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Take Back the Night to empower victims Events hosted by Women’s Coordinating Council to include silent march, testimonies red, orange and pink represent survivors of rape and sexual assault; yellow and beige represent battered or assaulted women; blue and green represent survivors of incest and sexual abuse; purple represents women attacked because of their sexual orientation; and black represents women attacked for political reasons. Katherine Henry, sophomore in public relations and cocoordinator of Take Back the Night, said this night symbolizes a lot, and it’s very meaningful for victims.

affected by it, but not everyone speaks.” Henry said this night is full of emotions, and WCC is Donesha Aldridge prepared to help those in need. Staff Writer “We do have two counselors there so they (victims and supporters) can come and talk to them right away if it Many students and members of the community will becomes overbearing,” she said. gather Thursday to support victims and give testimonials Henry said groups such as Safe Haven will also be presabout sexual abuse in the annual Take Back the Night proent at the event with informational tables set up. She said gram. the goal of the program is to help as many people as posA series of events sponsored by the sible. Women’s Coordinating Council will start “Even if victims who haven’t voiced their at 6:30 p.m. A silent march in honor of abuse don’t want to speak up about it in victims will first take place starting at front of everyone, at least they can talk to the Pedestrian Mall and ending at the counselors or the groups that will be there UC. to help,” Henry said. After the march, the women of WCC Camille Smith, senior in journalism and will host a Speak Out in the UC electronic media and the media relations Ballroom at 7:45 p.m. Two speakers are chair of WCC, said Take Back The Night scheduled to speak: UTPD’s Meshia sometimes gives girls the courage they Thomas and Desiree Bowers, a victim of never had before to speak out about their sexual violence. harassment or abuse. Once Thomas and Bowers finish their “Sometimes girls go to the mic that have speeches, the floor will be open to give never told anyone publically before,” Smith those attending a chance to tell their stosaid. “It’s important, because a lot of girls ries or the stories of victims they know. are sexually harassed and you will never After the Speak Out is complete, a know. There are so many statistics, but it’s candlelight vigil will take place outside different when you are the statistic and the UC. Attendees will release white balwhen it happens to you.” loons in honor of those lost. File Photo • The Daily Beacon Smith said this event is not for women Besides Thursday’s events, the WCC Students participate in a march during last year’s Take Back the Night, an annual pro- only. has had ongoing projects throughout the gram sponsored by the Women’s Coordinating Council. This year’s event begins Oct. “The number of men being raped is low, week to support abuse victims. 27 at 6:30 p.m. with a silent march. Afterward, a Speak Out in the UC Ballroom will but it’s so important for men who have been The clothes line project started take place. abused to attend, because it can help them Tuesday. Anyone can stop by WCC’s become comfortable,” Smith said. “It’s table and anonymously write their testimony on a T-shirt. “I think that it’s very informational, and it’s a big important, because they should not feel strange about it. All the shirts are hung on a clothesline to be displayed. reminder to everyone how many people are affected,” she That’s the whole purpose of the Speak Out so that voices Each shirt represents a different statistic about women: said. “Almost everyone knows someone who has been can be heard and to put a stop to the violence.” White represents women who died from sexual violence;

Teach for America offers experience Program gives new graduates teaching experience with pay, benefits Kristian Smith Student Life Editor UT students still unsure about their plans after graduation have the chance to join a program that, while a paying job, also gives back to the community. Teach for America, now in its 20th year, is a national program that places college graduates in schools in low-income communities as teachers. Corps members, as Teach for America students are called, serve for two years as a teacher. They are hired by a school system, so they receive full pay and benefits, as well as $10,700 to go toward paying off student loans or furthering their education. Jodi Brown, UT campus representative for Teach for America and senior in anthropology, said this program has benefits for everyone involved. “You are working to better the education system, and you are building a foundation for your career,” she said. The application process has three parts: an online application, a telephone interview and a face-to-face interview. This semester’s deadline for the initial application is today. Brown said the online application consists of a 500-word personal statement, posting a resume and basic information. Students accepted after the online application will have a telephone interview some time between Nov. 6 and 9, and Brown said students could have their face-to-face interview before the end of this semester. She said students would know if they had been accepted into the program by January, and they would also know the area where they would be placed. Then, accepted applicants have two weeks to make their decision. All applicants must have at least a 2.5 GPA, and Brown said it seems that the interviewers look for academic achievement, volunteer work and leadership positions when choosing corps members. Brown said students can be placed in 39 different regions around the country, but some choice is involved. “You list where you would highly prefer to be, would prefer to be and where you do not think

you would be very successful,” she said. “They try to place you somewhere you would like to go, and as long as you are somewhat flexible, you will usually get to go somewhere you prefer.” Brown said corps members can also preference the specific grades and subject areas they would feel the most comfortable teaching. She said members can teach K-12, preschool (also called early childhood education), special education and ESL. Brown said that since 97 percent of Teach for America corps members are not education majors, members complete a five-week training course in the summer before they begin their service. “During the training, you meet the other people who will be teaching in your region, and you teach summer school for five weeks,” she said. “You have an intensive training and strong support group.” Kelsey Anito, campus representative for Teach for America, said that students do not have to • Photo courtesy of Kelsey Anito want to pursue a career in education to be a part of Teach for America. “I don’t want to be a teacher, but Teach for America was listed as one of the top-10 places to start a career,” she said. “Teach for America really wants to connect people and get them plugged into the system.” Anito said working for Teach for America is a good way to start any career. “Even if you don’t know what you want to do, it’s a job, and you will have professional job experience for any career you want to pursue,” she said. Brown said she was also drawn to the program because of the career benefits. She also said Teach for America service corps members have the opportunity to make an impact on the U.S. education system. “In our education system, a lot of kids’ zip codes still determine how successful they will be, but if these (less fortunate) kids have the chance, they can be successful,” she said. “You can be part of a fundamental change in the education system.” Brown said she encourages students who are still unsure about their career path to apply for Teach for America or learn more about it. To fill out an application or to learn more about the program, visit www.teachforamerica.org.

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A student talks to a job representative at the Communication and Information Job Fair last year. This year’s fair will be held today from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. in the UC Ballroom. The employers will be representing TV and radio stations and other companies looking for the College of Communication and Information students. To view a list of employers attending, visit http://utk-csm.symplicity.com/events/.

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Dr. Elliott Gorn, professor of History and American Civilization at Brown University, talks to professor Lynn Sacco before his lecture Monday, Oct. 25. Gorn discussed how John Dillinger’s story of an American bank robber relates to American history and American identity. copies of their resume and dress professionally.

Crime Log Oct. 21 Around 12:51 a.m., an officer stopped a blue 2011 Ford Explorer traveling westbound on White Avenue, an eastbound-only street. The driver, a UT student, was arrested for DUI first offense. Two other UT students and an unaffiliated young woman were passengers. A UT student reported incidents of harassment and fraud spanning from Oct. 4 to Oct. 21. The reported suspect is a 44-year-old woman, unaffiliated with UT.

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stolen from her silver Volvo while it was parked on the third level of the G7 parking garage between 7 p.m. on Oct. 17 and 4:15 p.m. on Oct. 21. Oct. 22 A UT student reported that some of his possessions were stolen from the clothes drawer in his dorm room in Clement Hall. The victim stated that the theft occurred sometime between 2 a.m. and 11 a.m., and the suspect was allegedly the victim’s roommate. — Compiled by Robbie Hargett.

A UT student reported that some items were Compiled from a media log provided to the Daily Beacon by the Universty of Tennessee Police Department. All persons arrested are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. People with names similar or identical to those listed may not be those identified in reports.

Career Services to host Communication and Information Job Fair Career Services will host its annual Communication and Information Job Fair Wednesday from 2 to 6 p.m. in the UC Ballroom. This is the largest Communication and Information fair to date, with 43 registered employers. A full list of employers and positions available can be found on Career Services Hire-a-Vol website or at https://utkcsm.symplicity.com/events/students.php?mod e=list&cf=2010CCIfair. Students attending should bring multiple

Businessman and philanthropist Randy Boyd, founder and president/CEO of Radio Systems of Knoxville, will lead a presentation at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday in the Toyota Auditorium of the Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy at UT about education, community and philanthropy. This event is free and open to the public. Boyd will be joined by Dane Bradshaw, former UT basketball player; UT Professor Bob Kronick; Bob Rider, dean of the College of Education, Health and Human Sciences; and Elizabeth Williams, a UT undergraduate majoring in the College Scholars Program who will talk about service learning work she’s See BEACON BITS on Page 3

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BEACON BITS continued from Page 2 done. Boyd recently gave $323,850 to UT’s College of Education, Health and Human Sciences to further Kronick’s work with the University-Assisted Community Schools Project. Pond Gap Elementary School is the focus of this project for the coming academic year. Through this project, Pond Gap’s mission is being broadened to provide health, mental health and other services for students and families. The goal is that the school provides some basic care — providing meals, doing laundry, etc. — that families, for various reasons, are unable to provide for their children. Among the long-term goals of fullservice schools: preventing crime, mental illness and poverty. The presentation will describe how Pond Gap’s project works and challenge the community to develop other projects like it. This lecture is sponsored by University-Assisted Community Schools, the UT College of Education, Health and Human Sciences and the United Way of Greater Knoxville. For more information about UT’s work with this project, contact Kronick at rkronick@utk.edu or 865-974-8799. UT College of Law to host Order of Protection Day The Fourth Circuit Court for Knox County will hold Order of Protection Day, an effort to raise awareness about domestic violence, on Thursday at the UT College of Law. Judge Bill Swann and two Special Masters will hear matters involving the granting of civil protection orders as well as contempt proceedings. The hearings will be held from 9 a.m. - 4:30 p.m., in rooms 132, 135 and 136 on the first floor of the law building. Numerous community programs and organizations that deal with domestic violence issues will have informational booths in the hallways. Prior to the court hearings, Judge Swann will present a lecture on domestic violence and orders of protection at 8 a.m. in room 132. All events will be open to the public. This is the seventh consecutive year the College of Law has hosted Order of Protection Day. Author Dana Wildsmith to read at Hodges Library Award-winning Georgia writer Dana Wildsmith will continue this year's series of authors reading from their works in Hodges Library. Wildsmith will read from her poems and essays at the university's Writers in the Library event, 7 p.m. Monday, Nov. 1, in the library auditorium. The event is free and open to the public. Wildsmith is the author of four books of poems and one book of nonfiction. Her most recent collection of poetry, “One Good Hand”, was a SIBA Poetry Book of the Year nominee. Her nonfiction work, “Back to Abnormal: Surviving With An Old

NEWS Farm In the New South”, references her life on a 150-year-old farm outside Bethlehem, Ga., and her discomfort with encroaching urban sprawl. Having lived a nomadic life as the daughter of a Methodist minister and, later, the wife of a Navy man, Wildsmith now relishes the natural surroundings on the farmland purchased by her parents upon her father's retirement, and even the relative austerity of her chosen lifestyle. Wildsmith has served as artist-in-residence at Devil’s Tower National Monument in Wyoming, Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona and the Island Institute in Sitka, Alaska, and has been a poetry fellow with the South Carolina Academy of Authors. She has taught writing workshops throughout the Southeast, and currently teaches English as a Second Language to adults of many nationalities through the Adult Education Program of Lanier Technical College in Oakwood, Ga. For more information, visit http://www.danawildsmith.com/. Wildsmith’s reading is sponsored by the UT Knoxville Department of English and the UT Libraries. Executive-level MBA programs ranks among world’s best UT’s executive-level MBA programs for working professionals rank among the world’s best, according to Financial Times’ newly released 2010 international rankings. Only 100 of the more than 700 U.S. and international executive MBA programs were included in the 2010 rankings. In determining rankings, Financial Times evaluates factors such as graduates’ salary increases and career progress, student aims achieved, international course experience and faculty diversity. The five executive-level MBA programs offered at UT Knoxville include three one-year programs (aerospace and defense MBA, executive MBA, and physician executive MBA); one 16-month weekend program (professional MBA); and one 16-month modular format program (global supply chain executive MBA) to be offered in 2012. UT’s executive-level MBA programs for working professionals are not alone in garnering impressive rankings for the college. The College of Business Administration’s undergraduate business curriculum, full-time MBA program, Physician Executive MBA and supply chain/logistics curriculum are also ranked by organizations and in publications such as U.S. News & World Report, The Princeton Review, Modern Healthcare, EdUniversal, The Journal of Business Logistics, AMR Research, Supply Chain Management Review and Forbes. Financial Times is a well-respected international business publication whose annual ranking has become highly anticipated. Its tenth annual ranking of executive MBA programs affirms the rapid rise of executive MBA courses being offered, with a new emphasis on global programs. Professor finds economic inequality self-reinforcing When the gap between the haves and have-nots

gets larger, one would think the have-nots would want more help, most likely in the form of government programs, to fight rising inequities. Not so, says Nate Kelly, assistant professor of political science at UT. Kelly, along with Peter Enns of Cornell University, conducted a study analyzing economic inequality and public opinion toward government intervention. The study has been published in the October edition of the American Journal of Political Science and can be viewed by visiting http://web.utk.edu/~nkelly/papers/inequality/Kelly Enns_preprint.pdf (PDF). What he found defies expectations. As the rich become richer and the poor become poorer, both sides reduce their support for government programs such as welfare. This desire only increases as the economic gap widens. Therefore, inequality is a self-perpetuating phenomenon. The researchers came to this conclusion by analyzing hundreds of thousands of responses to survey questions from 1952 to 2006. This isn’t because the poor do not know their financial situation. In fact, the authors found that the poor were more acutely aware of wealth differences than the rich to the point of overstatement. Instead, the authors speculate that elites such as political leaders play a large role in distracting and shaping public opinion about issues such as welfare. The authors also believe the media may be a key factor in how government programs are framed in

The Daily Beacon • 3 the public eye. For instance, in good economic times the media focus on individual achievement, which may influence the poor to oppose government programs. During bad economic times, the media focuses on people being down on their luck and the government helping them. Kelly is currently working to determine the causes of his surprising finding. He hopes his next discovery may help halt the seemingly inexorable rise in inequality. Investment center named to honor Mike Masters The College of Business Administration at UT has honored alumnus Mike Masters, founder of Masters Capital Management, with the naming of the Masters Investment Learning Center. The center promotes interactive education utilizing cutting-edge technology that includes 12 Bloomberg terminals. Additionally, the Masters Investment Learning Center forges partnerships that enhance financial literacy among the university, the college, our students and the business community. Masters has a rich history with the university. Graduating from the college in 1989 with a major in finance, Masters was captain of the men’s swim team and received All-American honors for four consecutive years. He has been a passionate advocate of financial reform in the public interest.

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Editor’s Note DiPietro places focus on student needs Zac Ellis Editor-in-Chief Joe DiPietro sat in his Morgan Hall office last Friday morning patiently awaiting arguably the most important announcement of his career. As the UT Board of Trustees deliberated between selecting DiPietro, chancellor of the UT Institute of Agriculture, or Brian Noland, chancellor of the West Virginia Higher Education Policy Commission, as the 24th system president of the University of Tennessee, DiPietro watched the webcast of the board meeting with little to do but wait. But in a move that would appear bothersome to anyone else, a student in animal sciences stopped by DiPietro’s doorway asking for a minute of the veterinarian’s time. And even while awaiting his eventual selection as UT system president — the sought-after position which had enveloped his last few weeks — DiPietro did what every collegiate instructor should do: offered his help. “I talked to him for about 25 or 30 minutes,” DiPietro said at his Friday afternoon introductory press conference. “I even turned the board meeting off.” That’s our new system president talking. And, for the time being, this president appears to have his eye on student needs. When DiPietro took the stage in UT’s Hollingsworth Auditorium on Friday afternoon, the man behind the microphone appeared unfamiliar with the spotlight. His newfound position had yet to reach DiPietro’s head — if it even has yet — as the soft-spoken president-elect fielded questions from media members who would soon call him the new UT system president. DiPietro ruffled through question after question about his new position, displaying the evident energy and experience the UT trustees likely saw in their selection. But the most impressive part of DiPietro’s spiel — at least from a student perspective — was a statement that sparked laughter from the gathered trustees, donors and faculty in attendance. When asked about his plans to make UT more accessible to students, DiPietro wasn’t shy in admitting he’d already given the issue some thought. “One thing I’ve contemplated doing is to hold office hours for students,” a straight-faced DiPietro said. “I don’t know how frequently I could do that, perhaps (interim) President (Jan) Simek could help me understand that. But I do have an open-door policy.” The resulting eye-roll from Simek told DiPietro all he needed to know: Are you serious? But that’s exactly how DiPietro presented himself: an honest, sincere administrator with goals that don’t stop short of the classroom; a system president with no intentions — however premature that may be — of staying farther than arms length from student issues. “I think the key to this is, we’re an educational place,” DiPietro said. “That passion that goes on in the classroom educating young people and getting them through a college experience helps me be very aware of who they are and what they’re about.” In an institution where the “Big Orange Screw” can leave students feeling helpless in the wake of lackluster UT support, complaints range from poor advising to the ever-present parking issue. It’s enough to make young whippersnappers at UT feel like nothing more than a student ID number and a blank check. But the notion that the university’s newest leader — without even officially taking office — actually suggested student office hours shows how DiPietro’s priorities lie within the student population on campus, not just high up in Neyland Stadium’s presidential skybox. In reality, the president of a major land-grant institution would be hard-pressed to squeeze in oneon-one time with students on campus, but that’s not the point; the point is DiPietro has proven his intentions to thousands at UT hoping to someday hold a degree. And while many students often wonder where their voice is heard among campus bigwigs, it’s refreshing to know that, thanks to our incoming president, students might have that voice — straight at the top. —Zac Ellis is a senior in journalism and electronic media. He can be reached at rellis13@utk.edu. THE DAILY BACON • Blake Tredway

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Citizens’ civic duties extend to local voting Off the Deep End by

Derek Mullins As I readied myself for the festivities of the weekend, a thought crossed my mind: “Oh, crap! I still haven’t voted!” Unlike some politically active upperclassman, an undoubtedly sizable proportion of the rest of the student body and most of this university’s faculty and staff, I am not registered to vote in Knox County. Instead of succumbing to the poking, prodding and pleading of many groups on and around campus in the prelude to the 2008 election, I refrained from registering to vote here, preferring to remain registered in my native Sullivan County, since I still consider that to be my home and because I care more for its well-being than I do for that of this city and county (sorry, Knoxvillians). With that fact in mind, I had to journey home, driving an hour and a half back to Kingsport in order to cast my ballot as part of the early voting process, seeing as I wouldn’t be unable to make it back home on Election Day next Tuesday. When I arrived home around 4 p.m. on Friday, I hastily grabbed my voter’s registration card, woke my mother from her postworkday nap and headed out the door to go to the Kingsport Civic Auditorium. Along the way, my mom inquired as to where the sense of urgency to cast my vote was coming from, seeing as there was no presidential or senatorial contest at stake this year. For the most part, I simply shrugged it off, said something along the lines of “I’m just doing my civic duty,” and kept on driving. As we pulled into the parking lot, we noticed that there were, as usual, tents and stations set up for the various candidates for local and state offices. As we visited with Nathan Vaughn, the Democratic candidate for state representative of my district, he and his wife, after getting over the fact that I was of voting age despite my “16-year-old” look, marveled at the fact that I was taking the time to participate in a mostly quiet election year. After assuring them that they had our support, we moved into the building, signed the necessary

paperwork and stood in line to cast our votes. Moving from one paperwork processing station to another, each 60-year-old-and-over volunteer, after asking me if this was my first election and, upon hearing that it wasn’t and noting my teenage appearance despite my 21-year-old age, stated their astonishment that I, unlike an apparent majority of my generation, was taking the time to vote. After casting our ballots, we got back in the car and headed for a restaurant to grab some grub before going to watch the Sullivan South Rebels soundly defeat the David Crockett Pioneers. Along the way, though, another thought occurred to me: “Is my generation really that unreliable when it comes to voting in election years such as this?” Apparently the answer to that question is yes, but it isn’t just true of my age group. Instead, statistics show that most voters, apart from older, retired citizens who have nothing else to do but play shuffleboard all day, stay home when there is no presidential race or senate seat up for grabs. This, to me, is counterintuitive. Sure, election years like this one lack the glitz, glamour and contention of others. For the most part, I would be willing to bet that every Tennesseean’s ballot looked much like mine: governor, state representative, congressman and a constitutional amendment securing the right to hunt and fish (really?). While none of these races may seem to have seismic political consequences, the exact opposite is true. Races for governor, state representative, state senator, etc., should carry just as much weight as elections for federal office, if not more, because of the direct impact those offices have on our daily lives. Laws passed by Congress and signed into law by the president may take years to fully come into effect, but laws, ordinances and budgetary measures passed by members of the state legislature and signed into law by the governor can have almost immediate effects on every one of us. Don’t believe me? Check out your tuition bill next semester. The increase in tuition rates, amongst other notable examples, is a direct impact of the actions of state government. Whether you are a Republican, Democrat, Independent, or, hell, even a member of the The Rent is Too Darn High Party, I implore you to do everything in your power to vote this year. It may not seem important, but you’ll surely feel the effects. —Derek Mullins is a senior in political science. He can be reached at dmullin5@utk.edu.

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At different times in American history, the major political parties have realigned themselves. The Democrats changed from Jacksonian to New Dealers. The Republicans went from libertarians to merging with social conservatives during the late 1960s. It is time for the Republican Party to reinvent itself; it is time to create a post-modern conservatism that adheres to its roots. I write this because I want Republicans to reject the anti-poor, corporate-crony libertarianism and instead want them to adhere to a real capitalism where the American dream can actually happen. They need to adhere to tradition and religion because they are important for social order. Finally, the Republicans need to change their interventionist outlook where there is moral realism. Fiscal and monetary policies of Republicans need to help everyone involved, the employer and the employee. The party should adamantly reject the collectivism of liberalism, but they should also reject the radical individualism of libertarianism. Policies need to help the individual and the community. This means that they should support streamlining taxes for a flat tax on personal income and business profits, keeping taxes as low as possible but still providing for government funding. Republicans talk about reducing waste, fraud and abuse, but it is time to get serious about that. We should support a balanced budget amendment to keep spending under control, and we should cut programs that do not work, which includes social spending, corporate welfare and defense spending. In addition, the party needs to start supporting policies that help the workers. The Republicans need to consider policies on the living wage, energy production, social security, health care policies, etc., that help the community and businesses. Republicans need to leave crony capitalism that fails to help workers; they need to put capitalism straight, where if one works hard then they can get ahead. They should stand for the American dream. Concerning social policy, the Republicans should remain traditional, but they should stop being intolerant. Republicans must stay pro-life and pro-family, but what

does that mean in today’s society? Historically, the Republican Party has used pro-life rhetoric to get elected, and yet they have done nothing to stop the slaughter. They should start appointing judges that will overturn Roe v. Wade and/or Casey v. Planned Parenthood. In addition, they need to push through Congress legislation that limits abortion as much as possible. The pro-family agenda does not necessarily have to happen on the national level; however, Republicans need to stop being hypocrites and protect the family. Gay marriage is not actually the greatest threat to traditional marriage. Adultery, pornography and poverty threaten the family more. Leaders need to recognize this, and they need to promote real family-friendly policies. Of course, they should still support gun rights as well, but there is one social area that the Republicans need to change immediately. That is immigration. I could argue here that America is a place for everyone, and we should help the disadvantaged. But this argument has not worked in the past. Instead, think how Hispanics would make excellent Republicans. They are hard-working and pro-family. Republicans need to accept immigration as good for the country and good for the party. Finally, on foreign policy, the Republicans need to find a balance between the neoconservative interventionism and amoral realism. Leaders should promote democracy, capitalism and freedom abroad like the neoconservatives want. However, this does not mean military intervention at every turn. I submit to the reader that they incorporate the Just War doctrine as America’s defining foreign policy dogma. Diplomacy and international aid (soft power) will be the cornerstone of American foreign policy. We should talk with any state while promoting the aforementioned values. Yet, when diplomacy fails, Republicans should turn to their hawkish nature and eliminate anyone that threatens America or her allies. They should still support American hegemony and dominance in the world, but foreign policy should change to a moral, pro-freedom realism. It is important to have the debate on the future of the Republican Party and American conservatism. Groups like the “Tea Party” prefer a libertarian party, but I reject that notion. I want a party similar to what Teddy Roosevelt envisioned, one that is truly capitalist and conservative, but one that promotes the community and the family. I know there are those that completely disagree with me, and they would abhor the party in which I believe. But I care about America’s future, and the best way for her to remain in prosperity is for my party to change. —Treston Wheat is a senior in political science and history. He can be reached at twheat@utk.edu.

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Cellist’s focus on protecting Appalachians removal (MTR). MTR is a process through which coal is collected by removing the softer soil on top of mountain ranges. For years, the controversial topic has been linked to serious environmental problems and usually leaves physical devastation in its wake. “I have a lot of family down in that part of the country … and I feel kind of close to it,” Sollee said. “It was just something that I was concerned about in my personal life, and it came out in my music.” While standing up for such a cause may seem daunting to some musi-

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Although some of the music world may be about money and glamour, some musicians use their talent to bring awareness to important issues seen around them. Kentucky native Ben Sollee is one artist who is trying to use what fame he has built up for himself to protect the area he has always called home. “There is a little bit of music in the family,” Sollee said. “I picked up the cello at public schools and … I guess I got better at it as t i m e w e n t along.” With a less m a i n stream instrument like the cello, it’s a little bit harder – Ben Sollee, on finding his talent on the cello for a musician to build a fanbase. For Sollee, it’s all cians, Sollee has been known to undertake diffiabout perspective. “We haven’t really tried cult tasks just for the sake to market (the music) in of doing them. This fall, the musician any unique way but just put the music out there,” has been traveling across Sollee said. “That’s pretty the country to share his much all you can do with- music with listeners, on his out compromising some- bicycle. Pedaling with instruments and equipthing about it.” Growing up around the ment strapped on, Sollee Appalachian Mountains, has played in venues from Sollee has grown very fond California to Delaware. “The point was certainof his home state’s geography. One way that he hopes ly not to be green,” he said. to help preserve the beauty “… But we tried to be a litof the area is by speaking tle bit more involved in the out against mountaintop communities that we were riding through.”

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In order to help protect the Appalachians, the artist decided to collaborate with fellow musicians Jim James of My Morning Jacket and singer/songwriter Daniel Martin Moore. Proceeds from Moore and Sollee’s album “Dear Companion,” produced by James, will go to benefit Appalachian Voices, an “environmental nonprofit committed to protecting the land, air and water of the central and southern Appalachian region.” “(Daniel and I) both bring very different skills to the table, and we just kind of sat down and wrote it,” Sollee said. “It felt like we were on a mission when we were writing together.” From his experiences, t h e musician hopes that a conversation on mountain top removal will be brought into the mainstream. “I feel like music has the ability to be a catalyst for conversation and find its way into people’s lives,” Sollee said. Moore and Sollee will bring their music and message Wednesday, when they play at Clarence Brown Theatre. The event is scheduled to begin at 7:30 p.m. and is $5 for UT students, $20 for faculty and $25 for the general public.

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Wednesday, October 27, 2010

ENTERTAINMENT

Pinch — “Qawwali/Brighter Day”

Ashley Bowen• The Daily Beacon

An audience listens closely to a presentation by Ike Pigott covering the importance of social medai in communication plans for buisnesses. The event was sponsored by the Volunteer Chapter of the Public Relations Student Society of America. Pigott worked for 16 years in television and has won an Emmy.

The label Multiverse Music recently released “Dark Matter: Multiverse, 20042009” as an overview of recordings done in the Bristol studio during the referenced time. From this album comes the aesthetically active “Qawwali/Brighter Day.” With its lush atmospherics, the track serves as a gentle reminder of how tastefully artistic ambient dub-step is and of how it doesn’t take a wobble beefed up to nuclear proportions to adequately fill a room with sound. To those of you who actually think Bassnectar is legitimate dub-step — I’ll pause here for the laughter to die down — notice the quality of blending and the organic texture each electronic bass burp holds, making for a completed sound rather than a half-baked punch in the face. • Photo courtesy of The Pinch

Altar Eagle — “You Lost Your Neon Haze” As head of the extremely productive Digitalis Industries, Brad Rose and Eden Hemming Rose, the husband and wife duo behind Altar Eagle, know their experimental music. Apart from working with their respected website FoxyDigitalis.com and their two record labels, the couple has come out with quite a bit of music and good music at that. “You Lost Your Neon Haze” isn’t particularly groundbreaking, but it’s definitely something to hear. The track maintains a slightly off-center approach, which sounds like an impressionist version of Dan Deacon at his most toned down and reflective moments, and upon closer listening, it becomes rather enveloping. • Photo courtesy of Altar Eagle

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Wednesday, October 27, 2010

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‘Phantom’ fights to keep theatre residence Associated Press ATLANTA — Behind the faux Moorish splendor of Atlanta’s historic Fox Theatre lives the “Phantom of the Fox” — a beloved local figure who twice helped save the landmark from destruction and now is battling to stay in the place where he has lived for more than 30 years. Joe Patten, 83, occupies a spacious dwelling nestled beneath the theater's onion-shaped dome. His original lease, drawn up in the 1970s after he helped save the Fox from the wrecking ball, said he could live there for life. Earlier this month his lawyer sued the nonprofit organization that runs the Fox, saying the trustees of Atlanta Landmarks are trying to unfairly evict Patten. The conflict has struck a nerve in Atlanta, where Patten has long been treasured by supporters of the Fox. “This is my home,” Patten said in a recent interview with The Associated Press. “I would love to live here until my dying day and that’s it.” There are websites devoted to his cause. His supporters can frequently be seen parading in front of the Fox, urging people to boycott the venue until the trustees agree to reinstate Patten's original lease “He just evokes the spirit of the past that you can’t find,” said Gordon Dyker, who waved a sign and urged passers-by to support Patten before a recent show. “He’s priceless and there’s so many people that love what he’s done for the city, and he’s actually become our friend, and we want to take care of him as best we can.” The board of trustees voted to end Patten’s lease Aug. 30, just over two weeks after he returned home from a short stint in the hospital and a rehabilitation facility following a stroke in mid-July. The lawsuit claims that before the vote, while Patten was still recuperating, members of the board repeatedly visited and told him he couldn’t return. The Fox said in a statement that the board has tried for nearly two months “to engage Mr. Patten and his attorney in an effort to negotiate a new agreement which would permit him to continue to live at the Fox Theatre. Unfortunately neither Mr. Patten nor his attorney has accepted any of our efforts in this regard.” Patten has declined to sign the new agreement — which can be terminated at any time without cause on 60 days notice — saying he wants to be allowed to stay in his apartment under the original conditions. Built in the late 1920s as a Shriners mosque, the Fox is lavishly decorated with minarets, arched doorways and terrazzo flooring. The auditorium, which has hosted countless movies, concerts and plays over the years, evokes the feel of an ancient Arabian courtyard, the ceiling painted a deep blue with small twinkling lights that mimic stars. When the Fox was threatened with demolition in the 1970s, Patten sprang to its defense. He is a founding trustee of Atlanta Landmarks, created to raise money to save the Fox. Patten and his fellow activists succeeded and, in 1979, the board of trustees asked Patten to convert some unused office space into an apartment and live there as a caretaker, the lawsuit says. Under the terms of the 1979 lease, Patten agreed to spend at least $50,000 to renovate and convert a rundown office space in the theater into an apartment where he would live. The renovation costs would be considered his rent for the term of the lease, which was set to expire after his death. Shortly after he moved in, Patten became the theater’s technical director, a position he held until he retired in 2001. Patten said he became interested in theaters and pipe organs as a child in Lakeland, Fla.

A pipe organ turned out to be his entry into the Fox. Enchanted by the theater when he first visited in 1946, he was disappointed its great pipe organ, known as “Mighty Mo,” wasn’t working. In 1963, after Patten had moved to Atlanta, he and a small group of friends persuaded the theater’s general manager to let them restore it. “From that point on, I’ve had a very, very close relationship to the Fox Theatre here in Atlanta,” Patten said. “It was my intent to get everything in this theater working as it was originally designed to.” He came to know the place so well that it sometimes seemed to people he would exit one door only to reappear right away in an entirely different location — earning him the affectionate nickname “Phantom of the Fox.” From a door in his bedroom, Patten can enter a passageway and go up some stairs to a former spotlight platform that has served as his own personal box to see shows over the years. His knowledge of the theater helped Patten save the Fox a second time when a fire started in the early morning hours of April 15, 1996. “One of the reasons he was so valuable to the saving of the Fox is because he knows this building better than any human being,” said Bob Foreman, a longtime Fox supporter and a friend of Patten. Foreman said Patten helped firefighters pinpoint the fire’s location and get there quickly. Atlanta Landmarks has said the Fox is not an appropriate setting for round-the-clock care or assisted living. Patten now hunches over when he walks but he still manages to climb the 70-plus stairs in his three-story apartment, decorated with family heirlooms and other pieces he has acquired. With his original lease terminated, Patten is required to leave by Dec. 1 unless he reaches a new agreement with Atlanta Landmarks. The lawsuit seeks an injunction to keep Patten from having to vacate, plus punitive and compensatory damages and a jury trial. Patten’s lawyer, Emmet Bondurant, claims in the lawsuit that Atlanta Landmarks is discriminating against Patten based on physical limitations, a violation of the Georgia Fair Housing Act. Under the 1979 agreement, Atlanta Landmarks retained the

right to terminate the lease if Patten became “totally and permanently disabled” and if a panel of three doctors determined that it would be in his best interest to be hospitalized or placed in a nursing home. The original lease also says the board of trustees may terminate the lease if two-thirds of its members voted that it would be in Atlanta Landmarks’ best interest to end it. On Sept. 2, Atlanta Landmarks proposed a new agreement that would allow Patten to continue to live in his apartment “only on the condition that he agree to a series of restrictions tailored to make it impossible for a disabled person to live in the Residence,” the lawsuit says. Bondurant filed the lawsuit on Oct. 4. A hearing is set for today.

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Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Titans lighting up scoreboard despite injured quarterbacks Associated Press

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Freshman Jordan McRae practices on Oct. 15. McRae recently regained eligibility after an NCAA investigation with the men’s basketball program where he attended a cookout with Bruce Pearl during his junior year of high school.

Vince Young has missed most of two games with a sprained left knee and ankle, yet the Titans keep scoring. Backup quarterback Kerry Collins has a torn tendon in a finger on his throwing hand. And the Titans keep scoring. Tennessee now ranks second in the NFL, averaging 28.4 points per game. The Titans improved to 5-2 with their third straight win by scoring a franchise-record 27 points in the fourth quarter to beat Philadelphia 37-19 on Sunday. Now even the defense is getting into the act as cornerback Cortland Finnegan polished off the win running back an interception for a touchdown. The latest win has the Titans alone atop the AFC South for now with Indianapolis and Houston, both 4-2, coming off bye weeks. And they're sounding greedy. Coach Jeff Fisher said he's almost disappointed in the production because he wants more. "I think we can play better in all three areas," Fisher said Monday. The Titans have won four of their games scoring at least 30 points and put up 29 in another win at the Giants. Mix that with the defense limiting opponents to 16.7 points per game — third stingiest in the NFL — and it keeps adding up to big wins for a team that feels like it still has plenty of room for improvement. "We're just coming into our own now," fullback Ahmard Hall said after the latest win. "Hopefully, we can keep it going week in and week out." Whether the Titans have Young back Sunday when they visit San Diego (2-5) remains to be seen. Fisher said he's optimistic Young could play even as the quarterback remains day to day. Tennessee has its bye Nov. 7, so Young would have three full weeks to recover before preparing to visit Miami on Nov. 14. "Vince is most effective when he has his legs underneath him, not just as a runner, but as a passer," Fisher said. "To be able to throw with accuracy, it's all about your feet. That was a concern of ours going into the ballgame, and it will be a concern on a daily basis." Not that the Titans missed a beat with Young watching from the sideline. Collins wrapped up the 30-3 win Oct. 18 at Jacksonville, and Fisher confirmed Monday the 16-year veteran needed the middle finger on his right, throwing hand drained because of a torn flexor tendon. Collins will need treatment but not surgery. "He was just not going to miss any time," Fisher said of Collins. "That's just the way he's always been, but you can imagine it's difficult to handle that ball." That might be why Collins was intercepted twice and lost the ball when hit by the Eagles. Collins was 6 of 14 for 62 yards in the first half and finished 17 of 31 for 276 with 225 yards going to Kenny Britt.

Wednesday, October 27, 2010

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Reigning SEC Swimmer of Week Floyd beats expectations in meet Lauren Kittrell Staff Writer After breaking a pool record time in the 200-yard butterfly, sophomore Kelsey Floyd helped lead the Lady Vols swimming and diving team to victory against Louisville on Thursday. Floyd had performed exceptionally since she joined the team a year and a half ago and proved this during the team’s recent dual meet. The reigning SEC Swimmer of the Week set a first-place time of 1:58:80 in the 200-yard fly, which was 0.16 seconds better than her teammate Brooke Watson’s previous record. “This year is going so much better than I could have expected, honestly,” Floyd said. “The team is just starting off in a place where the bar is so much higher than it was last year. Our training is unbelievably good right now.” While the team has had a couple of successful dual meets and Floyd said they are swimming fast, it will take everything the team has to keep up with the competitive nature of Floyd when she competes, something that has helped her reach the pool record. “I’m really way too competitive for my own good, maybe even a little bit,” Floyd said. “I hate losing.” Though enjoying many of the swims she competes in, her passion right now is the 200-fly, something she has been focusing on this season. “I just really have fallen in love with the 200-fly this season and all the others I swim,” Floyd said. “But the 2-fly has really had an early takeoff I guess.” Though Floyd seems to have reached a peak in her career, her competitive nature demands even more. She has different time goals for each meet, but she said she wants to work on more of the specifics this fall. “I want to figure out exactly what I want to do in each 25 (yards), how I want to kick off the wall … how I go in and out of my turns and stuff like that,” Floyd said. “All that is directed towards championship meets, and so that always includes how I always want to win. I like to be confident going into the race, and I like when I win.” Her confidence was on display on Thursday, and now as she faces the rest of the season, it excites her for the possibilities ahead. The team as a whole is doing well, and she is looking forward to a good season. “It makes me really look forward to what this team can do on the road,” Floyd said. “We want to have a good season obviously.” The ultimate goals for this season are the SEC and NCAA tournaments. Though Floyd specifically said “we” when talking about how the team wanted to win these, Floyd specifically would like to carry her stellar performance from last week into these tournaments and appease her competitiveness. “Starting out at such a good place and being able to build off of that and learn from these good experiences in the first place just makes me really look forward to the end of the season and having a even better season than last year,” Floyd said. Head coach Matt Kredich felt that Floyd is in a good position to complete that task. Comparing the way she improved and followed through with practice to where she is now, Kredich was confident that Floyd will do well this season. “Kelsey exemplifies a lot of the things we really believe in,” Kredich said. “Last year we feel like she got better every day. This year she started off at a really high level, and she sees herself moving forward from there.” With her encouragement and assistance on the team, the Lady Vols are ready to see this season through and continue to be the “driven and focused” team the swimmers believe they are. Floyd is ready to face the challenge and to encourage her teammates to do the same. “One thing we work on a lot is wanting to go in a certain direction, which is performing at the end of the season, and you have to have focus, determination and aggressiveness for that,” Floyd said. “I think we’re doing a really good job of that, and I try to contribute and do what I can as far as feeding that vibe off to other people.”

Hinkey dubbed SEC Defensive Player of Week for second time Staff Reports For the second time in her career, Lady Vol senior middle blocker Leah Hinkey has been named the Southeastern Conference Defensive Player of the Week, the conference office announced Monday. She previously picked up the award in the opening week of her sophomore campaign on Aug. 27, 2007. A 6-1 middle blocker, Hinkey posted one of her best weeks of the season as she averaged 1.67 blocks per set while leading Tennessee to a split of SEC matches. The Glenwood Springs, Colo., native topped the squad with 10 total putbacks, including a season-high eight on the road at South Carolina on Sunday. With that effort, Hinkey moved into fifth place in SEC history with 538 career blocks during the rally scoring era, passing LSU’s Lauren DeGirolamo. Hinkey also hit at an amazing .579 clip last week with 12 kills and just a single attack error in 19 swings. Hinkey had been errorless in three straight matches before making an error in the second set of the contest against the Gamecocks. In a nationally-televised contest at No. 1 Florida on Wednesday, Hinkey tallied a .600 attack average with six kills on 10 swings. Just a few days later at South Carolina, she

added six more putaways while posting a .556 hitting percentage. Over her last four matches, she is hitting .510 with 26 kills and just the one error on 49 attack attempts. She also has 17 blocks during that span, good for an average of 1.42 per set. For the season, she currently leads the Lady Vols with 86 total blocks and an average of 1.13 per set, which ranks her fourth in the SEC. Hinkey also has a team-high .362 hitting percentage which places her sixth among all players in the league. Hinkey and the Lady Vol volleyball team will return home to the friendly confines of Thompson-Boling Arena this week for a season-long three match homestand. The Big Orange will kick things off by closing out the non-conference portion of its schedule at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 27, against Louisville. UT will then return to SEC play against Auburn two days later at the same time before welcoming Georgia to Rocky Top for a 2 p.m. contest on Sunday, Oct. 31, which will be televised live on Comcast Sports Southeast. The match against Auburn on Friday, Oct. 29, has been designated Tennessee’s “Dig Pink” contest. The Lady Vols will partner with the Knoxville affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure to host the event which is designed to raise awareness in the fight against breast cancer.

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Sophomore Kelsey Floyd swims to the finish when UT swam against Arkansas in its first regular season dual meet Oct. 16. Floyd had two individual wins in the 100-yard fly and the 200-yard fly, and her 200-yard medley and 400-yard free relay teams also won.

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Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Lady Price sticks with track, pays off Matthew McMurray Staff Writer

Ian Harmon• The Daily Beacon

Leah Hinkey, senior middle blocker for the Lady Vols volleyball team, was named the SEC Defensive Player of the Week. Her 1.67 block per set average this week gave her one of the best weeks of her career.

Chanelle Price has a lot to offer for the UT Lady Vols track team. Price has been running her way to success on and off the field from an early age. The junior, whose major is journalism and electronic media, began her success on the track and continued this trend in college. Price is a two-time USTFCCCA (U.S. Track and Field and Cross-Country Coaches Association) All-American, and in 2009 she set the world record in the distance medley relay. “Chanelle came in with a lot of expectations, and she has done a great job stepping up and meeting the team’s needs,” J.J. Clark, track coach, said. Despite all this success, Price wouldn’t have guessed as a young girl that her future would hold such accomplishment. “I didn’t really like track when I was younger,” Price said. “I liked being part of a team and the team aspect of basketball and soccer. I started to appreciate all the hard work we put into track. My parents wanted me to get a scholarship for college, and they thought track was the best way to do it.” Price received help and encouragement from her family in her pursuit of becoming a great track runner. Her dad, an exMarine, helped with her athletic success. “He wasn’t overboard, but he’s definitely all about discipline and having a tenacious attitude,” Price said. “It definitely helped with my success on the track.” As a child, her parents encouraged her to play as many sports as she could and to stay active. When Price reached the ninth grade, her parents changed their strategy

on sports. “(My parents) wanted me to focus on one, so I chose track,” Price said. “I was told that I should pick something that is based off of me, so I wouldn’t really have to rely on a team. It’s all about the goals I set for myself and work that I want to put into it.” Price soon realized that getting a scholarship would not be a problem, winning her first national championship in high school. “It clicked that, ‘Hey, I can do something with this, I can be the best,’” Price said. “After that, all of my focus went onto track. Senior year, I won Gatorade Athlete of the Year. I came into college with a lot of expectations from other •Chanelle Price people and myself.” Price weighed all her options when choosing her college, but in the end, the Pennsylvania native chose UT. Price was looking for a college with successful track and communications programs, and at UT she found both. “We have a great journalism program, and our track program is definitely one of the best in the nation,” Price said. “For my event, the 800 coach (J.J.) Clark is probably known as the best 800-meter coach.” Price loves to run, but she knows that her career in track will not last forever. She plans on running professionally by earning a shoe sponsorship. She is also preparing for life after track and putting her journalism major to good use. “I want to write for a women’s sports magazine, or even start my own,” Price said. “I definitely want to do something with women’s athletics. I remember my mom telling me that I should look into something with writing and maybe even starting a women’s athletic magazine, because there aren’t many magazines that focus on women’s athletics.”

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