Issue 4, Volume 121
Monday, August 27, 2012
Rush week ends with sorority bids RJ Vogt News Editor n Sunday, over 700 young women e n t e r e d ThompsonBoling Arena with high hopes for receiving a bid to a sorority. “I was freaking out because I was so nervous and excited,” said Alyssa Perrone, freshman in marketing. “I just wanted to find out as soon as possible, but it felt like every minute was ten years. Once we ripped open the envelopes, it was the best feeling.” The atmosphere is exciting as bids are torn open and the new sisters literally rush to their sisterhood. “All these girls were running around, and the girls who you knew were running up and giving you hugs,” said Perone, a new member of Alpha Omicron Pi. “I felt like a part of a sisterhood. I've never experienced something like that… they were all cheering for you and wanting you to be in their sorority.” ven though the day is all about the new members of the sorority, the upperclassmen enjoy reaching the
culmination of bid day as well. The process starts before school begins, with each sorority engaging in a retreat. The sisterhood prepares for recruitment, learning skits, songs and chants, as well as practicing testimonies. All the girls interested in rush register online, and the sororities begin evaluating their applications during the week of recruitment. The process can be grueling, with meetings often lasting until late at night. Some sisters disaffiliate themselves with their sororities during rush in order to serve as Gamma Chis. Mary Beth Overton, junior in accounting, said, “I wanted to be a Gamma Chi because I wanted to experience the recruitment process from another side.” Each Gamma Chi leads their group of rushees, normally around 13 girls, through all the rounds of interviews, hoping to match each potential new member to the sorority that fits their individual traits. “It was so amazing to have the opportunity to guide a group of ladies to their new chapters,” Overton said. The sisters look forward to bid day, an end to the long week of rush and the beginning of a new chapter.
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Phi Mu's cheer before the bids walk out on Aug. 26. Most sororities had signs with each bid's name to welcome them. “It was awesome meeting all the new women I’ll be spending the next four years of my life with,” Rachel Baker, sophomore in clinical laboratory science and a sister of Zeta Tau Alpha, said. id day is my favorite day of the year, and reuniting with my sisters made it even more perfect,” said Overton.
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Becca Bays, sophmore pre-major in communications, walks onto the floor of Thompson-Boling Arena after opening an envelope with her sorority bid on Aug. 26.
LGBT center questions ranking Board to discuss Justin Joo Staff Writer The 2012 Princeton Review has ranked the University of Tennessee 16th in the most “LGBT-Unfriendly” campuses. This ranking comes as both a surprise and a stark contrast to what the casual observer might have noticed Thursday afternoon, when the OUTreach LGBT and Ally Resource Center was having an open house meet and greet, and the LGBTQ-friendly Lambda Student Union was handing out brochures on Pedestrian
Walkway for the Student InVOLvement Fair. Jesse Ford, resource center director at OUTreach, said the ranking was worth some, but not a lot, of concern. “We haven’t addressed it institutionally or anything like that,” Ford said. “I think there may be a bit of … unfriendliness compared to an inner city like San Francisco, but we do have a culture of acceptance, especially here on campus.” The Princeton Review, which is not affiliated with Princeton University, is a publication known for providing ACT/SAT tips, as well as helping incoming freshmen pick out a university based
on their ranking system. The Review ranks universities in such categories as “Best College Library,” “Best College Dorms” and “BirkenstockWearing, Tree-Hugging, Clove-Smoking Vegetarians.” To get their rankings, the Review conducted a student survey among those enrolled at the 377 “best” colleges that are discussed in the Review. More than 120,000 students were asked 80 questions about their college experiences regarding 62 categories, including LGBT friendliness. See LGBT on Page 3
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During the Hipster Hoedown sponsored by Lambda Student Union on Aug. 24, students voted on the best dressed hipster or redneck. UT was recently voted 16th in the most “LGBT-Unfriendly” campus by the 2012 Princeton Review.
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needs on campus Deborah Ince Staff Writer The UT Board of Trustees will hold a workshop in Nashville Aug. 27-28 to discuss technology use in higher education. Held at the Ellington Agricultural Center, the workshop has three main goals: to identify future innovations for UT, to identify strategies for innovation engagement and to create a plan to pursue innovation opportunities. “Basically, the workshop is going to discuss trends in technology,” UT spokeswoman Elizabeth Davis said. “Board members are going to discuss what UT is doing and what else is out there in terms of technology, how it is changing and how to implement (new ideas). It’s an overview of classroom technology.” The 26-member Board of Trustees oversees all systems of UT and is comprised of five ex oficio members (including the governor and the University’s president and vice president), two students and two facul-
ty members, as well as 17 congressional county and district representatives from across the state. The board holds regular meetings three times a year to discuss an overview of topics, but workshops give board members more time to discuss specific topics of interest. Over this month’s twoday workshop period, faculty members from each campus will give presentations centered around technological innovations. The UT Knoxville nursing faculty will be giving a presentation at the workshop but wished not to disclose any information on its content beforehand. “I think it’s important for students to know that we’re interested in improvement,” Davis said, adding that members want students to have access to innovations that will improve their overall educational experience. UT students also have some ideas of what they would like to see discussed at the workshop.
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CALENDAR Aug. 27 - Aug. 29, 2012
–Lecture/Reception Ewing Gallery Come out to the Art and Architecture Building for the first lecture in the College of Architecture and Design Robert B. Church Memorial Lecture Series. There will be a reception immediately following in the gallery. @ Art and Architecture Building 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
–Eco-Vols Information Session Come eat, meet, and greet while learning about Eco-Vols, a peer-topeer environmental education program within the residence halls. Eco-Vols is a great opportunity to become involved on campus, learn about sustainability, and become a true community leader and environmental steward at UT. @ Reese Hall-West Multipurpose Room 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
-UT Farmers Market @UT Gardens Fresh local produce, plants, food, crafts, and more. 4:00 PM - 7:00 PM –The Central Program Council (CPC) invites you to our Fall 2012 interest meeting. Come learn about the seven committees which comprise the CPC. Committees include All Campus Events, Campus Entertainment Board, Cultural Attractions Committee, Film Committee, Issues Committee, Visual Arts Committee and the Women’s Coordinating Council. @ Shiloh Room at the UC 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM
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Around Campus New Vice Chancellor for Research and Engagement Hired Taylor Eighmy, senior vice president for research at Texas Tech University, has been named vice chancellor for research and engagement for UT. Eighmy, 56, will begin October 2. He brings strong experience in growing research programs at Texas Tech University and the University of New Hampshire. Chancellor Jimmy G. Cheek said Eighmy’s track record indicates that he is well prepared for his new role. Eighmy has been a faculty member and research admin-
istrator at Texas Tech since 2009. There he helped the university qualify as a National Research University by the Texas state government, making it eligible to receive support from the state to grow its research base. He also played a large role in initiating planning for a new research park and forming the Transdisciplinary Research Academy to broaden capacity for larger proposals. Prior to joining Texas Tech, he held a variety of faculty and administrative positions at the University of New Hampshire, including interim vice president for research and assistant vice president for research.
1920 — 19th Amendment adopted
public ridicule, and some backers of women’s rights withdrew their support. However, the resolution marked the beginning of the woman suffrage movement in America.
The 19th Amendment, guaranteeing women the right to vote, is formally adopted into the U.S. Constitution by proclamation of Secretary of State Bainbridge Colby. The amendment was the culmination of more than 70 years of struggle by woman suffragists. Its two sections read simply: “The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex” and “Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.” In July 1848, 200 woman suffragists met in Seneca Falls, New York, to discuss women’s rights. After approving measures asserting the right of women to educational and employment opportunities, they passed a resolution that declared “it is the duty of the women of this country to secure to themselves their sacred right to the elective franchise.” For proclaiming a women's right to vote, the Seneca Falls Convention was subjected to
Around Rocky Top
1939 — First televised Major League baseball game On this day in 1939, the first televised Major League baseball game is broadcast on station W2XBS, the station that was to become WNBC-TV. Announcer Red Barber called the game between the Cincinnati Reds and the Brooklyn Dodgers at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn, New York. At the time, television was still in its infancy. Regular programming did not yet exist, and very few people owned television sets-there were only about 400 in the New York area. Not until 1946 did regular network broadcasting catch on in the United States, and only in the mid-1950s did television sets become more common in the American household. — This Day in History is courtesy of History.com.
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Alaina Gregerson, freshman in nursing, and Katrina Laemmerhirt, freshman in marketing, sign up for Student Rewards while waiting to run through the “T” during Night in Neyland on Aug. 20.
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CAMPUS NEWS LGBT continued from Page 1 According to princetonreview.com, the Review’s website, that ranking was determined by asking if "… students, faculty, and administrators at your college treat all persons equally regardless of their sexual orientations and gender identify/expression?" Based on the scores given, the Review determined which schools were more or less friendly to the LGBTQ community and ranked them out of 20. Given the perceived simplicity of how the Review determined the ranking of UT’s LGBT unfriendliness, Ford was somewhat skeptical. “Their criteria can be different than the actual environment on campus,” Ford said. “We have a long way to go, but I don’t think as a culture of students and faculty and staff that we’re that LGBT unfriendly.” Ford was not the only one skeptical of the Review’s findings. Caitlin Miller, senior in philosophy and Lambda Student Union president, believed that UT’s low ranking could simply be due to surveyed students not being aware of the many programs that UT has to offer to the LGBTQ community.
“If you’re not part of the community you may not be aware of the (LGBT) issues on campus,” Miller said. “From what I know from the history of Lambda, we’ve come a long way.” But while Miller was dubious about the Review’s assessment, especially considering that the Advocate recently ranked Knoxville the “8th Gayest City in America,” as she pointed out, she still found it disconcerting and thought that it devalued some of Lambda’s work at making UT feel more open to the LGBTQ community, especially with the incoming freshmen. “Our hope is that freshmen will come out and see that the queer community is visible. We are proactive. We are wanting to make a difference. We don’t want people to hear from high school that UT is a bad place to be if you’re gay. There’s actually a very welcoming community here if you seek that out.” And inside the OUTreach Center’s open house, nearly 20 students were gathered, with many coming in and out throughout the afternoon, all seeming to be feeling happy and welcomed on campus. Laura Poplawski, sophomore in plant sciences, remembered hearing about the OUTreach Center as a fresh-
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man and was grateful that such a place existed, especially if she ever experienced any trouble. “It was really comforting to know that there was a place that I could go and be myself and not be judged,” Poplawski said. “If (a negative experience) ever happened, the first place I would go is here. And it’s just really nice that there is an actual place for it.” “Having this really put out there and visible makes a more welcoming feel for those who identify as (LGBTQ),” Poplawski added. Harley Prophitt, undecided freshman, shares Poplawski’s sentiment. Prophitt comes from a small town in Georgia called Senoia, where he says there was no acceptance of the LGBTQ community. Knowing that UT has university-supported organizations like OUTreach and Lambda not only confirms his choice of UT as his college, but it also gives him more optimism for the future. “It gives me hope to see that the world isn’t always the same,” Prophitt said. “There are differences out there and there are people who support the LGBT community.” Prophitt plans to help out organizations like the OUTreach Center and Lambda in the future.
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Shea Holcomb, freshman in theatre interest, and Melissa Croft, freshman in studio art, play an icebreaker where they had to jump into each other’s arms, the last to jump being eliminated, during Welcome Week on Aug. 18.
TRUSTEES continued from Page 1 “Everything right now is pretty much all online,” said Emily Frame, sophomore in nuclear engineering. “Technology is more convenient at times, but sometimes it’s also a burden, especially when there are times you can’t get access to the Internet on campus. I’d like to see them working on ways to make technology more reliable for us.”
Casey Smith, fellow sophomore in nuclear engineering, believes there might actually be an overload of technology use on campus. “Personally, I think there’s too much,” said Smith. “I mean, even our room checks are online now. It’s all becoming paperless, but I like to have a physical record of something, too.” As technology continues to advance, society is having to constantly adapt to utilize it adequately and efficiently.
With so many new resources and programs available, those at the forefront of higher education are finding a growing need to ensure that faculty and students have access to the most prominent technological advances. However, according to some UT students, it is important that the board not only discuss future possibilities in on-campus innovations but also explore ways to improve the reliability of current technology in use.
Space legacy remembered The Associated Press WASHINGTON — When man first harnessed fire, no one recorded it. When the Wright Brothers showed man could fly, only a handful of people witnessed it. But when Neil Armstrong took that first small step on the moon in July 1969, an entire globe watched in grainy black-and-white from a quarter million miles away. We saw it. We were part of it. He took that “giant leap for mankind” for us. Although more than half of the world’s population wasn’t alive then, it was an event that changed and expanded the globe. “It’s a human achievement that will be remembered forever,” said John Logsdon, professor emeritus of space policy at George Washington University. Those first steps were beamed to nearly every country around the world, thanks to a recently launched satellite. It was truly the first global mass media event, Logsdon said. An estimated 600 million people—1 out of every 5 on the planet— watched. The two historical events
likely to be long remembered from the 20th century are the moon landing and the first atomic bomb, said Smithsonian Institution space curator Roger Launius. “There is no way to overestimate that significance in human history and he is forever linked to that,” Launius said of Armstrong, who died Saturday at age 82. Just as the voyage of Christopher Columbus split historic eras 500 years ago, so will Neil Armstrong and Apollo 11, said Rice University historian Douglas Brinkley, a specialist in 20th century history. Apollo 11 moon landing was “one of the great divides in human history; we are sundered from it forever by the moment when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin stepped out on to the Sea of Tranquility. Now history and fiction have become inexorably intertwined.” Since that day, there’s been a common phrase: “If we can send a man to the moon, why can’t we ... ?,” the blank filled with a task that seems far less difficult. Armstrong’s small step was
that leap in confidence telling the world “if we can do this, we can do anything,” said Howard McCurdy, a professor of space and public policy at American University and author of the book “Space and the American Imagination.” “He took something that 20 years earlier was pure fantasy and turned it into reality, and if we could do that for space we could do it for anything,” McCurdy said Saturday. The Apollo 11 moon landing was the finish line in a decade-long space race started by the Soviet Union. And so the first steps on the moon coming from an American civilian had many meanings. Getting there first showed American technological superiority, but Armstrong mentioned mankind—not Americans—demonstrating that this was a moment for the people of Earth, McCurdy said. Armstrong and Aldrin left a plaque on the moon that read: “Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the moon. July 1969 A.D. We came in peace for all mankind.” See ARMSTRONG on Page 5
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Work together to not waste earth Returning students, faculty and especially freshmen: this fall is a time for bright beginnings. It’s a new school year, and changes in living situations and life patterns are also great times to improve habits. As many of you may already realize, the lifestyles we Americans have become accustomed to take a heavy toll on the environment. Americans make up about 5 percent of the world's population, but produce roughly 25 percent of mankind’s CO2 emissions and generate approximately 30 percent of the world’s waste. To those who care about preserving the diversity of species on the planet, the stability of the climate, and the general public’s health, this is not something to be proud of. Thankfully, there are actions and attitudes that students can take while in college to lead a more environmentally friendly adult life. Transportation by motor vehicle is the leading source of the total CO2 released into the atmosphere in the United States, and seriously adds to air pollution. These facts are very relevant to Knoxville, the No. 3 “Asthma Capital” of the country, according to the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America’s 2012 study. The best way to cut down on emissions is to take up biking, which not only facilitates getting downtown and around campus without a car, but those who bike on Knoxville’s hills stay in great shape (and can eat as much delicious Cruze Farm ice cream at the farmer’s market as they please!). Another way to cut down on emissions (and save money on gas and parking) is to take advantage of the free Knoxville Area Transit pass given to all incoming UT freshman, which costs only $50 a semester for all other UT students. The KAT runs all over Knoxville, and the routes and schedules are posted online. The Knoxville Trolley, a free service, runs through the campus area and downtown, where it stops at the same KAT station where the Megabus waits to take people home for the holidays. Being conscious about the way you dispose of your trash is extremely important. Throwing waste into landfills is simply not a good enough solution to our waste problems. Fortunately, new students will notice while walking around campus that there are recycling bins next to nearly every trash can. UT recycles paper, plastics, aluminum, cardboard, and special materials
such as batteries, cell phones and other electronic waste. If the recent tuition hikes made you hurl your cell phone at the wall in rage and shatter it into a million pieces, think before throwing it in with your regular trash! Lead and mercury inside electronic items cause harm to the environment by leaking into the groundwater and polluting streams and wildlife. Please use the electronic waste recycling bins in the secondfloor Commons area of the library (which may be temporarily relocated because of the remodeling), outside the UC and in the lobbies of Laurel Apartments, the Apartment Residence Hall, and Volunteer Hall. Finally, attitude is the most important habit to change when it comes to being an environmentally responsible consumer. Waste can easily be eliminated by re-assessing what one actually needs to use in a day, and which actions are just silly and wasteful. One of my biggest pet peeves is the childish use of unrecyclable plastic straws in restaurants. Whenever I’m handed a straw, I wish I would scream “I’m an adult!” and throw it on the ground like Andy Samberg. Seriously, whatever happened to putting one’s mouth on the brim and tipping the cup? When it comes to using plastics with a concern for its impact on the environment, a good rule of thumb is to consider how long you will be using the item. Get a reusable water bottle instead of buying packs of bottled water and reusable shopping bags instead of bringing five plastic ones home with you every time you go to the store. It’s not necessary to put all of your vegetables into individual bags, either. Let’s not be like the generation before ours and trash the planet for a lack of wisdom and the sake of convenience. If we want to preserve the diversity of life on the planet, keep our climate relatively stable and the general public healthy, we must be more conscious of the effects our actions are having on the planet and act to make a change. Ana Reboredo Segovia Senior Ecology and Evolutionary Biology arebored@utk.edu
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UT life analogous to South China Sea G o and Go by
Julia Ross Across the world, in the South China Sea, lay eight uninhabited islands that will have a lot in common with our own UT campus in the coming months. China and Japan (and peripherally, Taiwan) have been locked in a territorial dispute over the islands since the 1970s. China claims the islands are part of their ancient heritage and have always been Chinese. The Japanese claim to have found them uninhabited. After ten years of exploration, they claimed sovereignty over them in 1895. They have different names for the little archipelago— Senkaku in Japan and Diaoyu in China. Why do they matter to the Chinese and Japanese? They offer access to key shipping routes and natural resources. But what on earth do they have to do with life at Tennessee? If, since your arrival on campus you have tried to return to an old favorite spot, you already know. The window tables at the Golden Roast cafe have been occupied by incoming freshman “hipsters” and their parents. Sorority women inhabit most of the study rooms on campus. Your favorite corner in Hodges is a construction site, and your usual computer is now downstairs in the cold and practically silent reference room. The Class of 2015 has already said their goodbyes to Presidential Court, but little did they realize that they were the last class to eat waffles at two a.m. at Ihop. Come mid-October and the first round of tests this semester, your favorite table on the third floor of the library will likely be occupied by someone else actively Facebooking on their laptop. Over the next few weeks, our campus community will be making adjustments similar to those which the Chinese and Japanese have
been avoiding for forty years. This adjustment will be most acutely felt by the sophomore class. Last year, we had a foolproof excuse for our strange behavior. Our obnoxiously large groups carrying huge backpacks and spouting pseudointellectual mumbo jumbo in the Morrill cafeteria were unapologetically claiming someone else’s favorite place as our own. As freshman, we were the Japanese. We found these campus corners uninhabited and claimed them as our own. Now we return as the Chinese, with a new perspective informed by our whole year of experience. Upon our return to school, those places felt like they were always ours. So many of our memories from the last year are of our first time doing something quintessentially collegiate. It’s about the moments when you realized you were finally dipping into the adult world. The first sentences of the next chapters of our lives were (melodramatically), written in those old haunts. The best way to take ownership of the new experience was to subconsciously claim space as our own—it made this campus home. For the dispute in the East China Sea, there are plenty of activists boating to the islands to claim a series of barren rocks. Superficially, the issue is about access to key resources. The root of the dispute is an old battle for primacy between two economic powerhouses. Since we recognize our territorial claims as sophomoric at best, at UT the role of activists is hospitality. Sure, we will return to our favorite places and reminisce with our friends. Though we might silently chastise the Class of 2016 for being overly enthusiastic, pathetically confused, or for simply just being naive, we should recognize it as their privilege. They are claiming whatever spaces we have abandoned and making them their own. Instead of working to make this campus home, this fall the rest of us have the privilege of simply returning to it. Welcome back to Rocky Top, ya’ll. —Julia Ross is a sophomore in biology and political science. She can be reached at jross26@utk.edu.
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Ahh, yes. The first full week of classes has arrived. Hopefully, the frantic parking situations will have calmed, everyone has found their classes successfully and the very kind individuals who park their extended cab pick-up trucks with hitches that protrude 2 feet behind them will have realized that it is not wise to park in the chaotic lot nestled on the corner of Volunteer and Lake Loudon. No, but really, please reconsider parking there. My front bumper thanks you. With that out of the way, allow me to introduce myself. I’m a senior majoring in English Literature. I love literature, but nowhere near as much as I love the pursuit of knowledge. As a first-generation college student, I really had no idea what I was getting into when I applied for college. I didn’t know what kind of campus I wanted, what size of school, or how much I wanted to pay for tuition. So I just filled out a couple of applications for universities and ended up here. Before arriving in campus during the blistering August of 2009, I had no expectations. I also wasn’t even a huge UT fan. I knew Rocky Top, had heard of Bruce Pearl and Pat Summitt. That was basically the extent of it. I don’t come from a die-hard family who has orange running through their veins. I do, however, come from a very hardworking family, who were rarely presented with the opportunities to further their learning in the ways that I have. Now, with my terrifying final year on campus finally here, I face the harsh reality of only having one year left before I move
onto my next opportunity. This place, with all of its concrete, construction, coaching changes, and terrible parking, is a place that I will forever hold close to my heart. I often joke that I’ll be that alumnus who returns for as many home games as possible, owns a bright orange car with the Power T painted on the roof, and has an orange cat named Rocky. In my column, I promise to bring up topics that are as relevant to your life as a member of UT as I possibly can. My opinions about school issues, politics, current events, sports, and many other topics will appear in this column over the course of this school year. I may offend people at times, as is what happens with conflict of opinion, but I hope you all take the time to read my perspective. It is my belief that I am no better than anyone else. I believe the same is true for the rest of humanity. Within each of us runs the same DNA pattern that causes us to live and act as humans. Some have been fortunate enough to end up in better situations, some in worse. However, that does not mean that your opinion and your livelihood matter more or less. I hope that you can each find within my column something interesting or debatable. Conversation is one of the most important aspects of human nature. Debate does not have to be harsh or unruly. It should be a learning experience for both parties. Allow yourself to grow as a person and experience new things. Learn from one another. The chances you have here at UT to engage yourself more fully in activities and meet people from different areas and of different cultures is exponentially larger than any other time in your life. Remember, these years are what you choose to make of them. — Kayla Graham is a senior in English Literature. She can be reached at kgraham7@utk.edu.
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CAMPUS NEWS ARMSTRONG continued from Page 3 “The success for America (is a) success for every living man’ reported the Swahili-language newspaper Nguromo of Dar. And if that wasn’t enough, Armstrong and Aldrin also left a patch to commemorate NASA astronauts and Soviet cosmonauts who had died in pursuit of space. “It was special and memorable but it was only instantaneous because there was work to do,” Armstrong told an Australian television interviewer earlier this year. “We may be living in the age of Armstrong,” said Brinkley, who conducted oral histories for NASA, including sessions with Armstrong. The late science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke wrote that the The Cold War may have slightly muted the significance of the event at the time, but over the years the importance of the moon landing has only grown, Logsdon said. It’s permeated into culture. The moon landing is in movies, television, books, songs and it was even Michael Jackson’s signature dance step. That’s probably because in some ways that
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moonwalk touched something that has been hard-wired into humanity: the need to explore. For 25,000 years, humans have been migrating and pushing into new places. Armstrong took it to new heights. John Glenn, the first American to orbit the Earth, noted it was “the first time any human being set foot on a place other than Earth, and that’s a pretty big step.”
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British press runs amok LONDON — By letting his top-selling U.K. tabloid run photos of a naked Prince Harry cavorting in a Las Vegas hotel room, some say media mogul Rupert Murdoch was warning Britain's establishment that he could still shake things up. British officialdom has largely turned its back on Murdoch because of the phone-hacking scandal that has badly tainted his media empire over the past year. So even though Murdoch's The Sun newspaper framed its decision to publish the nude pictures as a defense of press freedom, some observers saw the move as a feisty message from the tycoon. “Not only was The Sun showing Harry’s bottom, Murdoch was mooning the Establishment,” said journalist Jane Merrick, whose article in The Independent on Sunday alleged that Murdoch personally ordered the paper to run the photos in a phone call with Tom Mockridge, the chief of his British newspaper unit, News International. Murdoch, once assiduously courted by lawmakers across the British political spectrum, has seen his clout wither after his company was exposed as having hacked into the phones of hundreds of people to score scoops. Allegations of bribery, corruption, computer hacking and obstruction of justice are being investigated, and the scandal has prompted a judge-led media ethics inquiry that could propose sweeping changes to how Britain's press is policed — potentially sub-
jecting newspapers to government regulation. If The Sun was cowed, it didn't show it Friday, when it published the pictures of Harry along with a lengthy public interest justification claiming that the “the photos have potential implications for the Prince’s image representing Britain around the world.” A picture of the unclad royal — clutching an unidentified woman — had already been bouncing back and forth across the Internet for the better part of two days. Newspapers around the world ran the pictures, but with the prominent exception of The Sun, British media largely held its fire. News International has declined to comment on what role, if any, the 81-year-old Murdoch played in the decision to run the photos, but the mogul’s Twitter posts suggested that, at the very least, he’d been following the issue closely. In a message to a user who congratulated him on The Sun’s challenge to the royal family, Murdoch said he “needed to demonstrate (that there is) no such thing as free press in UK.” “Internet makes mockery of these issues,” he said, adding that Britain could use some First Amendment-style legislation. But the mogul also extended an olive branch to the royals, telling his followers to give the prince “a break.” “He may be on the public payroll one way or another, but the public loves him,” Murdoch wrote.
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Arts & Culture Editor Victoria Wright
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Local band releases third album Gabe Quistorff Staff Writer The Dirty Guv’nahs third studio album, “Somewhere Beneath These Southern Skies,” was released on August 14. Still rootsy and still rocking, the band has managed to polish their sound into something that has potential for mass appeal and could expand beyond their Southeast influence. The album opens with “Can You Feel It” on which the verses stay catchy and poppy, leading into an anthem chorus that suits lead singer James Trimble’s throaty voice well. It’s the kind of song familiar fans would come to expect. However, contrast the album’s opener with “3000 Miles” and you can hear a stretch towards a more modern, edgier sound in the filtered guitar work. Although they may not appear on every song, the band’s horn parts on titles such as “Good Luck Charm” have really picked up a more prominent role than on their last album, “Youth is In Our Blood.” Developing this element really showcases the band’s soul influence with a shining, tiny pride. Despite all the shiny newness, The Dirty Guv’nahs stay true to their sound. Songs like “Fairlane” throw country licks over ring-
ing organ tones to produce a somber but honest love song, balancing out the catchy, guitar-oriented songs like “Don't Give Up On Me” and “Honey You”. On “Lead Kindly Light,” slow, quiet vocals and acoustic guitar build into a powerful rock ballad that confronts the fears and anxieties of finding what we are looking for and accepting where the truth takes us. “Somewhere Beneath These Southern Skies,” as the title implies, presents themes of searching, wandering and love amongst a southern-rock soundscap, and the album reflects how The Dirty Guv’nahs experiment with new sounds and musical formulas. The band is currently promoting their new album on tour. The band thanked fans for their support by holding a huge release party in Market Square on August 17. The Guvs shared the stage with Nashville’s Moon Taxi and Knoxville’s own Black Cadillacs for the festivities. Fans should keep an eye out for some more widespread attention from these guys in future. Knoxville’s music scene has produced some rock bands before such as the Royal Bangs that have garnered national attention. As The Dirty Guv’nahs continue to tour and develop as a band, it will be evident whether or not they are made of the right stuff.
Tia Patron • The Daily Beacon
The Dirty Guv’nahs perform in Market Square on Aug. 17 for their third album release.
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Kentucky town hopes to open bluegrass museum Associated Press
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Thomas Wharton, second year graduate student, explains the process of mixed media to Brandon MckennaWagner, freshman in biological sciences, on Aug. 24 during the first year graduate MFA show in the Downtown Gallery.
Students open art gallery Melodi Erdogan Contributor It is an established fact that art is subjective. A piece may evoke certain emotions to one person, when to another person it may evoke different emotions. Art will always be subjective, but it can’t always be original, fascinating or gratifying, Sweetbreads, the First Year Graduate MFA (Master of Fine Arts) show at UT Downtown Gallery on 106 S. Gay St., displays the aforementioned adjectives and even more redeeming qualities. The show consists of various types of artwork, from sculptures to paintings and unfamiliar forms such as etchings and collographs, which are a printmaking processes used on cardboard or wood. Both prove to be the more interesting pieces of the show. The gallery, although small itself, was brimming with artistic talent from seven different individuals. On opening night, the artists were present and willing to explain their perspectives and processes on their work. The pieces that stand out the most are the mixed media pieces by Thomas Wharton. Displaying more than four pieces of original work, Wharton’s artistic style becomes familiar after just one tour of the gallery; his pieces are inviting and invigorating, provoking gallery-goers to lean into the pieces rather than take a step back. Wharton’s “Crisis: Why the crisis?” and “My Vomit is actually interesting, but it’s still vomit” both have the same types of textures, but their contrasting colors awaken completely different
emotions while keeping with a similar theme. Many pieces are extremely personal, such as the sculpture “Qui transtulit sustinet” by Kevin Kao. Featuring a head topped and bottomed with pieces of wood specifically from San Diego and Knoxville, wrapped with red string. This piece automatically draws viewers in with fascination and curiosity due to its simple yet complex form. The layout of the gallery is very inviting and unintimidating. The gallery stayed quaint, simple and white; in other words, it provids a typical yet perfect backdrop for the various pieces on display. The position of some sculptures, however, did seem to be rather odd. The handful of hanging pieces distract from the flow of the art and constrict the interior space that should be available for visitors either to walk or to examine their favorite pieces. The details in almost every piece are thought-provoking, making one wonder how the artist created the lines and textures on painted pieces and why the art is divided into two separate foundations when it could have been put together. The questionability of the art is what makes it so great, giving each person a different perspective on each piece. Not one piece in the whole gallery could be easily explained or understood, thus making it all the more intriguing, as well as making it easy to lose track of time. These artists all have previous education in fine arts, with many having come to UT to earn their master’s degree in fine arts, where they had the opportunity to display their pieces at the gallery. But ultimately, the real opportunity is to be able to attend Sweetbreads: displaying exquisitely-crafted art in such a formal yet pleasant way will certainly delight experts and novices of Knoxville’s art scene. Bread might not always be sweet, but Sweetbreads definitely had a savory aftertaste. The exhibition will be on display until Sept. 1. The gallery is free and open to the public.
OWENSBORO, Ky. — A major fundraising drive is kicking off to turn an old state office building in western Kentucky into a bluegrass music center. Terry Woodward, board chairman of the International Bluegrass Music Museum, told the Messenger-Inquirer that he expects to be able to raise $7 million by March and hopes construction on the facility can begin in April. The vision for the International Bluegrass Music Museum includes a museum, an indoor theater, outdoor festival seating and a bluegrass-themed restaurant. He says organizers want to offer fans a Bluegrass Opry, something akin to the Grand Old Opry in Nashville, Tenn. He says the vision for the facility also includes other musical productions, a national bluegrass disc jockey convention and a music film festival. He wants to see the center open by April 2014. If all the plans succeed, up to 100,000 bluegrass fans could visit Owensboro each year by 2016, making an economic impact on the city of $25 million. The key is a plan to offer a Bluegrass Opry on Saturday nights during the fall, winter and spring, he said. “This could be the strongest thing we do,” Woodward said. “Everybody would know that if they came to Owensboro on a Saturday night during the school year, they could see a bluegrass show.” He proposes a musical play to run during the sum-
mer months when bluegrass bands are making rounds at festivals. That's in addition to the annual ROMP: Bluegrass Roots & Branches Festival. “The key (to the success of the Bluegrass Opry) is radio and TV,” Woodward said. “You need that exposure. I’d like our Opry to have members like the Grand Ole Opry has. A lot of the bands we had at ROMP would love to play for the exposure if we have radio and TV.” Gabrielle Gray, the museum’s executive director, said the idea has gotten interest from several National Public Radio stations. “We’ll know we’ve arrived when people start calling wanting to be on the Bluegrass Opry,” Ross Leazenby, one of the board members, said recently. Woodward said having a 60,000-square-foot facility, which is nearly three times bigger than the current bluegrass museum, would also likely boost the number of people taking music lessons at the museum. Gray said 323 students were enrolled this year, up from 209 last year. “If we take on more faculty, we can expand,” she said. “We have several students from Louisville and southern Indiana now.” Woodward also said the center would allow them space to hold an annual music film festival. He noted that the museum has filmed interviews with about 200 bluegrass pioneers and most of those also have completed documentaries on them. “With all the film we have, people could spend a week here and never watch the same thing twice.”
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Diving coach, football players Armstrong stripped of titles inducted into Hall of Fame
for his foundation’s support for cancer research. “It is a sad day for all of us who love sport AUSTIN, Texas — With stunning swift- and athletes,” Tygart said. “It’s a heartbreakness, the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency said ing example of win at all costs overtaking the Thursday night it will strip Lance Armstrong fair and safe option. There’s no success in of his unprecedented seven Tour de France cheating to win.” titles after he dropped his fight against drug Tygart said the agency had the power to charges that threatened his legacy as one of strip the Tour titles, though Armstrong disthe greatest cyclists of all time. puted that. Travis Tygart, USADA's chief executive, “USADA cannot assert control of a professaid Armstrong would also be hit with a life- sional international sport and attempt to strip time ban on Friday. Under the World Anti- my seven Tour de France titles,” he said. “I Doping Code, he could lose other awards, know who won those seven Tours, my teamevent titles and cash earnings while the mates know who won those seven Tours, and International Olympic Committee everyone I competed against knows who won those seven Tours.” might look at the bronze medal he won in the Still to be heard from was the sport’s gov2000 Games. erning body, the Armstrong, who retired International Cycling last year, effectively Union, which had backed dropped his fight by declinArmstrong’s legal chaling to enter USADA’s arbilenge to USADA’s authoritration process — his last ty and in theory could take option — because he said the case before the internahe was weary of fighting tional Court of Arbitration accusations that have for Sport. dogged him for years. He Tygart said UCI was has consistently pointed to “bound to recognize our the hundreds of drug tests decision and impose it” as he passed as proof of his a signer of the World Antiinnocence while piling up Doping Code. Tour titles from 1999 to “They have no choice 2005. but to strip the titles under “'There comes a point in the code,” he said. every man’s life when he USADA maintains that has to say, ‘Enough is has used • Photo courtesy of Elizabeth Kreutz Armstrong enough.’ For me, that time banned substances as far is now,” Armstrong said. He called the back as 1996, including the blood-booster USADA investigation an “unconstitutional EPO and steroids as well as blood transfuwitch hunt.” sions — all to boost his performance. “I have been dealing with claims that I The 40-year-old Armstrong walked away cheated and had an unfair advantage in win- from the sport in 2011 without being charged ning my seven Tours since 1999,” he said. following a two-year federal criminal investi“The toll this has taken on my family and my gation into many of the same accusations he work for our foundation and on me leads me faces from USADA. to where I am today — finished with this nonThe federal probe was closed in February, sense.” but USADA announced in June it had eviUSADA reacted quickly and treated dence Armstrong used banned substances Armstrong'’s decision as an admission of and methods — and encouraged their use by guilt, hanging the label of drug cheat on an teammates. The agency also said it had blood athlete who was a hero to thousands for over- tests from 2009 and 2010 that were “fully concoming life-threatening testicular cancer and sistent” with blood doping.
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Staff Reports KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - Diving coach Dave Parrington and three former UT football players were inducted into the Greater Knoxville Sports Hall of Fame at a ceremony Thursday at the Knoxville Convention Center. Parrington joined former Vol gridiron greats Todd Kelly, Terry McDaniel and Charlie Severance as four of the 10 local athletes and coaches enshrined. Now entering his 23rd season at
Tennessee, Parrington has coached six NCAA individual champions along with one world champion. His divers have accumulated 80 All-American honors, and he has been voted SEC Diving Coach of the Year a combined 10 times between the men’s and women’s programs. The 2011-12 season was a banner year for Tennessee diving in terms of all-around performance, particularly at the SEC Championships. Parrington was the SEC Diving Coach of the Year as his squad won four of the six events, including a programfirst sweep of the three men's competitions.
Around Rocky Top
Kelsey Rawn • The Daily Beacon
The soccer team huddles up before play against William and Mary on Aug. 24.
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Sports Editor Lauren Kittrell
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Lady Vols volleyball sees wins and losses Matt Magill Staff Writer The game looked bleak for Tennessee until Kelsey Robinson took her game to another level. The Lady Vols rallied from down 2-1 to a defeat of the No. 10 Iowa State Cyclones Saturday night at Thompson-Boling Arena, 20-25, 26-24, 19-25, 25-20, 15-4. Robinson, the defending SEC Player of the Year, racked up 29 kills, 14 digs and 6 aces, evoking Michael Jordan comparisons from head coach Rob Patrick. “I’ve told Kelsey since she’s got here that we’re going to be great when she leads the team,” Patrick said. “She’s like Michael Jordan. She has a huge effect on the team. It’s something that I’m really proud of her because we’re asking a lot out of her. She does everything and then on top of that we ask her to be a great leader. I can’t say enough good things about how she’s been able to handle that.” In the decisive 5th set, Robinson dominated, tallying 5 kills and 3 service aces en
route to a 15-4 blowout. “I definitely was in a zone,” Robinson said. “Mary (Pollmiller) got me in a flow early in game two and once I got that momentum it helped me get in a rhythm. My mindset was just to win every point.” The match was played as a part of the Comcast Lady Vol Classic, the only preseason tournament to feature three top-15 squads. Robinson and junior libero Ellen Mullins were named to the All-Tournament team. On Friday night, Tennessee lost to eventual champion Florida State in three sets, 2725, 25-15, 25-21. 17 service errors were largely what kept the Lady Vols from contending with the No. 12 Seminoles, a Final Four team a year ago. The loss marked the first time Tennessee has lost a home opener since 1978 and matched their season home loss total from 2011. “A lot of our players are using new serves than what they used previously and they’re still getting comfortable with that,” Patrick said. “We had a staff meeting and we asked if we were willing to lose a match to imple-
ment this and the answer was yes. We didn’t want to lose and when the ball was in play, we played pretty even with Florida State. We just didn’t get it in enough. “If we would have gotten our serves in, it would have been a different match. I’m not saying we would have won, but it would have been different.” Saturday morning, the Lady Vols bounced back against Cincinnati, defeating the Bearcats in four sets, 25-12, 23-25, 2519, 25-14. Three players amassed doubledigit kills for Tennessee signaling a balanced attack. “We have a vision for this season and we want to build this team towards that vision,” Patrick said. We’re using every match this year to get closer to that vision and we did. There’s a bigger picture than just one match that we’re working towards and the kids know that.” Tennessee finished the tournament in 2nd place and will go on the road to Wichita, Kan., next weekend to face Colorado State, BYU and Wichita State as a part of the Shocker Volleyball Classic.
Matthew DeMaria • The Daily Beacon
Kelsey Robinson prepares to serve against Iowa State on Aug. 25.
Women’s soccer scores win Anthony Elias Staff Writer
Matthew DeMaria • The Daily Beacon
Freshman Susan Ferguson runs down the field against VCU on Aug. 26.
“Nothing's better than ‘first-evers’,” Brian Pensky, UT womens soccer coach, remembered “the old baseball coach at Maryland” saying. The Tennessee Lady Vols 1-0 double-overtime nail-biter over the William & Mary Tribe (0-2) at Regal Stadium Friday night adds substance to that quote. Caroline Brown’s penalty kick with 3:26 left in extra time gave Tennessee soccer something it has never had: a 3-0 start. The UT midfielder’s seventh shot led the team in kicks and gave her at least a point in each of the Lady Vols’ last three contests. Tennessee outshot its CAA opponent, 31-5. “(I) just had to get myself relaxed and just focus on putting it in the back of the net,” Brown said of her game-winning kick that flew just past Tribe goalkeeper Caroline Casey into the top right corner deep in the net.
The final play was set up late in the second overtime when UT forward Katie Lenz fed a pass to Brown just outside the goalie box on the right side. When the UT midfielder went to turn and drive to the net, she tripped over Tribe defender Leci Irvin and drew the foul, setting up the penalty kick. The Regal Stadium crowd, as it had been doing for the first 116 minutes of the game, went crazy once the whistle blew. “It definitely helps having a crowd like that,” UT goalkeeper Julie Eckel said. The Irvin foul was the Tribe's ninth of the evening and the 22nd combined between both teams on a night that saw physical play from both sides like shoves, pushes and collisions. The double-overtime classic is nothing new in the UT-Tribe rivalry; the other two times these two schools have faced—in 2003 and 2005—have been settled in double-overtime just as well with UT winning the first, 3-2. “William & Mary is a very storied, historic program,” Pensky said. “John Daly does a great job
there and we knew that we were going to have our hands full today.” Casey turned in a nearly perfect performance on a day when the Lady Vols relentlessly outshot William & Mary 31-5; the Tribe goalie saved 11 of the 12 shots on goal. Her counterpart, Eckel, didn’t face many shots but capped a perfect night in net. The Tribe defenders had to fight off 31 Lady Vol shots, including a 14-1 offensive attack by Tennessee in the first half. The only time the Tribe led in shots was 3-1 in the first overtime after surviving a 22-2 regulation shot gap by their SEC opponent. “Getting (the victory) in this fashion, I think, gives us a little bit of justice,” Pensky said. “We’ve all been a part of games where it hasn't gone our way. (I’m) happy for our kids, you know, obviously Caroline makes a difficult play where she's pulled down. So a great way to start 3-0.” If Friday night’s “first-ever” was exciting, as it was, the Lady Vols first-ever matchup with VCU on Sunday at Regal Soccer Stadium to close the Lady Vol Classic should be just as exciting.