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CEB brings tropical vibe to Vol Night Long Foam party, virtual surfing give students on-campus activities to take part in interest in, and after hosting Vol Night Long every semester with tons of people in attendance at each one, we wanted to keep the tradition alive.” Though a semi-annual event, Friday’s Vol Night Long theme is “Vols Gone Wild” with the motto “Why should
should not fret because free towels will be provided when students are finished dancing. News Editor Mathes said other factors make this event special from years past. The Campus Entertainment Board (CEB) is hosting Vol “With the help of URHC (United Resident Hall Council), Night Long in an effort to provide students with a social we have been able to spend event on campus that is both more money on this Vol fun and safe. Night Long than any in the “On a survey sent to a few past and any in the future,” thousand randomly selected Mathes said. “So with that students last spring, alternacomes more inflatables, tive late-night programming more giveaways, and more was the number one request fun! We have never had anyfor events students would like thing like a foam party to see more of,” said Brandi before, but we felt that it Panter, senior in English literawas necessary to fulfill the ture and history and Central Spring Break theme.” Program Council executive Event organizers have board press secretary. “We taken steps to increase the believe that providing fun, nonsize and scope of the event academic ways for students to for their fellow students. engage with the university and “This year’s Vol Night their peers is essential for the Long will set a standard for development of a student.” future student activities,” Vol Night Long will be held Lindsey Lee, co-director of Friday from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m. Vol Night Long, said. “Vol in the TRECS. Night Long has really Event organizers have taken grown to be a huge event on necessary steps to ensure that campus in the past few student needs and requests are years, and we think this being met to produce more year will be the best yet.” effective programming. Vol Night Long is coEach year student activity sponsored through the CPC fees are allocated to various File Photo • The Daily Beacon and the URHC. The event committees on campus. CEB is one such committee, hoping to A student gets a caricature done during Vol Night Long in 2007. This year’s theme, Vols Gone Wild, will be and activities are completeFriday night from 10 p.m.-2 a.m. and includes a foam party, surf simulation and laser tag. This year it is being ly free and all students are spend the money in ways that held in the TRECS. encouraged to attend. will be most beneficial to stu“We are encouraging dents. “Our soul purpose on CEB is to provide programming spring break only come once each year?” The event will be everyone to wear spring break attire,” Mathes said. that is fun and entertaining to the students,” Julia Mathes, complete with pizza, tiki-themed mocktails, a surf simula- “Students should bring their UT ID; however, if you have friends or family that don’t go to school here, they are more Vol Night Long co-director, said. “We know that late night tor, a foam party and many giveaways. Those worried about participating in the foam party than welcome to come also! The more the merrier.” programming is always something that the students express
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Discussion weighs faith, war Wade Scofield Staff Writer
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Katie Morrell, junior in psychology, performs the famous pre-game routine with the Pride of the Southland Marching Band before the Georgia game on Oct. 8.
War and religion have often been intertwined throughout history. The Crusades, among other wars, were engaged over the very topic of differences in faith. So one may ask if religious fervor could be responsible for one day bringing about nuclear war. Such questions will be answered at “Nukes & Faith: Discussing Religion’s Role in Nuclear Society and Energy” on Monday, Oct. 24. “Nukes & Faith,” an opinionated discussion between panelists, will take place at the Toyota Auditorium at the Howard H. Baker Center for Public Policy. “Nukes & Faith” is the brainchild of Mark Walker, senior in nuclear engineering. Walker will be moderating the discussion. “I really wanted to lead a seminar on something big,” Walker said. “I became the president of a student chapter of the Institute of Nuclear Materials Management, and we were brainstorming ideas for programming and it just seemed interesting, so we went for that.” The panelists for the discussion are Dr. Howard Hall, UT Governor’s Chair professor of nuclear engineering; Dr. Brandon Prins, a UT associate professor of political science; Sherrell Greene, an independent nuclear engineering consultant; and Dr. Jeffrey Kovac, a UT professor of chemistry. For the format of the discussion, the panelists will first be given a few tailored and prepared questions to get their various opinions. Afterward, Walker and co-moderator David Burman, senior in religious studies, will pose questions to different members of the panel and search for substantive material. Afterward, students can get involved. “Probably about half of the
time will be spent allowing students to ask questions and the columnists to comment on them,” Walker said. “I’m really looking forward to see what kind of wacky questions people will have,” Burman said. “I was interested in the discussion because religion can have a lot to say about nuclear proliferation and the use or non-use of nuclear weapons. I’m looking forward to hearing about the variety of perspectives that the four panelists will have, whether they think that to what degree that they are personally motivated by their religious traditions or lack thereof, and to see how religion is meshed within the politics of nuclear disarmament or nuclear proliferation.” Both nuclear politics and religion can be controversial topics, and a title such as “Nukes & Faith” is bound to draw plenty of viewers. “Students can expect really different perspectives from scientific and faith-based viewpoints,” Walker said. “But also a lot of people have very different attitudes on how they apply their faith to matters such as this, so there will be a lot of divergent viewpoints even within religious discourse and of course in discourse between religions and science.” “Come for a provocative and unique discussion offering views on nuclear weapons and energy through technical, political, Evangelical Christian, and Unitarian Universalist perspectives,” according to the event’s page on the UT website. The sponsors of the free event are the Tyson House Episcopal & Lutheran Campus Ministry, the Institute of Nuclear Materials Management, the UT Religious Studies Association and the Howard H. Baker Center for Public Policy.
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The Movies on Market Square attracted hundreds of people to Market Square on Oct. 14 to watch “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” for its last week of the year. This year’s movies included “Hook,” “How to Train Your Dragon,” “Lady and the Tramp” and a few others.
1959 — Guggenheim Museum opens in New York City On this day in 1959, on New York City’s Fifth Avenue, thousands of people line up outside a bizarrely shaped white concrete building that resembled a giant upside-down cupcake. It was opening day at the new Guggenheim Museum, home to one of the world’s top collections of contemporary art. Mining tycoon Solomon R. Guggenheim began collecting art seriously when he retired in the 1930s. With the help of Hilla Rebay, a German baroness and artist, Guggenheim displayed his purchases for the first time in 1939 in a former car showroom in New York. Within a few years, the collection — including works by Vasily Kandinsky, Paul Klee and Marc Chagall — had outgrown the small space. In 1943, Rebay contacted architect Frank Lloyd Wright and asked him to take on the work of designing not just a museum, but a “temple of spirit,” where people would learn to see art in a new way. Over the next 16 years, until his death six months before the museum opened, Wright worked to bring his unique vision to life. To Wright’s fans, the museum that opened on Oct. 21, 1959, was a work of art in itself. Inside, a long ramp spiraled upwards for a total of a quarter-mile around a large central rotunda, topped by a domed glass ceiling. Reflecting Wright’s love of nature, the 50,000-meter space resembled a giant seashell, with each room opening fluidly into the next. Wright’s groundbreaking design drew criticism as well as admiration. Some felt the oddly-shaped building didn’t complement the artwork. They complained the museum was less about art and more
about Frank Lloyd Wright. On the flip side, many others thought the architect had achieved his goal: a museum where building and art work together to create “an uninterrupted, beautiful symphony.” Located on New York’s impressive Museum Mile, at the edge of Central Park, the Guggenheim has become one of the city’s most popular attractions. In 1993, the original building was renovated and expanded to create even more exhibition space. 1967 — Thousands protest the war in Vietnam In Washington, D.C. nearly 100,000 people gather to protest the American war effort in Vietnam. More than 50,000 of the protesters marched to the Pentagon to ask for an end to the conflict. The protest was the most dramatic sign of waning U.S. support for President Lyndon Johnson’s war in Vietnam. Polls taken in the summer of 1967 revealed that, for the first time, American support for the war had fallen below 50 percent. When the Johnson administration announced that it would ask for a 10 percent increase in taxes to fund the war, the public’s skepticism increased. The peace movement began to push harder for an end to the war — the march on Washington was the most powerful sign of their commitment to this cause. The Johnson administration responded by launching a vigorous propaganda campaign to restore public confidence in its handling of the war. The president even went so far as to call General William Westmoreland, commander of U.S. forces in Vietnam, back to the United States to address Congress and the public. The effort was somewhat successful in tempering criticisms of the war. However, the Tet Offensive of early 1968 destroyed much of the Johnson Administration’s credibility concerning the Vietnam War. — This Day in History is courtesy of History.com.
Friday, October 21, 2011
Songwriter brings California rhythm Brittney Dougherty Staff Writer Singer/songwriter Brett Dennen hits the Bijou this Friday to serenade Knoxville at 8 p.m. Dennen is a Northern California native that has been playing guitar and singing for much of his life. He said he grew up in an artsy family but did not learn his musical talents from them. It was not until he started attending a summer camp that he learned guitar. “We had campfires every night and some of the counselors would play guitar at the campfire,” Dennen said. “I just idolized them and I wanted to play guitar just like them and I wanted to work at the camp. That’s how I got the idea that I wanted to be a musician.” Aside from his old camp counselors, Dennen looks up to a number of other musicians. His influences include Paul Simon, Van Morrison and Graham Nash. “You know, I don’t know. It’s mostly singer/songwriters of the ’70s,” Dennen said. Dennen has recorded four albums and has plans to start on another next year after he finishes his tour. He also intends to play at some music festivals next summer. Dennen has performed at just about all the music festivals in the U.S. He’s done small festivals like the Telluride Bluegrass Festival and larger ones like Bonnaroo. He said he enjoys festivals immensely. “It’s like 60,000 people, there’s so many agents and there’s so much music,” Dennen said. “It’s great for musicians because your audience quadruples.”
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ARTS&CULTURE Dennen has toured the world as a musician and said he likes to hang out in Spain the most. While he admits some of his shows there have been less than satisfying, Spain remains Dennen’s favorite. “I love visiting there,” Dennen said. “I don’t think the people there are any better than anywhere else. It’s just my favorite place to travel so being able to go there and play music is extra special.” His preferred places to play in the states are California and Colorado because of the people. “Those are great places to play music,” Dennen said. “For me, I think the people in the West Coast and Colorado, they let loose a little bit more.” He does have some love for Tennessee though. He’s been to Knoxville a few times before and enjoyed his time here. Look for him at The Tomato Head on Market Square before his show. “I think that’s a great restaurant,” Dennen said. “I always try to go there if I have time. I’m sure if people want to come catch me there, I’ll be hanging out.” Special guest Blind Pilot will join him on stage this Friday. Blind Pilot is a Portland-based band with a similar songwriter mentality. Check out Brett Dennen with special guest Blind Pilot at the Bijou this Friday at 8 p.m. Tickets are available online at knoxbijou.com for $20 plus service fees. “I think it’s going to be rockin’, I think people are going to like it,” Dennen said. “They can dance and they can just chill out and have a good time if they want to. Hopefully they’ll sing along and get involved.”
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Rapper’s violent lyrics on trial The Associated Press EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. — An aspiring rapper on trial over what authorities say was a note threatening a Virginia Tech-like killing spree set off “alarm bells” days before the writings surfaced on his college campus by pressing to get firepower he ordered from a gun dealer, a prosecutor told jurors Wednesday. But an attorney for Olutosin Oduwole countered during a trial’s opening statements in the 4year-old case that his gunloving client stood wrongly accused, saying the words at issue were innocent lyrics and other musings by a performer prone to compulsively log all of his thoughts on paper. “This case is a very selective case,” Justin Kuehn said on behalf of Oduwole, accused of attempting to make a terroristic threat and a weapons count linked to the loaded handgun police found a short time later in July 2007 in Oduwole’s on-campus apartment at Southern Illinois University in Edwardsville. “That ‘note’ is nothing more than a piece of scrap paper with private thoughts, the beginning of a song,” Kuehn insisted. “Their key piece of evidence, the center point of their case, is a song.” Wednesday’s differing scenarios by the prosecutors and defense previewed testimony that could leave jurors with a key decision: Whether Oduwole’s questioned writings — found in his out-of-gas car just months after the Virginia Tech rampage that left 32 people dead along with the gunman — represented something potentially sinister or were lyrical stylings that were constitutionally protected free
speech. Kuehn told the allwhite jury that witnesses on Oduwole’s behalf may include what the defense describes as an expert in the study of rap and hiphop music, along with that genre’s culture. The trial’s stakes are high: Oduwole, 26 and free on bond, faces up to 15 years in prison if convicted of the threat-related count. Oduwole was a student at the 13,000-student Edwardsville campus northeast of St. Louis when campus police found in his disabled car that they impounded a piece of paper that demanded payment to a PayPal account, threatening “if this account doesn’t reach $50,000 in the next 7 days then a murderous rampage similar to the VT shooting will occur at another highly populated university. THIS IS NOT A JOKE!” While referencing the Virginia Tech massacre, the writing did not make any direct reference to targeting the Edwardsville campus. Even before that discovery, prosecutor Jim Buckley told jurors, Oduwole already was being scrutinized by federal agents tipped off earlier that month by a gun dealer that the student appeared overly anxious to get four semiautomatic weapons — including an Uzi-like Mac 10 — that he had ordered. “Where are my guns? I need my guns now,” Buckley said the dealer, who sensed “something's weird here,” reported Oduwole as repeatedly pressing. “Alarm bells are going off all over the place, and they were set in motion by the defendant’s actions.”
Authorities who later searched Oduwole’s impounded car found seven bullets along with the alleged note, then the loaded, .25-caliber pistol in his apartment, a bullet in the gun’s chamber. Kuehn, Oduwole’s attorney, portrayed his client as a “pretty good” rapper who never meant for the questioned writing to be seen, illustrated by the fact that police didn't find it on the car’s dashboard or taped to the windshield but instead crumpled between a front seat and a console of his 2001 Ford Taurus. Kuehn also said Oduwole dabbled with buying guns to resell them as a hobby with friends, going through legal channels — not the underground market — that was certain to leave an easily traceable paper trail. “It’s about the most open way, the most visible way” to buy a gun, Kuehn said near Oduwole. During much of the opening statements Oduwole jotted down notes from the defense table, where he sat dressed in a yellowand-blue striped sweater over a light blue dress shirt, along with creamcolored pants.
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Get ‘Enlightened’ with HBO Robby O’Daniel Recruitment Editor There is something about HBO’s new comedy “Enlightened” that makes it better than it sounds. On the surface, the show’s premise sounds fairly typical of premium cable channel fare, especially when a female lead is involved. The series begins with the eye-raising scene of executive buyer Amy Jellicoe (Laura Dern) going on a public tirade after her boss reassigns her to a new position in the company. Amy thinks she was reassigned because of her affair with the boss, and this is probably true. She starts screaming, cursing and yelling at him until he gets to the elevator. She even manages to open the elevator briefly to fit some more screaming in. Amy then goes off on a rehabilitation trip, where she gets in touch with her philosophical side and starts spouting a bunch of self-help mumbo jumbo, to the delight of no one when she returns to work and her fledgling social life. After threatening the company with a lawsuit for wrongful termination, since the reason for her departure was self-help following a breakdown, she gets a job at her company again. But her former assistant was promoted to her old job, and the job she was going to get transferred to has been filled, as well. This time she is reassigned to a bottom-floor data entry job, with misfit co-workers. It would have been so easy for this show to fall into the quirkiness trap, just having Amy give up trying to please everybody and live it up in oh so socially unconventional ways. Thank God it did not go in this direction because there are about a million shows on television that do. In fact, pretty much every line from Showtime’s “The Big C” is “I’m going to do what no one expects me to do!” Instead, “Enlightened” plays with the conventional. There is the established story in self-help of the person who goes off the rails, takes a sabbatical to learn new ways of thinking, becomes “enlightened” and returns to the world to make amends and help others. This is supposed to be a process that people encourage others to go through. This is supposed to be a good story.
But in the real world, especially in the corporate world, everyone is obsessed with themselves. And they do not even have time to pay lip service to Amy’s changes. In fact, her co-workers from her old department are disgusted she even got her job back at all. They do not want her to have a second chance. So when Amy starts having conversations with these people again, it’s hilarious. Even better, in the second episode, Amy admits that she knows one of her co-workers, who she just smiled and talked to, hates her. And she realizes her old assistant must feel uncomfortable talking to her, since she still works for the boss. She just wants to be friends, to have some sort of ally. This is not the typical two-dimensional lead character that is unrealistically oblivious to everything. She is just trying to play the political game by a new set of rules, and she is frustrated that her attempts are constantly getting rebuffed. Dern plays this excellently, especially in a scene during the second episode where she sulks away, head down, from her old assistant’s office. An even funnier rebuff of her changed life is her attempts to reach out to her ex-husband Levi (Luke Wilson). In the middle of a conversation in the first episode, Levi starts snorting drugs and asks her if she wants a hit. She leaves mortified. Wilson plays the laidback ex-husband role superbly. When feigning enthusiasm about a self-help book Amy is trying to give him, there is just something about the coughed-up way he says “Hey!” that is funny, endearing and authentic at the same time. But what has truly ensured that the show is a winner is the addition of a hilarious supporting cast of new co-workers for Amy on the data-entry floor. In particular, Timm Sharp (“Undeclared”) plays her boss Dougie, whose lines should get an audible laugh nearly every time. His non-sequitur humor is hilarious, and the scene in the second episode where Dougie and Amy meet for the first time is must-see. And at the end of each episode, “Enlightened” truly has some heart. Viewers get the impression that Amy really is trying to change, just in a terribly toxic environment. But the show seems to take great pains to tone down the sap and emphasize pure humor. All considered, “Enlightened” is definitely worth a try. — Robby O’Daniel is a graduate student in communications. He can be reached at rodaniel@utk.edu.
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THE GREAT MASH-UP • Liz Newnam
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Public, private division not so clear T he Bur den o f I n fa l l i b i l i t y by
Wiley Robinson Ya’ll like you some free markets? Well, sorry, a free market system has never actually existed in this country. Remember in high school economics class when they’d use quaint examples like a row of banana vendors on a street to explain pure competition? Yeah, turns out being small, localized, extremely specific and completely isolated is the only way to actually pull that off. Banana street, and perhaps that old section of Craigslist devoted to prostitution (everything was $50, classic competition curve) is basically as far as that illustration goes. I have this funny sensation that portraying the accurate, realworld scope of the economic model for pure competition like it’s some dumbed-down, arbitrary version of the idea is overt propaganda. So what we end up with instead is an indirect relationship between markets and the government. A fair definition of our entire party system ends up being how optimistic or pessimistic one is, not about the relationship itself — that would be delusional! — but about their roles in a well-established interdependence. The recent Occupy Wall Street movements (which last happened in the ’70s for similar, less dramatic reasons) gather around the most recent and appropriately controversial symptom of the deliberately censored relationship between industry and government: the bailouts. All of those huge government bailouts of private corporations (banking, auto, etc.) rightly gave credence to the idea that “private” isn’t the most accurate term to describe these institutions. Banks and the economic ideas behind them have grown proportionally with the scale, ambition and overall culture of the Western world — this illustration is necessary to introduce the need for humongous reserves of credit for the public and private sectors. Though not alone, banks end up really skewing the whole idea of public vs. private because the banks themselves influence the economy in huge and unpredictable ways by generating previously non-existent credit at unknown rates. Hear me out. So here’s one way to look at the problem with our system that has so many people currently feeling left out in the cold. Banks, like all private industry, want to and are perceived as proudly private. This is the essence of our political paradigm, after all, the assumption most people carry around with them as they live out their myopic, pleasant existence: that business and
government are forever at war with each other, the former nobly resisting and denouncing the influence and regulation of the latter. The private banks, not the government, are the guys who have free reign over our money; we already pay taxes, why should we let the government look after our money when we can be real Americans and give it to a bank that’ll provide us with competitive services and interest rates? Banks look and smell on the surface like they’re independent, private and simply provide financial services for other people’s money, but even a passing glance at reality (which can be difficult) tells us so differently that you’ll immediately regret even looking. Think about the footage we’ve all seen of the mint printing stacks and stacks of money. Now be tormented with the regrettable knowledge that government created money accounts for around 5 percent of all the money in circulation. Read my words: Over 95 percent of all the money in existence right now was created by banks as a direct result of some schlub signing a pledge of indebtedness. Now, you might disapprove of reality being a stupid, weird one and not one that makes any sense, so I apologize in advance. The interdependence of government and the banking system is absurdly symbiotic. Government enforces the fairly recentlyestablished fiat currency that enables banks to debt you with money that amounts to as many photons as your eyeballs process when you look at the numbers on the ATM. The government enforces bank debts, though seeing as there would be no money if there was no debt because credit and debt are one in the same, not enforcing bank debts would be like not enforcing its own currency. If everyone — the government, corporations and all American families — were magically forgiven of all their debt by every bank, there would be no money left even though the amount of physical dollars would not change. Banks aren’t just another industry: They are the gatekeepers and proprietors of the vast majority of our entire economy. It makes perfect sense that the government would subsidize them at the drop of a hat. What OWS protesters should be protesting is the deception and lack of definition regarding the political relationships in this country — the private and public sectors’ very existence is hopelessly, chronically interdependent to the point where our entire monetary system will collapse without it. The economy has been thrown in a blender and there’s no way to go back — so what’s the use of these strong political identities if they only suppress obvious and immediate truths? Oh right, it’s the only thing keeping us from dissolving into a oneparty system. — Wiley Robinson is a junior in ecology and evolutionary biology. He can be reached at rrobin23@utk.edu.
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Two weeks ago, I attended my first International House-sponsored event in the entirety of my college career. That night was a first for the I-House, too: It was the first Nepali Culture Night to occur on UT campus. I was pleased to see it fairly well attended, even though it was during midterm week, and the rice pudding for dessert was certainly well worth missing an hour and a half of study time. We were also treated to traditional Nepali dance and music. The event was a very informative introduction to a country that I knew next to nothing about, and I was thrilled to find such a valuable resource on campus for exposure to other cultures. In fact, I enjoyed myself so much that I returned the following week for German Culture Night, the International House’s contribution to UT’s “Do Deutsch” week. This culture night had a similar format as the Nepali Culture Night — a traditional dinner of sausage, potatoes and apple cider, followed by a presentation from some German exchange students about their native country and some German music, both traditional and modern. The highlight for me, personally, was that the lead cellist for the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra, Andy Bryenton, performed a beautiful Bach cello suite. As an interesting juxtaposition, following Bryenton’s performance of the 300-year-old classical piece, we watched a video montage of some of Germany’s biggest names in popular music today. I was struck by how similar their music sounded to popular music in America, a trend that seems especially remarkable when even German classical music from years ago is music played in America on a regular basis. UT has a strong initiative to engage its students in international and intercultural learning opportunities, called “Ready for the
World.” This program sponsors hundreds of events each year on campus, including the International House Culture Nights, foreign film festivals, the Life of the Mind program for incoming freshmen and even the Ready for the World Café at the UC every week where the students from the UT Culinary Institute serve cuisine from countries across the globe. The culmination of the Ready for the World program for many UT students results in study abroad programs or exchanges, and in return the University of Tennessee also hosts many international students. There is even a global studies major and minor for students whose scholarly interests fall under the category of international relations and globalization. These events, programs and departments are all critical elements of the University of Tennessee’s dedication to fostering international and intercultural learning among its students, faculty and staff. Although participation in all of these programs and events is entirely voluntary, I would like to take a few moments to address the necessity for everyone, but especially undergraduates, to take advantage of these opportunities as soon as possible. Regardless of your area of study or your interests and activities outside school, you will inevitably encounter people and cultures from different parts of the world in your lifetime. These people will be your business clients, your co-workers, your peers and your friends, and it is of the utmost importance that before engaging in interactions with these individuals, you take the time to learn about their cultures and your relationship to them. If you ever travel abroad to research, to do a mission trip or even to be a tourist, you will be at a great disadvantage if you are unfamiliar with the country you are entering. Although Nepal might seem like an unusual choice for a cultural event at UT, it is an important choice because exposure to nonWestern cultures can drive home the fact that just because a culture is different from our own, it is no less valuable or legitimate — and it is crucial that we learn about our diverse world. — Sarah Russell is a junior in history. She can be reached at srusse22@utk.edu.
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Hart wants to promote ‘positive energy’ at UT Matt Dixon Sports Editor
Clay Seal Assistant Sports Editor Tennessee athletics director Dave Hart has been on the job for a month now since being hired from Alabama. After settling down a bit, Hart sat down for an exclusive interview with The Daily Beacon. How’s the transition been? “The transition’s been very, very good and that’s been driven by the people. The people here have just been fantastic. They’ve been extraordinarily helpful in terms of the transition. I think people realize transitions are complex in nature. You’ve got the personal transition, you’ve got the professional transition. We have some really, really special people in this department and beyond. This is a fantastic community and it doesn’t take you long to understand that, and my wife and I feel very proud to be a part of the athletics department, the university and the community that we now live in and just the city of Knoxville.” Easier to move from another SEC school than it is from another conference like the ACC and Florida State? “You know, there’s no substantial difference. There’s more similarities than there would be differences. It really doesn’t matter point-to-point so much. Now, I think your question is somewhat about the fact that I’m very familiar with the Southeastern Conference. I’m a product of the SEC as a student-athlete and have always held a great respect for the league and for just the University of Tennessee. When I was early in my career, Tennessee was one of those jobs that if I could ever be to Knoxville and sit in the chair of director of athletics at the University of Tennessee, that would be a very proud moment and sure enough. That opportunity has presented itself and it is indeed a very proud moment.”
gesture was the reception that was put together for Pam and I. There were hundreds of people there, many of whom we were meeting for the first time. Some of those priorities I just articulated, just building relationships. The beginning of building relationships. Having a verbal exchange with people where you’re getting input and you’re getting to know about them and they’re sharing their views and their priorities because I think ultimately, I think all that is leading toward a common direction and what is our direction going to be and putting a leadership team in place and something that I wanted to do towards the end of that 30 day window so that we can begin building that leadership team so the staff knows who they are and people who are important to us know who they are. Get them in place. Now that’s not completed but we’ve taken some important steps towards building that leadership team.” Where is the merging of the men’s and women’s athletic departments in its process, and will fans notice anything different going forward? “I think all the differences will be positive in nature. Obviously the announcement has been made about the programs merging. That’s not completed. We’ve got work to do relative to the merging of the programs. Part of that getting in front of people is to get their insight and to talk to them about that. That’s down the road. In terms of completion of the merger, that’s down the road. We’ve got to get the leadership team in place first, but those steps will take place once dialogue has taken place, and there’ll be a lot of that before we reach a final completion relative to the programs truly being merged.”
Now that you’re here, what have you learned about Tennessee that you didn’t know as an outsider? “One of the things I said earlier, I’ve been pleasantly surprised at the people’s willingness — ’cause people are busy, we live in a white water world now — and yet people have taken time to welcome us, Pam and myself, my wife and myself. If anything, they’ve gone to great lengths to make us feel very much a part of the community and feel welcomed and that’s not only been appreciated, it’s been very impressive and noticeable. Certainly the passion of our fan base is one of the reasons this job is so attractive. People here support our programs and they’ve supported our programs through the good times and bad and that too is very impressive. They care. Athletics has always been a rallying point for a state, for a region, and that’s especially true here at Tennessee, and that’s been a very impressive component of the transition. There’s passion here and it’s very genuine.”
What are the advantages of merging the programs? “We are moving towards being Tennessee, one program. That will never take away from our focus and our priority on women’s athletics, on the pursuit of excellence, on the comprehensive excellence goal being put in motion. What I want is what everyone wants and that’s our teams to achieve at a very high level. We want to raise the bar across the board. We want people to reach higher. No matter how good you are, when you stop learning, you should maybe just get a backpack and head overseas because if you’re not learning, you can’t possibly contribute to the overall improvement of the program. We all learn every day. That’s why input is good, that’s why a common direction is a necessity for us getting to where we all want to go and march in that direction. We have a lot of history here. We have great tradition here. That’s a component most programs do not possess because that happens over many, many years. A lot of people here — coaches, players, student-athletics, administrators, donors, fans, alumni — everybody contributed to reach that tradition and history. We have an obligation to uphold that and build a bridge from the past to the future. We’ve had a tough four years and it’s been well documented. We have wounds to heal and that’s part of the total process of moving in a common direction, merging the programs, going back to being Tennessee. We’ve had some terrific moments in our history and we want to use those moments to catapult us to the future.”
Did you have a short-term list of priorities when you first took over? “I think so and that’s a very good question. Yes, there’s a 30-day plan, then a 60-day plan, then a 90-day plan, literally. In terms of priorities, you’re keeping a lot of balls in the air, you’re juggling a lot of things. Even if you were not in transition that would be true. So you have to prioritize and you do have to build that plan. One of the priorities was to know everyone. That was my number one priority. To work inside-out. Sit face-to-face with our coaches and staff and then to meet people in the community. A very, very gracious and classy
Was moving forward not possible while the NCAA investigation was taking place, and is it now possible with coaches in place? “I think that’s part of the healing process, to be candid about it, because it’s difficult when you have an atmosphere that’s not positive. It’s hard to make progress. Positive energy drives a lot of corporations, businesses, departments in a very good direction. Negative energy, often times, creates an environment that results in that entity becoming somewhat dysfunctional, and you can’t get where you want to go in a dysfunctional environment. A lot of things can contribute to that — and I’m not saying we were dysfunctional
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— I’m saying that can easily happen to an organization if there’s not positive energy present.” Do you think there’s ever been an athletic department that’s gone through so much in such little time? “As I said, it’s been a very difficult three-to-four years. This university is deserving of a new beginning, if you will. A new beginning to return to the past because we have so much history and tradition and such a passionate fan base and alumni base. Collectively, they deserve for the good times to come back. We have coaches in place who will play an integral role in getting us there. But it’s going to take time. We have at least three coaches who are very new in Derek Dooley, Cuonzo Martin and Dave Serrano. We have a lot of positive things at the University of Tennessee and a lot of programs that continue to achieve at the top of the pyramid, both in our league and nationally. We want to reach a point where all our teams are achieving at that high level.” What are your impressions of Derek Dooley so far? “I really like Derek Dooley. Derek Dooley is a great person and a heck of a football coach. He’s the right person to lead this program and to accomplish some of the things we’ve talked about. He’s also due a break, a good break, we’ve had some tough breaks. But that’ll all happen. Derek and his staff will continue to recruit well and continue to make progress towards climbing back up to that position we were accustomed to for many years in football. Derek can get us there. Now, we have to help him. What Derek needs is assistance. He needs positive advocates. He needs people who understand that this is not a quick-fix, this is going to take time.” Is all this conference expansion good for college athletics? “Well, I don’t know that that’s even the primary issue. It’s a good question and it’s a fair question and it’s been played out and debated in the media for several months now. I understand that, but by the same token, I never felt in following this evolution over the years that we had reached a destination and this is further evidence of that. It’s like post-season football, I’ve watched that evolution as well. One day the dust will settle and we’ll have a post-season football environment that remains constant and conference realignment will have reached its final stage. But we’re not there sitting here having this conversation.” Tennessee playing Alabama on Saturday, this game has to have special meaning to you? “Well, only in the sense that I’m a month into the transition. As I’ve said, that’s just like East Carolina, just like Florida State, my wife and I had wonderful experiences every place we’ve been and we loved every place we’ve been and we love now having the chance to be a part of this family and represent this program. I don’t take that lightly. We’ve been lucky and this is an opportunity that we remain very, very excited about. I’m a Tennessee Vol. Yes, I’m returning to one of those places where I worked and where we have a history, but it won’t have any impact on who we represent, I can assure you of that.” It doesn’t hurt your son is the athletic director at UTChattanooga? “That’s been unique to have a son who’s an athletic director at another school in our system. It’s probably very rare but we are rare in the sense that our family, we have a history and a legacy that’s important to all of us to uphold because my father was a director of athletics, I’m in that role, my son is in that role. We have three generations of athletics administrators, which is pretty unusual in its own right.”
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Vols hope to spark run game, stifle Bama’s Clay Seal Assistant Sports Editor Not many teams play a legitimate nationaltitle contender in any given season, and most don’t do it twice. But Tennessee will do it in consecutive weeks when they travel to face No. 2 Alabama on Saturday. “It’s his (Alabama coach Nick Saban) best team, probably as physically a dominating defense as I’ve seen in the modern era of football and I know that is a strong statement, but I believe it,” UT coach Derek Dooley said. “You catch yourself watching them, not studying them. They’ve given up seven points a game, 38 yards rushing a game, 184 total yards a game. And in this era, doing something like that — it’s a combination of everything. Incredible talent at every position, great coaching and just a relentless, physical dominating style of play.” Tennessee (3-3, 0-3) lost to No. 1 LSU 38-7 last week after trailing 17-7 at halftime. Tennessee brings the SEC’s No. 10 scoring offense and defense to Briant-Denny Stadium to match up against the league’s top scoring offense (39.7 points a game) and defense (seven). “Definitely the best team in the country, to me,” said Tauren Poole, who rushed for 70 yards against LSU and led Tennessee to its first SEC game this season with positive ground yards. Matt Simms will start his second game of the season for UT after Tyler Bray fractured his thumb against Georgia, and try to break the current trend of Alabama holding UT to 17 or less points in their last seven matchups. Simms went 6-of-20 passing for 128 yards and two interceptions against LSU, the SEC’s second best defense, behind Alabama. “Just looking forward to it really,” Simms said. “You can’t pick and choose who you play against. Hey, the first week it was rough for my first start, the No. 1 team in the country, but like I said, just looking forward to playing the No. 2 team in the country.”
With the loss of Bray and receiver Justin Hunter (ACL tear), the running game, ranked last in the SEC and 114th in the nation with 89 yards a game, knows it has to step up against one of the toughest defenses in the nation. “With some key guys down in the pass game, it’s definitely important to get that first and second down to get an efficient run and efficient play,” fullback Ben Bartholomew said. “This defense is very, very good. They’re very strict on their rules, so out-hitting them and getting a few yards every play is really important to get that third down to third and short, not third and long.” Tennessee’s last visit to Tuscaloosa, Ala. in 2009 provided one of the more exciting games of the year when the Vols lost 12-10 to the topranked Tide, which went on to win the national championship. Alabama’s Terrence Cody blocked Daniel Lincoln’s 44-yard field goal attempt in the final play of the game. It was the closest game Alabama played that year. “Two years ago we went down there and we had our chance and it kind of slipped right out of our fingers,” linebacker Austin Johnson said. The Vols are tasked with stopping Trent Richardson, who has rushed for 912 yards and 15 touchdowns so far in his first season as Alabama’s first-choice running back. His 1,091 yards account for 34 percent of Alabama’s offense. “There’s a lot to say about that guy,” Johnson said. “He’s a great back. Heisman Trophy back. He’s a hard, downhill runner. He’s physical. He’s hard to bring down. It’s something that I kind of look forward to this week. It’s going to be a big challenge.” Richardson rushed for 119 yards on 14 carries in the Crimson Tide’s 41-10 win at Neyland Stadium last season. “This is a big stature game at every position,” Dooley said. “These guys are big, fast and strong Madeline Brown • The Daily Beacon from top to bottom. If you’re little, weak and Freshman tailback Marlin Lane Jr. runs the ball against LSU on Oct. 15. Lane gained slow, you’re going to have a tough time Saturday 43 yards on 6 runs, marking his season high. Lane has a season total of 139 yards night.” with two touchdowns.
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Bama riding top-ranked offense, defense Patrick MacCoon Staff Writer October hasn’t been kind to the Tennessee Volunteers the last two years, and it doesn’t appear to be getting any easier. Coach Derek Dooley and his orange and white squad will have their hands full again this week as they travel to Tuscaloosa to take on Nick Saban and the second-ranked Alabama Crimson Tide in the annual Third Saturday in October rivalry, which dates back to 1901. This will be the first time Tennessee (3-3, 0-3 SEC) has faced the nation’s top two teams in backto-back weeks, after losing to No. 1 LSU 38-7 last Saturday at home. The Vols will be looking for their first SEC victory on Saturday and to end their two-game skid and four-game losing streak to the Crimson Tide (7-0, 4-0). They will also be looking for some sense of revenge after their 2009 trip to Tuscaloosa ended in a 12-10 heartbreaking defeat, as Alabama’s Terrance Cody blocked a potential game-winning 44-yard field goal attempt by UT’s Daniel Lincoln. It will be a very tough task for the Vols considering they will be facing a Heisman Trophy candidate in junior running back Trent Richardson and one of the nation’s top defenses. Not to mention Alabama is 24-1 at home in their last 25 games at Bryant-Denny Stadium. “I think that this game coming up is a game that’s really important from a tradition standpoint to the University of Alabama,” Crimson Tide coach Nick Saban said. “It’s important to a lot of people around here. Rivalry games are always games that you have to be ready for.” Through Bama’s first seven games of the season, Richardson has led a rushing attack that has averaged 241.6 yards (14th in the country) on the ground and has separated himself as one of the nation’s top backs. Richardson hasn’t missed a beat after former Heisman Trophy winner Mark Ingram departed last season, as he has 132 carries for 912 yards to go along with 15 touchdowns. Last week, the 5-foot-11, 224-pound bruiser back earned his second SEC Offensive Player of
the Week Award after compiling a career-high 183 rushing yards and four touchdowns in Alabama’s 52-7 win over Mississippi. The 100-yard rushing performance was his sixth-straight, which is the longest current streak in the nation among active players and is tied for the longest streak in Alabama history. Tennessee defensive coordinator Justin Wilcox and company will have their hands full trying to contain Richardson, who ran over them for 119 yards and two scores in a 41-10 thrashing of the Vols last year. They will also have to be aware of his counterparts, Jalston Fowler and Eddie Lacy, who have combined for 721 rushing yards and eight touchdowns this season. The Vols will also have to find a way to get pressure on sophomore quarterback A.J. McCarron, who has thrown for 1,380 yards on 117-of-174 and nine touchdowns with just two interceptions. “A.J.’s played well for us,” Saban said. “I think he’s improved in every game, and he’s done a really good job in managing the game.” One word best fit to describe Alabama on the defensive side of the ball is “dominating.” The country’s No. 1 overall defense is allowing seven points a game, including two shutouts, limited opponents to 184.1 total yards per game (38.1 rushing, 146 passing), and has forced 12 turnovers. They have also been very effective in their pass rush, as they have brought down the quarterback 15 times this year, with senior linebacker Courtney Upshaw leading the team with 3.5 sacks. Their 47 forced three-and-outs through seven games this year leads the country. Junior linebacker and Lewisburg, Tenn., native Dont’a Hightower, Bama’s defensive captain, leads the team with 40 tackles. “The last couple of years we played those guys, the first and second halves have come down to a big play,” Hightower said. “You can never overlook Tennessee or any SEC team regardless of their record because dealing with an SEC team you could lose any game throughout the year.” Kickoff for the Third Saturday in October is set for 7:15 p.m. EST and will air on ESPN2. • Photo courtesy of Drew Hoover/The Crimson White
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Soon after being named coach of the Tennessee Volunteers, Derek Tennessee 17 - Alabama 42 Dooley created the multi-faceted “Vol for Life” program, led by forLSU - Auburn mer UT defensive back Andre Lott, that focuses on four areas of perUSC - Notre Dame sonal growth for players: character education, life skills, career develCincinnati - South Florida opment and spiritual growth. Wisconsin 42 - Michigan St. 28 “When we put in that tag-phrase ‘Vol for Life,’ it’s something that’s not a creation, it’s real,” Dooley told The Daily Beacon. “These guys, when they leave here, they PLACE: 27-8 consider themselves Vols. It’s the whole ‘Once a Vol, Clay Seal Asst. Sports Editor always a Vol.’” So what does the term Tennessee 3 - Alabama 33 “Vol for Life” truly mean? LSU - Auburn “I think it’s one: recognizUSC - Notre Dame ing and appreciating the Cincinnati - South Florida three-to-four year experiWisconsin 38 - Michigan St. 17 ence (players) had at Tennessee, and all that Tennessee gave to them,” Dooley said. “Then, when PLACE: 27-8 they leave, there’s a continual bond that the player has Matt Dixon Sports Editor with the program and that Tennessee 6 - Alabama 45 the program has with the LSU - Auburn player. It’s so important not USC - Notre Dame to ever feel a disconnect between program and forCincinnati - South Florida Wisconsin 31 - Michigan St. 23 mer players because they are the ones that made this program the special program that it is and I’ll PLACE: 27-8 always remember that.”
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It had been 10 years since Tennessee beat Alabama Tennessee 14 - Alabama 41 when the Volunteers and LSU - Auburn Crimson Tide met on Oct. USC - Notre Dame 14, 1995. Cincinnati - South Florida The sixth-ranked Vols set Wisconsin 27 - Michigan St. 17 the tone on the first play from scrimmage. Joey Kent hauled in a PLACE: 26-9 pass from Peyton Manning and outran the Alabama Will Abrams Copy Editor defense 80 yards for a touchTennessee 10 - Alabama 37 down. “It was one of those plays that we ran consistently every game and LSU - Auburn lucky Alabama’s defense was in the perfect defense for that particular USC - Notre Dame play,” Kent said. “Peyton and I kind of looked at each other, we saw Cincinnati - South Florida the potential of the play before it happened but obviously we didn’t Wisconsin 31 - Michigan St. 23 know that it would go for 80 yards. Me being from Alabama, that holds a special place for me because for one, we hadn’t beaten those guys in so long, the history of the game and getting that monkey off STINKIN’ LAST: 24-11 our back during that time is just a special memory for me.” Robbie Hargett Chief Copy Editor Tennessee never looked back and defeated the Crimson Tide 4114. Tennessee 6 - Alabama 42 “Personally, I think we could’ve beaten anybody in the country that LSU - Auburn night,” Kent said. It clicked on all three phases of the
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many occasions during his playing career from 1993-96. He sits atop the Vol record books in career receptions (183), career receiving yards (2,814) and career touchdown receptions (25). Honors he’s surprised he still holds. “Through hard work and having the best quarterback in college during that time didn’t hurt either with Peyton, and obviously having some talented guys around me,” Kent said. “We had a great offensive line, we had some great running backs during that time. I had Peerless Price and Marcus Nash on the other side of me at receiver. “With that combination, it was just the perfect storm that allowed me to get some of those records because without my teammates, without obviously Peyton and the team as a whole, I don’t think I would’ve had that success. It’s an amazing feeling because I know how many great receivers have come through that program.” Despite having to play quarterback some his senior year in high school and safety on defense, Kent wanted to play receiver in college and Tennessee gave him that chance while the in-state Crimson Tide wanted him to play in the secondary. “It was an easy decision,” Kent said. “Playing safety at Alabama or playing receiver at the University of Tennessee, Wide Receiver U.” Following his time in Knoxville, Kent played four seasons in the NFL, three with the Tennessee Titans and his final year with the Minnesota Vikings. He caught 13 balls and scored one touchdown in his pro career. “My NFL career didn’t • Photo courtesy of bleacherreport.com go as I planned and as I wanted it to but I was blessed to have the opportunity to get drafted in the second round and I had the opportunity to play in the Super Bowl with the Titans,” he said. “There’s not a lot of regrets. I accomplished a lot in college and I got the opportunity to play in the NFL. It just didn’t work out the way I planned.” Today, Kent is married with two children. He’s been involved in pharmaceutical sales for the past seven years and co-hosts “The Tennessee Tailgate,” a radio show on Nashville’s 104.5 The Zone on Saturdays before UT games. “I think I maximized everything I could’ve gotten out of football and now it’s time to look at it and enjoy it and pull for the Vols,” he said. “Hopefully we can get over this hump and transition of Tennessee not being what we're used to.”