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Student assists police, locates bear Wesley Mills News Editor It was an unusual Saturday night for graduate student Alexander Khaddouma.

Khaddouma was driving back from his apartment when a bear ran across 17th street, three yards behind his car.

“I was actually on the phone at the time and just said something like, ‘Holy crap, there is a bear in the Fort! Let me call you back,’” Khaddouma said.

The UT alert system sent out a text and email warning people that there was a bear on the loose, but Khaddouma wasn’t signed up for the alerts so his sighting was the first knowledge he had of any wild bear roaming UT’s campus.

“My immediate response was to help by following it in my car because I was not sure if anyone was aware of the bear’s presence,” he said. “I saw a few people walking on the sidewalk in the distance. I was worried someone would get hurt or hurt the bear so I called 911 and gave them the animal’s location and where it was heading.”

After the bear wandered off the road, Khaddouma got out of his car to follow the bear so he could get it to climb a tree in front of the Panhellenic building where it could be more easily captured.

While some may say getting out and following the bear was not the brightest move, Khaddouma has been around animals while working at the Knoxville Zoo and the College of Veterinary Medicine for several years.

“I am used to being around animals a lot stronger and more aggressive than a bear,” he said. “But I was extremely careful not to get too close to it, and not to frighten it more than necessary to get it to a safer place.”

Once Khaddouma saw the police cars

•Photo courtesy of John Messner

TRWA agents attend to a black bear outside of The Panhellenic Building on Sunday, June 11. The bear was relocated, and no one was harmed. arrive, he got their attention and directed them to the bear and left the scene.

Knoxville Police Department and the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency were both on the scene to tranquilize the bear.

Undecided junior Spencer Cornett said he first learned about the incident through Channel 10’s Facebook page.

“My first thought was how it wandered so far,” Cornett said. “My next thought was how they would approach the issue, as in how

they would get it down.”

Cornett said the best possible outcome was the one that happened.

“I feel like what they did was a lot better than what they could have done,” Cornett said. “I would hate for them to have to kill it because of a mishap. I definitely thought it was great that they took it to a wildlife area.”

TWRA officers loaded up the bear in a truck and were going to release it in the Cherokee National Forest, according to the

Associated Press.

Khaddouma said that he hasn’t experienced anything like this, but working with bears he does have some advice.

“I would certainly not recommend going near a bear or any other wild animal,” Khaddouma said. “But I knew how to stay safe in the situation and I was worried other people and the bear would not be safe, so that is why I chose to follow it until the police arrived to help corral it.”

Constant construction frustrates, inconveniences students Lauren Kittrell Editor-in-Chief

George Richardson • The Daily Beacon

Boundaries and caution signs indicate construction in and around the University Center garage on March 18. The garage has since been completely demolished.

UT appears to be in a state of constant construction.

As building after building and parking lot after parking lot goes under severe renovations, UT’s campus is slowly being overtaken by caution signs, construction workers and noisy equiptment. The updates affect student after student, but the opinions regarding the issue vary.

For Ashley Hodgson, junior in speech pathology, the end result of the construction is well worth the inconvenience.

Hodgson said the campus is in desperate need of renovations and she is happy to put up with the noise and discomfort of a campus under construction.

While Hodgson agreed that the caterpillar stage of campus renovation is far from enjoyable, she said is looking forward to the outcome becoming something spectacular.

“The construction creates traffic issues and can be inconvenient if roads are closed off, I am glad to see UT making improvements,” Hodgson said. “Many areas of campus look outdated and are in need of repair so it will be a good thing to see those areas updated.”

While some students, like Hodgson, feel the changes are necessary to the beautification of the campus, many students find the repeated updates a nuisance. For Marissa Landis, a senior in the college scholars program, the construction has had a negative affect on her experience at UT. “The ongoing construction at UT has definitely been a negative to my time here,” Landis said. “It seems like it is never completed and makes the campus feel more like a noisy work site than an enjoyable place to take classes and study.”

As the construction continues through summer and into fall, summer students experience the worst of both worlds.

Accounting senior and summer school attendee, Zach Pudelek agreed with Landis, adding that, thanks to the construction, the ambiance of campus “sucks”.

“I had to walk around (the construction) all last semester and I can hardly hear my teacher in my summer class thanks to some broski with a jackhammer,” Pudelek said.

For seniors like Pudelek and Landis the fact that they won’t be around to experience the benefits of the construction is disappointing and a bit frustrating, but for future students, the construction will develop into a worthwhile accomplishment.

Kendrick Lamar shines at Bonnaroo The Associated Press MANCHESTER, Tenn. — Everyone loves Kendrick Lamar — from the toughest customers in Compton to the crunchiest fans at the Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival.

With a hard-as-nails flow and a socially conscious message, the rising star has proven he fits in anywhere. Crowned the next big thing by Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg, he also moves comfortably in the tie-dyed world he encountered Thursday on his first visit to the festival.

“I think it just comes from me being myself and not being scared of being myself,” Lamar said of his universal appeal. “When I talk about certain things, it’s something that I want to do and I

want to talk about. So when I talk about the streets or I talk about the system or I talk about life in general, all that stuff makes up me. And it comes across in how people here. They feel it because they know it’s organic, you know?”

Lamar spoke with The Associated Press in his dressing room minutes before his highly anticipated set that capped what amounted to a new faces of rap segment at Bonnaroo. Detroit’s Danny Brown started the run, followed

by Alabama’s Yelawolf, who paid tribute to The Beastie Boys’ Adam “MCA” Yauch, who died of cancer last month, with a medley of hits, including “Brass Monkey” and “(You Gotta) Fight For Your Right (To Party).” Brown returned to the stage to join Lamar for an encore at the end of the night.

That run of some of hip-hop’s most hyped newcomers fit with Lamar’s message of acceptance, one he’s been spreading since the start and perfected with his last album, “Section.80.”

“It definitely is a goal to have as many people listen to the music as possible, not just my own backyard cause I’m from Compton,” Lamar said. “I want to have people over in Amsterdam to be able to relate to where I come from. I want the world to be listening to this music because I feel like it’s the best music has to offer in the business. As much people as possible. When I say ‘(expletive) your ethnicity’ in the intro to ‘Section.80,’ I really mean that. I don’t care where you from, your creed or your color, you’re going to enjoy this music and you’re going to relate to it.”

•Photo courtesy of Kendrick Lamar

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Lizzy Sovine, sophomore in physics and astronomy, reads outside of HSS on Feb. 28.

1862 — J.E.B. Stuart rides around the Union army Confederate General J.E.B. Stuart begins his ride around the Army of the Potomac during the Peninsular campaign in Virginia, after being sent on a reconnaissance of Union positions by Robert E. Lee. Four days later, Stuart had circled the entire Yankee force, 105,000 strong, and provided Lee with crucial information.

General George McClellan spent the spring of 1862 preparing the Union army for a campaign against Richmond up the James Peninsula. By late May, McClellan had inched up the James with relatively light fighting. But after Joseph Johnston was wounded at the Battle of Seven Pines on May 31, Robert E. Lee assumed command of the Army of Northern Virginia. In the next month, Lee began to show the

gambling spirit that eventually earned him a reputation as one of history's greatest generals.

Lee dispatched Stuart, his dashing cavalry leader, and 1,200 troopers to investigate the position of McClellan's right flank. Stuart soon discovered that McClellan's right flank did not have any natural topographic features to protect it, so he continued to ride around the rest of the army in a bold display that exceeded Lee's orders. His troopers took prisoners and harassed Federal supply lines. They rode 100 miles, pursued by Union cavalry that was commanded, coincidentally, by Stuart's father-in-law, Philip St. George Cooke. The Confederate cavalry was far superior to their Yankee counterparts, and the expedition became legendary when Stuart arrived back to Richmond on June 15. The information provided to Lee helped the Confederates begin an attack that eventually drove McClellan from Richmond's doorstep.

1917 — King Constantine of Greece abdicates On this day in 1917, King Constantine I of Greece, the foremost champion of Greek neutrality during World War I, abdicates his throne in the face of pressure from Britain and France and internal opponents — most notably Prime Minister Eleutherios Venizelos — who favored Greece's entrance into the war on the side of the Allies.

As crown prince during the Balkan Wars of 1912-13, Constantine had led Greek troops to victory on the battlefield; he ascended to the throne in March 1913 upon the death of his father, George I. Educated in Germany and married to Sophia, a sister of Kaiser Wilhelm II, Constantine was naturally sympathetic to the Central Powers after the

outbreak of World War I in the summer of 1914. For this reason, Constantine refused to honor Greece’s obligation to support Serbia — its ally during both Balkan Wars — when the latter country was attacked

by Bulgaria in 1914. Constantine’s position was complicated, however, as Venizelos, along with the majority of the Greek government, was determinedly proAlly, and the British and French navies held an unwavering dominance over the Mediterranean Sea. Despite dedicated efforts by the British and French to woo Greece with promises of territorial gains in Turkey, Constantine maintained a position of neutrality for his country. He did allow British and French forces to disembark at Salonika as part of an operation planned in late 1914 to aid Serbia against Austro-Hungarian and Bulgarian forces. By the time the Allied forces were ready, however, Serbia had fallen and the Central Powers drew closer to the Greek border.

By the end of 1915, Allied operations had bogged down in Salonika and failed spectacularly in the Dardanelles, and Constantine was understandably even less inclined to support the Entente. As the British cabinet was told at the time, “His Majesty’s decided opinion was that Germany was winning on all points, and that there were only two possible endings to European war, either that Germany would be entirely victorious or that the war would end in a stalemate largely in favor of Germany.”

In this position, Constantine was undermined by the charismatic and ambitious Venizelos, who led the movement in favor of joining the war on the side of the Entente in the name of building a more powerful Greek nation. Constantine dismissed Venizelos in October 1915; the exprime minister subsequently received Allied recognition of a provisional Greek government, under Venizelos’ control, in Thessalonica in 1916. Meanwhile, civil war threatened in Greece, and Constantine desperately sought promises of naval, military and financial assistance from Germany, which he did not receive.

By the summer of 1917, the Allies had lost their patience with Constantine. On June 11, they sent an ultimatum to Athens, demanding the king’s abdication.

That same day, blatantly disregarding the country’s neutrality, British forces block-

aded Greece and the French landed their troops at Piraeus, on the Isthmus of Corinth. The following day, Constantine abdicated in favor of his second son, Alexander, who reinstated Venizelos as prime minister. On July 2, 1916, Greece declared war on the Central Powers.

1987 — Reagan challenges Gorbachev On this day in 1987, in one of his most famous Cold War speeches, President Ronald Reagan challenges Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev to “tear down” the Berlin Wall, a symbol of the repressive Communist era in a divided Germany.

In 1945, following Germany’s defeat in World War II, the nation’s capital, Berlin, was divided into four sections, with the Americans, British and French controlling the western region and the Soviets gaining power in the eastern region. In May 1949, the three western sections came together as the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany), with the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) being established in October of that same year. In 1952, the border between the two countries was closed and by the following year East Germans were prosecuted if they left their country without permission. In August 1961, the Berlin Wall was erected by the East German government to prevent its citizens from escaping to the West. Between 1949 and the wall’s inception, it’s estimated that over 2.5 million East Germans fled to the West in search of a less repressive life.

With the wall as a backdrop, President Reagan declared to a West Berlin crowd in 1987, “There is one sign the Soviets can make that would be unmistakable, that would advance dramatically the cause of freedom and peace.” He then called upon his Soviet counterpart: “Secretary General Gorbachev, if you seek peace — if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe — if you seek liberalization: come here, to this gate. Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate. Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.” Reagan then went on to ask Gorbachev to undertake serious arms reduction talks with the United States.

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

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Veterans’ charity sued by former employee for soliciting The Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. — A veterans charity has been sued in Tennessee by a former employee who said he was fired because he refused to solicit donations after being told not to by police.

Tonzil Jones, a former Marine who said he served in Iraq and Afghanistan, said he was hired by The Veterans Support Organization, a Rhode Island incorporated charity, to take donations from the public while standing on the street or outside businesses in Murfreesboro in 2010.

The organization, which has chapters in multiple states, has been fined in Tennessee for false claims about their charity and for not registering with the state.

The VSO’s only source of funds comes from veterans and others who ask for donations outside stores or on street corners. Solicitors who work as independent contractors get to keep about 30 percent of what they raise. The charity receives no federal or state grants or funds, but they provide some funds to veterans hospitals and other groups and operate a 115bed home for the homeless in Florida.

Richard Van Houten, the charity’s founder, said his charity will never use professional fundraisers because they often keep a large portion of what they raise.

“We have 200 plus people on our work program who raise the money,” he said. “These people in front

of these stores and on these streets raising the money are not professional solicitors.”

Jones said that in 2010 while he and others were soliciting money in Murfreesboro, a police officer told them they couldn’t solicit in the street. He was warned that he could face a fine or be sent to jail for continuing to solicit.

He said he was fired by the charity's state manager after Jones said he would not violate the local city ordinance against soliciting on city streets.

But the charity claims in court filings that Jones quit his job. Van Houten said he couldn’t comment on pending litigation, but said the people in the work program learn valuable job skills.

“You can take that trade anywhere and mingle with people,” he said. “Rather than give the money away to a for profit company to raise it, we are giving it to the struggling people out there that need it.”

In 2010, the state’s division of charitable solicitations and gaming said VSO was claiming in written material that they provided a wide range of services in Tennessee, but an investigation concluded that those services were not being offered in the state. The charity agreed to pay a $20,000 settlement.

Jones said in his court filing that the charity tells its street solicitors to say that all the money goes to help needy or homeless veterans, but he said that was not true. He said he was given scripted answers to provide when questioned about the charity.

• Photo courtesy of The Volunteer Yearbook

Two students embrace in celebration of graduation at the bottom of The Hill in 1957. The landscape behind the two students has changed dramatically in the decades since their graduation.

Suspect in shooting has prior record The Associated Press AUBURN, Ala. — The man suspected in a weekend party shooting that killed three people and wounded three others was previously arrested on charges involving guns and twice sued for child support, according to court records.

Authorities were searching Monday for Desmonte Leonard, 22, of Montgomery, who is accused of opening fire Saturday night at an apartment complex near Auburn University after getting into a fight with some of the victims over a woman. He faces three counts of capital murder.

Two of those slain were former play-

ers for the school’s powerhouse football program.

Auburn Police Chief Tommy Dawson said Leonard fled the scene in a white Chevrolet that he abandoned on the way back to Montgomery, about 55 miles away. They believed he was in the Montgomery area.

Court records show Montgomery police arrested Leonard in 2008 on a charge of carrying a pistol without a license, after stopping a suspected stolen vehicle and finding him inside.

Documents available online didn’t show whether the case was ever resolved, but Leonard was freed on bond within days.

Leonard was charged in 2009 with assault after allegedly shooting a man

in the groin, but prosecutors dropped the case after the victim told authorities Leonard wasn't the shooter.

A Montgomery woman filed a paternity suit against Leonard on Friday that identified him as the father of a girl who turned 1 last month.

Another woman sued him in 2009 seeking unpaid child support for a girl who is now 4. A court ordered monthly payments of $305 by Leonard, who records show was working at a Walmart store at the time.

Auburn police said the weekend shootings didn’t appear to have anything to do with some of the victims being former or current players on the football team, which won the national championship in 2010.

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Somewhere... Hopefully Everyday interactions missing civility Preston Peeden Managing Editor The world as we know it is not a happy place.

Turn on a television to any news station and the top story will be about death, floods, fires, robberies, wars or any other violent and destructive headline grabber.

There are so many problems in the world that it can make anyone’s head hurt trying to think up a way to solve them all.

How do we fix the economy? How do we ensure peace and safety for not only ourselves but our neighbors? How do we stop marauding bands of black bears from aimlessly roaming the Fort?

I don’t have an answer for these questions, nor do I do think anyone else does (though politicians will make a living out of convincing as many people as they can that they do). But there is a problem that I do know the solution to, and that question and its fix are both easy.

Before I go any further, I need to make one thing obvious; I am terribly biased when it comes to the forthcoming topic, as it is one that I face constantly as a server at a restaurant. The problem is simple, people are rude and manners are starting to become a thing of the past.

This isn’t a new or revolutionary idea, nor is it an accurate blanket statement, but it is still a realization that I have been coming to over the past several months.

Every day when I go to work, there is at least one person who treats me with the upmost contempt. Before I can even greet them, they are pointing at me and using crude hand gestures to gesticulate an order as if the possibility of too many verbal commands would overwork my fragile intelligence, calling me “boy” or “server,” insisting that I put all of my other customers behind them and work them up the front of the order, then (and this has happened a couple times) watch absentmindedly as their children proceed to open every sugar and Splenda packet onto the table and make a gigantic pile of confection that they will then leave unmoved for me to pick up once they have left.

I understand when a customer comes in and wants

things done their way; it’s a service industry and I get paid to provide that service. I am perfectly comfortable trying to do whatever the guests needs or wants to make sure that their dining experience is up to their standards. I want to help every person that comes in, but I also want something too. I want reciprocity. I want civility.

It’s not just in restaurants that the necroses of simple manners are evident. It’s everywhere. When was the last time you saw someone open the door for a person behind them, or take the time to say thank you to a cashier? These commonplace actions are disappearing.

To be honest, I am surprised to hear myself concerned about the status of manners. When I was little, I used to chafe at all of the lessons my parents taught me. I used to think that no one cared if I said “yes sir,” “no ma’am,” and opened doors for others. I figured it was just a waste of time, and everyone else knew that too. But as I grow older, I am starting to realize something. It’s those little formalities that make the world go smoothly. There is such a great contingency between everything that we do, that even the smallest kindness given at the smallest level can have a huge impact on an even greater scale.

I can’t tell express many times my days at work have gotten better because of that one overly nice guest.

One person’s momentary kindness can bolster me to such a level that I feel great for the rest of my day.

And it’s not just because of the words they said (I’m not that desperate for approval), but rather because they took the effort to say them. Just the fact that someone cared about and appreciated what I was doing is more than enough for me.

It’s like the butterfly effect, but without Ashton Kutcher’s awful acting. The world is a dark place, and there are so many issues and problems that we want to fix but are unable to do so. We can’t stop every wrong, but we can make a difference on a local level.

It really is simple, it’s even our “golden rule.” We just need to show a little compassion and empathy.

Kindness goes a long way to making not only the days but also lives of those around us; both locally and globally, better. And all it takes is a thank you, a smile, or even a hand cleaning up your hyperactive four yearolds sugar pile in the middle of the table.

— Preston Peeden is a senior in history. He can be reached at ppeeden@utk.edu.

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Fooding offers unfettered cuisine Shal l o w a n d Pe d a n t i c by

Robbie Hargett In 2009, John Colapinto interviewed a food inspector who worked for the Michelin Guide, an annual guide book that rates restaurants, for an article in The New Yorker. It was the first time Michelin had ever allowed an inspector to be interviewed. The inspector did not disclose her name.

I, like many Americans, have always had a hazy notion of what French food is all about. When I think of French cuisine, I think of grand restaurants and master chefs, foie gras and exotic cheese, but I have no idea what it’s actually like over there.

After some research, it turns out I was right.

French cuisine, specifically the predominant branch called “haute cuisine” — “high cooking” — is steeped in tradition. It is the cuisine classique, the cuisine I’m talking about. It’s formal, conventional, technically perfect and, most importantly, very discriminating.

But it’s not the only kind of French cuisine, and within the past couple decades, a new kind of French food has established its own identity.

Le Fooding (a mélange of “food” and “feeling” — “fooding” means to eat and drink with feeling) is a French food movement that, if nothing else, doesn’t want to be like the old French cuisine. It doesn’t want to be traditional, scientific, objective and selective, and it especially detests the Michelin Guide, a century-old authority that categorizes, labels and rates restaurants based on a scale of one to three stars. (Three-star restaurants are extremely rare; the guide rates restaurants all over the world, but only 106 of them have been awarded three stars as of 2012.) Michelin food inspectors live in total secrecy; they are not allowed to disclose their line of work, even to their parents. They analyze the food they eat, looking for quality of the ingredients, flawless technique, creativity, balance, texture. To them, food is an equation, and the product — what’s on the plate — is either right or wrong.

I called the Michelin Guide an “authority.” That’s an understatement. In 2003, French chef Bernard Loiseau shot himself in the mouth with a shotgun after Le Figaro, a popular French daily newspaper, reported that the Michelin Guide planned to remove one of Loiseau’s restaurant’s three stars. It’s a big deal. These French chefs

aspire to be included in the guide, so they cook according to the guide’s standards and expectations of what exceptional French cooking should be. Michelin has cemented and essentially dictated French cuisine in the last century. If the guide favors good foie gras, then foie gras is on your menu.

This is precisely the kind of tradition Le Fooding wants to move away from. It wants chefs who cooked with their souls, not technicians. It wants a living cuisine, not one to be mechanically copied over and over — like all of the French stereotypes, like foie gras — so it supports chefs who are adding something new.

Alexandre Cammas, a French journalist and prominent figure of the Fooding movement, said the old French cuisine was dying out, and everyone knew it outside of France, but it had to be said within. He stressed that French food should be current with “the taste of one’s times,” rather than outdated traditions.

A big part of the Fooding movement is eating something new but also having a new attitude about what you are eating, which sometimes means just having a visceral emotional response to the food, and letting that guide your feeling about it. They believe French high cuisine suffers from too many pretensions.

Of course, we too have the pretentious among us — those who have to think about a movie for a few days before answering the question, “Was it good?” But those Americans are less visible, if only for the fact that they are less vocal. Immediate reaction has its times and places, and the proponents of the Fooding movement want to bring French cuisine back into that arena. They want food to be a pure art again, not an intellectual one. They want, to some extent, a primitive sense of wonder when they taste — a fascination with what they have just created. Our early ancestors used fire to enhance their food, but they didn’t concern themselves much with plate presentation. Fooding supporters want to dispel notions of right and wrong in food critiques, instead advocating for “like” and “not like.”

And it wants food to be fast, none of this Slow Food Movement stuff. Le Fooding actually takes a lot of cues from American-style fast food. But there’s a key difference: McDonald’s was able to sell cheap burgers fast, and all of a sudden Americans lost their taste for quality meat, whereas the French, well, they still want quality. “We’re for liberty,” Cammas said, “for the end of categories — a good meal is a rich experience, of any sort. They said no butter. We say no rules! No rules save excellence.”

— Robbie Hargett is a graduate in English. He can be reached at ghargett1@utk.edu.

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Hey friends. Instead of visiting the sunbaked fields of Manchester this weekend, I am writing you a column, and I hope you are as pleased as I am with this prospect. After wracking my brain for something relevant, the obvious, like a snake, bit me square in the eye.

Anyone who knows me knows my love for the Fallout franchise, Interplay/Bethesda Softworks’ postapocalyptic RPG epics set in a radiation scorched America. As I’ve documented previously, the fandom for this series is far-reaching and often ambitious.

People have built entirely functional suits of hydraulicpowered t-45 power armor and Pip-Boy 3000s, but a group of fans from Wayside Creations took their love for the series a step further when developing “NukaBreak,” a YouTube series based around the areas playable in Fallout: New Vegas complete with replica props from across the games’ history and consultation from the games’ creators.

Which brings me to the object of today’s rant: Kickstarter. Is it a great idea or just a cheap means of using merchandising to perpetrate a Ponzi scheme.

Like the Freemasons and the Church of Scientology, you pay your way up the pyramid for the next perk, unless you’re that person with five grand to spare just collecting dust in a shotgun somewhere and can automatically get all of the things. In that case, you are an entitled hoser, part of the one percent,and we cannot be friends. But seriously,what are the wondrous incentives that encourage backers of these multifarious projects to throw their hard earned money at things that may not be produced?

In Kickstarter’s defense, if a new project comes into fruition the backers are never billed, but there are already documented cases of shell projects used to take money from would-be supporters in a short con.

Clever, amirite? But as far as the door prizes and sense of well-being that comes with putting your hard earned funds into something that resonates with you, it often would seem that the base result is simply a pat on the back and a hand in your pocket. Until now.

Going back to “Nuka-Break,” which recently announced production of a second season, Fallout creator Tim Cain and producer/writer Chris Avellone have announced that should Wayside Creations double their original goal of $60,000 for season two and meet that goal, they would join Wayside’s production team and help guide the series in a full-fledged canonical direction (no comment from Bethesda, but if Zenimax is involved there is a man somewhere in Maryland curling his fingers at the notion of profits to be gained from the work of others). This is perhaps the coolest perk I have ever heard of, and what’s more, it doesn’t involve a specific one-on-one donation echelon where those with better means get cooler stuff,but rather encourages people to give as much as they can so that everyone prospers. Go egalitarianism!

So Kickstarter isn’t inherently evil, but why is it a site whose purpose is to help creative projects get on their feet attracts so little in the way of cool? Tim Cain also launched a test project for Wasteland 2, the official sequel to Cain’s early text-based RPG to which Fallout has been called a spiritual successor. Beyond most people’s expectations the Kickstarter generated over million dollars practically overnight, exceeding Cain’s goal.

I guess that even though it completely negates my own opinion of how things work, Kickstarter is the embodiment of the age old maxim, “Throw enough money at the problem and it will fix itself.” If I am to be wrong, so be it, but let’s go whole hog.

I propose that since the economy is on the upswing and people obviously have money to throw at things again, we start a Kickstarter for the economy,and like a national tithe,everyone gives what they can (preferably Caesar’s righteous tax) to fill the proverbial hat and get the country back on track. Hey, we may not have money as a sovereign state, but it’s hiding out there somewhere. We just have to shake the giving tree a little bit harder, draw just a little milk out like Hugh Jackman in “The Fountain,” and sock it all in to the National Kickstarter. Once our world deficit is defeated and President Ron Paul has dismantled the Fed, we’ll use the National Kickstarter as an ultimate means of capitalist representational democracy. Don’t want abortion? Don’t pay for it. Want better infrastructure? Put your tax return into it. After all, corporations are people and if they can buy politicians, you should too.

— Jake Lane is a graduate in creative writing. He can be reached at jlane23@utk.edu.

Tuesday, June 12, 2012

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WUTK, Raven Records team up for fundraiser bash will hit the Relix stage, beginning with Jack Renfro and the Apocalypso Quartet, followed by The French, Eric Griffin and then ending with the group Guy Marshall. During set changes, Knoxville musician and filmmaker Rus Harper will be showing 1980’s era performance footage from several Knoxville bands.

“Jack does a spoken work kind of thing with talented musicians behind him,” Smith said.

“After them is the French, which are more high energy and a rootsy-rock band made up of a lot of musicians from around town… They’re almost like an all-star band. And then you’ve got Eric Griffin, who is just getting ready to release a solo EP and he’s really talented. Griffin is also a member of the last band on, Guy Marshall, and we’re playing a song by the right now on the station and the phones ring whenever we play it.”

The music for the night hopes to reflect not only the diversity of the neighborhood, but also the commitment and support that both Raven Records and WUTK have had over the years to the local music and art scene.

“WUTK is a local college radio station supporting local bands and we have always had an interest in supporting local bands,” Nations said.

Smith also reasserted Nations’ view of the night’s emphasis on local music.

“We say that ‘we’re local music’s best friend,’ and we don’t say that just to fill up time on-air,” Smith said. “We show it with events like this.”

The evening caps off with the showing of a yet to be announced horror film at midnight.

All attendees from 5 to 8 p.m. must be over the age of 18 and any age after 8 p.m., admittance is five dollars, with all proceeds going to WUTK. Attendees who make donations and are wearing a 2012 Bonnaroo wristband will receive a free gift from WUTK. “We want people to leave and think that was the best five dollars they have ever spent,” Smith said.

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Lightning strikes around downtown Knoxville on March 15. Storms are expected to hit Knoxville this week.

Raven Records & Rarities has joined forces with WUTK on Saturday, June 16th to host a night full of music, movies and fun at the Relix Variety Theatre in Knoxville’s thriving Happy Holler neighborhood.

The event’s purpose is two-fold: on the surface it marks the grand opening of Raven Records & Rarities new location on 1200 N. Central after moving from Bearden, but also the event hopes to serve as a fundraiser for the student-operated UT radio station WUTK. This partnership between station and record store is not a new thing, but rather it dates back over three decades.

“We’ve been almost joined at the hip with Raven Records since 1985, when they opened a store on the Strip, and we’ve done a lot since they reopened in Bearden a year ago,” said Benny Smith, WUTK’s General Manager and Programming Director. “And now that they’re moving, they called us… and it’s blown up into something bigger than I think they first intended.”

For both partners, this is a symbiotic relationship.

“We talked to WUTK about our move and asked them about doing some promotions,” said store co-owner Jay Nations. “And they’re doing their 30-year anniversary and they suggested that they should get involved with it.”

The show begins at 5:15 p.m. on the Relix’s big screen with the Tennessee Archive of Moving Image (TAMI) showing of the Director’s Cut of the 1978 cult horror film “The Incoming Freshman” (a film directed, produced and filmed by UT students). From there the showings continue with highlights of the Knoxville classic show “The Cas Walker Farm and Home Hour Show” at 6:45 p.m.

From there at 8 p.m., the focus of the night turns towards the music, as four performances

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Lady Volunteers finish ninth at NCAAs Staff Reports The Lady Vols, who did not have any competitors on the final day of the NCAA Outdoor Track & Field Championships, finished with 21 points and tied for ninth place in the team standings when the four-day meet concluded on Saturday at Drake Stadium.

The women’s outcome was the program's best at the NCAA Outdoor meet since placing fourth in 2005 and gave Clark the 11th top-10 national finish of his tenure at Rocky Top. LSU’s women captured the title, scoring 76 points to hold off Oregon (62) and Texas A&M (38).

Tennessee scored six points each in the 800m run and 400m hurdles, where seniors Chanelle Price (2:01.49) and Ellen Wortham (55.82) finished third. They also got five points when senior Annie Alexander placed fourth in the shot put (56-11”) and added four more from Alexander’s fifth-place effort (186-0) in the discus throw.

“Our women’s team came here and put points on the board and came out with a top10 finish,” UT Director of Track & Field J.J. Clark said. “We had three seniors who really generated all of our point production, and I am proud of what they’ve done. Obviously, you want to get a trophy, and I think we had the potential to have done that if we had gotten some wins out of these events. We didn’t, but I am still very proud of what they’ve done this year and what they’ve done at this meet.

Hopefully we can reload and shoot for another top-10 type of performance next year.”

Like Chase Brannon in the men’s pole vault, the Tennessee men’s 4x100-meter relay team entered the NCAA Outdoor meet not projected to score. As Brannon did a day earlier, though, the Vol 4x1 quartet did what it took to earn points

Saturday on the national stage.

While their time of 40.21 seconds didn’t satisfy the Big Orange tandem of junior Reggie Juin, freshman Jamol James, sophomore Jarael Nelvis and junior Arnez Hardnick, the seventh-place finish and two points they earned for their program did provide gratification for a young UT men’s squad that returns all of its NCAA event qualifiers next season.

“They did a good job as a youthful team of coming in and accomplishing the task of making the final and scoring for our team,” Clark said. “That’s what the goal was, and fortunately they are all coming back next year. Another good thing is that I believe we have some individuals who can come outside the relay next year and score in open events, the 100 and 200, particularly.

“That’s going to help our program, and then you throw in Matthew Hoty, Chase Brannon and others like Joe Franklin and some of our returnees and newcomers, then I believe we have the potential to do some good damage.”

By scoring in the 4x1 for the first time since 2007, the Tennessee men also produced points in more than one event for the first time since that season and improved their point total at this meet to three, finishing in a tie for 56th. That's up from 65th in 2011. Florida claimed the men's title with 50 points, followed by LSU (48) and Texas A&M (40).

“It’s exciting for us to have them score in the 4x1 for the first time since I’ve been in charge of the men's program, and to add another scoring element with Chase in the pole vault,” Clark said. “I want to concentrate on the positive, and the theme is that we had youngsters come in who weren't supposed to score and they did.

The reality of the situation is that we need more points on the board. A lot more points.

•Photo courtesy of Wade Rackley/UTADPHOTO

Chanelle Price runs at Sea Ray Relays on April 14. Price finished third in both the 800m run and 400m hurdles at the NCAA Outdoor Track & Field Championships on Saturday, June 9.

Stokes lands on USA team; Maymon has surgery Staff Reports The USA Basketball Men’s U18 National Team was announced early Sunday morning following the team’s ninth practice since June 5, and Tennessee rising sophomore Jarnell Stokes made the 12-man roster.

Featuring some of the nation’s top 18year-old and younger players, the USA team will compete in the 2012 FIBA Americas U18 Championship, which will be played June 16-20 in Sao Sebastiáo do Paraiso, Brazil. The U.S. team will continue to train through June 11 at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colo., and will depart June 12 for Brazil. Players eligible for this competition must have been born on or after Jan. 1, 1994.

“I think we’ve got some balance, we’ve

got some versatility, we can move guys to some different positions,” U18 National Team head coach Billy Donovan said. “This has been a group that has picked up things pretty well so far so I’m excited about it. The thing I’ve been most impressed with since we started is just their attitudes. It seems like we’ve got really good chemistry, they get along real well, they seem to be a cohesive group.

“I think we have to play up tempo; we have to offensive rebound; and I think the other thing for our team that we have to get better at is taking care of the basketball. I think when you’ve got a lot of players that are thrown together and are now starting to play, they don’t really know each other.

“But I definitely think rebounding and transition are going to be important

keys, and I also think defensively how well we can guard the 3-point line.”

Maymon undergoes minor surgery Tennessee associate director of sports medicine Chad Newman has reported that rising senior basketball player Jeronne Maymon underwent arthroscopic surgery Friday to address a meniscal injury in his left knee.

Maymon underwent a surgical procedure on his right knee March 20, but recent swelling in his left knee prompted Friday’s surgery.

Newman said Friday’s procedure went well, and an initial estimate for Maymon’s return to activity is set at 4-6 weeks. Maymon is expected to be cleared for participation by the time Tennessee departs for its summer exhibition tour of Italy on Aug. 5.