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Engineering professor receives research grant Lukosi’s research focuses on the development of a longlived, innovative nuclear battery The research of a UT protermed a High Temperature fessor working to create a batDirect Energy Conversion tery that packs several thousand (HiTDEC). The proposed battimes more energy than batteries tery operates by converting used today has received a boost radioactive energy to electrical from Oak Ridge Associated energy using a semiconducting Universities (ORAU). diamond transducer.

Eric Lukosi, an assistant “Current direct energy conprofessor in nuclear engiversion nuclear batteries are very neering, received a $10,000 sensitive to radiation damage, Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty thereby limiting the useful lifeEnhancement time to a few Award, includdays,” said ing $5,000 Lukosi. “The from ORAU proposed and $5,000 nuclear batin matching tery aims to funds from surpass this the UT Office l i m i t at i o n of Research. by providing The award is power genergiven to thirty ation for over young faculty a year. This members at can be espeORAU memcially useful ber institufor spacecraft tions with the Photo courtesy of utk.edu. and sensors.” goal of enrichThe funds ing their research will be used for and professional growth, spurinitial investigations into techring new funding opportunities. niques that lessen radiation damORAU provides innovative age to the diamond transducer. scientific and technical soluThe study is important to the tions for the U.S. Department success of the HiTDEC nuclear of Energy (DOE) and other battery and will help define the federal agencies to advance achievable potential energy national priorities in science, stored in the battery. health, education, and national “ORAU is excited to supsecurity. A nonprofit corporation port thirty exciting new ideas and federal contractor, ORAU proposed by junior faculty from manages the Oak Ridge Institute member institutions,” said for Science and Education for Arlene Garrison, ORAU the DOE. vice president of University “The Powe Award is very Partnerships, in a statement. prestigious, and Eric’s impor“This funding enables creative tant research is very deserving,” exploration at a critical early said Wayne Davis, dean of the career stage.”

College of Engineering. “This honor bodes well for his future success in sponsored research.”

Staff Report

McCord Pagan • The Daily Beacon

Staff and faculty members pause for a tasty Campfire Grill hot dog provided by co-owner Bill Thomas. The Campfire Grill hot dog stand can be found at the very end of Pedestrian Walkway behind the Clarence Brown Theatre Monday through Friday from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Vendor connects with students, staff McCord Pagan Staff Writer For the past five years, students and staff alike have all found a reliable midday snack underneath the colorful umbrella at Campfire Grill, a hot dog stand that can be found at the western end of pedestrian walkway Monday through Friday.

But who is the man behind the franks?

Bill Thomas, a co-owner for the past five years, mainly operates the stand. Thomas was a plumbing contractor before he got his start in the hot dog stand and has not looked back since he changed careers.

“I most enjoy the interaction with the people, my goal is to brighten their day, it just makes for a more enjoyable experi-

ence,” Thomas said as he slipped into an easy smile. “I love working with people, it is much better than crawling under sinks.”

Thomas got into the hot dog stand business about five years ago when his contracting business started to slow down, forcing him into a part-time role. His son’s stepfather, Jason Thurston, stepped in and introduced Thomas to the Campfire Grill company.

The main restaurant, located in Townsend, Tenn., has a five star rating on tripadvisor.com.

Thurston, the owner of the company, operates from Townsend while Thomas works mainly at the campus location.

Thomas said he attends local festivals, such as the recent Native American Flute

Festival, with his stand and spends his weekends supplying food for the rest stop Tail of the Dragon in North Carolina. He said he enjoys the company of the students when he is on campus, and has slowly gotten to know many of them.

“The students here are very polite and enjoyable to be around,” Thomas said. “I even get to hear what classes they’re taking, and I like hearing their updates on their grades and what they want to do in life.”

While he does not take any extra time when serving his customers, Thomas always seems to have time for a polite chat with those who come by, Although the stand is still small

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Sinkhole causes temporary closure Gage Arnold Chief Copy Editor

Gage Arnold • The Daily Beacon

The street closure is expected to be resolved and reopened by June 14. Officials confirmed a utiilities issue caused the problem.

A portion of Andy Holt Avenue between Volunteer Boulevard and UT Drive is closed for the week, UT officials announced on Tuesday afternoon through an e-mail to the student body.

A sinkhole located across from Staff Lot 25, north of the Allan Jones Collegiate Aquatic Center, was the culprit. Workers are now filling the hole in and performing all necessary repairs.

“From my understanding it was caused by a utility issue and the hope is that it will be resolved by Friday,” Jeff Maples, the senior associate vice chancellor for finance and administration said. “It is a city street and

a city project so we have notified the campus based on their input.”

Maples said no other major delays have arisen or are expected during the summer.

UT’s new transit system, The “T: Hill: shuttle” will be detoured for the week due to the closure.

Staff Lot 25 and the G7 parking garage will not be affected by the construction.

Construction on the new Student Union has proceeded along with streetscape improvements on Lake Loudon Boulevard and Neyland Drive.

Updates on construction, including future road closures, can be found at www.conezone. utk.edu.

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Hot dog continued from Page 1 enough to be packed into the back of a truck, its seemingly bottomless compartments offer efficiency to Thomas, who serves customers swiftly by pulling all manner of condiments from the endless storage.

He began coming on campus full-time at the start of the last spring semester, when he took a more active role in the operation

of the stand as Thurston moved more into the restaurant.

The Campfire Grill hot dog stand can be found at the very end of Pedestrian Walkway behind the Clarence Brown Theatre Monday through Friday from 11-3. Despite many students leaving campus for the summer, Thomas and his friend Jim Coleman, a piano technician for the Music Department, stay quite busy with many staff and faculty frequenting the stand, and now, many of the construction workers of the future Brown Residence

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1777: Congress adopts the Stars and Stripes

Janie Prathammavong • The Daily Beacon

Brandon Swinford, alumni in psychology, teaches yoga to fellow UT student Michael Rasnake, senior in studio art, outside the Humanities Amphitheater.

CrimeLog

June 5 12:57 a.m. An officer was sent to the Music building construction site to attempt to serve a warrant to a suspect in a domestic assault case that is ongoing in Jefferson County. Attempts to locate and contact the suspect were unsuccessful.

12:50 p.m. An officer noticed a suspicious male exiting the building and made contact on Cumberland Avenue at Poplar Street. The suspect attempted to conceal his identity by providing the name and date of birth of his brother. Upon identifying the subject, it was learned a warrant was out for the subject’s arrest. After being placed under arrest, a billfold that belonged to a member of the Facility Services was found in the suspect’s possession and promptly returned to its original owner. The suspect was charged with Criminal Impersonation and Theft.

June 6 10:10 p.m. An officer performed a routine traffic stop after an illegal turn was made from Cumberland onto 17th Street. The suspects driver’s license was suspended in 2008 for Failure to Satisfy and marijuana remnants were found on the subject’s lap and floorboard. Upon further inspection of the vehicle, the officer found more marijuana and a glass smoking pipe with burnt residue as well as a small digital scale. The suspect was charged with Driving on a Suspended License, Simple Possession of Drugs (Marijuana) and possession of Drug Paraphernalia.

June 9 5:01 a.m. An officer was dispatched to Reese Hall regarding the theft of a laptop and a cell phone.

The victims reported the items were stolen from their dorm rooms. A case card was issued to each of the victims.

June 10 10:10 p.m. An officer observed and stopped a subject with expired tags at near the Eleventh Street Condos on 11th Street. The driver’s license was suspended for Failure to Satisfy. While being placed under arrest, the subject fled on foot but was taken down by the officer. The driver continued to resist after being taken down by forcing his arms underneath his body. The driver was charged with Driving on a Suspended License, Evading Arrest and Resisting Arrest.

June 11 3:26 p.m. An officer was notified of a reported theft of a purse on the first floor of Hodges Library.

The victim claimed she last saw the purse at 11 p.m. the evening before.

11:27 a.m. An officer reported to the second floor circulation desk of Hodges Library for a reported theft of a laptop. The victim stated he left his laptop unattended in a study cubicle on the fourth floor. *Crime Log is compiled from the records of the UT Police Department.

Hall.

“Summer is usually slower, but the construction has really kept us alive,” Thomas said. “In the summer it is a lot of staff and faculty, but in the fall we have mostly students.”

Roger Hoover, the box office manager for the Clarence Brown Theatre and a loyal customer of the stand, also thoroughly enjoys the hot food and the convenience it offers.

“This is the best lunch on campus,” Hoover said.

During the American Revolution, the Continental Congress adopts a resolution stating that “the flag of the United States be thirteen alternate stripes red and white” and that “the Union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new Constellation.” The national flag, which became known as the “Stars and Stripes,” was based on the “Grand Union” flag, a banner carried by the Continental Army in 1776 that also consisted of 13 red and white stripes. According to legend, Philadelphia seamstress Betsy Ross designed the new canton for the Stars and Stripes, which consisted of a circle of 13 stars and a blue background, at the request of General George Washington. Historians have been unable to conclusively prove or disprove this legend.

With the entrance of new states into the United States after independence, new stripes and stars were added to represent new additions to the Union. In 1818, however, Congress enacted a law stipulating that the 13 original stripes be restored and that only stars be added to represent new states.

On June 14, 1877, the first Flag Day observance was held on the 100th anniversary of the adoption of the Stars and Stripes. As instructed by Congress, the U.S. flag was flown from all public buildings across the country. In the years after the first Flag Day, several states continued to observe the anniversary, and in 1949 Congress officially designated June 14 as Flag Day, a national day of observance.

1811: Harriet Beecher Stowe is born Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, is born on this day in Litchfield, Connecticut, the seventh child of Congregationalist minister Lyman Beecher.

Stowe studied at private schools in Connecticut and worked as a teacher in Hartford for five years until her father moved to Cincinnati in 1832. She accompanied him and continued to teach while writing stories and essays. In 1836, she married Calvin Ellis Stowe, with whom she had seven children. She published her first book, Mayflower, in 1843.

While living in Cincinnati, Stowe encountered fugitive slaves and the Underground Railroad.

Later, she wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin in reaction to recently tightened fugitive laws. The book sold some 300,000 copies and did much to galvanize public opinion in the North against slavery. Stowe traveled to England in 1853, where she was welcomed as a literary hero. Along with Ralph Waldo Emerson, she became one of the original contributors to The Atlantic, which launched in November 1857. In 1863, when Lincoln announced the end of slavery, she danced in the streets. Stowe continued to write throughout her life and died in 1896.

1863: Union defeated at the Second Battle of Winchester A small Union garrison in the Shenandoah Valley town of Winchester, Virginia, is easily defeated by the Army of Northern Virginia on the path of the Confederate invasion of Pennsylvania.

In early June, General Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia began an invasion of the North. Lee’s men pulled out of defenses along the Rappahannock River and swung north and west into the Shenandoah Valley.

Using the Blue Ridge Mountains as a screen, the C o n f e d e rat e s worked their way northward with little opposition.

General Joseph Hooker, com-

mander of the Army of the Potomac, was unsure of the Confederates’ intentions. He tracked Lee’s army from a distance, staying safely away to protect Washington, D.C. During this time, Winchester was in Union hands. The city was literally at the crossroads of the war, so it changed hands continually.

Robert Milroy, the commander of the Yankees in Winchester, was unaware that the vanguard of Lee’s army was heading his way. He had received some warnings from Washington, but an order to evacuate Winchester did not reach him because the Confederates had cut the telegraph lines. As late as June 11, Milroy bragged that he could hold the town against any Confederate force. His assertion was rendered ridiculous when Richard Ewell’s Rebel corps crashed down on his tiny garrison.

Ewell’s force quickly surrounded the Yankees.

After a sharp battle, Ewell captured about 4,000 Federals, while Milroy and 2,700 soldiers escaped to safety. Ewell lost just 270 men but captured 300 wagons, hundreds of horses, and 23 artillery pieces. Milroy was relieved of his command and later arrested, although a court of inquiry found that he was not culpable in the disaster.

1998: Jordan leads Bulls to sixth NBA title On June 14, 1998, Michael Jordan leads the Chicago Bulls to an 87-86 win over the Utah Jazz in Game Six of the NBA Finals to clinch their third consecutive NBA title. Jordan scored 45 points and hit the winning jump shot with 5.2 seconds left on the clock in what seemed a fitting end to a historic career.

The Chicago Bulls won the NBA title every year from 1991 to 1998, except a two-year gap in 1994 and 1995 when Jordan left the NBA to play baseball. In the 1997 and 1998 NBA Finals, the Bulls faced the veteran Utah Jazz, led by point guard and all-time assists leader John Stockton and power forward Karl Malone, second on the career points list. The Bulls, led by Jordan, were a colorful group that included small forward Scottie Pippen, the controversial rebounding champ Dennis Rodman and Phil Jackson, their Zen master coach.

One year earlier, in Game Five of the 1997 NBA Finals, Michael Jordan had staged a performance for the ages. Though suffering from the flu, Jordan willed the Bulls to victory with 38 points, including the winning three-pointer with 25 seconds left.

Afterward, the ailing Jordan was helped off the court by teammate Scottie Pippen. The Bulls went on to win the series in six games, with Jordan winning his fifth Finals MVP award.

In the 1998 finals, Utah won Game One 88-85 in overtime, but lost the next three games, including a 96-54 defensive clinic put on by Chicago in Game Three. The Jazz then won Game Five in Chicago 83-81 to send the series back to Utah.

Game Six in Utah was the final installment of the Michael Jordan show. Scottie Pippen, suffering from back spasms, was limited to just 26 minutes.

The Jazz led by three in the last minute, but Jordan brought Chicago within one by driving to the basket and laying the ball in with 37.1 seconds left. Utah then brought the ball into their half-court setup, with the reliable veteran Karl Malone on the left post. With 18.9 seconds left, Jordan snuck along the baseline and punched the ball out of Malone’s possession. Jordan then brought the ball up the court, refusing to call a timeout. With 5.2 seconds left Jordan hit an 18-foot jumper from the top of the key after cagily nudging Utah’s Bryon Russell out of the way with his left arm. John Stockton missed a three-pointer near the buzzer to give Jordan and Chicago their third championship in a row and sixth NBA title. Jordan averaged 32.4 points per game in this series for a 33.4 points per game average in the playoffs for his career, an NBA record. He won his sixth Finals MVP after the game, also an NBA record. It was his last game with the Bulls.

In January 2000, Jordan became general manager of the Washington Wizards and returned to play two seasons with the mediocre Wizards in 2001-02 and 2002-03. The Wizards did not make the playoffs in either season.

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Arts & Culture Editor Melodi Erdogan merdogan@utk.edu

Getting ready for the ‘Roo Melodi Erdogan Arts & Culture Editor

way around. I will probably be holding the map upside down, as I am a terrible map reader.

Walking in the Rain There’s a 60 percent chance it will rain on Saturday. That really clears up what I plan on wearing, but not really. If anyone has seen photos from the Governor’s Ball Festival that happened in Upstate New York last weekend, you know it got pretty dirty and gross due to the rain, which is why I almost made an impromptu purchase of the coolest rain boots I could find last minute. A 60 percent chance is almost as bad as 50 percent chance; it could rain, it could not rain. Also, the Bonnaroo website warns its visitors that the days are hot and the nights are cold, which only makes my style dilemma even worse than before. Do I opt for jeans and just sweat out the day, or just wear shorts and freeze come midnight? Not knowing how the weather will behave is only raining on my Bonnaroo parade.

Meal Plans I am not a particularly picky eater, and I am not allergic to anything major. I should be able to gather enough food to make a dinner. Since the festival also invites different restaurants and chefs to sells their concoctions on the grounds, there will options on top of options, in addition to the inevitable stash of snacks that I will find at the bottom of my bag (thanks, mom). No, I’m not concerned about finding food, but picking food will be the challenge. Because of all the different options and my indecisive nature on cuisine, I’ll most likely miss three different performances while deciding on what to eat. The Bonnaroo festival is a once-in-a-lifetime experience, I don’t want to ruin it by picking something terrible to eat.

Bonna-loo?

The Bonnaroo coordinators made it a point to stress hydration when at the festival, since the liquids people will be consuming under the hot, summer sun most likely won’t be H2O. Yet, liquid content aside, fluids will still be consumed so where are festival-goers expected to release those liquids? The map I aforementioned does have the locations of restrooms clearly marked, but it’s quite impossible for 80,000 people to be accommodated by just a couple of commodes. I will not be sleeping on the grounds overnight, but I am also curious to know how the showers work since that is an option for festival-goers.

80,000 people, 700 acres, 150 performers, four days.

The Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival is currently happening and will take place until Sunday. Yours truly has never been to a festival before, let alone the Bonnaroo festival. Although I’ve done my research and have a general idea of what to expect while I’m there, a few questions remain unanswered about the 12th annual entertainment gold mine that is taking place at Manchester, Tennessee. The concerns I have are not too different from the typical freshman’s fears upon entering college: Scheduling Difficulties This Stage, That Stage and The Other Stage are the fittingly-named three largest stages at Bonnaroo. On all three stages major acts will be performing and without a doubt, shaking all of Manchester to its core with musical glory.

A few of the biggest names appearing on the guest list this year include Sir Paul McCartney, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Mumford & Sons, Macklemore and Ryan Lewis, Passion Pit and the infamous “Ignition” singer, R. Kelly. All of these artists sound great, but since there are so many artists and only so many stages, a few of my favorite artists play at the same time. On Friday at 4:30 p.m., both Passion Pit and Grizzly Bear are scheduled with ten minutes overlapping in play time. How am I going to enjoy Passion Pit when I’ll be too busy devising a plan to push through tons of people to get to Grizzly Bear?

Let’s hope I have enough power to move from stage to stage, because a part of me thinks it is not going to be easy.

Looking like a Freshman The festival grounds are mysteriously known as “the farm.” Maybe this makes sense because Manchester is known as a small, farming town, but what exactly is “the farm?” In my head I picture red barn houses scattered among random stages and Paul McCartney hanging out with a cow, but something tells me that’s not right.

Also, “the farm” apparently is 700 acres, like I mentioned before. Thankfully I found a map of - Melodi Erdogan is a sophomore in journalthe festival grounds online, so I will be the lame girl holding a printed out map trying to find her ism and electronic media and can be reached at merdogan@utk.edu.

Small acts improve Bonnaroo lineup The Associated Press The headliners usually get all the ink and this year’s group at the Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival is definitely ink-worthy: Paul McCartney, Mumford & Sons and Tom Petty.

It’s the down-list acts, though, that make this a particularly strong Bonnaroo lineup with a number of must-see acts you ought to check out before they’re so big you’ll be standing at the back of the crowd watching them on the video screens.

Here are 10 to see: Alt-J: This Mercury Prize-winning quartet plays angular pop songs that are oddly intoxicating. Like fellow Brits McCartney and Mumford, the group has a gift for sugary songs that are impossible to resist.

Action Bronson: The burly, bearded rapper from Queens is poised to release his major-label debut later this year and has been whipping up a frenzy in London before returning to the states for Bonnaroo. Expect stage diving, East Coast harmonics and lots of naughty humor.

Charli XCX: The alternapop princess has had the bloggers buzzing for a couple of years. Now she’s attached to a worldwide hit — she features on Icona Pop’s “I Love It” — and has the highest profile of her career coming into Manchester.

Father John Misty: Former Fleet Foxes drummer Josh Tillman left the band and released his first solo album under this new moniker after several releases as J. Tillman. “Fear Fun” was on many year-end lists and it will be interesting to see how far Tillman’s mostly hushed folk-rock will carry at Bonnaroo.

HAIM: Los Angeles-based sisters Este, Danielle and Alana Haim form a girl group for the 21st century, mixing lush vocal harmonies with high energy, beat-oriented grooves that have won over a lot influential fans. They’re managed

by Roc Nation, recently collaborated with Diplo and Kid Cudi, and are working on a debut album.

Jason Isbell: The Alabama-raised, Nashvillebased singer-songwriter is the Americana community’s cause celeb du jour. He releases his new album “Southeastern” this week, just in time to take his brand of Southern rock to the masses.

Japandroids: Just when you think the two-man band thing has run its course, up pops Vancouverbased Japandroids, a band guaranteed to generate more decibels per band member than any other on the farm. Their soaring, anthemic rock is perfect for Bonnaroo.

Kacey Musgraves: Bonnaroo has had its share of edgy country acts over the years and Musgraves keeps the tradition rolling. This champion of Nashville songwriters has the off-kilter, left-leaning world view that fits right in at the festival.

Portugal. The Man: This Portland-based band of spacey rockers has joined with producer Danger Mouse on its fun new album, “Evil Friends.” Fans at Bonnaroo will be hearing the new music for the first time. There will be buzz.

Tame Impala: Australian rocker Kevin Parker is the premiere purveyor of freaky, fuzzed-out psychedelic rock at the moment. Last year’s “Lonerism” was one of rock’s most praised albums and Bonnaroo could be a defining moment.

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Summer’s Melodi Erdogan Arts & Culture Editor Summer isn’t only known for its pleasant weather. Labels, producers and artists all release their best material at the start of summer only hoping their tunes will be the one to hold the number one spot on the charts until September. With the season fully under way, all the best music has been released; we’ve gathered our picks to ride the airwaves through August. Which one will be your summer anthem?

Blurred Lines – Robin Thicke feat. T.I. and Pharrell Williams “What do they make dreams for when you’ve got those jeans on?” This playful song that creatively combines R&B and rap epitomizes the meaning of a summer anthem, a song that can be played over and over again and never get tired. “Blurred Lines” only reinforces the idea that the season should be laidback and exciting with its fun lyrics and balanced rhythm that will be agreeable with any hot, summer night.

Young and Beautiful – Lana Del Rey Released on the extremely popular “Great Gatsby” soundtrack, Lana Del Rey’s “Young and Beautiful” is an option for those hopeless romantics who have already found their summer love. “Will you still love me when I’m no longer young and beautiful,” is the first stanza of the chorus and is a line that will stick with any soul who hears this song. Although a depressing and ominous tune, the song tells a beautiful story of a summer relationship that is doomed from the start. Opt for Del Rey on the summer days when the rain just won’t stop falling.

Can’t Hold Us – Macklemore and Ryan Lewis feat. Ray Dalton Already topping charts around the world and currently holding the number one spot on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100, there’s no doubt that “Can’t Hold Us” is already a summer hit. Ever since this duo’s hit single “Thrift Shop,” they’ve been on the music radar and haven’t let any fans down. Their 2011 collaboration article is still the source of their success. If anyone stereotyped Macklemore and his material as the one-hit-wonder type, “Can’t Hold Us” proves they’ll be around for a good while.

Lose Yourself to Dance – Daft Punk feat. Pharrell Williams Pharrell Williams is all over the music map this summer, marking new territory in his collaboration with Daft Punk on their album “Random Access Memories.” When “Get Lucky” hit airwaves, it was an instant success and put Daft Punk within the top 10 of pop charts in more than 28 nations. The second Daft Punk/Pharrell song on the album is “Lose Yourself to Dance,” a mellow melody with a classic Daft Punk beat that have you dancing in no time.

Cruise – Florida Georgia Line For country music fans, Florida Georgia Line is quickly establishing themselves among the best of country. Comparable to Darius Rucker and Kenny Chesney, the two southern hunks that front the band know how to make girls swoon with their twangy accents and cool use of the banjo in their music. “Cruise” is yet another summertime love story, but its typical, country storytelling is exactly what makes it so likeable.

Diane Young – Vampire Weekend The single, creatively using computerized effects to manipulate lead singer Ezra Koenig’s voice, contains a harmonious cacophony of sounds that is complex and paradoxical but makes for an amazing song. Containing the elements that make Vampire Weekend the band that it is, “Diane Young” is guaranteed to be on the summer playlist of any indie music fan.

Really Don’t Care – Demi Lovato feat. Cher Lloyd “Heart Attack” put this retired Disney star on the pop music map and she has only gotten better with her new album,creatively titled “Demi.” Backing up her last single with this one featuring the “Want U Back” Brit Cher Lloyd, “Really Don’t Care” is a summer jam suited for girls that just want to have fun. Comparable to Icona Pop’s “I Don’t Care,” this tune is already a hit on the radio.

Dance With Me Tonight – Olly Murs A lively tune paired with adorable lyrics calls for a tune fitted for a drive with the windows down and the stereo turned all the way up. Olly Murs, a 29-year-old Brit who finished as the runner-up in The X-Factor’s

Playlist sixth season toured with One Direction a few years ago, which helped his rise to fame.

“Dance With Me Tonight” is a great sequel to Murs’ first single, “Troublemaker,” featuring Flo Rida.

Turnt – The-Dream, Beyonce, 2 Chainz Featured on his newly released album “IV Play,” TheDream brings both Beyonce and 2 Chainz on the song “Turnt.”

Sure to please both pop and rap genre fans, the tune has a consistently pounding beat but brings diverse voices to the track.

With a chorus revolving around the meaning of summertime, this song is perfect background music to your next crazy summer night.

Treasure – Bruno Mars Having influences in both R&B and reggae, Bruno Mars is a pop artist whose best songs are anti-hits, hidden among the crowd-pleasers. Such is the case with “Treasure,” a fantastically fun and exciting tune that arrived on Mars’ late 2012 release “Unorthodox Jukebox.”

The song got more publicity after Mars opened the Billboard Music Awards with a wonderful performance of this single.

Nevertheless, it’s a hidden summer song “treasure.”

Summer Paradise – Simple Plan feat. Sean Paul Simple Plan fans may have themselves scratching their head with this track, but its groovy tune is undeniable. Summing up the typical summertime relationship, the meaning beyond this song is not only relatable but Sean Paul’s contribution to the song only makes it that much more interesting, and adds to its quirky nature. Definitely a tune that will leave listeners whistling it’s tune, “Summer Paradise” is a crowd-pleaser all around.

We Can’t Stop – Miley Cyrus The delayed debut of this Franklin, Tennessee native’s long-awaited single release is finally ovwer. As if her dramatic hair cut didn’t do the job, “We Can’t Stop” separates the pop star from her Hannah Montana days even further. “We can’t stop, and we won’t stop,” is the basic understanding of this song, and although its message isn’t extremely enlightening, it definitely summarizes summer.

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Time well spent for Father’s Day R.J. Vogt Managing Editor At some point in the past fifty years, Christmas died, Thanksgiving grew aggressive and crowded and Valentine’s Day contracted a crippling virus.

I’m afraid our holidays are under attack from the very people who celebrate them.

If you haven’t walked into a store or logged onto the Internet during the months of October, November, December, January, February – OK, all the months but April – then you might not have noticed the stout tenacity with which all shops try to sell their seasonal inventory and all websites try to capitalize on the nearest holiday’s theme.

And we buy it.

Come September there’ll be Halloween decorations for sale, and by October, the table you once used to serve Thanksgiving supper will be entirely dedicated to this year’s plan of attack on Black Friday. Thanksgiving is a good Thursday to go to the movies and rest for the big spree the next day, which of course is only preparation for the coming of the true Christmas spirit, consumerism.

Don’t even try entering a Walgreens for the first six weeks of the New Year, unless you love preservative packed chocolates wrapped up in pink and sales tags.

On Sunday, many Americans will celebrate Father’s Day, one of the last strongholds of a true holiday spirit that is nevertheless under siege from advertisers for golf clubs and cigars. What once might have been a meaningful gift has transformed into yet another commercial for “the perfect Father’s Day.” It’s almost an entirely Hallmarkdriven occasion, but megastores have not yet robbed its authenticity completely.

If Christmas is Stage Four, Father’s Day is just entering Stage Two. But as the thoughtful presents continue to give way to those more cheaply mass-produced, how can anyone treat his or her primary progenitor with a unique and worthy Sunday?

Do not listen to the commercials on ESPN or

heed the advertisements in Sky magazine; avoid the traps of obvious simplicity. Instead consider the more subtle simplicity of the rarest gift of all: time.

Yes, your dad may be pining after a new driver, but it would probably pale in comparison to a long-delayed round of 18 with his son, or a dinner and a movie with his daughter.

Why would the man who suffered the occasion of raising you – no offense, but diapers, car insurance and prom dresses aren’t cheap or fun – want to spend time with you? In our wireless, iEverything society, genuine experience has been traded in for Instagram snapshots of perfect days and emailed itineraries of busy ones. “Go ahead, follow me on Twitter,” or “Let’s be friends on Facebook.”

The relative value of time has subsequently skyrocketed, and any student of Economics 201 knows that as demand increases, less supply can be sold for more. Undivided attention for a few hours, once an expectation of social conduct, is now considered a gift and accepted as a touching gesture. Coupled with American-as-apple-pie consumerism, the Internet Age has reduced genuine interaction to overpriced greeting cards or (worse!) ad-laden eCards.

The technology improvements have also paved the way for more impressive items on the shelves.

Considering the growing size of student loan debt, no one can blame a kid for choosing the newest gizmo over sacrificing a shift at work to kick it with his Pops. Creative destruction has been stalking the holidays ever since the first next-day delivery service made online shopping a no-brainer.

If an afternoon spent with Dad lies just outside your reach, the typical holiday treatment does not necessarily fall short of adequacy. He may love that new driver or Bob Seger DVD. But for those college students who have ever felt a twinge of guilt at their lacking acts of gratitude for the man who raised them, consider the possibilities afforded this Sunday.

Father’s Day is an opportunity to stave off the impending doom of another holiday-turned-salesoccasion. It’s a chance to unplug from your Apple screen and plug into your family tree.

Give time, not an emailed Father’s Day card, this Sunday.

R.J. Vogt is a junior in College Scholars. He may be reached at rvogt@utk.edu.

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Park represents Turkish uprisings Whispering Sweet Somethings by

Melodi Erdogan These past few weeks, what seems like endless supplies of tear gas and water cannons have been aimed at demonstrators in Taksim square. They are only peacefully showing their opposition to the Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s authoritarian power trip and his conservative party, the AKP. While the same protests and extreme police force is being taken in different cities all across the nation, it’s clear that the demonstrations are quickly becoming recurring riots that have the characteristics of the beginnings of a civil war.

Fast-forward three weeks from today when Turkey was relatively over looked in the media. Its economy was booming and its government was stable. There was no news of Turkey on the television stations or the newspapers. That is, until Gezi Park became the headlining story.

Gezi Park is the last remaining park in Istanbul— a small, quaint area of nature that is quite out-of-place among the high-rise buildings and condominiums in the surrounding area. Once Prime Minister Erdogan released his plans of turning the park into a shopping mall, Turkish citizens decided to occupy the area, much like our fellow Americans who occupied Wall Street. They showed their dissatisfaction with Erdogan’s plans and their appreciation and determinedness to preserve the last park in a city that has a population over 13 million people.

The peaceful demonstrations lead to a movement by citizens that caused an excessive use of tear gas by the police force and outrage by Erdogan who deemed the protesters a threat against democracy. Turkey is in uprising against a government and Prime Minister who has slowly but surely manipulated so much of his power to turn the secular nation into a religion-based

government.

In many ways, Gezi Park represents exactly the situation that is taking place in Turkey now. The harmless trees are the citizens that stand tall, waiting for their voices to be heard while surrounded by unfamiliar ideas and foreign environments.

While Erdogan himself is the bulldozer, both powerful and intimidating, anxiously awaiting his moment to destroy was what old and create something new that is new and purely his.

If that connection is of any indication to the future of Turkey, then all is well. Nature will always remain the strongest force on earth, and not even a dictatorial Prime Minister can change that.

While this has already been established with the massive amount of articles being published and breaking news coverage constantly on television stations, a single question remains: What does this mean for a Turkish-American like myself?

Never in my life have I heard such breaking news about Turkey than I have in the past two weeks. Turkey, to me, has always been associated with my aunts, uncles and cousins, and some of my fondest memories while away on vacation and/or spending time with my family. Yet now, that once innocent view of the half-European-halfMiddle-Eastern country is now gone—gone with the corruption of the government and the reality of its uprising.

Maybe it is because I was younger. Maybe it is because I correlate Turkey with family and friends.

Maybe it is because I know it to be my home away from home, my cultural escape. But with that aside, Turkey’s surmise was inevitable ever since Erdogan released his plans to destroy Gezi Park.

What was such a slow buildup of power and control of a nation on the brink of cultural, social and economic success was ruined by a man and his party that will turn the secular state into something that is the complete antitheses of what its citizens want it to be. I may just be an American who only knows what’s going on based off what I read in the newspaper, but I am also a Turk who strongly believes in the power of democracy.

Melodi Erdogan is a sophomore in journalism and electronic media and can be reached at merdogan@utk.edu.

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How many bombings is your right to privacy worth? When we hear about this “privacy-security tradeoff” related to government surveillance, this is the question implicitly nagging us—which would you like, safety or confidentiality?

On the one hand, consider the Boston bombers. When we had pictures, identities, and custody of the two brothers within three days, I heard few complaints. TSA is praised when they catch shoe explosives and plotting hijackers. Here, the government was the hero, together with the surveillance cameras and wiretaps helping to keep us safe.

We had nothing to fear from big brother; he was protecting us from the even bigger bully down the street.

Now we have a very different perspective.

Several pundits on both sides of the party line have thrown the word “tyranny” around, saying that the NSA is giving government totalitarian power. The ACLU is suing the NSA for “snatching every American’s address book.”

Sales of George Orwell’s 1984 surged 7,000% on Amazon (which is, ironically, one of the companies allegedly implicated in the NSA leak).

My point in highlighting this swing in public opinion is not to criticize its hypocrisy. In fact, I don’t think that this is hypocrisy at all. Rather, it’s a desire to be protected. In the first case, we praise government because of their protection from terrorists or outside invaders. In the second, we plead to be protected from the government itself.

Personally, I like being able to walk around my neighborhood, fly on planes, and go to football games without worrying too much about getting blown up or shot. However, looking around my life, I don’t see guards with shotguns or electric fences. Rather, I see cameras and ADT stickers. Instead of “we’ll stop you,” it’s “we’ll catch you.”

Where, then, is our “right to privacy?” It certainly isn’t inalienable—we give it up every time we walk into a department store, or get on a plane. Our right to privacy doesn’t hold when

we use it to get away with shoplifting or terrorism. One problem with prosecuting crimes like murder and rape is that they are done in private places where there is no actual data, and things often end up in “he-said; she-said” battles. Here, it seems that transparency is a way to protect us, not a violation of our individual rights.

The problem, though, is not that violating privacy is inherently wrong. I’ve yet to hear an argument that can say privacy is a right except that it protects you from wrongful persecution.

If someone on the other side of the world suddenly knew everything about me, that wouldn’t be that big a deal because there’s nothing she could do with that information.

The government, though, can do something with that information.

They can protect us from terrorists, and spies, and maniacs, sure. But they can also harass and audit us, blacklist us, and generally ruin our lives. They can create a new Red Scare, where googling “Al-Qaida” means we can no longer fly on a plane, or buy a house.

Here’s the thing—the government probably won’t do this. Given the secrecy of FISA and the NSA, though, we now know that they can. The IRS is currently under fire for allegedly auditing political opponents more fiercely than allies. A few journalists are under criminal investigation for peeking into classified information. This sort of secrecy endangers us to the whims of an organization that is meant to be checked and balanced. How can we protect ourselves against something that we aren’t even allowed to know about?

The bottom line is that the government should not be able to watch us, collect data on us, and track us in secret.

Secrecy, while a little more effective at catching bad guys, also terrorizes the people the government should be trying to protect. We no longer know when we’re being watched, or why, or how. We don’t know what behavior is allowed, and what will be seen as criminal. This undermines our sense of safety and trust in our government, and is not worth the tradeoff for a little bit of extra security.

We’re not asking to know every little classified detail, just to know the way we should act to be safe, and this should be pretty straightforward.

Unless, that is, the government has something to hide.

Evan Ford is a junior in philosophy. He may be reached at ekford@utk.edu.

Friday, June 14, 2013

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ARTS & CULTURE

Arts & Culture Editor Melodi Erdogan merdogan@utk.edu

Friday, June 14

Saturday, June 15 What: Market Square Farmers’ Market When: 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Where: Market Square Price: Free R.J.’s Take: As thrilling as campus can be on a summer Saturday morning, sometimes you need more than a Gatorade to shake off the remnants of Friday night.

The Market Square Farmers’ Market offers plenty: fresh air, fresh fruit, fresh honey, fresh bread, etc. Fresh is the key component of the experience, as all the products are either grown or made by East Tennessee vendors. If nothing else, take in the sights and sounds of downtown Knoxville, whether it’s the street magician, saxophone player or balloon animal guy.

What: Tammy Pescatelli When: 7:45 p.m. and 10:15 pm.

Where: Side Splitters Comedy Club Price: $10 R.J.’s Take: If Retro Dance Night doesn’t alleviate your Bonnaroo separation anxiety, head over to Side Splitters Comedy Club to catch Cleveland’s Tammy Pescatelli. The italian comedian draws on bits about family, religion and politics and recently made the Final Five on NBC’s “Last Comic Standing 2.� Coming off her recent reality series, A Stand Up Mother, expect Pescatelli to give advice on the things most important to our demographic: drinking tips and keeping up grounded.

What: Sugar Lime Blue When: 10 p.m.

Where: Preservation Pub Price: $5 R.J.’s Take: After a lively morning spent in Market Square, it only makes sense to stick around for Sugar Lime Blue, a Murfreesboro group heavy on the blues that is making the drive from Franklin on Saturday. Lead singer Ashley Beth has been praised for her “full-bodied bluesy lilt� and the atmosphere at Pres Pub always incites a good time. Underage patrons beware; as an establishment that permits smoking, Preservation Pub only admits ages 21 and over.

What: Retro Dance Night When: 8 p.m.

Where: Hanna’s Old City Price: $5 R.J.’s Take: So you’re not going to Bonnaroo and you decided not to go home for Father’s Day. Maybe that makes you an ungrateful kid or a grumpy stalker of your friends’ Facebook pictures from ‘Roo, but it also makes you a prime candidate to get down to some good ole fashioned Hall & Oates at Hanna’s. That’s right; hits from the ‘80s will be pumped throughout the bar Friday night in an effort to encourage all you Van Halen fans to let your hair down. For those of our readers who do not find comfort in the thought of two sweaty hours spent listening to WHAM!, take solace in the promise of the occasional Top 40 hit.

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Godley’s career a blueprint for baseball program

David Cobb Staff Writer The College World Series starts tomorrow in Omaha, Neb., but the season is long over for the UT baseball team.

They failed to make the SEC tournament for the sixth consecutive year, let alone the NCAA tournament or its final eight.

And of course the perceived duty for UT fans is to begin whispering for change, or to just pretend like the school doesn’t have a baseball team and take refuge in the fact that a bunch of athletic 16-year-old kids want to play football for Butch Jones in the coming years.

There may be a handful of baseball supporters that frequent Lindsey Nelson Stadium and closely monitor the program who are more sensible. But I suspect that the majority fall into one of the two categories presented in the above paragraph.

Yes, it is hard to invest emotionally in a program that is unsuccessful. However, coaching is not the scapegoat for the struggles of the baseball team – at least the current coaching staff isn’t.

And fan complacency isn’t going to stop the bleeding.

Pitching is.

The Diamond Vols team ERA of 5.37 ranked dead last in the SEC this year, and it’s not even close.

But if you want proof that UT coach Dave Serrano is on his way to changing that, look no further than Zack Godley.

A tenth-round pick in this month’s MLB draft, Godley quite literally evolved as a pitcher in his two years under Serrano.

For a UT team relegated to the SEC’s cellar in many statistical categories, Godley threw a league-best six complete games in 2013 and single handedly kept his team in numerous SEC games.

But to appreciate the level at which Godley ended his Tennessee

career, you have to realize where he started it.

After transferring from Spartanburg Methodist following his freshman year, the 6-foot3 right hander spent his sophomore year as an average reliever under Todd Raleigh.

Then, in tandem with Serrano’s arrival in Knoxville, Godley transformed into one of the SEC’s premier starters.

“He’s trusted me in our working relationship,” Serrano said of his pitcher during media day before the 2013 season began. “It wasn’t ego when I got here. It was, ‘hey, yeah you can help me.’ It’s not like I’ve reinvented him. He had to take it and run with it, and he did.”

“It’s been a great progression,” Godley confirmed. “Coach Serrano has done great things with me. He’s helped me out a lot.”

“Coach knows what he’s talking about,” former UT catcher Ethan Bennett said. “And Godley’s been working extra-hard, so it’s a combination of that.”

So there you have it.

Zack Godley turned into a star because it was a two-way street. Serrano had the tools and Godley had the potential and pliability to be molded into a professional baseball player.

With the addition of some more talent – including his son Kyle Serrano – and another year of continuity with a young roster, Serrano will stride toward making Godley’s evolution the norm for his whole pitching staff.

Serrano has coached in the College World Series before and he doesn’t want to be watching it on television much longer.

So take Zack Godley as a microcosm of what could be if players continue to trust their coach in a working relationship and their coach tweaks the plan to plug the holes where talent might be lacking.

Barring a miracle, Tennessee won’t be in Omaha this time next year, but I’d be shocked if they’re anywhere near last in the league in team ERA. And that’s certainly a step towards the Promised Land for a team that’s been walking backwards in the college baseball wilderness for six years.

After a crippling injury in the fall, Tyler Porter battled back to the NCAA Outdoor Championships.

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Anthony Elias Staff Writer Tyler Porter’s seventh-place finish at the NCAA Outdoor Championships in Eugene, Ore., capped what the sophomore from Jefferson, Ga. called, “the greatest season of my life.

The UT pole vaulter’s psyche had taken a huge hit in September when he was diagnosed with two bilateral hernias.

“I ended up having those patched around September sometime and I went and had surgery,” Porter said. From September until December, “they wouldn’t let me practice jumping.”

The UT sophomore did rehab and “was sitting there mad at myself for getting hurt.” Porter nearly redshirted his sophomore year until he launched with soaring colors at the Virginia Tech Invitational.

“I was planning redshirting for the indoor season and the first meet the guys went to I traveled by myself

to compete unattached and I ended up jumping close to my PR from a short approach which is pretty big,” Porter said. “My coach was really happy with the way I was jumping so we decided not to redshirt and start competing for the team.”

Despite Porter’s rejuvenating 16-9 score in Blacksburg, Va., the recuperating pole vaulter “wasn’t actually ready” until he reached outdoors and realized it at the SEC Indoors in March after finishing ninth with a 16-6. Porter failed to score at the conference championship meet, but the setback pushed him towards an outdoor season launch.

“I really got down on myself and I think that really made me re-evaluate what I was doing wrong on my vault and it really helped me improve my outdoor,” Porter said. “I think it was good that I had a down indoors because it actually paid off in the outdoor making me jump higher.”

Not only did the UT pole vaulter jump higher but he personally saved his best for the 2013 outdoor sea-

son. However, Porter never touched 16 feet after the Mississippi State Conference Challenge.

“It’s been the greatest season of my life,” the 2013 All-American honoree said. “I came in to the outdoor season only jumping 17-1 and then I ended up jumping 17-5 like six times or something like that.

It’s just been really great because both my teammates Chase Brannon and Jake Blankenship were both AllAmericans in the past two seasons and I always kind of felt like I was beneath them during the season.”

One of UT’s three NCAA qualifiers didn’t feel beneath his two teammates after he was done with nationals in Eugene, Ore. In three tries, Porter jumped to 17-8.5 feet, a personal record and five and a half inches better than his NCAA East Preliminary score (17-2.75). He nearly reached 18 and a second personal best on his next four attempts.

“On my third attempt,” the top-10 finisher said, “I climbed the pole, swung and the pole broke. It shat-

tered into four different pieces. The crowd was freaking out. What happens is when you break your pole on one of your attempts, you get a re-jump, you get an equipment malfunction so I went up to the next pole, which was a bigger pole. I was really unfamiliar with it and my confidence wasn’t as high as it needed to be on that pole. I just kind of missed the timing on my fourth attempt so I definitely think it’s there, it just didn’t happen that day.”

Porter’s flight from where he was back in September to May was even harder, making his seventh-place 17-8.5 score even better.

His top 10 finish put him ahead of Blankenship (14th) and Brannon (15th) in the final standings and placed him on the men’s USTFCCCA First Team; it’s Porter’s first All-American honor.

“It’s like I’m on the same level as them,” Porter said. “It’s a really great feeling to be able to keep pushing each other to make each other better.”

UT football registers low APR scores Staff Report The University of Tennessee announced Academic Progress Rates (APR) for its athletics teams on Tuesday, including three programs that received APR Public Recognition Awards for posting a multi-year APR score in the top 10 percent in their sports nationally: Women’s Golf, Rowing, and Women’s Tennis. The golf program earned this distinction for the fourth consecutive year, while tennis received the honor for the second consecutive year and rowing for the first time.

In addition, nine Tennessee teams posted a 2011-12 APR of 1000: Men’s Golf, Men’s Tennis, Women’s Golf, Softball, Rowing, Women’s Tennis, Women’s Indoor Track, Women’s Outdoor Track, and Volleyball. As announced on May 23, UT student-athletes posted a cumulative GPA of 3.05, the highest since 2003, the earliest year for which sport-by-sport data is available. A record 115 student-athletes were named to their respective Dean’s Lists, and 10 programs recorded a GPA of 3.0 or higher.

The Academic Progress Rate, now in its ninth year, measures the eligibility and retention of scholarship student-athletes competing on every Division I athletics team, measuring progress toward degree while also serving as a predictor of graduation success. The most recent APR scores are based on a multi-year rate that averages scores from the most recent four-year period, encompassing the 2008-09, 2009-10, 2010-11, and 2011-12 academic years.

As noted in the above table, the football program has a current multi-year APR of 924. The minimum APR threshold to avoid penalties increases from 900 to 930 beginning with next year’s APR scores, which will encompass the academic years of 2009-10 through 2012-13.

“Supporting student-athlete success in the classroom is a top priority at the University of

Tennessee, and we are proud that eight of our teams posted a perfect APR score during the 2011-12 academic year,” said Dave Hart, Vice Chancellor and Director of Athletics.

“While our current football APR score is well below our expectations, we believe that the team’s academic performance during the 2012-13 school year and the improvements made in our structure over the last year have us strongly positioned for the future.”

During the past year, several corrective measures have been put in place at the University of Tennessee to improve the overall support structure for all sports programs, with a focus on academically at-risk student-athletes. This process is ongoing, and the academic improvement for the football program over the last two semesters is already considerable.

“I believe that once we identified the APR issues with our football program, we have done everything necessary to address them,” said Chancellor Jimmy G. Cheek. “I am proud of the performance in the classroom by our student-athletes over the last two semesters, and I have great confidence that we have put past issues behind us and will only continue to improve.”

The academic progress being made by the football program is exemplified by the 2.80 gradepoint average (GPA) in the Spring of 2013 under new head football coach Butch Jones, the highest for the program in the spring semester since sport-by-sport data began to be tracked by the institution in 2003.

A total of 46 football student-athletes posted a 3.0 GPA or higher, also the highest since data tracking began sport-by-sport. The recent semester’s academic performance by the football team followed a Fall 2012 semester in which football student-athletes posted a 2.49 GPA, a considerable improvement over the 2.08 posted in the Fall of 2011.

“Academics are at the forefront of the priori-

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ties within our football team, and we are excited with the results in the classroom from the spring semester,” said Jones, who was hired on Dec. 7, 2012. “We are moving forward with a great plan and structure that alleviates past academic concerns, and we are confident of avoiding any APR issues. Everything is in place to provide the best possible environment for achieving academic success for our student-athletes as we continue to move forward.”

The Thornton Athletics Student Life Center, created to provide student-athletes with academic support programs and assist with both personal and career development, has undergone significant changes, most notably in leadership. The new leader of the Thornton Center is Dr. Joe Scogin, who assumed the role of senior associate athletics director and assistant provost in April 2013, joining Tennessee from the University of Missouri.