Follow us: @DailyBeacon
Fiction: Sausage Links, Part I
Justin Worley loses redshirt after brief debut
Monday, October 24, 2011
PAGE 6 T H E
E D I T O R I A L L Y
Sunny 0% chance of rain HIGH LOW 74 47
Issue 46 I N D E P E N D E N T
PUBLISHED SINCE 1906
PAGE 5
http://utdailybeacon.com
Vol. 118 S T U D E N T
N E W S P A P E R
O F
T H E
U N I V E R S I T Y
O F
T E N N E S S E E
Vols falter again in second half, routed 37-6 Simms passes 8-of-17 for 58 yards; Vols defense falls flat after promising start Matt Dixon Sports Editor TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — The first half looked like the traditional Tennessee-Alabama games of the past that made the Third Saturday in October one of the premier rivalries in college football. But, as has been the case far too often for the Volunteers (3-4, 0-4 SEC) under Derek Dooley, the second half was a different story after the teams entered halftime tied 6-all. The No. 2-ranked Crimson Tide (8-0, 5-0) dominated the third and fourth quarters, cruising to a 37-6 victory Saturday night in BryantDenny Stadium in front of an announced attendance of 101,821, the largest crowd to see UT play a game outside of Neyland Stadium. “We’re just really a very fragile, fragile football team right now. Very fragile,” Dooley said. “We’ve got to harden up a little bit.” In similar fashion to last week against topranked LSU, once the Vols got knocked down, the team’s fight was gone. On Saturday it was a five-play, 75-yard Alabama drive after UT went three-and-out to start the third quarter. “They came out with a lot of intensity (in the second half) and we weren’t able to match it,” UT cornerback Prentiss Waggner said. “They won a lot of one-on-one battles.” Facing a fourth-and-one from its own 39yard line on the ensuing possession, UT’s Matt Simms was stuffed on a quarterback sneak, giving the Crimson Tide great field position. Alabama took over at UT’s 40-yard line and quarterback A.J. McCarron hit receiver Kenny Bell in the back of the end zone for a touchdown to put the Crimson Tide up 20-6 with 8:52 remaining in the third quarter. “At that point, it was 20-6 and we’ve got a lot of ball left and we lost our spunk and it was disappointing to see,” Dooley said. “We did what we said we weren’t going to do, which
was get affected if something bad happens in the game, and we lost our fight. When you lose your fight against a good football team, what happened in the second half happens.” What happened was Alabama’s talented and physical 3-4 defense didn’t allow UT to get a first down in the second half, while its offense ranked up 280 yards of offense over the game’s final 30 minutes to finish with 437 for the game. Tennessee finished with just 155 yards, including only 41 in the second half, but accumulated 92 yards on the ground. In Alabama’s first three SEC games, the Crimson Tide defense had allowed just 84 rushing yards combined. Simms finished 8-of-17 for 58 yards with an interception before being replaced by true freshman Justin Worley late in the fourth quarter. Senior tailback Tauren Poole gained most of his hard-earned 67 rushing yards in the first half, and caught three passes, a team-high. His counterpart, Crimson Tide Heisman Trophy candidate Trent Richardson, was contained by UT’s defense early, but eventually wore down the Vols, finishing with 77 yards on the ground and two touchdowns. UT’s effort to contain Richardson, which often called for eight defenders in the box, allowed McCarron to pick apart the Vols secondary. He was 17-of-26 for 284 yards and one touchdown. “We were straining,” Dooley said. “But you play these good teams, they keep hitting you, keep hitting you. When you lose your strain against them, it gets hard.” The Vols’ only points of the game came from the leg of sophomore kicker Michael Palardy. He connected on field goals of 40 and 52 yards, the latter a career-long and the first points Alabama had given up in the second quarter all season.
• Photo courtesy of Wade Rackley/UTADPHOTO
Derek Dooley celebrates with Austin Johnson after a defensive stand during a game against Alabama on Saturday, Oct. 22. Although Johnson tallied 13 tackles in the game — a total only bested by Eric Berry — and the game was tied 6-6 at halftime, the Vols were unable to keep the pace, allowing 21 points in the third quarter as the Tide went on to a 37-6 victory.
Students dress to celebrate zombie films Steele Gamble Staff Writer
Taylor Gautier • The Daily Beacon
Megan Pulliam, senior in child and family studies, carves a pumpkin during the ATO Pumpkin Carving event on Friday, Oct. 21. The philanthropy event, which hosts representatives from each sorority, serves as a buildup to the approach of Halloween.
Soldier kills sheriff in tragic incident The Associated Press ATLANTA — A National Guardsman who appeared to be drunk and had been firing at passing cars shot and killed a sheriff’s deputy, then committed suicide alongside a Georgia road, authorities said Sunday. Evidence shows Christopher Michael Hodges, 26, fired 35 rounds from his M4 semiautomatic rifle, said Richmond County Sheriff’s Capt. Scott Gay said. Hodges and 47-year-old Deputy James D. Paugh were found dead on the side of Bobby Jones Expressway after 1 a.m. Sunday, Gay said. Hodges was based with the Tennessee National Guard but was on temporary duty at Fort Gordon in eastern Georgia for training, said Buz Yarnell, a spokesman for the
military post. Yarnell said he was not aware of any problems with Hodges before the shooting, and he would not say if Hodges had previously been deployed overseas. Sheriff Ronnie Strength told The Augusta Chronicle that Paugh was off duty and on his way home when he saw a suspicious car on the side of the road. He was shot several times when he stopped to check on the car and apparently fired two shots from his service weapon before he was killed. “He was just checking that car. He pulled over his motorcycle and didn’t even get to put the kickstand down before the suspect began firing on him,” the sheriff said. Gay said Paugh had been with the department for 17 years and was an avid
motorcycle rider and cook. He said Paugh would cook turkey for his fellow deputies during Thanksgiving and Christmas. Authorities said Hodges had been having some sort of dispute with a female, though it does not appear Paugh knew about that. Gay said authorities took the woman into custody for questioning. No one else was injured in the shooting, Gay said. Two people could be heard speaking inside a house at Hodges’ last known address in Millington, Tenn., about 15 miles northeast of Memphis. A woman who answered the door at the house declined comment to an Associated Press reporter and refused to say whether he lived there and if she was related to Hodges.
Entertainment began on the way to the movie for students participating in the 3rd Annual Zombie Walk, hosted by Central Program Council’s Film Committee last Friday at 7 p.m. in Presidential Courtyard. The Zombie Walk is a free event where students are painted to look like zombies before they walk through campus to see a showing of the zombie spoof-film “Shaun of the Dead” in the UC Auditorium. Jessica Covington, junior in special education and Film Committee chair, described the history of the event. “It started as an advertising campaign for our Zombie Fest two years ago,” Covington said. “It brought so many people that we decided to keep doing it.” Max Miller, junior in geology and Film Committee member, said that the event is an opportunity to do something out of the ordinary. “It’s always fun to get into costume and act like something you’re not,” Miller said. “Just be a monster.” Paul Anthony Troy, sophomore in education, said that the event was a safe and fun way to capture the spirit of Halloween on campus. “I see zombies as a very popular thing in our society right now, so I figured why not join in?” Troy said. Nash Glover, sophomore in computer science and film com-
mittee member, said that he had fun with peoples’ reactions last year. “People would just stare and laugh,” Glover said. “People in cars would stop and yell at us.” Miller disagreed, saying that there was not much of a reaction at all. “We’ll get a lot of stares obviously,” Miller said. “It’s usually when we chase people down is when we get the best reactions, but that’s something we’re trying to not do as much.” Jacob Crowell, senior in English and American studies and film committee member, described the reactions of UT visitors last year. “We walked across the crosswalk, and there was a car with a Bama tag because the game was here,” Crowell said. “They didn’t know how to react.” Zombies are becoming such a big part of pop culture that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has posted an emergency preparedness and response article on what to do in the event of a zombie apocalypse. According to the CDC, the article was originally posted on the CDC Public Health Matters Blog. Crowell said that the Zombie Walk and presentation of “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” are important events to the film committee. “We put a lot of effort into Halloween and try to do the biggest Halloween events here on campus that we can,” Crowell said.