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Rooms in Melrose Hall serve as practice studios for both individual and group performers while the Music Building undergoes renovations this semester.
Students might not call them home anymore, but the university continues to use former residence halls, with more plans for them in the future. Melrose Hall and Greve Hall are becoming “surge” spaces, which designates them as available temporary space while other renovations are taking place, said Betsey Creekmore, associate vice chancellor in finance and administration. Creekmore described the process of finding space for everyone while also updating buildings on campus as complicated. “It’s like a huge jigsaw puzzle, but fortunately no one person has to put it together,” Creekmore said. “But it’s all put together trying to make the resources of the institution stretch as far as they can and as well as they can.” Art studios were moved into Melrose Hall during the summer, and when the Music Building goes under renovation in the fall, individual performers and ensembles will use the space available in Melrose for practice, she said. The architecture in Melrose Hall, full of smaller rooms previously used as singles for student housing, saves the cost of converting the rooms to practice rooms. Administration can station individual performers in every other room, so that musicians do not hear music from adjoining rooms through the walls. “We’re getting Melrose ready to receive music, so we cleaned it out and made some very minor modifications like changing over the security system,” Creekmore said. “And we took two walls out for music professors because the height of the ceiling in Melrose was very low.” Greve Hall will soon play host to some with research grants, as well as perhaps governor’s chairpeople, she said. Unless the grant required a minor remodeling effort, Greve Hall should stay the same, she said. “We’re not going to do a massive renovation of Greve Hall,” she said. “It’s in pretty good shape.” Examples of research work that would call for
minor renovations might include taking out some walls to provide a classroom-size or workroomsize space that a Greve Hall dorm room does not provide or modifying the wire infrastructure to support heavy electronic use for computational work, she said. Unlike its peers, Strong Hall will not be used as “surge” space because of its lack of air conditioning and elevators, she said, though the longterm planning for Strong includes the migration of the entire anthropology department to the former residence hall. The expendiency of the planned renovations for the hall hinges on capital outlay funding, which she said did not come for the project last year. The hall remains the home of Sophie’s Place cafeteria. The university is updating the fire safety of some current residence halls with new sprinkler systems, Mike West, associate director for Facilities and Services, said. The systems were added to Humes Hall and Reese Hall over the summer, and plans are made to add systems to the Apartment Residence Hall in the fall and North Carrick Hall and South Carrick Hall in summer 2010, West said. After that, all the university residence halls will have sprinkler systems. “Any fire safety expert will tell you that having a fire-suppression system, whether it be in a residence hall or a home, is the best prevention to property damage and life safety that you can have,” he said. The Apartment Residence Hall also will have its hot-water system get a facelift when the individual, 30-gallon water heaters are taken out in the fall and replaced by hot water from the UT steam plant, West said. As students’ demands call for more apartmentstyle housing, Volunteer Hall and Laurel Apartments have risen up, taking the place of other older dormitories like Strong Hall, Melrose Hall and Greve Hall. “People want their own individual bedrooms and their own private space,” West said.
UT initiative educates students on perils of poverty Ellen Larson Staff Writer
Kristian Smith Student Life Editor After visiting seven continents, 55 countries and 50 states, Smokey has completed his journey across the world. The “Where in the World is Smokey?” challenge began two years ago. It was initiated to bring attention to Ready for the World, an effort to diversify UT. As part of the challenge, the students, faculty and staff who participated were given free T-shirts. In return, they took pictures of themselves in the T-shirts as they traveled to other states and countries. Then they submitted their pictures to the blog on the Ready for the World Web site. “There are hundreds of photos on the Ready for the World Web site,” said Amy Blakely, assistant director of media relations. “Smokey has been everywhere: the Vatican, coming out of a space shuttle, beside lions in Africa, festivals in Tennessee, Times Square, pyramids in Egypt, Acropolis in Greece, Honduras, and it all ended in Mississippi with Marshall Ramsay, a former cartoonist for The Daily Beacon and a Pulitzer Prize finalist. Ramsay even wrote a cartoon about it.” Sarah Gardial, vice provost for Faculty Affairs, said “Where in the World is Smokey?” is part of the Ready for the World initiative and is comprised of two big pieces. “The first part of ‘Smokey’ is getting students ready for the global world with a focus on students being abroad, and the second part focuses closer
to home on the fact that we recognize a lot of diversity within the community we live in,” Gardial said. “We want students to ‘Think global, act local.’” The second phase of the “Smokey” program —named “Volunteers Rock the World”— is similar to the first “Smokey” program. Participants request a free Tshirt and take a picture or video while volunteering. “(We want to) get students engaged with folks that are different from themselves and focus on outreach,” Gardial said. There is a specific focus on poverty and teaching students how to reach out to underprivileged, socio-economic groups in the second phase of the Smokey program, Gardial said. Jeannette Walls, author of this year’s Life of the Mind book “The Glass Castle,” was very in tune with this idea because her book dealt with poverty, she said. Ready for the World also will bring in Joe Clark, the Eastside High School principal portrayed in the 1989 film “Lean on Me,” to talk about dealing with poverty, Gardial said. Participants will be able to get more involved in the second phase of the program, Blakely said. They can do this by becoming Facebook fans of “UTK Ready for the World.” From there, they can post videos and pictures of their volunteer work, as well as watch and comment on the videos and pictures of other fans. Many students on campus are starting to get involved with the new program, Blakely said. See Smokey on Page 3
Scott Martineau • The Daily Beacon
The sun sets on Neyland Stadium the first day of the reopening of Philip Fulmer Way since the end of football season.
Forbes includes UT in top rankings Amanda Crider Staff Writer This year Forbes magazine included UT in its list of the best 600 colleges in America. Ranked No. 422, UT-Knoxville is in the top 14 percent of four-year public and private universities in the country, dropping 94 positions from last year’s rankings. “I’m really impressed UT was in the Forbes rankings,” Ian Davis, sophomore majoring in biology, said. “It shows the school is in the top tier of universities in the nation, yet it still leaves room for future improvement.” According to the Forbes Web site, the college rankings are decided using seven components of differing weights, including alumni in the 2008 edition of Who’s Who in America (12.5 percent), salaries of alumni provided by http://www.PayScale.com (12.5 percent), evaluations from http://www.ratemyprofessor.com (25 percent), four-year graduation rates (16.6 percent), students receiving nationally and internationally competitive awards (8.33 percent), faculty receiving nationally and internationally competitive awards (5 per-
cent) and four-year debt of student borrowers (20 percent). Although the categories remain the same from year to year, this year the percentages placed upon some of the categories were either raised or lowered, which could have had an effect on UT’s ranking. The biggest changes in the weighting process were the
reduced components of faculty awards and alumni in Who’s Who, in favor of an increase in the four-year loan debt and alumni salaries components. The increase of emphasis on four-year loan debt in particular could potentially be one of the causes of UT’s decline in the rankings. According to the Common Data Set provided on the Web site of the Office of Institutional Research and Assessment, 51 percent of UT students borrowed money at some point through a loan program. The average debt of a UT student who borrowed money at any time through any loan program during 2008-2009 was $24,690. Nancy Waller, research coordinator at the Office of Institutional Research and
Assessment, said another potential reason for UT’s drop in the rankings could be the emphasis on the four-year graduation rate. At the university, the percentage of undergraduate students who graduate in four years is 30.6 percent. The five-year graduation rate for undergraduates is 55.5 percent, and the six-year rate is 59.8 percent, meaning 41.2 percent of undergraduates at UT-Knoxville either take more than six years to graduate or simply don’t graduate at all. Despite UT’s slide in the Forbes rankings, Chancellor Jimmy Cheek said in a press release that he is honored Forbes magazine considers UT among the top universities in the nation. “The selection criteria — education quality, student experiences and alumni and current student achievements — is a wonderful snapshot of life at UT,” Cheek said. “We strive for excellence in these areas each day, and this recognition is a great honor.” In addition to the Forbes rankings, the Center for College Affordability and Productivity named UT 70 out of 100 on its Best Value Rankings. The CCAP assists Forbes each year in its data compilation and compiled its own rankings by comparing school quality to the cost of tuition.
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• 1 p.m. — Beverly Watts, the executive director of the Tennessee Human Rights Commission, will lead the discussion for “Let’s talk about itâ€? Poverty, which is hosted by the UT Libraries Diversity Committee in the Mary Greer Room in Hodges Library on the second floor. • 7:30 p.m. — Vidur Kapur, an openly-gay Indian comedian, will perform in the UC Auditorium.This event, which is free and open to the public, is hosted by the CPC Campus Entertainment Board, Lambda Student Union and the Commission for LGBT People.
Friday, Aug. 21 — • 6 p.m. until 9 p.m. — Free bowling, billiards, table tennis and Xbox 360 play in the UC Down Under with a UT ID. • 9 p.m. — The CPC Film Committee will show “I Love You, Manâ€? at the TRECS outdoor pool. It will cost $2 for students with an ID and $3 for students without one.
Saturday, Aug. 22 — • 6 p.m. until 11 pm. — During the Orange and White Sport Club Game Day, intrasquad games between club teams will take place on the RecSports Intramural Fields. • 7 p.m. — Hypnotist Gabriel Holmes, sponsored by the CPC Campus Entertainment Board, will perform in the UC Auditorium.This event is free and open to the public.
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Members of Delta Sigma Theta perform their step show Tuesday at the Karibu Tena Welcome Back Celebration at the Black Cultural Center.
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On this day in 1920, seven men, including legendary all-around athlete and football star Jim Thorpe, meet to organize a professional football league at the Jordan and Hupmobile Auto Showroom in Canton, Ohio. The meeting led to the creation of the American Professional Football Conference, the forerunner to the hugely successful National Football League.
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On this day in 1932, in Flanders, Belgium, the German artist Kathe Kollwitz unveils the monument she created to memorialize the hundreds of thousands of soldiers killed on the battlefields of the Western Front during World War I.
Wednesday, Aug. 19 • 2:31 a.m. — Suspicious person on the Pedestrian Mall
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Staff Reports The Poster Sale, located in Rooms 220-221 in the UC, has already drawn many incoming freshman and returning customers. Students wanting to take advantage of the sale’s last week may go from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. The majority of posters range from $7 to $20, and students can pay using their All-Star accounts. The sale will close shop on Friday, Aug. 28. Lucky Haskins, manager of the sale, which is hosted by the Pyramid Art company, said, “Sales have been about the same as last year, but there is a greater selection. There’s more of a variety for films, movies and music.” Top sellers have been posters for the movies “Inglorious Basterds” and “Twilight,” as well as Audrey Hepburn posters. Daren Chandler, junior in sport Jenna Cross • The Daily Beacon management, spoke highly of the event. “There is something for everyone at the sale this year, and the quality of the posters are great and not flimsy,” he said. “I value that UT has this opportunity to allow me to express myself through a medium such as a poster. It says a lot without me saying anything.” Students will have a chance to catch the sale again in January, at the start of the spring semester.
The UT Parking and Transit Services Office has opened a new N16 non-commuter lot at the corner of Lake Avenue and 22nd Street. Lots previously used as non-commuter lots along Andy Holt Avenue, Melrose Avenue and Francis Street have been redesignated as Staff 28 lots. The Staff 23 lot at the intersection of Pat Head Summitt Street and Volunteer Boulevard has been closed to prepare for construction on the new Student Health Center. Parking Services will now be issuing parking tickets, a task that was overseen by UTPD in recent years. Along with the new protocol, Parking Services has a new logo that is displayed on their vehicles and uniforms.
Vern Granger, a former assistant director of admissions for North Carolina State University, has moved to UT to serve as the new undergraduate admissions director. Granger is replacing Nancy McGlasson, who is now retiring after seven years as director of undergraduate admissions and 40 years at UT. Granger received his master’s degree in post-secondary education from NC State. He was a Fulbright Scholar in 2002, has studied Germany’s education system and is a former president of the Carolina Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers.
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Jeannette Walls, author of “The Glass Castle ,” speaks to a packed audience during the Life of the Mind Convocation on Monday.
Amanda Crider Staff Writer The University of Tennessee Library Diversity Committee will host a discussion on poverty titled “Let’s Talk About It” on Thursday. Designed as an open forum, the program will encourage all attendees to put a new focus on poverty and potential solutions. Thura Mack, co-chair for the Library Diversity Committee, acknowledged that poverty is a problem that affects a wide variety of people in both Tennessee and the Knoxville area. She said it is a topic that should be talked about and discussed at the university level. “It (poverty) is a campuswide topic, and this issue
falls within diversity,” Mack said. “Scheduling programming to support this topic provides a forum of awareness, learning and hopefully change.” Allison Roberts, who also serves as co-chair of the Library Diversity Committee, said the group decided to focus its efforts on enlightening students and faculty about poverty in coordination with the “Ready for the World” initiative. An initiative to transform UT into an institution that encourages diversity, Ready for the World focuses its time and attention on programs and projects that are aimed at promoting awareness both culturally and internationally. This includes working with organizations such as the Library
Diversity Committee. The forum on poverty is meant to resonate with and appeal to the incoming freshmen, Roberts said. “This year the freshman book was ‘The Glass Castle’ by Jeanette Walls, which talks about poverty and children,” Roberts said. “The committee decided to coordinate our efforts on poverty; we wish to provide an open discussion and eliminate the issues.” According to http://www.ecanned.com, an interactive Web site providing economic information on all 50 states, Tennessee has a poverty rate of 15.5 percent. Tennessee’s median income is $42,541, which is 15.5 percent lower than the average for the United States as a whole. In Knox County alone, the poverty rate has increased by 3.2 percent since 2000, making the poverty rate in Knoxville and its surrounding area 15.8 percent. Although students would probably rather not be labeled according to their family income, poverty is a widespread problem that can be seen even on the university level, Mack said. According to the Common Data Set provided on the Web site of the Office of Institutional Research and Assessment, the average student who borrowed money at any time through any loan program during the 20052006 school year was indebted $18,433. Last year during the 2008-2009 school year, students who borrowed money through loan programs were indebted $24,690. “Let’s Talk About It” will be held by Beverly Watts, the executive director of the Tennessee Human Rights Commission, at 1 p.m. in the Mary Greer Room of Hodges Library and is open to all students and faculty. For more information, contact the library representative Margaret Casado at (865) 974-0087.
Smokey continued from Page 1 “At the Rock celebration, so many students dropped by the Ready for the World table wanting to know how to get more involved,” she said. “I told them that they can use our Facebook page as a resource. The page shows them how they can help. Hopefully, through Facebook, we will reach everyone. Students want to make the world a better place. It’s not enough to not do anything. People want to do something.” While “Where in the World is Smokey?” reached people through pictures, “Volunteers Rock the World” reaches people through video. Participants post a short video clip of one to two minutes, in which they talk about their volunteer work, as well as show what they did. On the Facebook page, there are far more videos than pictures, and so the process is much more interactive. “We are really hoping people send us videos,” Blakely said. “It’s so easy to do.” There are many ways for students to get involved in volunteer work on campus so they can add the videos to the page, Gardial said. “Some students will have the opportunity to (volunteer) through classes that focus on service learning,” Gardial said. “Students without the opportunity to (volunteer) through their classes can get involved with student organizations because many (organizations) are involved in wonderful initiatives.” The first phase of the “Smokey” program was very successful, and she hopes the second part will enjoy the same success, Gardial said. “People really loved the program, and (it was a way) to get students to think way beyond the UT campus,” she said. “Study-abroad numbers are up, and we are excited about turning that energy and talent into something great.”
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Congress needs health-care reform for average American I am very hopeful that we might soon reform our dysfunctional health-care system, though I am currently very relieved that Congress is recessed. For the next few weeks, they can do little harm to that hope. I truly believe they mean well, though they are highly lobbied by special-interest groups who have substantially more knowledge than they do on this topic. I wonder who is lobbying for the average American? Who is looking out for our “special interest”? In the passion to do something, true reform might be bargained into nonexistence by the two extremes of the political spectrum and by the specialinterest groups. Simply expanding coverage into this system is not reform. Those who want a system that works for everyone, but favors none, have much work to do while Congress is inactive. Currently there are no reasonable plans coming from Congress. I have read all of the major proposals, including House Bill HR3200. It is an 1,100-page monstrosity that favors private insurance and simply tries to control them through purchasing cooperatives. Since all private-insurance plans include a profit margin for the private investors and since they also allow their boards of directors to lavish huge salaries on any CEO who can maximize their dividends, I have a fundamental problem with any plan that uses taxpayer money to guarantee that profit. That profit is generally at the expense of patients and providers. The Wyden-Bennett “Healthy Americans Act” is well-intentioned but still depends on subsidies from the taxpayer to buy private health insurance for those who cannot afford it. The Senate Finance Committee has not yet agreed on a plan, but it will most likely be more of the same. At the opposite extreme is House Bill HR676, which also is well-intentioned, but is not fundable and therefore not passable. You cannot give everything to everyone in America for free and at taxpayer expense. In 2007, America spent $2.2 trillion on health-care delivery, while it only collected $2.4 trillion in taxes. How can the taxpayers, who make up less than 56 percent of the population, be expected to pay for everyone? We must have a public-plan option, administered by the public, and granting universal coverage to America. We already spend the money to do so. Medicare is the prototype for that plan. It functions well, though it needs to be more complete and needs further funding. Remember that Medicare is an insurance product for people who generally no longer work and/or are disabled. It is no wonder that its funding is short. However, its infrastructure is excellent and could serve as the launching board for a plan that could be phased in by age groups until all Americans have it as an option. Those younger than 65 years old, or those 65 years and older who currently pay for an insurance supplement, would pay their premiums and co-payments directly into Medicare itself. Medicare would finally have a reasonable income with which to function. I do not accept the argument that private-insurance plans could not compete with a public plan. They could compete in every way except for their profit margin. So the question is, how much money is America willing to give away to allow private individuals to make hundreds of thousands and even millions of dollars in profit? Except for competing with each other for more patients and profits, private plans do not add competition to health care. Except for designing new ways to make money, they give no innovation to health care. In fact, they add nothing to health care at all. For a price, they simply allow it to take place. On my Web site, www.OurHealthReform.com, I have a prototype bill that is universal in coverage, fundable, sustainable and that favors no one group over another. It is not perfect, though I hope that it can serve as a platform for true reform. We must act before our Congress has the chance to ruin any opportunity that we have for true reform. Mark E. Green, M.D. MarkGreen@OurHealthReform.com
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Objective instruction proves difficult The panel also includes David Barton, founder of the Christian group WallBuilders, which seeks to teach American history with an emphasis on the country’s Interfaces of moral and religious origins and heritage. The group F a i t h a n d R e a s o n openly promotes a fundamentalist and evangelical approach to teaching American history, as well as a by government “positively influenced” by WallBuilders’ Cody Swallows particular brand of the Christian faith. His proposed changes to the curriculum are fixated on revising American history from a moral standpoint and For those unfamiliar with my work, much of my spring emphasizing American exceptionalism and “a fixed moral column was focused on efforts to implement new science- law derived from God and nature.” education standards that catered to a particular Barton also is a former vice-chairman of the Texas creationistic view of the history of life. At this point, I Republican Party and is openly promoting his Republican would like to expand my investigation of religious political ideology in discussing history education in principles in science classrooms into an analysis of a larger America: “We don’t pledge allegiance to the flag and the political movement that seeks to redefine the goals of democracy for which it stands.” American education in favor of fundamentalist religious While the current situation might seem relatively principles. benign, it is my fear this movement to revise history To catch everyone up, in Louisiana and Texas in standards will starkly parallel that of the intelligent-design particular, state-education curricula was altered to movement. The ambitions of Barton and Marshall eerily indirectly promote intelligent design, a pseudo-scientific echo the goals of the Wedge Document, the 1999 re-packaging of creationism by the religious right. This intelligent design manifesto that seeks to “reverse the was largely achieved by casting undue doubt onto stifling dominance of the materialist world view (of evolution and misrepresenting the scientific consensus. science) and to replace it with a science consistant with Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal signed into law the Christian and theistic conviction.” The goals in the Wedge Louisiana Science Education Act, which only differed Document and those of Marshall and Barton are the from previous legislation in its specific targeting of same: to promote their worldview at the expense of all evolution in relation to the politically sensitive issues of others, overturning objective scholarly study. Just as some human cloning, global warming and research into the members of the Texas Board of Education attempted origins of life. to subtly undermine the teaching of evolution by casting The situation in Texas was less successful for intelligent undue doubt onto biologists, small alterations in the design. The Texas State Board of Education decided to history curriculum allow for a politically and religiously axe much of the language that misrepresented evolution, oriented education that can jeopardize the capacity for and director Don McLeroy, an intelligent design critical thinking in future voters. proponent, was removed from office. However, some Dan Quinn, member of the Texas Freedom Network, clauses of the new curriculum, including discussions of which seeks to “counter the religious right,” agreed, “I the formation of the cell and universe, must now be think, as there was with science, there’s going to be a big critically evaluated from a standpoint opposed to the political battle.” scientific consensus. The scholarly community isn’t sitting this one out, While attempts at convincing the rest of the country either. Just as scientific organizations and scientists came of a pseudo-scientific approach to biology have seen only out to support evolution, groups of Texas social studies limited success, the religious right is wasting no time teachers are meeting with the board to discuss problems fabricating new education standards in other fields that with proposed changes. cater to their particular religious views. Whatever comes of the situation in Texas, it is clear The Texas State Board of Education is currently that the problem of teaching history objectively is a very revising its history curriculum, appointing a revision real one, not only a laughable rag-tag group of quacks panel that includes members with openly religious of Holocaust and AIDS deniers. The religious right is agendas who are not necessarily concerned about the beginning an all-out push to overturn objectivity, sucking objective quality of education for American students. in increasingly more parts of the academic world. The Rev. Peter Marshall, a board member, said, “We’re in an all-out moral and spiritual civil war for the soul of — Cody Swallows is a senior in the College Scholars America, and the record of American history is right at Program. He can be reached at the heart of it.” codyswallows@gmail.com.
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As we begin another semester of papers, problem sets and parties, it is worthwhile to reflect upon our experiences in past semesters. This columnist would like to offer a series of reflections that might be described as “Things I Have Not Yet Learned in College and Probably Never Will.” Freshmen, pay attention. 1. Your Textbooks Will Cost You an Arm, a Leg and a Kidney — I seem to repress the book-purchasing part of the beginning of the semester. I’m fairly certain I could have financed a guerilla movement in a small Latin American country with the amount I’ve spent on books the past three years. Those professors with readings on course reserves? Angels from heaven. 2. How to Write a Paper the Night Before It’s Due — No matter my intentions at the beginning of the semester, no matter how much I want to impress my teacher or how interesting the paper topic, I never seem to be able to work ahead on my papers. I don’t know where my time goes. (That’s a lie. My time is split between classes, naps, Facebook and Jon Stewart.) Plus, a due date is a “do” date, not a “do this two weeks ahead” date. If your professor can’t tell a difference, why does it matter if you finish 30 minutes before turning in the paper? (Note: This approach should only be taken if you are a decent writer. If you’re not, I’m sorry. You can almost certainly beat me in “Mario Kart,” so we’re evenly matched in life skills.) There’s also that adrenaline rush that comes from having four hours to finish your five-page paper. Better than rollercoasters, and cheaper, too! 3. The Effects of Sudoku/Crossword Puzzles on the Absorption of Information during Lecture — I’m sure there’s an equation that could express the inverse relationship between the amount of time I spend in a class solving puzzles and my performance in said
class. Sadly, I worked on Sudoku puzzles all through my trig and calc classes and don’t remember a thing. 4. How to Avoid Those People Who Insist on Talking on the Quiet Floors in Hodges — I’m pretty sure I attract them like honey attracts bees. “Does it look like she’s reading a tedious journal article and having trouble concentrating? Awesome! Let’s go sit next to her and talk about our plans for the weekend, distracting her so she has to read the same page four times.” Of course, I am always kind and considerate and never gossip loudly when others around me are trying to study. Oh, wait… 5. That the Strip Should Be Avoided on Game Days, Especially After the Game is Over — Somehow my friends and I always think there won’t be much of a wait at some restaurant on the Strip, because we left a few minutes before everyone else. Or that if we wait until 45 minutes after the game has ended to go eat, we will be fine. False. Traffic will always be bad, and there is always a wait. (Note: While the Strip should be avoided as an option for dining during game days, on those same nights, it provides endless amusement. Lots and lots of drunken people doing, saying and wearing dumb things. Take a camera. Unless you’re one of them. In that case, see number six.) 6. Those Pictures Will End Up on Facebook — You can bet on it, like taking Secretariat. 7. Ineffectiveness of Rain Gear — When you bring your umbrella/raincoat/newspaper to class to hold over your head, it will not rain. When you forget these things, it will. This is more of a life lesson than something I’ve learned specifically at UT, but it’s worth repeating. You psych majors can babble all you want about “selective memory,” that doesn’t help you when you’re standing in the Humanities and Social Sciences building, staring into a monsoon, hoping lab on the Hill is canceled because you left your kayak at home. God speed this semester, ladies and gentlemen. Hope it’s a good one. — Leigh Dickey is a junior in global studies. She can be reached at ldickey2@utk.edu.
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Health care debate marked by threats, jeers The Associated Press The images are striking: One congressman’s office defaced by a swastika, other congressman heckled at public meetings, videos and placards likening Barack Obama to Hitler, and private citizens with guns joining anti-Obama protests. Outside one meeting hosted by Sen. Ben Cardin, a Maryland Democrat, authorities detained a man with a sign reading, “Death To Obama, Death To Michelle And Her Two Stupid Kids.” In this season of searing political heat generated by the health-care debate, these incidents have raised divisive questions of their own. Are they simply the latest twists in a long tradition of vigorous, public engagement or evidence of some new, alarming brand of political virulence? “Hate, if it ever truly threatened to leave the political stage, is most definitely back, larger and nastier than ever,” University of Missouri journalism professor Charles Davis wrote this week in his local paper, the Columbia Daily Tribune. He urged the
media to put a spotlight on the hate, rather than ignore it. To some political veterans, the phenomenon is unprecedented. “There is more anger in America today than at any time I can remember,” said Sen. Arlen Specter, a Democrat from Pennsylvania, after one of a series of town-hall meetings at which he was jeered. Many Conservatives agree that the depth of anger is unusual, but insist that it is understandable as well — with the health-care issue overlapping with worries about the economy. “People are frustrated — they don’t want to be lied to,” said Mat Staver, president of Liberty Counsel, a Florida-based Christian legal group. “Rather than just listening, they want be heard, and they feel Washington isn’t listening to them.” Another conservative activist, the Rev. Patrick Mahoney of the Christian Defense Coalition, said he was dismayed by the recent surfacing of threats against political leaders. But he noted that venomous rhetoric was nothing new in U.S. politics and recalled that
former President George W. Bush had been called a terrorist and war criminal by some of his critics. “You’ll find on both ends of the divide — the political left and political right — the more extreme elements have completely different ideological viewpoints, but they are identical on imagery,” Mahoney said. “They use Nazi, Hitler, terrorist.” Beyond the extremists, Mahoney said he was impressed by the backgrounds of the angry citizens appearing at recent town-hall meetings. Unlike many left-of-center protesters, he said, “these are people who normally stay home and don’t get involved.” One such political newcomer is Rick Smith, a 38year-old North Carolina store owner who in the past thought protests were pointless. But recently he joined rallies and pickets targeting Kay Hagan, a first-term Democratic senator. “I hope the freshmen have their eyes open to what’s going on out here — to see that they need to represent the people that put them in office,” Smith said. At some of the meetings,
periodically “with the blood of patriots and tyrants.” The Secret Service said the armed men were in compliance with state laws and were neither trying to enter the meeting hall nor get near Obama’s motorcade route. Nonetheless, their appearance raised concern in the liberal blogosphere that the trend could lead to violence. “It just takes one wacko with a gun to cause a huge problem at one of these events — if not trying to kill Obama then to kill others,” wrote Kansas City Star columnist Yael T. Abouhalkah. Matthew Spalding, director of the conservative Heritage Foundation’s Center for American Studies, said Democratic leaders should not dismiss the surge of anger as an extremist-fringe phenomenon. “There are components of liberalism that try to paint the whole thing as right-wing paranoia,” he said. “That would be a large political mistake. There’s a sense that our country is at a great turning point, and there’s widespread confusion and concern about where we’re going.”
gressman David Scott, whose Smyrna, Ga., office outside Atlanta was defaced with a spray-painted swastika, said he also has received mail in recent days using racial slurs. “We have got to make sure that the symbol of the swastika does not win, that the racial hatred that’s bubbling up does not win this debate,” Scott said. “That’s what is bubbling up with all of this. There’s so much hatred out there for President Obama.” For many of Obama’s supporters, a new source of apprehension has surfaced in the form of private citizens showing up with guns outside venues where the president was speaking. In Arizona, about a dozen people carried guns Monday outside the convention center where Obama addressed the Veterans of Foreign Wars. And last week during Obama’s health-care town hall in Portsmouth, N.H., a man stood outside with a pistol strapped to his leg, carrying a sign reading, “It is time to water the tree of liberty.” That’s part of a longer quote from Thomas Jefferson, who wrote that the tree should be watered
politicians and their critics have engaged in substantive dialogue over health-care policy and other issues. At other times, the exchanges have been curt. “On what planet do you spend most of your time?” Democratic Rep. Barney Frank of Massachusetts asked a woman at a meeting Tuesday when she held up a poster depicting Obama with a Hitler-style mustache. Andrew Kohut, who oversees public-opinion surveys as president of the Pew Research Center, says the health-care debate has fueled intense anti-government sentiment in some quarters. “I also think the Conservatives are frustrated politically — they don’t feel they have a leader,” Kohut said. “They’re worried about a government takeover of health care and feeling not so empowered with a strong Democratic Congress. All these things lead to a summer of intense points of view.” Kohut expressed doubt that racism was a major factor behind the hostility toward Obama, but others disagree. African-American con-
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Kapur brings unique comedy to campus Jenny Bledsoe Editor-in-Chief
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After weather conditions prevented his appearance during the spring semester, comedian Vidur Kapur will perform his routine for the UT community on Thursday night. “Hosted by the Central Program Council, Campus Entertainment Board, and co-sponsored by the Lambda Student Union and the Commission for LGBT people, Kapur’s performance will add a new dimension to the traditional Welcome Week schedule,” Tyger Glauser, adviser for CEB, said. Cory Blackledge, senior in communication studies and CEB chair, agreed with Glauser, saying that CEB hoped to enhance the diversity of Welcome Week events. “This is a more diverse event for us (CEB) than usual, with the fact that he’s openly gay and talks about his struggles with being gay and growing up in a traditional family,” Blackledge said. “I think it’s something new for the freshmen and even current students to check out the first couple days back (in school).” Kapur fashions a comedic routine based on his life experiences. “It’s sort of about the lifestyle of being an immigrant, being an Indian, being gay, living in New York and traveling around the country and performing,” Kapur said. His performance is not solely about entertainment though; he also hopes to convey a serious message to his audience, especially to LGBT students. “I think the message that I do convey is to not be fearful, and to have the courage to be who you are and be out, and be bold, and not be afraid to stand for who you are, while creating visibility for who you are and your community and who you represent,” Kapur said. Kapur is happy to see the growing tolerance for LGBT students on college campuses. “I faced a lot of adversity and a lot of difficulty growing up as an obviously gay kid in India,” Kapur said. “Had I not come to England, and then the U.S., who knows what my life would have been like. “I really validate the stuff that’s going on on college campuses these days to promote diversity and to promote visibility and to really encourage students to be accepting, to be tolerant and to embrace whatever identities that they actually want to embrace or are.” In addition to the obvious appeal to the LGBT community, CEB expects a wide range of students to attend Kapur’s event. “Just being a comedian, no matter what ethnicity or orientation, there will just be a huge draw, especially freshmen and it (the event) being the second day of class,” Blackledge said. Kapur also mentioned the universal message he hopes to convey to all students. “That’s what my message would be to … the mainstream student body to just continue to embrace diversity and tolerance and acceptance of people. In the end, I think we’re all the same,” he said. How can one man’s life experiences prove comedic? Kapur, when asked how he would convince students to attend his show, described his performance and the results he hopes to achieve. “Imagine a show that you have not seen before, certainly not in Tennessee,” Kapur said. “One that is different and funny and where you’re willing to just go with the flow and have a fun time and laugh and open your mind up at times. That’s the kind of show it is. “So, just come with no expectations. And I guarantee that (the audience) will have a good time and go away thinking about and learning about a few new things.” Kapur will perform at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday in the UC Auditorium. While the event is free and open to the public, students are asked to bring their student IDs to swipe at the door, Glauser said.
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Thursday, August 20, 2009
International students adapt to new culture Robby O’Daniel Chief Copy Editor For some international students new to the university and even the country, hearing Southern music staples “Rocky Top” and “Cotton-Eyed Joe” must have punctuated any culture shock experienced. Those were just two of the tracks from the potpourri of tunes from different cultures played outside the International House on Tuesday night at the Beyond the Borders Party, the culmination of a week of IHouse orientation activities. As students from all different backgrounds chatted and ate nachos with salsa at the party, Lee Rhea, I-House director, said the purpose of the I-House orientation activities was to give the eclectic bunch of students a common experience. “They’re all coming from different places,” Rhea said. “They don’t know each other that well. They have a tendancy not to, they kind of cluster with people from their own culture, so (the events are) giving them a comAndrew Denton • The Daily Beacon mon experience they can share, talk about, have a good Multi-national students participate in the line-dance at the Beyond the Borders party held outside the International House Tuesday night. time.” Welcome Week activities included: river tubing, going to Now Toomer, working with the I-House, come, so we work extra hard to make them feel dents undergo. a movie at the Regal Cinemas downtown, takenjoys helping students as he was helped. “They come in about a week before the other welcome.” ing a shopping trip at West Town Mall, bowling students come in, so the topics are similar to “Basically telling them where to go on camOne student who speaks positively of the proat the UC and having a cookout at the I-House. what the Americans get for their two-day fresh- gram and the I-House is Richard Toomer, grad- pus to make their lives easier,” he said. Students at the I-House also went through an men orientation, but we tailor it to the interna- uate student in sport management. Jenny Xu, junior in mathematics, is new to orientation program a bit different from the tional students specifically,” Rhea said. He said what he learned when taking the ori- the university and underwent the orientation summer freshmen orientation that most stuThe seminars help the inter- entation, he got to implement during the school process for the first time. The Hong Kong native echoed Toomer in national students become year, such as how to pay taxes. Toomer completed his undergraduate studies saying the program was helpful with the transiacclimated to life at UT. “We always get a lot of pos- in Jamaica at the University of the West Indies. tion process, assisting with information in how As a sports fan, he fell in love with the uni- to buy books, how to register for courses, dinitive feedback,” Rhea said. “I think a lot of them are not real versity when he visited Knoxville and ended up ing at UT and other topics. “They provide a lot of useful information and sure about what Tennessee’s interning last fall with the football program, like, and sometimes it’s not meeting members of the 1951 championship a lot of interesting activities,” she said. even their first choice. And we team and a cheerleader from the ‘30s in the really want them to feel wel- process.
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SPORTS
Thursday, August 20, 2009
Kiffin provides update on practice status Matt Dixon Staff Writer A f t e r h av i n g t h e team’s second scrimmage on Saturday, head coach L a n e K i f f i n wa s ve r y eager about getting back o n t h e p ra c t i c e f i el d Monday. “It was good to ge t b a c k o u t o n t h e f i el d , ” K i f f i n s a i d . “ I t wa s a ve r y l o n g , h a rd practice in a pretty good amount of heat , so that’s exactly what we needed.” Kiffin had invited students to attend the p ra c t i c e and eve n allowed the hundreds of s t u d e n t s i n att e n d a n c e
o n t o t h e f i el d t o h el p motivate the Vols during an agility drill. M e a nw h i l e , t h e battle for starting quart e rb a c k c o n t i n u e d o n Monday. S enior Jonathan C ro m p t o n a n d j u n i o r Nick Stephens are locked in a competition that is s t i l l “ex t re m el y c l o s e , ” Kiffin said. “I’m excited that t h e y ’re both p l ay i n g well,” Kiffin said, adding t h at n e i t h e r p l aye d a s wel l a s t h e y d i d l a s t week. Whichever quarterback is named starter will surely look Gerald Jones’s way, Tennessee’s l e a d i n g re c e i ve r f ro m
2008. The junior wideout g ra b b e d 3 0 p a s s e s fo r 3 2 3 ya rd s , ave ra g i n g 10.8 yards per catch. The Oklahoma native was one of the few playmakers for the Vols last season, even lining up at quarterback i n t h e “ G - G u n” fo r m a tion. This fall, he is practicing solely at receiver and shed 15 pounds in the offseason to improve his speed. Brown dealing with distractions: After having what Kiffin called a “great” week last week, f re s h m a n r u n n i n g b a c k Bryce Brown suffered a p a i r o f s e t b a c ks t h i s week. He injured his hip early in practice Monday
and missed the remainder of the day, as well as all of p ra c t i c e on Tu e s d ay. Fo l l ow i n g Tu e s d ay ’s p ra c t i c e , Kiffin i n fo r m e d the m e d i a t h at t h e NCA A wa s i nve s t i gat i n g Brown’s eligibility. “It has nothing to do with his recruitment by u s , ” K i f f i n n o t e d . “ I t ’s just something that my i n fo r m at i o n s ays go e s back to when he was a s o p h o m o re in high school.” Kiffin also mentioned senior running back Montario H a rd e s t y ’s c o m p e t i t i ve n e s s s ay i n g that he was “not happy ” the coaches pulled him
o u t o f t h e S at u rd ay scrimmage early. Walking wounded: E i g h t e e n Vo l s we re o n the injury report followi n g Tu e s d ay ’s p ra c t i c e . One player who has been battling injuries most of fall camp is senior lineb a c ke r Rico M c C oy. McCoy missed a majority o f p ra c t i c e l a s t we ek resting an injured leg but wa s ex c i t e d about returning to his outside linebacker position with the first team defense. “It felt great just to be b a c k o u t t h e re i n t h e swing of things with the guys,” McCoy said after Monday ’s practice. “It’s rough for anybody to be
on the sideline. They put me right back out there in the swing of things where I left off. I picked it right back up.” Rest for the weary: The team did not pract i c e o n We d n e s d ay a s classes began on campus but will use practice on Thursday and Friday to ge a r u p fo r t h e t h i rd scrimmage of the year on Saturday. “What’s good is we h ave a n o t h e r ( s c r i m m a ge ) to go , this S at u rd ay, o u r b i gge s t preseason game of all,” Kiffin said after M o n d ay ’s p ra c t i c e . “ I think our guys will be ready to go.” Scott Martineau • The Daily
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Gerald Jones drives to the endzone during the game against Wyoming last season.
SPORTS
Thursday, August 20, 2009
McNeil thankful for competition The Associated Press Tennessee center Josh McNeil has started 35 of his 38 games as a Volunteer, and that doesn’t mean much to coach Lane Kiffin. Since arriving at Tennessee in December, Kiffin’s mantra has been that every player would compete for a chance to start, regardless of age or experience. That means McNeil, a senior, is battling former walk-on Cody Sullins. “He wasn’t playing at the highest level he could play at, because he had become comfortable that he was the guy, and he could just show up on game day,” Kiffin said. As McNeil — a 6-foot-4inch Collins, Miss., native — doubted his chances of losing the job, Sullins earned some significant practice time with the first team during spring practice. McNeil saw what was happening and decided to step up his game. He hit the Vols’ training room, bulking up an extra 12 pounds to 290 pounds and says he worked 10 times harder on his game.
“It was frustrating to me, to be honest, at first because I’d played so much,” McNeil said. “I felt like I’d earned my position. Then it was all washed away when (Kiffin) got here. But in the end, I’m 290 pounds and playing the best football and continuing to get better.” “Being put in a competitive situation brings out the best in – Josh McNeil everybody,” he said. Tennessee Vols center After realizing that, McNeil visited Kiffin in his office to thank has sat out parts of prachim for creating the com- tices, resting his knees, petition that forced him to which have given him trouget better. ble through much of his “It was neat to see him career. come into our office and Sullins, whose twin thank us for putting him brother Cory Sullins is an into a competition,” Kiffin offensive lineman, said the said. “He’s gained about 12 opportunity feels good. pounds because he knew if The 6-foot-1-inch, 260he didn’t gain and hit the pound Cottontown, Tenn., weight room, then he native has only appeared would be sitting on the in five games in his entire bench. It’s great to see that career, mostly in mop-up happening.” duty. It doesn’t mean McNeil “They haven’t decided has earned his starting job anything yet, so we’re both back yet. The two are still going to continue to play splitting time with the hard and live with whatevfirst-team offense. McNeil er they decide,” he said.
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frustrating to me, to be honest, at first because I’d
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Thursday, August 20, 2009
NCAA clears Walls to play for Volunteers Matt Dixon Staff Writer After signing with the Volunteers’ 2008 recruiting class, UT received word through NCAA officials that linebacker-turneddefensive tackle Marlon Walls became academically eligible for the 2009 season early last week. “Marlon Walls, we’ve been told, has been cleared (to play), and we’re excited to finally get him (here),” head coach Lane Kiffin said. After missing the first 11 days of fall practice, the Olive Branch, Miss., native was declared eligible by the NCAA Clearinghouse on Aug. 13. Defensive line coach Ed Orgeron echoed Kiffin’s excitement. “We’re just so happy for Marlon and his family that after all the hard work he’s done, he’s finally got the chance to play for Tennessee,” Orgeron said. A four-star linebacker in high school, according to Rivals.com, Walls was once committed to Ole Miss but later signed with the Volunteers. After failing to qualify academically, he spent the fall of 2008 at Hargrave Military Academy in
Virginia. Following the 2008 season, he re-signed with Tennessee in February 2009 despite the coaching change and spent the rest of his time working to make himself eligible. Since that time, Walls has been waiting to hear from the NCAA on whether he would be eligible to play football this year. The chances didn’t look good until Kiffin and Orgeron called Walls well into fall practice with the good news. Orgeron said he thinks Walls will be successful in orange. “We feel like Tennessee is the right place for Marlon to get a great education,” Orgeron said. “We’re confident that Marlon is going to have success here.” During the past year, Walls bulked up nearly 70 pounds, and the former linebacker who is slated to play defensive tackle for the Vols is currently listed as being 6 feet 2 inches tall and 290 pounds. Orgeron believes Walls can make the adjustment. “From what I could see, he’s in pretty good condition, but he hasn’t
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worked out with us one time,” Orgeron said. “But we feel like he will bring some quickness inside.” Aside from Walls and defensive tackle Dan Williams, there are few other able bodies at tackle. Senior Wes Brown slid inside from defensive end, and he is expected to start opposite Williams, but he is still recovering from an offseason knee surgery. Another freshman, Montori Hughes, received compliments from Orgeron and defensive coordinator Monte Kiffin throughout the summer and fall and also looks to be in the playing rotation. Juniors Victor Thomas and Chase Nelson, senior Andre Mathis and sophomore Rae Sykes are also competing for playing time at defensive tackle.
We’re just so
happy for Marlon and his family that after all the
hard work he’s done, he’s finally got the chance to play for Tennessee.
– Ed Orgeron Defensive line coach
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