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UT tourism director wins ‘Shining Example’ Award recognizes innovation in marketing, economic development of tourism Alyce Howell Staff Writer The Shining Example Award from the Southeast Tourism Society is a prestigious award given once every two to three years to organizations and individuals who demonstrate new and innovative ideas in marketing and economic development of tourism. Steven Morse, director and economist of the UT Tourism Institute, won this award for the first time this year. He was presented with the award in September in Greenville, S.C., at the organization’s annual meeting. “I was surprised, because unlike many awards, this award is not an award you are nominated for,” Morse said. “It is an award you are chosen for from the 900-plus membership of STS across 12 southeastern states.” Twenty years ago, Morse became interested in the travel and tourism industry when some of his economic studies described define the role of tourism as an economic development tool in both urban and rural communities.
“The importance of these economic impact studies in rural areas has been especially helpful for local economies in organizing resources to foster small businesses associated with tourism in economic development,” Morse said. Morse said that working at Six Flags in his college days also led to the interest in the hotel, restaurant and attractions industry. Morse’s greatest contribution to Southeast Tourism has been the opportunity to share the methods and models developed in the UT Tourism Institute with all 95 counties in Tennessee. STS recognized the methods and models used in Tennessee and has asked that they
are shared with tourism professionals across 11 southeastern states. “In particular, we have been asked by STS to teach a two-day seminar series at the annual STS Marketing College, which is a professional education series attended by over 300 tourism professionals each year,” Morse said. Southeast tourism stands out, because the hospitality and tourism industry has a larger role in local •Steven Morse economies than other states around the U.S. The current focus of the Tourism Institute has been the role of tourism in the economic development of all Tennessee counties.
However, the long-range vision is continuing to serve all counties in Tennessee and to grow in efforts to become a leader for this research and outreach in the U.S. The next step is to use new online technology to deliver economic impact information to local economies. Morse said many students don’t think that the retail, hospitality and tourism industry has high-paying professional jobs, because most students are familiar with entry-level minimum wage jobs. However, students are very successful at finding professional managerial positions. “This is a great industry that creates sustainable jobs in the retail and tourism industries that will always exist, because unlike other jobs in the U.S., retail and tourism jobs will never be exported to another country,” Morse said. Morse also said students should get some experience from interning. Elizabeth Hawkins, a sophomore in marketing, said Morse gave great advice when it comes to internships. “Students should take advantage of their time to practice for the real world,” she said.
Political campaigns bring in funding Associated Press
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Paul Lee and Jonathan Ziegler performing during a joint graduate piano recital Friday, Oct. 15. Information about future recitals hosted by the School of Music can be found at www.music.utk.edu
Programs help disabled students Associated Press Zach Neff is all high-fives as he walks through his college campus in western Missouri. The 27-year-old with Down syndrome hugs most everybody, repeatedly. He tells teachers he loves them. “I told Zach we are putting him on a hug diet — one to say hello and one to say goodbye,” said Joyce Downing, who helped start a new program at the University of Central Missouri that serves students with disabilities. The hope is that polishing up on social skills, like cutting back on the hugs, living in residence halls and going to classes with non-disabled classmates will help students like Neff be more independent and get better jobs. In years past, college life was largely offlimits for students with such disabilities, but that’s no longer the case. Students with Down syndrome, autism and other
conditions that can result in intellectual disabilities are leaving high school more academically prepared than ever and ready for the next step: college. Eight years ago, disability advocates were able to find only four programs on university campuses that allowed students with intellectual disabilities to experience college life with extra help from mentors and tutors. As of last year, there were more than 250 spread across more than three dozen states and two Canadian provinces, said Debra Hart, head of Think College at the Institute for Community Inclusion at the University of Massachusetts Boston, which provides services to people with disabilities. That growth is partly because of an increasing demand for higher education for these students and there are new federal funds for such programs. The federal rules that took effect this fall allow students with intellectual disabil-
ities to receive grants and work-study money. Because details on the rules are still being worked out, the earliest students could have the money is next year. Hart and others expect the funds to prompt the creation of even more programs. “There is a whole generation of young people who have grown up under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, and the Americans with Disabilities Act, and to them it (college) is the logical next step,” Hart said. The college programs for these students vary. Generally the aim is to support the students as they take regular classes with non-disabled students. Professors sometimes are advised to modify the integrated classes by doing things like shifting away from a format that relies entirely on lectures and adding more projects in which students can work in groups. See DISABLED on Page 3
Campaign finance reports show the heaviest fundraising activity among congressional races in Tennessee is in the battle to succeed Democratic Rep. John Tanner, who is retiring from his 8th Congressional District seat in the state’s northwestern corner. Republican Stephen Fincher pushed his total receipts to $2.4 million since entering the race, including a $250,000 loan he made to the campaign during the primary and about $298,000 from political action committees. He reported a cash balance of about $542,000. Democrat Roy Herron’s total receipts reached $2.3 million, including $500,000 from himself and about $348,000 from political action committees. Herron had nearly $645,000 on hand at the end of the third quarter. Tennessee has two other open House seats because of the retirements of Democratic Rep. Bart Gordon of Murfreesboro and Republican Rep. Zach Wamp of Chattanooga. The two-week early voting period for the Nov. 2 election began Wednesday. In the 6th District race to succeed Gordon, Republican state Sen. Diane Blacks pushed her total receipts to $1.7 million, while her expenditures reached $1.5 million. Her campaign has received $950,000 from the candidate and $242,700 from PACs. Black narrowly won the GOP primary over fellow state Sen. Jim Tracy and Lou Ann Zelenik, a former chairwoman of the Rutherford County Republican Party. Zelenik, who lost the nomination by 283 votes, reported a cash balance of $199,000. She had raised about $174,000 from donors and loaned her bid another $432,000. Tracy, who came 566 votes short of Black, reported spending all but $1,224 of the $846,000 he raised. Attorney Brett Carter, the Democratic nominee in the 6th District, reported raising about $200,000 through the end of the quarter and spending $151,000. In the 3rd District, Republican Chuck Fleischmann reported that his total personal contributions to his campaign had reached $1.3 million out of his total receipts of $1.9 million. Fleischmann won the crowded GOP primary to succeed Wamp with 31.6 percent of the vote. His nearest opponent was Robin Smith, a former state GOP chairwoman, who received 30 percent. She reported spending all but $1,150 of the $730,000 she raised for the race. No report was available for Democratic candidate John Wolfe. In the 4th District, Democratic Rep. Lincoln Davis reported spending $600,000 in his increasingly bitter campaign against Republican challenger Scott DesJarlais. Davis’ receipts reached about $1.1 million in the period, including about $614,000 from PACs. He had about $482,000 remaining. DesJarlais spent almost $528,000 in the period and had about $81,000 remaining. Outside groups have begun advertising heavily in the district. In the 9th District, Rep. Steve Cohen’s reports show he spent about $714,000 in the period that included his defense in the Democratic primary against former Memphis Mayor Willie Herenton. Herenton’s filing was not available on the FEC website on Sunday.
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A UT student reported that her student ID, Tennessee driver’s license and debit card had been stolen after class in room 307 of the Science and Engineering Building, between 8:50 a.m. and 10 a.m. The student said she had been sitting in the middle of the second row.
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At approximately 3:11 a.m., an officer performed a vehicle stop on a white Nissan Titan driving the wrong way on Lake Avenue. The driver was a North Carolina resident, and the single passenger was a UT student. The driver was arrested for DUI. Oct. 11 A male victim filed a report of domestic assault. The alleged assault was reported to have taken place at Thompson-Boling Arena around 9 p.m. A Stokely Athletics Center staff member reported that a 52-inch Samsung television was stolen from the team room of the UT women’s volleyball team sometime between 5 p.m. on Oct. 7 and 11:45 a.m. on Oct. 11.
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Smokey urges fans to vote in the Capital One Mascot of the Year competition at a UT volleyball match on Sunday, Oct. 17. Smokey was one of 16 mascots chosen for the competition and currently sits at seventh place in the rankings.
A UT student reported an altered temporary parking permit in her maroon Dodge 1500 truck parked in the Staff 9 parking lot. The vehicle’s serial numbers were altered while it was parked near the ATM spaces of the lot between 9:52 a.m. and 11:08 a.m. A UT student reported that her tan ’99 Honda Accord had been broken into while parked on level G in the G12 parking garage, sometime between 1:30 p.m. on Oct. 8 and 2 p.m. on Oct. 11. The vehicle’s front window was shattered. —Compiled by Robbie Hargett Compiled from a media log provided to the Daily Beacon by the Universty of Tennessee Police Department. All persons arrested are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. People with names similar or identical to those listed may not be those identified in reports.
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UT students organize Barefoot Benefit Six undergraduates, most from the College of Business Administration, at UT have organized the country’s first barefoot run/walk as part of a service-learning course taught by marketing professor Ernie Cadotte. Barefoot Benefit is raising money for Samaritan Place, a home for the elderly in East Tennessee. The inaugural event is scheduled for 2 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 24, on the fairways of Lambert Acres Golf Course in Maryville. Participants are encouraged to run or walk the event barefoot, although running shoes and Vibram Five Fingers footwear are permitted on the course. Participants have the option of running or walking a 3.1-mile (5K) or one-mile distance. Registration will continue through the day of the race. Barefoot Benefit is treading new ground in a second way. It is the first charitable race to be marketed only though Facebook. The Barefoot Benefit project is tapping into each of the six students’ areas of academic expertise, which range from marketing and logistics to journalism and electronic media. For more information about the event, visit http://www.facebook.com/barefootbenefit#!/b arefootbenefit?v=wall. You can register for the event at barefootbenefit.eventbrite.com. UT American Society of Landscape Agriculture Students to host renowned graphics instructor Mike Lin, recognized as one of the best and most sought-after graphics instructors in the
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country and around the world, will host a twoday intensive graphic design workshop on the UT Institute of Agriculture campus Oct. 29 and 30 from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. The course will be held in the South Greenhouse, Classroom 124, just behind the UT Gardens off Neyland Drive. Lin is the director of the Mike Lin Graphic and Design Workshop in Burlingame, Calif. He is a registered landscape architect and a member of the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) and the American Society of Architectural Illustrators (ASAI). His degrees include an undergraduate degree in architecture from Taiwan and a Master of Science in Landscape Architecture from the University of Wisconsin. Presented by theASLA and sponsored by the College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources and its Department of Plant Sciences and the College of Architecture, the course is offered for professionals and students. Cost is $100 for professionals, and a special rate for students is available. The course will focus on hand drawing and rendering skills and methods and is applicable for all skill levels. Participants, from beginning to experienced designers, will advance their understanding of methods and drawing skills and can expect an increased confidence by the end of the intensive and condensed workshop. Lin is the author of “Drawing and Designing with Confidence, A Step-by-Step Guide” and “Architectural Rendering Techniques, a Color Reference.” Lin’s fourth book, titled “Architectural Illustrations,” will be available soon. His graphics workshops are requested by many firms, universities and organizations throughout the world. ASLA is the national professional association for landscape architects, representing 17,000 members in 48 professional chapters and 68 student chapters. The society’s mission is to lead, to educate and to participate in the careful stewardship, wise planning and artful design of our cultural and natural environments. Landscape architecture encompasses the analysis, planning, design, management and stewardship of the natural and built enviGeorge Richardson• The Daily Beacon ronments. Seats are limited. Register by contacting Zeke Cooper at 828-736-7041, Basketball coach Bruce Pearl talks with a member of the press at media day on ecooper8@utk.edu or Nathan Oliver at 615- Wednesday, Oct. 13. Pearl is looking forward to his “favorite time of the year,” with official practices starting up this past week and games less than a month away. 943-9500, noliver@utk.edu.
DISABLED continued from Page 1 One program in Idaho offers classes in drama, art and sign language. Students on other campuses can improve their computer skills or take child development classes. Sometimes they’re paired with non-disabled students and advocates say the educational coaches, mentors and tutors who help them often are studying to become special education teachers or social workers and learn from the experience too. Disability advocates say only a small percentage of these students will receive degrees, but that the programs help them get better jobs. Historically, adults with intellectual disabilities have been restricted primarily to jobs in fast food restaurants, cleaning or in so-called “sheltered workshops,” where they work alongside other disabled people and often earn below-minimum wages, said Madeleine Will, vice president of the National Down Syndrome Society. With additional training, Hart said participants can go on to do everything from being a librarian’s assistants to data-entry work in an office. Much remains to be learned about what type of program works best, but Hart said that will likely change. Besides allowing for federal financial aid for these programs, Congress also has appropriated $10.56 million to develop 27 model projects to identify successful approaches. The infusion of federal money has generated some criticism. Conservative commentator Charlotte Allen said it’s a waste to spend federal tax dollars on the programs and insisted that calling them college dilutes the meaning of college. “It’s a kind of fantasy,” said Allen, a contributing editor for Minding the Campus, a publication of the fiscally conservative Manhattan Institute. “It may make intellectually disabled people feel better, but is that what college is supposed to be all about?” Oftentimes students with these disabilities stop their formal education when they finish high school, which is usually around the age of 21. Some districts have a partnership with colleges under which the district pays for their 18- to 21-year-old students to take higher education classes. In other cases, college costs are paid for by the parents. Their children previously haven’t been eligible for grants and work study money because they generally weren’t seeking a degree and wouldn’t have been admitted to college through the typical process. These programs look “at higher education for what it’s purpose in our community and our culture is — to provide opportunities for learning,” said Meg Grigal, a researcher who works with Hart. Back at the University of Central Missouri, Neff and another participant in the program for students with developmental issues, Gabe Savage, laugh with friends during lunch in their residence hall cafeteria. Savage, a 26-year-old from Kansas City, is grateful for it all — new friends, the chance to try out for a school play, brush up on his computer skills and even take a bowling class with non-disabled students looking to earn a physical education credit. “It’s an answer to my prayer that I am here,” he said. “I always wanted to do this.”
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Falling — Traditional UT football jerseys Remember the days of Peyton Manning throwing passes downfield while dressed in thin, ’90s, mesh orange jerseys? Remember the uniforms worn by ’90s running backs, which looked so thin that a would-be tackler ran the risk of ripping the jersey to shreds? They may as well have been pennies worn by fellow students in P.E. class. While college football uniforms have upgraded since the days of paper-light jerseys, our Vols are about to reap the benefits of the latest in uniform technology: Adidas TECHFIT jerseys. Against Alabama on Saturday, UT will unveil its new TECHFIT compression football jerseys. Global designer Adidas boasts that the TECHFIT uniforms will feature “ground-breaking” compression technology and weigh 30 percent less than regular jerseys. Reduced seams with ultralight numbering systems help make the TECHFIT jerseys durable enough to withstand the grind of an SEC season. And what better game to debut new uniforms than this Saturday, against everyone’s favorite rival, Alabama? Forget the fact that the Tide is the defending national champion ... though a loss wouldn’t be out of the ordinary, at least UT will look spiffy regardless of Saturday’s outcome.
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Hoskins embodies old collegiate aspiration
Falling — Motherly advice to Beaver Cleaver The days of “Leave it to Beaver” were full of rambunctious mischief at the hands of Beaver and Wally Cleaver. Through all the turmoil in the Cleaver clan, one voice of reason stood out from all the rest: the boys’ mother, June Cleaver. Each episode’s lesson was learned through the actions of Beaver and the words of June. But such timeless wisdom saw its culmination on Saturday when Barbara Billingsley, the actress who portrayed Mrs. Cleaver, died at 94 in Santa Monica, Calif. Billingsley’s character was the rock-steady mother for her two sons, often worrying out loud to her husband, Ward, “I’m very worried about Beaver.” Mrs. Cleaver always saw past the blatant passes made by Beaver’s friend, Eddie Haskell, to deliver the advice needed to troubled youth. The actress even gained new fans in a cameo appearance in the movie “Airplane.” Here’s to hoping June Cleaver’s golden advice lives on in black-and-white on TV Land and Nick at Nite. Rising — T.I., hostage negotiator Last Thursday, a man at the end of his rope in Atlanta stood on the edge of a building, ready to jump. As police tried to talk him down, without much luck, a figure appeared from the crowd to save the day. T.I., Atlanta-based rapper and apparently world-renowned mediator, actually walked from the crowd and took the megaphone from the cops. What makes this so remarkable is that the guy actually came down from the roof. Yes, T.I. actually talked a guy at the end of his rope into not committing suicide. We at the Beacon are not entirely sure what the heck happened, but we are absolutely thrilled that everyone made it out alive safely. The guy was taken to a hospital, where he was placed under psychiatric evaluation. T.I. walked away a hero, obviously riding away into the sunset as a gallant figure of good will and charity to others. This man clearly deserves to be regarded as a hero with some sort of commemorative holiday, right? Oh wait ... Falling — T.I., free member of society Funny thing about T.I. was that the entire reason he was out roaming around on Thursday was because on Friday he had to face a judge. T.I., for those of you with a short memory or indifference to rap music, was recently released from his year-long stint in jail on federal weapons charges. (He was pulled over and found in possession of illegal, unregistered firearms originally.) This is all well and good, as T.I. was released on parole. The story takes a sour turn when you remember that not long after he was released from jail, T.I. was pulled over — you would think this guy would stay at home or hire a driver — and was found to have marijuana and ecstasy in the vehicle. So, on Thursday as he was talking a guy down from the roof, the very next day he was facing a judge on probation violation. Surely the judge saw T.I.’s great abilities and immediately assigned him to community service as a crisis negotiator? Actually, no. In fact, quite the opposite. Instead of having mercy, the judge sent T.I. back to the pen to serve out the rest of his sentence. We at the Beacon are devastated to know that the author of such hits as “Whatever You Like” and “Rubber Band Man” will not be gracing the airwaves for another 11 months. Stay strong, T.I.! THE DAILY BACON • Blake Tredway
A C ol umn About A r t a n d L i te ra t u re by
Amien Essif As I write this under the lens of a yellow Saturday sunset, I am listening to Chopin’s piano etudes and preludes, so that I might catch the spirit of my subject. My subject is UT’s Hoskins Library, which is a campus treasure and currently an artifact which, as I write this, incubates the lost spirit of collegiate aspiration. I say that Hoskins Library is “currently” an artifact, because plans have been made to renovate the building and bring it back to life as the “Humanities Research Center” with the Special Collections Library as its centerpiece — so says a flier that I found lying on a table in Hoskins. But for now, Hoskins, which was once the central UT library, sits stranded, forlorn and crumbling, on the far side of Cumberland Avenue. When I entered Hoskins for the first time, I went in through one of the secondary entrances on the newer wing and was given a sort of backwards introduction to the institution. But here’s how I see it: I was delving head-first into dusty UT history, and so it was only natural that I should find the 1959 wing first before I discovered the 1931 construction. Here I found a large glossy room of light colors, a small porcelain water fountain at the center of an empty wall, a modern, utilitarian staircase and a startlingly short coffee table, around which four green pleather chairs seemed pushed out with movement, as if four besuited and horn-rimmed undergrads had just finished a short political meeting and had just vanished with their briefcases under their arms. The nearly empty white room seemed musky with memories of a fierce generation which, according to some caricature that I may very well have dreamed up, walked faster to classes, produced more student publications and felt compelled to hurry up and replace their parents. But I was through this hallway and up the stairs in less than a minute, and I came upon a transitional room.
There were polyester curtains hanging from the windows and other ’60s-era sensibilites, but in a window of a door I found a decoration of laminated pictures — the portrait of a friar, a medieval scribe, at work and a medieval-style painting of, well, Hoskins Library. I could almost smell the cold stone and old wood of the gothic architecture that just then met me around the corner in what was once known as the “Delivery Hall.” If only my vocabulary of architecture was an endless grab-bag instead of a handful of change, but here it is: gothic! Stone columns and arches, grand windows with iron grating high up, lining the walls of both sides of the atrium — everything drawing in light and drawing the eyes toward the angelic particle of dust that float through the incoming rays. It is not just the architecture, but the philosophy of the place that reaches deep into history in order to draw the eyes and the spirit upwards. Nick Wyman of Special Collections, whose work was once centered within this gothic structure, calls the Hoskins architecture “aspirational.” The effect is not only a well-lit place to study but a mindset within which to study. As I walk under the high ceiling, only one young man futzes with his laptop. But 30 years ago, when this was a full library, students would receive their books from the “delivery” counter and then enter the world of knowledge. The romantic tone is not mine. On the ceiling is inscribed the philosophy of Hoskins: “In books lies the soul of the whole past time,” “The learned man hath always riches in himself,” and “Wisdom is the principle thing, therefore get it,” among others. Now, we congregate in Hodges Library, which attempts, in certain parts, a similar aspiration quality but which also draws students, not up, but into the hundreds of computers. Have we lost the spirit of aspiration, the drawing of our intellectual souls toward lofty things? Of course the greatness of the great minds and the sanctity of the written word is part myth, but the valuable intellectual spirit this myth produces dissipates quite easily in the Commons at Hodges. Wyman, who, like me, wishes to see students migrate back to Hoskins Library once it’s renovated said, “People are drawn into that space. Bringing that back is worth something.” —Amien Essif is a senior in English. He can be reached at aessif@utk.edu.
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The unforeseen consequences of powerful technology have given humanity a pretty hard time. The massive troop charges into machine guns in World War I seem to be an appropriate poster child for our collective inability to comprehend the most obvious effects of technological advancement, symbolizing how much physical suffering and death it actually takes for a cautionary message to get across at all. But today, with information technology exploding at a rate of change no area of human endeavor has seen, being vigilant about the effects of pervasive new digital technology is hardly paranoia. People simply do not understand the absurdity of the reality we’re in: At the turn of the millennium, the Internet still had all the innocent novelty of the dot-com boom and bust; it caused quite a stir. Some people were actually making some money off of their websites in the stock market — like a real business or something! Adorable. Now a search engine all but commands (at least) the commercial element of a near global infrastructure that we depend on as much or more than the highway system to live our lives. While our interaction with this digital infrastructure is more complicated and includes many more players than a car-on-the-highway analogy, our adaptation to it and reliance on it is no less evident. Whereas the consequences of the car include CO2 pollution and injury or death, caused by travel at speeds we didn’t evolve to collide at, the consequences of communication and information technology can be predicted by anticipating brain stimulation we didn’t evolve with. It’s been modestly publicized that using smartphones has odd effects on the brain. The brain has evolved to unconsciously anticipate activity that originates from places it has learned are relevant to survival; it’s as simple as early humans having to anticipate movement or sound in the distance, which could belong to prey or preditors. In today’s social jungle, the smartphone takes every one of the many vital forms of modern contact, arguably quite critical to our survival, and puts them in a buzzing and ringing device in our pockets.
Studies on the affects of texting in teenagers, arguably the first demographic to fully embrace the new method of communication, concluded that the concrete social anticipation combined with the chemical reward that came with receiving, opening and replying to the message was what made it so addicting. Smartphones, with their unprecedented amount of offerings, take that subconscious formula and multiply it many, many times; a crippled ability to be in the moment and retain learned ideas are just a few documented consequences of longterm use. But perhaps the most ambiguous area of concern for this technology is its effect on the developing brains of children. It’s been known for years that television is bad for young children, because it simply does not stimulate brain growth, and it has every reason to do with our evolution. Even with educational programming, the idleness of television does not compliment how very young children are wired to develop. As smartphones have, with unsettling speed, gone from a useful novelty to a pratical requirement, their availability has also broadened — and they’ve found themselves in the hands of young children, for placation and entertainment. And with great effectiveness: designed to be incredibly intuitive devices for even the most clueless of adults, children have been widely observed to take to smartphones like nothing before. There are now even several apps designed for preschool age children. Many parents have claimed to have witnessed positive educational effects. People are social creatures. While young children are probably free of the intoxicating social anticipation of the smartphone, and the smartphone has a superficial dimension of interactivity that TV lacks, the fact remains that it discourages social interaction, which needs to be squeezed in at every possible moment with children. Well-adjusted children need to be used to being in tune with their surroundings and free from unnatural digital distractions, because that’s how young children have developed through the millions of years of human evolution. Touching, talking and physical playing and movement remain the only way to make sure a child will reach his or her full developmental potential. You’d be surprised how quickly a 4- or 5-year-old can learn to go to YouTube on a smartphone and zone the hell out like the rest of us; it really is only a matter of touching a shape. —Wiley Robinson is an undecided sophomore. He can be reached rrobin23@utk.edu.
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‘Zombies’ gives publisher new life
‘Divas’ unite to support troops
The runaway success of “Zombies” established Quirk, a privately held company that does not release financial data, as creator of the mashup genre. It also launched a cottage industry of PHILADELPHIA — The undead have created a whole new copycats from “Jayne Slayre” to “Little Vampire Women.” “To some extent it saturates the market, but at the same time life for Quirk Books, the brains — or rather the BRAAAINS! — we know what made ‘Pride and Prejudice and Zombies’ work behind the monster best-seller “Pride and Prejudice and wasn’t just the title,” Borgenicht said. “It’s a lot more thoughtZombies.” Quirk, an independent publisher that started with a series of ful, hard work in order to create something that will be rememtongue-in-cheek guides for surviving highly unlikely misfor- bered and read, that goes beyond being just a gratuitous noveltunes, has established the hybrid “mashup” genre bending of ty.” When the blogosphere started buzzing months before the out-of-copyright classics and horror-fied kitsch. “It has in a way become kind of a modern, or a postmodern, release of “Zombies,” Rekulak knew the company had a hit and classic,” said Quirk president and founder David Borgenicht, wanted to capitalize on the momentum. He quickly came up whose 15-person staff works in an inconspicuous building on a with “Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters,” released just cobblestone-paved side street in Philadelphia’s Old City neigh- five months after its predecessor, which also became a best-sellborhood. “That wasn’t at all our intent. It was simply too crazy er with more than 375,000 copies in print. “There are discussions and articles about the (mashup) not to publish.” Ever look at something and ask yourself why you didn’t trend, what it all means, where it came from. I can say undisputedly that it came from Jason at Quirk Books, directly from think of it first? That’s one his head,” said “Sea way Quirk comes up with its Monsters” author Ben H. titles. Winters. “When we have an idea and Winters, who also wrote t’s kind of heartening: You hear about how oldsay, ‘If this was a book, I’d buy sci-fi Tolstoy mashup it,’” Borgenicht said, “that “Android Karenina” for instinct is key.” fashioned print is dying and here's a company creating Quirk, said the company’s It was creative director success lies in its “clearly Jason Rekulak's idea to add things that get widespread attention, good-looking books defined aesthetic." lumbering hordes of discourte“It’s parody but it ous flesh-eaters to Jane that stand out on the shelf, that you want to own. doesn't feel cynical,” Austen’s 19th-century comedy he said. “They’re of manners, “Pride and – Arnold T. Blumberg laid back, funny, Prejudice,” spawning a monUniversity of Baltimore professor interesting people doing strous hit. laid back, funny, interest“Pride and Prejudice and Zombies,” Quirk’s first foray into fiction, debuted in April 2009 ing work.” Quirk recently left the Victorian era for space, the final fronat No. 3 on The New York Times best-seller list. It since has tier, with “Night of the Living Trekkies” and its heroes using sold more than a million copies, been translated into nearly two dozen languages, been made into a graphic novel and an iPhone their science-nerd knowledge to battle zombies descending on the hallowed ground of a Star Trek convention. game, and been optioned for the big screen. “All the Trekkie stuff checks out,” Rekulak said. “We have “Quirk has great quality to their books and an incredible yet to receive a single angry letter — and you know if there was design sense,” said University of Baltimore professor Arnold T. Blumberg, who teaches a class on zombies in popular culture. a problem, we’d get them.” About a decade ago, Quirk made its bones with outlandish “It’s kind of heartening: You hear about how old-fashioned print is dying and here's a company creating things that get wide- how-to handbooks combining information and humor with spread attention, good-looking books that stand out on the clever graphic design and packaging. “The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook,” co-written by Borgenicht and shelf, that you want to own.” The book’s success says as much about the iconic nature of released in 1999, offers funny-but-true illustrated tips on surviv“Pride and Prejudice” as it does about the popularity of zom- ing shark attacks, quicksand and other implausible calamities. “It became a huge hit and got us up and running as a real bies, he added. company,” Borgenicht said. “It’s the best business plan ever — “Jane Austen, and that one book especially, has become a get a best-seller right out of the gate.” major cultural touchstone for so many people,” he said.
NASHVILLE — Being a diva is different than it used to be. Katy Perry, Sugarland, Keri Hilson, Nicki Minaj and Paramore are this year’s “VH1 Divas,” but they’ll be taking some of the focus off themselves, singing for the military through a partnership with the USO. Perry, Sugarland, Hilson and Minaj will perform for thousands of men and women in uniform at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar in San Diego. Paramore will visit Marines, soldiers, airmen, sailors, coastguardsmen and reservists at a military base in the Middle East. Hilson called it an incredible opportunity. “I get to be among so many other influential women, groundbreaking women, strong, powerful, confident women, not only on that day, but just to be a part of the legacy of ‘VH1 Divas,’” she said. Hilson said she embraces the positive characteristics of being a diva. “Strong woman, yes I am. Leader, yes I am. Innovative, creative, all those things, yes, I am that,” said Hilson. Jennifer Nettles of Sugarland has a similar definition for the modern day diva. “All of these women definitely have a larger than life persona, be it on stage or who they are or what they wear,” she said. “I think there's something to be said for celebrating that.” Hilson and Nettles love the idea of supporting the troops through the show. Hilson’s dad served in the Army before she was born, and Nettles has a brother in the Air Force. Sugarland is the only country act on the bill, and Nettles is excited to show people “that country music is hip and young and fun and accessible.” She says, “It’s not necessarily about lifestyle, it’s about having fun and being human.” To make her “Divas” performance memorable, Nettles jokes that she’s “hoping to get to wear the Cher outfit,” from the infamous 1989 music video aboard a battleship for “If I Could Turn Back Time.” Cher, a previous “VH1 Divas” performer, wore a barely there, V-shaped swimsuit with a fishnet body stocking during the video, which was taped with a large group of sailors. Other past entertainers on “VH1 Divas” include Kelly Clarkson, Miley Cyrus, Jennifer Hudson, Leona Lewis, Diana Ross, Tina Turner, Mariah Carey, Celine Dion, Aretha Franklin, Mary J. Blige, Shania Twain, Faith Hill, Whitney Houston and Beyonce. “VH1 Divas Salute The Troops” premieres Dec. 5 on VH1. It will be broadcast internationally by the Armed Forces Network.
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Vols, Crimson Tide rivalry streaky Matt Dixon Sports Editor It’s Tennessee vs. Alabama. That’s all that needs to be said. The Third Saturday in October is one of the most storied rivalries in college football. The two teams have met 92 times, with the Crimson Tide holding a slight series edge, 47-38-7. It’s a historical rivalry dominated by streaks, especially by the Crimson Tide. Alabama won 11 straight games from 19711981 and nine straight games from 19861994. Tennessee did win seven straight from 1995-2001. The first big game in the series took place in 1929. Vols halfback Gene McEver received the game’s opening kickoff and ran 98 yards for a touchdown. UT would go on to win 6-0. That game was the turning point for Southern football and, specifically, the Tennessee football program. Following that game, UT would earn national recognition for its win. Until then, only Alabama was an established Southern team, playing in the Rose Bowl in 1926 and ’27 before that season. Afterward, Tennessee would go on to play in Pasadena, Ca., in 1940 and ’45. Arguably the two greatest coaches in SEC history, Gen. Robert Neyland in Knoxville and Paul “Bear” Bryant in Tuscaloosa, Ala., spend the majority of their coaching tenures at the two schools. Neyland coached at Tennessee from 1926-34, 1936-40 and 1946-52, taking a break to serve during World War II. He won seven conferences championships and his teams were voted national champions by at least one poll in three seasons. Bryant coached the Crimson Tide from 1958-82 and won 14 SEC title and six national championships. For the record, Neyland sported a lifetime 5-0 record against the Bear. Memorable games in the series (for Vols fans at least), include the 1982 and 1995 games. In ’82, the Vols ended an 11-game losing streak to the Tide by stopping Alabama in its own end zone late in the fourth quarter, preserving a 35-28 victory in Koxville. The ’95 game had no late-game drama. After losing each of the past nine seasons
to the Tide, then-sophomore UT quarterback Peyton Manning led the Vols to a 4114 victory, which included an 80-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Joey Kent on the game’s first play. Games in 2005 and 2008 are ones Vols fans would like to forget. In ’05, during an offensive slugfest, UT was driving deep in Alabama’s red zone late in the fourth quarter for a go-ahead score when fullback Corey Anderson fumbled a screen pass that bounced about 15 yards through the back of the end zone for a touchback. After a third-and-long conversion, Alabama kicked a last-second field goal to win 6-3. The ’08 game saw the Crimson Tide dominate from the start. What is memorable are the 20,000 or so Alabama fans taking over Neyland Stadium in the game’s final quarter in what seemed to be the final nail in former UT coach Philip Fulmer’s tenure at Tennessee. Another former UT coach, Bill Battle, was an assistant at Alabama under Bryant before being hired as the head coach of the Vols in 1970. Long-time Fulmer offensive coordinator and current Duke coach David Cutcliffe is also a graduate of Alabama. This Saturday, the Vols will host the Crimson Tide as decisive underdogs. Regardless of the teams’ records, it’s still Tennessee vs. Alabama, and the game will be the first meeting between Tennessee first-year coach Derek Dooley and mentor, Alabama coach Nick Saban. With the records thrown out the window, a win over the Crimson Tide would deem this season a successful one for the Vols by many fans’ standards. In reality, Vols fans are just hoping to not endure the Alabama band playing “Rammer, Jammer” as the game’s clock hits zero. Regardless, fans of both schools should sit back and enjoy the rich pageantry the Tennessee-Alabama game produces, even though it’s now being playing on the fourth weekend of October. —Matt Dixon is a senior in journalism and electronic media. He can be reached at mdixon3@utk.edu.
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