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Workshop helps students improve skills Career Services, SGA help students work on job interview techniques, resume building they know what to say during an interview once the time comes and that they will be fine ‘winging it.’ However, even those who Deborah Ince have experienced interviews before can always learn more and Staff Writer will benefit from practicing their skills.” Dix also believes that workshop participants will feel more Interviewing for a job can be tough, and no one understands comfortable at the event because it is led by fellow students. the importance of successful interviewing skills more than SGA The peer career advisers who presented at the New Student Relations Committee and UT Career workshop had been selected through an interServices. view process and have been trained by Career The two organizations presented an interview Services to work with students and address any workshop Tuesday afternoon for any student wishquestions or concerns they may have. ing to enhance their interviewing skills. “Working on a peer-to-peer basis is designed The workshop, which was open to all UT stuto help students feel comfortable, relaxed and dents, was divided into two parts. The first half of more open to free discussion,” Dix said. “Plus, the workshop addressed general interviewing who better to talk to about career concerns than skills and how students can prepare for various someone who is close in age and has most likely types of interviews. Afterwards, student-peer experienced the same concerns as well?” career advisers led mock interviews with attendSGA and Career Services urges students to ing students and provided them with feedback attend future workshops, and hopes they can conabout their interview preparedness. tinue the event in the future, as they believe that “I think it’s a great way to find out ways to sucthe experience will be very beneficial to students. cessfully interview,” Elizabeth Pallardy, overseer “Interviews can always improve,” Pallardy of the peer career adviser program, said. “It will said. “There are many positions out there for stuhelp students better prepare themselves for many dents, and in the long run, this will help them get types of interviews in the future.” File Photo • The Daily Beacon those jobs.” The workshop was also led by student-peer A representitive from Career Services talks to students about the interview Dix also added that many of the students who career advisers who are trained in providing process at an interview workshop on Feb. 3, 2010. SGA and Career Services held presented at the workshop are involved in variresume critiques, conducting mock interviews, leading workshops and presenting career-based a workshop on Tuesday about interviewing for campus organizations. On Oct. ous organizations around campus and can pro26, Career Services will be holding another workshop from 4-5 p.m. vide knowledgeable advice on how to interview information to students. for them. “We haven’t done this in a couple of years, but Both Career Services and SGA Student Services — to whom “This specific interview workshop that we are conducting is last time we had a decent turnout,” Pallardy said. “This year we wanted to make sure it would happen. It’d be great if it’s some- geared especially towards students who are interested in apply- SGA New Student Relations reports — aim to teach students thing we could do every semester because student organizations ing for a student organization,” Rachel Dix, co-director of SGA more about professionalism and prepare them for a life outside New Student Relations, said. “I think that most students assume of college. on campus interview at different times throughout the year.” UT Career Services helps students year-round with resumes, interviewing and other areas that are important to being successful in the professional world. This year, Career Services has partnered with SGA New Student Relations Committee which, along with other student services committees, continually plans events that can benefit students both socially and academically.

Tia Patron • The Daily Beacon

Jenna Wertz, junior in kinesiology, signs a board on Oct. 25 about what she wants to see change at UT. Occupy UT has set these boards up on the Pedestrian Mall for the rest of the week from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Occupy UT’s next meeting will be on Oct. 26 at 6 p.m. in the HSS Amphitheatre or in HSS 53B if it rains.

Poet shares inspirations at reading Jasmine Jensen Staff Writer On Tuesday night, Blas Falconer, associate professor of languages and literature at Austin Peay State University, read from his published work “A Question of Gravity and Light,” a collection inspired by events in his life. “Eventually (the poem) reveals its story to me but when I start, I don’t know why I’m writing,” Falconer said, explaining where his inspiration comes from. The poem that sparked the title for his collection is the penultimate poem in the book, which sets the stage for his second project that he is currently working on. Falconer opened with three distinct love poems, each describing love from a different perspective. Before reading his poem, “A Story of Winter,” which was inspired by an event from his childhood, he said, “It’s funny how poems come to us and how we want to write a poem we’re not ready to write.” He decided that in order to write the poem, he had to tell it through fragments instead of as a single story. Sarah Gosney, a sophomore double majoring in French and English, said that although going to the reading had been a

class assignment, she “probably would have gone anyway.” “To see that he’s published is inspiring,” Gosney said. Falconer has won many awards, including the Maureen Egen Writers Exchange Award and the New Delta Review Eyster Prize for Poetry. “I didn’t expect him to be a calm and quiet reader,” Gosney said. “That’s just me making speculations. Like the way he read, it was different in a rhythm that I’ve never heard before. (He) is definitely encouraging.” There are many points of view in Falconer’s collection of poems. “This book had to be done differently than the first book,” Falconer said about his new project. “I had to take a more meditative stance than an active stance ... I was very selfish when writing the first book. Because I was thrust into the role of ‘mother,’ it had very much informed my writing.” In 2008, Falconer and his partner adopted their son, who became the inspiration for his second project, “Foundling Wheel,” which will be published next year. One notices that there is a difference in perspective from the poems of his first book and those he read from his second, as he had been put in the role of being a parent so quickly, with his partner fre-

quently away on business. Being Puerto Rican and holding on to that tradition while also being gay, Falconer stands at the edge of American society, getting at a tension of borders within his poems. Those borders are of a physical nature, such as nationality and peoples, as well as the inner borders between family members and lovers. When introducing a new poem to the audience, Falconer first explained the story behind the poem, or his inspiration. Talking much about his partner and his son, he also talked about his family’s home and a project he had worked on. Like many poets, Falconer gets his inspiration from things that have happened in his life, many of which he compares to other things. “He had very interesting phrases that catch a moment unexpectedly,” Gosney said. The audience seemed to agree, as they regarded him with full attention, enraptured with the tone he used when reading. Before reading his last poem, Falconer thanked UT for having him, as well as Marilyn Kallet and Jeff Daniel Marion for asking him to come and be a part of Writers in the Library, sponsored by the University of Tennessee Libraries and the UT Department of English.

Officials scrutinize SAT test security The Associated Press FARMINGDALE, N.Y. — A state Senate hearing on Tuesday was examining security on standardized tests following an SAT cheating scandal on New York’s Long Island. State Sen. Kenneth LaValle, chairman of the New York State Senate’s Higher Education Committee, scheduled the hearing at Farmingdale College after seven current or former students at Great Neck North High School were arrested last month. Authorities said six of the students had a seventh to take their exams. “This is not just a Long Island issue, this is not a New York State issue,” LaValle said in opening remarks at Tuesday’s hearing. “This issue of cheating is one that is nationwide.” LaValle and others questioned test security after it was revealed the impersonator allegedly posed as a female during one of the tests. He also is accused of accepting payments of up to $2,500

for taking the tests. All six of the students were admitted to colleges, in part based upon their test scores, although confidentiality rules prevent the students from being identified. Gaston Caperton, president of The College Board, said the recent scandal has prompted an international review of test administration security procedures. He said Freeh Group International Solutions, LLC, which was founded by former FBI director Louis J. Freeh, has been retained to assist with security concerns. Caperton said security changes being considered include a review of acceptable ID information and possibly using digital photography at testing sites. Sam Eshaghoff, a 19-yearold student at Emory University in Atlanta who previously attended the University of Michigan, is accused of using phony identification documents to represent the students during the SAT exams. Eshaghoff and the six others, who are charged with misdemeanors, have pleaded not guilty.

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Students crowd the UC on Oct. 22 for the yearly Zombie Walk and movie. This year the walk was from Presidential Court to the UC, and the participants watched “Shaun of the Dead” after.

1825 — Erie Canal opens The Erie Canal opens, connecting the Great Lakes with the Atlantic Ocean via the Hudson River. Governor DeWitt Clinton of New York, the driving force behind the project, led the opening ceremonies and rode the canal boat Seneca Chief from Buffalo to New York City. New York legislators became interested in the possibility of building a canal across New York in the first decade of the 19th century. Shipping goods west from Albany was a costly and tedious affair; there was no railroad yet, and to cover the distance from Buffalo to New York City by stagecoach took two weeks. Governor Clinton enthusiastically took up the proposal to build a canal from Buffalo, on the eastern point of Lake Erie, to Albany, on the upper Hudson, passing through the gap in the mountains in the Mohawk Valley region. By 1817, he had convinced the legislature to authorize the expenditure of $7 million for the construction of a canal that he proposed would be 363 miles long, 40 feet wide, and four feet deep. Work began on “Clinton's Ditch” in August 1823. Teams of oxen plowed the ground, but for the most part the work was done by Irish diggers who had to rely on primitive tools. They were paid $10 a month, and barrels of whisky were placed along the canal route as encouragement. West of Troy, 83 canal locks were built to accommodate the 500-foot rise in elevation. After more than two years of digging, the 425-mile Erie Canal was opened on October 26, 1825, by Governor Clinton. As Clinton left Buffalo in the Seneca Chief, an ingenious method of communication was used to inform New York City of the historic occasion. Cannons were arranged along the length of the canal and the river, each within hearing distance of the next cannon. As the governor began his trip, the first cannon was fired, signaling the next to fire. Within 81 minutes, the word was relayed to New York — it was the fastest communication the world had ever known up to that point. After arriving

in New York on September 4, Clinton ceremoniously emptied a barrel of Lake Erie water in the Atlantic Ocean, consummating the “Marriage of the Waters” of the Great Lakes and the Atlantic. The effect of the canal was immediate and dramatic. Settlers poured into western New York, Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, and Wisconsin. Goods were transported at one-tenth the previous fee in less than half the previous time. Barge loads of farm produce and raw materials traveled east as manufactured goods and supplies flowed west. In nine years, toll fees had repaid the cost of construction. Later enlarged and deepened, the canal survived competition from the railroads in the latter part of the 19th century. Today, the Erie Canal is used mostly by pleasure boaters, but it is still capable of accommodating heavy barges. 1881 — Shootout at the OK Corral On this day in 1881, the Earp brothers face off against the Clanton-McLaury gang in a legendary shootout at the OK Corral in Tombstone, Arizona. After silver was discovered nearby in 1877, Tombstone quickly grew into one of the richest mining towns in the Southwest. Wyatt Earp, a former Kansas police officer working as a bank security guard, and his brothers, Morgan and Virgil, the town marshal, represented “law and order” in Tombstone, though they also had reputations as being power-hungry and ruthless. The Clantons and McLaurys were cowboys who lived on a ranch outside of town and sidelined as cattle rustlers, thieves and murderers. In October 1881, the struggle between these two groups for control of Tombstone and Cochise County ended in a blaze of gunfire at the OK Corral. On the morning of October 25, Ike Clanton and Tom McLaury came into Tombstone for supplies. Over the next 24 hours, the two men had several violent run-ins with the Earps and their friend Doc Holliday. Around 1:30 p.m. on October 26, Ike’s brother Billy rode into town to join them, along with Frank McLaury and Billy Claiborne. The first person they met in the local saloon was Holliday, who was delighted to inform them that their brothers had both been pistol-whipped by the Earps. Frank and Billy immediately left the saloon, vowing revenge. Around 3 p.m., the Earps and Holliday spotted the five members of the Clanton-McLaury gang in a vacant lot behind the OK Corral, at the end of Fremont Street. The famous gunfight that ensued lasted all of 30 seconds, and around 30 shots were fired. Though it’s still debated who fired the first shot, most reports say that the shootout began when Virgil Earp pulled out his revolver and shot Billy Clanton point-blank in the chest, while Doc Holliday fired a shotgun blast at Tom McLaury’s chest. Though Wyatt Earp wounded Frank McLaury with a shot in the stomach, Frank managed to get off a few shots before collapsing, as did Billy Clanton. When the dust cleared, Billy Clanton and the McLaury brothers were dead, and Virgil and Morgan Earp and Doc Holliday were wounded. Ike Clanton and Claiborne had run for the hills. Sheriff John Behan of Cochise County, who witnessed the shootout, charged the Earps and Holliday with murder. A month later, however, a Tombstone judge found the men not guilty, ruling that they were “fully justified in committing these homicides.” The famous shootout has been immortalized in many movies, including “Frontier Marshal” (1939), “Gunfight at the OK Corral” (1957), “Tombstone” (1993) and “Wyatt Earp” (1994). — This Day in History is courtesy of History.com.

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Halloween imitates protests in NY The Associated Press NEW YORK — Dressed as protesters, complete with toy megaphone, Mitch Robinson and his wife unrolled a sleeping bag and “occupied” their friends’ Halloween party. Unlike the real-life Occupy Wall Street demonstrators, they had a detailed, numbered list of demands for their hosts. Among them: Equal time on the karaoke machine, more meat on the grill and extra alcohol in the drinks. So went the party in Tacoma, Wash., last Saturday night — Robinson in jeans, flannel shirt and a “Live Free or Die” cap and wife Mary Boone in beret, baggy sweater and a “Peace, Love Bieber” button. “We were a big hit,” said Robinson, 48, a marketing executive. “We tried to incite the other partygoers. Plus I loved that basically what I wore was perfect for raking leaves the next day.” Among the self-proclaimed 99 percent, the antiWall Street protests that began in New York and spread across the country are inspiring lots of costume ideas this Halloween. “We’re ready to go,” said Kris Ruby in Greenwich, Conn. She is dressing her 7-year-old golden retriever, Morgan Stanley, as a 1 percenter in business suit, red tie and tweed hat. “My dad works for Morgan Stanley.” Ricky’s NYC, with an online shop and 56 stores throughout the city, stocked up on extra “V for Vendetta” masks, those plastic faces popping up on protesters around the world. The company iParty reports an uptick in requests for dollar-sign jewelry, play money, suspenders and glasses among young people looking to go as bankers and CEOs. Actual protesters have been invited to take part in the huge Greenwich Village Halloween parade, not far from their home base in Zuccotti Park. Occupy Wall Streeters have set up a website with some costume ideas for the parade, calling on supporters to dress as Wall Street zombies, corporate vampires, “laissez fairies,” unemployed superheroes, or the top-hatted plutocrat from Monopoly, Rich Uncle Pennybags. “Occupy Halloween,” the site urges. “Because the top 1 percent shouldn’t get all the candy.” Taylor Gautier • The Daily Beacon Ellen Freudenheim, a blogger and About.com Hundreds of people filled up World’s Fair Park on Oct. 22 for the 15th Annual specialist on Brooklyn, suggests cheap and easy Knoxvillle Brewer’s Jam. Every year beer brewers come to Knoxville where people costumes ripped from the headlines. Times are can sample each unique flavor. There were also concerts and food to go along with tough — duh — so tape a dollar bill to your mouth as actual protesters have done, paired with a handthose under 21.

scrawled “End Corporate Greed” cardboard sign, she said. Or, she added, don a dark sweatsuit and plaster yourself with slogans, such as “Do You Feel It Trickle Down?” Will the revelers be mocking the protesters? Or expressing their sympathy for the movement? “I think it could be all of the above,” Freudenheim said. “I think people who would never, ever in their wildest dreams be caught in Zuccotti Park will dress up.” Jen Doll, a blogger at the Village Voice, suggests dressing up as Deputy Inspector Anthony Bologna, the white-shirt New York cop disciplined for allegedly pepper-spraying some penned-in protesters. “Alternatively, you could be a slightly less demonized member of the force, put on a blue shirt and go around saying, ‘My little nightstick’s gonna get a work-out tonight,’” she wrote. “Add a gleeful laugh and you're in.” The remark, by a real NYPD officer as he put up barricades, is making the rounds in a YouTube video. If all of that sounds too in-the-box for Halloween, Doll suggested, dress up as pepper spray. With Halloween less than a week away, the V masks ranked No. 2 on Amazon’s list of best-selling novelty clothing, behind a “Where's Waldo” outfit for adults. The mask was used by the shadowy revolutionary V of comic book and movie fame, and is based on Guy Fawkes, the 17th-century Englishman who tried to blow up Parliament. Josh Paz, a sophomore and economics major at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, N.C., thinks he might “zombie-fy” his look when he pairs a Fawkes mask with a business suit on Halloween. “I was planning on purchasing a few stacks of fake hundred-dollar bills and proceed to bribe people for candy and drinks,” he said. Freudenheim thinks Occupy Wall Street will be a big Halloween theme in Park Slope, her liberal, socially conscious neighborhood in Brooklyn. But “I don’t know what people will do in Greenwich, or wherever,” she said, referring to the rich Connecticut town that is home to investment bankers and hedge fund managers. “I guess they’ll just ignore it, I suppose. Or be a clown or a witch or something.” Of course, the real 1 percenters could put on a business suit, carry a briefcase and “shout things about smelly hippies,” Doll said.

Rescuers pull baby out of debris from quake The Associated Press ERCIS, Turkey — After 48 hours, a miracle emerged from the rubble: a 2-week-old baby girl brought out half-naked but alive from the wreckage of an apartment building toppled by Turkey’s devastating earthquake. Rescue workers erupted in cheers and applause Tuesday upon sight of the infant — and again hours later when her mother and grandmother were pulled out, their survival a ray of joy on an otherwise grim day. The death toll from Sunday’s 7.2-magnitude quake climbed to at least 459 as desperate survivors fought over aid and blocked aid shipments. A powerful aftershock ignited widespread panic that turned into a prison riot in a nearby provincial city. With thousands of quake survivors facing a third night out in the open in near-freezing temperatures, Turkey set aside its national pride and said it would accept international aid offers, even from Israel, with which it has had strained relations. Tuesday’s dramatic rescue of three generations of one family was all the more remarkable because the infant, Azra Karaduman, was declared healthy after being flown to a hospital in Ankara, the Turkish capital. Television footage showed rescuer Kadir Direk in an orange jumpsuit wriggling into a narrow slit in the pile of concrete and metal, then sliding back out with Azra, clad only in a T-shirt. “Praise be!” someone shouted. “Get out of the way!” another yelled as the aid team and bystanders cleared a path to a waiting ambulance. “Bringing them out is such happiness. I wouldn’t be happier if they gave me tons of money,” said rescuer Oytun Gulpinar. The pockets of jubilation were tempered by many more discoveries of bodies by thousands of aid workers in the worst-hit city of Ercis and other communities in eastern Turkey devastated by the earthquake. Even rescues were tinged with sadness: 10-year-old Serhat Gur was pulled alive from the rubble of a building after being trapped for 54 hours, only to die a short time later at a hospital, state-run TRT television reported. Some 2,000 buildings collapsed, but the fact that the quake hit in daytime, when many people were out of their homes, averted an even worse disaster. Close to 500 aftershocks have rattled the area, according to Turkey’s Kandilli seismology center. A strong one on Tuesday sent residents rushing into the streets in panic while sparking a riot by prisoners in the city of Van, 55 miles (90 kilometers) south of Ercis. The U.S. Geological Survey put the tremor at a magnitude of 5.7. Some prisoners demanded to be let out while others set bedding on fire as the revolt spread inside the

1,000-bed prison, the Dogan news agency reported. Security forces surrounded the facility to try to prevent escapes, while military vehicles fired water cannon at crowds gathered outside in the streets. There was still no power or running water in the region, and desperate people stopped trucks even before they entered Ercis, grabbing tents and other supplies. Kanal D television showed people fighting over tents and blankets. Aid workers said they were able to find emergency housing for only about half the thousands of people who needed it. Turkey decided to accept offers of assistance after its emergency management authorities decided that thousands of survivors would need prefabricated homes to get through the winter in the mountainous region, said a Turkish Foreign Ministry official, speaking on condition of anonymity in line with ministry rules. Israel offered assistance despite a rift between the two countries over last year’s Israeli raid on a Gazabound flotilla that killed nine Turkish activists. At least 1,352 people were injured in the quake, TRT television said. Nine people were rescued Tuesday, although many more bodies were discovered. The mother of the rescued baby, Semiha Karaduman, and the child’s grandmother, Gulsaadet, were huddled together with the infant held tight against her mother’s shoulder when rescuers found them, Direk told The Associated Press.

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Editor’s Note Containing another billion Blair Kuykendall Editor-in-Chief If Thomas Malthus were still around this Halloween, he would be living his nightmare. According to the United Nations, world population will exceed 7 billion by the end of this October, with the last billion people added in just 12 years. Should this be cause for concern? Experts disagree. On the upside, the growth rate of global population is supposedly beginning a slow decline. A recent article in the “Economist” cited U.N. projections for population growth. It will likely take 14 years for the next billion people to appear, and then another 18 for the next billion. Fertility rates have taken a steep decline in recent years; estimates indicate families have a fertility rate of 2.45, down from 4.45 in 1970. This accounts for the major demographic changes in age group distribution seen worldwide. Adding an extra two billion people to the mix, even over the span of 30-some years, will bring definite repercussions. While significant population increase will not spell mankind’s immediate demise, there are significant and well-founded concerns about the impact of a burgeoning population on the environment. Population growth is usually exacerbated in areas contributing the least towards per capita carbon dioxide emissions. Small population growth in the United States or Australia could take a much greater toll on the environment than increases in lesser developed nations. It stands to reason that changes in the consumption patterns of the developed world will be the key to counterbalancing the ill effects of increasing population. Feeding a population of nine billion will obviously be a challenge. The World Bank

estimates that agricultural productivity will need to increase almost 70 percent from 2005 to 2055 to feed earth’s populace. Agricultural productivity did grow over three times that amount from 1970-2010, but new sources of fertile land are rapidly diminishing. Future productivity potential is hard to pinpoint, because there is a multitude of variables involved. Discussion of specific production improvement tactics is beyond the scope of this article, but production will have to be increased and its processes refined to keep pace with the population. Dietary choices will likely have to adapt in coming decades as well. In August, biologist Paul Ehrlich gave a video conference at the Baker Center on economic issues arising from global population expansion. He is mentioned in this week’s “Economist,” in an article addressing the coming problems associated with scarce global resources. The article concludes that family planning programs and access to contraception might aid the economies of some nations by reducing population pressures, but have little impact on the global ecological state. Since the majority of carbon emissions originate in Europe, America and China, environmental regulations in these nations will have the biggest impact on the environment. The flurry of panic that surrounds booming population growth ironically results in increased responsibility for the individual. Citizens around the world who are aware of the collective negative toll humanity takes on the environment have a duty to change their actions. Several billion people will be added to the earth in the next century, and each and every one of them will have to be accommodated. People will either change their consumption patterns now, or be forced to later. It’s Econ 101: higher demand, higher prices. — Blair Kuykendall is a junior in the College Scholars Program. She can be reached at bkuykend@utk.edu.

SCRAMBLED EGGS • Alex Cline

THE GREAT MASHUP • Liz Newnam

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Print media fights for viability Ac orns and Other Seeds by

Anna-Lise Burnette They say that print media is dying. But when I look at the towering stacks of magazines in my own home I wonder just where “they” are getting their information. While I don’t often read magazines, I occasionally find them to be entertaining and informative in ways that television programs no longer are, and this makes me even more suspicious of the claim. A more truthful statement would be, I think, that print media is being killed — but it isn’t gone yet. Still, there’s something about the traditionalversus-modern debate that makes you wonder if print really is worth saving after all. And in order to figure that out, we’ve got to see if newspapers and magazines have something more valuable to offer than trashy classifieds and poorly phrased restaurant reviews. So recently I’ve been trying to do more consumer reading. This involves picking up every free publication I can in order to give it a good once-over (twice-overs and thorough readings I reserve for established favorites and the utterly puzzling). I’ve even taken to picking up the random magazines that cover doctor’s office waiting room end tables, if only just to flip through the glossy pages for a few quiet moments. And what I’ve found is this: Magazines and newspapers are suffering from the same affliction as all our other forms of mass communication. Which is another way of saying that it all reeks of half-baked philosophy and unmarketable ridiculousness, swathed in poor execution and lots of bright, ’80s-esque colors. But that doesn’t mean there’s not something lingering there. Where online content and

television networks seek to induce sensory stupor, print steps in to make our poor, untrained brains work a little. Just what did Mr. So-and-so mean when he said, “the state of the American education system is in the kind of shambles you’d expect from a third-world country”? Either we can gloss over it and move on to another pundit or we can put the paper down beside us and think for a moment. Print media gives us breathing room. It doesn’t condescend. It affords us the opportunity to make our own decisions and think at our own pace (or think at all, it seems). Which is why it is so important that we not let it go to waste. When I pick up a small publication only to find that it is riddled with typos and has virtually nothing useful to convey, it makes me want to create a Twitter account (for at least that way I could finish out my sentence early). Can’t they see that they’ll never make it if they carry on like that? It makes me want to call the editor and gripe in their ear about what a waste of money, waste of time and waste of life the publication is. But I don’t, because that would be a waste of time, too. It’s like that children’s story, “The Monster at the End of This Book.” All throughout the book Grover (of Sesame Street fame) pleads with the reader not to turn any pages because, as the title suggests, there’s a monster at the end. I feel like Grover, only I’m pleading with the public not to believe that print media is dying out. I could beg for pages and pages; I could devote all my waking hours to saving this vestige of human ingenuity (as others are certainly doing). But it would be as hollow and ironic as Grover’s brick walls and knotted ropes if I did. Because in trying to make my case, I’ve created a block of print that’s only as good as the paper it’s printed on. In the end, there’s still a monster at the end of this newspaper. It’s the end. — Anna-Lise Burnette is a senior in interdisciplinary studies. She can be reached kburnet7@utk.edu.

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Nineteenth-century American writer John Greenleaf Whittier once said: “Of all the sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these, ‘it might have been.’” Regret and loss are two of the most powerful emotions that human beings endure. “What if I had studied more?” “What if he hadn’t left?” “What if I had tried harder?” We use these words daily. Perhaps the one most poignant “what if” question is, “What if ‘it’ had lived?” That is, to ask what if a child was not aborted. Every human being was once a fetus and could have, theoretically, been aborted. Think about that. Your best friend, the one who has made the most impact on your life, could have been aborted if his or her parents wanted to have the abortion. If he or she had been aborted, your life would be different, perhaps radically different, from what you know today. Your mentor or hero could have been aborted. Try to imagine what your life would be like without the most influential person in your life. That picture could have been reality if your hero’s parents had had an abortion. Looking at modern technology and the computer on which this article is being written, a natural illustration of this concept is this: What if Steve Jobs had never been born? Whether your computer is a Mac or a PC, you cannot possibly deny the impact that Steve Jobs has had on modern technology and 21stcentury life. The iPod, iPhone, iPad; the iMac, MacBook. None of it would have happened if Steve’s parents decided that they didn’t want him. Then, because of pure selfishness, they would have denied Steve his life and denied the world Steve’s ingenious mind and creativity. The general population would have been deprived of Steve Jobs’ creations and ideas, but his friends and family would have been

deprived of Steve. His likes, his dislikes, the things that happened in his childhood which shaped the mastermind behind Apple. Western society would not be same if Steve Jobs had been aborted. Even if someone does not believe life begins at conception, no one can deny that a fetus is, if not killed, going to be born and grow up. To take a child out of the world before he even enters it is more than just denying a child a life: It is denying the world the child. Some people who were saved by their parents can and will stand up and tell you that they were almost aborted. Look them in they eye, and ask yourself, is the person in front of me in fact a person? Well, obviously, yes, they are a person. Next, ask yourself, how did they get here? Don’t let yourself think only about the recent history. How did the person in front of you get there? Did he almost get killed in a car wreck, did she survive cancer? Think all the way back until you come to this realization: Before anything else that brought someone to stand in front of you, he or she had to have been born. Before that, he or she had to be conceived, and between those two events, his or her parents had to choose to not have an abortion. It’s true that many parents never even think of abortion, but, if you are alive today (which if you’re reading this you obviously are), your parents could have aborted you. Some people will argue that, while Steve Jobs and others like him did have an impact on the world, other children aren’t likely to have the same effect. Really? Of the approximately 42 million children that are aborted globally per year, not one is likely to have a real influence on the world? That makes zero sense. Everyone has the potential to change the world, every child might be the doctor who finds a cure for cancer, or the scientist who comes up with an invention that will change the world as we know it for the better. Every time a child is aborted is an opportunity to look on with despair and say, “It might have been.” — Chelsea Tolliver is an undecided junior. She can be reached at ctollive@utk.edu.

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Panel debates on nuclear issues Jake Lane Arts and Culture Editor While war and faith certainly have a sordid history together, no era prior to the modern age has held such great stakes for the outcome of any major conflict. United States foreign policy towards potential “rogue states” often tempers public opinion to be fearful of Communists and theocratic regimes in Asia with nuclear capabilities. One assumption of such a position is that it is formed by white Christians looking to defend their dominance in America. Members of the university faculty, students and informed citizens spoke on a panel Monday evening in the Toyota Auditorium of the Baker Center for Public Policy on the interconnectedness of faith and nuclear energy proliferation, weaponized or otherwise. From their discussion, the previous assumption could be ruled as moot, if not fallacious. Moderated by Mark Walker, a Haslam scholar and senior in nuclear engineering, and David Burman, a senior in religious studies, the panel included speakers with experience in the nuclear energy industry, expert knowledge of political science and personal beliefs ranging from Unitarianism to evangelical Christianity. The discussion began with a brief introduction and message from the four primary speakers. Dr. Howard Hull, professor of nuclear engineering, opened his commentary with a joke about the surety of safety in one region of the world. “We can say with certainty that there are currently no nuclear threats on Antarctica,” Hull said, to applause and laughter from the crowd. While this icebreaker served to open the proceedings with a jovial mood, the discussion was at times alternately heartfelt and sincere, at others tense and apprehensive. Hull summarized the major opportunities for nuclear exchange and armament worldwide, describing theocratic Iran as a gateway for Middle Eastern proliferation, with Israel and Saudi Arabia already having avowed to arm themselves should Iran prove their nuclear capabilities. A question regarding Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s statement earlier this month stating Iran’s perceived threat as “politically and mentally retarded” posed during the audience question-and-answer session was neither fielded nor answered, but from Hull’s statement and the air of the room, it seemed that many in attendance agreed with his assessment. Hull also mentioned the potential for India and Pakistan to go to war. He quoted the figure of one-fifth of the world’s population in that region fighting for resources of one watershed, acknowledging resource control as a motivator for violence being more immediately drastic than cultural differences. Dr. Brandon Prins, associate professor in political science, introduced the idea of isolated, homogenous cultures, with the examples of Pol Pot in Cambodia and Maoist China, as more intrinsically destructive than ethnically diverse cultures. Prins offered a top-down paradigm for such instances of mass violence, wherein the highest authorities ended up killing mass numbers of the populace versus the common citizens instigating major conflicts. Dr. Jeffrey Kovac, professor in engineering and recently appointed head of the College Scholars Program, spoke as an

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affirmed pacifist and a historian of conscientious objection to violence. Kovac outlined how national citizenship and religious faith can inform a person’s view of the world. He posited that citizenship evokes obligations in people, which will cause them to act in a certain manner for the good of their country which is compounded by the individual’s personal history with their country. Then the person’s personal religious tradition will come into play in their inner life and affect how an individual interacts with the world. “Religious perspective changes based on world events,” Kovac said, elaborating that this was positively manifested in maintaining core values with an open mind, versus hardening into narrow, sectarian views. Sherrell Greene, the retired director of Nuclear Technology Programs at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), spoke from a position of evangelical faith, which he said leads his motives for nuclear energy proliferation as “all people are created in God’s image and therefore have some intrinsic value.” “Any religious system which doesn’t inform your views is little more than a hobby,” Greene said. Greene stated that of the estimated seven billion humans on Earth, four billion were without electricity, and that the availability of electricity and resources would be a major destabilizing factor in world politics for decades to come. With over three decades of experience in the nuclear energy field, Greene said that the only way to increase energy availability on the necessary scale for a worldwide standard of living on par with South Africa, let alone the United States, would be through harnessing nuclear power. Following this initial exchange, which in reality consumed most of the lecture time, the audience posed some questions to the panel. One question led the remaining discussion time, regarding the idea of a technology or weapon as being intrinsically evil. Hull again gave a humorous aside. “I’m all for nuclear abolition,” Hull said. “You go first.” Greene said that there was no simple answer to the nature of technology, stating that nuclear bombs and power plants are an amalgam of several technologies and knowledge bases, of which there is no way to determine the relative moral intent in discovery and utility. He said the only solid answer is in how these technologies are utilized. “If a biological weapon is immoral,” Greene asked, “is microbiology immoral?” Kovac opined that some of the tension people feel toward nuclear energy can be misplaced. “Nuclear risks make people more fearful than other risks,” Kovac said. “(In reality) you get more radiation from the food you eat than living next to a plant, since the food is filled with radioactive Carbon-14.” In the end, a clear consensus among panelists was established that religion had a positive role in public policymaking. Prins stated that while there are conflicting ideas on religion’s role, the median of public opinion has drifted further to polar extremes over the last 30 years. Greene said that faith dictated a certain forced neutrality and dilemma in his case, as Christianity espouses love of one’s neighbor and enemy equally. “Conflict has its own logic,” Greene said. “What do I do when the neighbor I love and the enemy I’m supposed to love are killing each other?”

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Artist to display childbirth live as performance piece in NY The Associated Press NEW YORK — The bedroom is brightly decorated with ocean blue walls, family pictures and photo-imprinted pillows and blankets of the mother-to-be. An inflatable birthing pool and air mattress for the midwife and doula lie near the bed. A soundtrack of the ocean plays nonstop. Marni Kotak has created a cozy environment for the birth of her first child. But the bedroom is not in her home. It is in a Brooklyn art gallery. The 36-year-old Kotak is a performance artist who has created a home-birth center at the Microscope Gallery where she plans to deliver her baby as a work of art sometime in the next few weeks. The gallery has extended the days it is open to all seven days a week so Kotak — as part of the project — can develop a rapport with members of the public who come to see “The Birth of Baby X.” She and her painter-husband, Jason Robert Bell, don’t know the baby’s gender and have not picked out a name. About 20 people a day stop by to talk to Kotak or see the free exhibit, which opened Oct. 8. Visitors can leave contact information if they want to return for the birth. Kotak said her audience “won’t be total strangers.” She said those who spend time talking to her about motherhood, birth and art and learning about the project will be notified when she goes into labor. If she’s home at the time, she will go to the gallery. “I’m developing an authentic relationship with these people,” she said. “For me, it’s like building a community of people who are really interested in this.” About 15 people, mostly those on the list plus the birthing team, are expected to

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witness the birth — the most the room can comfortably hold. She doesn't plan to talk to her audience. “However, I never know how a performance will progress and sometimes unexpected things happen,” she said. Kotak’s husband will document everything. No other cameras or video will be allowed. Should there be an emergency, a hospital is less than half a mile away. Kotak, whose childhood was spent in Norwood, Mass., said all her performances focus on everyday life experiences. She has been re-enacting events from her life for more than 10 years, including her own birth, losing her virginity in “a sunny blue Plymouth” and her grandfather’s funeral. Jill McDermid, a curator and co-director of the performance art Grace Exhibition Space in Brooklyn, called Kotak’s work “daring, challenging and honest.” She said people shouldn’t be shocked. “The audience is very limited. Marni views them as people she can trust, who are interested in her work and in her,” McDermid said. In combining the birth of her child with artistic expression, Kotak said she wants to show “this amazing life performance that ... is essentially hidden from public view” and that addresses social taboos regarding the human body. Besides giving birth before an audience, she expects she will shower behind a clear plastic curtain during her labor and she plans to breastfeed her baby. “She’s in the tradition of using your life as your authentic material and shaping and forming it” — a tradition that goes back to 1959 when filmmaker Stan Brakhage recorded the birth of his first child as a work of art, said feminist artist Carolee Schneemann, whose own works deal with taboo themes of sexuality.

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Freshman setter plays crucial role I really liked, that I would go there. Everything about Tennessee was much better, so I knew it David Cobb was the right decision.” Staff Writer “I loved all the coaches,” Pollmiller said. “It was really a mixture of everything, but the coachIt’s true in every sport: A handful of players gar- es were a big part of my decision.” ner all the attention. In football, it’s the quarterThe aspiring dentist credits her club volleyball back and other skill players. In basketball, it’s the experience with Juggernaut, a team based out of leading scorers. Wheatridge, Co., for allowing her to gain expoIn volleyball, the trend is no different. sure in high school. Typically, it is the high-flying outside hitters “There are many other states that are way who electrify the crowds with their powerful more competitive in high school volleyball,” strikes during the course of an indoor volleyball Pollmiller said. “Other states play more matches. match. But who is responsible for what goes on It just isn’t really that big in Colorado. behind the scenes to She went on to make these plays note: “I got noticed happen? more at the club For Tennessee’s level. In volleyball SEC-leading volleythat’s usually how it ball squad, that pergoes.” son is freshman setHer success on the ter Mary Pollmiller. club circuit has trans“She is a hard lated well to top 25 worker,” UT coach college volleyball Rob Patrick said. thus far. Pollmiller “She loves to be in ranks first in the SEC the gym, and it in assists with 785 as shows by how skillshe has helped the ful and technically Lady Vols to a sound she is, comleague-best 1,176 ing in as just a freshkills. man.” Pollmiller has also Prior to the seabeen responsible for son, Patrick offered setting the majority this assessment of of sophomore outthe setter position. side hitter Kelsey “Mary Pollmiller Robinson’s conferis really going to ence-leading 375 help us improve in kills. what might have This on-court been our weakest chemistry that has area last season propelled the No. 20 because of youth Lady Vols to an 18-3 and inexperience. (11-1 SEC) record “She also can Joy Hill• The Daily Beacon extends to off-court attack the ball,” situations as well. Patrick said. “She Mary Pollmiller prepares to set the ball “We have a bunch has a pretty good against Auburn on Sept. 18. The freshman of jokers, but Kelsey block at the net, and has 785 assists this season and has helped Robinson usually she plays tremen- outside hitter Kelsey Robinson with her 375 starts it,” Pollmiller dous defense. She kills. said. “We give her provides with some grief about anything things at the right back position, which we we can. She can take it and it’s always funny.” haven’t had here in a couple of years.” In addition to unity on the team, Pollmiller Pollmiller has been all that and more for the believes the sense of community inside Lady Vols this season. Thompson-Boling Arena during home matches Madeline Brown• The Daily Beacon Despite a strong connection to her family, the plays a positive role during close matches. Smokey runs through the “T” before the game against LSU on Oct. 15. Before every Littleton, Co., native found the decision to play “(The fan support) means a whole lot,” home game the Pride of the Southland Marching Band forms a “T” on the field and SEC volleyball an easy one. Pollmiller said. “They’ve helped us win a couple the football team, cheerleaders, dance team and Smokey run through to celebrate “I didn’t want to stay that close to home,” of matches this year already. We know that they the beginning of the game. Pollmiller said. “I always said if there was a school are there supporting us, and it helps us a ton.”

Munchak to stick to guns after loss The Associated Press NASHVILLE — Mike Munchak is sticking both with his approach and his Tennessee Titans right now despite two ugly losses and a run game that remains the worst in the NFL. The Titans (3-3) turned in the most lopsided home loss since moving into LP Field in 1999 with a 41-7 loss to the Houston Texans on Sunday, and they were outplayed in every category. The Titans have been outscored 79-24 in the losses, and losing to Houston cost them the lead in the AFC South. Munchak understands people want change or something to blame, but Monday he said it’s not time to panic. He doesn’t see any personnel changes yet because the Titans have been productive throwing the ball and on defense with the exception of the past two games. “You have to have confidence in what you’re doing,” Munchak said. “If you show you’re going to change things every time you have a bad day, you have to be smart about it. But it’s just one of those things ... That’s why we feel good about what we’re doing. We don’t feel good about how things transpired yesterday, but we still feel good about how we’re teaching things, how we’re doing things.” The schedule offers a good chance to snap this skid. Indianapolis (0-7) visits this weekend. But the run game has been a problem all season

and remains the worst in the NFL, averaging 64.3 yards per game. Against the Texans, the Titans also couldn’t catch in racking a season-low 148 yards in total offense. Matt Hasselbeck turned in his worst game in Tennessee as well, throwing 14 of 30 for 104 yards and a passer rating of 38.8 due to two interceptions. Munchak defended the quarterback, saying the veteran can’t be expected to be perfect for 16 games. The coach was asked about changing out left guard Leroy Harris and playing backup Fernando Velasco to help the running game. Munchak said this isn’t the point of the season to make changes in an offensive line that is in its second season together. Munchak, the Hall of Fame offensive lineman and former offensive line assistant coach, defended the line for its strong pass protection this season. “Two weeks ago, we’re 3-1 thinking we're a pretty good football team,” Munchak said. “I know we’re struggling with the run game most of the season other than maybe one game. We’re not running it the way we’d like to, but when you change the offensive line it can’t be a one-week thought. ... You may mess up more things.” Johnson had only 10 carries in the loss to Houston for 18 yards, and the running back who sat out the preseason to get a $53 million contract extension said after the game he’s confident he’s doing what he’s supposed to do.