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Knoxville area commerce continues to grow Analysts, businesses take notice of region’s diverse, growing commercial landscape The Old City in particular has seen an influx of new business. On Central Street, the new Scottish pub Jig and Reel is offering Knoxville a taste of Scotland with haggis at the old Manhattan’s location. Just up the street is the Old City Entertainment Venue, a wine bar and restaurant that opened in March. NV Nightclub, the newest spot for Knoxville nightlife located on Jackson Avenue, opened a few weeks ago in the same building where Blue Cats once operated. Duane Carleo, owner of Old City night-

of burger joints, but that’s not stopping Mooyah Burgers from trying to win over the city in its new West Knoxville location. According to FastCasual.com, the burgers, shakes and fries eatery ranked No. 1 in the website’s 2009 “Movers and Shakers” list. Both small- and big-name grocery stores are making headlines in Knoxville this year. West Knoxville is buzzing about two grocery store chains coming in the next few years. Publix announced this spring that it would debut in Knoxville at the Northshore Town Center in the summer of 2012.

area last year. Others soon followed. The Market, a grocery store in Maryville, announced in June that it will open a new Staff Writer location on Gay Street. The new grocery store, called The Market at Union & Gay, is While the national economy might be scheduled to be open later this month. clawing its way out of the recession, Even North Knoxville is bustling with new Knoxville is seeing quite a few “coming business, with Marco’s Pizza set to open in soon” and “now open” signs hanging across Fountain City and Don Jose’s Mexican Grill town. already open in the Gibbs area. In the last two years, Knoxville has been Marco’s Pizza is also opening a location given national recognition as a great city for on Middlebrook Pike. According to the webentrepreneurs and companies by publicasite, Marco’s Pizza is opening 60 new locations such as Forbes, Southern Business & tions this year. Development and A small local busiBusiness Facilities. ness called Twister’s Knoxville was Shakes and Sundaes, named a “Top 5 Metro located on Tazewell for Economic Growth Pike in Gibbs, is Potential” by Business expanding by opening Facilities in 2010. a new location on Southern Business & Washington Pike near Development ranked Knoxville Center the city sixth in “Top Mall. Twister’s serves Ten Mid-Markets of up shakes and sunthe Decade.” daes, as well as classic According to American fare, such Forbes, Knoxville as barbecue and burgranked No. 56 in the ers. Owned and opermagazine’s 2010 “Best ated by the Miller Places for Business family, Twister’s and Careers” list. opened in 2007, and While this is a fall its success in the comfrom its 2007 rank at munity has prompted No. 5, it has not the owners to expand deterred companies Twisters to a second from taking on location in North Knoxville as a new Knoxville. enterprise. Not all the busiDowntown nesses that are comKnoxville has experiing to Knoxville are enced business growth new to residents. in the last year, adding Some businesses, a few grocery stores, a such as local clothing few nightclubs and retailer Goody’s, are even a bookstore. reopening their doors Michele Hummel, after closing during director of the Central the recession. B u s i n e s s Goody’s Family Improvement District Clothing, which (CBID), explained closed its doors in that downtown 2009, recently posted Knoxville’s business a sign near its former growth is part of a George Richardson • The Daily Beacon Halls location on national trend of cenCustomers enjoy the food of Blue Coast Burrito in Market Square on Monday, July 11. Blue Coast Burrito is one of a number Norris Freeway, saytralization. ing it was reopening “In downtown of new businesses that have opened in Knoxville despite a slow economy. Aug. 31. This will be Knoxville, there has Whole Foods threw its name in the mix by the first Goody’s location in Knoxville to been a push to move towards the inner city,” clubs including Southbound and NV she said. “When the economy went into a Nightclub, said opening a business in the old announcing a store in the shopping center reopen, though other Goody’s have reopened recession, downtown Knoxville was able to Blue Cats location was an easy decision for located at Papermill Drive and Kingston in nearby Maryville and Jefferson City. his company, Carleo Entertainment. Pike. However, Knoxvillians will have to wait While new business is a good sign for the hold its own.” “The courtyard on this property is huge, longer for Whole Foods. It is not slated to local economy, Knoxville has not been While Hummel notes that a majority of immune to business closures. businesses in downtown Knoxville are and it has a very unique look,” he said. “The open until 2013. Farragut is also getting some publicity Jim ’N Nick’s Bar-B-Q on Lovell Road restaurants, she adds that CBID is working property had already operated as a night club hard to add diversity to the downtown land- before, so the startup costs were essentially with the announcement in May that Costco, closed this spring, and the S&W restaurant cut in half.” a wholesale club similar to Sam’s Club, is on Gay Street, a renovation of the old cafetescape. Even the Market Square area is in the moving into the neighborhood at the inter- ria by the same name, abruptly closed in “It has been our strategic plan to diversiJanuary. The S&W was only open for a year fy downtown Knoxville with different kinds process of getting a new restaurant. Local section of Lovell Road and Kingston Pike. Downtown Knoxville, which only a couple before it shut down. of businesses,” she said. “We have about 72 restaurant company Ruby Tuesday is in Carleo said Knoxville is a great city to restaurant businesses, but we’re really push- works with Lime Fresh Mexican Grill to years prior had lacked a grocery store in the open a franchise location in the future. area, now can boast three grocery stores. open up shop and is not surprised that the ing for more non-restaurant retail.” “We’ve seen an increase in restaurants and Market Square is still enjoying the newest Aisle Nine, located on South Central Street city is growing in popularity. “Knoxville is a good place to start up a retail downtown,” she said. “Approximately addition to the block, Blue Coast Burrito, and which offers online grocery shopping delivered to customers via bicycle, was the business,” he said. “And I think people are 10 businesses have opened or are in the which opened in March. The metro may not be lacking in its choice first to open a grocery store in the downtown taking notice.” process of opening downtown this year.”

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UT artists, designers achieve excellence Rob Davis Staff Writer

George Richardson • The Daily Beacon

Carlos Jackson, senior in psychology, bowls in the University Center Down Under on Monday, July 11.

Art faculty and students won four American Institute of Graphic Artists Southeastern Excellence in Design awards. “The AIGD (American Institute for Graphic Design) SEED awards are awarded every two years to recognize design excellence in the Southeast,” Deborah Shmerler, associate professor in graphic design, said. “They represent the best work across all disciplines of communications and strategy from designers in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Tennessee, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina and North Carolina.” Shmerler and a group of students won gold in their category for their Living Light house plans. “Living Light is the University of Tennessee’s entry into the Solar Decathlon 2011 competition,” Shmerler said. “As one of 20 university teams from around the world competing, UT has been challenged by the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon 2011 to design, build and exhibit

an energy-efficient, solarpowered home.” The national competition takes place Sept. 23 through Oct. 2 on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. Participants demonstrate clean-energy solutions, while developing a well-trained work force dedicated to environmental sustainability and green technologies. The homes will be juried beginning in October in 10 categories, including, but not limited to: architecture, engineering, communications and market appeal. In addition to the SEED award, Shmerler also won an excellence for her stART now program, a mentoring program at UT developed by graphic design students in the spring of 2009. “(The students) spent the semester mentoring an advanced art class, taught by Peggy Leland at Central High School,” Shmerler said. The overall goal of this Design Ignites Change initiative was to promote and encourage high school students to develop projects that would benefit their local community through energizing their personal goals and interests. See ART on Page 3

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Alexandra Heatherly, graduate student in plant sciences, waters plants outside the Fred Norris Greenhouse on Monday, July 11.

1861 - Wild Bill Hickok's first gunfight Wild Bill Hickok begins to establish his reputation as a gunfighter after he coolly shoots three men during a shootout in Nebraska. Born in Homer (later called Troy Grove), Illinois, James Butler Hickok moved to Kansas in 1855 at the age of 18. There he filed a homestead claim, took odd jobs, and began calling himself by his father's name, Bill. A skilled marksman, Hickok honed his abilities as a gunslinger. Though Hickok was not looking for trouble, he liked to be ready to defend himself, and his ability with a pistol soon proved useful. By the summer of 1861, Hickok was working as a stock tender at a stage depot in Nebraska called Rock Creek Station. Across the creek lived Dave McCanles, a mean-spirited man who disliked Hickok for some reason. McCanles enjoyed insulting the young stockman, calling him Duck Bill and claiming he was a hermaphrodite. Hickok took his revenge by secretly romancing McCanles' mistress, Sarah Shull. On this day in 1861, the tension between Hickok and McCanles came to a head. McCanles may have learned about the affair between Shull and Hickok, though his motivations are not clear. He arrived at the station with two other men and his 12-year-old-son and exchanged angry words with the station manager. Then

McCanles spotted Hickok standing behind a curtain partition. He threatened to drag "Duck Bill" outside and give him a thrashing. Demonstrating remarkable coolness for a 24-year-old who had never been involved in a gunfight, Hickok replied, "There will be one less son-of-a-bitch when you try that." McCanles ignored the warning. When he approached the curtain, Hickok shot him in the chest. McCanles staggered out of the building and died in the arms of his son. Hearing the shots, the two other gunmen ran in. Hickok shot one of them twice and winged the other. The other workers at the station finished them off. The story of Hickok's first gunfight spread quickly, establishing his reputation as a skilled gunman. In 1867, Harper's New Monthly Magazine published a highly exaggerated account of the shoot-out which claimed Hickok had single-handedly killed nine men. The article quoted Hickok as saying, "I was wild and I struck savage blows." Thus began the legendary career of "Wild Bill." For the next 15 years, Hickok would further embellish his reputation with genuine acts of daring, though the popular accounts continued to exceed the reality. He died in 1876 at the age of 39, shot in the back of the head by a young would-be gunfighter looking for fame. 1979 - Disco is dealt death blow by fans of the Chicago White Sox As the 1970s came to an end, the age of disco was also nearing its

finale. But for all of its decadence and overexposure, disco didn't quite die a natural death by collapsing under its own weight. Instead, it was killed by a public backlash that reached its peak on this day in 1979 with the infamous "Disco Demolition" night at Chicago's Comiskey Park. That incident, which led to at least nine injuries, 39 arrests and the cancellation and forfeit of a Major League Baseball game, is widely credited—or, depending on your perspective, blamed—with dealing disco its death blow. The event was the brainchild of Steve Dahl and Garry Meier, popular disk jockeys on Chicago's WLUP "The Loop" FM. Dahl had only recently moved to WLUP from rival station WDAI when that station switched to an all-disco format—a relatively common reformatting trend in American radio in 1979. But however many other rock DJs were displaced by disco, only Dahl was inspired to launch a semi-comic vendetta aimed at "the eradication and elimination of the dreaded musical disease." On May 2, the rainout of a game between the Chicago White Sox and the Detroit Tigers led to the scheduling of a doubleheader on July 12. Dahl and Meier approached the White Sox with a rather unorthodox idea for an attendance-boosting promotion: Declare July 12 "Disco Demolition" night and allow Dahl to blow up a dumpster full of disco records between games of the doubleheader. White Sox executive Mike Veeck embraced the idea in the same spirit with which his father, legendary team-owner Bill Veeck, had once sent a little person to the plate in a major league ballgame in order to amuse the fans and draw a walk.

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Center to add space, revise processes Anthony Cespedes Staff Writer

a women’s clinic, an allergy clinic, a physical rehabilitation suite, a pharmacy and the Safety, Environment and Education Center for substance abuse education and assistance. The new building will see an increase in student volume by about 15 percent, as students and staff will work in an atmosphere that is more private and in a building that is designed for growth. “When a student walks in the

For almost a year, the sights and sounds on the corner of Volunteer Boulevard and Pat Head Summitt Street have been those of construction equipment and vehicles working feverishly to complete the new Student Health Center. Originally planned for completion and to be moved into by the July 4 weekend, weather-related issues throughout the school year hampered the construction process. New plans for completion are set for September, with a move-in planned for the end of classes in December. The current building, located at 1818 Andy Holt Ave., has struggled to keep up with the times and demands of the growing campus. James Boyle, Student Health Services director, is excited for the new location. “Currently, we see about 45,000 students a year,” Boyle said. “The new building will contain the Counseling Center and a new pharmacy.” At just 20,000 square feet, the current building is cramped and not so private. – James Boyle The new, state-of-the-art Student Health Services Director 109,000 square foot building, with an estimated cost of $16 million, will include expanded waiting areas, more doctors, nurses and exam rooms, larger X-ray building,” Boyle said, “other students and laboratory facilities, an appoint- won’t know the reason why they are ment kiosk where students can sched- entering — whether it’s for physical ule appointments online and many health, the pharmacy, counseling or whatever — therefore improving the more amenities. The records system will also confidentiality of the student. There change from a paper format to an elec- will be no social stigma.” The upcoming school year also tronic format. marks the implementation of a new The Counseling Center, currently located at 900 Volunteer Boulevard, policy for immunizations. Currently, incoming transfer stuwill be absorbed into the new builddents and freshmen are required to ing. The building will also be home to have the Measles, Mumps and Rubella

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(MMR) shot, Hepatitis B and the Meningitis shot. The new requirements will now include the Chickenpox vaccine. If students don’t have these shots when they first enter in the fall, they will have the opportunity to get them. If they don’t, then they will have a hold placed for spring registration. The new clinic will not put a damper on the student budget. “We don’t get any state monies, so we live off of fees and insurance,” Boyle said. “Cost of living increases, student fees, etc. affect fees, but there won’t be any major increase in fees. Most operation costs are funded by health fees (program and services fee), which are going to be a modest $81 in the fall. That entitles them to unlimited visits to the clinic. The only things we charge for are labs, X-rays, consumable products (medicines, crutches, splints, etc.). There is no office visit charges, physician charges or nurses services.” When asked about the use of the current building once the new clinic opens in January, UT Division of Facilities Planning Project Manager John Overly said, “It may be used for campus ‘surge space’ for a while (temporary housing for staff displaced by construction or awaiting new space being constructed) or for temporary housing of other departments, and then will eventually be demolished, but nothing definitive has been decided by the university yet.” The music building — the music department has been temporarily housed in Melrose Hall and other parts of campus — has been in the works for a while as well. Current projections for completion are scheduled for the spring of 2013.

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building, other students won’t know the reason why they are entering-- whether it’s for

physical health, the pharmacy, counseling or whatever-therefore improving the

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ART continued from Page1 Fourteen students from UT’s graphic design area mentored 26 students from Leland’s class, addressing issues from war to violence to education, poverty and health. In 14 weeks, the students developed a range of projects, including a 15-minute documentary on education, a social networking site about violence and a school garden. “It is important that the students identify the projects they are interested in designing; the teacher’s role is one of facilitation,” Shmerler said. “StART now is an ongoing program. We are currently identifying other schools for future participation.” Sarah Lowe, associate professor in graphic design, also won a SEED gold award and an excellence award. Lowe, in collaboration with Eric Ogle, program coordinator for the Community Partnership Center, the Beck Cultural Exchange Center and the Carpetbag Theatre, won a gold award for their work on the Knoxville AfricanAmerican Tours of Cultural Heritage smartphone application. This mobile phone application lets users tour Knoxville by visiting sites that are culturally important to African-Americans and the Civil Rights Movement. “You get a map of Knoxville when you first log on to the application, and it details 14 different sites,” Lowe said. “At 10 of the 14 sites, there is digital video available. Each of these are sites of significance to Knoxville’s African-American history.” The application permits users to view video, pro-

duced by the Carpetbag Theatre, access historic and current photos and read a synopsis of what happened at the historic site. The application is free at the iTunes app store and, as of this spring, has had 500 downloads since September 2010. Lowe also won an excellence award for a project that employed the “Slow Down” edition of GOOD Magazine. “GOOD Magazine is a magazine that takes a topic and presents it with an eye to moving the world forward,” Lowe said. “I chose the ‘Slow Down’ issue because it’s all about looking at where we are as a society. We tend to be a society that is consumed with the next best thing, what’s going to happen, growth, speed and progress.” Using the issue as a starting point, students were able to research and design projects of their own interests on different subjects such as snail mail and greenwashing. “The pedagogical goals of the project are to instill an understanding about what it means to bring research into a creative process,” Lowe said. “A student who is an avid, enthusiastic biker developed a system to generate electricity from his bike,” Lowe said. “He documented the process of building this system and showed it powering different things, such as a TV in the woods.” To see the project of building a bike-power generator, visit http://www.thepowerpedal.com. “Students get a chance to read through the articles, we talk about it as a class, they find their own interest in the conversation and take it from there to a finished, designed project,” she said.

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HermitSpeaketh Series crumble under originals’ weight Jake Lane Managing Editor Lately I’ve been gorging myself on television, a fact that has likely been apparent if you have read any columns throughout the summer. Our brains seem to accept episodic entertainment above anything a stand-alone work could provide. Observe games like “L.A. Noire,” whose missions seem like weekly entries in some hard-boiled detective drama circa 1947. Or the bygone superhuman thriller “Heroes,” another of my recent obsessions, which draws literally from comix tradition and leaves its protagonists hanging just over the edge to ensue returned viewers the following week — which is another reason why Netflix is wonderful. In literature, this tradition of stringing readers along with endless sequels is long-established. I read the seminal “Dune” earlier this summer and, though my reading list is packed to the gills, immediately bought “Dune Messiah,” as I had to know what happened next. Perhaps there is something lost in reading a novel 46 years after it was written, knowing only five of the intended seven novels of its cycle were ever written by the original author, left to be finished by his less-gifted son and a prolific “Star Wars” writer. This is but one saga whose continuation was driven by fan demand, but by its recent completion has lost most of the spark and nerve that drove the original trilogy. For as long as I can remember I have been a sucker for any series with a mythos or a strong plot, so naturally this type of material is the equivalent of a helpless zebra to a crocodile in my case. There is a need to consume everything related to whatever series that might be (“Lost,” “The Dark Tower,” and “Fallout” being but a few from recent years), and by the end there is a hopeless sense of loss for the lack of future material and mysteries to explore. There are times, though, when I would gladly end a series at a point after which it becomes apparent the author/filmmaker/et al. only continued to perpetuate his or her creation to line pockets. Recently I’ve been re-viewing “The Sopranos,” and

just last night finished Season Six, Part 1. For those who didn’t follow the Mafia family dramedy, the final season is served in two acts, the first of which could be the redemption of Tony Soprano, the second his existential drift into eternity. Spoilers aside, the controversial end of that show has had fans cursing David Chase for four years now, and like “Twin Peaks,” a finite ending will likely never be released. As a writer myself, I know the terrible conflict with the comma as well as anyone. Not like the Hubert Selby/Cormac McCarthy battle against punctuation in general, but that all-consuming conflict against parting ways with a creation versus piddling away its meaning with superfluous adventures whose existence degrades everything good about said characters/stories. Not to say that I won’t rabidly devour “The Wind through the Door” upon its release, but it doesn’t mean I’ll get over Stephen King’s inability to end his magnum opus. Which brings me to the topic of fan fiction, that ever-present bridge between riding into the sunset and artistic purgatory. While it’s true that those people who create fan works based on pre-existing concepts are simply exercising a need to create like the originators of their topics, the end result is a double-edged sword. Sometimes the works are professional, even solicited by the developers of the intellectual property, such as the “Star Wars Expanded Universe,” while others play out more base fantasies of the fan-author, ranging from bloody revenges to bizarre trysts which make sense in only quantum theory. So my question is, do we really need 19 stories when one will do? Opinions will differ, but the answer in my mind is no. As deep as I am willing to dig into a series, there is something to be said for an author who has the gumption to leave you wondering for all eternity what happened after the beloved hero disappeared over the rosy horizon. Sure, it’s fun to watch him 20 years later as a nuclear test reduces his Soviet foes to radioactive ash while a lead-lined refrigerator saves said whip-toting archaeologist from a certain doom, but do we really need that in our lives? Or the memorable “South Park” episode that followed? Okay, now that you mention it, maybe we do. — Jake Lane is a senior in creative writing. He can be reached at jlane23@utk.edu.

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Money not equal to ‘meaning’ T he Social N etwo r k by

Elliot DeVore What gives us “meaning?” What exactly is “meaning?” Is “meaning” success? It’s kind of ironic isn’t it, that we don’t know the meaning of “meaning.” While we are in college it’s easy to accept that our major and our academic goals give us meaning, or perhaps I should say that those things give us deadlines. I’m curious to see how people find meaning in their lives on the other side, though — after school, once they’ve entered their field. Money might bring some a sense of meaning, others a particular job title. Or will it be how much money their partner makes, an accomplishment-by-association-type deal. I’m hoping that for me I’ll find it through a pursuit steered by the reigns of my heartstrings. Now that I and most of my friends have earned our degrees, we enter a phase of our lives where our diploma and our job should provide us with a sense of meaning. But honestly: That sense of fulfillment people feel after graduating with a job or grad school plans can be very un-genuine. It’s all about perception; we’re told that this is what we need to do to be successful. We need to make said amount of dollars, live in said area, eat at these restaurants. But is that true fulfillment? Or is it just American consumerism that leads us to buy into the successful niche market of “meaning and happiness?” It’s funny because I’m starting to see how money defines the world as it creates social boundaries between venture capitalists, academics and blue-collar America. By whose operational definition of success do we use as we analyze our own lives in the personal pursuit of purpose? It reminds me of a puzzle. They don’t piece it all together. Many people I know are entering the work force in lucrative fields, making money I could never fathom. Their potential income is unimaginable for me because I have followed my heart to the field of student affairs, which is by no means lucrative. I wonder if the socially

constructed idea of success that we seek meaning through is malleable. Because, once I enter my field and I work for a few years then pursue a doctorate, my life will have meaning, satisfaction and a feeling of success. In the field of student affairs I’ll eventually hit a ceiling within a tax bracket, a ceiling that for some definitions of success may be undesirably low. It makes me question, if people find meaning through the amount of money they make and their idea of success, would I be unsuccessful to them? Will my tax bracket become my measure of success? We, as young Americans, the future of our country, have been socialized to place such a high value on the idea of money and wealth that it has made some lose meaning. As Americans, we’re guaranteed the rite to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, but it seems that so many people aren’t all that liberated or happy with their lives. Everything we do in our careers has a ripple effect, touching the lives of others. By thinking about our actions and the reasons behind them, instead of just going through the motions, we will be able to find comfort in the small things. If we think about the small things, we’ll see the direct effects of those ripples. People would be much happier if they would go to school and pursue a career based on their values and passions, instead of the paycheck. Isn’t living by our values the best way to make meaning in our lives? The work we do should be about the process and the people we come in contact with; it should not be about the end result of money and profit. I think that that is where we often lose the meaning in our lives; we lose sight of what is really important. We have to make meaning with our actions and relationships. Meaning, purpose and happiness don’t have price tags. I guess what I’m trying to say is that our ideas of success, happiness and meaning shouldn’t all be the same. It’s not like those concepts are seasonal and visibly trending in the display windows at the mall, so why should people strive for the conceptualized American mixture of them. They are unique and we should all strive to obtain them in our own unique ways. - Elliott Devore is a graduate in psychology. He can be reached at edevore@utk.edu.

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I always spend the Fourth of July with my grandparents in Johnson City. This year, we had a full house: my parents, my roommate, my aunt and uncle, my cousin Rebekah and her boyfriend Brandon, who forced my roommate and me to sleep in the basement. I think I like the guy. Anyway, Rebekah and Brandon went looking for rings. Rebekah did her homework. She knows everything there is to know about the “4 Cs” that define diamonds: the grades of clarity and color, the different cuts and what mistakes make differences and, of course, the carat. A girl knows a good diamond from a not-sogood diamond, but, the quantitative grades and measurements aren’t necessarily visible to the naked eye — at least, not the male eye. After spending the afternoon in all manor of jewelry stores: big, small, chain and privately owned, I know the gist of it and I pity the guys who do not. So, I’m going to break from my usual rant and rave about stupidity, and give the guys a lesson in diamond shopping. You can’t say you weren’t warned. The first thing you need to know about is imperfections, namely inclusions and blemishes. An inclusion is something inside the diamond. A blemish is something on the surface of the diamond. Lucky for you guys, the different types of inclusions and blemishes are pretty self-explanatory. Some inclusions are clouds, feathers, included crystals or minerals, knots, cavities, bearding and internal graining, and they basically look exactly as their names suggest. Also, be careful: Some stores call these “internal characteristics,” which, obviously, has a more positive connotation. Do not be fooled! Blemishes include polish lines, grain boundaries, naturals, scratches, nicks, pits and chips. All right, next point: clarity. Clarity refers to the amount of blemishes a diamond has. They range from Flawless to Included: FL, Flawless; IF, internally flawless; VVS1, VVS2, very very slightly included; VS1, VS2, very slightly included; SI1, SI2, Slightly

included; and I1, I2, I3, Included. Blemishes tend to look like black spots. Rebekah calls it the “pepper diamond” effect. Next: color. Color depends on the cut and blemishes on/in the diamond. Now, it’s true that a colored diamond is very desirable in certain situations; look at the hope diamond. There are even black diamonds, which are not just coal. For an engagement ring, however, colorless is the most desirable. Just like the clarity, color has a ranking system that goes from DZ on the alphabet. There are a lot of aspects that define the diamond color, but, for your sake guys, I’ll keep it simple. D-E are Colorless, G-J are Near Colorless, KM are Faint Yellow, N-R are Very Light Yellow, S-Z are Light Yellow. All right, now we are to the simple stuff: cut and carat. Cut, of course, is the shape, but it also includes how many ridges and facets the diamond has. Different cuts let in different amounts of light, which gives one princess cut diamond a different look than another princess cut diamond. The basic, most popular cuts are Princess cut and Round cut, but there are also Pear shaped, Marquise shaped, Oval shaped, Radiant cut, Heart shaped, Trillion cut, Asscher cut, Cushion cut and Emerald cut. The Princess Cut is the popular square cut; the Round cut is, well, round; Pear shaped is, well, pear shaped; Marquise shaped diamonds are elongated with shape points at either end; Oval is, you guessed it, oval; Radiant cut diamonds are octagons with a rectangular essence; Heart shape is, right again, shaped like a heart; Trillion cut diamonds are soft triangles; Asscher cut are octagons with a squarelike essence; Cushion cut diamonds are soft edged squares; and Emerald cut diamonds are rectangular. The last “C” to worry about is carat, which is simply the size of the diamond. Most guys assume that this is the most important “C” to worry about, but that’s not necessarily true. It is for some girls, but not for all. True, if you get a flawless, colorless diamond, you’re going to spend more than a light yellow included diamond. So, you could get a 2-carat diamond that isn’t what the girl wants if she values quality. So, there you go guys, your crash course in diamonds is now complete. Good luck. Also, just so you know, diamonds are going way up in price come August 1st, so you best get on it. - Chelsea Tolliver is a junior in the College Scholars Program. She can be reached at ctollive1@utk.edu.

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“Franchise” a home run for champion Giants Zito entered the 2011 season in just the fifth year of a mammoth dictable, he already looks like the befuddled Joaquin Phoenix from the seven-year, $126 million contract. Yet the series showed segments faux documentary “I’m Still Here,” so it’s a natural fit. The series preview begins with a look at the World Series clinch- from MLB Network where analysts talked about the Giants thinking er and its aftermath. It is telling that, even in the first 30 minutes of of cutting their highly paid pitcher. Rumors swirled before the season Baseball fans know that pitching a television show idea about the its existence, the show does not linger too long on this moment. that he would not even make a five-man rotation that sports stars like current San Francisco Giants must have been a no-brainer. “The Franchise,” Showtime’s baseball answer to HBO’s NFL real- Soon, it’s manager Bruce Bochy on a boat talking about transitioning Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum and Matt Cain. In a conversation while driving, Zito touches on the fan backlash ity show, “Hard Knocks,” follows around a baseball team during the to the new season. Before the viewer has time to fully prepare, Aubrey toward him, due to his lack of quality pitchseason. Since the Giants won the World ing since making the trip across the bay from Series last year, logic would dictate they Oakland to San Francisco. He seems to have are the first batters up. no concrete explanation to sort out his bad But more than that, it’s a fun choice. performance and only mutters that fans do Following around a stiff team like the New not realize how hard it is. It is here that the York Yankees would probably not be a barshow rings most true. rel of laughs. The show would have delved The centerpiece of the first episode was into the drama of Yankees shortstop Derek the story of journeyman reliever Marc Jeter’s offseason contract negotiations, of Kroon’s attempt to make the Giants in his which he was ultimately overpaid by sentilate 30s. The show talked about his relationmentalists, and then look into Jeter’s draship with manager Bochy. The two met matic but anti-climatic run at 3,000 hits. when both were on the San Diego Padres And viewers would be expected to years ago. empathize with a millionaire who, again, is So Kroon was a sentimental favorite for getting overpaid in the twilight of his Bochy, but in the end, he had to be cut, as do career. so many players after spring training. The Instead of yet another television show show follows Kroon to his new living space detailing the prestige of the Yankees or the during his minor league assignment, in his passionate fans of the Boston Red Sox, further attempts to make the team, and the thank God, Showtime picked something viewer knows this is a story that applies to else. many aspiring baseball players. But mostly, thank God, it’s the Giants. After the roughly 30-minute preview For the same reason it was hard not to root episode, it is already clear that “The for the Giants during the 2010 playoffs, the Franchise” has an abundance of possibilities, team is an excellent choice for “The especially looking at “The Freak” Lincecum, • Photo courtesy of sho.com Franchise.” who was not spotlighted in the first episode Reality shows often deal heavily in creHuff goes from a crying Giants first baseman, awash in the glow of except for a cursory introduction. If the show does not go more into ating characters and blending reality with fictional, created stories. But the Giants are already a band of characters, led by closer Brian his first world championship, to a struggling Giants outfielder, forced Lincecum, a giant opportunity will be missed. Actually following the team as they win, lose and attempt to repeat Wilson, whose popularity skyrocketed in equal shares due to his 1.81 to move to the position thanks to the ascension of rookie first baseis an obvious pursuit as the series goes on. man Brandon Belt. earned-run average last year and his dyed-black facial hair. But what will surely make the show worth the watch is what “The Franchise” shows here that it is willing to show the downNicknamed “The Beard,” Wilson already pretty much owns “The Wilson has to say about each and every thing that happens to these sides of the Giants and not just paint them in a rosy glow. Viewers Franchise.” He has most of the camera time in the show, and in the who watched the preview saw plenty of outfielder mistakes by Huff. Giants. second episode preview, he is already introducing a catch phrase. Likewise, the series decides to shine a light on long-time troubled For the closer who is consistently hilarious and equal parts unpreGiants left-handed pitcher Barry Zito.

Robby O’Daniel

News and Student Life Editor

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Beacon sports editor for athletic director Matt Dixon Sports Editor With Tennessee’s ongoing search for a permanent athletic director, I figured I’d give the school some help on whom to hire. Yes, UT has hired a search-firm to assist in its search, but I’m willing to offer my suggestion for free. Myself. While I don’t claim to know the ins-andouts of the UT athletic department, nor do I have any experience, I feel I could handle the challenge. I was a pre-business major my first two years in school here before switching to journalism and electronic media, so I have just enough knowledge of the business world. Couple that with my two years of experience as a journalist, I feel I could handle the media and the public relations side of things. (There’d be no more out-of-left field interviews on the eve of a team’s post-season to suggest the coach could be fired after the season.) That said, here are six things I would focus on:

1. Just Do It Yes, that’s the slogan of Nike. Getting rid of adidas and bringing back Nike would be one of the first moves I’d make. In general, Nike has superior products than adidas does. After all, adidas has yet to figure out what shade of orange to make UT’s football jerseys. Please tell me I’m not the only one who has noticed at least three different shades of orange on UT’s jerseys. The road jerseys are the worst. The orange numbers on the tops are completely different than the orange pants. I’m betting Nike could make UT’s jersey colors match. 2. Free the students This goes without saying: Students should be able to go to football games for free. Given how UT’s athletic department is one of only a handful of athletic departments in the country that is self-sufficient, it shouldn’t charge students to attend games. The UT student section went from dramatically creating a distinct home-field advantage to an embarrassment in recent years. Obviously the team’s performance hasn’t helped, but during the 1990s and early 2000s, the student section made Neyland Stadium one of the most intimidating stadiums in the country. It can be again. 3. “Soak Up the (Halftime) Sun” What’s this guy taking about? Well, one day during the football team’s fall cam last year, coach Derek Dooley “tweeted” about going to see Sheryl Crow at the Tennessee Theatre. Obviously, the Vols coach likes the country singer, so why not have her perform during halftime of a football game? (As ath-

letic director, I’d make it a point to keep the head football coach happy.) The only argument would be Dooley wouldn’t actually be able to see her perform during halftime. So why not during halftime of a basketball game? You can’t “soak up the sun” in Thompson-Boling Arena. This idea still needs some tweaking. 4. Retire two numbers One of former men’s athletic director Mike Hamilton’s best ideas was retiring the jersey numbers of Vol legends. He was instrumental in retiring seven football numbers, as well as three basketball numbers. I’d like to continue that, starting with two Vol greats: Condredge Holloway’s No. 7 and Dale Ellis’ No. 14. Holloway, the former UT quarterback, was a fan-favorite during his time under center, and was the first AfricanAmerican to start at quarterback in the Southeastern Conference. Ellis was a twotime All-American and twice selected as the SEC’s player of the year for the men’s basketball program. Ellis later played 19 seasons in the NBA. 5. Vols vs. Trojans Remember all the fuss that was made when UT turned down the opportunity to play USC in the Chick-Fil-A Classic to open the upcoming football season? Yeah, I do too. Had I been athletic director, I would’ve talked with Coach Dooley to make sure it’d be all right to accept Lane Kiffin’s challenge. My guess is Kiffin knew UT would say no, so he found a way to take one last jab at the Vols. I would’ve called his bluff. In Atlanta, it would basically be a home-game for UT, and

you don’t think some players on UT’s team would love to go up against Kiffin and his squad? Ask UT running back Tauren Poole what he’d do for a chance to face Kiffin. 6. Admit Loften No, this idea has nothing to do with the best three-point shooter in SEC history — though you could add Chris Lofton’s to the retired numbers idea. This has to do with another Loften: Eddrick Loften. Loften is a highly ranked safety from Texas who has yet to be admitted into UT. He first signed with the Vols last year, and again this year. He was not admitted to school in time for the second session of summer school, meaning his chances of making it onto the football team this fall are very unlikely. As athletic director, I’d make it a priority to either get Loften admitted into UT, or figure out what he needs to do to be admitted. All of these ideas, I feel, would make UT athletics better. Will I be the next AD? Doubt it. Former football coaches Phillip Fulmer and Johnny Majors have a better chance of meeting for lunch. (Wait. That’s another idea. Get Fulmer and Majors together and put the past behind them.) But if UT wants to go against the grain and make an outside-the-box hire — similar to what it could have done with the baseball coaching job and former Vol great Chris Burke — I’d be the person for the job. Just give me a shot. And if it doesn’t work out, I’d gladly resign for one of UT’s hefty buyouts.

Broken leg, surgery doesn’t stop Serrano Anthony Elias Staff Writer If it takes an arm and a leg for Tennessee coach Dave Serrano to succeed, he’s already halfway there. “They told me to break a leg, so I did,” Serrano joked about his fall last Tuesday, causing him to have surgery for the first time. Serrano “didn’t foresee” the fall, but smiled and said, “This won’t stop me.” It shouldn’t, either, especially after the Torrance, Calif., native hired Greg Bergeron, his associate head coach during his seven-year tenure at Cal. State Fullerton and UC Irvine, Cerritos College colleague and long-time friend Bill Mosiello, and volunteer assistant head coach Greg Wallis, a former player for the Diamond Vols coach. The decision to acquire these familiar faces was “a plus for us” in which UT baseball’s coaching staff can get right to work. “We don’t need to get familiar,” Serrano

said. Bergeron will be looking for the UT bats to deliver the same scorching heat he’s been trying to get used to here in Knoxville as his past batting units did back at UC Irvine and Cal. S t a t e Fullerton. For the past seven years, Serrano’s associate head coach has helped – Dave Serrano b u i l d Tennessee’s Baseball Coach offenses that have i m p ro v e d year after year in batting average, slugging percentage and on-base percentage. From 2005 to 2007, UC Irvine smacked 292 doubles while sending 80 balls over the fence; CS Fullerton’s double-to-homerun ratio, from 2008 to 2011, was 486 to 191.

The only prior experience Serrano and Bergeron had together against SEC teams came this past season at CS Fullerton when LSU swept the Titans in three games. That’s where Bosiello comes in; despite only one season as a hitting coach at Auburn in 2008, the long-time friend of Serrano helped the Tigers average .301 in batting (fifth in the SEC), .475 in slugging and slam an SEC-second 63 doubles. As a combined unit, the coaching staff hasn’t had success against its future conference — 11-22 in the SEC (including an 0-6 record against LSU) — but Bergeron believes the pressure falls on how the players react to their

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new system. “There’s always going to be pressure,” Bergeron said. “Our pressure will be trying to get these guys on board.” The former El Camino College head coach wasn’t just talking about the current Diamond Vols players, but also prospects in the state of Tennessee that Bergeron wants to migrate to Knoxville instead of Nashville. “We’ve got to keep the local guys local,” the UT associate head coach said. “We know Vanderbilt has a strong hold.” Wallace, who will be filling in for Serrano in recruiting responsibilities while the Vols baseball coach gives his leg time to heal, is optimistic about “being a part of the best.” “We like to thrive off of development,” the former four-time Big West scholar-athlete said. “It’s going to be a step process. “Any expectations are ones we have on ourselves.” While Wallis won’t meet the team until school begins next month, he’s pretty confident in the reaction he’s seen in the summer, saying the players “seem to be on board.”