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Vice chancellor resigns, returns to classroom Staff Reports Bradley W. Fenwick recently resigned his position as vice chancellor for research and engagement. Fenwick will resume a full-time professorship in the UT College of Veterinary Medicine to continue his nationally recognized research regarding microbiology and infectious diseases of animals. Hailed with leaving a legacy of improvement, Fenwick has led efforts focused on expanding UT’s research base and shaping the infrastructure necessary to help the university recieve large-scale awards. Fenwick began his vice chancellorship in 2007 and has focused heavily on improvements necessary to continue UT’s upward trajectory. Contributions include service as chair on research productivity and facilities and economic development strategic planning subcommittees as well as co-chair of the engagement subcommittee. Duties on the subcommittees ranged from improving the acquisition of federal and private funding for research to relations with ORNL. According to a UT press release, Chancellor Jimmy Cheek thanked Fenwick for his service. “Since he arrived in 2007, Brad has led a comprehensive effort to expand our research base and strengthen the support systems that work to make the university more competitive for large-scale awards,” Cheek said. “I hope you will join me in thanking Brad for his leadership and service as vice chancellor.” According to Greg Reed, associate vice chancellor of research,
new programs have included strengthening the emphasis on undergraduate contributions with Research Week and an undergraduate research journal that highlights their accomplishments. During his service, Fenwick emphasized faculty engagement, focusing on building staff resources to handle proposals and awards as well as holding intensive
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Rallies over NYC mosque get heated Associated Press NEW YORK — The proposed mosque near ground zero drew hundreds of fever-pitch demonstrators Sunday, with opponents carrying signs associating Islam with blood, supporters shouting, “Say no to racist fear!” and American flags waving on both sides. The two leaders of the construction project, meanwhile, defended their plans, though one suggested that organizers might eventually be willing to discuss an alternative site. The other, Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, said during a Middle East trip that the attention generated by the project is actually positive and that he hopes it will bring greater understanding. Around the corner from the cordoned-off old building that is to become a 13-story Islamic community center and mosque, police separated the two groups of demonstrators. There were no reports of physical clashes, but there were some nose-to-nose confrontations, including a man and a woman screaming at each other across a barricade under a steady rain. Opponents of the $100-million project two blocks from the World Trade Center site appeared to outnumber supporters. Bruce Springsteen’s “Born in the USA” blared over loudspeakers as mosque opponents chanted, “No mosque, no way!”
Signs hoisted by dozens of protesters standing behind police barricades read “SHARIA,” using dripping, blood-red letters to describe Islam’s Shariah law, which governs the behavior of some Muslims. Steve Ayling, a 40-year-old Brooklyn plumber who carried his sign to a dry spot by an office building, said the people behind the mosque project are “the same people who took down the Twin Towers.” Opponents demand that the mosque be moved farther from the site where nearly 3,000 people were killed on Sept. 11, 2001. “They should put it in the Middle East,” Ayling said. On a nearby sidewalk, police chased away a group that unfurled a banner with images of beating, stoning and other torture they said were committed by those who followed Islamic law. A man wearing a keffiyeh, a traditional Arab headdress, mounted one of two mock missiles that were part of an antimosque installation. One missile was inscribed with the words: “Again? Freedom Targeted by Religion,” the other with “Obama: With a middle name Hussein. We understand. Bloomberg: What is your excuse?” New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has fiercely defended plans for the proposed mosque,
saying that the right “to practice your religion was one of the real reasons America was founded.” The mosque project is being led by Rauf and his wife, Daisy Khan, who insist the center will promote moderate Islam. The dispute has sparked a national debate on religious freedom and American values and is becoming an issue on the campaign trail ahead of the midterm elections. Republicans have been critical of President Barack Obama’s stance: He has said the Muslims have the right to build the center at the site but has not commented on whether he thinks they should. Rauf is in the middle of a Middle East trip funded by the U.S. State Department that is intended to promote religious tolerance. He told a gathering Sunday at the U.S. ambassador’s residence in the Persian Gulf state of Bahrain that he took heart from the dispute over the mosque, saying “the fact we are getting this kind of attention is a sign of success.” “It is my hope that people will understand more,” Rauf said without elaborating. Democratic New York Gov. David Paterson has suggested that state land farther from ground zero be used for the center. Khan, executive director and co-founder of the American Society for Muslim Advancement, expressed some
openness to that idea on ABC’s “This Week with Christiane Amanpour” but said she would have to meet with the center’s other “stakeholders” first. “We want to build bridges,” Khan said. “We don’t want to create conflict. This is not where we were coming from. So, this is an opportunity for us to really turn this around and make this into something very, very positive. So we will meet, and we will do what is right for everyone.” But Khan also said the angry reaction to the project “is like a metastasized anti-Semitism.” “It’s not even Islamophobia,” she said. “It’s beyond Islamophobia. It’s hate of Muslims.” At the pro-mosque rally, staged a block away from opponents’ demonstrations, several hundred people chanted, “Muslims are welcome here! We say no to racist fear!” Dr. Ali Akram, a 39-year-old Brooklyn physician, came with his three sons and an 11-year-old nephew waving an American flag. He noted that scores of Muslims were among those who died in the towers, and he called those who oppose the mosque “un-American.” “They teach their children about the freedom of religion in America — but they don’t practice what they preach,” Akram said. See MOSQUE on Page 6
searches for available research funding. Other strategies for improvement included collaborations with departments like UT Libraries in various endeavors. “The result of Dr. Fenwick’s initiatives has been an increase in faculty involvement in sponsored programs, dramatic growth in proposal submissions and awards and creation of a staffing structure that enables the increased workload success has brought,” Reed said, according to a UT press release. Under Fenwick’s leadership, the Office of Research has had a host of changes and new programs that have contributed to UT’s continued success and growth. “From laboratory to laboratory, researcher to researcher, that’s where the partnership happens,” Fenwick said, according to a UT press release. “It’s an asset you cannot ignore.” A national search will be conducted by UT using an Atlanta-based firm for the vice chancellor’s replacement. Whoever is chosen as an interim replacement will not be allowed to apply for the position. Fenwick joined UT from Virginia Tech where he served as vice president of research and had previously served as chief science adviser for the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s competitive research program. Fenwick received his bachelor’s, master’s and doctorate degrees in veterinary medicine from Kansas State University and also earned a doctorate from the University of California, Davis where he first became interested in university administration. Fenwick has also served as an editor for the Journal of Microbiology, publishing more than 130 research papers, and was chosen to participate in the Fellows Program of the American Council on Education.
Russian police detain leaders of rally to support national flag Associated Press MOSCOW— Police prevented about 100 opposition activists from marching through Moscow on Sunday with a giant Russian flag and detained three of their leaders, including prominent politician Boris Nemtsov. The opposition activists were celebrating Flag Day, a holiday honoring the tricolor flag adopted by a newly democratic Russia when the Soviet Union collapsed. Nemtsov said the decision to stop a march honoring the Russian flag showed the mentality of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s government. “The flag is a symbol of freedom and democracy, only not for Putin,” Nemtsov said. The date for the holiday was chosen to celebrate the defeat of a hardline communist coup on Aug. 22, 1991. Boris Yeltsin, who famously climbed onto a tank to lead the resistance against the coup plotters, turned the flag into a symbol of an independent Russia. When the Soviet Union ceased to exist on Dec. 25 of that year, the white, blue and red flag was raised over the Kremlin. Nemtsov accused Putin, a former KGB officer, of sharing the mentality of the coup plotters, who were determined to prevent the democratization of the Soviet Union. Putin did not support the coup plotters at the time, but as president he lamented the demise of the Soviet Union and rolled back many of the democratic reforms that Yeltsin had introduced. Nemtsov, who stood with Yeltsin in 1991, served in Russia’s government in the 1990s, including two stints as deputy prime minister. Moscow police said Nemtsov and Mikhail Shneider were detained for trying to lead an unsanctioned march. They had permission to hold a rally but not to march through central Moscow. “You get the impression that Nemtsov and Shneider intentionally provoked the police,” police spokesman Viktor Biryukov told Russian news agencies. Lev Ponomaryov, another prominent opposition leader, was detained later, police See RUSSIA on Page 6 said.
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Climbers ascend UT’s Vol Wall on Thursday, Aug. 19, as part of the Hoe Down, Pull Down. Students enjoyed the HPER’s climbing wall, free food and music as part of the Welcome Week festivity.
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On this day in 1902, pioneering cookbook author Fannie Farmer, who changed the way Americans prepare food by advocating the use of standardized measurements in recipes, opens Miss Farmer's School of Cookery in Boston. In addition to teaching women about cooking, Farmer later educated medical professionals about the importance of proper nutrition for the sick. Farmer was born March 23, 1857, and raised near Boston, Massachusetts. Her family believed in education for women and Farmer attended Medford High School; however, as a teenager she suffered a paralytic stroke that turned her into a homebound invalid for a period of years. As a result, she was unable to complete high school or attend college and her illness left her with a permanent limp. When she was in her early 30s, Farmer attended the Boston Cooking School. Founded in 1879, the school promoted a scientific approach to food preparation and trained women to
become cooking teachers at a time when their employment opportunities were limited. Farmer graduated from the program in 1889 and in 1891 became the school's principal. In 1896, she published her first cookbook, The Boston Cooking School Cookbook, which included a wide range of straightforward recipes along with information on cooking and sanitation techniques, household management and nutrition. Farmer's book became a bestseller and revolutionized American cooking through its use of precise measurements, a novel culinary concept at the time. In 1902, Farmer left the Boston Cooking School and founded Miss Farmer's School of Cookery. In addition to running her school, she traveled to speaking engagements around the U.S. and continued to write cookbooks. In 1904, she published Food and Cookery for the Sick and Convalescent, which provided food recommendations for specific diseases, nutritional information for children and information about the digestive system, among other topics. Farmer's expertise in the areas of nutrition and illness led her to lecture at Harvard Medical School. Farmer died Jan. 15, 1915, at age 57. After Farmer's death, Alice Bradley, who taught at Miss Farmer's School of Cookery, took over the business and ran it until the mid-1940s. The Fannie Farmer Cookbook is still in print today. —This day in History is courtesy of History.com
Monday, August 23, 2010
NATION&WORLD UT Coffee House Mahogany Soul Café is billed as UT’s premier coffee house on campus. Students are encouraged to come and enjoy all that performing arts has to offer. Students, faculty and staff will be performing music, spoken word, poetry, art and theatre at the café. Anyone attending is welcome to perform and Mahogany Soul Café features an open mic performances. All are invited to come and express themselves as well as share their talents. The event is free and will take place at the Black Cultural Center on the last Tuesday of every month. The event begins at 6:30 p.m.
Video Shoot A unique opportunity will take place from 10:30 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. in Hodges Library. The video footage will be used for “halftime spots” allocated to each university involved during sporting events. The finished product is used when airing football and basketball games on network television. Students are simply needed as extras, entering and exiting the shots at the director’s discretion. All-orange and strictly UT attire is not desired, noting that directors are looking to capture students as they would appear in an everyday campus setting. Students interested are asked to dress in normal school-day attire and meet on the first floor of the library by the special collections. Public Auction The University of Tennessee is holding a public auction with items for sale “where-is, as-is.” The auction will consist of 310 lots of surplus material from UT. Items for sale include electronics, computers, laptops, printers, scientific equipment, furniture from offices and dorms and digital video recorders. Some items are marked as special interest pieces including crystal chandeliers, animal cages and stainless steel appliances. All electronics have been cleaned of any previous data. Minors are not allowed to attend the event. All payments are due on the day of the sale and acceptable forms of payment can be found by contacting auctions@utk.edu. The location of the sale will be at the UT Business Services Warehouse, 2111 Stephenson Drive. Inspections of the items will take place from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. today and the auction will be held Tuesday at 9 a.m. Guest Lecture Lindsay Smith will be giving a lecture titled DNA Identification, Human Rights and Transitional Justice. Smith is invited as a part of the Department of Anthropology’s Visiting Lecture Series. The lecture will take place in McClung Museum on Tuesday from 3:40 p.m. to 5 p.m. Smith is visiting UT from UCLA where she is a postdoctoral student with the UCLA Center for Society and Genetics.
Baker Center Event The Baker Center will have Mahmoud Daher speak Wednesday at 7 p.m. in the Toyota Auditorium. “Health Care Provision in the Contexts of Constraint, Conflict, and Complex Emergency: The Case of the Gaza Strip” will be the topic of discussion for the upcoming lecture. Daher is a National Public Health Officer from the World Health Organization and will go into detail on the effects of conflict on youth development as well as the impact on health provisions in emergency conflict zones such as Gaza. Mahmoud Daher has previously worked to fight illnesses among children with the WHO. Conflict with Israel and those in Gaza have led to difficulties in vaccinations and processes necessary for childhood treatment. Daher will go into detail and explain his findings and experiences in working in the Gaza Strip. Alternative Break Applications available Applications for the TeamVOLS sponsored Alternative Break Trips are available now and can be found at activities@utk.edu. The first day of classes marked the beginning of the application and interview process for a chance to partake in a fiveday community service project during class recess. There are two trips planned for both Fall and Spring breaks, with the destinations kept secret until final participants are selected. Students looking to spend their break in a constructive manner are encouraged to apply. Those selected will participate in a community service-oriented project that focuses on helping others while on break from school. Previous organizations that UT students have worked with on alternative breaks have included the Salvation Army, Goodwill, Boys and Girls Clubs, Habitat for Humanity and the Ronald McDonald House. Apart from organizations, previously participating students have worked with state parks, homes for the elderly, local charities, animal shelters and food banks. Past destinations have included Augusta, Ga., Birmingham, Ala., Uniontown, Pa., and New Orleans.
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Rising — Resentment over ground zero mosque The planned construction of an Islamic mosque in New York City is causing quite a stir among native New Yorkers. Hundreds of critics and supporters alike gathered near the site of a proposed $100-million Islamic community center on Sunday to voice their opinions of the center’s constructions near the location of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan. Those who showed up in favor of the construction, many of whom were organized by the NYC Coalition to Stop Islamophobia, waved posters stressing freedom of religion in America. Critics organized by the Coalition to Honor Ground Zero were outspoken against the mosque’s construction near the site where Islamic extremists murdered nearly 2,700 people in the Sept. 11 attacks. Though no local, state or federal statues prevent the facility’s construction and the First Amendment to the Constitution allows free practice of religion in the United States, the number of critics will continue to grow as the center’s construction date creeps closer, especially considering a CNN/Opinion Research Corp. poll rated nationwide opposition to the facility at 68 percent. Falling — Faith in Neyland completion before Sept. 4 opener For those who returned to campus this past week, the progress on Neyland Stadium’s renovation was noticeable. Gate 21 plaza has dramatically improved, while the West Skyboxes and the Tennessee Terrace are now enclosed with glass. But for all the progress made over the summer, there still appears to be plenty of work needed over the next two weeks before UT kicks off at home against UT-Martin. (And judging by the fact that construction crews were working hard on Sunday, we might not be the only ones who feel that way.) Gate 21 still has a ways to go, with concrete pathways yet to be laid, while Phillip Fulmer Way is still buried under dust and supplies. Will our fair stadium still be under the knife for kickoff? Will our players be forced to sidestep bulldozers and bricks amid the famous Vol Walk? Only time will tell. Rising — Need for Emmys your man can smell like Hello ladies. How are you? Fantastic. Look at your man, now back at Isaiah Mustafa. Is your man Isaiah Mustafa? Of course not. But he can now be like Isaiah Mustafa, if only he could star in an award-winning commercial. Can he? Of course not. Not everyone can turn that thing you love into diamonds, or an Emmy. That’s right, the ingenious Old Spice commercial, named “The Man Your Man Could Smell Like” received a Creative Arts Emmy for Best Commercial. Reports say that Mustafa SWAN DIVED into the best night of his life, and onto the stage he built with his bare hands, to receive his trophy. At the afterparty on his boat, Mustafa baked a gourmet cake for guests and at one point was on a horse. So, ladies, maybe if your man stops using lady-scented body wash, maybe he too can win a Creative Arts Emmy. Who knows, you tell me. Rising — Movie patrons having fun at the cinema With autumn and the season of the Oscar bait looming, the era of great summer popcorn movies about dreams and stuff is sadly ending. However, the crap movies usually slated for release during this time, such as “Vampires Suck” (Something else sucks, if you ask us.) are all being straight-up owned by the guys who could have kicked your dad’s ass when he was our age. For the second straight week, “The Expendables” has made it rain on the box office. Sylvester Stallone, clearly on leave from the retirement home where he spends his time eating apple sauce, watching The Price is Right and pumping iron, directed this adorable, bloody little film about mercenary soldiers. Thanks to Sly and the smoking-hot Jason Statham, who kindly shows up to be all British and sexy, Julia Roberts and her stupid movies about eating and praying are getting all kinds of danced on financially. It’s weird. August through September is usually not the best time to go to the movies: It’s when the crap that has no other merit, seriously no merit whatsoever, usually comes out. Luckily, though, the movie gods (i.e. Hollywood producers) have smiled on us this year.
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Definition of poverty should be challenged No tes on Art a n d L i te ra t u re by
Amien Essif
I don’t see immigration as a real issue inasmuch as how a free country shouldn’t be able to decide who can live and work within its borders based on place of birth. Of course, illegal immigration does pose a problem for the limited job market, but as long as WalMart employs workers for $7 a week in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, and $7 an hour in Los Angeles, what do we hope will motivate Mexican workers to stay south of an invisible line in the desert? That is the genius of the 1983 film “El Norte.” This film proposes an answer to our question that far too many of us North, Central and South Americans overlook. We limit ourselves to absurd discussions about how high a fence should be to keep a human from scaling it, or how much fascism is too much fascism in the Arizonan police force. And meanwhile we have little to say about why a person should want to leave his or her homeland for a foreign country. Money, of course, is the given answer. The U.S. has more money and more access to resources, so everyone wants some. “El Norte” begins by introducing a Guatemalan family. In the shadows of the developing first few scenes, we see political corruption and the threat of fascism. But after a day of work picking berries in the foggy Guatemalan mountains, the family sits down to a meal prepared by the women. Golden brown flatbread, rich sauces in wooden bowls and paisano wine cover the little table. The father and mother wear clean clothes highlighted with a full spectrum of dyed wool colors and silver jewelry. They smile. They talk of serious things. The family is together, and the evidence of happiness is unavoidable. There seems to be no dissatisfaction with this lifestyle among the peasants, but still they share a common fantasy of escaping to “el norte,” i.e. the U.S. To them, the U.S. is a kind of El Dorado where “even the poorest people have toilets.” But eventually the reality surfaces. Those who make it across the border into California realize a fact
which should be fundamental to every world view but sadly lacks any real support from those who are literally developing the world. I am talking about the quality of life, and the fact that it has no real connection to wealth. Whenever I bring this up in an argument with someone steeped in capitalist values, they act like I’m breaking the rules of the argument or just trying to make them too angry to rebut. This fact, however, is illustrated quite convincingly in “El Norte,” when the son and daughter of the family arrive in LA, where they find an apartment with electricity and flushing toilets. At this point, the viewer is forced to think, what good is a flushing toilet if one cannot escape the absolute filth that is the LA slums? That’s why the “rising tide lifts all boats” economic theory just doesn’t hold water. If Guatemalan peasants can reap a harvest and lead a clean, comfortable, sustainable and socially satisfying existence for nothing more than the price of seeds and occasional crafted goods, then how can a single welfare dependent in the U.S. waste away in absolute squalor with an income of $100 a week? Because the poor in our country, however relatively rich, must carry the weight of the wealthy on their backs. The poorest of us own cars because our cities were built to necessitate car travel. One can hardly hold a job without a car, but one can hardly pay car insurance and gas expenses earning minimum wage. And on top of that, our poor communities are flooded with an average of five hours of television a day, which conditions them to think more stuff means more happiness. I propose then, in keeping with the message of “El Norte,” that poverty is a state of being that has little to do with money. Illegal immigration, sweatshops, monetary incentive for “developing” nations and so on, are parts of a corrupt system that we’ll never reform if we fail to get rid of the idea that more money equals less poverty. The medicine for poverty is not money but its near opposite: community, which only thrives in an environment of sustainability rather than endless economic growth. So many buzz words! I know, and I’m sorry. But perhaps the film “El Norte” succeeds where I fail in striking past the haze of vocabulary into the heart of what it really means to be poor. — Amien Essif is a senior in English. He can be reached at aessif@utk.edu.
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We human beings are so gosh-darned adaptive; no one can really say when the Internet morphed from a novelty with some convenient functions into a permanent element of our society that has replaced virtually all information technology. It just kind of appeared, and we happily went along with it and embraced its power. Our ability to adapt and learn has taken us from munching on twigs and dying at 20 to working and playing in an infinite cyber realm, but a few days ago our collective complacency about this phenomenon may have led to some rather unwelcome, sudden changes for us all, the outcome of which even those responsible cannot possibly predict. In case you haven’t been following, Google and Verizon made an unprecedented deal earlier this month that will allow them to take full advantage of each other’s infrastructure: Google’s search and data gathering monopoly and array of promoted information services (for starters) and Verizon’s global wireless broadband. A year or so ago, Verizon criticized Google and Skype for freeloading on infrastructure telecoms that were responsible for researching and developing. But we all comprehend the omnipresence of Google; in a very short time, Google has turned what’s going on behind the search box into a multinational corporation with a business model. With its arbitration over search queues and massive data-gathering techniques that facilitate activities like net-wide targeted ads, Google has become more of a de facto Internet gatekeeper than the service providers themselves. Verizon apparently knows this, but what Google knows better than anyone is that wireless broadband is the future of everything. Google also knows that exploding demand for increasingly mobile wireless broadband can only be met by monetizing it in a way other than targeted ads, which is where this starts affecting Google’s stance on “net neutrality,” the principal behind how you’ve known the Internet since AOL. Net neutrality is an attitude about overall Internet “management,” basically stating that Internet carriers and providers, like Comcast or AT&T, cannot discriminate or otherwise alter their services (i.e. speed) toward any specific content or types of traffic for any reason. It’s a rule that’s been backed by the Federal Communications Commission, Washington and Google, effectively keeping the telecoms’ mitts off the Internet, leaving
them only as providers and content creators solely responsible for their content. Didn’t think it could be any different? Now that Google is playing provider with Verizon, it advocates “limited neutrality,” a laughably transparent effort to stay consistent with the rhetoric people are comfortable with, while conveniently claiming that wireless Internet providers should be able to do things like charge content creators, which could be any site on the web not directly affiliated with Google, for extra speed. Or establish a two-laned road, the faster one costing extra. To hear Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google, talk about it: “The issues of wireless versus wireline gets very messy ... and that’s really an FCC issue, not a Google issue.” Oh, the two kinds of Internet are just so confusing. However, there’s really nothing special about a company with shareholders acting in its own selfinterest. What’s different is the FCC has failed to decisively define any boundaries in light of these events, forcing us to embrace however the profit motive manifests itself for our benefit. Yet, if you listen to Schmidt, it is quite clear that Google doesn’t think of itself as a regular business. Schmidt knows exactly the kind of society-altering influence his company wields. “I actually think most people don’t want Google to answer their questions,” he said. “They want Google to tell them what they should be doing next.” Regarding the data Google has stored on you, Schmidt said, “ ... we know roughly who you are, roughly what you care about, roughly who your friends are.” Condensing people into pools of trite data, are we? Though famously the slogan of the pathetic Bing, it’s scary to think what an actual free-will-skewing “decision engine,” the future of search, might be like, where Google tries to anticipate what you want, based on the methods it already uses to send you targeted ads on things like Facebook. And those are, of course, super accurate. By now, Schmidt has quite a collection of overtly dystopian quotes. Look them up. And start using Scroogle.org, a website that uses Google’s search engine while suppressing their data gathering cookies. These kinds of corporate ultimatums should not be taken lying down. Feeling apprehension around these events is more than fear of the unknown; it’s an awareness that Google competition is shrinking across the board, its services are becoming nearly impossible to avoid, and its grasp of the monolithic new technology we’ve all grown cripplingly dependent on has happened so fast that nothing has the precedent of authority to even remotely check them. — Wiley Robinson is an undecided sophomore. He can be reached at rrobin23@utk.edu
Monday, August 23, 2010
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Afghan leader defends move to disband firms Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan — President Hamid Karzai defended his decision to disband private security firms Sunday, saying they were undermining Afghanistan’s police and army and contributing to corruption. Last Monday, Karzai ordered Afghan and international security companies to disband by the end of the year, despite U.S. concerns the short deadline may endanger American development projects that private guards protect. NATO uses private security to guard supply convoys bringing food, water, ammunition and other supplies to military bases throughout the country. Critics have said Afghanistan’s own security forces are not ready to assume the burden. But Karzai told ABC News’ “This Week with Christiane Amanpour” the companies undermine the government’s effort to recruit more police and soldiers because it can’t compete with the private firms in salaries. He also repeated allegations that many companies are contributing to corruption by shaking down transport firms for money, some of which goes to warlords and the Taliban for protection. Even before Karzai’s order last week, U.S. congressional investigators had been looking into allegations that Afghan security firms were extorting as much as $4 million a week from contractors paid with U.S. tax dollars and then funneling the money to warlords and the Taliban to avoid attacks against convoys. Allegations of widespread corruption have also been levied at the Afghan police. “I am appealing to the U.S. taxpayer (to) not allow their hard-earned money to be wasted on groups that are not only providing lots of inconveniences to the Afghan people, but actually are, God knows, in contact with Mafia-
like groups and perhaps also funding militants and insurgents and terrorists through those firms,” Karzai said. The Afghan Interior Ministry has licensed 52 security firms, but some older contracts are still being completed by unlicensed firms, according to the U.S. military. About half of the companies are Afghan owned. About 37 companies are working with the U.S. government, totaling about 26,000 armed security contractors. The majority of those work for the military, though some are employed by the State Department and the U.S. Agency for International Development, according to the military. Karzai said security companies were “running a parallel security structure to the Afghan government” as well as harassing Afghan civilians. “They are wasting billions of dollars of resources, and they are definitely an obstruction, an impediment in a most serious matter to the growth of Afghanistan’s security institutions, the police and the army,” he said. Karzai also promised the two anti-corruption task forces — the Major Crimes Task Force and the Sensitive Investigative Unit — would be allowed to conduct corruption probes of high-level government officials regardless of their political connections. Karzai demanded more control over the work of the two teams, which are mentored by U.S. and British law enforcement officials, after the recent arrest of a top presidential adviser, Mohammad Zia Salehi, for allegedly accepting a car in exchange for help in exerting pressure on Afghan officials to ease off in another corruption case. The Obama administration sees Salehi’s arrest as a litmus test of Karzai’s willingness to fight corruption. Karzai confirmed during the interview he intervened “very, very strongly” because Salehi’s civil rights were violated during his arrest.
“This man was taken out of his house in the middle of the night by 30 Kalashnikov-toting masked men in the name of Afghan law enforcement,” he said. “This is exactly reminiscent of the days of the Soviet Union where people were taken away from their homes by armed people in the name of the state and thrown into obscure prisons in some sort of kangaroo courts.” Nevertheless, Karzai said the case against Salehi would be allowed to proceed according to Afghan law. “Corruption should be handled most effectively ... and with a lot of pressure, but it has to be across the board and apolitical and without vested foreign interests,” he said. Karzai also said he was willing to talk peace with Taliban figures who break with al-Qaida and other terrorist groups — a key U.S. condition — and accept the Afghan constitution. He said there had already been “individual contacts with some Taliban elements” but not formal negotiations. The president acknowledged fears among Afghan women’s groups and ethnic minorities that their political, economic and social gains might be eroded under a future peace agreement with the Taliban, which banned women from most jobs and education during its years in power. Those concerns were heightened last week when Taliban militants in northern Afghanistan stoned a young couple to death for adultery in the first confirmed use of the punishment here since the hard-line Islamist regime was ousted in the U.S.-led invasion of 2001. Karzai said he was in “deep, deep shock” over the stoning and would ensure that women’s representation in peace talks would be “solid and meaningful.” He said the Afghan people must make sure the gains made by women “in political, social and economic walks of life” since the fall of the Taliban were not only protected “but are promoted and advanced further.”
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MOSQUE continued from Page 1 John Green, who lost a friend in the attacks, said that although organizers have the right to build the project, “I think if they moved it, they would get the respect of more Americans than if they play hardball.” He was demonstrating in the
group of mosque opponents. Gila Barzvi, whose son, Guy, was killed in the towers, stood with mosque opponents, clutching a large photo of her son with both hands. “This is sacred ground and it’s where my son was buried,” the native Israeli from Queens said. She said the mosque would be “like a knife in our
NATION&WORLD hearts.” She was joined by a close friend, Kobi Mor, who flew from San Francisco to participate in the rally. If the mosque gets built, “we will bombard it,” Mor said. He would not elaborate but added that he believes the project “will never happen.” Rauf, in an interview with Bahrain’s Al Wasat newspaper, said America’s sweeping constitutional rights are
more in line with Islamic principles than the limits imposed by some Muslim nations. “American Muslims have the right to practice their religion in accordance with the Constitution of the United States,” Rauf said. “I see the article of independence as more compliant with the principles of Islam than what is available in many of the current Muslim countries.”
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Monday, August 23, 2010 Opposition marches and rallies are regularly broken up by police. In some cases, officers detain dozens of participants, carrying or pushing them into waiting buses. Most are freed within a day, but some have served jail
time or been fined. Opposition activists won the support of some of Russia’s best-known rock musicians to play at a protest rally in central Moscow on Sunday evening that drew about 3,000 people. The rally was part of a broad campaign to try to stop the destruction of a centuries-old oak forest that is soon to be cut down so a highway can be built from Moscow to St. Petersburg. City authorities gave permission for the rally to be held, but said no sound equipment could be used, only megaphones. Yury Shevchuk, a rock star who attracted wider fame after a televised confrontation with Putin, sang some of his best-loved songs while accompanying himself on an acoustic guitar. The crowd joined in, helping the music carry across Pushkin Square. Even some of the hundreds of police officers hummed along. In his exchange with Putin in May, Shevchuk challenged him to allow Russians to hold anti-government protests.
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Flowers adorn the Pedestrian Mall outside of Hodges Library. The foliage was a welcome sight to students returning to campus last week.
Pat Summitt says, “Recycle your Beacon!”
Monday, August 23, 2010
ENTERTAINMENT
Artist to display unique ‘Structures’ David Barnett Staff Writer Jane South is renowned for her sculptural drawings, which she has been creating and exhibiting since 2001. Her sculptures, made from basic architectural supplies like balsa wood, paper, acrylic paint and colored inks, give the appearance of structural integrity though they are, in fact, quite fragile. In South’s upcoming show, “Shifting Structures,” which opens at the Knoxville Museum of Art on Aug. 27, she is displaying one enormous piece that nearly fills the gallery space. Constructed with balsa wood and folded paper, the structure is an aggregate of hundreds of smaller, complex pieces that are designed to look like ladders, boxed grids, cages or latticed arches. Her sculptures are site specific, meaning that she has removed or exchanged many of the smaller components so that the structure is appropriate for the dimensions and layout of the gallery space. The structure in “Shifting Structures” is painted white, gray and black and has artificial shadows marked with fine crosshatching. She has painted two of the gallery space’s walls gray, leaving the other two white. Upon first glance, the viewer is left disoriented, not entirely certain what the structure is. What is two-dimensional? What is three-dimensional? How is it made? Which of its shadows are real? How should one even approach the behemoth? Her structure is intended to represent a space within a space that disorients the viewer. It forces people to reconsider their relationship, their “phenomenological experience,” with the architecture that surrounds them. South gets her inspiration from riding her bike in Brooklyn, N.Y., when the buildings quickly come toward and move away from her. She says that human experiences are “snapshots that are seamlessly mended together … I think of it like how cubist paintings are constructed.”
When she first moved to Brooklyn, she was living in a run-down, industrial neighborhood. The buildings — former warehouses and factories — had been gutted and transformed into artist studios. The people who moved in, however, were not artists. They were wealthy people only interested in the “idea” of an artist’s living space. South is fascinated by the way that people imagine the idea of an object, as opposed to the way those objects really exist. She claims that New York and other urban centers “are essentially facades … we are living in something that is not really real.” Many buildings give the appearance that they are structurally sound or built with good, expensive material. Yet, most buildings are built with steel and concrete and ornamented with fancy brickwork. In an interview with Alexandra Tursi on identitytheory.com, South talks about the raw beauty of the Manhattan Bridge: “It’s all exposed, it is what it is with no disguise. Machinery, likewise, has the form it has because of how it needs to operate — it’s no-nonsense stuff and there’s a beauty in that.” About art, she said, “It’s not functional, but it is necessary for these forms to be seen — like Duchamp.” Her sculpture shows the viewer forms outside of their normal context. Like Duchamp’s “Urinal,” her sculpture isn’t meant to be didactic or represent any social commentary. She claims that she only wants to re-create an experience of shifting perspectives for the viewers. Jane South’s sculpture forces viewers to reconsider those ubiquitous architectural forms of urban landscapes. It confuses the viewers’ senses with illusory materials and shadows. The sculpture is compelling, as it begs everyone to question what is real and what is superficial. It also suggests, darkly, an ever-present absurdity. Perhaps the “real” and the “illusory” cannot be distinguished.
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The Knoxville Museum of Art, located just west of World’s Fair Park, is scheduled to open an exhibit featuring artist Jane South. South’s exhibit, “Shifting Structures,” is made up of mixed-media pieces that blend sculpture, drawing and architecture.
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Matisyahu took the stage at the Humanities Amphitheatre for a free student concert on Saturday night as part of UT’s Welcome Week activities.
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Inexperience shows in Vols practice Associated Press Coach Derek Dooley is comfortable with most of his first-team players after the Volunteers’ final fall scrimmage; it’s the backups he’s worried about. The Vols spent Saturday working on specific situations, like running out the clock or needing to win late in the game, and those situations exposed the team’s young and inexperienced players. “We need a ton of work at this stuff,” Dooley said. “The players that had experience were calm and played well, and the ones that didn’t and are new, and the freshmen, really struggled.” Two seasons of coaching turnovers prompted the departure of several would-be sophomores and juniors who would be filling the backup roles. The Vols currently have 76 scholarship players — nine fewer than the NCAA’s limit of 85. “I’m not worried about what we don’t have, but today it really showed,” Dooley said. Tennessee didn’t release statistics on the scrimmage, which was closed to the media and the public. Dooley said the team would review the film and do whatever it could to correct the issues before the Sept. 4 season opener against UT-Martin.
The offense didn’t have the kind of big runs or passes it’s had in the previous scrimmages, partly because of defensive improvement and partly because of missed assignments on the offense’s behalf, center Cody Pope said. “We didn’t have as many explosive plays, so it was hard to really get a lot of energy, I guess,” he said. “Because you know, a big play and everyone gets energized, but it was kind of like cutting down a tree. You’ve just got to keep cutting, keep cutting, until that thing comes down. Eventually we broke some big plays.” Matt Simms threw one interception, while Tyler Bray threw several picks. Linebacker Savion Frazier finally got his hands on one, after dropping several in the previous scrimmage, and took it into the end zone. “I dropped three balls last week with no gloves,” Frazier said. “They kept telling me to put some gloves on, so I told them I’d wear some gloves today. I got me a pick and took it to the crib.” One of UT’s key defensive backs, safety Janzen Jackson, struggled a bit after missing several fall practices with a hamstring injury. Jackson is one of only two defensive backs with significant playing time. “He’s very behind and he hurt us a lot today, and it’s because he missed so much practice,” Dooley said.
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The Pedestrian Mall is filled with booths as part of the Student InVOLvement Fair. Campus organizations participated in the Welcome Week activity by offering new and returning students information about how to get involved on campus.
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Busch earns record sweep at Bristol Associated Press As Kyle Busch crossed the finish line for a three-race sweep, his crew quickly credited the driver for his role in the record-setting moment. “We are in the presence of greatness,” a team member said over the radio. Indeed, they were. Busch completed an unprecedented sweep of three national races in one week, completing the trifecta with a victory in the Sprint Cup race at Bristol Motor Speedway. He hoisted a broom in Victory Lane, where he made his third visit in four days. “I’ve been trying to do this since I got to NASCAR,” said Busch, who has tried for a three-race sweep five times in his career. “I love Bristol and I love winning,” he said. “And to do it for the first time ever in NASCAR, to sweep the weekend, man, that’s pretty awesome.” Busch also won the Nationwide race Friday night and the Trucks race Wednesday night to become the first driver to complete the sweep since NASCAR expanded to three national series in 1995.
“He’s pretty good,” Joe Gibbs Racing President J.D. Gibbs said. “To do all three of those back-to-back was a big deal.” The Cup victory, his third of the season and third in the last four at Bristol, was drama-free after another round in his ongoing feud with Brad Keselowski. Busch admitted to intentionally wrecking Keselowski late in the Nationwide race, and he celebrated that win by mockingly rubbing his eyes like a crying baby as the crowd showered him with boos. Keselowski vowed revenge over the public address system to the delight of the Bristol crowd. The barbs continued all the way up to the start of the Cup race. As Busch was booed in pre-race introductions, he sarcastically told the crowd, “Aw, you’re so loving.” Keselowski was introduced moments later, taking the microphone and earning a thunderous cheer by saying, “I’m Brad Keselowski ... Kyle Busch is (a jerk).” There was almost no chance of an on-track altercation, though, as the two hardly raced near each other for most of the night. Keselowski did make it hard for Busch to pass him late in the race, when Keselowski was fighting not to go a lap down, but Busch made a clean move around him
USA tops Spain in warmup game Associated Press Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim called for a switch to his trademark "Orange" 2-3 zone with the United States clinging to a one-point lead. Kevin Durant did the rest, blocking shots by Ricky Rubio and Rudy Fernandez in the final seconds in the Americans' 86-85 victory over Spain on Sunday in a warmup game for the world championships. "Jim Boeheim said, 'Let's go orange,'" U.S. head coach Mike Krzyzewski said. "So we did. It was his suggestion and our guys did a good job with that." Durant led the United States with 25 points. The decision to go to the zone defense for the last play caught Spain off-guard after Derrick Rose put the Americans ahead with two free throws. "I just wanted to cover as much ground as I could and help
my teammates," said Durant, who also had 10 rebounds. "I just didn't want to foul on a 3pointer so I stayed down and, luckily, game over." The United States rallied after Spain — 13 points behind after three quarters — took a one-point lead on Juan Carlos Navarro's three-point play with 27 seconds left. "It was one of those games that was a learning experience for us and I think we made key plays down the stretch," Durant said. "We also played as a team and stuck through tough times." Navarro scored 20 points in the first game between the teams since the Americans won the 2008 Olympic final. It was the first loss in nine games for Spain, the defending world champion. The world championships begin Saturday in Turkey. Spain took the lead for the first time with 90 seconds to play. Rubio's stutter step into the lane drew attention and allowed
the teen point guard to feed Felipe Reyes for an easy layup and an 82-80 lead. But Durant answered before Rose got past Rubio and avoided Marc Gasol's block to score with a one-handed shot that put the U.S. up 84-82 with 33 seconds to play. "We made one more play than they did and that's why we won," Krzyzewski said. Rose finished with 13 points, and Lamar Odom had 12 points and nine rebounds for the United States, 3-0 on its exhibition tour. "I thought 'I've got to hit them,'" Rose said about his winning free throws. "Over here, people are going to remember me for this." The U.S. travels to Athens on Monday to play Greece in its final warmup match ahead of the world championships. "It was a great challenge and we should take this and run with it," Rose said. Gasol had 17 points for Spain.
in his No. 18 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota after several attempts. “Great job,” his team radioed after the pass. “I know,” Busch replied. “I have more class.” Rogers reiterated that after Busch completed the victory. “Some wiseguys got introduced behind him, and he raced like a champion and handled it with class all day,” Rogers said. David Reutimann rallied from a bout with food poisoning to finish second in a Toyota for Michael Waltrip Racing, his first top-15 finish since winning at Chicago last month. “I feel really, really good about the finish, but I’m not feeling so hot right now,” Reutimann said after the race. “I’m ready to go to sleep at some point. Maybe now.” Jamie McMurray was third in a Chevrolet for Earnhardt Ganassi Racing, a finish good enough to move him to 13th in the standings. He trails Clint Bowyer by 100 points for the 12th and final spot in the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship. But McMurray said he’s not focused on making the Chase field. Two races remain in the “regular season.” “I’m really fortunate this year that we were able to win
those two big races because if we don’t make the Chase, it’s not going to be devastating,” said McMurray, winner of the Daytona 500 and the Brickyard 400. Bowyer rallied from an early pit-road speeding penalty to finish fourth in a Chevrolet for Richard Childress Racing, and he moved a step closer to locking down the final spot in the Chase. Mark Martin, who started the night 35 points behind Bowyer in 13th place, finished 23rd and is now 14th in the standings, 101 points out. “We’ve got two races to go, two good race tracks,” Bowyer said. “I love Atlanta, run well there, and I love Richmond, run well there. With any luck at all, we’ll be in this thing.” Kasey Kahne was fifth in a Ford for Richard Petty Motorsports, and Ryan Newman was sixth in a Chevrolet for Stewart-Haas Racing. Juan Pablo Montoya, McMurray’s teammate, finished seventh despite damage to his car from contact that wrecked four-time defending series champion Jimmie Johnson. The pole-sitter, Johnson finished 35th. Greg Biffle was eighth in a Ford for Roush Fenway Racing, Penske Racing’s Kurt Busch was the highest finishing Dodge, and RFR’s Matt Kenseth rounded out the top 10.
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IN SPORTS
Aug. 23 - Aug. 29
Friday, Aug. 28 — Women’s Volleyball Xavier Knoxville 7 p.m. Women’s Soccer Maryland Knoxville 8 p.m.
Saturday, Aug. 29 — Women’s Volleyball Chattanooga Knoxville 12 p.m. Women’s Volleyball Virginia Tech Knoxville 7 p.m.
Daily Quote
“I’d rather be here with 72 (scholarship players) than just about anywhere else.” – UT football coach Derek Dooley after Saturday’s scrimmage exposed the Vols’ lack of depth
Monday, August 23, 2010
Matthew Osborne Staff Writer After a disappointing 2009 season in which the Lady Vols soccer team finished with a record of 8-9-3 and didn’t reach the NCAA tournament for the first time in coach Angela Kelly’s tenure at UT, the Lady Vols are ready to take the field once again. Kelly enters her 10th season at Tennessee and has compiled a record of 127-59-16 during her time in Knoxville. Kelly had led the Lady Vols to nine straight NCAA tournament appearances before last season. The Lady Vols return eight full-time starters and 18 players from last year’s team, which lost to the Florida Gators in the SEC tournament. The Lady Vols welcome five newcomers to Rocky Top this year, including highly touted freshman Sanna Saarinen from Finland, who played for the Finnish Under-19 national team. The four remaning include Tori Bailey from Michigan, Caroline Brown from Pennsylvania, Caroline Capocaccia from Memphis and junior transfer Chelsea Kephart from Georgia Southern University. Kelly said that all players were expected to be fit and were when entering preseason camp this year. The soccer team had 14 practices to prepare for this season, including an exhibition match against the Louisville Cardinals, which the Lady Vols won 2-1.
She expects her team to compete annually for a conference title and hopes it to be the hardest working team in the U.S. “We have a dynamic front six, and our off-theball movement is really good,” Kelly said. The front six is led by senior forward Anna Fisher, who is coming off a broken leg suffered in a game against Arkansas last season. “I’m excited for this season, because it feels good to be healthy,” Fisher said. “Western Kentucky will be my first game since the injury and the rehab.” Fisher echoed Kelly’s expectations for this season. “We have high hopes for this year,” she said. “It’s going to be our year for a comeback, not only for me but also this team.” This Lady Vols team will be battle-tested as it makes a run toward another NCAA tournament appearance. The Lady Vols have nonconference games against perennial power North Carolina in Chapel Hill, N.C., Arizona and Arizona State in Tempe, Ariz., and will play host to the Wisconsin Badgers and instate foe Chattanooga Lady Mocs before running the SEC gauntlet. The Lady Vols won a non-conference contest against Western Kentucky, 3-0, Friday, outshooting the Lady Hilltoppers by a final tally of 23-2. Junior midfielder and Preseason AllSEC Team selection Chelsea Hatcher had a goal and an assist for the Lady Vols.
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Lady Vol Amy Harrison advances past a Memphis defender in a soccer game last season. The Lady Vols opened their season against Western Kentucky Friday, Aug. 20 in a dominating fashion, routing their opponents 3-0 in the home opener.