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Monday, October 17, 2011
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No. 1 LSU Tigers rush past Tennessee, 38-7 Tigers run for 260 yards, dominate possession to score 24 unanswered points Matt Dixon Sports Editor Last year against LSU, Tennessee lost after being penalized for having 13 players on the field, which allowed the Tigers to score the game-winning touchdown on the final play. On Saturday, especially in the second half, the Volunteers (3-3, 0-3 SEC) could have used 13 defenders to stop LSU’s dominating rushing attack. As the game progressed, the top-ranked Tigers (7-0, 4-0) controlled the line of scrimmage and the game clock en route to a 38-7 victory in Neyland Stadium. “That game was not complex,” Vols coach Derek Dooley said. “I’m not sure how many mistakes we made — we made a couple on offense in the first half — but in that second half they keep hitting us.” LSU ran for 260 yards on 52 carries and scored touchdowns on each of its three second-half possessions after leading 17-7 at halftime. “The first half I thought we competed our tails off and had a couple of real bad mistakes that was ultimately the difference,” Dooley said. “The second half we had a couple of third down opportunities where we don’t execute and they pounded us.” The Tigers were on offense for over 22 minutes in the second half with drives of 12, 16 and 10 plays, racking up 222 of their 383 total yards while rotating quarterbacks Jarrett Lee and Jordan Jefferson. “You can’t win games when you make mistakes against the No. 1 team in the nation,” UT defensive tackle Malik Jackson said. “You’ve got to go out and play physical and tough and smart football for four quarters and we didn’t.” With the game scoreless late in the first quarter, Vols quarterback Matt Simms connected with
Rajion Neal for a 38-yard completion after a review overturned the original call of Neal being ruled out of bounds. On the next play the air was lifted out of the home crowd. Simms attempted a deep-ball to Da’Rick Rogers, but the pass was intercepted by LSU cornerback Morris Claiborne, who returned it 89 yards to the UT 5-yard line, which set up the Tigers’ first touchdown, a 5-yard pass from Lee to Rueben Randle on the first play of the second quarter. After UT went three-and-out on its ensuing possession, LSU took over at the Vols’ 36-yard line and six plays later, LSU faced a 3rd-and-11 from the UT 13. Lee hit tailback Spencer Ware on a screen pass out of the backfield, and Ware marched into the end zone to give the Tigers a 140 lead. Down two scores, UT put together an impressive 10-play, 80-yard drive capped off by a 2-yard touchdown run by tailback Tauren Poole. Poole finished with 70 yards on 19 carries and as a team, the Vols had 111 rushing yards, a noted improvement from the negative rushing yards UT posted against Florida and Georgia. “As bad as our running game has been, we ran the ball pretty well against a great defense. We just didn’t really get a lot of opportunity in the second half,” Dooley said. The Tigers added a field goal with 15 seconds left in the second quarter to extend their lead to two scores heading into the locker room. “I was feeling good at halftime,” Dooley said. “The 10-point difference was to me a 89-yard interception return.” LSU got the ball to start the third quarter and used its talent and depth to simply wear down Tia Patron • The Daily Beacon UT’s defense with its physical, downhill running Devrin Young runs out a punt, heavily pursued by defenders during a game against style. LSU on Saturday, Oct. 15. Despite strong play in the first half, the Volunteers were “We kind of, I mean, they just killed us, period,” unable to keep up the effort, falling to the Tigers 38-7 while dropping to 0-3 in SEC Jackson said. “I really don’t know what to say.” play.
Panther founder speaks to students “It was great,” Jordan Welsh, freshman in history, said. Deborah Ince “I had been reading up on the Black Panther Party Staff Writer because I was interested in it. This was a once-in-a-lifetime thing. I think it broke away a lot of preconceptions Founding chairman and national organizer of the Black of the Black Panther Party.” Hosted by the Issues Committee and the Central Panther Party from 1966-1974, Bobby Seale, focused his Program Council of UT, the lecture attracted the attenspeech on the power of revolution amongst people, and tion of hundreds of UT students, who piled into the UC how standing up for what you believe in can lead to magauditorium to lisnanimous results. ten to Bobby Seale. “Whether you’re “It’s about conblack, green, polka stitutional civil dot, whatever, we’re rights,” Seale said in this struggle — stating that no together,” Bobby matter the ethniciSeale said in his lecty, everyone ture last Thursday deserves to be evening. treated with equaliSeale used the curty and respect. rent Wall Street Seale also protests as an examdetailed many of ple of the power of the struggles the organized action Black Panther against oppression. Party faced when “This Wall Street others attempted movement has got to to get them to fold be a continuous, and surrender their growing movement,” beliefs, but Seale Seale said. said the party preSeale then used vailed because of examples of the Black the confidence it Panther Party’s suchad in its platform cesses to declare that and beliefs. with organized Technology, action, anything is Seale said, is such possible. a major factor in “We as human how people relate beings are crossto one another, and involved in everyhe stressed that it thing going on in the must be used to world ... Coalition educate people on politics is a statement issues occurring of what we are around them. In about,” Seale said, this way, the peoadding that every ple are given the person should work opportunity to act • Photo courtesy of Risa Staszewski together to throw off should their civil the yoke of oppres- Bobby Seale speaks to a group of students at Binghamton liberties be threatsion. University on Saturday, Feb. 25, 2006. Seale, the founding chairman ened. Seale relayed the and national organizer of the Black Panthers in the ’60s and ’70s, “It was highly official formation of spoke with students about the power of organized speech against i n t e resting,” the Black Panther oppression, no matter the cause. Jeminaka Al-Bawi, Party in 1966, stating a junior in social work, said. “I’ve been interested in the that the movement began with the establishment of a 10point plan that outlined the grievances of African- Black Panther Party since I was little. There was no way Americans and their call for equal treatment under the I was going to let this opportunity pass by.” “When we say ‘all power to the people,’ we’re talking law. Party founders Huey Newton and Bobby Seale also used the Declaration of Independence as the basis for about all power to all people,” Seale said. “We as their plan and used the platform they had created to spur homosapiens own this earth ... we have to get it to where a movement whose social and political impact resonated people have the control to have power in their communities.” across the country.
SOLD provides leadership roles Wade Scofield Staff Writer Students who are looking to take a very prominent leadership role on campus currently have an opportunity. The Student Orientation & Leadership Development (SOLD) office has released the applications to become either an Orientation Leader, Ignite Team Leader, Transfer Orientation Assistant or a Leadership Guide. As some of the most familiar faces on campus, leaders in these positions are presented with both heavy responsibility and a very promising opportunity to establish themselves as the face of the university. “Students in SOLD positions gain amazing leadership skills and experience,” Sally Parish, assistant director of the SOLD office, said. “We look for the best and brightest to represent the office and the university. We don’t necessarily look for one type of student leader. We look for a variety of students to wholly represent the diversity of the university.” “The SOLD office helps especially new students get connected with the university,” Charlotte Salinas, graduate assistant in the SOLD office, said. “We want students to come into their freshman year with the mindset that any student on campus can be a leader and it’s not necessarily restricted to those students who have come into school in a very social, active group.” Orientation Leaders represent perhaps the most rigorous of all SOLD office positions. Throughout a six-week period from the first week of June to the second week of July (including a timely training period in May), the crop of orientation leaders seeks to get every incoming freshman student accustomed to college life. Hours for Orientation Leaders can be long, but the students serving build a strong community with each other and with groups of incoming freshmen. They serve as peer advisers and resources, as well as role models, for orientation participants. Ignite Team Leaders facilitate two three-day summits for incoming freshman students, introducing freshmen to the important concepts of leadership, service and teamwork, as
well as exposing them to the culture of student life. Team Leaders also participate in an eight-week Ignite TEAMS program in the fall, which introduces students to the many walks of campus life. “I would recommend the SOLD office to anyone,” Parker Loy, sophomore in business and a 2011 Ignite Team Leader, said. “The program offers the unique opportunity to positively impact freshmen before they arrive on campus, as well as allowing the Team Leaders and other SOLD positions to hone their own leadership qualities.” This is the second year that the SOLD office will seek to recruit Transfer Orientation Assistants. Throughout the year, these student leaders aim to make incoming transfer students comfortable and get them to hit the ground running when they enter the university. Transfer Orientation Assistants serve for three different periods during the year: fall, spring and summer. The Leadership Guides are a team of students who are committed to learning about leadership and serving the campus community as a peer resource team. The team is responsible for coordinating and presenting leadership programs and services within the Office of Student Orientation and Leadership Development. The Leadership Guides utilize these opportunities to foster leadership and understanding within a diverse student population. The purpose of the Leadership Guides is to educate, train and develop students to become responsible and contributing leaders within the campus community and the greater society. “We really pride ourselves on the success of the program,” Salinas said. “The majority of students who become Orientation Leaders, Team Leaders and Leadership Guides were inspired by direct contact with one of our leaders in the SOLD office.” Detailed descriptions for each SOLD office position can be found online at sold.utk.edu. Applications for any SOLD position for the coming school year can also be found and completed online at sold.utk.edu. The deadline to submit applications online is Monday, Oct. 17 at 5 p.m.