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Cost of UT housing continues to increase the University of Kentucky and the University of Alabama all cost more in their average university housing. But the University of Georgia, University of South Carolina, University of Florida, University of Arkansas, Auburn University and University of Mississippi all cost less in average university housing. In particular, the cost of an air-conditioned double room at Mississippi is the

in the University Housing operation,” Stoner said. “That department is considered an auxiliary, and as such, must News and Student Life Editor generate sufficient revenues from rental rates, summer camps and conferences to cover all expenditures, includAs tuition and fees continue to rise every year, other ing operational costs, renovations, new construction and costs associated with university life, like cost of UT housamortization of bonded indebtedness.” ing, continue to rise as well. The rises in rates, Stoner said, were to cover specific Frank Cuevas, university housing executive director, needs. said the cost to live in a UT dorm or apartment “Increases in rental rates in recent years raised between $144 and $183 per semester have been to cover inflationary costs and to from last year, depending on which place a stucover bonds incurred for renovations and to dent lives. upgrade life safety systems,” Stoner said. “For The Apartment Residence Hall, Clement Hall, example, all halls now have fire suppression Gibbs Hall, Hess Hall and Morrill Hall went up sprinklers.” from $2,336 per semester for the 2010-2011 acaIn terms of raising revenue with camps, condemic year to $2,500 per semester for a double ferences or other means, Stoner said all the room for the upcoming 2011-2012 academic housing locations were utilized in summer year, he said. 2011. The cost to live in Humes Hall, Reese Hall, “The Apartment Residence Hall was closed North Carrick Hall, South Carrick Hall and for the second summer session to complete Massey Hall went up from $2,244 to $2,401 per scheduled maintenance, such as painting, tile semester for a double room. grout cleaning, et cetera,” he said. Laurel Hall went up from $2,401 per semesStudents who were freshmen in 2006 or ter to $2,545 for a two-person room with a 2007 remember a time when UT did not count shared bathroom, and Volunteer Hall went up Volunteer Hall or Laurel Hall among its resifrom $3,044 to $3,227 per semester for a fourdence halls and did count Greve Hall and person private bedroom and shared bath or a Melrose Hall. three-person private bedroom and shared bath. Future changes are on the horizon for uniKen Stoner, associate vice chancellor for stuversity housing, Stoner said. dent affairs, explained the differences between “An architectural firm has been retained to the housing locations in terms of pricing. design a new facility on Andy Holt Avenue, “Every effort is made for each facility to stand between Melrose Avenue and Francis Street,” alone, with revenues collected from that facility he said. “Also the university acquired established to cover the expenses of the buildVolunteer Condos — a small facility with six ing,” Stoner said. “Occupancy, bonded indebtedapartment units — located on 22nd Street. ness, utility costs and operational expenses all These apartments will be operated as student figure into the establishing of rates for each and guest housing.” building. In addition, an effort is made to set Aeron Glover, co-founder of comparable rates for comparable facilities.” http://www.howstheliving.com, a website that Comparing UT housing rates for 2011-2012 allows students to rate housing similar to how with those for the 2008-2009 academic year http://www.ratemyprofessor.com grades proshows the effect of a continued rise over years. fessors, said students want to collaborate more Apartments like North Carrick Hall cost directly with UT housing. $1,785 per semester in 2008-2009, a difference “They like to view ratings, but they also of about $600 per semester from the current File Photo • The Daily Beacon would like to address housing directly with rate. Vol Hall appears quiet on a dreary afternoon on Thursday, Feb. 18, 2010. But Stoner said, according to a 2010-2011 Prices for student living have risen greatly since the previous year, but stu- not only problems but also things they’re survey of housing rates for air-conditioned dou- dent demand for those places have stayed high, forcing the university to doing well, so that they can build on this,” Glover said. ble rooms among 23 universities, UT sits in the repurpose study areas to make room for the overflow. Based on student feedback to the site, middle of the pack at 12th place, in terms of Glover also said students want “a better way cost, with $4,580 per year for an air-conditioned double lowest of those surveyed — $3,900 per year. to communicate residence hall events,” “a centralized room. Stoner also said the rises in university housing cost place where they can view events for their residence halls Of those surveyed, Vanderbilt University costs the most — $8,528 per year. Other SEC schools like had nothing to do with dwindling state appropriations or and other residence halls on campus,” “photos of rooms, generated by students” and “more details about meal Louisiana State University, Mississippi State University, the university’s current budget crisis. “There are no state- or university-appropriated monies plans before arriving to UT.”

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Division to focus on student success Blair Kuykendall Editor-in-Chief UT’s new Division of Student Life will serve the campus community, replacing the old Division of Student Affairs with fresh ideas and a clearer focus. Recently the Division of Student Affairs experienced a series of changes that will make its various departments more responsive to campus needs. Specifically, faculty in the department used student feedback to refocus the department’s goals. The majority of these changes are in keeping with the aims of UT’s top 25 initiative. “During fall and spring terms, the former division of student affairs engaged in an indepth strategic planning process,” Melissa Shivers, assistant vice chancellor for student life, said in a statement. “This process allowed us to conduct 13 to 15 focus groups with students, faculty, staff, alumni and parents to gain a sense of their understanding of the work of student affairs. It was through this process that we gleaned a wealth of information that we will utilize to help enhance our focus and goals for the next five years.” This research process helped the Division of Student Life determine which means are most effective for reaching students. Results of the survey process proved critical in planning the reorganization. Faculty involved in this area of the university place a top priority on enhancing the student experience outside of the classroom. “We feel that the Division of Student Life better represents the mission of our collective departments — improving student life at UT,” Timothy Rogers, vice chancellor for student life, said in a statement. “Students spend 85 percent of their time outside the classroom, and each department housed in the Division of Student Life provides programs and services to support and enhance student life on a George Richardson • The Daily Beacon daily basis.” Changing the organization’s name was not Workers take a brief break to watch football practice on Thursday, Aug. 5. Construction for the new Football Training Center, which will feature meeting essential to the revamp but was vital in reflectrooms, a dining hall, hydrotherapy area, locker room and 22,000-square foot, ing the internal changes made to the division. The faculty hopes to send a clear message multi-level weight room, is scheduled for completion in summer 2012.

about its mission on campus. “While the name change was not a direct suggestion of our constituents, (there was) a desire to title our unit in a way that is better representative of our focus and what we do,” Shivers said. Alterations to the role of student affairs will be wide-reaching. The name change was designed to highlight the diverse array of services and departments that make up this campus division. “In addition to changing the name, we hope to make students aware of the departments and offices that comprise the Division of Student Life,” Rogers said. “The programs and services offered by these 16 departments — Career Services, Multicultural Student Life, Parents Association, SEE Center, Student Counseling Center, Student Health Services, University Center, University Housing, Dean of Students, Disability Services, Fraternity and Sorority Life, RecSports, Student Activities, Student Judicial Affairs, Student Orientation and Leadership Development, Student Publications — touch all areas of student wellbeing and development.” All of these efforts were structured around a desire to protect the division’s primary mission. “As our name changes to the Division of Student Life, we are reminded each and every day of our mission and commitment to student success,” Rogers said. According to the division’s website, http://studentlife.utk.edu, the division’s main goal is to enhance student life at UT. The group labors in “providing students with an engaging and enlightening atmosphere of living and learning.” Employees see the name change as a step towards the division’s future. “It was in the spirit of our mission and focus, as well as the feedback from division department heads, that we have progressed from student affairs to student life,” Shivers said. See DIVISION on Page 3

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Wokers apply new lines to a crosswalk on Volunteer Boulevard outside the Art & Architecture Building on Thursday, Aug. 4.

1850 — Guy de Maupassant’s birthday French writer Guy de Maupassant, one of France’s best short-story writers, is born on this day near Dieppe, France. Maupassant began studying law in 1869 but interrupted his studies to volunteer for the army during the Franco-Prussian War. In 1871, following the war, he went to Paris. Gustave Flaubert, a good friend of Maupassant’s mother, agreed to keep an eye on the young man, who was running wild in Paris. When Maupassant showed an interest in writing, Flaubert became his mentor, introducing him to the most prominent writers of the time, including Emile Zola and Henry James. In 1880, Zola edited a collection of six short stories about war. He selected an exceptional story by Maupassant called “Boule de Suif” (“Ball of Fat”), which distinguished the young writer immediately. Maupassant produced some 300 short stories, six novels, and several nonfiction books in 10 years. He drew on his own experiences in the army, and later the civil service, to write vivid, detailed stories about the military and bureaucracy, as well as class injustices, in a distinctly Naturalist style that influenced Zola's own writing. Maupassant’s major works include A Life (1883), The Rondoli Sisters (1884), and Le Horla (1887). Maupassant contracted syphilis in his 20s, and the disease resulted in hallucinations, suicidal impulses, and insanity in his 40s. He died in an insane asylum in 1893. 1858 — First transatlantic telegraph cable completed After several unsuccessful attempts, the first telegraph line across the Atlantic Ocean is completed, a feat accomplished largely through the efforts of American merchant Cyrus West Field. The telegraph was first developed by Samuel F. B. Morse, an artist-turned-inventor who conceived of

the idea of the electric telegraph in 1832. Several European inventors had proposed such a device, but Morse worked independently and by the mid 1830s had built a working telegraph instrument. In the late 1830s, he perfected Morse Code, a set of signals that could represent language in telegraph messages. In May 1844, Morse inaugurated the world’s first commercial telegraph line with the message “What hath God wrought,” sent from the U.S. Capitol to a railroad station in Baltimore. Within a decade, more than 20,000 miles of telegraph cable crisscrossed the country. The rapid communication it made possible greatly aided American expansion, making railroad travel safer as it provided a boost to business conducted across the great distances of a growing United States. In 1854, Cyrus West Field conceived the idea of the telegraph cable and secured a charter to lay a wellinsulated line across the floor of the Atlantic Ocean. Obtaining the aid of British and American naval ships, he made four unsuccessful attempts, beginning in 1857. In July 1858, four British and American vessels — the Agamemnon, the Valorous, the Niagara, and the Gorgon — met in mid-ocean for the fifth attempt. On July 29, the Niagara and the Gorgon, with their load of cable, departed for Trinity Bay, Newfoundland, while the Agamemnon and the Valorous embarked for Valentia, Ireland. By August 5, the cable had been successfully laid, stretching nearly 2,000 miles across the Atlantic at a depth often of more than two miles. On August 16, President James Buchanan and Queen Victoria exchanged formal introductory and complimentary messages. Unfortunately, the cable proved weak and the current insufficient and by the beginning of September had ceased functioning. Field later raised new funds and made new arrangements. In 1866, the British ship Great Eastern succeeded in laying the first permanent telegraph line across the Atlantic Ocean. Cyrus West Field was the object of much praise on both sides of the Atlantic for his persistence in accomplishing what many thought to be an impossible undertaking. He later promoted other oceanic cables, including telegraph lines that stretched from Hawaii to Asia and Australia. -- This Day in History is courtesy of history.com

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DIVISION continued from Page 1 The department members are most pleased to be working alongside other endeavors in advancement of the top 25 initiative. “We are very fortunate that Chancellor Cheek has set the course for our (department’s) future through the VolVision/top 25 initiatives,” Shivers said. In drafting the parameters of new department policies and focus, the division worked to incorporate goals from those programs already in existence on campus. “The goals outlined in the VolVision/Journey to the Top 25 provided a solid framework for our Division Strategic Plan, which includes a focus on student engagement and success, student environment, student learning, student services and staff support,” Shivers said. “We will continue to utilize assessment as an overarching mechanism to gauge our successes and opportunities for growth of our programs and services.” These new changes are expected to enhance the already dedicated efforts rendered by the department’s members to increase student satisfaction with the university and its community. “The division staff already does a tremendous job in providing outstanding academic, cultural,

NEWS social and leadership opportunities, and we only want to get better,” Shivers said. “I would argue that we have one of the strongest Divisions of Student Life in the country due to of the dedication and hard work of all student life staff.” The division is still anxious to use student commentary to improve its services on campus. “We will continue to use the results from surveys’ and anecdotal feedback from students and other constituents to inform our practice and decision making, which in turn provides exceptional services and support for all students,” Shivers said. “Students will continue to reap the benefits from living and learning in an environment rich in opportunities and support for their academic and personal success.” Even with all of the different forms of progression in the Division of Student Life, one clear focus remains of top priority for its faculty and staff. “Our division staff works hard to provide outstanding opportunities for success for all students and to ensure that they receive the highest quality programs, events, services and facilities,” Rogers said. “The Division of Student Life will continue to adhere to these high standards, while ensuring that we are responsive and reactive to the changing needs of our students.”

Satirical mints removed from bookstore The Associated Press The University of Tennessee bookstore has quit selling packages of breath mints that satirize President Barack Obama. Officials pulled the product after state Rep. Joe Armstrong, who is a Democrat, visited the bookstore and told the manager he found the mints offensive. The package is emblazoned with “This is change? Disappointmints.” “When you operate on state and federal dollars, you ought to be sensitive to t h o s e type of politically specific products,” Armstrong said. “If it was a private entity or corporation or store, (that’s different), but this is a state university.” Armstrong said he would be equally offended by products mocking Republican Gov. Bill Haslam. The Knoxville legislator says he went to the bookstore after a UT student complained to him about

the mints, according to The Knoxville News S e n t i n e l (http://bit.ly/mXFRQW). A professor of constitutional law at UT said removal of the mints was uncalled for. “Let me make very clear, there is no candy exception to the First Amendment,” said Glenn Reynolds. “Free speech is free speech. If you make fun of the president in a mint, it is just as much free speech as it is if you make fun of the president in a political cartoon.” Bookstore director D a v i d Kent said the bookstore previously carried mints that satirized former President George W. Bush and said no offense was intended. The Unemployed Philosophers Guild, which distributes the mints, seems to be an equal opportunity satirist. More than 25 varieties of mint packages on the company’s website take jabs at Bush and Sarah Palin, among other notables.

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School on alert for possible gunman The Associated Press BLACKSBURG, Va. — Virginia Tech was locked down Thursday when three children attending a summer camp said they saw a man holding what looked like a gun on the campus where a 2007 massacre left 33 people dead. The university issued an alert on its website at 9:37 a.m. Thursday telling students and employees to stay inside and lock their doors. University spokesman Larry Hincker said during a news conference later in the morning that the campus alert remained in effect and that people should stay indoors until further notice. Several thousand students attending summer classes, as well as the school’s 6,500 employees, were on campus when the alert was issued, Hincker said. Many of the school’s 30,000 students are on summer break and will return when the fall semester begins Aug. 22. The university posted the alert on its website and its official Twitter account. The Roanoke Times also reported that the university sounded its emergency sirens and issued an emergency alert by phone and e-mail. Hincker said he was not certain when the lockdown might be lifted. “That’s the $64,000 question,” he said. “You get this report of a sighting that someone might have had a weapon. Then you’ve got this one-square-mile campus, 150 major buildings with several million square feet of space to search.” The school’s website was inundated throughout the morning, and school officials said they were bringing additional servers online to deal with the traffic. The children told police they saw the man quickly walking toward the volleyball courts, carrying what might have been a handgun covered by some type of cloth. State and local police swarmed the area but said they could not find a gunman matching their description. The university said in a tweet posted just before noon that no other sightings had been reported but asked people to stay inside. Virginia Tech Police Chief Wendell Flinchum said that the three children were interviewed, and that the information they gave was deemed credible. The children who made the report were visiting the campus as part of a summer academic program for middle schoolers in

Washington, Richard Tagle, CEO of the group Higher Achievement, said in an e-mailed statement. All the students who were with the group are safe, he said. An alert on the school’s website said the gunman was reported near Dietrick Hall, a three-story dining facility steps away from the dorm where the first shootings took place in the 2007 rampage. “We’re in a new era. Obviously this campus experienced something pretty terrible four years ago ... regardless of what your intuition and your experience as a public safety officer tells you, you are really forced to issue an alert, and that’s where we believe we are right now,” said Hincker, the Virginia Tech spokesman. S. Daniel Carter, director of public policy for Security On Campus, a nonprofit organization that monitors how colleges react to emergencies, said it appeared Virginia Tech responded appropriately. Carter’s organization had pressed for an investigation into the school’s handling of the 2007 shootings. “You have to take all of the reports seriously because you cannot take the risk that there’s something serious going on and you failed to act,” Carter said. “The key is the community was informed, so they were able to take steps to protect themselves.” Carter said having various forms of notification — sirens and message boards in addition to text messages and e-mails — are important in instances like Thursday’s, when many on campus are there for summer camps or otherwise not registered to receive alerts individually. Last month, Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli issued a legal opinion that said public university policies generally can prohibit people from openly carrying firearms in campus buildings and at events. However, such a policy would not apply to someone who had a valid concealed carry permit and carried a concealed firearm. Federal authorities fined the school in March after ruling that administrators violated campus safety law by waiting too long to notify staff and students about a potential threat after two students were shot to death April 16, 2007, in West Ambler Johnston Hall, a dorm near the dining facility. An e-mail alert went out more than two hours later that day, about the time student Seung-Hui Cho was chaining shut the doors to a classroom building where he killed 30 more students and faculty and himself. It was the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history.

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Lacks’ story raises STI awareness Dear Editor, College is a place that offers a new beginning for most students, a place where lifestyle habits — new and old — begin and fade. With incoming freshmen and the introduction of the book, “Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks,” it can be expected that discussion of better student health and lifestyle habits surface within our discourse community. This new beginning brings greater responsibility for the student and his or her life, and with greater responsibility follows greater risk: maintaining good academic standing, balancing social life and, not surprisingly, the spreading of sexually transmitted infections. Much can be learned from Lacks’ experience with poor reproductive health, which could have been both prevented and treated in her time. With campus health services being as accessible to all students as it is at UT, every student that is sexually active should take full advantage of regular, free STI testing, something that has not always been widely available for all groups of people. Much is being said about the life and death of Henrietta Lacks and the ethical issues presented in her biography, but what are students really taking from the book and applying to their own lives? Lacks is an ideal — or in-ideal — example of how failure to keep track of one’s own reproductive health is severely detrimental to the individual. Her chronic bout with syphilis and cervical cancer could have easily been treated, but her unwillingness to seek proper medical services — due to the ignorance of the time period — ultimately led to her suffering and death; though, this is not to ignore the fact that medical services available for AfricanAmericans were limited at the time. Now that services are available to all students at UT regardless of ethnicity, having good health should be a prerogative. According to the Knox County Health Department, there has been a spike in reported syphilis cases over the past five years on both a state and local level. This is cause for concern because syphilis is not the most common STI in the U.S. but can very well lead to mortality. It should come as no surprise that the age group at highest risk and the most reports of syphilis, among other STIs, is 15 to 24. Obviously, this places most college students right in the middle of the bracket. Not to mention, rates are significantly higher

amongst the African-American community, much like during the time of Lacks, more than 60 years ago. The spike can begin faltering if, and only if, more students, especially at UT, begin participating in monthly (or at least semi-annually) STI testing and treatment. Who is to say this chain reaction could not snowball in such a way that overall student performance at the university increases? Students with better health and less stress tend to do so. Healthy living provides for less stress a student has to deal with throughout the course of postsecondary education. The vast majority of students claim to be under some type of school-related stress at any given time. So, why should health — something generally more manageable than school — be another weighing factor in college stress? Many students look to parties and social events for an edge of relief, which can sometimes lead to sexual activity. Even with “safer” sex practices, no sexually transmitted infection is 100-percent noncommunicable from partner to another. One reason some students may have for not undergoing regular STI screening is the false belief that, I don’t need to because I am in a faithful, monogamous relationship. True enough, monogamy is certainly a safer and healthy sex practice; but a person can only account for one’s own sex life and history, especially when considering that up to 90 percent of men and women are asymptomatic carriers of other STIs such as chlamydia. Lacks was in one of the most sacred bonds a man and woman can have — marriage — yet, she still continued to contract syphilis and probably other STIs not known in the first half of the 20th century from her husband, who was not as faithful as a wife would hope and trust him to be. Lesson learned: Anyone participating in sexual activity of any kind is, indeed, at risk. What harm can be done in merely getting tested? It is for the good of the individual and the rest of the world to which we are connected to maintain a healthy sex life. Know your partner(s). Use condoms or other forms of protection. Get routine check-ups. Tuition at UT has been raised for this year, so why not capitalize on every free perk the school has to offer? In so many ways can being tested for STIs add more promise to the future of the individual student and to our community. Xzavian Wrushen Freshman in music interest

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Lessons from vicarious parenting Ac orns and Other Seeds by

Anna-Lise Burnette Although I can’t say much about my boss, my summer job has been the kind of stereotypical teenage fright-fest setting they make movies out of; picture, if you will, a young girl whose attitude wavers between effortlessly nonchalant and vigilantly strict as she takes care of children that could at any moment be abducted by strangers, choking on a penny or seriously and permanently disfigured by a well-punted plastic dinosaur, or a stick. For the most part the kids behave quite well, but desperate times call for desperate measures. A lack of adequate sleep and frazzled nerves sometimes necessitates the caregiver pull out her secret weapon, an animated movie. But if any of you have young brothers and sisters or small children to take care of, surely you can sympathize; sometimes little kids just don’t know when enough is enough. This week at my house we have watched Despicable Me five times. Far from being a cinema masterpiece, it’s still a nice romp, and the children obviously find it engrossing. Impressively, my three-and-a-half-yearold charge even asked me questions about the main character’s morals; his own observations seemed to belie a nuanced understanding of Gru’s existential dilemma. By the end of the fourth viewing I think we all had the plot pretty well picked apart, and by the end of the fifth I found myself able to finish the characters’ sentences for them. For me, though, being the worldly adult that I am, the movie was also a showcase for the indomitable, indefatigable Steve Carrell. Though we may no longer be able to watch him on The Office, at least we can listen to his version of a super villain voice. And you have to admit, it does what the movie producers wanted it to do: It makes the parents smile, too (the first two times you watch

the movie, anyway). You see, the market has changed. Marketing researchers have realized that today’s young and tirelessly hip parents want their kids to be tirelessly hip, too. Hence: Baby Gap. Media executives have realized that these same young parents are interested in watching and learning and dancing alongside their fashionable tots, and so we now have iPhone apps for toddlers and dance move tutorials with Jack Black. It is a brightly colored and boldly patterned new world. But I’m not complaining. I even credit pre-school programming (like “Jack’s Big Music Show”) with introducing me to great musicians I never listened to before. I consider “Yo Gabba Gabba!” especially to be a triumph, for when else could my nephews and I bounce along together with The Ting Tings or The Roots? Just like a love of reading, a love of good music has to be cultivated early and by any means necessary. A few hours with an alien cyclops and a magical robot never hurt anyone, anyway. Still, it pays to be discerning. The line between what’s meant for children and what’s meant for adults seems to be growing only hazier, and it would be a real shame if books like “Go The F*** To Sleep,” narrated by the iconic Samuel L. Jackson, suddenly lost their shock value (which might, incidentally, be the only value they can claim) and actually became typical bedtime fodder. I’m not worried, though. Despite the occasional questionable celebrity endorsement or designing misstep, I have a lot of faith in the average American consumer. Which is to say that I have much confidence in children. Because even though parents seem to be trying their hardest to make their kids into miniature versions of themselves, I’ve seen that children are often completely oblivious. It might not be the easiest truth to grapple in practice (because, let’s be honest, I’m still not sure babies are fully human), but it’s the saving grace of humanity’s future. All we have to worry about now is whether our children will get rabies from the neighbor’s dog. — Anna-Lise Burnett is a senior in global and Asian Studies. She can be reached at kburnet7@utk.edu.

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“The best things in life are free.” I really wonder how true this statement is. Example: I got a car on Saturday. My car is easily one of the best things in my life right now. Even as I write this, I think my car would rank on my priority list higher than many of my friends. I enjoy driving it. It gives me excitement when I show my friends the new car. I love my car. Money is a funny thing. In so many ways it can buy happiness. People love to say that you can’t put a price on memories, but a lot of those “priceless” memories were probably paid for. Whether the memories occurred at Dollywood, a movie theater or a restaurant, someone put money into the situation. Even if it is just sitting at home playing video games, someone had to buy the video games and the actual console. All things that can be put under a list of “fun” have some monetary value that is associated with them, and money had to be spent on them. Eons ago, I had a MySpace. Now many of my MySpace exploits are long, forgotten, distant, blacked out memories, but one specific comment stands out in my mind. I logged on one day when I was a junior in high school and began checking the updates (remember those?). One of my younger sister’s friends posted an update about how much she “costs”. It was a quiz-survey where specific individual characteristics were ranked, a price was associated with that particular trait, and then the score was added up. At the time, I was worth $2,755. Today, I checked on the price of my life again. Turns out, college decreased my value (due to the loss of multiple colors in my room) and now I am worth whopping $2,590. I didn’t begin this rant on money to end at the ridiculousness of MySpace. Rather, this specific quiz still lives in my memory and irks

my thoughts. I still wonder to this day, no matter how important money is, how someone could ever denote what specific traits are more valuable. I still can’t explain why in the world a red-haired, tall person deserves to be worth more than my brown haired, 5’3” self. Then, I reel back and think. The most realistic part of the situation and the quiz is the fact that we, as a society, as human beings, do this on a daily basis. Specific stand-out qualities or features may not be easily equated with money, but they are easily equated with superficial feelings that can evolve to the point of spurring intense emotion. Whatever it is our heart desires to the point of jealousy can be equated with a higher price on a particular feature. Being a better talker, being more attractive, being more fit, these are all emotions we feel throughout our lifetimes. Striving to better ourselves, we pay whatever the price is, monetary or emotionally, to get to fulfill our hearts’ deepest desires; we strive to be someone that maybe we are not meant to be. We begin to look over the best things in life, which, in retrospect, may be free. One of my favorite songs in the entire world is Pink Floyd’s “Money”. While the entire composition of the song is fantastic, it is the lyrics that make me sit back and smile. With a simple six-minute song, Pink Floyd discretely put into words all the important features of money. The transitory feeling of the song makes it seem as artificial as the actual topic. Flawlessly intertwining the chinging of a cash register with lyrics such as “grab that cash with both hands and make a stash,” the song is one of the most noteworthy of the band’s entire career. In the end though, doesn’t money just supply a physical entity to describe human jealousy and all the horrors that humans can enact on one another? Money so simply describes the ways in which happiness can be found in the heart, but in too much quantity, it can tarnish a soul beyond recognition. I am pretty sure that is what Pink Floyd wanted me to understand. — Brittany Vasquez is a senior in anthropology. She can be reached at bvasque1@utk.edu.

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‘Entourage’ final season pointless, avoidable Robby O’Daniel News and Student Life Editor For a television completist, it’s hard to stop watching a show. To stop watching a show is to admit that the time spent watching is an utter waste. Watching episodes of shows like “The Big C” or “True Blood” these days basically amounts to such, but then either show is still capable of one or two funny lines. Those lines keep viewers hanging on to the next week, just to be disappointed again. But it’s hard, in general, to just walk away. There will always be that nagging feeling of, what if it did turn around? What happened to those characters after I stopped watching? There is still a vague notion within myself wondering what happened to the “Heroes” band after their show went off a cliff after season one. But that show was just too terrible to return to. “Entourage” is the ultimate television prison, and thankfully, the eighth season is its final season, and its viewers can finally be let free. For icing on the cake, this final season is only eight episodes, and two of them have aired already, as of this press date. Unfortunately a movie is reportedly on the way, as if comparisons between “Entourage” and “Sex and the City,” the other HBO show-turned-movie franchise, were not obvious enough. But the strange week-to-week obligation of watching these infantile, spoiled brats, whining about things like thousanddollar pajamas and house party after house party, is almost over.

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complain. Unless a viewer makes more than $100,000 a year, they cannot be sympathetic for these characters. Meanwhile, the new animated series “Johnny’s Bananas” is underway, with Drama and guest star Andrew “Dice” Clay starring. Of course it will be successful because, outside of maybe one exception in the show’s history, “Medellin,” everything anybody does in “Entourage” is successful on some level. And of course, to add drama to Drama’s situation — and to underline how idiotic all characters in “Entourage” are — Dice wants to hold out for more money before the show is even aired. It just makes the viewer want to bang his head against the screen. Plus, even when Vince pitches a movie that sounds more like a Hallmark television movie than one worthy of a big talent like himself, “Entourage” turns straw into gold by making it a television movie for Drama. And of course, it will be successful because everything is successful in “Entourage” world. All the while, viewers are supposed to care about Eric’s relationship woes with his girlfriend, when that conflict has run on autopilot for years now. And viewers are supposed to care about Ari Gold (Jeremy Piven) and his wife becoming estranged, even though that relationship has never shown any semblance of affection. Do not pay attention to “Entourage” or its final season. There is nothing climatic about it. It is just another year in the fanciful, make-believe land where perfect little Hollywood stars get their every wish.

In its steady way, “Entourage” has found a new and unique method of disappointing its audience. Season seven detailed movie star Vincent Chase (Adrian Grenier) and his descent into addiction. The finale had an intriguing hook — Vince was confronted with the realization that all of his friends knew he had an addiction, and he was going to have to face the personal and professional repercussions of that. One thing that “Entourage” has stayed able at doing is providing a way to grab viewers to want to see the next season with their finales. Unfortunately, with the season eight premiere, the show just threw all of that away. Suddenly Vince is completely and utterly rehabilitated. And furthermore, now he is randomly some annoying guy that is trying to preach to his friends the importance of current events — but just the events he is familiar with from his recent infatuation with watching the news. Maybe that is the main problem with “Entourage.” None of the characters are likable. Vince is like a chameleon, always adapting to the interests of the people around him but showing no legitimate personality himself. Eric (Kevin Connolly) is constantly woe-is-me, but in reality, he is a rich and lucky man, falling in with his ex-girlfriend’s father’s agency, not to mention having a best friend who is a millionaire. Vince’s brother Drama (Kevin Dillon) is similarly lucky, getting opportunities in television he would never get without his brother. And then Turtle, the man of the aforementioned priceless pajamas, has the most ludicrous businesses turn out successful. This man has been both a manager of a rap artist and now head of a successful liquor brand. Yet all these people do on this show is complain, complain,

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Friday, August 5, 2011

Returning players excite Vols in fall camp Anthony Elias Staff Writer Year two of fall camp in the Derek Dooley era got under way Tuesday afternoon when the Vols ran onto the Haslam Field. The second-year coach wasn’t allowing the heat to be a distraction for his players, reminding them that it’s worse elsewhere in the conference. “It’s really not that hot,” Dooley said. “I told the team, ‘It’s hot, but it’s hotter in Alabama, it’s hotter in Georgia, it’s hotter in Florida, so what are you going to do about it?’” Instead, Dooley is looking to build off any positive energy he finds both on and off the field, just as he has done with returning Vols safety Janzen Jackson, who made his official return to the program on July 6. “He just has great energy on the field,” said Dooley. “I see it in the team meeting room. It’s like a glow out there. He has a smile on his face. This is what he loves.” Another player who has thrived since spring practice ended is 2010 Academic All-SEC honoree Daniel Hood, who made the switch from offensive tackle to nose tack-

le. So far, he has felt comfortable in his new position. “I feel a lot more comfortable at it than I did at offensive tackle,” Hood said. “It feels more natural; even something as basic as the stance. I feel like I have more power going forward. “It’s easier, but better for me.” When asked about the UT sophomore, Dooley was confident about Hood’s progression, but said he wanted to see if his lineman can keep it going. “The way he’s progressing gives you a little more confidence every day,” Dooley said. “He’s doing a good job in there. What I’m interested in seeing is how much different he is three weeks from now from the end of spring. We’re encouraged by him. He’s tough, he’s committed. I think he’s going to help us.” One player looking to move forward from past mistakes is senior linebacker Austin Johnson, who was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct and public intoxication on July 24. On Thursday, both of Johnson’s charges were dropped. “I should’ve never put myself in that situation,” Johnson said on Tuesday. “I should’ve never been out that late. I’m extremely embarrassed. I embarrassed my team, I embarrassed the fans, I embarrassed my family, I embar-

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Defensive lineman Ben Martin takes part in a drill at practice on Thursday, Aug. 4. Martin returns to the field after remaining sidelined since before the 2010 season with an Achilles tear.

rassed my coaches. I’ve learned from my mistakes. I plan to move forward from this. “I want to say I’m extremely sorry, it’s extremely immature of me.” Ben Martin is also looking to move forward. An Achilles tear not only left the Cincinnati native sidelined for the entire 2010 season, but also gave him problems in February, causing the UT senior to miss spring practice as well. “It felt really good to be back on the field with the guys,” said Martin. “It felt good to be a part of the team again, going through the drills and getting yelled at by the coaches. It felt good again.” Despite the positive energy, Dooley isn’t as much a fan of the helmet-only practices as he will be for the full-pad practices beginning Aug. 6. “You look for anything that’s different than what you expect and I didn’t see anything different, which is usually a good thing,” Dooley said. “These first few practices I hate because we’re sitting there running around in helmets. I’ll be anxious to put the pads on.” The Volunteers open up the regular season at home against Montana on Sept. 3.