during the investigation. In the meantime, I will continue to focus on making a positive impact for the university and for the community where I live.”

The ruling is a sharp repudiation of the Trojans’ decade of success under former coach Pete Carroll, when USC won seven straight Pac-10 titles and two national championships. Carroll left the school for the NFL’s Seattle Seahawks in January.

While the bowl ban is the most damaging to new coach Lane Kiffin, USC also will lose 30 scholarships over a three-year period, 10 annually from 2011-13. The Trojans received four years of probation.

Bonnaroo spreads festival experience online NEW YORK — It’s often joked that more people like to claim that they were at Woodstock in 1969 than were actually there.

For today’s music mega-festivals, such boasting is entirely plausible.

The Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival, which begins its ninth annual installment Thursday evening in Manchester, Tenn., has — like many festivals — gradually let more of its experience

seep out on the Web. This year’s festival, more than any earlier, need not require a cross-country road trip or four days of camping in the mud.

Much of the music at Bonnaroo will filter out through live streaming on YouTube, audio webcasting on NPR and television coverage on Fuse.

A Web-minded vibe was set right from the start: This year’s Bonnaroo lineup was announced through the individual websites, MySpace pages, Twitter feeds and Facebook pages of the performing acts. It took frantic Googling to uncover that the headliners would be Jay-Z, the Dave Matthews Band and Kings of Leon.

Nearly 100 acts, including Conan O’Brien’s traveling comedy show, will be spread out over a multitude of stages and tents on the Tennessee farm owned by Superfly Productions and AC Entertainment, the organizers of Bonnaroo. More than 70,000 fans are expected to attend the festival, which runs through Sunday.

But perhaps as many, or more, will watch Jay-Z, the National, Norah Jones and many others at YouTube.com/bonnaroo.

Thousands more might listen to the Dave Matthews Band, the Flaming Lips and others at NPR.org/music. And still more may catch up watching “Live From Bonnaroo 2010” on Fuse on June 17.

GREEN continued from Page 1 Offering the service, an individual must purchase a bag for $8, fill it up with Styrofoam and return it to the coalition to compact and then recycle.

“You can use the bag for six months to a year. They’re huge,” Bishir said. “Compare it to buying a recycling bin.”

When asked about the practicality of recycling Styrofoam, Bishir said it can be recycled into a lot of products.

“It’s more popular now to recycle, which is a great thing,” Bishir said.

The Knoxville Recycling Coalition promotes community education in reducing waste.

To find the closest recycling center and reduce your waste, log on to http://knoxvillerecycles.org.

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‘Red Dead’ capitalizes on ‘GTA’ formula Wiley Robinson Staff Writer In video games, which are matching the highest movie profits at an unsettling speed, the initial success of a series tends to be the enemy of future quality. When blessed with a blockbuster, studios have been known to lose all touch with what made the original(s) great in vain pursuit of a misguided vision or simply release a flood of garbage on the back of a seller to sponge up any remaining enthusiasm.

And not without consequences: the sequel has earned itself a roundly negative stereotype, yet crap can and often does occur at the least opportune times during a series’ lifespan, when hype is at its greatest: like with “Splinter Cell: Conviction,” the finale to an innovative and compelling stealth series that traded in its unique and challenging infiltration/confrontation-as-a-last-resort gameplay for a bland and insulting third-person shooter mechanic — or with the triumphant return of the “Star Wars” prequels, which should be scourged from the earth. And it keeps happening, because we never learn.

Yet Rockstar Games has given us another reason to complacently bask in the glory of predictable greatness with “Red Dead Redemption,” a Western epic that takes place on the Texas-Mexico border in the year 1911. A spiritual successor to Rockstar’s “Grand Theft Auto IV” in every way, “Red Dead” is based completely on GTA’s decade-strong gameplay formula of third-person, open-world freedom where your only tools through a huge, chaotic urban environment are weapons,

BONAROO continued from Page 1 For Bonnaroo, ticket sales have never dipped dramatically low, and the festival has sold out more times than not.

From sporting the reunited Police in 2007 to hosting ‘70s pop-soul legend Stevie Wonder this year, Bonnaroo’s

roster boasts acts people may not have the opportunity to see anywhere else, at least not within several hundred miles of the 700-acre Manchester spread which has housed the festival since inception.

Even bands whose popular appeal extends to the tastes not equally represented at Bonnaroo have the unique opportunity to shine in a

money and transportation. Yet amidst this frontier, wild west setting, the most urban things one comes across are a cobbled street, some telegraph lines and a town maybe the size of Walmart, giving “open world” a new meaning without the comparatively stifling presence of city sprawl.

But what was under those cities before they were there?

That’s right — an ecosystem! The teeming throngs of people are replaced by all manner of bird and beast (to hunt and be hunted by), traffic with horses, carriages and the occasional steam engine. The various human settlements have almost completely accessible interiors and unprecedented, historically accurate attention to detail. Suffice it to say that aesthetically “Red Dead” has proven that, with the right vision, an old formula can adapt to the drastically different setting and feel a bygone historical era.

Ultimately, however, “Red Dead”’s significance in the evolution of games comes back to the nature and effectiveness of the “GTA” formula. Since “GTA III,” Rockstar has concerned itself with cinematically putting a human face on its cold, violent worlds that increasingly approach reality as perceived by our senses. Over the years, that human face has gone from relying mostly on satirical social commentary encountered randomly in the game world to truly empathetic characters who change as the story progresses.

“Red Dead Redemption,” through sublimely directed cutscenes and in-game conversations, weaves a rather engaging narrative. Obviously it impressively displays the persuasive power of the medium and its ability to tell a more subtle tale.

Rockstar has always been into attempting to portray the dark-

forum where the crowd may least expect.

“In my experience it’s always good to stand out from the crowd, you know, especially if people are going to a festival and if you’re seeing the same kind of music all day,” said Tim McIlrath of Rise Against, a band whose punk and metal stylings are anything but staid patchouli-

peace pipe material. “It makes your band different.

You know, even whether it’s good or bad, it’s something people are going to check out or remember.”

Bonnaroo runs from Thursday through Sunday in Manchester, Tenn. The Daily Beacon will offer comprehensive coverage of the festival in next week’s issues.

er side of America through its games, and while it’s not worth compromising the story by giving overly specific examples, by the end of the game you will probably hate the government, resent the industrial revolution and want Texas to secede.

Yet, however much Rockstar has refined its storytelling, realism in one area of development demands the same level in the others; human perception, especially concerning games developed for people 18 and older, is not something to be underestimated. That being said, the philosophy behind the combat in “Red Dead” has simply not really evolved since “GTA III.” Combat is obtuse and uninteresting, taking little to no thought no matter the opposition you face — the AI is definitely quantity over quality.

Tactics or problem solving of any sort are moot. The only control one has over the difficulty is being able to turn off autoaim, which is inexplicably on by default and makes insultingly easy, mindless shootouts actually tedious. When human beings in cutscenes are so genuine, their expressions and movements animated with a skill that makes them as real as movie actors, only to become suicidal cardboard vermin in fights that fall easily to your overpowered slow-mo ability, you never actually feel any danger, even when the unthinkable happens and you die.

There is no exaggeration in the observation that the poker and blackjack tables you can play in saloons create far more tension and require far more thought than life-threatening situations do.

Besides the boring fights, “Red Dead Redemption” takes everything that is great about “Grand Theft Auto IV” and does it better. This game is not to be missed.

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Editor’s Note Guthrie’s needs to return to meal deals Robby O’Daniel

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Losing Italian, Russian would hurt UT Boy, that date of June 2011 — when the university’s federal stimulus funding runs out — just gets closer and closer, doesn’t it? And it’s not looking good.

UT faces a $54 million budget reduction then, including a $37 million reduction for instruction.

That’s a lot of money.

But when simply reading them, those numbers are abstract and meaningless. It’s like watching the money climb on “Jeopardy!” with every right answer. The figure does not mean anything until someone puts a face on it.

Here’s your face: The Knoxville News Sentinel reported on May 3 that the majors Italian and Russian may be on the chopping block, as one of the options to cut costs.

Though classes would still be offered in Italian and Russian for non-majors (for those pesky intermediate foreign-language credits). Those interested in more than just a few semesters of Italian or Russian would still be able to minor in either language, as well. Heck, majors in language and world business — a sort-of foreign language and business hybrid — could still pursue further concentration in Italian or Russian.

But throw out the idea that all these provisions and compromises would be made, should the university lose Italian and Russian. Forget the notion of what university does or does not have which foreign language, and how typical foreign language instruction beyond the old standbys is.

If the university were to lose Italian and Russian, it would lose apart of itself. UT would lose a fraction of what it offers as a comprehensive university. It loses that ability to honestly tell the wideeyed, fresh-from-high-school student that he or she can do literally anything here. The university loses that ability for students to just mess around for at the very least a year (a reasonable time period, even for a responsible student) and see what they want to do for the rest of their lives. It’s sort of a big deal.

Losing the majors would also go against university administration’s ideals. At the inaugural Honors Symposium, UT Interim President Jan Simek said he’d rather UT be like the University of North Carolina, not North Carolina State University.

“North Carolina is the broad-based professional school, liberal arts, business, that comprehensive institution that I think is so critical to the cultural and economic well-being of a state,” he said. “We don’t have North Carolina State in Tennessee. We don’t have Georgia Tech. We’re all of that.”

I agree. Becoming a specialized university has a two-fold damage. It, one, destroys the ideal college setting, one of experimentation and coming-of-age for late teenagers and early adults. And two, it diminishes the overall quality of the university. It’s the equivalent of UT coming up with a body part lame.

Furthermore, eliminating the majors goes against the university’s much-ballyhooed Ready for the World Initiative. It runs counter to the ability of a student to fully commit to the study of either foreign language. It could force those who would want to teach a foreign language as a profession — a not-unheard of idea — away from the university by limiting further study to the language and world business major.

Even with all that, sometimes one has to be reasonable. One has to embody that icky phrase — fiscal responsibility. And truth be told, the compromises that the university has hypothetically laid out, should Italian and Russian be removed, are, indeed, reasonable.

UT’s proposed compromises take into account how tunnel-visioned that sticky notion of having a “low-producing” program really is. These foreign-language majors, as well as a slew of others, keep popping up as “low-producing” for a reason.

I wrote an article for the March 5, 2009 issue of The Daily Beacon, entitled “Faculty responds to potential program cuts,” (yes, as you can see by the date, this “problem” of “low-producing” is not new). And when researching the story, I found out that “low-producing” programs mean ones that produce less than 10 bachelor’s degrees per year over the last five years.

So when the Tennessee Higher Education Commission puts out these reports, it identifies programs as “low-producing,” which invariably is misinterpreted as either “low quality” or “low popularity.”

As Simek asked rhetorically at the symposium, “Who majors in Italian?” (Italian majors: Do not send hate mail to Simek. It was part of a larger point he was making, defending the programs and critiquing the reports. It’s admittedly out of context, but I am trying to make a point.)

Individual students in a university with nearly 26,000 may not know an Italian major. It does not make the major any less significant. Thank God for those proposed compromises about still offering Italian and Russian courses. Otherwise countless students who need to gain those aforementioned intermediate foreign-language credits would lose major options at doing so by losing the majors. A proposed change perceived at first glance as hurting a handful would handicap thousands.

The albatross label of being a “low-producing” program does not include the effect that these foreign-language programs have on freshmen who major in any myriad of subjects but enjoy Italian or at least prefer Italian to other foreign languages.

Admittedly the university is in a tough situation, and cuts have to be made somewhere. With the level of cutting that must take place, this simply cannot be the same university. My next column will tap at the surface of just how different this university could get.

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Cody Swallows

Throughout my junior and senior year, Guthrie’s pretty much won over my chicken finger-loving heart.

Located on Cumberland Avenue across from Old College Inn, Guthrie’s is relatively new to the Knoxville chicken-finger scene, arriving on the Strip during the great Chicken Finger Takeover of 2008. The reason for Guthrie’s success in Knoxville is simple: It appeals to the college demographic. Sure, it’s a little out of the way for those in Fort Sanders, but damn, you get your money’s worth. At least, that used to be the case.

You see, I was not an easy Guthrie’s convert.

If you’re anything like the 19-year-old me, if you’re not initiated into the Guthrie’s circle, you will likely notice some eerie similarities to another restaurant-that-shall-not-be-named (hint: it rhymes with Baxby’s). This tends to give new customers that sense of deja vu that reeks of second-rate ripoffs, but do not be fooled!

Guthrie’s is the real deal.

Yes, Guthrie’s sauce does taste like a carbon copy (emphasis on carbon) of the other guys’.

True, the fry portions are a little small, and the fries are often soggy and with minimal seasoning salt if business has been slow that day.

Indeed, the chicken fingers are a little smaller than ideal, underscoring the fact they haven’t quite matured into the delicious golden-brown hue that is so characteristic of a good chicken finger. And yet, you leave the meal with a full stomach, and there’s definitely enough taste to go around.

So how has Guthrie’s managed to survive amidst cutthroat competition on the Strip? The answer is simple: hours of operation and meal deals. For many months, nay, more than a year, Guthrie’s offered unparalleled feeding time freedom while easing the financial burden of chicken-finger fanatics on campus. During its greater periods, Guthrie’s remained open well past midnight, sometimes handing out plates until 4 a.m. This was unprecedented. While competitors closed shop at 10 p.m. or 11 p.m., Guthrie’s knew its clientele: We stay up late and don’t require chicken before noon.

Even better, Guthrie’s undercut the competition by offering a full chicken-finger plate for $3.99 after 5 p.m. and even ‘round the clock for a time. Yes, $3.99. Tacking on a large sweet tea (with endless refills!) brought the total

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to a meager $5.88. Compared to the average $7 for a quality plate, this price was too good to pass up. (And if it weren’t, it didn’t matter because everywhere else was probably closed.

Nevertheless!).

However, Guthrie’s has long since changed its price for the beloved plate, beginning with the summer semester. The $3.99 plate is gone; a full plate with a drink costs over $7, although they’ve tried to soften the blow by offering free sweet tea on Sundays (good for the hangover!).

They now close at 10 p.m. or 11 p.m., along with other establishments, leaving plate lovers high and dry during those late-night cravings.

Some will protest, “But what about the 50cent-per-finger deal?!” or “You didn’t mention the Big Boy!” If you think about it, 50 cents per chicken finger really isn’t that great a deal. That brings the total for five fingers (the standard) to $2.50. Add on a side order of fries (nearly $2), Texas toast (almost $1), and a large drink (another $2), and you have the price of a standard plate. And the Big Boy meal? C’mon. A regular plate but with 10 fingers? Judging by the 50-cents-per-finger deal, this is no meal deal at all but just another result of adding up the separate prices for each item.

Guthrie’s general manager Shawn Campbell said the change in prices came with the changing of the semesters. He said, for the past two semesters, the $3.99 meal deal has been in effect throughout the business day for the first few weeks. Then the $3.99 meal deal becomes solely after 5 p.m. until the end of the semester.

And it begins again with a new semester.

Campbell said that he estimates, if nothing changes, the $3.99 meal deal will return, beginning with the fall semester — with it all the time for the first few weeks and then after 5 p.m. for the rest of the semester. Campbell said the 50-cents-per-finger deal, despite signs saying it’s only available for a “limited time,” will last for the rest of the summer.

“I really believe we have a better product,” Campbell said. “... When the market bears and we can do 50-cent fingers, I do, and when the market bears and we can do a $3.99 special, I do.

It’s all about having a relationship with the community. ... I don’t focus on what other people charge.”

So the general manager’s words reassure that the Guthrie’s we know and love will return soon.

This is fortunate because sometimes, there just isn’t a place you can order a plate with a fake name, sit down with it and watch the most popular sports event in peace with your friends.

I cannot wait until the meal deal comes back.

The Democrats’ reign of terror must come an end. Ever since that horrid election in 1800 those Jacobins have ran amok. Jefferson and his “Bill of Rights,” have you ever heard of such nonsense? Can you believe how arrogant those pretentious miscreants are, suggesting that the Constitution of the United States of America was not perfect in the first place? I bet they all hate America too.

Oh wait they do! The Party of Jefferson has made it blatantly clear that they support those French ninnyhammers in their attempt to spread “liberty, equality, and fraternity” (aka mob rule).

Those Frenchmen would give every man the right to vote, regardless of estate size! We cannot trust the masses to make decisions for themselves. That would lead to chaos. People are just too dumb to make decisions which are best. There is good reason we have the Electoral College after all. Any other system is just unAmerican.

Besides we should stand beside our British brethren in their struggle against Emperor Napoleon and not prop him up by buying land from him. I speak, of course, of Jefferson’s unconstitutional purchase of French Louisiana.

Let us ignore the fact that the president has no legal authority to buy land for a second and ponder the real reason behind this nefarious purchase: to further the Democrats’ evil agenda to bring about the eventual Frenchification of the United States.

We cannot stand for this, America. We must oppose Secretary of State James Madison (the real culprit behind the so-called “Louisiana Purchase”) in his bid for the presidency. Instead, vote for a true hero: Charles Cotesworth Pinckney.

Good ole C.C. is a hero of the Revolution and a former POW. While Madison (and the lot of the Democrats) was sitting in the comfort of Philadelphia, Federalists like C.C. were out winning the war with Britain. If it was not for C.C.’s heroic actions, there would be no

America, something Madison cannot truthfully claim (though knowing how the Jacobins lack a moral compass, he likely will).

Sure, Madison might be “Mr. Father of the Constitution,” but he obviously did a poor job raising that child since his own party felt the need to add a Bill of Rights. What’s wrong, Madison, can’t do something right the first time? America can ill afford to give you a second chance when you fail at your attempt at being president.

Even though Madison supposedly wrote the thing (or at least took credit for the whole thing, but that is what Democrats do after all), every decent idea contained inside of the Constitution was the brainchild of C.C. As mentioned above, those Democrats (like their French counterparts) promote and advocate mob rule. These radicals would do away with perfectly legal and constitutional property requirements to vote? What kind of world would that be? I’ll tell you what kind of world: a French world. The poor could effectively vote to give themselves all of the estates of the wealthy. The wealthy earned that money, however, and those beggars lack it because they are lazy, plain and simple.

C.C. had several proposals to prevent this travesty. If it were up to him (as it should be), the general populous would not vote in any federal election. Currently anyone can vote for their representatives in the House, while the Senate is intelligently chosen by the state legislatures (though Democrats will likely change this, given the first chance they get), and the president is chosen by the Electoral College.

Clearly the people cannot be trusted to choose their president or their senators, so why can they be trusted to choose their representatives?

With more and more ruffians running for office, it’s a wonder the Senate is not overrun by rabble-rousers looking to make an easy pence.

C.C. had a solution to this, however. He would eliminate the Senate’s pay. The highest body of Congress should be comprised solely of wealthy men who can afford the sacrifice. Also the Senate should consist of only those people with enough moral fiber as to donate their time to the country (something those Jeffersonians are likely to lack).

Right now this nation needs a strong federal government and a sizable army to protect our borders from foreign aggression. Madison would have none of this, or at least today’s Madison wouldn’t. Madison is known for being rather inconsistent to say the least. The former coauthor of the Federalist Papers is now a coleader of the Republicans? Can we trust a man like that? No, I say. Vote Pinckney/King in ‘08!

— Gabe Johnson is a senior in history. He can be reached at gjohns13@utk.edu.

Friday, June 11, 2010

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SPORTS

Tennis duo falls short in finals

Lady Vol rowing team places 16th in NCAA Championships

ranked No. 1,” Hahn-Patrick said. “The fact that they got to the finals is remarkable.”

Despite not winning the Caitlin Whoriskey and championship, Whoriskey Natalie Pluskota were defeatand Pluskota’s careers are still ed 7-5, 4-6, 6-0 by No. 2full of victories and achieveranked Hilary Barte and ments.

Lindsay Burdette of Stanford Whoriskey, who was on Monday afternoon at the recently selected NCAA Doubles as a U.S. repreChampionship final. sentative to comHad the duo won, it pete at Master’U would have been the BNP Paribas in first NCAA doubles Politeirs, France, championship for graduates UT UT. with a singles Whoriskey and season of 33-13, Pluskota, the nation’s which, along with No. 1-ranked doubles her Round of 16 team, have been nearappearance, ly unstoppable the earned her autoentire year. They matic Allstarted a 10-victory America honors. win streak in the Vol She was also by defeating the No. named the 33 Boise State team National Senior of Lauren Magale Player of the Year, and Pichittra selected for the Thongbach with a set award by coaches of 8-5 earlier this across the counyear. try. Whoriskey In the tournament, finished her the pair advanced to Andy Westbrook • The Daily Beacon career at the Final Four with its defeat of Florida’s Caitlin Whoriskey and Natalie Pluskota talk after a set ear- Tennessee 12th in No. 5-ranked Marrit lier this season. The double’s team finished in the final all-time singles victories with 92.

Boonstra and Allie Campbell/ITA poll making school history.

Pluskota, a risWill in a three-set ing junior, began a match, 2-6, 7-5, 7team proved to be helpful in chance of winning than if I 10-match winning streak in 6(6).

The pair went on to top preparing for the finals had played with anybody doubles with a Flight One title at the Furman Fall else,” she said.

No. 8 Chelsey Gullickson and match.

The pair have not been Classic this past season. She “We knew they were going Nadja Gilchrist of Georgia with a victory of 6-1, 7-6 (11). to make certain plays, and we able to play together for parts and Whoriskey won the douThe victory advanced the knew we had to do the same if of this year, however, because bles crown at the ITA AllTournament. wanted to win,” of an injury that forced American Lady Vols to the finals of the we 2010 NCAA Doubles Whoriskey said. “We had our Pluskota to sit out an earlier During the 2009 NCAA Tournament, Championships, where they chance and kind of let it slip part of the season. In light of Doubles were pitted against Barte and away in the first set, but we Pluskota’s earlier injury, Co- Pluskota and Whoriskey took knew what we wanted to do Head Coach Sonia Hahn- out the No. 8 team of Lenka Burdette of Stanford.

The finals match was not in the second set, and we exe- Patrick is proud of the Broosova and Csilla Borsanyi of Baylor to reach the semifiwomen’s accomplishments. the first time that Whoriskey cuted it well.”

“For a team that hasn’t nals, allowing the two to be Even with the loss, both and Pluskota have played the Stanford pair. In 2009, Barte women said they were proud played the whole season pitted against Barte and together, it’s an accomplish- Burdette for their first match and Burdette defeated of each other’s teamwork.

“We worked well together,” ment to get so far and to be against one another.

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Chris Shamblin Staff Writer

Whoriskey and Pluskota in the semifinals of the NCAA Doubles Championships during a third-set tiebreaker. The two teams have played against each other twice this season, splitting the victories.

The Lady Vols said their experiences with the Stanford

Pluskota said. “You find a system that works well, both for you and your partner, and you stick to it.”

Whoriskey shared a similar sentiment.

“The chemistry between Natalie and me is something that I feel like gave us a better

GOLD RIVER, Calif. - The No. 16-ranked University of Tennessee women's rowing team capped a successful 2009-10 campaign with a 16th place finish at the 2010 NCAA Rowing Championships at the Sacramento State Aquatic Center on May 30.

Though she would've liked to place a little higher, head coach Lisa Glenn was very pleased with the season as a whole.

"This year was really productive for us," Glenn said. "I thought our eights showed a good amount of consistency and there was a lot of steady, hard work put in by our upperclassmen. I felt like the freshman and sophomores stepped up as well. We had some good wins over the course of the season and put ourselves in position to get invited to the national championship."

Behind strong performances from all three boats, Virginia captured its first national championship with 87 points.

California took second, while a great outing from its V8+ boat propelled Princeton to a third-place finish.

The Lady Vols finished fourth in the C Final of the V4+, crossing the finish line 7:40.20. Ohio State captured the race in 7:25.17.

No. 2-ranked Princeton captured the Petite Final of the V4+, while top-ranked Virginia took home the Grand Final.

In the 2V8+, the Big Orange was victorious in the C Final, besting USC, UCLA and Clemson with a time of 6:41.50.

Wisconsin took the Petite Final, while Brown took the victory in the Grand Final.

Tennessee closed out its season with a fourth place finish in the C Final of the Varsity 8+. Katie Ross coxed the top shell to a time of 6.43.21.

Michigan State brought home the Petite Final of the V8+ and in the final race of the day, Yale recorded a wire-to-wire win at the Grand Final of the V8+.

With the NCAA Championships officially concluded, the book is now closed on the 2009-2010 Lady Vol rowing season.

Tennessee was ranked among the top 20 teams in the nation all year long and took three victories from No. 17 Dartmouth on March 28.

The Lady Vols also posted an impressive fourth-place finish at the 2010 Lake Natoma Invitational, beating Big Ten and Central Region champions Wisconsin in the final event of the day, the V8+ final, to secure a place in the top four.

Tennessee hosted the 2010 Aramark South/Central region sprints from May 15 to May 16. The event turned out to be historic for the Orange and White. UT captured the inaugural Conference USA rowing championship, finishing seventh overall at the event.

That finish propelled the Orange and White to its seventh overall appearance at the NCAA Championships and fourth as a full team. After missing the NCAAs in 2009, Glenn said it felt good to be back.

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Friday, June 11, 2010

Softball’s magical run ends in semi-finals Kevin Huebschman Sports Editor Midnight eventually struck for the UT softball team, but it came an entire week after the Lady Vols donned Cinderella’s glass slippers.

What began in Ann Arbor, Mich., with the upset of second-seeded Michigan last weekend continued through Sunday as No. 15 UT upset No. 3 Arizona and No. 9 Georgia before losing in the Women’s College World Series semifinals in a couple of rematches with Arizona.

Thursday The Lady Vols (49-15) would get no reprieve after their shocking two-game sweep of the No. 2 Wolverines, facing off against Arizona for the opening round of the WCWS. UT made quick work of the Wildcats, running out to a 9-0 5th-inning lead to force a run-rule victory.

Freshman Ivy Renfroe continued to surge through the postseason, throwing a complete-game, three-hit shutout and earning her 30th win on the season to become just the second UT pitcher to do so.

Renfroe downplayed her role in the victory, though, attributing it more to her coach’s pitch calling.

“It’s really our coach that has the strategy,” Renfroe said.

“She calls the pitches, and I just throw them where she puts them.”

On the offensive side, four UT players registered at least one RBI in the match, while an error and several illegal pitches

by Arizona’s Kenzie Fowler added three more.

The game began as a pitcher’s duel, as neither side was able to capitalize with runners in scoring position through two innings. In the third, however, the Lady Vols, led by a two-RBI Erinn Webb double, exploded for four runs.

Four singles, along with some errant pitching by Fowler in the fourth, gave UT another

three runs.

After a fifth-inning double by third baseman Jessica Spigner drove in the final two runs, Renfroe wrapped up the inning with three straight outs to bring the run rule into play.

The Lady Vols have never lost an opening round game in the WCWS, improving to 4-0 with the win.

Friday The Lady Vols’ reward for their first-round victory was a matchup against the conference rival Georgia Bulldogs.

UT didn’t disappoint, winning 7-5 in front of 8,694 fans, the largest single-session crowd in WCWS history.

For the second-straight game, poor pitching helped Tennessee, giving the Lady Vols two unearned runs in the second.

The senior Webb stepped up again, this time with the second grand slam of her career in the third to give the Lady Vols a commanding 6-0 lead. A single by freshman right fielder Kat Dotson drove in the final Tennessee run for the contest in the top of the fourth.

Renfroe managed to carry her shutout streak through three innings, but the Bulldogs snapped the streak by adding a run in both the fourth and fifth innings.

After allowing Georgia to come from behind twice during the regular season, the Lady Vols were forced to endure a scare as Renfroe allowed a oneout, three-run homer in the bottom of the seventh before closing out the contest.

Even with the scare, co-head coach Ralph Weekly said there was never any doubt that the Jackson, Tenn., native would finish the game. “ … It always gives the other team momentum when you change pitchers,” Weekly said.

“We decided we were going to live and die with Ivy.” Sunday Tennessee

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Saturday’s games with Arizona, which beat Hawai’i to earn the rematch, needing to win only one game to advance to its first World Series since 2007.

The Lady Vols’ run ended in dramatic fashion, though, as Arizona would return the runrule favor in Game 1 with an 80 blanking, before advancing to the finals with a 5-2 win in the afternoon.

UT provided the first major threat of the first game, loading the bases in the bottom of the second, but a unique series of events quickly erased the threat.

Senior designated player Nicole Kajitani popped up near the catcher, though, and an infield fly rule was called, which meant Kajitani was automatically out. Confusion set in after the popup was dropped, though, and two UT baserunners wound up on third, giving the Wildcats the easy double play.

Arizona quickly took advantage, adding two runs in the top of the third before sophomore Cat Hosfield relieved Renfroe. The Wildcats drove in a final run before Hosfield, making her first career WCWS appearance, closed out the inning.

Both teams were quiet until the top of the fifth, when Arizona added another five runs, and another scoreless inning by the Lady Vols brought the run rule into play.

The Lady Vols seemed to carry the momentum early in Game 2, as freshman Lauren Gibson was walked in the top of the first with the bases loaded to drive in the game’s opening run.

Senior catcher Tiffany Huff added to the lead in the top of the third with an RBI single, but Arizona responded with two runs of its own in the bottom of the inning to tie the game.

The Lady Vols wouldn’t see the lead again, as Arizona added a run in the fifth and two in the sixth to seal the win and a berth in the WCWS finals.

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The infielders gather together after an out against Florida earlier this season. The team lost to No. 3 Arizona on Sunday to land them tied for third in NCAA Division I softball.