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Justice Thomas answers student questions Chris Bratta
Staff Writer Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas spoke to alumni, law students and a limited number of other UT students and faculty Friday. The speech itself had no predetermined topic, and the majority of Thomas’s lecture was in the form of Q-and-A. “My wife suggested to me, years ago, that I not give lectures, but rather talk with people and have them talk about the things that they are interested in,” Thomas said. “Of course, there is always some risk in that, because then people might want to talk about nuclear physics or something, and then I would have to pretend that I actually know what a nucleus is ... So I decided, years ago, to allow the asking of more questions. That way, I’ll be able to talk about the things you are interested in.” The questions varied along with the answers — some short and some long. However, Thomas made a clear and bold statement. “The only rule I have about (asking) questions, is that it is a question to which you want an answer,” he said. This statement was an attempt to set a strong precedent for legitimate questions containing legitimate answers, but from this format, the audience took away more of Thomas’s personal life and opinions than his opinions pertaining to law. Will Perry, chair of the moot court board, said Thomas was limited in his responses on political matters. “It is difficult to ask about specific cases, because Judge Thomas is limited to how he can respond in this informal setting,” Perry said. “His responses have to be relatively apolitical, and that prevents him from certain responses.” Although the speech was lacking in actual political conversation, Thomas did give a lot of insight into himself, and he gave some tips for life in general. “I am more idealistic now than I ever have been in my whole life,” he said. He then described the progression to idealism. “When I was younger, I was an angry black man,” he said. “I was very, very upset. I was
upset with the South. I was upset with the church. I was upset with my grandparents. I was upset with everybody ... I was looking for reasons to be upset. At 26, I was cynical, and at 62, I am idealist, not because I am on the court, but because of what I have seen in life.” Furthermore, he offered a message which created an uproar of applause and approval from the audience. “I have seen people engage in cynicism, bitterness, negativity, etc.,” he said. “It is not a good diet. If you think that smoking is bad for you, I can assure you that those things, negativity and cynicism, are far more carcinogenic to the spirit than cigarettes are to the lungs.” Thomas also offered insight from his perspective. As he described his transformation from angst-filled to idealistic, he described details of his personal life. “I was living in a roach-infested apartment five years before I went on the Supreme Court,” he said. “I was a sad, overworked and unhappy person until I met my bride in 1986.” Thomas explained that he was the first in his family to graduate from high school, and he didn’t skip steps. He also instructed the audience to, “do every job in front of you the best you can, and do it honestly,” and to “treat people the way you want to be treated. I don’t care who it is.” Thomas addressed a question about regret. “In this business, you do the best you can at the time,” he said. “That way, if you think you change your mind later on, you know you gave it your best shot. But then, I also have a rule that if you think you change your mind, write it. You say it. You let the world know. You don’t go around defending the indefensible ... but you don’t regret, because at the time you thought it was the best you could do.” Thomas also addressed doing the right thing. “Just because you are alone doesn’t mean you are wrong,” he said. “It means you are alone ... If you think you are right, there is nothing wrong with being the only one.” Students said they enjoyed the lecture’s format. “It is a tremendous honor to have Judge Thomas here, and it took great courage and strength to present in a question-and-answer format rather than a lecture,” Perry said.
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U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas speaks Friday, Sept. 17, in the Alumni Memorial Building in a lecture to the College of Law. Thomas, who is the first justice to visit UT in 20 years, gave students insight from his unique position at the top of the judicial branch and enjoyed a leisurely weekend, watching the Vols take on Florida Saturday afternoon.
Early votes heavily impact elections Pregame lectures offer new insights Sarah Murphree
Associated Press Candidates of all political stripes are latching on to the tantalizing reality that a huge — and growing — chunk of voters casts ballots well ahead of Election Day. They know it’s big. They know it requires different campaign strategies. They just don’t agree on how to do it. Some are spending more money earlier. Others are trying to gradually dole out their stash of cash. Some are courting loyal supporters first. Others are trying to lock in unreliable voters. Some are rushing out ads. Others are pumping up early phone contacts. Whatever the strategy, more candidates are keenly aware their campaigns must have a smart early-vote program. More people, too, are figuring out that early voting has benefits for them beyond the convenience of voting at the time of their own choosing. It’s dawning on people that once they cast their ballots, those annoying phone calls and mailings from politicians and their allies might slow down or even stop. With each election, early voters make up a bigger share of the American electorate. In 2008, about 30 percent of all votes came in ahead of the election, either by mail or in person. If the numbers are similar this year, as expected, that would be a substantial jump from the 20 percent who voted early in the last midterm elections, in 2006. In 1992, by contrast, just seven percent of ballots came in early. The trend away from voting on Election Day gained momentum after the contentious 2000 presidential election, which inspired a wave of election overhauls. At least 33 states now offer some sort of no-excuse-needed early voting.
In some states, such as Colorado, the early-voting habit is so ingrained that it’s “part of the fabric of the campaign,” says Floyd Ciruli, an independent pollster in Denver. In others, such as Maryland, early voting is still so new that the candidates for governor have squabbled over its merits. Republican challenger Bob Ehrlich, who vetoed an early-voting law when he was governor, called it “a solution in search of a problem.” Dan Tokaji, an early-voting expert and professor at Ohio State
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It’s not likely to result in a seismic shift in turnout,
but it can make a difference in close races.
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– Ohio State Professor Dan Tokaji, on early voting
University’s Moritz College of Law, said evidence is mixed on whether early voting increases turnout. “It’s not likely to result in a seismic shift in turnout, but it can make a difference in close races,” he said. “There may be some voters teetering on the edge in terms of whether they’ll come out to vote.” This year’s primary elections offer ample evidence of the perils of ceding the early vote. In Tennessee, state Senate Speaker Ron Ramsey, who came in third in a spirited primary for the Republican gubernatorial nomination, lamented that he didn’t have enough money to get his message out at the kickoff of early voting because
he had to make his cash last. “I would have loved to have an extra $1 million in the bank and peaked a week before that,” he said. Early-vote strategies vary wildly. In Colorado, where early voters were instrumental in Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet’s winning campaign against a strong primary challenger, Bennet worked hard to bank the early ballots of unlikely voters — those who had never voted in a primary or had done so just once. Sixty-six percent of his early ballots came from this group, according to the campaign. In Wisconsin, Democratic Sen. Russ Feingold is trying to harness the early votes of college students, among his most loyal supporters. He’s asking them to vote early so they can spend Election Day turning out other voters for his campaign. In Ohio, Republican strategist Mark Weaver said early voting means campaigns have to reach out to voters much sooner, and that means candidates must either “raise more money or spread the peanut butter on the bread a little further.” Both parties are refining their earlyvote strategies and focusing on key states. Lynda Tran, a spokeswoman for Organizing for America, the president’s national political organization, says the state and national Democratic parties are teaming up to bank ballots in states such as Ohio and Arizona. The Arizona effort, she said, involves making sure first-time voters who are likely to support Democrats are added to the state’s permanent early-voting list. Those who sign up automatically receive early ballots in the mail for every election. Republicans, who saw the results of Obama’s strong operation in 2008, say they won’t be burned again.
Staff Writer The UT Faculty Pregame Showcase is a public lecture series, scheduled two hours before each home football game in the UC ballroom. The pregame showcase was founded in 1989 by Lynn Champion, director of academic outreach and communications for the College of Arts and Sciences. The program consists of 30-minute presentations followed by a 10-to-15 minute Q-and-A session. The presentations are presented by various faculty members from the divisions of the College of Arts and Sciences. Robyn Steffen, junior in marketing, went to her first presentation last week. “It was a great experience to learn something new about a topic I did not know much about,” she said. The speakers discuss topics involving the social sciences, natural sciences, humanities, fine arts and performing arts. “Topics are chosen that would be of interest to alumni, fans and others who are on campus for the game,” Champion said. After the presentations, guests can enjoy light complementary refreshments and enter to win door prizes. The remainder of the 2010 Pregame Showcase lineup includes the following topics: “Exploring the Utility and Beauty of Medieval Gardens” presented by Laura Howes, associate professor of English and interim director of the Marco Institute, on Sept. 25; “Place Matters: Characteristics of Cities that Attract and Sustain New Immigrants” presented by Stephanie Bohon, associate professor and co-director of the Center for the Study of Social Justice on Oct. 23; “Nature’s Legos: The Building Blocks of the Universe” presented by Soren Sorensen, department head and professor of physics and astronomy on Nov. 13; and “The Pendulum of Congressional Power: Partisan Opposition to Presidential Foreign Policy” presented by Brandon Prins, associate professor of political science on Nov. 27. The presentations are free and open to the public.
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College of Business launches business analytics degree The new Master of Science in Business Analytics degree was launched this fall in the College of Business Administration’s Department of Statistics, Operations and Management Science. UT’s College of Business Administration is the first business school in the nation to offer this degree. Students learn data analysis and quantitative modeling skills to solve business problems and achieve better business performance. Additionally, they gain knowledge of core business topics, develop communication skills and solve team-based, real-world business problems. Organizations are searching for employees who have strong analytical and business skills. In fact, a 2009 online survey of 75 corporations in 27 different industries conducted by Dobson Analytics Inc. found that, on average, these corporations expected to almost double the current size of their analytics staff within the next two years. One company optimistic that the UT program could produce prospective new employees is dunnhumbyUSA, based in Cincinnati, Ohio. The company is a leader in using data to understand organizations and build cusTara Sripunvoraskul • The Daily Beacon tomer loyalty. Junior Jasmine Hudgins and senior Cory Yandell repaint the pool room at the YWCA UT’s business analytics programs are on Friday, Sept. 17. Members of the Delta Gamma sorority were on hand at the YWCA offered several ways: as a single MS degree; a as part of the Volunteer Challenge, a week-long event in which students volunteer at proposed dual-degree MS/MBA with UT’s local organizations.
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full-time MBA program; and, for MBA students not wanting to earn the MS but who are interested in the subject matter, a concentration in business analytics. Plans for an undergraduate degree in business analytics are underway for the 2011-2012 academic year. Supercomputer Nautilus benefits to analyze large datasets Nautilus, the powerful computer for visualizing and analyzing large datasets at the Remote Data Analysis and Visualization Center, goes into full production today. Managed by UT and funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation, RDAV and Nautilus provide scientists with cutting-edge capabilities for analyzing and visualizing massive quantities of data. As Nautilus goes into service, RDAV will serve researchers in a wide range of fields. In addition to addressing scientific problems in the life sciences and astrophysics, Nautilus will be used to process data spanning many other research areas. These include visualizing data results from computer simulations with many complex variables, such as weather or climate modeling; analyzing large amounts of data coming from experimental facilities like ORNL’s Spallation Neutron Source; and aggregating and interpreting input from a large number of sensors distributed over a wide geographic region. The computer will also have the capability to study large bodies of text and aggregations of documents.
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Fans cheer on the Vols against the Florida Gators on Saturday, Sept. 18. The Vols weren’t able to hold off the Gators, who started off slow but eventually turned it on in the second half to take the win 31-17.
Haslam looks back before campaign
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Associated Press Bill Haslam was 16 the day in 1974 his high school guidance counselor told him he was being excused from school immediately, because something had happened to his mother. With his father out of town on business and his siblings away at college, Haslam rushed home, but the ambulance was already pulling out of the driveway. Cynthia Allen Haslam had died unexpectedly at age 42. “It was a total surprise,” Haslam told the Associated Press in an interview after a recent speech to a business group in Nashville. “She had literally laid down to take a nap and had a stroke and didn’t wake up.” Haslam, 52, the Republican nominee for governor this fall, said his mother’s death was a turning point in his life. “Obviously if you lose your mom when you’re 16, it causes
you to step back and think, OK, it’s not just about the football game this Friday night or who I’m going to the prom with,” he said. “You start thinking about harder and tougher issues and realize really quick that life’s hard and doesn’t work for a whole lot of people.” Haslam went on to study at Emory University in Atlanta, where he was a member of Sigma Chi fraternity, the senior council and the Mortar Board honor society. That’s also where he met his future wife Crissy, who grew up in Memphis. Upon graduation, Haslam was fielding offers to put his major to work teaching high school history and coaching basketball. After that, he planned to study at a Presbyterian seminary. Those plans changed at the urging of his father, who persuaded him to come work at Pilot Oil Co., the family business where he had worked summer jobs since he was 13. “You know, all fathers want their sons to come work for the company,” said Jim Haslam, who founded what has become the country’s largest truck stop chain with a single gas station in 1958 — the same year as the birth of his son Bill, the youngest of three children.
“My dad said, you know, if you’re really going to be a pastor you really ought to understand what the business world looks like,” Haslam said. “And maybe you’ll like it.” “And I found I did like it,” he said. Haslam took a leading role alongside older brother Jimmy in expanding the chain from mostly gas stations and convenience stores to a “travel center” concept of truck stops featuring branded fast food service. Jim Haslam’s approach for his sons was: “Jimmy, you take care of today, and Bill you take care of tomorrow.” “When we started our big expansion in the mid 1980s, Jimmy kind of ran the operations and Bill did the development fund and the new locations — all the long-range stuff,” he said. Bill Haslam’s accomplishments at Pilot were questioned during the Republican primary by rival candidate Zach Wamp, who likened him to the character of good-guy Bobby Ewing on the TV show “Dallas.” “He’s a nice man — Bobby was the nicest guy in that family — but he was never in charge,” Wamp said, who derided Haslam’s resume as “propaganda.” Haslam, who ultimately
captured 47 percent of the vote in the spirited three-way GOP primary, said the barbs about his business acumen “made my wife really mad,” but that there was little to gain by arguing about it on the campaign trail. While he no longer has a management role with Pilot, Haslam remains a large shareholder in the company that had $10.9 billion in revenues in 2009. He has refused to release his annual earnings from Pilot, drawing fire from his opponents. Haslam contends doing that would reveal personal information about the income of other family members and proprietary information about the privately held company.
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Rising — Relief along America’s Gulf Coast
After months of fear and confusion in the wake of a massive oil spill 40 miles off the coast of Louisiana, America’s Gulf residents can finally breathe easily. The U.S. Department of the Interior, which regulates offshore drilling, declared an oil well that spilled an estimated 4.9 billion barrels of crude into the Gulf of Mexico between April 20 and July 15 officially dead in the early morning hours of Sunday. An April 20 explosion on the oil rig Deepwater Horizon, which claimed the lives of 11 employees on the rig, sparked the spill regarded as the worst in U.S. history. Months passed as oil spread across the gulf and onto the shores of America’s Gulf Coast, threatening the economy and lives of the region’s residents. After a temporary cap was placed on the well on July 15, more permanent solutions were put into place to neutralize the well for good. In a nation whose economy had been sputtering lifelessly for the past year, the oil spill came at a very inopportune time for our country. Though the well was pronounced dead on Sunday, cleanup efforts continue — and will for some time — but the news came as an incomparable relief for our American brethren struggling to regain life in the most oil-blanketed part of the U.S. Columns of The Daily Beacon are reflections of the individual columnist, and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Beacon or its editorial staff.
Falling — The “rivalry” between UT and Florida football In what has become an SEC tradition in the last few Septembers, Urban Meyer’s No. 10 Florida Gators carried the fight to the Vols and held it there for 60 minutes on Saturday, disposing of UT 31-17. Despite Meyer’s apparent dominance over Tennessee since his arrival at Florida, this rivalry was once not so one-sided. As most UT fans will tell you, no matchup stood as highly-touted as Tennessee vs. Florida in the 1990s. The bad blood that resonated between UT fans and former UF coach Steve Spurrier made for spirited storylines each and every year in a game that almost always carried national title implications. But UT coach Derek Dooley is new, with an inexperienced cast of Volunteers incomparable to the talent in Gainesville. Let’s hope that within a year or two, Tennessee and Florida will be a game each fanbase can eagerly anticipate — just like the old days.
Fake reality harder to escape as time passes No tes on A r t a n d L i te ra t u re by
Amien Essif
Rising — Lindsay Lohan’s demand for a good lawyer Okay, who had four weeks on the board? Yes, dear readers, in news that will come as a shock to approximately no one, over the weekend it was revealed by TMZ.com that Lindsay Lohan, demonic crack whore and part-time actress, has failed two drug tests — one for cocaine last week — since her release from her brief tenure in the slammer. Lohan immediately took to Twitter to defend herself, stating that recovery is a long and difficult process and that sometimes people slip. Yeah, sometimes people slip. The odds of those types of slips are increased when you are given preferential treatment by the judicial system, thanks to your once-high prominence (or something) in the film industry. You don’t serve all of your jail sentence — when you are in jail you are kept separated from the rest of the population — you get out of rehab early because you were “misdiagnosed,” and then you return to the same drug-saturated, seedy Hollywood underworld you just escaped a month ago, scot-free. Phew, okay, rant over. Miss Lohan, we at the Beacon have a few reccomendations for you to make your life and recovery a little easier. For starters, please stop acting like some entitled spoiled brat. You broke the law. You aren’t being victimized by the judicial system, you committed a crime. In the great circle of life, when you break the law, you get punished. Surely they covered this in the cinematic classic “I Know Who Killed Me.” Next, get away from everyone you have ever met, immediately. You aren’t going to get any better hanging around your mom, Dina “my kids are my meal ticket” Lohan, who treats you more like a club companion wingwoman than she does a very-disturbed daughter who is in need of serious help. Lastly, go see Tina Fey (after you complete your recovery process and get out of L.A., of course). Tina is the reason you got your big break (what’s up “Mean Girls”), and she is still writing great, snappy work (“30 Rock” did wonders for Alec Baldwin, who was a perpetual wasteland when he came back on the air.) We at the Beacon know you are a great actress, Lindsay, and we just want to see you get better ... but we also want to see you working with better material, too. THE DAILY BACON • Blake Tredway
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I watched the film “Revolutionary Road” for the first time this summer at a friend’s house, and afterward I couldn’t sleep. Sometimes I wonder if music is such a powerful art form that a film score alone could induce restless insomnia — the haunting, four-note melody that repeats throughout the end of the film definitely had me rubbing my eyes. But, no. There is a tragedy in the film, which transcends the easy tricks of filmmaking. It is the tragedy of having everything but a connection to reality. It’s the middle-class tragedy. But I’m writing all of this out of context. “Revolutionary Road” follows a young married couple who, from the beginning of their relationship, have imagined themselves to be different. They know they are above the life they were leading and were living that way only temporarily, until they can escape to do something strange, something real that wouldn’t stifle their natural independence from polite, whitecollar, 1950s, suburban society. Yet escaping becomes a nearly impossible move once they let the game go on too long. The couple, April and Frank Wheeler, are trapped in a sort of ironic irony — at least that’s what I always called it in high school when I wanted to talk about what was happening to me and my friends. Let me explain. Above all, we saw ourselves as nonconformists. It was the only label we would accept. Coming to school everyday, attending class and eating lunch in a cafeteria was sometimes so painful for us that we turned it into a joke. We were different from the herded masses drunk with “school spirit” and packed into boxcars of “opportunity,” “success” and “real life” — we were so radically different that we found it hilarious when we walked around in backpacks and shook hands with the principal. We laughed at our peers for being sheep, and we laughed at ourselves for mimicking their bleats so accurately. We lived in a state of irony, in the sense that everything we did meant the opposite. When, at a
party, we would ask a couple of girls what kind of music they were into, we were really having fun at their expense — toying with dead conversational norms. But in the end, our irony was itself ironic. Our nonconformity might have been something real, but from any perspective but our own, we looked like a bunch of normal shorts-and-T-shirt-wearing high school dudes. At the risk of stretching the meaning of “irony,” I say our irony was ironic because we knew that conformity worked. It got us friends, an education, sleep at night, emotional stability — everything but freedom. And to prove we had freedom, we pretended we could escape the box anytime but were only sticking around for the parties. The joke was on us. The fight isn’t over. What I’m doing after college is the next big question, and I’m regularly fighting off the people, institutions and faceless forces who are trying to answer it for me. My plan right now is to sit down at the very center of the world’s wilderness and meet the Great Spirit, but then again, what if someone offers me a job? Frank and April took the job. Temporarily. But a few years into their mock life, April tells Frank she can’t take it anymore. What about Paris? she asks. Didn’t you say there was nowhere else in the world you’d rather be, Frank? So they decide to stop everything and move to Paris, but in the process of escaping, they finally realize how deeply they’ve dug themselves in. One character, a highly educated, though mentally unstable, acquaintance of the Wheelers, is the only one who understands their plight. “A lot of people realize the emptiness,” he tells them, “but it takes guts to see the hopelessness.” The hopelessness is the tragedy; for once you know you can’t escape from somewhere you don’t belong — even if this somewhere is a quiet Connecticut suburb — then you know you’re living in a hell. So on my midnight walk after finishing the film, I decided (like I’ve decided so many times before) that if I’m going to step off my trajectory of school-workfamily-death, even for a short stretch, I had better leave before I become entrenched. But more importantly, I realized entrenchment is an invisible process, and the point is to train yourself to see it. It takes guts to see how deep you’ve dug. —Amien Essif is a senior in English. He can be reached at aessif@utk.edu.
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A friend of mine recently imparted to me some rather novel information: A guy she went to high school with has recently become noted for giving people dating advice. People went to him for help all the time. He even gave speeches to big groups about it — professionally. The injustice of it struck — what could this dude possibly have to say, universally, about dating or relationships that was innovative or unique? That evening, a video of him went up on my friend’s Facebook. For more than an hour, he casually yet methodically gave a holistic account on how to meet, approach and get girls to have sex with you. Thank God it wasn't actually dating advice! This was something far more relevant and intellectually challenging. “Hshudo,” his player nickname, offered his interesting and extensively thought-out practice and theory of what is popularly known as pick-up artistry. His speech, which can be watched at www.the21convention.com/2009/09/08/hshudo-t21c2009/, gave advice, not on relationships, but on how to go from meeting to banging a girl in as short a time as possible. I can only admire Hshudo for his intense focus and passion for his player theory — theory, I say, because his hypotheses have apparently been tested, refined, peer reviewed and have displayed a consistent enough methodology to provide a foundation for predicting more ways to get girls to put out. This field of study even has its own jargon: The most notable being “progression,” which is the theoretical practice of imperceptibly increasing the level of socially acceptable physical contact to unconsciously condition a target for sexual activity and avoid the inevitable rejection that would result from immediate solicitation. The “game” and its negative stigmas are, of course, hardly new, but Hshudo's speech illuminated themes and patterns that helped me to reevaluate this fascinating field. Hshudo's demonstration of his theory identified some crystal clear assumptions about girls in general. Perhaps the most emphasized and repeated assumption was that girls respond swell to what can be summarized as assertive persistence, almost a “no means yes” philosophy; natural female indecisiveness can be used to one's advantage. For whatever reason, when you've
calmly got the ultimate goal in mind, something primal in girls will buckle under assertive yet progressive pressure. And they will have sex with you, cold embodiment of virile energy that you are, barely knowing you. Every specialized tactic and logistic that has been revealed to him by his consuming, feverish obsession seems to branch out from that major tenant. It may seem simple, but to many guys a concrete idea about the base, universal programming of the most desirable yet otherwise inaccessible, unsympathetic and enigmatic creature (a girl) is like learning why matter exists, except way better than finding out the nature of existence. Anyone not immersed in this misogynistic culture may have some fairly automatic objections about his attitudes. Men and women alike might rightly call the message of his speech immoral or sociopathic, because of the preoccupation with a selfish goal and the supreme lack of consideration for the girls that make up the equation (like the pope's view on abortion). There is inevitably a strong conflict as to whether the ends — getting laid — justify the means of turning a human being into a cold theory ... to these one-dimensional rationalizers, women are an obstacle in the pursuit of themselves. The dynamic of dating, or any fledgling relationship, is full of neurosis and plagued with human ridiculousness, but at least it is social. The stimulation and reward that come from relationships, because of their critical importance to our survival (and procreation), is unlike any other kind of emotional satisfaction. However, the instinct to have sex and the catalyst of attraction that assists it is perhaps the strongest, most primal instinct humans possess that we can actually resist and not physically die. Being assertive with women is great. Impromptu talking to a girl you think is hot is swell. But emotional intimacy and sexual satisfaction complement each other considerably. Men so preoccupied with the latter, to the point where they actually logic and reason away the possibility of getting pleasure from thinking about someone besides themselves, are hardly men. I refrain from putting a moral value on the subject of Hshudo's speech because the desperation and fear that lead men to cling to such extremes rob them of experiencing emotional sexual intimacy, the best of both worlds, a state of being that sexual narcissism prevents. And that is punishment enough. — Wiley Robinson is an undecided sophomore. He can be reached at rrobin23@utk.edu.
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Baseball team begins fall season StaffReports The Tennessee baseball team opened up its fall season with a back-and-forth battle in Game One of the Orange and White World Series that ended in a 6-6 tie on Friday night at Lindsey Nelson Stadium in Knoxville. Offensively, senior Khayyan Norfork had two doubles, two stolen bases and an RBI for the Orange squad. Senior Tyler Horne, junior Matt Ramsey, junior Zeth Stone and sophomore Drew Steckenrider all had three hits apiece. The White squad was led by junior Wes Walker, who had three hits, along with junior Zach Osborne and freshman Blake Berger who both chipped in with two each. For the game, the two teams combined for eight errors, and of the 12 runs scored, only five of them were earned. Game two of the inter-squad best-of-seven series will be held Friday at Lindsey Nelson Stadium at 5 p.m. “I saw a lot of good effort tonight,” Tennessee head baseball coach Todd Raleigh said. “We’ve only been practicing one week, but I saw a lot of good things offensively and a lot of good things from our pitchers. I did not see a lot of good things defensively. We’ve got some guys playing out of position right now and it exposed some things. We’ve been one of the top defensive teams in the country over the last few years so I wasn’t used to seeing us make that many errors.” “Drew Steckenrider had a great game. Tyler Horne had some good at-bats. I thought Steven
Gruver looked good, as did a lot of our pitchers. Khayyan Norfork and Josh Liles both had solid games, too. Those were some of the guys that stood out tonight.” The starting pitchers, junior Steven Gruver, for the White, and redshirt freshman Andy Hillis, for the Orange, both shut down the opposition. Gruver pitched 2.2 innings, giving up four hits and striking out four. Hillis pitched 1.2 frames and was relieved by junior T.J. Thornton who kept the game scoreless through two. The White squad got on the board first, as the team jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the bottom of the third. Liles, a senior, opened the third by reaching on a error by Norfork, the shortstop that put him on second. Liles reached third on a fly ball to center field hit by junior Charley Thurber and eventually scored on a sac fly by junior Davis Morgan. The White team tacked on one more run after a double by junior Chris Pierce, who went to third on a single by Berger, then touched home plate on an RBI single by junior Jerod Peper. The Orange team evened the score in the top of the fifth, as an error by Pierce allowed Steckenrider to reach first to lead off the inning. Steckenrider then stole second base and was driven home by Stone, who doubled right after. Norfork made it back-to-back doubles to even the score at two as he knocked in Stone. Norfork then swiped third and attempted to score on an Andrew Toles ground ball but was gunned down by White third baseman Berger. The White team quickly reclaimed the lead in the bottom of the frame, Pierce reached first on a throwing error by Norfork. A single by Berger advanced Pierce to second and a double
steal and throwing error by catcher Ethan Bennett allowed Pierce to cross home plate. The White team extended their lead back to two runs as Walker drove home Berger from second base, to make the score 4-2. In the top of the sixth, the Orange squad fought back to even the score at four, all with two outs. Ramsey started the rally with a double. Steckenrider followed with a single to score Ramsey. Stone then hit a single to right, and Steckenrider scored on a throwing error by the right fielder, Thurber. The Orange squad grabbed their first lead of the game in the top of the eighth, as sophomore Chris Fritts opened the inning with a double. Fritts nearly was thrown out on the base paths following the two bagger, but a failed pickoff attempt that ended with the ball in center field, allowed him to reach third. Two batters later, Steckenrider delivered a single to put the Orange up 5-4. Not to be outdone, the White squad put two runs up in the bottom of the inning to regain the lead 6-5. With one out, junior Zach Osborne hit a single, reached second on a walk to Thurber and went to third on an error by Norfork. With two outs and a full count to Pierce, the runners were off and a fielding error by Stone, the second baseman, allowed two runners to reach home. In the top of the ninth with one out, Horne, of the Orange squad, reached on a single to left field and later scored with the ball never leaving the infield. Horne stole second base and reached third on a passed ball. After Fritts walked, he and Horne completed the double steal to tie the game at 6-6.
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Zach LaDouceur, sophomore in mechanical engineering, powers through a defender from Georgia in the SEC Collegiate Rugby Sevens Championship this Saturday, Sept. 18, in Tuscaloosa, Ala. The UT Rugby Football club went undefeated in the tournament, taking home championships in the freshman, junior varsity and varsity divisions.
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Adam Ketron, a junior in mechanical engineering, takes a hand-off in a game of intramural flag football. More information about UT RecSports, which provides students with a variety of intramural leagues spanning seven sports, can be found at http://recsports.utk.edu.
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Mistakes cripple Vols against UF
Monday, September 20, 2010
Once compelling UT-UF rivalry now seemingly one-sided affair Matt Dixon Sports Editor
Tia Patron • The Daily Beacon
Two Florida defenders sack quarterback Matt Simms on Saturday, Sept. 18. Simms went 19-for-31 with two touchdown passes but also tossed two interceptions, which helped swing the game in the Gators’ favor.
Matt Dixon Sports Editor Tennessee (1-2, 0-1 SEC) played hard Saturday against 10th-ranked Florida (3-0, 1-0 SEC) in Neyland Stadium, but ultimately the Gators made enough plays in front of a crowd of 102,455 to beat the Volunteers 31-17. The Gators led 7-3 at the half but controlled the time of possession and scored 17 points in the third quarter to take a 24-10 lead into the fourth quarter, where they held off a Vol comeback bid. UT quarterback Matt Simms connected with receiver Justin Hunter on a 35-yard touchdown pass with 11:24 left in the game to cut the lead to 24-17. However, Florida answered with a nine-play, 60-yard drive capped off by a two-yard touchdown run by Trey Burton to finish the scoring for the game. “When we look back on this game, I think it starts with we didn't win the turnover battle,” Vols coach Derek Dooley said at his press conference after the game. “We'll never win doing that. We couldn't run it a lick, and we'll never win doing that. We couldn't get off (the field) on third downs on defense, never could affect the quarterback ... and we couldn't hold up in (pass) coverage.
That was the difference in the game. “I'm proud of the team, but we've got to learn from it and correct the mistakes.” Simms finished 19-of-31 for 259 yards and two touchdowns, but he threw two interceptions, including one in the Gators' end zone on the Vols' only trip inside the Florida 20 yard line. “We definitely dealt with adversity a lot better than we did a week ago,” Simms said. “Although we did a lot of bad things today, we improved in a lot of phases, and we're going to be a good football team the rest of the year. We are going to use this as motivation.” Running back Tauren Poole entered the game as the leading rusher in the SEC but was held to just 24 yards on 10 carries. Poole added three receptions, but after taking his final catch 31 yards to the UF 40, Poole fumbled, giving Florida the ball with a two-touchdown lead and only 5:18 on the clock. The Vols converted on just two-of13 third down conversions while allowing the Gators to convert on eight-of-14 third down conversions. Neither offense could get into much of a rhythm in the first half. “It started out, and it looked like one of those old-fashion SEC football games,” Dooley said. “Both offenses
really struggled, and the defenses were playing well.” Middle linebacker Nick Reveiz led the way defensively for the Vols. He was credited with 14 tackles, including a fumble recovery. Free safety Janzen Jackson and defensive end Chris Walker added nine and eight stops, respectively. Austin Johnson, Reveiz's back-up at middle linebacker, made only one tackle, early in the fourth quarter, but it caused Gators' running back Jeff Demps to fumble the ball. Johnson was credited with recovering the loose ball after the play was reviewed, keeping the Vols’ upset hopes alive. Though the Vols fell in their SEC opener, Dooley was proud of the way the team competed, especially after he said the team quit last week against Oregon in a similar situation. “We had a ton of adversity, I mean a ton, more than we ever need in a football game,” Dooley said. “And because of the fact that we kept swinging, we were sitting there in the fourth quarter and it was a sevenpoint game.” The Vols close out their four-game home stand to open the season against UAB next Saturday. Kickoff is scheduled for 12:21 p.m., and the game will be televised on CBS as the SEC Network's Game of the Week.
While it was still Tennessee versus Florida on Saturday, the match-up wasn't anywhere near the marquee game many fans have grown accustomed to over the years. In reality, it hasn't been that way in a few years. While the Gators have found success under Urban Meyer, the Vols have struggled with two losing seasons in the last five years and three head coaches in as many seasons. Meyer is 6-0 against UT since taking over in Gainesville in 2005, and the last four meetings haven't been decided by less than 10 points. Still, Florida fans would have to admit that a competitive rivalry with the Vols is good for the SEC and college football. Though Steve Spurrier's “fun-and-gun” offense usually got the best of Phillip Fulmer, the yearly gridiron clash in the 1990’s was literally a one-game playoff to see which school would represent the SEC East in the SEC Championship Game at season's end. Either Florida or Tennessee played in the SEC title game the first 10 years of its existence. 2006 (Knoxville) UT led Florida 20-7 early in the fourth quarter, but the Gators would score two touchdowns, one helped by a critical fourth down conversion by a back-up freshman quarterback, named Tim Tebow, to beat the Vols 21-20. Florida would go on to win the 2006 BCS National Championship. 2004 (Knoxville) Led by two freshmen quarterbacks, UT benefited from a personal foul penalty on Florida late in the fourth quarter to set-up a 50-yard, game-winning field goal by James Wilhoit to give the Vols a 30-28 win and propel UT to an SEC Eastern Division title. 2001 (Gainesville) Played in December after the game was postponed because of the Sep. 11 terrorist attacks, the winner had an inside track to playing for the BCS National Championship against Miami in the Rose Bowl. The 17-point underdog Vols defeated the Gators 34-32 in the Swamp. Sophomore quarterback Casey Clausen would go on to defeat the Gators on the road in 2003 as well and is the only signalcaller to lead a UT team to victory in Gainesville since 1971. 2000 (Knoxville) Both teams were rebuilding by their standards, and the Vols led for most of the game until the now-infamous Jabar Gaffney phantom touchdown catch in the game's final seconds gave Florida a 27-23 win. 1999 (Gainesville) The defending National Champion Vols were the higher-ranked team but couldn't block Florida defensive end Alex Brown. UT's last chance failed when running back Jamal Lewis was stopped on a toss sweep on a fourth-and-3, preserving a 23-21 Gator win. 1998 (Knoxville) In one of the lowest-scoring games in the series, UT middle linebacker Al Wilson forced three fumbles. When Gator kicker Collins Cooper's field goal attempt in overtime sailed wide left, “pandemonium reigned” in Neyland Stadium, according to legendary Vol Network announcer John Ward. Tennessee 20, Florida 17. The Vols would go on to win their second consecutive SEC title and first consensus national title since 1951. Vols fans are hoping Derek Dooley makes the Florida rivalry competitive again. And if Saturday’s game was any indication, it should be in the near future.