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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.

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InSHORT

Monday, October 17, 2011

Michael Rivera • The Daily Beacon

Students gather for a pot luck dinner as part of the Third Annual Knights of Columbus InterFaith Food Festival on Friday, Oct. 14. The festival, held at the Blessed John the XXIII Catholic Student Center, brought together a number of faith-based organizations to share food and viewpoints on matters of faith.

1968 — Olympic protestors stripped of their medals On Oct. 17, 1968, Olympic gold medalist Tommie Smith and bronze medalist John Carlos are forced to return their awards because they raised their fists in a black-power salute during the medal ceremony. In a press conference the next day, International Olympic Committee President Avery Brundage deplored the athletes’ “outrageous stance” — it repudiated, he said, “the basic principles of the Olympic games.” The AP photograph of the ceremony is one of the most familiar and enduring images of a tumultuous era.

On Oct. 16, Smith and Carlos finished first and third in the 200-meter dash at the Mexico City Olympics. Smith set a new world record: 19.83 seconds. Their medal-ceremony protest was relatively spontaneous — the pair decided what they’d do while they waited in the athletes’ lounge for the ceremony to begin — but the sprinters had been active in the civil rights movement long before they arrived in Mexico City. Along with Harry Edwards, one of their professors at San Diego State University, Smith and Carlos had organized a group called the Olympic Project for Human Rights (OPHR) that tried to encourage African-American athletes to boycott the Games. (Even if you won

the medal,” Carlos said, “it ain’t going to save your momma. It ain’t going to save your sister or your children. It might give you 15 minutes of fame, but what about the rest of your life?”)

When they got to the podium for the medal ceremony, Smith and Carlos were wearing OPHR badges on their tracksuits. (Silver medalist Peter Norman, an Australian, wore one too.) They wore no shoes, to symbolize the poverty that plagued so many black Americans. Carlos wore a necklace of black beads, he said, “for those individuals that were lynched or killed that no one said a prayer for, that were hung tarred. It was for those thrown off the side of the boats in the middle passage.”

Smith wore a black scarf. Both bowed their heads, raised their gloved hands and remained silent while “The Star-Spangled Banner” played.

People in the crowd booed and cursed at the athletes. The IOC convened the next day and determined that Smith and Carlos would have to forfeit their medals and leave the Olympic Village — and Mexico — immediately. Brundage even threatened to boot the entire American team as punishment.

Even after the athletes had been disciplined, the backlash continued. Newspapers compared the men to Nazis—Brett Musburger, a sportscaster for ABC, called them “black-skinned storm troopers.” Time called their act “nasty” and “ugly.” His “un-American activities” got Smith discharged from the Army, and someone threw a rock through a plate-glass window at his baby’s crib. The two men received death threats for years.

In some quarters, at least, public opinion has recently begun to shift, and many people now celebrate the sprinters’ courageous and principled act. In 2005, San José State University unveiled a 20-foot-tall statue honoring the two men.

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

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King memorial dedicated in DC The Associated Press WASHINGTON — Thousands of people spanning all ages and races honored the legacy of the nation’s foremost civil rights leader during Sunday’s formal dedication of the new Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial in Washington.

Aretha Franklin, poet Nikki Giovanni and President Barack Obama were among those who attended the more than four-hour ceremony. King’s children and other leaders spoke before the president, invoking his “I Have a Dream” speech and calling upon a new generation to help fully realize that dream.

Some in the crowd arrived as early as 5 a.m., and the crowd eventually overflowed beyond the park gates. Some women wore large Sunday hats for the occasion.

The president arrived late morning with his wife and two daughters, which drew loud cheers from those watching his entrance on large screens.

Cherry Hawkins traveled from Houston with her cousins and arrived at 6 a.m. to be part of the dedication. They postponed earlier plans to attend the August dedication, which was postponed because of Hurricane Irene.

“I wanted to do this for my kids and grandkids,” Hawkins said. She expects the

memorial will be in their history books someday. “They can say, ‘Oh, my granny did that.’”

Hawkins, her cousin DeAndrea Cooper and Cooper’s daughter Brittani Jones, 23, visited the King Memorial on Saturday after joining a march with the Rev. Al Sharpton to urge Congress to pass a jobs bill.

“You see his face in the memorial, and it’s kind of an emotional moment,” Cooper said.

“It’s beautiful. They did a wonderful job.”

A stage for speakers and thousands of folding chairs were set up on a field near the memorial along with large TV screens. Most of the 10,000 chairs set out appeared to be full. Many other people were standing.

The August ceremony had been expected to draw 250,000, though organizers anticipated

about 50,000 for Sunday’s event.

Actress Cicely Tyson said her contemporaries are passing the torch to a new generation and passed the microphone to 12-year-old Amandla Stenberg. The girl recalled learning about the civil rights movement in school and named four young girls killed in a 1963 church bombing in Birmingham, Ala. “As Dr. King said at their funeral, ‘They didn’t live long lives, but they lived meaningful lives,’” Amandla said. “I plan to live a meaningful life, too.”

About 1.5 million people are estimated to have visited the 30-foot-tall statue of King and the granite walls where 14 of his quotations are carved in stone. The memorial is the first on the National Mall honoring a black leader.

The sculpture of King with his arms crossed appears to emerge from a stone extracted from a mountain. It was carved by Chinese artist Lei Yixin. The design was inspired by a line from the famous “I Have a Dream” speech in 1963: “Out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope.”

King’s “Dream” speech during the March on Washington galvanized the civil rights movement.

King’s older sister, Christine King Farris, said she witnessed a baby become “a great hero to humanity.” She said the memorial will ensure her brother’s legacy will provide a source of inspiration worldwide for generations.

To young people in the crowd, she said King’s message is that “Great dreams can come true and America is the place where you can make it happen.”

King’s daughter, the Rev. Bernice King, said her family is proud to witness the memorial’s dedication. She said it was a long time coming and had been a priority for her mother, Coretta Scott King, who died in 2006.

Bernice King and her brother Martin Luther King III said their father’s dream is not yet realized. Martin Luther King III said the nation has Madeline Brown • The Daily Beacon “lost its soul” when it tolerates vast economic Larry Frampton, volunteer and HIV tester, and partner Peter Davidsen, listen to disparities, teen bullying, and having more peo- questions from students at the Ally Lunch on Friday, Oct. 14. The two talked with ple of color in prison than in college. students about practices of safe sex and the dangers of STDs.

Tunisia prepares for big election The Associated Press TUNIS, Tunisia — As the land that launched the Arab Spring heads into historic elections next week, all eyes are on the long-repressed Islamists — and whether a big victory for them will irrevocably change this North African nation and inspire similar conservative movements around the region.

Many fear that despite vows to uphold democracy, Tunisia’s Islamist Ennahda Party is bent on imposing a theocracy that would roll back hard-won secularism and women’s rights.

Others see an opportunity to bring a moderate form of political Islam into the Arab world — one styled after the successful ruling party in thriving Turkey.

The Ennahda Party was brutally crushed by overthrown dictator Ben Ali in the 1990s, a policy tacitly approved by Western powers wary of militant Islam. Now, in the Oct. 23 election, it is set to become the largest party in the assembly that will write the nation's new constitution — largely because it is the best-organized force in the country.

Unlike many Islamist groups in the region, Ennahda has explicitly pledged to champion democratic values and women’s rights, but its secular critics

warn the party has a secret agenda to impose hardline Islam.

These fears have been inflamed by the appearance of new ultraconservative groups known as Salafists that have attacked movie theaters and TV stations for showing material they say denigrates Islam.

Once in power, many warn, Ennahda would swiftly seek to put its Islamist stamp on this tourist-friendly nation of 10 million. Tunisia’s post-independence 1956 personal status code was unique in the Middle East and outlawed polygamy, mandated the woman’s approval to get married and set limits on the man’s power to divorce. It also declared men and women to be equal in terms of rights and citizenship.

In January, Tunisians stunned the world with a monthlong popular uprising that overthrew a seemingly entrenched dictator, inspiring similar revolutions across the Middle East.

How the country’s nearly 100 political parties compete in elections and then work together afterward will be key for Tunisia and other countries such as Egypt and Libya, which followed Tunisian protesters’ lead and overthrew their own dictators.

In Egypt, since its own uprising early this year, the Muslim Brotherhood has been allowed to form a party of its own after decades of repression. In Algeria, however, religious parties remain repressed after nearly winning elections in 1991 — a prospect that led to an army crackdown and years of deadly Islamic insurgency.

Ennahda’s platform does not appear to conflict with the personal status code and lays down the right of women to “equality, education, work and participation in public life”; party founder Rachid Ghannouchi has emphasized they would work with both religious observant and non-observant Tunisians and cooperate with other political forces.

“We seek a consensus with the other parties because we believe that Tunisia must have a coalition government for the next five years, because the situation in the country cannot be handled by a single party,” Ghannouchi said in an interview in August.

The party said it seeks to create 590,000 jobs over the next five years and reduce the unemployment rate to 8.5 percent, down from 14.4 percent.

Unemployment was central to the complaints of the protesters earlier this year.

Critics, however, urge no one to be fooled by a party they say says one thing publicly and another to its supporters, masking a hardcore religious agenda.

They allege the group is behind the attacks by the Salafists, which they refuse to completely disavow.

“They engage in double talk, progressive and reactionary, to pursue a double strategy, both peaceful and violent,” said Hamadi Redissi, co-founder of the Geneva-based Center for Arab Research and Analysis.

“The country is in a state of extreme fragility and it agitates then excuses itself.”

On Sunday, hundreds of Salafists marched on a private television station that had shown the animated movie “Persepolis,” which they deemed sacrilegious for its portrayal of God. Marjane Satrapi’s film about growing up during and after Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution won the jury prize at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival.

On Friday, a mob attacked the home of the station’s owner following a protest against the film that attracted thousands.

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Monday, October 17, 2011

OPINIONS

Better

Than

Reality TV

‘Homeland’ surprises, thrills Robby O’Daniel Recruitment Editor At first, I was not even sure I was going to try Showtime’s “Homeland.” On the surface, the show looked like a drab procedural about the Department of Homeland Security. Perhaps Showtime was taking a cue from parent company CBS’ safe, procedural offerings.

But Showtime sent a screener of the first three episodes of the series, so I tried it. And “Homeland” stands out as the biggest surprise of the television season so far.

The show, which debuted on Oct. 2, in that cushy after-“Dexter” time slot of Sundays at 10 p.m., centers on CIA officer Carrie Mathison (Claire Danes) and her relentless obsession with security. In a groaner of a line, she even manages to blame herself for the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Through the interactions of her coworkers, viewers see that the plot of “Homeland” is not the first time that Carrie has ruffled bureaucratic feathers or took chances on cases.

Her latest lead is hearing that an American prisoner has been turned into an agent for al-Qaeda. So when Marine Sgt. Nicholas Brody (Damian Lewis) is rescued after behind held in Afghanistan for eight years, she immediately suspects him. She even goes so far as to place surveillance in his home illegally.

Carrie’s obsession with her job is perhaps as formulaic as the show gets. Plenty of times, television viewers have seen procedural shows anchored by the lead character that is married to his or her job. Carrie takes it to new levels. Viewers hardly see Carrie having a real life at all. Yes, she goes to a fancy-looking night club, but that does not last long. Yes, she goes to see family, but it’s just to get medication.

Mostly, viewers see Carrie either physically at her job or sitting on the couch all night, watching the Brodys, looking for any sign of a slip-up on the Marine sergeant’s part. Her mental state explains away some of her obsessiveness, but without presenting more ramifications in the plot, it just comes off as an easy

explanation to have the main character act really devoted to this.

Perhaps the best character moment in the first three episodes with Carrie is when she subtly attempts to seduce her co-worker and only friend, Saul Berenson (Mandy Patinkin). Thankfully Saul just leaves angrily and scolds her, highlighting the absolute lack of romance in their past and the idea that Carrie will really do anything to advance her pursuit. With their ages, the two come off as more of a father-daughter pair, making Carrie’s quick advance all the more disturbing and interesting. More of these instances that make her stand out from everyone else would add intrigue to the show.

What really will keep viewers watching the first season is Brody himself. There is a duality to the emotions viewers feel when watching Brody. They see Brody’s tearful reunion with his family after eight years in captivity. They get a snapshot of what the family is like, and how Brody’s daughter improves her attitude and begins to feel better with her father’s return.

But viewers also see and hear plenty of clues that make them suspicious of Brody. First and foremost, Brody was held for eight years when soldiers often lose their “value” as information sources quickly. Why would the enemy hold Brody for eight years if they did not turn him and wanted to use him now?

For his part, Lewis plays the character with ambiguous motives perfectly. Since he has been gone, his wife moved on with one of his fellow Marines, causing an obvious rift between Brody and his former buddy. He fixes his friend with an icy stare, even when friendly language comes out of his mouth.

Extremely awkward sex scenes between Brody and his wife ask another question. How profound was Brody’s psychological change after his internment? Is Brody just struggling to adjust back into life with his family after years? (He spends his afternoons huddled in a corner for comfort.) Or is there a psychological change greater than that? The character study proves fascinating.

Viewers might be reluctant to add yet another show to their Sunday nights when the day is already clogged with “Boardwalk Empire,” “The Walking Dead” and “Dexter.” But “Homeland” deserves the attention.

— Robby O’Daniel is a graduate student in communications. He can be reached at rodaniel@utk.edu.

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Fawkes still inspires activists Off the Deep End by

Derek Mullins Chances are, most of you are saying that you haven’t. Whether it is because you haven’t delved that far into English history (and honestly, if that’s the case, I can’t blame you) or because you simply just cannot place a face with the name, I’m willing to bet that you’re drawing a blank. The truth, however, is that, while most of you have never heard or read his name, you have seen his face.

Guy Fawkes was a provisional English Catholic who lived from around 1570 until 1606, when he was captured and executed for his crimes against his country. Just what was it he did, you ask? Fawkes was caught red-handed along with several others trying to light a bomb under Parliament while King James I and the legislature were inside. Their aim? Fawkes and his cohorts believed that they could restore Catholicism, which they thought to be the one and true form of Christianity, to its rightful place of power in the British Isles if they could assassinate the Protestant king and all of the Protestant members of Parliament. Their thought process was that, in the aftermath, a Catholic monarch — James’ daughter — would be placed on the throne, and Parliament would once again swing in their favor and all would be right in their world again. The problem? Their plot failed. They were found out, rounded up, tortured and executed. Princess Elizabeth (no, not Queen Elizabeth; she came before James) never got to the throne. Catholicism was never restored as the state religion of Great Britain. Moreover, Fawkes’ failed attempt at religiously-driven terrorism only managed to secure those who shared his faith further persecution. The anniversary of his failed attempts would even go on to be celebrated with fireworks and, until more recent times, demonstrations of antiCatholic sentiment.

And just how has history and literature treated the Western world’s most infamous religious terrorist until Osama bin Laden? Fawkes would go on to be treated with reverence in many historical fiction novels and stories. Most recently, his actions and, most

importantly, his face, were glorified in the graphic novel and motion picture “V for Vendetta.”

That’s right. The mask the title character, “V,” wore in the movie? Just in case you forgot, it is indeed of Guy Fawkes’ face, a historical reference the original creator of the comic, Alan Moore, selected because his character intended to blow up Parliament in a similar fashion.

Since the release of the movie, various protest movements have taken hold of that famous face and utilized it as a mask in a similar fashion to the title character of the aforementioned comic and film. Look up images of protests in many Western nations for any cause you wish. You’ll probably find some nitwit wearing a Guy Fawkes mask in the crowd. Then again, if you don’t want to try that hard, just take a gander at images from the “Occupy Wall Street” demonstrations. Heck, if you’re just plain lazy, you can look around campus for the flyers trying to rally students to participate in an “Occupy Knoxville” demonstration that was supposed to take place in Market Square over the weekend.

Now, I’m not going to comment on the futility and utter pointlessness of the “Occupy” movement … oops. Anyway, my point is that they should wise up and pick a different symbol to utilize in hopes of rallying people. Sure, proponents might argue that I’m taking the mask’s usage a bit too seriously or that they’re only looking to harness the ideology of “V” from the literary and cinematic works. The background of the imagery, however, makes for a terrible symbol for their cause. I mean, if their aim is to try to get people to recognize a sort of unity against the top one percent that controls the majority of the wealth in this country and, by extension, the true strings of power, then I would hope that they would take the time to realize that the masks that a few of their demonstrators are wearing and the face that dons the flyers being posted in cities around the country and, indeed, the globe, is that of a man who sought to kill a group of people who thought, believed and worship differently than he did. While they’re hoping to bring attention to greed and corruption on Wall Street and in Washington, they’re glorifying the memory of a religious fanatic and would-be terrorist.

Then again, the “Occupiers” can’t figure out what they’re protesting, much less what symbol to use.

— Derek Mullins is a senior in political science.

He can be reached at dmullin5@utk.edu.

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“Occupy Wall Street” is the newest extravaganza to hit the news, since the rich have recently become the scapegoat for all of America’s problems. These people believe that just because Wall Street may have caused a little bit of a depression that they have the right to regulate the banks and protest against the bailouts. Simple economics is lost on people like this, because, as the fair and balanced entertainment network Fox News has repeatedly claimed, it is obvious that if you tax the top one percent anything they will no longer be able to buy yachts or create jobs. While the hippies form drum circles and pollute Wall Street with noise, I have a modest proposal that I hope they can comprehend.

The rich are the ones who make our economy what it is today. Anyone who has bothered to read Ayn Rand’s magnum opus “Atlas Shrugged” should know that any regulation placed on industries will cause them to flee the country. No one can take their place so the country will fall to ruin simply because the government tried to control the rich.

For the good of the country, we cannot let this happen and I propose this solution to the very imminent problem we are facing.

As the great Ronald Reagan said, the government is the problem. Every corporation is restricted by the government and cannot make the most profit possible. The government is taking money from the corporations and is thus taking it directly from your wallet. You see, we get our money from the corporations thanks to trickle down economics.

The poor complain that it is not fair while they refuse to get a job since they can live on government handouts. This needs to stop today or else the country will be destroyed by its own altruism.

In order to stop this egalitarian nightmare from engulfing our country, a stand needs to be taken.

The United States of America is lucky to have such brilliant minds controlling our economy and we cannot have them flee because of regulations. As a matter of fact, the country can get even more

industries if we get rid of regulation all together.

This is what I propose to save our country from this impending disaster. Regulations do nothing but harm corporations and prevent our economy from becoming stronger.

Environmental regulations are the first that need to go. If the air gets too thick for you to breathe, then you can support your country by buying face masks and support the medical industry by buying inhalers for your asthmatic children. Filtration systems will become a hot commodity and sales of bottled water will skyrocket. This alone will completely revitalize our economy and save us from self-destruction. There is no need for minimum wage or other labor laws. Workers should be grateful to have a job and as such should work hard no matter what. The high turnover rates will prevent unemployment from coming near the current levels ever again.

In an effort to compromise, taxes will be included in my proposal. As much as I would prefer it, taxes are necessary to quell the cries of the leftists. A popular position that has taken hold in Congress is the brilliant 9-9-9 plan. Setting a flat tax rate at nine percent seems like a brilliant idea, but this is entirely too high. Through careful studying of the Laffer curve, I have determined that the optimal tax rate would be a flat five percent. This allows for complete economic prosperity because the rich still have plenty of money to trickle down to the lower classes, yet the government still has an income to protect the corporations.

I hope that this is sufficient to the hippies on Wall Street. In my mind, not only will this save the country from the destructive future we have created for ourselves, it will throw us into a new golden age, the likes of which has never been seen.

Corporations will finally be able to work to their full potential and economic growth and freedom will finally be a real event. Those that are too lazy and weak to contribute to our economy will be forced to strengthen or face the consequences. Our country will become steadily stronger in every manner imaginable. It is a very simple solution, though some will refuse to accept it, but they are what caused our country to fall, so there is no reason to listen to their irrational obsessions.

— Aaron Moyer is a junior in philosophy. He can be reached at amoyer3@utk.edu.

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Fiction: The Family Scapegoat Olivia Cooper Staff Writer This story is flash fiction. Flash fiction is a genre of short stories with word counts that don’t usually exceed 1,000.

Ronnie felt too ashamed to look down.

Everyone in the room looked for themselves at what Ronnie had made of his father, Geoffrey.

Margaret hand selected a porcelain vase for her husband’s final rest, but Geoffrey now rested in the funeral home’s carpet by a stubborn coffee stain.

Relatives Cynthia and Sally watched Ronnie pick up the vase shards like they would watch a stranger put up his groceries.

“Ronnie is always the problem,” Sally said, in between sips of coffee. “You know he stole Marianne’s purse? She was walking near his place one day, and it was snatched up. She only saw the back of a ski mask turn the corner.”

“How did she know it was him if he wore a ski mask?” Cynthia asked.

Sally snorted into her cup and came up laughing.

“You haven’t been in the family long, dear,” Sally informed her. “But you don’t have to have the purse in your hands to be a purse thief.”

Cynthia watched her cousin by marriage walk off cackling to a group of uncles in the corner. Sally threw a glance at Cynthia, and the men guffawed loudly. The funeral home director led Margaret out the door.

Ronnie had set his knees in Geoffrey, and his wife almost fainted from the thought of it.

Ronnie stood by the now-empty pedestal, with dust on his knees and hands and an expression like a child who just knocked over his cup of chocolate milk.

“Did Ronnie really knock over the ashes?”

Paul asked, as he arrived on the scene. Cynthia turned to her husband so fast that he stepped back, as if she would knock him down.

“Where were you?” she asked. “Your uncle is on the floor, and nobody seems to be helping besides the guy who did it.”

“I was smoking. Ronnie will fix it though.

He always does, since he is usually the one who screws it up.”

Cynthia looked back to the scene to see a man sucking up the ashes in a DustBuster and picking up fragments too large for the vacuum.

“What all else has he done?” she asked.

“Ronnie is bad luck. That’s all it is. When he was little, he used to run backwards all the time. Most kids do it for fun for a while, but he did it whenever he set foot to the ground.

They say whenever you do that, you’re just asking to run into things along the way and mess them up.”

“Why did he steal Marianne’s purse?”

“Oh, Ronnie didn’t steal it. He was in Virginia that weekend working with his dad.

Marianne just walked down his street that day.

Even Ronnie’s street has bad luck.”

Cynthia looked back to see a small cardboard box on the pedestal with the DustBuster beside it and nobody else around.

Outside in the bed of his truck sat Ronnie.

He hung his jacket in the cab and sat on the side with a cigarette in his mouth. Cynthia dropped the tailgate, swept out dust and carefully sat on the end.

“You O.K.? I’m your cousin, Cynth—” “Paul’s wife, I know.”

“I’m sorry about your father.”

Ronnie looked at his pants and brushed off the rest of his father’s ashes. He sighed.

“Bad luck shouldn’t ruin someone’s life like this,” he said and tousled his own hair. “They tell you I walked backwards so much as a kid that whenever I walk forward now I always run into something?”

“That’s all superstition. You shouldn’t—” “They’re right! I break something every day.

My legs and knees are all bruised up from bumping into everything.”

“Why did you run backwards so much?”

Cynthia blurted out. Ronnie stood up and hopped out of the truck bed with a slight stumble.

“It just felt safer to me. I was always clumsy, but if I walked backwards, all I had to do was run the other way whenever I felt like I was going to trip. I didn’t know it’d be such bad luck.”

“You let them tell you that hocus pocus all these years?”

A whistle from a man in the door summoned everyone inside. The service was about to begin.

“Nobody but my dad told me any different,” Ronnie said. “Now he’s gone.” Ronnie crushed his cigarette under foot and grabbed his coat.

Cynthia could see scars on his face from other probable tumbles and bumps. His truck was covered in dents and scratches, and the doors and hood didn’t match the body. He was a walking bad luck charm, who was unfortunate enough to also have a driver’s license.

Cynthia could still see the hesitation and fear he had in his eyes, though, before he turned to Michael Rivera • The Daily Beacon walk away as he walked backwards through Members of the Lady Vols Swim team huddle up before the annual Orange and half the parking lot.

White swim meet in the Allan Jones Aquatic center on Friday, Oct. 14. The White “Good luck Ronnie,” she said to no one. squad came out on top, 96-66, thanks to a combined eight individual wins from senior Jenny Connolly, junior Kelsey Floyd and sophomore Lindsay Gendron — Olivia Cooper is a senior in creative writing. She can be reached at ocooper@utk.edu.

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TV show brings comedy act to Knoxville Canadian rednecks entertain local audience with sketches, crowd interaction Chris Flowers Staff Writer Knoxville came out in force and under the influence for “The Trailer Park Boys: Drunk, High, and Unemployed Tour” Wednesday night at the Bijou.

The boys were considered somewhat of a cult hit, but there was a surprising devotion of much of the crowd. Many people in the sold-out theater dressed up as characters from the show or sported “Trailer Park Boys” T-shirts, and the title of the show was taken seriously as the line for the bar stretched to the ticket takers. A good portion of the audience was the college crowd expected, but there were a surprising number of middle-age couples and a few children.

“The Trailer Park Boys” started out as a popular Canadian television series 10 years ago and has gradually developed an American fanbase through online distribution. It follows the lives of three trailer park-dwelling criminals as they devise schemes to get rich and stay high, often resulting in their incarceration. The television show’s mocumentary style worked perfectly for examining the pitiful lives of Ricky, Julian and Bubbles, but left questions on how it would be adapted for the stage.

Locally, the show receives almost no media attention, yet it has still gained popularity.

“You can watch it on Netflix now but a friend told me about the show before that when there was a website you could stream them all on for free,” Nick Shaffer, graduate student in mechanical engineering, said. “It was a pretty viral thing among a lot of people

I know, I told my friends about it, and even my parents are big fans now.”

Audience members were given Hershey’s Kisses upon entering the theater and told they would be part of the show so they shouldn’t be eaten.

The show began with the boys bickering among themselves about what they were going to do on stage that night.

B u b b l e s insists that their first priority must be to film his audition tape for an upcoming Jackie Chan movie because it must be submitted by midnight to be considered.

This becomes the show’s main thread as Ricky and Julian reluctantly help Bubbles film his audition.

The camera feed is displayed on an onstage screen as the boys make bumbling attempts at recreating movie scenes, hosting a game show and shooting a music video.

These scenes were all at least moderately funny, but the segments between the audition shoots provided the best laughs.

Ricky and Julian use the downtime to discuss their newest idiotic ideas for cash.

Ricky reveals his plan to start a school called the Church School of Freedomers explaining that “I can be a teacher too. I mean, if some kid wants to grow some dope he can come and ask me instead of using denial and error.” Julian has a more practical plan and finds success selling a sizable amount of hot dogs to audience members for $10 a piece, and letting one lucky girl feel his muscles for $20.

Although the boys’ usual

dollars worth of hash. I assume this was meant to cue everyone to eat their drug-laced candy, but instead triggered a chocolate rain upon the stage. The downpour steadily continued for several minutes, landing on the stage once every three seconds or so with an occasional poorly aimed salvo.

Though the barrage was constant, Bubbles realized that with an audience armed with over 700 kisses it could continue for quite a while l o n g e r .

Bubbles halted the show and asked everyone to throw their kiss on stage immediately and get it over with. A • Photo courtesy of rottentomatoes.com hail of candy love for a character and interjected answers entered the air while the cast hid behind the to questions asked between characters were screen to weather the storm. The rain eventuignored by the cast, but quickly became tire- ally ceased and Bubbles returned with a promise to end the show if he was struck by some.

The boys conducted a search for a male one more kiss. It didn’t take long for potshots audience member to assist in filming one to resume and for one to find its mark. scene. When Bubbles rejected the first candi- Bubbles stormed off stage, but returned after date, a large, older gentleman with gray some coaxing from Ricky and Julian. While dreadlocks, the obviously intoxicated man no one ever broke character and the episode grabbed a beer sitting on stage and hurled it didn’t interrupt the flow of the show, the irriinto the audience which spewed alcohol as it tation from Bubbles seemed genuine. The flew. Three females were called on stage to be over-two-hour show concluded without furcontestants on a game show hosted by ther incident on a musical number by Bubbles Bubbles. One woman took it upon herself to with a spirited audience sing-a-long.

“Bubbles took a more expanded role which correct the mistake of not selecting her to be a contestant and jumped on stage with the let us see his character in more depth,” Jason chosen three. The boys coolly went along Lee, undecided junior, said of the show. “The with it and paired her with one of the chosen show made a great transition to the stage and brought us a little taste of Canadian white girls to play as a team.

After more than an hour of valiant trash in our own podunk city.”

The “Drunk, High, and Unemployed Tour” attempts, no distraction from the audience had proved irritating enough to affect the was entertaining throughout and impressing cast. But in an incident that may or may not with how true it stayed to the television have been expected or planned, the last straw series. Replacing the documentary camera landed on Bubbles’ back in the form of a crew with a live audience caused no decline in Hershey’s kiss. The payoff to the candy given quality from the Trailer Park Boys, though at the entrance was revealed when the boys they may want to reconsider arming their discover they mistakenly distributed raucous crowds with hundreds of projectiles.

Hershey’s kisses that contained thousands of crude humor maintained strong laughter throughout the show, the audience grew more disruptive as the night went on. Alcohol may have played a part in the rambunctious behavior of many of the fans. Screams proclaiming

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Smokey IX howls in between plays during the LSU football game on Saturday, Oct. 14. The iconic Bluetick Coonhound recently suffered a partially torn ACL, forcing him into rehab, which he’s already recovered from, a turn-around time many would wish for UT’s other ACL-plagued star, Justin Hunter.

Turner’s two TDs send Falcons over Panthers The Associated Press ATLANTA — The Atlanta Falcons finally played a game that’s more their style.

For Cam Newton and the Carolina Panthers, it was just another tough loss.

Michael Turner ran for 139 yards and two touchdowns, Matt Ryan scored the tie-breaking TD with 7 minutes remaining, and Corey Peters came up with a huge interception that helped the Falcons seal a 31-17 victory over the Panthers on Sunday.

The Falcons (3-3) were clearly intent on reestablishing their trademark running game against a vulnerable defense. Led by Turner, they ran the ball 35 times — 13 more than they threw it.

“We’d like to be able to do that every week,” Ryan said.

Newton, who grew up just a few miles south of the Georgia Dome, wowed the crowd most of the day. He threw for 237 yards and took off on a 14-yard touchdown run that put the Panthers (1-5) ahead 17-14 heading to the final quarter. He even celebrated with Deion Sanders’ high-step dance in the end zone, marking a day when the retired Hall of Famer was honored by the Falcons at halftime.

But the homecoming turned sour.

After Matt Bryant’s tying field goal and

Ryan’s 1-yard sneak, Newton made his biggest blunder of the day trying to set up a screen pass. Peters, a 305-pound defensive tackle, caught the rookie off guard by dropping into coverage. Newton flipped a short pass toward DeAngelo Williams, but Peters reached up with one hand to pick it off at the Carolina 40.

“I kind of fell into it,” Peters said. “It’s a lot different than you imagine it in the sense that when you catch the ball, you freeze. ‘Oh, I got the ball!’”

The Falcons offense did the rest, driving 39 yards for the clinching touchdown. Turner barreled into the end zone from 2 yards out with 1:56 left to hand the Panthers another excruciating loss. Their first four defeats were by a total of 18 points, and this one was much closer than the two-touchdown margin.

“At some point, you’ve got to look yourself in the mirror and ask yourself what can you do to make it better,” Newton said. “I’m doing a self-evaluation as we speak. It’s not the time that you point the fingers and say, ‘It’s his fault.’ It’s time that we as a team take ownership of ourselves.”

Turner also scored on a 1-yard run at the end of the first quarter, carrying a season-high 27 times and breaking a streak of three straight games without reaching 100 yards.

“It started with the O-line. They came out with a nasty attitude today, that they were

going to move the line of scrimmage,” Turner said. “I love to see green, man. You give me some space, I’ll do what I do.”

Ryan, who was averaging more than 39 passes a game, completed 14 of 22 for 163 yards in a performance that looked more like the Atlanta teams of the last three seasons, not the one that got off to a sluggish start this year and was in danger of dropping two games below .500 for the first time since 2007.

“We need to get our identity back, and that starts with running the football,” Turner said.

“We want to bury teams, not just let up.”

Newton finished 21 of 35 but was picked off three times. The other two were a little easier to take, the first coming on a deflected pass, the last on a desperation pass into the end zone on the final play of the game.

The rookie also led the Panthers in rushing with 50 yards on six carries.

Ryan threw a 1-yard touchdown pass to Ovie Mughelli, giving the Falcons a 14-10 lead at halftime. Jonathan Stewart scored Carolina’s first touchdown on a 1-yard run, after Olindo Mare opened the scoring for the Panthers with a 42-yard field goal.

The Panthers didn’t have to punt until late in the third quarter, but the Atlanta defense took control in the final period. Carolina’s final four possessions ended with two punts and a pair of interceptions.

Atlanta did a good job shutting down Carolina’s top receiver, Steve Smith, who came into the game averaging nearly 23 yards per catch and more than 121 yards per game.

He was held to five receptions for 66 yards.

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Freshmen help Vols defense Clay Seal Assistant Sports Editor Tennessee’s youth has sometimes been used as a crutch, but Saturday it also served as a boost in the Vols’ 38-7 loss to No. 1 LSU. Three of Tennessee’s top four tacklers Saturday were true freshmen. Linebacker A.J. Johnson led the team with 11, defensive back Brian Randolph had nine, and defensive lineman Curt Maggitt added seven.

“They’re going to be really good players, all three of those guys,” UT coach Derek Dooley said. “Right now they’re not; they don’t have the physicality to hold up in this kind of game, I don’t think, because they’re young, their bodies.”

Johnson’s previous career-high was seven tackles against Florida. In five games before Saturday, Johnson had 21 tackles.

“I believe that was one of the most physical games we’ve came out and played,” Johnson said.

“In the first half we were all hyped up and ready to play.”

Senior defensive tackle Malik Jackson, who had eight tackles, commended Johnson on his growth this season.

“Yeah, A.J. is coming out, he’s doing remarkable things. Eleven tackles against the No. 1 team in the nation isn’t easy by far,” Jackson said. “He works really hard during the week. He’s really smart, you know, he’s kind of a mental guy. He goes out there every week, just gets in his playbook and gets it out there in practice, messes up, which is what you’re supposed to do in practice.

Comes into the games and tries to be flawless.”

Added Dooley: “A.J. especially has more physicality than anybody we have in the back seven.

I told you all this was going to be his kind of game. He’s got stature that can compete against these type of teams. And that’s what we have to keep improving on.

This is a stature game.”

Young contributing True freshman Devrin Young had another good day kick returning, handling five for 135 yards, including a 60-yard return, which was the longest of the sea-

son for UT. “He’s doing good. Had another good return. He had a couple good returns,” Dooley said.

As Dooley eluded to after the loss to Georgia, Young also made it on the field for a few offensive plays, including a 21-yard reception on a dump pass.

He rushed twice for negative 5 yards.

Simms in for Bray Senior Matt Simms started his first game at quarterback since Tennessee’s game at South Carolina last October due to Tyler Bray’s broken right thumb suffered during the Georgia game. Struggling with timing and accuracy, Simms finished 6of-20 for 128 and two interceptions.

“I played terrible,” Simms said. “Yeah, simple as that. I played terrible.

“It was a good defense and they played hard for the whole game. I am really disappointed in myself for the two first-half turnovers. You can’t do that against a good team.”

Dooley wasn’t as hard on Simms.

“Matt did some good things,” he said. “There are some throws he is going to want back.”

Les Miles’ Mad-Hattery Tauren Poole’s 2-yard touchdown run and a Michael Palardy extra point pulled the Vols within 14-7 of the Tigers in the second quarter, but LSU coach Les Miles wasn’t so sure.

Miles, known as the Mad Hatter for his trick plays and unusual mannerisms, wasn’t so sure whether Palardy’s extra point, which was ruled good on the field, actually went through the uprights.

So he challenged it.

“I just challenged it,” Miles simply said.

Up next It doesn’t get any easier for Tennessee this October. The Vols’ visit to No. 2 Alabama on Saturday was announced for a 7:15 p.m. EST kickoff on ESPN2. Tennessee lost 12-10 to the top-ranked Crimson Tide in its last visit to Briant-Denny Stadium when Terrence Cody blocked Daniel Lincoln’s last-second field goal attempt.

Tennessee returns to Knoxville on Oct. 29 to play No. 14 South Carolina.

Monday, October 17, 2011

Steckenrider lifts Vols in fall game Serrano impressed with 6-3 scrimmage win over Western Carolina and starting to play with some confidence and I think we are starting to see that. We are starting to see him as a different perStaff Reports son. He’s actually talking more, smiling more and having fun out on the field.”

Fans of the Tennessee baseball program got their first glimpse Chris Fritts had a solid day offensively as well, reaching base of the new-look Vols on Friday as they took out Western three times, stealing two bases and scoring a run. Will Maddox Carolina, 6-3, on a beautiful fall evening at Lindsey Nelson also had a single, a stolen base and a run for the Vols.

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Tennessee wasted little time jumping on top of the “This was a total evaluation day for our coaching staff,” firstCatamounts, using some aggressive baserunning to take a 1-0 year UT head coach Dave Serrano said. “We’ve only seen our lead in the bottom of the first inning. Maddox got the ball rolling team play against each other and this kind of tells us where we with a leadoff single to right before moving to second two batare at. We walked away tonight feeling good about how we ters later when Fritts was hit by a pitch. responded. When I’ve had games like this in the past our teams The Vols then put their new “pressure” offense on full display don’t always respond really well, but when I look back at this as Maddox took third on a fly ball to medium-depth centerfield game we threw strikes, played good defense and executed offenand scored the first run of the game just minutes later when UT sively. deployed “As you see in our delayed double lineup, we have steal. Fritts was some youth,” able to distract Serrano said. “It’s the WCU going to take the defense just leadership of players long enough like (Drew) and slide in S t e c k e n r i d e r, under the tag at (Zach) Osborne, second as Chris Pierce and Maddox swiped Chris Fritts to help home on the this team through play. some of the growing Although pains we are going W e s t e r n to go through. I’ve C a ro l i n a been very proud of answered in the how those guys have following frame stepped up. As the with an RBI guys ran off the field single by Aaron tonight, you could Attaway to tie see the enjoyment the score, on their faces. They Tennessee took are working hard George Richardson • The Daily Beacon the lead back in and it is starting to Chris Pierce tosses a grounder towards first base during a scrimmage against the bottom of pay off for them.”

Western Carolina on Friday, Oct. 14. The Vols, under the leadership of Dave the fourth with Zach Luther, Serrano and staff, took to the field and picked up a convincing win against a pair of runs Chris Pierce and on just one hit. the Catamounts, 6-3.

Drew Steckenrider The Orange each recorded RBI and White took advantage of two walks and a hit batter to load singles for the Volunteers, while five UT pitchers held the the bases and Luther came through with a clutch, two-out single Catamounts to three runs on eight hits and an error. through the left side to put UT ahead 3-1. The Vols later Nick Blount got the unofficial win for the Big Orange, increased their lead to five with an RBI single by Pierce in the twirling two innings of one-run ball on just one hit. Nick sixth and two-run base knock by Steckenrider in the seventh.

Williams earned the save after striking out two over the game’s The Catamounts got back within shouting distance with a final two frames. pair of unearned runs in the top of the eighth and got a leadoff Steckenrider pulled double-duty for Tennessee. As the team’s triple from Dykota Spiess in the ninth, but Williams buckled starting pitcher, the Lawrenceville, Ga., native allowed one run down to get the final three batters, including two big punchouts on three hits while striking out two in two innings of work. He to end the contest. finished his day at the plate, 2-for-4 with a pair of singles, two Friday marked the only fall game for Tennessee, but the Vols RBIs and a run scored. will continue practicing until Oct. 28 with intrasquad scrim“I think Steckenrider can be a special player,” Serrano said. mages every Tuesday, Thursday and Friday.

“The makings are there, it is just a matter of staying consistent