The Daily Beacon

Issue 18, Volume 121

Monday, September 17, 2012

Great start, weak end for Tennessee football Austin Bornheim Assistant Sports Editor Disappointing, frustrating, deflating and surprised were the words the Volunteers used to describe Saturday night’s 37-20 loss to the Florida Gators.

The Vols (2-1, 0-1 SEC) led the Gators 20-13 with 3:15 left in the third quarter.

But then the wheels fell off.

“I’m not really sure what went on,” said Tennessee running back Rajion Neal. “I can’t really put it into words what really happened. You could just feel it.”

After the Volunteers seemed to have gained momentum from stopping Florida (3-0, 2-0 SEC) on a fake punt near midfield, Tyler Bray was flagged for intentional grounding and everything seemed to turn for the worse.

Tennessee ending up going three-andout, and on the Gators’ first play after getting the ball Trey Burton gashed the Volunteers for an 80-yard touchdown run to tie the game.

“We stalled them on a fake punt, then got a groundie ... and we had a lot of mistakes defensively,” head coach Derek Dooley said. “We didn’t get the check, gave up a huge play there.”

From that point on the Vols couldn’t get anything going.

Tennessee ran just 19 offensive plays, was forced into three straight three-andout’s, and punted on their final four drives.

“It was just us not responding well,” said Bray. “We knew we were going to be the ones to have to stop us and we just kind of fell apart.”

In front of a crowd of 102,455, the Vols came out in the first half and looked poised and ready for the big stage.

The offense was able to respond early after Florida scored the first touchdown and scored the first quarter touchdown against the Gators since 2004 on a Brayto-Cordarrelle Patterson pass. Tennessee struck again five minutes later when Bray was able to find tight end Mychal Rivera on a play-action pass.

UT went into the half up 14-10 and a huge goal line stand to force the Gators to kick a field goal.

Going into the half, Bray was 13-23 passing for 153 yards, two touchdowns and an interception.

The Vols’ defense had also performed well, containing the Florida rushing attack to just 86 yards on the ground, but in the third quarter Tennessee fell apart.

Florida racked up 170 yards on the ground, 57 through the air and 17 points.

“We had a great game going and we just let it slip away,” Dooley said.

Following Bray’s second interception, it took the Gators just three plays to trek the 70 yards and take the lead on a Jeff Driskel 23-yard touchdown pass to Jordan Reed. Driskel finished the night 14-20 for 219 yards, two touchdowns and no interceptions.

“Big plays, turnovers,” said Dooley.

“We lost both of those. I say it every week: big plays and turnovers.”

Florida added 10 more points in the fourth quarter, capping off their 24-0 run to close out the game.

Bray was 9-21, 104 yards passing, no touchdowns and two picks in the second half.

“We just didn’t execute,” said Bray.

Tennessee will look to rebound from the deflating loss next Saturday against Akron at 7:30 p.m. The game will air on CSS.

Tia Patron • The Daily Beacon

Coach Derek Dooley holds his head in his hand while watching his previously undefeated Tennessee team be drubbed by the Gators in the second half of the game on Sept. 15.

Professor lectures on pet cancer UT receives NSF Mollie Swayne Staff Writer Dr. Nathan D. Lee, Doctor of Veterinary Medicine, gave a lecture on Friday entitled “A New Radiation Therapy for Cancer in Pet Animals”, kicking off a series of lectures this semester hosted by the UT Science Forum.

The new therapy that Lee, assistant professor of radiation oncology at UT’s College of Veterinary Science, spoke of is IntensityModulated Radiation Therapy. IMRT has been used on humans for about 15 years, but is in its infancy in veterinary medicine.

An improvement over the other method used, 3D Conformal Radiation Therapy, it improves the dose distribution, meaning that more radiation goes to the tumor and less spills onto the surrounding soft tissue.

This results in fewer side effects and therefore heightened quality of life. IMRT also causes dry mouth in fewer human patients, 17 percent compared to 63 percent of patients who received Conformal Radiation Therapy. The radiation is delivered with a linear accelerator, and Lee believes that the UT College of Veterinary Medicine has the newest in the Knoxville region.

While IMRT is an improvement in treatment, there is still a long way to go toward curing cancer in animals.

“We don’t like to use the word ‘cure’ in veterinary medicine,” Lee said. “Unlike humans, unfortunately, dogs and cats don’t really show that they have a tumor.”

This makes it difficult to know if a pet has cancer until side effects, such as seizures or inability to urinate, begin to show. Still, IMRT treatment is a step toward bringing more precise, and thus better, cancer treatment to animals.

Despite the specific and technical nature of the lecture, a variety of audience members were present. Many were retired professors from multiple science disciplines including animal science, biology, physics and psychology. Several attendees were students. Zoe Johnson, sophomore in chemical engineering, explained her academic and personal reasons for attending.

“For every chemical engineering class you take a couple (of) CEs, which is continuing education, and you have to attend ten meetings or lectures or something having to do with science just to stay involved in the class. So we were given a list of lectures to come to and I just really like animals,” Johnson said.

Johnson aspires to enter the medical field, but not to become a veterinarian.

“I would go into veterinary medicine, but I just love animals so much it would probably be too heartbreaking for me,” she said.

Johnson was not the only ardent animal lover in attendance. Holly Greene, lecturer in management, also attended. She felt a “personal connection” to the subject, having lost her own dog to cancer. Greene’s interest as a pet owner led her to seek answers from Lee during the Q-and-A session after the lecture. Greene asked why cancer is seemingly more frequent now than in years past.

Lee replied that pets are living longer, increasing their odds of having tumors.

Veterinarians have also become much better at diagnosing cancer in pets — probably many pets have died of cancer because no one considered that could be the cause.

The UT Science Forum meets from noon to 1 p.m. every Friday in dining room C-D in Thompson Boling Arena. Attendees are welcome to eat their lunch while listening to the speaker. The next presenter at the Science Forum will be Dr. Christopher Cherry, whose lecture is entitled “Electric Cars in China — Only as Clean as Their Coal.”

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Matthew DeMaria • The Daily Beacon

An empty Neyland Stadium keeps its lights on after the loss against Florida on Sept. 15.

research award Staff Reports KNOXVILLE — Jimmy Mays, a chemistry professor at UT, has developed a substance that promises to replace conventional rubber in many products with something that is stronger, greener and easier to recycle. Now he’s joining forces with the College of Business Administration’s Anderson Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation to turn his new discovery into a game-changing business.

UT will receive $600,000 over two years from the National Science Foundation through its “Partnerships for Innovation” program to commercialize and optimize Mays’ newfound “superelastomers.”

This is UT’s first NSF award focused on commercialization of research, and it is the Anderson Center’s first NSF award.

Superelastomers are polymers that can be repeatedly stretched without permanently deforming the shape of the material. They can be stretched further than ordinary elastomers (or rubbers).

What makes superelastomers “super” is that they hold promise for improved strength, recyclability and more efficient processing of materials used in many different products. This revolutionary new concept would open up applications in many areas, such as toothbrushes, gloves, skin care, audio devices and filtering technologies.

“For example, the high

strength and superior elastic properties of superelastomers make it possible to make thinner surgical gloves, thus enhancing the surgeon’s dexterity in the operating room,” Mays said. “Conventional rubbers, like car tires, are virtually impossible to recycle. In contrast, superelastomers may be readily recycled just by melting the scrap material and reshaping it into a new product.”

Thus, the innovation will have the capability of reducing the worldwide carbon footprint by replacing rubbers with a material that is both recyclable and requires less energy to make.

MBA students and faculty will work with Mays’ students to assess the market for his technology and develop business plans for pursuing specific market opportunities. The typical team will consist of two students studying entrepreneurship and two technical students who will work with small businesses and experienced mentors to validate the market viability. About 24 interdisciplinary students will get hands-on experience in market assessment, business planning and technology transfer required to launch a successful technology-based start-up.

“By pairing business with technical students, we expect that innovation capacity will be increased at the university,” said Joy Fisher, who oversees the center’s technology commercialization efforts.

See NSF on Page 3

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Jessica Worth, junior in animal science, practiced her kayak roll on Thursday.

1862 — Battle of Antietam Beginning early on the morning of this day in 1862, Confederate and Union troops in the Civil War clash near Maryland’s Antietam Creek in the bloodiest one-day battle in American history. The Battle of Antietam marked the culmination of Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s first invasion of the Northern states. Guiding his Army of Northern Virginia across the Potomac River in early September 1862, the great general daringly divided his men, sending half of them, under the command of General Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson, to capture the Union garrison at Harper’s Ferry.

President Abraham Lincoln put Major General George B. McClellan in charge of the Union troops responsible for defending Washington, D.C., against Lee’s invasion. McClellan’s Army of the Potomac clashed first with Lee’s men on September 14, with the Confederates forced to retreat after being blocked at the passes of South Mountain. Though Lee considered turning back toward Virginia, news of Jackson’s capture of Harper’s Ferry reached him on September 15. That victory convinced him to stay and make a stand near Sharpsburg, Maryland.

Over the course of September 15 and 16, the Confederate and Union armies gathered on opposite sides of Antietam Creek. On the Confederate side, Jackson commanded the left flank with General James Longstreet at the head of the center and right. McClellan’s strategy was to attack the enemy left, then the right, and finally, when either of those movements met with success, to move forward in the center.

When fighting began in the foggy dawn hours of September 17, this strategy broke down into a series of uncoordinated advances by Union soldiers under the command of Generals Joseph Hooker, Joseph

Mansfield and Edwin Sumner. As savage and bloody combat continued for eight hours across the region, the Confederates were pushed back but not beaten, despite sustaining some 15,000 casualties. At the same time, Union General Ambrose Burnside opened an attack on the Confederate right, capturing the bridge that now bears his name around 1 p.m. Burnside’s break to reorganize his men allowed Confederate reinforcements to arrive, turning back the Union advance there as well.

By the time the sun went down, both armies still held their ground, despite staggering combined casualties — nearly 23,000 of the 100,000 soldiers engaged, including almost 4,000 dead. McClellan’s center never moved forward, leaving a large number of Union troops that did not participate in the battle. On the morning of September 18, both sides gathered their wounded and buried their dead. That night, Lee turned his forces back to Virginia. His retreat gave President Lincoln the moment he had been waiting for to issue the Emancipation Proclamation, a historic document that turned the Union effort in the Civil War into a fight for the abolition of slavery.

1976 — Space Shuttle unveiled On September 17, 1976, NASA publicly unveils its first space shuttle, the Enterprise, during a ceremony in Palmdale, California. Development of the aircraft-like spacecraft cost almost $10 billion and took nearly a decade. In 1977, the Enterprise became the first space shuttle to fly freely when it was lifted to a height of 25,000 feet by a Boeing 747 airplane and then released, gliding back to Edwards Air Force Base on its own accord.

Regular flights of the space shuttle began on April 12, 1981, with the launching of Columbia from Cape Canaveral, Florida. Launched by two solid-rocket boosters and an external tank, only the aircraft-like shuttle entered into orbit around Earth. When the two-day mission was completed, the shuttle fired engines to reduce speed and, after descending through the atmosphere, landed like a glider at California’s Edwards Air Force Base.

Early shuttles took satellite equipment into space and carried out various scientific experiments. On January 28, 1986, NASA and the space shuttle program suffered a major setback when the Challenger exploded 74 seconds after takeoff and all seven people aboard were killed.

—This Day in History is courtesy of history.com.

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THE DAILY BEACON • 3 News Editor RJ Vogt

CAMPUS NEWS NSF continued from Page 1 “This will be done through the introduction of successful new businesses based on technologies that solve a market problem. We plan to use this program as the basis to develop a new, cross-college entrepreneurship course that will help us continue building an entrepreneurial talent pool in the region.”

UT’s Partnerships for Innovation also aim to stimulate the local and national economies by creating new jobs and the transformation of knowledge created by the research and education enterprise. The program has already partnered with five companies.

“The goal of the Partnerships in Innovation program is to increase the country’s competi-

tiveness,” Mays said. “The successful commercialization of this innovation has the potential to grow existing businesses and create new ones by innovating new products. It also will accelerate the transfer of future technologies from universities into the marketplace and contribute to the education of both existing and next generation entrepreneurs.”

The superelastomers were discovered with the help of Roland Weidisch of Fraunhofer Institute in Germany and Samuel Gido of the University of Massachussetts, Amherst. UT’s Partnerships for Innovation project is in collaboration with Anderson Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, UT Office of Research, the UT Research Foundation, Asius Technologies, BBB Elastomers, Ina-Mei Skin Care, Fuji Film, MAPA GmbH, Technology 20/20 and Venture Incite.

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Zane Wyrick, senior in political science, asks a question after the “Globalization, the Global Economy and Austerity Policy” lecture given by Dr. Tony Spiva and Dr. Jon Shefner on Sept. 12.welcome them.

Students benefit from Y-12 partnership Staff Reports Nine MBA students from UT will be working at the Y-12 National Security Complex while they complete their studies, thanks to a partnership between the two institutions called the Career Advantage Program.

The program participants include six Class of 2013 MBA students: Lee Creviston, Brentwood, Tenn.; Bill Fortunato, Knoxville; Logan Howell, Mascot, Tenn.; Mike Koban, Nashville; Kelcee Ramsey, Oak Ridge, Tenn.; and Nick Tussing, Centennial, Colo.

In addition, three Class of 2012 students are continuing from last year: Chris Hurley, Delbarton, W.Va.; Aaron Jacques, Murfreesboro, Tenn.; and Melissa Tucker, Knoxville.

Of the nine students,

four are in the full-time MBA program, one is in a dual-degree program to earn an MBA and a law degree, two are in a dual-degree program to earn an MBA and a master’s degree in engineering, and two are in a dual-degree program to earn an MBA and a master’s degree in business analytics.

Since 2008, more than 20 MBA students have participated in this program.

“The Career Advantage Program is an important part of the full-time MBA

program’s outreach to help bring top potential MBA candidates to our region,” said Amy Cathey, executive director of the full-time MBA program in UT’s College of Business Administration.

“In this collaboration, identified students simultaneously interview with us for acceptance into the program while they interview with Y-12 for employment,” Cathey said.

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Food prices benefit vegetarians I’m the kind of person who admires vegetarians but has never made the decision to become one.

I have all sorts of excuses, many of them legitimate, some less legitimate (meat is so delicious!), but this year’s drought will make my lack of action somewhat harder.

All of the moral arguments against eating conventionally-raised meat convinced me. It’s wrong to subject sentient creatures such as pigs, chickens, turkeys and cows to concentration camplike conditions. The lives of many of the animals whose flesh is sold at grocery stores are short and miserable. They are kept packed tightly together, unable to express normal behaviors and experience a comfortable life. Artificial lights are used so they experience longer days, and animals are given caffeine so they will stay up and eat longer and Xanax so they won’t get too hyper. Often they are kept in horribly confined and crowded conditions.

The high-stress, frustrating environment sometimes makes it necessary to take extreme measures to keep the animals from killing each other. In factory farms, a large portion of a chicken’s and turkey’s beak is routinely cut off to prevent it from pecking at others and engaging in cannibalism. They are fed an unhealthy diet of corn, soy, hormones and antibiotics to make them grow as quickly as possible. Not only are these practices abhorrent, but they’re unnecessary.

There is no justification for this kind of treatment. Yes, people want cheap meat (and corporations like McDonald’s and Wal-Mart want the cheapest meat possible to increase their profit margins), but humans can get all the protein and many more vitamins their bodies need from plantbased foods if they can’t afford their beef. The products of these factories are less nutritious than those that are grown naturally and contain wider access to varied protein sources, such as plants and insects. Factory farms don’t exist because we are all going to suffer from a lack of hyper-efficiently grown meat, but because we just happen to have a preference for it and we want to buy it cheaply, regardless of quality.

I’m not only upset by the suffering we impose on animals, but I am also uneasy about the environmental and health effects of raising them

industrially.

For thousands of years, farmers have exploited a very simple cycle where farmers feed the animals, the animals roam on and fertilize their land, and the animal’s by-products and meat eventually feed the farmers and the local population. In factory farming, however, the cycle is completely broken.

The animals are numerous and packed together in one place, and the waste they produce en masse is often dumped into rivers or pollutes the air and land, which overloads the local ecosystems and greatly reduces species diversity.

Plant growers then buy synthetic fertilizers for their lands, increasing the waste and pollution produced.

There are additional health concerns to think about when it comes to factory farming. Eighty percent of the antibiotics sold in the United States go to chickens, pigs, cows and other animals that people eat, because they are raised in conditions that encourage the rapid spread of disease.

Antibiotics are given to cows partially to prevent ulcers from forming in their stomachs, which did not evolve to digest the corn that is fed to them due to its relatively cheap cost. These practices are dangerous, because the indiscriminate use of antibiotics can breed multiple antibiotic-resistant bacteria, which is a hazard to the animals, the farmers who raise them and the public in general.

Industrialization is an effective mode of production for a lot of things, but not for living beings.

Because of the reasons I’ve just mentioned, I’ve made the decision to only eat organic, humanely raised, antibiotic and hormone-free meat.

This is an expensive choice, and it will only keep getting more expensive. After the drought the country experienced this summer, corn and other animal feeds will be much more costly, and the price of animal products will rise considerably.

Maybe I should start making some moves to become a vegetarian. More likely, though, I’ll just extend my Meatless Mondays to a few more days of the week.

— Ana Segovia is a senior in ecology and evolutionary biology. She can be reached at arebored@utk.edu.

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Southern voice emerges from poet new G o and Go by

Julia Ross In early June 2012, most of us were still attempting to recuperate from the previous semester. The Library of Congress, however, was busy naming Natasha Trethewey as the 19th Poet Laureate of the United States. Trethewey is a remarkable choice for a few reasons — namely her relative youth, her race and her gender.

However, I was pleased with her appointment for one particular reason — she is a Southerner. The first Southerner, in fact, since the first poet laureate, Robert Penn Warren, was named in the 1940s. Those of us living on Rocky Top are familiar with the difficulty of balancing our pride in Southern standards with our qualms about the uncomfortable inequities they allow to persist in our communities. I was excited to see our nation recognize a poet who had personally experienced these quandaries.

Trethewey’s appointment heralded a shift in poetic norms. Obviously, she is not an 80something-year-old man. Furthermore, her voice offers difficult stories about difficult times in our history. Her appointment symbolizes a national eagerness to absorb an understanding of those stories and situations into our consciousness as a means of coming to terms with the current state of affairs. With the constant, inevitable, and sometimes very confusing progression of globalization, the American national identity will be partially defined and maintained by how we deal with our unique past, and the requisite guilt, pride, sadness, pleasure, frustration and success.

A transcendent and versatile medium, like poetry, expressed by an author like Trethewey is poised to accomplish just that.

In her poetry, Trethewey accesses the meat

of what it means to have grown up in the South.

Unwritten rules and the standard silent rationalizations that hold our communities stiffly in an increasingly inappropriate status quo are exposed and analyzed in her stanzas. The child of a white father and an African-American mother, Trethewey offers the viewpoint of an outsider paradoxically watching from the inside. Facets of the tragedy, humiliation and frustration of the Civil War and its aftermath weigh heavily in her earlier works. She offers verse to deal with irony and shame. Her poems give voice to the untold stories of those who suffered unrecognized in battle and during Reconstruction. However, she exposes these things gently and lyrically. The cadence of her poems is classically Southern, alternatively moving sluggishly south along the humid banks of the Mississippi River and then rushing through the currents of our cities. It connects deeply with the audience, pulling them into the author’s emotions, and providing insight into their surroundings.

I was hoping to hear her poetry open dialogue on other issues plaguing our national conscience — the inefficient polarization of politics, the degradation of public discourse — something, anything. I realize this hope is ridiculous. In its own aloof and abstract way, poetry can comment on social failures and successes. This commentary is not offered on demand. Poetry is not a policy brief. The things she writes about her personal life are reactionary and raw. The things she writes about history, though important and moving, lack the same courageous tone. Her influence is in her role as a reminder, but important as that is, election-year America needs more. In revisiting history, she will reveal a more complete and compassionate story, but in order to satisfy a nation seeking an identity in the midst of changing politics and standards, even Southerners are seeking something new.

— Julia Ross is a sophomore in political science and biology. She can be reached at jross26@utk.edu.

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The news broke last week that UT didn’t move up in the rankings of the top public universities in America. In fact, it didn’t actually move anywhere, for the matter.

While this is extremely disappointing to hear due to all of the recent “initiatives” to increase our ranking, I personally welcome it as a relief.

With all of the unsightly construction around campus, the increasingly difficult and inconvenient parking situation, and the everrising cost of tuition, I thought that we would surely have more negative points against us.

My biggest problem with the unchanged ranking is the fact that our chancellor received a 6-digit raise to the tune of more than $22,300 — which raised his salary to $394,956 — for something that clearly has yet to make a significant impact on our rankings. I understand this is a process, of course, but I also see how very trivial it is for us to put so much money into someone who has not quite accomplished what he said he would.

I have never seen or heard of anyone in the working class getting a raise for something they haven’t yet accomplished, finished or covered significant ground in. Arguably, of course, there have been noticeable improvements around campus. The renovations done to the Humanities building are incredible. What used to be one of the many buildings on campus students generally dislike is now one of the most popular. The cycling stations and new bus stops that are popping up around campus are very futuristic-looking and give parts of our campus a more updated feel.

Perhaps I find so much annoyance with that 6-digit raise because it’s more than I will probably ever make in less than a decade after college. It’s difficult to see how that raise can

give our campus a boosted ranking. Take a moment and ask yourself this question: how many professors could have been hired and given raises with just that money alone? How many more books and scholarly publications could the library have obtained with it? Multiple scholarships could have been established.

Instead, a single person receives it.

By all means, I do not intend to bash this great university. It just seems that some individuals of power at UT are taking great advantage of their position, overlooking those they are claiming to be working for. This is my university. I pay thousands of dollars to attend UT. My only hope is that generations to come will be able to find the resources and share the same experiences that I have in my time at this great institution. The only way to make that possible is to create a foundation for growth. Individual rewards come later, not right away. First you must accomplish something, not just break ground in many places across our sprawling campus.

What we, the students, need is more resources. Add to our ability to gain the most knowledge we can while at UT. Do not give us professors who have sub-par salaries and then speak of multiple-digit raises given to less accessible, less impressionable individuals. Not once in my three years and nearly one month here have I ever met or shaken hands with the chancellor, the president or even any of the deans. They seem to be these invisible individuals who lurk in the shadows. In fact, the only times I can think of anyone ever having met these people come due to punishment for wrongdoings they may have done on campus.

Why not take a more positive role? Am I the only one who believes that in order to make positive gains (especially concerning our movement into the top 25 rankings) there must be positive, lasting effects that go well beyond the personal paychecks of anyone involved?

Eventually that money will be gone, but will the effects still remain?

— Kayla Graham is a senior in English literature. She can be reached at kgraham7@utk.edu.

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‘The Master’ hits at box office Interactive art display opens The Associated Press LOS ANGELES — Paul Thomas Anderson’s cult drama “The Master” commanded a huge following in its opening weekend, smashing records on just a handful of screens.

The Weinstein Co. release made $729,745 in five theaters in New York and Los Angeles for a record-setting per-screen average of $145,949, according to Sunday studio estimates. The hugely anticipated film, which just won several of the top awards at the Venice Film Festival and will open in more cities in upcoming weeks, stars Philip Seymour Hoffman as a charismatic cult leader and Joaquin Phoenix as his wayward protege.

The No. 1 film at the box office was “Resident Evil: Retribution,” which took in an estimated $21.1 million in its debut. This is the fifth film in the Sony Screen Gems action franchise, starring Milla Jovovich.

That topped the 3-D re-release of the Disney Pixar animated favorite “Finding Nemo,” which opened in second place with $17.5 million.

The 3-D “Resident Evil: Retribution” was directed by Jovovich's husband, Paul W.S. Anderson, who has made three of the five films.

It features the actress once again as the warrior Alice, the last hope for the human race as an evil corporation unleashes a deadly virus that creates more flesh-eating undead on a worldwide scale. And fittingly, the film performed even better internationally, where it made a healthy $50 million.

“You have to give so much credit for that to Milla,” said Rory Bruer, Sony’s head of distribution. “She’s such an incredible star and absolutely just works so hard in every country. Whether it’s Russia or Japan, everywhere she's gone, she's worked so hard in regards to making the franchise a success.”

The re-do of “Finding Nemo” follows in a recent tradition of Disney converting its classic animated movies into 3-D for a whole new audience. The 2003 underwater comedy about a tiny, lost fish named Nemo, featuring the voices of Albert Brooks, Ellen DeGeneres and Willem Dafoe, won the Academy Award for best animated feature.

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Paul Dergarabedian, box-office analyst for Hollywood.com, said the No. 1-opening for the latest “Resident Evil” movie came as a bit of a surprise. He figured “Finding Nemo” would come out on top, given the track record of the Pixar brand and the strong opening a year ago of Disney's “The Lion King” in 3-D, which debuted at No. 1 with $30.1 million.

“The Screen Gems label, they know how to create a profit-making franchise,” Dergarabedian said. “It’s become so important if you have a star who resonates in the international marketplace — you can have a real winner worldwide.”

Last week’s No. 1 movie, the Lionsgate exorcism thriller “The Possession,” fell to third place with an estimated $5.8 million. It’s now made about $41.2 million over the past three weeks.

Among the other new movies this weekend, “Arbitrage” opened in 12th place in limited release with nearly $2.1 million. Richard Gere stars as a hedge-fund billionaire juggling scandals that could destroy him personally and professionally.

The huge opening for “The Master” beats the per-screen-average record for a live-action feature debut set earlier this year by Wes Anderson’s “Moonrise Kingdom,” which made $522,996 when it opened on four screens in May for an average of $130,749.

Asked who the audience was for “The Master,” Weinstein Co. President of Theatrical Distribution Erik Lomis said: “We didn't do exit polls but from eyeballing the ArcLight (Cinemas), everyone in Los Angeles showed up.”

Part of the allure was the rare opportunity to see the film projected in lush 70mm, which was possible at four of the five locations where it was playing. Expertly paced trailers released over the past few months revealed nothing, and unannounced screenings in select cities created more buzz. And some of the film's mystique may have come from its parallels to the origins of the secretive Church of Scientology.

Anderson has said the church's founder, L. Ron Hubbard, provided inspiration for Hoffman's character.

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Anyone can simultaneously hear the speakers’ messages through the Open Air app or website or through two low-volume listening spots on the parkway. Or people can choose to simply watch the silent display as it travels through the air.

Organizers expect the inevitable “Yo, Vinnie!” and “Go Eagles!” exclamations but urge participants to take the opportunity to say something meaningful, funny, inspirational, challenging — and appropriate. Online entries will be kept in check by users’ votes; on-site messages won’t be censored, but the light canopy and being visible in the crowd should act to deter offensive comments.

“If you’re on the parkway speaking, we all know where you are, and in a way it’s pretty much like any public space: If you say something that’s moronic, well, other people can see you do that and you self-regulate,” Lozano-Hemmer said. “We need to moderate a little bit more online because of the anonymity.”

Interspersed among the everyday people will be prerecorded messages from past and present Philadelphians including filmmaker David Lynch, late Phillies announcer Harry Kalas, hip hop artist Santigold and classical pianist Andre Watts. All messages and corresponding light designs will also be archived on the project website for posterity.

The Associated Press PHILADELPHIA — A new interactive artwork opening in Philadelphia will make light of your words, but it’s probably not what you think.

Montreal-based artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer is preparing to flip the switch on “Open Air,” an interactive work that will translate voice messages into moving beams of light over a treelined parkway named for Benjamin Franklin in the heart of Philadelphia’s cultural district.

Record your soapbox declarations, poems, gripes, wishes and shout-outs of up to 30 seconds on the “Open Air” iPhone app or online, then watch 24 robotic searchlights slowly sweep through the night sky in patterns and intensity determined by your vocal signature and GPS location.

The spectacle starts Thursday and runs through Oct. 14, from 8-11 p.m. each night.

“Philadelphia has traditions of free speech and democracy. ... We wanted to take that background and implement technology to visualize it,” said Lozano-Hemmer, who was commissioned about four years ago to create the work.

“We wanted to take free speech and make it materially visible in the city.”

On clear nights, the artist’s sky-high vox populi will be visible from 10 miles away. His sitespecific installations have been presented worldwide, but “Open Air” is his first outdoor searchlight project in the U.S. Want to beam yourself up? From anywhere in the world, messages can be recorded through the project’s website (www.openairphilly.net) or after downloading a free iPhone app debuting Sept. 20.

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Messages recorded on the parkway — your smartphone’s GPS gives you away — are automatically bumped to the front of the queue. As the light pattern activates, its originator gets a heads-up on their phone and the canopy of roving searchlights briefly form a dome in the air above the person’s location.

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Assistant Sports Editor Austin Bornheim abornhei@utk.edu

Johnson shines despite lackluster team effort Lauren Kittrell Sports Editor After a disappointing 37-20 loss to the 3-0 Florida Gators on Saturday, Tennessee sophomore linebacker A.J. Johnson became one of the few lights in an otherwise dim aftermath.

Early in the third quarter, Johnson appeared in a Wildcat formation, rushing for a total of five yards and a touchdown that gave Tennessee just what they needed to pull away from the Gators in the second half. Unfortunately for the Vols, the rest of the team failed to follow in his footsteps.

Johnson said he made sure not to hand over the ball, and while he didn’t do many reads on the play, he focused on looking for the hole and making the play. He said the difference in the game was more mental than physical.

“We got hit with some big plays and we got frustrated with that on the defense and that’s what hit us the most,” Johnson said.

Confident in the Wildcat formation due to pre-

vious high school experience, Johnson said that the Vols have been practicing the formation since the first game. He said running the Wildcat isn’t a big deal for him and he feels confident in the role.

“I ran it quite a few (times),” Johnson said. “In the fourth quarter, we ran it a lot in high school.”

Head coach Derek Dooley was hesitant to put the blame for any one aspect on the team, but did say Johnson’s drive was a helpful moment in the game.

“Putting him back there on short yardage and goal line, that was a big help,” Dooley said.

Though he still managed to throw for 257 yards and two touchdowns, starting quarterback Tyler Bray felt the pressure from the defense early on with two interceptions and only completing half of his passes.

“I got sacked twice,” Bray said. “I don’t think I’d been sacked at all (previously).”

He said he felt the team just needed to make plays, with players like Johnson continuing to

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Linebacker A.J. Johnson sneaks past Florida defenders for a touchdown on Sept. 15. step up in tough situations.

“When it comes to crunch time, the big guys need to step up and make plays and we didn’t,” Bray said.

The defeat left Dooley at a loss for words.

“We thought we could go toe-to-toe with them for four quarters,” Dooley said. “There’s no excuses. We didn’t get it done. Give Florida credit. They did what they needed to do. I don’t know what else to say.”

Junior defensive lineman Daniel McCullers said that the coach’s post-game message came as a surprise. He said the big issue for the team is remembering that this isn’t the end and there’s a whole season ahead.

“They just told us to keep battling,” McCullers said. “We have a great team, it was just one game.

We have a long season ahead of us. We’re going to continue to work hard and practice hard so we can keep getting better every day.”

National spotlight, Gators crush Vols, 37-20 Austin Bornheim Assistant Sports Editor After the 37-20 loss to Florida, running back Rajion Neal was at a loss for words.

“Honestly, I am not sure what went on,” Neal said. “You can sense it once Florida went up a little and stuff starting to get out of rhythm,” Neal said. “I can’t really put it into words what really happened.”

After a week’s worth of hype and excitement, things went horribly wrong for the Vols in a mere 30 minutes.

Things were going well for Tennessee heading into the half. Everything looked good.

Tennessee was leading 14-10 at halftime, Tyler Bray had had two touchdown passes and Florida’s only touchdown was set up by a Bray interception that gave the Gators excellent field position. Things were great in Neyland.

But as the third quarter wore on something happened to the Vols. They crumbled under the pressure.

“I feel that the guys got caught up in their

emotions when Florida took the lead and started making the big plays,” said Neal. “You could say that (the) guys felt a little more pressure, including myself.”

Tennessee had just orchestrated a 12 play, 81-yard drive to take a 20-13 lead and the offense was clicking. Then when the Volunteers stopped Florida on a fake punt attempt to get the ball back on Florida’s 47-yard line, it looked like the Vols were going to deliver a blow that would knock the Gators out. But the exact opposite ended up happening.

The Vols went three-and-out and gave the Gators the ball back on their own 20-yard line, and on the first play Trey Burton dashed through the line and went 80 yards to tie the game.

It was a terrible play for Tennessee. No one covered seemed to have read the play right, even though everyone would have said it was going to be a running play. No one was there to meet Burton in the hole, and to make matters worse, defensive back Marsalis Teague took one of the worst angles possible to try and make the tackle.

“It was a shock,” head coach Derek Dooley said. “Nobody recognized it. We weren’t able to route. It was just a bad play. I don’t know how else to say it. ...I don’t know. ... It wasn’t a bad play. It was a bad fit.”

That signaled the beginning of the end for UT, as Florida went on to score 24 unanswered points.

After outgaining Florida 220-176 in the first half, the Tennessee offense completely disappeared.

Bray was a horrendous 9-for-21 in the second half for 104 yards and a costly interception.

“We just have to make plays when it comes down to crunch time,” Bray said. “The big guys have to step up more than we did tonight.”

That was the understatement of the night.

From the time Tennessee gave the ball back to Florida at the 3:15 mark in the third quarter, Florida outgained the Vols 302-35.

The most disappointing part is that the team crumbled when they needed to respond.

Things weren’t even really that bad.

The game was still tied and the crowd of 102,455 was still thinking that the Volunteers

were going to pull it out. But the team buckled.

“I think it was a feeling of being overwhelmed,” linebacker Jacques Smith said. “It was not that we did not know what was going on or that we did not know what they were doing. It was kind of playing our ball; we got out of our game. Once the hot hand got away from us, we could not get it back.”

The Vols fell apart under the lights of the national stage. Knoxville’s hopes of returning to former prominence were smashed by the Gators en route to their eighth-straight win against Tennessee. But it’s a long season, and many more games have yet to be played.

Since Dooley has been here, the Vols haven’t been able to respond when they get hit in the mouth and nothing changed last night, but they insist things are different this season.

“I feel like this team is totally different and we are not someone to push around,” said Smith.

After a major disappointment, it is time for the Vols to prove Smith’s words with the remainder of the season.