Y-12 historian Ray Smith visits the Baker Center >>See >> See page 2
The Band Perry performs at Smokies Stadium >>See >> See page 3
Staff grades Vols’ preformance against Govs >>See >> See page 6
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Since his hiring in December, Butch Jones has given Volunteer fans every reason to be enamored with their new head football coach. Whether it be the recruitment of highly-touted high school players or screaming into a microphone as the Vols practiced in front of droves of fans, Jones has given UT reason for optimism. With the anticipation of the 2013 UT season at it’s climax, the Butch Jones era officially began on Saturday as the Vols defeated the Austin Peay Governors 45-0. Even though Saturday resulted in Jones’ first victory as UT’s head coach, he placed the milestone of the program reaching its 800th win over his own. Elevating tradition over every other aspect is nothing new for Jones. “I don’t think we should ever undervalue that,” Jones said in regards to the milestone victory. “That is something that is very, very special in the world of college football, it’s part of our tradition and there are only eight total teams in all of college football that can speak in those terms relative to winning 800plus games now in their program. “I want to thank all the former players, the coaches and everyone that has really laid the foundation and the hard work for this football program.” With all the excitement around the program and pressure on Jones, Austin Peay may not have been the biggest test on paper, but it was still his only chance to make a good first impression on the Volunteer faithful. Regardless, as game day dawned on Neyland Stadium, he said he was not nervous. See FOOTBALL SIDEBAR on Page 5
ing for it, but it is entirely optional.” Poorly-conducted evaluations by supervisors are frequent occurrences, Smyser said, adding that the assessments are “pretty much a joke.” “Someone I know had a supervisor write on their evaluation that they were not a ‘team player’ and so they were marked poorly on that section,” he said. “It made no sense because that man works by himself in a building. Now he won’t be able to get a raise.”
At UT, sports are a religion, and games a kind of ritual. For devoted spectators and players alike, this way of life extends beyond Neyland Stadium, as the crowd proved at Friday’s opening of the new RecSports fields on Sutherland Avenue. The cutting of the ribbon at the 38-acre sporting complex marked the beginning of what many consider a new era of intramural and club sports. “Tonight is about two groups of people,” said Will Carver, a UT alumnus and former student body president. “It’s about people 15 years ago who had a vision… it took a second group of people with some motivation to get us here.” Many distinguished guests and donors appeared for the opening, in addition to former SGA student body presidents, including the 2012-2013 president Adam Roddy. Attendees were served a complimentary dinner after the formal ribbon-cutting ceremony. Several club teams came to christen the untouched fields. The new facilities, which were solely funded by student activities fees, include eight rectangular playing fields, split evenly between astro-turf and natural grass landscaping, two softball fields and three state-of-the-art sand volleyball courts. “We looked at some of the best sand volleyball facilities,” said Rex Pringle, director of RecSports. “We hope we’ve got something even better than that.” The courts near the TRECS, though convenient, have a history of injury, making the safety features of the new sand volleyball courts invaluable. “We have lights, better sand, not as many injuries,” said Leah Bednarczyk, a senior studying speech pathology. “I think they’re really nice. They have the rubber so it’s not as compacted, no skinned knees.” Reflecting major reform in administrative spending, the complex represents the university’s renewed commitment to fund projects students really want. “What’s most important is just the field availability,” said Olivia Cantrell, senior in plant sciences and member of the women’s rugby club team. “More often than not, for rugby anyway, I can say that we’ve had a problem trying to secure good fields for our competition play.
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Junior running back Marlin Lane shakes off Austin Peay defenders as he trots for a touchdown in the first quarter during UT’s season-opening 45-0 win over the Governors on Saturday.
Custodial issues not easily swept under rug Hayley Brundige Staff Writer They clean our bathrooms, pick up our trash and maintain the appearance of the campus. They are the UT facilities workers. Facility services is a broad department that includes building, landscape and lock and key services on a campus with more than 260 buildings, 556 acres and 33 miles of sidewalks and plazas. Josh Smyser is a facility services worker who cleans the Stokely Management Center.
Smyser has been employed by the university for a little over a year. “It’s a decent job,” Smyser said, “but it could be better.” According to Smyser, there are three major issues with the job; the wages, the employee evaluation system and the mistreatment of workers by supervisors. Based on a UT Faculty Senate study conducted for the 2010-11 academic year, a “living wage” is around $9 an hour, or $25,000 per year. The study defined a living wage as one that is “sufficient to pay for the basic bare-bones needs
of a family living in today’s America without having to resort to public benefits, crime or private charity.” The present base pay for UT facilities workers is $8.50 an hour. “I’m single, so it’s a little easier for me to live on that salary,” Smyser said. “But I know people who have families to support and they really struggle.” In order for facility workers to receive more than the base pay, they must score well on evaluations conducted by their supervisor. “The current push is to
make all pay raises performance-based rather than across the board increases,” said Janet Miles, vice president of the United Campus Workers Knoxville chapter. “This means that a poor performance evaluation has a direct negative effect on an employee.” The reasoning behind this type of system seems sound, Miles said, but there are issues with the way employees are assessed that make evaluations arbitrary and inaccurate. “There is no consistent system-wide process for writing performance evaluations,” Miles said. “There is train-
Film to address sociological stigmas Gabrielle O’Neal Staff Writer UT’s sociology department is using film to open dialogue on today’s sociological issues in a series called “A Sociologist at the Movies.” The first film, “The Trial,” will be shown Sept. 3 at 7:30 p.m. in Hodges Library auditorium. Joel Crombez, the film series coordinator, said he hopes the series will provide a forum to discuss sociology in a modern and culturally-based context. “Our goal with the film series is to open up a wider conversation with the UT community on sociological topics and contemporary concerns,” said Crombez, who also doubles as a graduate teaching associate in the sociology department. “While traditionally the series has focused on spe-
cific social issues through the viewing documentary films, this semester, we are looking at some of the larger issues relating to life in modern society as reflected in many fiction-based movies.” Although these movies are “fiction-based,” Anitra Selmon, senior in sociology, said they can provide an interesting perspective on sociology and the way people interact with one another. “I think you can see sociological concepts in everything, even movies,” Selmon said. “Examples of that include social class, social institutions, social norms, and the values we place on things.” Selmon said she never really noticed those things until she became a sociology major. “If we see a movie where there’s a low class worker wanting to move up in the company, and his boss is a prominent business man, we
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usually don’t analyze it conscientiously,” Selmon explained. “But if we do, you can see that there is a class struggle. They have two different statuses and therefore two different roles in society. This is part of our social system.” “The Trial,” the first film in the series, was originally written as a novel by Franz Kafka circa 1914 and was later adapted to the screen by acclaimed “Citizen Kane” director Orson Welles in 1962. “While the film did not have the same commercial success as Welles’ other masterpieces, he stated publicly that he viewed this as his best film,” Crombez said. “It features the protagonist Josef K. who awakes one morning and is arrested; his entire life is changed by this single event, although he is never told what his crime is.”
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CAMPUS NEWS CUSTODIANS continued from Page 1 A lack of supervisory training can lead to substandard leadership skills, Smyser said. “My boss was not really trained to be a supervisor,” he said. “He and others just make it up as they go along, which can lead to a sort of dictatorial style. They just want to tell you what to do even if they don’t know the right way or have never read the code of conduct.” There have been reports of supervisors verbally abusing employees in front of other workers and UT students. “The way some supervisors talked to us made me feel beneath myself,” said Gary Thomas, who recently retired from his job maintaining the Dougherty Engineering Building due to a disability. “I’m a human being, too, and [supervisors] act like they’re better than us. They just don’t care.” “There’s really no way to guard against verbal abuse,” Smyser said. “Some people carry around recording devices in their pockets so they can defend themselves.” According to the UCW, the mistreatment of facility employees has led to almost a 50 percent turnover rate since January of 2012. “Understaffing is constant,” Smyser said. “If you don’t treat people well, if you don’t pay people well, they don’t stay.” On May 1 of this year, Smyser and four other facilities services employees led a “Justice for UT Custodians Speakout” to air their grievanc-
es. Approximately 70 people were in attendance at the UC Shiloh Room where the meeting was held, according to the Knoxville News Sentinel. “At a public institution, this kind of bully culture is completely unacceptable,” Smyser said in a media advisory for the speakout. “And the record shows that management is making it unbearable.” Karen Ann Simsen, UT media and internal relations director addressed the allegations in a statement responding to the speakout. “We take very seriously all of the claims that have been alleged by the custodial employees of Facilities Services,” Simsen said. Some response has resulted from the event, Smyser said, but not in all areas or to the extent desired by the facility workers. “There still needs to be clear expectations that we’re measured by and that everyone acknowledges,” Smyser said. “I worked for the county school system and there we had checklists and procedures to follow to clean different areas. None of that exists here. “And we need to be paid a livable wage for the job. Our union is reinitiating a living wage campaign that we are hoping will produce change.” Thomas falls under the same belief. “UT is a great place to go to school,” Thomas said, “And a great place to watch a football game, but I’ve seen things that need to change.” To learn more about UCW and their current initiatives, visit www.ucw-cwa.org/ or like the United Campus Workers Facebook page.
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Historian offers glimpse into ORNL Blaine Boles Contributor The walls and mystery that surround the Oak Ridge National Laboratory are enough to intrigue most Knoxville residents. And for a select few, their curiosity was fed on Aug. 30. The mysteries of the so-called “Secret City” were revealed to an attentive audience on Friday as Oak Ridge historian Ray Smith held a lecture in the Baker Center as a part of the Nuclear Security brown bag series. An expert on the evolution of the Oak Ridge National Security Complex, Smith spoke about the plant’s development since its inception 70 years ago. Now known as Y-12, the facility was initially designed to make highly-enriched uranium through the use of Calutrons. Calutrons – known as California University Cyclotrons – spin the uranium to separate U-238 particles from the closely associated U-235 particles to purify the substance. Smith illustrated this complicated process in more simplistic terms. “If I had two rubber bands hanging down from my hand, and I put a golf ball on one, and a ping pong ball on the other, then I held it down on my side and spun it real quick for a half-turn, the golf ball would stretch it further than the ping pong ball. I’d get two arcs,” Smith said. Sparked by a letter from Albert Einstein to President
RECSPORTS continued from Page 1 “For competition, it’s going to be really exciting to be able to use this facility,” Cantrell continued. “We’ll actually feel like a division one team.” Chancellor Jimmy Cheek also emphasized the importance of the new fields for the success of club sports at UT. “We’re now able to host other colleges,” Cheek said. “It’s always good to show them a world-class facility.” Although the fields provide opportunities for organized sport-
Roosevelt, Smith described the Manhattan Project as an effort to outpace Germany’s nuclear aspirations. With an incentive to work quickly, scientists were forced to learn on the job. Even so, numerous precautions were taken in the material development and plant design at Oak Ridge to protect workers. Planned with safety in mind, the plants were built between two ridges – Oak Ridge and Pine Ridge – where, if some of the active material exploded, the majority of the blast would be controlled. The enriched uranium was transported in gold-lined briefcases and covered by cloth as another cautionary measure. Upon later investigation, it was revealed that Alpha radiation given off by moderate quantities of uranium is not harmful. President Roosevelt’s administration poured approximately $480 million into the Manhattan Project. A massive amount of enriched U-235 – 60 kilograms – was needed to make the warheads, nicknamed “Small Boy” and “Fat Man.” With the help of then-Tennessee Sen. Kenneth McKellar, Oak Ridge was deemed the proper spot due to its burgeoning workforce of 22,000 manual laborers and relatively unknown location. Since the end of the Cold War, the mission statement of Oak Ridge has altered. Its purpose is now to protect essential nuclear materials, downgrade naval reac-
tors from highly enriched uranium to much lower enriched uranium and help stop the spread of nuclear weapons around the world. Efforts to continue work have been thwarted by anti-nuclear activists like Megan Rice, a Roman Catholic nun who broke into the Y-12 facility on July 28, 2012, and splashed blood on the highly enriched uranium materials facility. In an interview with The New York Times, Rice explained the political agenda behind her pro-
test. “We spend more on nuclear arms than on the departments of education, health, transportation, disaster relief and a number of other government agencies,” Rice said. Looking into the future of Oak Ridge, Smith said that ground was broken on a new national uranium processing plant to be built within the next decade. More information on Y-12 can be found at the laboratory’s website, www.ornl.gov.
ing events, the complex will also be available for use by the general student body. “Our open hours are posted on our website,” said Becky Dahl, the assistant director of programs at RecSports. “There’ll be programmed events out here during that time, but the places that aren’t programmed will be open for informal recreation.” The upgraded facilities will also draw official events and games away from the original intramural fields located on campus. “The second benefit of it is that that field directly next to the TRECS will be open primarily for informal recreation,” Dahl said. “We don’t
plan to schedule very many events there to keep that as really a free play-space when the marching band isn’t practicing during the week.” The RecSports fields at Sutherland are approximately three miles from campus and can be reached by car or the Third Creek Greenway, which connects the complex to campus. “If you’re a freshman and don’t have a car, it kinda sucks because you gotta drive here to get here,” Dylan Platz, a senior majoring in English, said. “It would take forever to walk here, but by bike ... probably like 15 minutes, and that’s not going too fast. That’s (a) pretty easy pace. So yeah, the location is fine for, you
know, upperclassmen who know what they’re doing.” Although buses were provided to shuttle students to the opening of the complex, UT’s transportation system will not provide a “T” route to the fields due to budget limits and cost increases caused by the updating of the campus bus system. SGA president Jake Baker said the fields are a valuable campus improvement. “As a current student, I’m so excited to see this complex open,” Baker said. “This is an amazing addition to Big Orange Country.” For more information and hours, visit the RecSports website at www. recsports.utk.edu.
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Ray Smith, Y-12 National Security Complex’s historian, talked on “Stories from the Secret City” at the Baker Center on Aug. 30. The “Secret City” tells the tales of scientific and industrial achievement in the history of Oak Ridge.
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Knoxv lle Natural ingredients fuel local popsicle shop
The idea of PopCulture was born when Mitchell took his daughter to a similar shop in Nashville. Hammett said the When someone hears the visits made him realize that the term “pop culture,” they usupopsicles changed people’s attially think of modern media or tudes. entertainment. For Knoxville “He (Mitchell) noticed that residents, however, a more frothe people coming out of the zen and tasty alternative has store were all happy,” Hammett taken its place. said. “That was where his idea PopCulture is a local busibegan.” ness that sells gourmet frozen After experimenting in • Photo Courtesy of PopCulture popsicles, properly referred to as “paletas.” Located on Walnut PopCulture, located on the his kitchen at home, Mitchell Street, the business is owned corner of Walnut Street and moved to Knoxville and soon became, according to his busiby Jason Mitchell, an entreChurch Avenue, offers unique ness card, “Chief Pop Officer,” preneur who wanted to create an all-natural popsicle business. and healthy frozen popsicles so he could fulfill his lifelong One of the ways he accom- in a variety of tastes, colors dream. plishes his business motto is and flavors to the Knoxville “I spent 25 years in the corporate environment, and this through buying locally-pro- community. is a lot lower stress,” Mitchell duced ingredients. “I decided, because I went flourish in the Knoxville com- said. “I wanted to have fun, and I wanted to enjoy what I do.” to a lot of farmers markets, that munity. In order to make his business I could source locally as much as “To keep it local, you know the possible,” Mitchell said. “This farmers, and you know where it better known throughout the way, it’s sort of my little part of comes from, and you can learn campus community, Mitchell has doing something healthy, and what is actually in your food,” been selling his products at the they still taste good without add- Mitchell said. “When customers UT Farmers Market at the UT ing all that other garbage in it.” walk up to me at a farmers mar- Gardens. He said his bestselling PopCulture employee Lois ket and ask about the fruit, I can popsicle flavor is the Strawberry Hammett has watched the busi- just point to the farmer that I get Lemonade. “The Strawberry Lemonade ness grow since it opened in the ingredients from.” is a safe, good starting flavor,” 2012 and says the healthier In the future, Mitchell said he aspects of local ingredients have hopes the business will expand Mitchell said. “It always sells betdrawn locals in. while keeping its local identity. ter that anything else.” The mission of PopCulture “Americans are trying to He said the wide variety of popbe more health conscious,” sicle flavors will help the busi- is to brighten each visitor’s day, and, according to Mitchell, he Hammett said. “The local ingre- ness succeed at larger festivals. dients are all-natural fresh pro“I sold popsicles at the Bristol just wants to make his guests duce and they’re really healthy. Motor Speedway last week, and happy. “I like seeing people smile,” They aren’t the popsicles you I want to do a lot of the music buy at Kroger.” festivals, like Bonnaroo and Mitchell said. “There’s a sense The aspect of knowing where other big events like that, and of satisfaction of creating somethe business’ ingredients derive use that to get the word out,” thing that people enjoy, even if it’s just a temporary dessert.” from has helped PopCulture to Mitchell said.
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The Band Perry performed at the Smokies Stadium in Sevierville on Thursday, Aug. 29. The country group is comprised of Kimberly Perry on lead vocals, guitar and piano, Reid Perry on bass guitar and background vocals and Neil Perry on mandolin, drums and accordion. “It was amazing,” said Stephenie Brown, graduate student in mathematics. Performing songs from their latest album “Pioneer” and their self-titled freshman album, the family had a two hour set in front of a crowd of around 5,000 attendees. “I watch them and listen to them all the time,” said Angela Cardinale, Maryville resident. “Their energy is ridiculous.”
SOCIOLOGY FILM continued from Page 1 Last year, films shown in the sociology film series were documentaries instead of fiction-based movies. These included “Gas Land,” an investigation of the natural gas industry, hydraulic fracturing also known as “fracking” and the communities affected by natural gas extraction processes, “A Family Undertaking,” which
examines the industrialization of death and burials and “Collapse,” which focused on unsustainable energy and financial policies and how they have led to an ongoing collapse of modern industrial civilization. “The goal of the series is to continue the tradition of sociological thinking and to encourage our community to use their
sociological imagination when confronting the problems we face as both individuals and as a community both locally and globally,” Crombez said. Film showings are free to attend. For more information on “A Sociologist at the Movies,” contact Joel Crombez at jcrombez@ utk.edu.
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Religion, science must coexist to continue growing knowledge Turn of Phrase by Sarah Hagaman Honey and vinegar. Miley Cyrus and teddy bears. Polka dots and stripes. Science and religion. Sometimes, it appears certain things just shouldn’t mix — especially in the modern academic world, in the ongoing debate concerning science and religion. Science and religion have long fostered a relationship that has proven to be more dramatic and complicated than an afternoon soap opera. Many American schools and scholastic institutions around the world have had difficulty establishing a firm line between hard scientific facts and the decidedly more elusive matters of religion and metaphysical beliefs. Experts in academic realms deliberate both areas and often arrive at different conclusions. The head of the National Institute of Health, Francis Collins, contends the two realms are simply incompatible. “If God is outside of nature,” Collins said, “then science can neither prove nor disprove his existence.” Other scientists defend the overarching authority of scientific inquiry, including Cambridge’s renowned physicist Stephen Hawking. “There is a fundamental difference between religion, which is based on authority, [and] science, which is based on observation and reason,” Hawking told ABC News in June 2010. “Science will win because it works.” Yet this summer, while studying at Cambridge University in the UK, I found my basic assumptions concerning the two volatile academic topics were not always correct. As I strolled amongst century-old buildings and institutions, I noticed a common theme that kept recurring. Cambridge’s colleges had very prominent names: Emmanuel, Trinity, Christ’s, St. John’s, Corpus Christi, Jesus, Magdalene, Trinity Hall. Every college within the university contains a historic chapel, along with a dining hall, dormitories and a library. I could not help but wonder—is there not something wrong with this picture? How do such academic—and scientific—powerhouses operate under overtly spiritual names? From a strictly historical standpoint, the issues between science and religion did not always seem to pose such a problem. In fact, religious thinkers in parts of Europe and around the world pioneered some very significant academic breakthroughs. For example, the discovery of genetic structures by Augustinian friar Gregor Mendel, helped shape modern understanding of gene structure and inheritance in the 1800s. Roger Bacon, a medieval member of the Franciscan order, developed the idea of empiricism and the use of the scientific method. A Catholic priest named Jean Burdian in the 14th century developed the idea of inertia. The list goes on. From heliocentricity to mathematics, science’s development had a firm support from many religious devotees. For many faithful thinkers, pursuing facts and understanding had a divine purpose. Hugh of Saint Victor, a master of the monastic school of Saint Victor, saw knowledge as redemption for mankind: “Learn everything; later, you will see that nothing is superfluous.” As I began to dig into the history of Europe and get a much better understanding about the origins of scientific thought, I sensed a profound shift in my perception about the discussion concerning religion and science. Undoubtedly, difficult questions about human origins, purpose and mortality persist, but, if nothing else, I believe that science and religion can stand to have a mutual respect for the history that benefited both and largely shaped them into the entities of thought they are today. Science developed in the hands of many religious men; our basic assumptions about life came about from the cooperation of science and religion. Indeed, not every topic concerning life can be easily answered by either science or religion. Maybe the harmony that once existed between the two in the past shouldn’t be so easily overlooked. While I’m unsure what the future holds for our perception of faith and science, I don’t believe that the two can ever be wholly separated. Science will always undercut faith; faith will always supersede science. Both schools of thought require one another in unexpected, but important, ways. They create balance. Albert Einstein, perhaps one of the greatest thinkers of all time, sums up the tumultuous relationship best. “Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.” Sarah Hagaman is a sophomore in English. She can be reached at shagama1@utk.edu.
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Stop demanding off-field heroism from sports stars In the Taboo Parlor by Chase Parker We hate sports. Okay that can’t be true. ESPN just generated $11 billion in revenue last year, and I couldn’t get my ritualistic post-game Zaxby’s because of the massive traffic congestion that 100,000 people inevitably cause on Saturday evenings in Knoxville. Perhaps we don’t hate sports; we hate athletes. Okay that can’t be true, either. Have you asked someone about Peyton Manning lately? It is nearly fetishistic how people idolize him, and he doesn’t even play within an entire time zone of us. Watching the video of Inky Johnson’s William Wallace-esque speech to the UT Football players had many of us former high school wannabes scrambling to strap on our old pads. Maybe we don’t hate all athletes; we hate bad athletes. Athletes whose off-the-field antics color outside the lines of the expected childhood role model are crucified daily by sports news networks. We define athletes not only by their skill and value as an on the field asset, but primarily by their ethical and moral values. ESPN’s marketing strategy has shifted from purely analytical sports coverage to a man’s version of soap opera drama. The reporting mimics your grandmother’s favorite network late night news more than to its other sports
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was a violent drunk who was arrested dozens of times. And Joe Dimaggio, the only MLB player who has ever hit in 56 consecutive games? He consistently smoked cigarettes in the dugout, and some conspiracy theorists believe he may have played a part in the alleged suicide of Marilyn Monroe, his former wife. These superstars still remain in our minds and hearts as great American heroes. They are champions, regardless of their poor ethical and moral compasses. Today, however, the greatness of an athlete depends on the foolish notion that these players are more than supreme physical specimens; we force them into a mold of the personal values we hold in high esteem. We have the power to choose who we look up to. We need to stop desperately searching for our core values in the behavior of athletes. We need to realize that some of our most cherished American icons do nothing more than catch or throw a ball. When Cordarelle Patterson catches a 50-plus-yard pass, the reception should not impose a moral imperative upon him to be a role model off the field. Being elected to public office? Representation demands a much higher moral conscious. Let us shift our efforts from digging into the fruitless mine that is professional athletes and focus on finding people who alter our community both locally and nationally. Let us demand role models from our representative government, not the tight pants-clad heroes on Saturday afternoons. Chase Parker is a junior in biochemistry and cellular and molecular biology. He can be reached sparke23@utk.edu.
Friendship dependence can yield negative effects Lost in
Communication by Jan Urbano Suppose you have a friend who is in a bad spot. It could be academic – maybe he failed to do a project on time due to problems that are beyond his control or maybe he simply did not plan ahead. On the other hand, your friend could be struggling with a relationship – there may have been signs of cheating or the two of them may no longer have the spark that brought them together. There are many other problems that may occur, so take your hypothetical pick. As a good friend and (hopefully) a good person, you offer to help and provide counsel for your friend. You talk with him or her and try your best to get your friend to calm down and think logically. Your approach will differ depending on the type of problem. You may offer to help finish the incomplete project and provide additional dialogue on how he or she may improve on it. You might listen to your friend as he or she rants about why the relationship
went sour, while providing guidance on what to do next. At this point, you’ve done what you can do and told your friend that he or she needs to take action. Now, you wait to see what happens and hope for the best. From here, the situation may have different routes but can lead to the same conclusion. By offering to help your friend, you’ve shown that you can lend a shoulder for him or her to lean on. In a sense, as his or her friend, it is your duty to help whenever possible. Most of you would agree with that – after all, what good is a friend who can’t help? Suppose, however, that your friend in question continues to ask you for help. In your friend’s eyes, you had an amazing ability to solve conflicts and problems, or at the very least, offered to be by his or side when things got rough. As a friend, you help without hesitation. This is where things begin to go bad. By consistently offering to help your friend, you begin to create a dependent relationship. The hallmark of this interaction is the high amount of dependence of at least one party on the other. Your friend continues to ask you for help, and you continue to accept – as a result, your friend begins to lean on you more and more. Eventually, your friend starts taking your word over his or her own, and soon you find he person can no longer think for him or herself.
Even worse, you may find that you are dependent on your friend too – you become dependent on feeling good after helping him or her. Neither of you may have intended for it to happen, but now you find yourself struggling on how to distance your friend without destroying your friendship. Such relationships display the hidden and destructive consequences of helping others too much. When you help others, you aide them for their future well being. You don’t want them to grow obsessively attached to you (think of the overly-attached girlfriend meme). It doesn’t seem as absurd when I say you shouldn’t help others too much because it doesn’t just constrict and hurt your friend – they’ll drag you in too. When you find a friend in trouble, provide guidance and support, but don’t get too involved with their life affairs. Find the balance and help only when they truly need it. You want your friend to think for and trust in him or herself, instead of always going to you for answers. After all, no one has all the answers – it would be deceptive to make it seem you have them. If you want to help your friend, don’t help too much. Jan Urbano is a senior in biological sciences. He can be reached at jurbano@utk.edu.
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journalism counterparts, NBC Sports and Fox Sports 1. And we watch. Although much can be said for the economic success of capitalizing on our obsession with the athlete’s moral compass, more can be said about America’s priorities. We never focused on whether Tim Tebow could figure out which end of the field to actually throw to. We wanted to talk about how he was the son of a missionary. More people are concerned with whether Johnny Manziel – who, for the record, turns 21 in December – was blasted in some dive bar last weekend than with his prospects of another Heisman-worthy season. The nation demands moral superiority from these athletes while turning an unminding eye on a candidate for New York mayor who has allegedly solicited sex from minors and sent explicit pictures of his crotch to multiple unwilling recipients. College students in particular; how many of us hold intimate knowledge of the latest Manziel story without any clue to the Anthony Wiener scandal? With American politics being overrun with unethical behavior, why is the integrity of a man who wears tight pants and hits other men in tight pants expected to set an example for our children? Our constant scrutiny of athletes puts them under not only pressure to perform on the field, but off the field too. This is a far cry from the heroes of the sports past. We remember athletes of old for their on-thefield heroics, not their off-field antics. Every baseball fanatic knows Ty Cobb will forever hold the MLB career batting average record at an astonishing .366. Most people don’t know, however, that he
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SPORTS FOOTBALL SIDEBAR continued from Page 1 “I wasn’t,� Jones said. “I thought we had our best two practices of the year Wednesday and Thursday. I thought our players were locked in. Tuesday was average. We really challenged them, and on Wednesday and Thursday, their preparation was outstanding. You win the game through your preparation over the course of the week. We knew we had done all we could do. We had exposed them to just about every situation. “I was more concerned that we had over-prepared them. I could tell at the walkthrough this morning that they had that look in their eye and they were ready.� Any questions or doubts about this
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team were put away, for the time being, early in the game as the Vols jumped on the Govs quickly and never looked back. More important than the score was the effort and energy the entire team came out with, from the starters to the third stringers – an effort that senior right tackle Ja’Wuan James said comes from the inspiration their coach gives them. “It definitely makes you lock in, and it makes you excited to go out there and play with effort,� James said. “That’s all he talks about, playing with effort, and playing with energy. If the defense makes a big play, they should be chest-bumping, if we make a big play we should chestbump – just keep high energy throughout the game. So it is good to have him in the huddle calling the play.� Jones’ players are not the only ones,
Reality will set in for Vols against WKU
however. The former Cincinnati coach has been known to add to that high energy on the sidelines. “I am not going to lie, it is exciting,� said Rajion Neal, senior running back. “I like to see how energized he (Jones) gets on the sidelines. It gives you a giant boost. You don’t see too many coaches come in and be jacked up as much as he is.� While it was a successful debut for Jones, he made it clear that his attention is devoted to continuing that success in this week’s game. “I’m already thinking about Western Kentucky,� Jones said. “We’ll enjoy this one tonight but the more you win, the more (that) is at stake. We’re going to be challenged by a really good football team coming in here. We’re going to enjoy it, but we’ve got a lot of work to do.�
is former Arkansas head coach Bobby Petrino leading the Hilltoppers to Knoxville. What Saturday’s game boils down to is psychological disposition – a term synonymous with mornings in the UT football program. During a morning practice on Aug. 12, Jones launched into a tirade regarding UT’s inability to correctly execute a punt protection scheme and challenged his team to break its “losing habits.� Among the habits he alluded to, one has been UT’s lethargy against mid-level opponents. Both Troy and Akron hung with the Vols until the fourth quarter in 2012. That Troy game – like Saturday’s contest with Western Kentucky – was a noon kickoff. With nationally relevant road games against two of the nation’s top teams looming ahead, UT plays at noon against a Sun Belt opponent that will be hungry to knock off a second SEC team in as many weeks. No longer is it the beginning of the Jones era. No longer is the opponent Austin Peay. The Hilltoppers are coming to Knoxville with the intention and talent to derail Tennessee’s momentum before it actually gets going. The fans have not yet had Jones screaming at them over a megaphone in the morning to challenge their psychological disposition. That wouldn’t work. So in case you missed his thanks to the student section after Saturday’s game, he subtly but surely challenged the mentality of the fans – specifically the students – again on Monday with all eyes focusing now on Western Kentucky. “It’s a noon game and it becomes a little bit different,� Jones said at his weekly press conference, “and we need everyone there to help us win and impact this football team. So I want to say thank you to our student body. “And we need you.�
David Cobb Sports Editor Wasn’t it riveting to see Butch Jones reveling in his first Vol Walk with thousands of fans lined up to cheer as “Team 117� entered Neyland Stadium to begin a new era in UT’s illustrious football history? Then how about that blowout victory in front of a near-sellout crowd? And, boy it was awfully accommodating of the rain to hold off just long enough for everyone to return to their vehicles and dorms. Certainly there were some pleasantries to take away from Saturday – kind of like the pleasantries found in playing with puppies. But in regards to what happened on the field: forget Austin Peay. The rebuilding, undermanned Governors were the worst team to play at Neyland Stadium since LouisianaMonroe in 2000 when UT won 70-3. Having a dress rehearsal is nice, but the Vols were more likely to lose the costume fitting on April 20 in the Orange and White game than get beat by Austin Peay. And if you’re looking ahead, trying to rationalize a way UT can beat Oregon or Florida on the road, here’s a reality check. Tennessee needs to show up in a big way if it wants to beat Western Kentucky on Saturday. That’s a fact that needs to be considered before any hypotheses are made regarding what was learned in the drubbing of an inferior opponent. And it goes beyond the simple reason of WKU proving its legitimacy with a drama-free 35-26 win over SEC foe Kentucky to open the season. It also extends past the fact that it
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Junior defensive end Jordan Williams celebrates after UT intercepts a pass against Austin Peay on Saturday, Aug. 31, at Neyland Stadium. The Vols shutout the Governors 45-0 in the team’s season opener.
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Lady Vols breeze Grading the Vols vs. Austin Peay past Dukes, 2-0 Quarterbacks Taylor White Contributor Fueled by Friday night’s upset win at Central Florida, the Lady Vols soccer team took the field again Sunday afternoon hoping to build off Friday’s momentum and cap off an already successful weekend in Tennessee athletics. While conditions were not ideal for the Tennessee team, they were able to fight through fatigue as a result of a hot and humid afternoon and grind out a 2-0 victory over James Madison. “We had an emotional, difficult win on Friday, and a long day of travel yesterday, and then you come out in the heat on Sunday and battle against a good team,” head coach Brian Pensky said. “James Madison is a good team, and they had some good players, and we had some challenges we needed to deal with.” The Lady Vols started strong, scoring just four minutes into the game as junior Hannah Wilkinson pushed home her first of two goals on a through ball from junior midfielder Cheyenne Spade that gave Wilkinson a one-on-one with the goalie. “They played a very high line, and we knew that we were going to get chances behind their back line,” Pensky said. “The high line and their three in the midfield was tough to play through at times, so we did play some good balls in behind it, and created chances.” “It was a really good ball through from the midfield,” Wilkinson said. “And I just saw the keeper coming out and just dribbled past her to my left and slid it in right past her.” The assist from Spade gave her three in her last two games as the North Carolina State transfer has played a key role in UT’s 3-1 start.
Wilkinson scored the lone goal in the first half as the Lady Vols took a 1-0 lead into halftime, where the Vols received a fiery halftime speech from Pensky. “I was a little tough on them at halftime,” Pensky said. “But that can’t affect their confidence going forward.” Pensky’s fiery words worked. The Lady Vols came out aggressive in the second half as they outshot the Dukes 12-4 in the second period, but struggled to finish shots. “We obviously could have done better with some of our opportunities,” Pensky said. “We had several balls that could have been slipped across the six just to be tapped in, and we didn’t really make the goalkeeper make any spectacular saves.” However, in the 76th minute Wilkinson connected on another goal, this time off a pass from sophomore midfielder Suzanne Capocaccia. Wilkinson’s second goal closed the door on the Dukes. “(Capocaccia) played a lofted ball through the back line,” Wilikinson said. “Then same thing, onto my left past the keeper and in.” Wilkinson cited the momentum the Vols now possess after the two wins this weekend. “Especially after the win at UCF,” Wilkinson said, “I think that really lifted our confidence going forward.” Pensky said he was most pleased by the fact that the Vols were able to register their first shutout of the season. “It was our first clean sheet, and we have had four games,” Pensky said. “We had yet to keep a team off the scoreboard, so I’m very happy to finally get a shutout.” The Lady Vols next matchup will come against Dayton at home on Friday at 7 p.m.
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Justin Worley looked the part of a starting quarterback, with his efficiency (11-of-13, 104 yards and 3 TDs) and command running the zone read standing out most. Under-
throwing freshman wideout Marquez North on a deep bomb and over-throwing Jacob Carter in the end zone were his only blemishes on an otherwise flawless stat-line.
Redshirt freshman Nathan Peterman threw eight passes in the second half, but failed to get the Vols into the end zone and played his part in the offense’s late struggles. - Steven Cook
UT’s veteran backfield paid appropriate homage to Chuck Webb – Saturday’s “VFL Legend of the Game” – with an explosive first half. Webb, a star UT running back in 1989, was in atten-
dance and honored during the game with video highlights of his career shown on the video board. Raijon Neal and Marlin Lane ran physically and vertically for a combined 180 yards and
three touchdowns on 22 carries. Reserves Tom Smith and Alden Hill weren’t awe-inspiring, but oft-forgotten Deanthonie Summerhill logged 67 yards on nine carries. - David Cobb
North’s UT debut is only a sign of things to come for the Vols. The 6-4, 215-pound freshman only caught three balls for 33 yards, but it’s apparent he
will be a dependable go-to guy when his chemistry with Worley improves. It’s still unclear who else will emerge with 10 receivers picking
up a reception, but it’s obvious the speed of Devrin Young and Alton “Pig” Howard — who both scored Saturday — will be utilized in this spread system. - SC
The starting unit proved why it is so heralded by bullying the Austin Peay defensive front on six straight UT scoring drives to start the game.
Conditioning and health will be imperative for this unit in 2013 as the reserves showed they haven’t learned all the tricks from their experienced cohorts
just yet. During the second half backup quarterback Nathan Peterman was pressured several times and sacked once. - DC
To nobody’s surprise, the front four had its way. Daniel McCullers was unblockable and Maurice Couch and Marlon Walls both picked up a sack.
The second team wasn’t nearly as successful, giving up a long drive largely aided by holes in run defense. Senior Daniel Hood showcased his
soft hands by deflecting and intercepting a pass in the first quarter that led to a Marlin Lane touchdown. - SC
No one in this group racked up particularly huge numbers as reps circulated well beyond the first-team to include players like John Propst, Kenny Bynum and Christian Harris. The linebackers don’t score
better than a B+ because of Austin Peay’s opening drive of the second quarter when the Governors utilized the intermediate range passing game to position themselves in field goal range. That was an area of
susceptibility for UT in 2012. Curt Maggitt sat out as he continues to rehab his knee. Head coach Butch Jones said Maggitt is “close” to a return. - DC
Tennessee’s first-team secondary was impenetrable, but we saw glimpses of just how dangerous playing multiple freshmen at cornerback could be.
Standout true freshman Malik was beaten on a pair of 30-yard Foreman became the first Vol to gains — the Governors’ two bigsnag an interception in his debut gest plays of the evening. - SC since Dwayne Goodrich in 1996 but was picked on all game and
Michael Palardy went a perfect 7-for-7 on the night, including six extra points and a 37-yard field goal. His first kickoff traveled deep
into the checkerboards, and he Devrin Young busted a would have recorded more than 58-yard kick return to begin one touchback on the night if the third quarter for UT. - DC Austin Peay was less ambitious on its kick returns.
GPA: The Vols keep their Hope Scholarship this week with a cumulative GPA of 3.38