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McClung to showcase three new exhibits Exhibit parallels world’s focus on Sudan, along with Russian, aesthetically inspired displays Jamie Cunningham Staff Writer McClung Museum is nestled in the heart of Knoxville, but its three new exhibits are taking its visitors on a cultural journey around the world.

The museum, named after Frank H. McClung, has its mission to “advance understanding and appreciation of the earth and its peoples through the collection, preservation, study, interpretation and exhibitions,” according to the museum’s website.

Jefferson Chapman, McClung Museum director, said the exhibits live up to the museum’s purpose of cultural education.

“All of our exhibits are driven by our mission to develop an awareness and appreciation for the earth and its people,” he said. “These exhibits play a part in helping visitors understand and appreciate the world.”

The museum is achieving this mission by using funding from UT’s Ready for the World Initiative to showcase three exhibits with artifacts and photographs from every continent.

Deborah Woodiel, museum educator and assistant director, said it is important for the museum to open new, interesting exhibits.

“We chose the ‘Sudan’ and ‘Russian Icons’ exhibits because we thought students and the local community would be interested in those exhibits,” she said.

“They are subjects we have never covered before at the museum, so we are always encouraging people to come back to see the new things we have.”

The first new exhibit to open at the museum this summer is “Exhibition of Sudan: The Land and the People,” which features 70 photographs by Michael Freeman, an award-winning photographer who spent more than two years capturing the African country’s culture in photos.

The exhibit, which runs until Aug. 28, derives

from former U.S. Ambassador to Sudan Timothy about Sudan will compel the public to take an interCarney and his wife Victoria Butler’s book “Sudan: est in the exhibit.

“We hope the news in Sudan will draw interest The Land and the People.”

The exhibit, which is organized and traveled by here in Knoxville,” she said. “At the time we signed up for that the Meridian exhibit, we didInternational n’t know that Center in Sudan was Wa s h i n g t o n , going to break D.C., hopes to apart. Since the bring awareness eyes of the to the cultural world will be diversity and focused on beauty of a Sudan and the nation torn by exhibit is here in armed conflict, Knoxville, we drought, famine hope it encourand genocide. ages people to The exhibit is come to the open in museum and Knoxville amid news that Sudan Wade Rackley• The Daily Beacon learn about the is splitting into A small figurine is exhibited as part of the Painted people and the of two separate Metaphors: Pottery and Politics of the Ancient Maya country Sudan.” countries. Last exhibit in McClung Museum on Wednesday, Sept. 22, McClung also week, South Sudan declared 2010. McClung Museum will be hosting three new has an exhibit independence exhibits, two of which feature subjects never before that highlights a of from Sudan and seen in the museum, which has been in operation number Russian icons. became the since the ’60s.

“Windows to world’s newest Heaven: Treasures from the Museum of Russian country.

Chapman hopes the news headlines will pique the Icons” showcases Russian historical icons that go as public interest and entice more visitors to tour the far back as 1590, including St. Nicholas and Mother of God. exhibit and learn about Sudan and its people.

The exhibit, running from Sept. 10 to Jan. 2, 2012, “We make it every effort to keep the exhibit current,” he said. “We keep posted new articles from the was designed to give visitors a brief history of the ‘New York Times’ on Sudan alongside the photo- Russian icons, as well as a brief education about the graphs, so people can learn about the current situa- processes of creating and destroying those icons.

While the Sudan and Russian exhibits will not be tion in Sudan.”

Woodiel echoes the optimism that news headlines at the museum forever, the museum does have a per-

manent exhibit coming in September.

“The Decorative Experience” is a collection of aesthetic objects that represent the Americas, Europe, Asia and Africa.

The exhibit includes objects from different societal structures, including tribal societies of the Americas, the Pacific and Africa. These objects can vary from ceramics to furniture, but more importantly, they encapsulate the culture that used the objects.

Woodiel said decorative artifacts are found in all cultures, and the permanent exhibit showcases a variety of different items.

“Decorative art can be objects of everyday use, such as carpets and furniture, so most of the objects in the exhibit do have a practical use,” she said.

“However, we chose them particularly for their artistic embellishment.”

Chapman said the exhibit showcases the importance of aesthetic objects because many societies use decorative art as part of their culture.

“We divided it into broad geographic areas, such as the Americas or Africa,” he said. “The underlying design of the exhibit is to show that humans have been embellishing objects for the last 40,000 years.

We want to show visitors that these objects are found all around the world.”

The exhibit teaches visitors the cultural significance that everyday objects and ceremonial items play in a society.

Woodiel said the artifacts were chosen because the museum found them interesting and aesthetically indicative of the culture they come from.

“All the pieces were selected because there is something about them that is asthetically important,” she said.

The museum plans to provide new cultural exhibits to UT after these exhibits close.

“We are getting a diverse amount of exhibit choices coming to McClung in the future,” Chapman said.

“We have exhibits booked up to 2013.”

Students encounter neighborliness abroad Anthony Elias Staff Writer What do a Hindu wedding in Bangalore, India, and admiring street graffiti in Berlin, Germany, have in common?

For Chelsea Ennis, senior in psychology, who traveled to Bangalore, Karnataka, all it took was a curious eye during a stroll back to her home with friends to change the day’s outcome.

“My roommates and I were walking home from classes in Bangalore when we stopped to read a giant sign being created out of flowers,” Ennis said.

“When we stopped to ask about the occasion, we learned that it was for a wedding later that night. We were then invited to attend by the groom’s father.”

Ennis and her friends would take the father up on his hospitable offer, and they wouldn’t be disappointed, becoming a part of a marital moment Ennis believed was unlike any American wedding she had ever experienced.

“The room where it was held was so full of color,” Ennis said. “The bride wore a bright red sari, and the groom wore a Western-looking tux.”

However, the UT psychology student said the fun came after the wedding at the reception.

“The most exciting part was definitely the wedding reception, which we were also invited to,” she

said. “We were led down to a giant mess hall sort of room, with rows and rows of seating. We were seated and in front of each seat was a giant banana leaf, which we were to eat off of. The servers walked around serving different food from big buckets straight onto our banana leaf. There was no silverware or napkins, and luckily we had been trained on the etiquette of eating with our hands.”

Being the only “Westerners” brought attention to Ennis and her friends.

“People would just watch us eat,” she said. “After dinner, we were able to talk with many of the guests.

Everyone was just so nice. The hospitality we experienced at a complete stranger’s wedding was unbelievable and really can’t compare to anything I have experienced in the States.”

Like the hospitality one UT student experienced in Karnataka, a fellow American student found enlightenment in Berlin, Germany, a city that has embraced its history and has developed a unique culture distinguishing it from its European contemporaries.

Eric Gedenk, senior in journalism and electronic media, who traveled to Berlin in May, found the richly historic town hard to compare to any U.S. city.

“I haven’t felt a pulse like that,” he said.

Whether it was relaxing in the park, observing

families spending time together, admiring Germany’s “unmatched” musical diversity and creative street art graffiti, getting around the city by the “flawless” transportation or the massive amount of outdoor activities Gedenk witnessed, something he has a lot of respect for is seeing children being active.

“I think that’s a big problem in the U.S.,” he said.

Gedenk said there’s plenty to fill a 24-hour schedule, literally, all without a vehicle.

“It’s the little things in Berlin,” Gedenk said, referring to not having to get in a car for almost a month.

“You can learn all day long and then spend all night out at concerts and performances,” he said.

“There’s so much to do.”

Emma McMillan, student assistant in media relations, said Ennis’ return from Bangalore should be around mid-July, but Gedenk is already considering a return back to Berlin any possible way.

“I’d love to go back,” Gedenk said. “It wouldn’t take much to get me back there.”

While the two countries, India and Germany, are separated by approximately 6,352 miles, according to first-hand study abroad experiences from Ennis and Gedenk, these two experiences about hospitality, artistic ideas and welcoming lifestyles, can be placed into the same neighborhood.

Blackboard bought, future uncertain Robby O’Daniel News and Student Life Editor An investor group, led by Providence Equity Partners, bought the software company Blackboard on July 1.

Blackboard, which powers the Online@UT website at http://online.utk.edu, was acquired in a $1.64-billion all-cash transaction.

The deal gave Blackboard stockholders $45 per share, which is above the April 18 closing price of $37.16.

The purchase was the final note of a process that began in March 2011 when the Blackboard Board of Directors formed a Transaction Committee of independent directors.

Scott Studham, UT chief information officer, relayed Blackboard’s message, in the wake of the purchase, about the future of its offerings.

“Blackboard has assured its customers that the purchase by Provident Equity Partners will not lead to any significant changes in the offing,” Studham said. “Ray Henderson, the president of Blackboard Learn, says the company does not expect the change in ownership to affect pricing ‘in the foreseeable future.’”

Moreover, Studham is optimistic about the future of Blackboard.

“We are very pleased with Blackboard on our campus, and the new ownership may lead to some new and interesting innovations, given that the new owners also own Sungard Higher Education,” he said. “It will be interesting to see where that partnership goes.”

Bill Hogue, vice president for information technology and chief information officer at the University of South Carolina, echoes Studham’s positive sentiments.

“I don’t claim to have a crystal ball, but most George Richardson • The Daily Beacon people I’ve spoken to about the Blackboard acquiIan Cato, freshman in studio art, jams out on a Wurlitzer organ in the Art and sition consider it to be either neutral or good Architecture Building on Friday, Jan. 21. The organ was one of several pieces of art news,” Hogue said. “We do not anticipate signifthroughout the building as part of the Charrette.

icant service changes or price fluctuations beyond what normally would be expected.”

The transaction turns Blackboard from a publicly traded company to a privately held one, which raised concerns for another technology officer at another university.

According to the July 5 Inside Higher Ed article titled “Blackboard gets bought,” Sam Segran, chief technology officer at Texas Tech University, is uneasy about the transition from public to private.

“Any time somebody goes into private equity,” he said in the Inside Higher Ed article, “one of the concerns we have is profit motivation, and less motivation in terms of meeting educational needs.”

Lane closures Lanes on Lake Loudoun Boulevard, between Neyland Drive and Phillip Fulmer Way, closed July 12 and will be closed through Aug. 1.

Utility workers are upgrading street lights, so one lane northbound and one lane southbound on the boulevard are closed.

While the work is being done, the street lights will be inoperable, so the university advises motorists to proceed with caution.

The closed roads and traffic lanes due to utility work on the Natalie L. Haslam Music Center were scheduled to be reopened on Monday.

Those roads and lanes were closed since July 4.

One entrance to Volunteer Hall parking garage closed The White Avenue entrance to the Volunteer Hall parking garage is closed temporarily because of 16th Street and White Avenue construction.

Vehicles may enter and exit through the Clinch Avenue entrance during the construction.

The construction will last through Friday at the latest.

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Melissa Dooley and Michael Sena, both freshman architecture majors, chat between classes in an open meeting area in Ayres Hall.

1799 — Rosetta Stone found On this day in 1799, during Napoleon Bonaparte’s Egyptian campaign, a French soldier discovers a black basalt slab inscribed with ancient writing near the town of Rosetta, about 35 miles north of Alexandria.

The irregularly shaped stone contained fragments of passages written in three different scripts: Greek, Egyptian hieroglyphics and Egyptian demotic. The ancient Greek on the Rosetta Stone told archaeologists that it was inscribed by priests honoring the king of Egypt, Ptolemy V, in the second century B.C. More startlingly, the Greek passage announced that the three scripts were all of identical meaning. The artifact thus held the key to solving the riddle of hieroglyphics, a written language that had been “dead” for nearly 2,000 years.

When Napoleon, an emperor known for his enlightened view of education, art and culture, invaded Egypt in 1798, he took along a group of scholars and told them to seize all important cultural artifacts for France. Pierre Bouchard, one of Napoleon’s soldiers, was aware of this order when he found the basalt stone, which was almost four feet long and two-and-a-half feet wide, at a fort near Rosetta. When the British defeated Napoleon in 1801, they took possession of the Rosetta Stone.

Several scholars, including Englishman Thomas Young made progress with the initial hieroglyphics analysis of the Rosetta Stone. French Egyptologist Jean-Francois Champollion (1790-1832), who had taught himself ancient languages, ultimately cracked the code and deciphered the hieroglyphics using his knowledge of Greek as a guide. Hieroglyphics used pictures to represent objects, sounds and groups of sounds. Once the Rosetta Stone inscriptions were translated, the language and culture of ancient Egypt was suddenly open to scientists as never before.

The Rosetta Stone has been housed at the British Museum in London since 1802, except for a brief period during World War I. At that time, museum officials moved it to a separate underground location, along with other irreplaceable items from the museum's collection, to protect it from the threat of bombs.

1942 — George Washington Carver begins experimental project with Henry Ford On this day in 1942, the agricultural chemist George Washington Carver, head of Alabama’s famed

Tuskegee Institute, arrives in Dearborn, Michigan at the invitation of Henry Ford, founder of Ford Motor Company.

Born to slave parents in Missouri during the Civil War, Carver managed to get a high school education while working as a farmhand in Kansas in his late 20s. Turned away by a Kansas university because he was an African American, Carver later became the first black student at Iowa State Agricultural College in Ames, where he obtained his bachelor’s and master’s degrees. In 1896, Carver left Iowa to head the department of agriculture at the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, a school founded by the leading black educator Booker T. Washington. By convincing farmers in the South to plant peanuts as an alternative to cotton, Carver helped resuscitate the region’s agriculture; in the process, he became one of the most respected and influential scientists in the country.

Like Carver, Ford was deeply interested in the regenerative properties of soil and the potential of alternative crops such as peanuts and soybeans to produce plastics, paint, fuel and other products. Ford had long believed that the world would eventually need a substitute for gasoline, and supported the production of ethanol (or grain alcohol) as an alternative fuel. In 1942, he would showcase a car with a lightweight plastic body made from soybeans. Ford and Carver began corresponding via letter in 1934, and their mutual admiration deepened after Carver made a visit to Michigan in 1937. As Douglas Brinkley writes in “Wheels for the World,” his history of Ford, the automaker donated generously to the Tuskegee Institute, helping finance Carver’s experiments, and Carver in turn spent a period of time helping to oversee crops at the Ford plantation in Ways, Georgia.

By the time World War II began, Ford had made repeated journeys to Tuskegee to convince Carver to come to Dearborn and help him develop a synthetic rubber to help compensate for wartime rubber shortages. Carver arrived on July 19, 1942, and set up a laboratory in an old water works building in Dearborn.

He and Ford experimented with different crops, including sweet potatoes and dandelions, eventually devising a way to make the rubber substitute from goldenrod, a plant weed. Carver died in January 1943, Ford in April 1947, but the relationship between their two institutions continued to flourish: As recently as the late 1990s, Ford awarded grants of $4 million over two years to the George Washington Carver School at Tuskegee.

-- This Day in History is courtesy of history.com

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Heat wave scorches needy nationwide Controversial drug arrests execution The Associated Press HORIZON CITY, Texas — The cinderblocks that make up Maria Teresa Escamilla’s new home will do little to shield her from the triple-digit heat that has been scorching West Texas. She has no electricity yet, and the roof is not properly attached, leaving the interior exposed to the elements.

Escamilla has been living in an air-conditioned apartment that she can no longer afford. But when the lease ends in two weeks, she has to move — a day she dreads because it means she’ll have no escape from the searing temperatures.

“This is what I have to look forward to,” she said.

There will be no air conditioning and an unbearable number of mosquitoes at night.

With much of the nation in the grip of a broiling heat wave, few people are hit as hard as the poor, and few places are poorer than the ramshackle communities along the Texas-Mexico border known as “colonias.”

The misery was widespread Monday, with the worst conditions blanketing a broad band from Texas to Minnesota and Dakotas. Seventeen states issued heat watches, warnings or advisories. And the heat index easily surpassed 100 degrees in many places: 126 in Newton, Iowa; 120 in Mitchell, S.D.; and 119 in Madison, Minn.

The high temperatures were nearly certain to persist for the entire week. Forecasters expected the extreme discomfort to spread soon to the East Coast.

In towns large and small, the withering heat was cruelest to those who could not afford air conditioning.

Built at the edge of the desert, the colonias often lack electricity and running water. People bought the land before zoning regulations were adopted, hoping that utility services would follow.

To finance her house, Escamilla, who is 62, had to take out a loan against her funeral services and buy building materials recycled from demolition sites in Ciudad Juarez, across the border from El Paso.

Norma Salazar, who shares a tiny trailer home with her husband and six children in Horizon City, on the outskirts of El Paso, has to rely on an evaporative cooler, a cheap alternative to air conditioning that sucks the hot, dry desert air through a mesh of water-soaked fibers.

But it only cools half of the trailer, and when the heat climbs above 100, not even that.

“When it gets really hot, we turn on the fans and stay inside,” Salazar said.

Going to a library or a mall to keep cool is not an option because the car doesn’t have air conditioning.

“So getting there is even worse than just staying inside, not moving,” she added.

In downtown Minneapolis, where the heat index reached 106 degrees, the Salvation Army’s Harbor Light Center threw open its doors for anyone who needed to cool off and drink a glass of ice water.

Executive Director Bill Miller said he allowed about 200 people who slept at the shelter Sunday night to stay instead being asked to leave in the

morning.

“We don’t have them leave when it’s this hot,” he said. “It’s hot enough to get dehydrated, especially if you’re drinking. In this heat, it could kill you.”

Betty Jean Horlacher-Bainbridge-Roswell slept at the center Sunday night before venturing out into the heat Monday morning. She was six blocks away when she was nearly overcome.

“I almost passed out because of the heat,” the 55year-old woman said, explaining that she suffers from diabetes, epilepsy, high blood pressure and other health issues. She pushed the baby-stroller filled with her belongings back to the center.

Had it been closed, “I would have probably died,” she said.

Chicago officials opened six cooling centers, many of them in lower-income neighborhoods, along with hundreds of air-conditioned public buildings such as libraries, park facilities and police stations.

Anne Sheahan, spokeswoman for the city’s Department of Family and Support Services, expected the number of people seeking refuge at the centers to climb in step with the temperatures, which were not expected to drop below the mid- to upper90s throughout the week. The city was also offering rides to cooling centers.

Chicago authorities stepped up their high-heat precautions after a 1995 heat wave killed more than 700 people in less than a week. Now temperatures above 90 degrees trigger an emergency plan that includes city workers calling and visiting the frail and elderly.

Chicago school officials said they were making 1,500 fans available to schools that were not fully airconditioned and asked teachers to keep blinds closed, move classes to cooler rooms and ensure students have water at all times.

Spokeswoman Marielle Sainvilus said the district would not cancel summer school classes during the heat because many students are poor.

“Unfortunately a lot of our kids do not have air conditioning at home,” she said. “And they’ll also get nutrition and a safe environment.”

In East St. Louis, Ill., a mostly black city that’s among the nation’s poorest, 79-year-old Bernice Sykes spent Monday in a soup kitchen that had been pressed into service as a makeshift cooling center.

Sykes, a retired restaurant worker living on Social Security income, figured she had little choice to seek relief: One of her two tiny fans failed Sunday in her $500-a-month-efficiency apartment, which has no air conditioning.

“I want to get out of there as quick as I can,” she said Monday. “Right here, I feel good. But I’ve got to use that one fan when I get home. It’s just so hot.”

The Society of St. Vincent de Paul, which runs the soup kitchen, was hustling to offer other ways to beat the heat, including deploying one of its two airconditioned buses as mobile cooling stations and handing out water and wet rags for use as neck compresses.

“It’s pretty brutal. When I got up this morning, it already was 80 degrees,” said Pat Hogrebe, who works at the kitchen. “I’m hoping, praying for the cool weather angel to come. Today, it’s just not here.”

The Associated Press ATLANTA — Lawyers for a Georgia man set to be put to death have filed a lawsuit seeking to halt his execution, saying the drug authorities plan to use caused “needless suffering” when it was administered to another death row inmate.

Andrew DeYoung is scheduled to die Wednesday after being convicted of the 1993 slayings of his parents and 14-year-old sister.

He was convicted in 1995 after prosecutors argued that he wanted to inherit his parents’ estate and start a business.

The Georgia Board of Pardons and Parole denied DeYoung’s clemency bid Monday. A federal court hearing on his appeal was scheduled for Tuesday.

Georgia corrections officials plan to use pentobarbital, first used in Georgia in the June 23 execution of Roy Blankenship.

Other states already had used the

drug to execute inmates before Blankenship’s death.

Pentobarbital, which is commonly used to euthanize dogs and cats, is being adopted by a growing number of states as they run out of another drug commonly used in executions, sodium thiopental. The sole U.S. manufacturer of sodium thiopental has stopped making it, and Georgia surrendered its supply to federal officials amid an investigation into how the drug was obtained.

Blankenship’s execution raised questions after media witnesses reported unusual movements by Blankenship as the drugs apparently began to take hold.

In the lawsuit, which was filed Friday in federal court, DeYoung’s attorneys cite media accounts of Blankenship’s execution, including one by The Associated Press.

AP reporter Greg Bluestein, who witnessed the execution, reported that Blankenship appeared to “grimace and jerk”

when the drug was administered.

According to Bluestein’s account, Blankenship jerked his head several times throughout the procedure and muttered after the pentobarbital was injected into his veins. The 55-year-old’s breathing and movements slowed within minutes, and he was pronounced dead at 8:37 p.m.

Death penalty critics said Blankenship’s movements were proof that Georgia shouldn’t have used pentobarbital to sedate him before injecting pancuronium bromide to paralyze him and then potassium chloride to stop his heart.

Authorities have said the movements took place before the sedative took hold.

In their response to the lawsuit, lawyers with the state attorney general’s office said the allegation that Blankenship suffered “unnecessary pain and suffering is not supported by any credible evidence before this court.”

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Hermit Speaketh

Joke misunderstood, point missed Jake Lane Managing Editor Some kids read comic books. Some read tween adventures like “Nancy Drew” and “The Hardy Boys,” a genre which has exploded in recent years with the supernatural sub-genre populated by “Harry Potter” and the “Twilight Saga.” Then there are kids like me, 10 years ago, who read most of the above but also delved into (and suffered at the hands of junior high administration for) “Mad” and “Cracked,” at the time the two leading illustrated satire magazines in America.

I’ve been a pop culture geek for as long as I can remember, so combining that with a caricatured comix format was the perfect formula for periodical reading as a kid. It may also explain my warped sense of humor and morality, but I digress.

While “Mad” will always reign King in that particular genre of magazines, “Cracked” was usually much funnier and off-beat in its interpretation of pop culture (a cover spoofing “Jason Goes to Hell” with “Cracked” mascot Sylvester P. Smythe as a bellboy in Hell hustling around with the hockey-masked killers implements of destruction comes to mind). Unfortunately, declining readership and failed reformatting to compete with the likes of “Maxim” put the magazine under by 2007.

This is all a history of a site most of you have probably seen at least once, Cracked.com. Lauding itself as “America’s only comedy website since 1958,” the print format is oddly enough banished to a dark corner and a mothballed entity which bears no mention. As I grew up with it, showing a little love seemed important.

Like many news sites and blogs, Cracked is updated with the rapidity of a hyperactives child’s change of attention. Its format is simple: a list-based countdown of issues such as “The 16 Most Hilariously Dishonest Old School Advertisements” and “6 Mind Blowing Ways ‘Starship Troopers’ Predicted the Future,” the latter of which confirms that even in its current incarnation, the site has not lost its roots in lampooning pop culture.

That same article is what prompted me to write this column. An unfortunate carry-over from childhood has been my inability to “choose my battles” and “let things roll off of my back.” In other words, I can’t let an argument go unfinished. Thus, I read poorly constructed, grammatically-bankrupt comments on

YouTube and Cracked and feel the need to loose my Interwebz rage on someone’s free speech half a world away. One response warned me of fluoride and indoctrination by the news media and Jewish overlords, which I laughed off and summarily attacked back as misled and racist.

All of this has a point, I’m coming to it.

Though I would defend free speech to my last drop of blood (B+, in case of the apocalypse), it doesn’t change the fact that I think the majority of trolls on the net are either mentally deficient thanks to lack of parental restraint or seriously bound for federal incarceration.

With the “Starship Troopers” article, this was all too apparent. I love Robert Heinlein as an author, despite his nationalist verve that borders on fascism in that particular book, but his rabid fans have not, in the 14 years and two sequels which followed the adaptation of his 1958 classic, been able to grasp that this cinematic interpretation was campy satire.

In the comments libertarian standard bearers and military conservative types attacked the website for liberal bias and lack of respect for militaristic power. The gist of the article was how four years prior to 9/11 and the inception of the War on Terror, director Paul Verhoeven time-traveled into the modern world and took ideas that became the film’s subtly fascist Federation News (compared with Fox News on Cracked, with eerie similarity), the film’s message of “We’re winning the fight!” against alien invaders with President Bush’s “Mission Accomplished” stunt, and other oddly prescient moments which exist on film.

While I do not seriously think Paul Verhoeven is a time-traveler, the concept is hilarious, and that’s the point of the article. But people, with their own warped sense of America and patriotism, cannot see through the fog of war to make the distinction between comedy and hard-hitting news.

As a journalist this is a serious problem. I have strong opinions and I express them in this paper — either on page four or in an understood editorial, non-object format. People should have their views, regardless of how far-flung and logically devoid they may be. But in times such as now, where every story seems to spell more gloom and doom, and the world stands at the brink of war if you believe certain news outlets, levity is not what we should be fighting against. It’s what we should be fighting for, on the battlefield or social forums or bedrooms. The ability to smile in the face of collapse is an American trait which might be counterintuitive, but it’s one I can get behind whole-heartedly.

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

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Bachman balks on gay rights T he Social N etwo r k by

Elliott DeVore The closer we get to the presidential election the more polarized and extreme right wing candidates seem to get. By polarized and extreme I’m really saying evangelical, Judeo-Christian and sadly blind to reality. And by the candidates, I’m specifically talking about Michele Bachmann. Now that isn’t to say that all people who have JudeoChristian values are of this extremist’s variety or that they aren’t intelligent, compassionate people; but it seems that more now than ever political right wingers are using the Bible as political de-facto.

Michele Bachmann will tell you she’s been called

by God to be a political champion for the religious right since she got her law degree from what is now known as Regents University in 1979.

Bachmann is by no means uneducated, which is why I’m surprised that her platform is so antigay. I would hope that a presidential candidate would have more to talk about than how horrible gay marriage will be for the foundations of the country.

Bachmann has a long standing history of fusing her religious and political beliefs in multiple arenas, including education. At the beginning of her career of civic engagement she began an organization called Maple River, which has since changed to Education Liberty Watch. One of the core values of the organization is that parents should ultimately be the deciding factors in what their child does or does not learn.

Along with members of this organization, and other Christian activists, Bachmann helped create a charter school named New Heights. As a charter school New Heights was required to maintain a separation of church and state. I’m sure you had already guessed, the separation of church and state was absent from Bachmann’s mind, as she and others began advocating that “The 12 Biblical Principles” be infused in the curriculum. What exactly were they? I hope one was from the Judaic Codes that condemns to hell those who wear

clothes of mixed fiber. Because God knows a bad cotton poly blend can be awfully itchy! What if the child were Hindu, would one of their 12 principles condemn him to hell if he didn’t convert?

Just a minute, I thought that Education Liberty Watch was founded on the value that parents should determine what is the best education for their children. Well that’s an awfully Judeo-centric attitude for them to believe that all parents want their children indoctrinated by evangelicals. I really can’t take her seriously. She’s so homophobic that she’s been quoted as saying, “Normalization (of gayness) through desensitization. Very effective way to do this with a bunch of second graders is take a picture of ‘The Lion King’ for instance, and a teacher might say, ‘Do you know that the music for this movie was written by a gay man?’ The message is: ‘I’m better at what I do, because I’m gay.” If you sit and listen to her speak for more than 5 minutes and take her seriously you must have something incredibly wrong with you. I think her real issue with “The Lion King” is that Marcus sang along with his Broadway cast recording too many times.

Beyond banning one of my favorite childhood movies, she was a long-standing member of a church that openly claims the Pope to be the antichrist and affiliates herself with evangelical talk show host Bradlee Dean. Bachmann has frequently leant her name to raise money for the Christian talk show “You Can Run but You Can’t Hide.” On his live show Dean said, “Muslims are calling for the executions of homosexuals in America. This just shows you they themselves are upholding the laws that are even in the Bible of the JudeoChristian God, but they seem to be more moral than even the American Christians do, because these people are livid about enforcing their laws.

They know homosexuality is an abomination.”

Her support of Bradlee Dean and his talk show only solidifies my opinion. Never in a million years should people who support this type of rhetoric lead the United States of America. Michele Bachmann is repulsive and a fascist whose politics aren’t welcome. We have a separation of church and state and she can take her fundamentalist crusade elsewhere. Maybe SHE could benefit from Marcus’ reparative therapy!

— Elliott Devore is a graduate in psychology. He can be reached at edevore@utk.edu.

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Watching YouTube this week, I found myself doing something I hadn’t done in the past: reading some of the comments other people had left, and frankly, I have been rather amused by the whole idea. I am completely aware that, for all its faults and dangers, Facebook can serve a valuable purpose in keeping in touch with friends and family.

Also, Twitter has its good points. But writing comments on YouTube videos is completely pointless and borderline hilarious. It’s like we all have something we desperately need to say and instead of turning to our roommates 12 feet away, we join some Internet group and write some comment when it would have made a whole lot more sense to just say, “Hey, look at this video!

This guy falling on his face is so funny! Come look.”

TA-DA: You have just started a real-life conversation with a person you can (or supposedly do) have a real relationship with.

Some people today are so down-right selfimportant that they simply must tell someone what they thought of the scene at “1:47” and they aren’t satisfied with telling a person 12 feet away; or, perhaps, that person who is 12 feet away has gotten so sick of hearing pointless nonsense that the other person needs to look somewhere else for attention — any attention, no matter from where or whom it comes.

Exactly how silly it all is occured to me when I had some wondrous idea or epiphany about a random video and I just wanted to share it. I don’t even remember what it was now. If you didn’t have to sign up on YouTube to be able to make a comment, I would have typed it in without any other thought and then forgotten all about it. When I realized that, I laughed/scowled at myself and made a mental note to mention it to my roommate the next time I talked with her. Guess what? We had a good laugh.

Honestly, if anyone out there can convince me — or any sane person for that matter — that making a 15-word comment on a website would have been better than 15 minutes of talk and laughter with a friend, pigs have learned how to fly.

Now that I’ve had my rant, what is it that creates this desperate need to share every little thought on YouTube or write a tweet about your difficulty in deciding what to have for dinner? Well, people like attention, we like feeling significant. That desire, in and of itself, is not a bad thing. Put towards constructive activities, it’s why people want to help others. But let’s face it, writing that you laughed out loud at “1:47” is not going to do any good other than to make the author feel that he or she matters, and, if those few words make you feel significant ... well, that’s slightly sad.

I promise, you can find organizations and outreaches in the community that do real good for real people who deserve to be taken care of and volunteering will actually be significant. It will also help you out a great deal because, no matter how proud or humble you are, it will humble you to serve others in meaningful ways all while you are acting and being significant.

Some of those places are KARM, STAR, Habitat for Humanity, the Salvation Army and lots of other opportunities that individual churches and groups support. Loading canned food into a truck may not sound particularly important, but I guarantee, if you go and keep an open mind and try to focus on what you are doing for others, you won’t just be changing someone else’s life, you’ll change your own and you’ll have a wonderful time doing it.

Then, before you know it, what happens at “1:47” may be simply funny instead of holding some grand importance.

The more you focus on what really matters to you, to your family, to your friends and to complete strangers, the more you will realize that you can make a huge difference in someone’s life, and the significance you once craved will not be as important as it once was, because you will learn that you are just one person in a big world who can make a big difference if you only try.

— Chelsea Tolliver is a junior in the College Scholars Program. She can be reached at ctollive1@utk.edu.

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Civil War paintings get rare showing The Associated Press CHARLESTON, S.C. — Rarely-displayed paintings of Charleston during the Civil War by a Confederate soldier, including an iconic rendering of the submarine H.L. Hunley, are being made available this week on the Internet by The Museum of the Confederacy.

The museum in Richmond, Va., on Tuesday goes live on its Web site with all 31 paintings by Conrad Wise Chapman, an American artist who grew up in Italy and later served with the Confederate Army.

Launching the site culminates a decadelong, $25,000 effort to conserve the paintings and make them available to a wider audience of Civil War buffs and scholars.

Chapman was stationed in Charleston in 1863 and early 1864. He sketched Fort Sumter, where the war began in 1861, as well as batteries around the city held by the South until just before the war ended in 1865.

Perhaps the most famous painting is of the submarine H.L. Hunley. The Chapman rendering was done in December, 1863, about two months before the hand-cranked sub sank the Union blockade ship Housatonic to become the first sub in history to sink an enemy warship.

The Hunley never returned from its mission and was raised with the remains of its crew of eight off Charleston in 2000. It is being preserved at a conservation lab in North Charleston.

The Web site features comments Chapman wrote about each painting. He notes in one comment dated 1898, about a decade before his death, that the Hunley sank twice before its mission against the Housatonic.

“After this had happened the second time, someone painted on it the word ‘Coffin,’” Chapman recounted. “There was just room enough in it for eight men, one in front of the other, with

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if he got special consideration or not but a close family friend was the former governor of Virginia.”

His mother did not die until some years later.

Chapman never returned as a Confederate soldier. The paintings were later bought by a prominent Richmond family, then sold to the parent organization of the museum around 1900.

The paintings, all rather small at 10 by 12 inches, were on display at the museum for years when it was housed in the old Confederate White House through the 1970s.

But in recent years they have not been displayed as a group.

In February, the museum completed a 10-year, $20,000 conservation of the paintings. Digitalizing them for the Web cost another $5,000 paid for by the museum as well as organizations in both Virginia and South Carolina.

The series of originals was dis• Image courtesy of history.army.mil played this spring at the Gibbes Museum of Art in Charleston to commemorate the 150th anniverof Charleston.” His father, John Gadsby Chapman, who taught sary of the start of the war. his son painting, painted six of the 31 sketches.

Visitors to the Web site will see the paintings more clearly “Conrad Wise Chapman had been born in Washington, DC than if they view them in person, said Sam Craghead, a and when he was very young his family moved to Italy,” said spokesman for the Museum of the Confederacy. He said they Cathy Wright, the museum’s conservator. “He had only a can zoom in so closely they can see brush strokes. genealogical connection to the American South but when the The paintings are important both as art and as history, war broke out he felt so strongly he did want to come and join Wright said. the Confederate Army.”

“On an artistic level they are certainly very lovely but what In 1864, Chapman asked to leave the army and return to Italy is interesting for historians is Chapman is one of the only artists where his mother was purportedly ill. who created these pieces during the war and from seeing these “Historians are not really sure she was sick or using this as things himself. Many newspaper artists were getting second an excuse to get him out of there,” Wright said. “Of course, hand descriptions and accounts and did their best guess at what many other soldiers were asking to go home and we don’t know happened. Chapman is out in the field.” no possibility of anyone sitting straight. The third time it started out, it never came back...”

Chapman took his sketches back to Rome, where he turned them into a series of paintings he called his “Journal of the Siege

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Bray, Poole named to watch lists America running backs, media members and selected special representatives.

The recipient of the 2011 Doak Walker Award will be announced live on The Home Depot College Football Awards on Thursday, December 8 on ESPN. The Doak Walker Award Presentation Banquet will be held at the Hilton Anatole Hotel in Dallas, Texas, in February 2012.

The award, in its 22nd year, is named for SMU’s three-time AllAmerica running back Doak Walker. It is the only major collegiate award that requires all candidates to be in good academic standing and on schedule to graduate within one year of other students of the same classification.

For more information, visit www.doakwalkeraward.com.

Staff Reports Tennessee senior tailback Tauren Poole and sophomore quarterback Tyler Bray were both added to preseason watch lists for their respective positions on Friday.

Poole was selected to the the 2011 Doak Walker Award Watch List, presented annually to the nation’s top college running back, while Bray was tabbed to the Davey O’Brien National Quarterback Award Watch List.

Both UT offensive stars were previously named to the watch list for the Maxwell Award, which has annually honored college football’s most outstanding player since 1937, earlier this month.

Poole is one of eight SEC tailbacks and 51 overall eligible for the Doak Walker Award. The Toccoa, Ga., native tied for the SEC lead with six 100-yard rushing games in 2010 en route to just the 16th 1,000-yard season in Tennessee history with 1,034 yards, which ranks as the 14th-best single season total at UT. He is one of 24 tailbacks on the Doak Walker Award Watch List to top 1,000 yards rushing in 2010.

In his first year as the starter, Poole earned Associated Press All-SEC honorable mention accolades, while leading the Vols with 12 total touchdowns.

In 2001, Travis Stephens became the Vols’ first finalist for the Doak Walker Award, which was first presented in 1990.

Bray is one of just seven sophomores on the list of 38 eligible players for the Davey O’Brien Award. He is also joined by just two other SEC quarterbacks. The Kingsburg, Calif., product completed 125-of224 pass attempts for 1,849 passing yards and 18 touchdowns in 2010 to set UT freshman records in each category. In five starts, Bray earned three SEC Freshman of the Week awards and was one of just two quarterbacks in the league to record four 300-yard passing performances last season.

After being named a finalist for the Davey O’Brien Award in 1995, Peyton Manning took home the trophy as the top college quarterback in 1997. Heath Shuler earned finalist status in 1993 as well, while Erik Ainge reached the semifinal stage in 2006.

In addition to Poole and Bray, two other Vols have earned spots on preseason watch lists for the upcoming campaign. Junior defensive back Prentiss Waggner is on four (Chuck Bednarik Award, Lott

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Tyler Bray launches a pass against Alabama during a game on Saturday, Sept. 4, 2010. Bray and teammate Tauren Poole were named to preseason watchlists for their positions last Friday.

IMPACT Trophy, Bronko Nagurski Award and the Jim Thorpe Award), while senior defensive lineman Malik Jackson has been chosen to three (Bronko Nagurski Award, Outland Trophy and Rotary Lombardi Award).

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Anthony Elias Staff Writer After only half a year as the UT sports club coordinator, Cary Trexler has already seen impressive results.

The UT Paintball Club — in only its fifth year of competition — brought home its first national championship at the 2011 College Paintball National Championships in Lakeland, Fla., in April.

UT Paintball alum Matt Jenkins is still surprised at the paintball team’s rapid progress in such little time.

“It was certainly a surreal story and we still can’t believe that we made it all the way after only having recently been founded late in 2005,” Jenkins said. “For many of our players, this was a dream come true (not many people get a change to bring home a national title), and you could literally feel the joy and relief when the team hoisted the trophy after our final match.”

UT’s Paintball Club wasn’t the only squad to bring home the gold.

In May, the UT Wakeboarding Club — at the sixth annual Collegiate Wakeboard National Championships in San Diego, Calif. — fended off defending national champion Chico State, conference rival Florida, Wisconsin-La Crosse, and Wisconsin to secure its first national championship.

While the aforementioned clubs have achieved national success, the University of Tennessee sports clubs have seen rising success out of recently developed clubs.

The UT Roller Hockey Club, in only its third year of existence, hosted its first tournaments in March and April, and looks to compete nationally this fall in the Southeastern Collegiate Roller Hockey Conference, a region of the NCRHA, an organization in which defending national champion Miami competes.

That’s not to say, for Trexler, that the other active clubs haven’t been exciting to watch, especially clubs that have been around longer than 10 years.

Men’s Ultimate Frisbee, formed in 1982, has finished fifth in regional in its past two seasons heading into the Fall Semester.

While Trexler has enjoyed seeing success, both consistently and upand-coming, from sports clubs in their respective fields, the head of the sports clubs has been proud of the “cohesive” conduct off the field among the community.

“It takes leadership and time,” Trexler said.

According to the head overseer, 950 club members at the University of Tennessee have accumulated over 1,500 community service hours, a feat that leaves club leaders like Jenkins looking forward to RecFest in mid-August and the interest meeting two weeks later.

The paintball ambassador was pleased to find word had spread about the team’s success, which could help UT Paintball in having successful recruiting at RecFest in raising awareness and fundraising.

“As always, we are striving to get more funding and more airtime for our club,” Jenkins said. “Paintball is very expensive to say the least — we pay over $15,000 each year to make the club work — and right now it’s hard for students to afford playing. Our main focus is to regroup efforts and fund-raise/promote awareness and flaunt our national title.”

RecFest will take place on Aug. 16 at the TRECS beginning at 5 p.m.

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FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Once the Americans get over the disappointment of coming up just short at the Women’s World Cup, they’ll find plenty of reasons for optimism.

The U.S. team pulled together amid a series of challenges that, just a few years ago, would have broken it apart. And while the illustrious careers of captain Christie Rampone, Shannon Boxx and maybe Abby Wambach are nearing their end, Lauren Cheney, Alex Morgan and Megan Rapinoe proved in Germany they are more than able successors.

There’s also another major title to be won at next summer’s London Olympics, and qualifying starts in just a few months.

“It’s just unfortunate, just a bummer,” Carli Lloyd said after the Americans were stunned by Japan in a riveting final Sunday night, losing 3-1 in penalty kicks after twice blowing leads in a 2-2 tie. “But there’s another World Cup in four years.”

For some. The majority of the team will remain intact through London, but Rampone (36) and Boxx (34) are likely to call it quits after that. Wambach said it’s too early to say what she’ll do, but she is 31, and her body is showing the wear and tear from the fearless playing style that has earned her third place on the all-time World Cup scoring list with 13 goals.

Wambach passed Michelle Akers (12) for top U.S. honors with her header in the 104th minute Sunday, her fourth goal of the tournament.

“I’m not thinking about that right now,” Wambach said when asked about her future. “I just want to spend some time with my teammates.

This has been an emotional roller coaster ... and the Olympics are right around the corner. We’ll move on.”

Part of what has always made the U.S. so strong is the smooth transition from one generation to another, and the U.S. might have its most promise since the days of Mia Hamm, Julie Foudy, Brandi Chastain.

Solo, winner of the Golden Glove as the tournament’s top goalkeeper, is in the prime of her career at 29. Morgan and Cheney, both just 22, each finished the tournament with two goals. Cheney also had three assists while Morgan had one. Rapinoe displayed the accuracy and touch on the flanks so critical in coach Pia Sundhage’s desire for a possession-based offense, and has the energy and spunk to shoulder the burden of being the face of the team behind Wambach.

No team found a way to contain speedy Heather O’Reilly, who makes a nice complement to Rapinoe on the opposite side of the field.

Lloyd seemed to gain confidence in directing the offense as the tournament wore on, having one of her best games against Japan.

That’s not to say there aren’t issues.

The Americans achieved cult status with their grit and resilience in Germany, coming back to beat Brazil in the quarterfinals in a thrilling match, and then grinding down France. But as entertaining as they may be, the Americans have been making things harder on themselves than they need to be for almost a year now.

They were upset by Mexico in regional qualifying, forced to beat Italy in a playoff to get the very last spot in Germany. They dropped their first game of the season, to Sweden, then lost to England for the first time in 22 years — so long ago Morgan hadn’t even been born yet.

After winning their first two games in Germany handily, they lost to Sweden, the first U.S. loss ever in World Cup group play.

“In the past, we’d always won everything,” Rampone said. “Those losses made our team what it is today. We need each other and you feel that, from the locker room to the time we step on the field.”

But the Americans need more than a can-do attitude to keep pace in a game that is improving and evolving.

Sundhage wants the U.S. to play a possession-oriented style similar to the one Japan and France worked to near perfection in Germany, saying the traditional American gameplan of grinding opponents down on defense and sending long balls up to the forwards is too predictable.

The offense should develop through the midfield, not start up front. By working from flank to center and back out with series of multiple passes, the Americans can probe the defense for weaknesses and create more opportunities — including chances for players who wouldn’t normally score.

The style also helps on defense. Opponents can’t score when the Americans are keeping the ball for large chunks of the game.

“I think of it as a nice hybrid of the way the U.S. national team used to play and the way that the game is evolving into much like the men’s game, a possession, Barcelona-esque style,” Wambach said. “It hasn’t been without troubles. It’s sometimes gotten the best of us because we have some players, like myself, who are old school and like to get the ball in a more physical, direct style. And when things aren’t going well, I like to go back to what I know.”

When it works, though, it is a sight to behold. The Americans looked like a cat toying with a mouse for much of the first half of the final, reeling defenders in only to make the ball disappear with a deft flick or smooth pass to a teammate. Japan’s confusion and frustration gave the Americans wide-open spaces in front of the goal, and they easily could have been up 4-0 at halftime.

But they weren’t, done in by an inability to finish that’s plagued them all year long. If the Americans had converted only a handful of the chances they squandered in the tournament, that Brazil thriller wouldn’t have been nearly as dramatic and they, not the Japanese, would have been celebrating late into the night Sunday.

“I don’t blame anybody,” Wambach said. “We had so many chances.”

And they will again, starting in London.