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Vols’ offensive woes continue in 14-3 loss Tennessee can’t capitalize on three forced turnovers against No. 14-ranked Gamecocks Clay Seal Assistant Sports Editor Tennessee’s strife continued Saturday night, but it had nothing to do with a second-half collapse.

On the scoreboard, the Volunteers stayed in it, but things felt the same as they have all of October, as they lost to No. 14 South Carolina 14-3 at Neyland Stadium.

“I told them we fought hard and they should be commended for that,” UT coach Derek Dooley said. “We kept fighting the fight and created some opportunities that we haven’t done on defense. We hadn’t had many takeaways and we got them at some critical times and created opportunities.

“Those were some good things — they were. But we are not good enough right now.

We really are not very good to beat anybody unless we get some things corrected.”

South Carolina (7-1, 5-1 SEC) has won three of the past four games against Tennessee. The Gamecocks remain in first in the SEC East, while the Vols (3-5, 0-5) settle in last place.

Freshman quarterback Justin Worley was 10-of-26 for 105 yards, but threw two untimely interceptions in his first career start before being replaced by Matt Simms on UT’s last drive.

“He did some good things and struggled at some things,” Dooley said. “I expected that to happen. It’s his first time and he just hasn’t had the work. He has been the three — that’s what we forget. For eight months he has been a three, and then for two weeks he has been a two. It’s tough. He’s going to be fine. He will learn from it and get better.”

South Carolina was without star running back Marcus Lattimore, who is out for the season with a knee injury, but Brandon Wilds did fine as his replacement, rushing for 137 yards on 28 carries. He also led the Gamecocks with 31 receiving yards.

Wilds had just 75 yards on 13 attempts before Saturday’s game.

Tennessee held Gamecocks’ leading receiver Alshon Jeffery to a season-low 17 yards on three catches.

The Vols only amassed 186 offensive yards (151 passing, 35 rushing). The offensive woes began on their first possession.

South Carolina forced Tennessee into a three-and-out, but Ace Saunders fumbled the punt and UT reserve linebacker John Propst recovered it at the Gamecocks’ 18yard line. After getting a first-and-goal at the Gamecocks’ 4, the Vols settled for a 22-yard field goal from Michael Palardy for their only score of the game.

Da’Rick Rogers dropped what would have been a 44-yard touchdown in the second quarter after South Carolina had gone up 73, which was the score entering halftime.

An issue facing the Tennessee defense entering the game was that it hadn’t created many turnovers, but it forced three South Carolina turnovers (one interception and two fumble recoveries). It was a matter of the offense not taking advantage.

Prentiss Waggner had his first interception of the season in the third quarter and returned it 54 yards to the South Carolina 2yard line. Two plays later, Worley tossed an interception to South Carolina’s D.J. Swearinger.

“I think that was a real turning point in the game,” tight end Mychal Rivera said. “It was really difficult when that happened. It was really unfortunate and disappointing.”

On the ensuing drive, South Carolina converted six third downs and took 11:42 off the clock on a 20-play, 98-yard touchdown drive to go up 14-3 with under a minute left in the third quarter.

“We were getting beat on first and second down,” middle linebacker Austin Johnson said. “They were getting big runs on us, then creating third-and-one every first down.

So it kind of just put us in a bad position and that’s our fault.”

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Maurice Couch and a host of Vols haul down a South Carolina player during a game on Saturday, Oct. 29. Despite multiple forced turnovers by the defense, the offense couldn’t capitalize, producing only three points from four trips inside the South Carolina 30-yard line and falling 14-3 to the Gamecocks.

Ambassador stresses energy security Knoxville haunting still lives on Taylor McElroy

presented here, and he views Eastern Europe as a centrally important piece of Europe as it relates ultimately to U.S. security interests and friendship interests,” Pierce said.

Pierce also explained the reasoning behind speakers such The Romanian Ambassador to the U.S. came to UT Wednesday night to discuss security cooperation and shared as Vierita and Ash at the Baker Center.

“We have a number of policy programs, and one is global issues with students at the Baker Center Toyota Auditorium. security,” Pierce said. “The other is energy and the environAmbassador Adrian Cosmin Vierita said that there has ment, and the third is what we call governance studies, and been a friendly partnership between the U.S. and Romania a part of that is an interest in diplomacy and international for 131 years with the exceptions of the World War II and relations. This particular visit and presentation fit right into U.S.S.R. occupation periods.

The most recent diplomatic issue between the two coun- the ambassadorial lecture series The Global Security tries occurred when Romanian President Traian Basescu Program, and, as it turned out in the conversation, the energy and environcame to the U.S. ment program to sign a ballistic as well.” missile defense The subject agreement where of conversation an American misthat relates to sile defense facilithe energy and ty will be located environment on Romanian program that soil.

Pierce referred “It was a good to is what occasion also to Vierita called sign the agreeenergy security. ment on hosting Vierita elements of (the) described enermissile defense gy security as system, and also the goal of we have adopted r e d u c i n g to declaration on dependence on the strategic partn a t u r a l nership between resources for the United States energy needs. and Romania in Romania is the 21st century,” abundant in natVierita said. ural resources Carl Pierce, such as steel, Baker Center Madeline Brown • The Daily Beacon oil, natural gas director and for- Romanian Ambassador to the United States Adrian Vierita speaks with and coal, but it mer law profes- attendees at the Howard Baker Center on Wednesday, Oct. 26. Vierita disis attempting to sor, said the U.S. cussed the importance of security for the U.S. as related to his work in work out various values Romania’s Romania. scenarios with cooperation in the controversial agreement, which is not supported by all of other countries in the region to construct an international natural gas line. Vierita explained the importance in using Europe.

“I just found it very interesting to see how a bilateral rela- more than one solution.

“I think that it’s wise to give priority to all of them and tionship between a country as large as the United States and see at the end of the day, who and what has more chance to one that’s not quite as large as Romania can be so important be materialized,” Vierita said. “We will continue to support in such a major international issue,” Pierce said.

He went on to describe the importance of diplomatic rela- any project, any concept, and we are ready to partner with everybody in the region and the United States in order to tions with Eastern European countries.

“The former ambassador to Poland is Victor Ash, who find a solution for this issue … to ensure that the region will lives here in Knoxville (and) was formally our mayor, and he have enough energy in the future.”

Steele Gamble

Staff Writer

Staff Writer Knoxville is home to many fabled haunted attractions including Copper Ridge Baptist Church, Bijou Theater, even UT, but one location that stands out is Baker Peters Fine Dining & Lounge.

The story dates back to 1840. The restaurant was then home to Dr. James Harvey Baker, who used his home to care for confederate soldiers during the Civil War. Union soldiers broke in and demanded the release of the confederate soldiers. When Baker refused, he was chased through his house to his bedroom where he tried to barricade himself. Still, the soldiers managed to shoot and kill him though his closed bedroom door.

When his son, Abner Baker, returned home to find his murdered father, he sought vengeance on the informant, postmaster William Hall.

When the postman’s friends discovered this alleged injustice, they hung the surviving Baker from a tree located just outside the house.

Abner Baker’s attachment to the house, the door with the bullet holes and the insult of being hanged outside his house left his spirit lingering throughout the restaurant.

“Bar glass shoots across the room into the opposite shelves about four times a year,” general manager Wade Morris said.

That is just one of the many stories told by not only staff, but also by loyal guests who have played witness to such events.

Some of the most interesting stories were told by Morris.

“We have this bar sink that even when you turn the water pressure all the way up, it merely drips water,” Morris said. “We use it to dump the

used ice. One night at around 4 a.m., I was closing with one of the servers when we heard a flowing noise and went upstairs to find the sink completely overflowing and running onto the floor. When I turned off the water it drained immediately and continued dripping the way it always has.”

“Upstairs in ‘Abner’s closet,’ (called that only because it is a bit spooky) is where we keep our coke machine and CO2.

One night about 9 p.m. the bartender needed CO2, so I went to the closet and I thought ‘man that is really heavy to be empty.’ So I turn the knob, it had been off — this is strange considering we had been open for hours using it and you have to turn the knob all the way around to turn it off.”

Unexplained events happen throughout the immediate property, not just inside.

“One time we were getting a new contract with the pest control people and two of them went under the house to check it out, when suddenly both inspectors’ flashlights quit working at the same time, until they exited and both were lit perfectly,” Morris said.

While Morris finds the events odd, he still does not necessarily believe in ghosts.

In fact, that seems to be the consensus for a lot of the staff.

“Nothing too creepy really goes on here — I mean Wade’s creepy, but that’s about it,” bartender Ben Halseth said. “For me it’s just a laid back environment with a great history of a building.”

Haunted or not, Baker Peters is still one of the most original legends of Knoxville.

Despite one’s personal belief in the lingering spirits or not, many locations around Knoxville have been the sight of unexplained mysterious events that have perpetuated terror for years.

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Monday, October 31, 2011

Taylor Gautier • The Daily Beacon

Students compete in a tug-of-war competition during Anything Goes at FIJI Island on Sunday, Oct. 30. The event is one of the first of many as part of Homecoming Week, with organizations earning points through performance in various events.

1861 — Winfield Scott steps down Citing failing health, General Winfield Scott, commander of the Union forces, retires from service on this day in 1861. The hero of the Mexican War recognized early in the Civil War that his health and advancing years were a liability in the daunting task of directing the Federal war effort.

Scott was born in Virginia in 1786. He graduated from William and Mary College and joined the military in 1808; he had become the youngest general in the army by the end of the

War of 1812. Scott was an important figure in the development of the U.S. Army after that war, having designed a system of regulations and tactical manuals that defined the institution for most of the 19th century. Although Scott’s tactics, many of which were borrowed from the French, were of little use in the irregular warfare the army waged against the Seminoles and Creek in the southeast, his methods worked brilliantly during the war with Mexico in 1846 and 1847. His campaign against Mexico City, in particular, is remembered for the strength of its planning and execution.

During the secession crisis of 1861, Scott remained at his post, refusing to join his native state in abandoning the union.

Scott was asked by U.S. President Abraham Lincoln to devise a comprehensive plan to defeat the Confederacy. The strategy Scott developed called for the blockading of ports to isolate the South economically, to be followed by an offensive down the Mississippi River. In the optimistic early days of the war, this strategy seemed hopelessly sluggish — in fact, critics dubbed it the “Anaconda Plan” after the giant Amazonian snake that slowly strangles its prey. Despite this initial criticism, it was the basic strategy that eventually won the war for the Union.

Scott also drew criticism for ordering the advance of General Irwin McDowell’s army into Virginia, which resulted in the disastrous Union defeat at the First Battle of Bull Run on July 21, 1861. With the arrival of George McClellan as commander of the Army of the Potomac shortly after, Scott’s influence waned. He weighed over 300 pounds, suffered from gout and rheumatism, and was unable to mount a horse. His resignation on October 31 did not end his influence on the war, however. Lincoln occasionally sought his counsel, and many of his former officers commanded forces and executed the same maneuvers that he had used in Mexico. Scott retired to West Point to write his memoirs and died in 1866.

1864 — The U.S. Congress admits Nevada as the 36th state On this day in 1864, anxious to have support of the Republican-dominated Nevada Territory for President Abraham Lincoln’s reelection, the U.S. Congress quickly admits Nevada as the 36th state in the Union.

In 1864, Nevada had only 40,000 inhabitants, considerably short of the 60,000 normally required for statehood. But the 1859 discovery of the incredibly large and rich silver deposits at Virginia City had rapidly made the region one of the most important and wealthy in the West. The inexpert miners who initially developed the placer gold deposits at Virginia City had complained for some time about the blue-gray gunk that kept clogging up their gold sluices. Eventually several of the more experienced miners realized that the gunk the gold miners had been tossing aside was actually rich silver ore, and soon after, they discovered the massive underground silver deposit called the Comstock Lode. Unlike the easily developed placer deposits that had inspired the initial gold rushes to California and Nevada, the Comstock Lode ore demanded a wide array of expensive new technologies for profitable development. For the first time, western mining began to attract investments from large eastern capitalists, and these powerful men began to push for Nevada statehood.

The decisive factor in easing the path to Nevada’s statehood was President Lincoln’s proposed 13th Amendment banning slavery. Throughout his administration Lincoln had appointed territorial officials in Nevada who were strong Republicans, and he knew he could count on the congressmen and citizens of a new state of Nevada to support him in the coming presidential election and to vote for his proposed amendment.

Since time was so short, the Nevada constitutional delegation sent the longest telegram on record up to that time to Washington, D.C., containing the entire text of the proposed state constitution and costing the then astronomical sum of $3,416.77.

Their speedy actions paid off with quick congressional approval of statehood and the new state of Nevada did indeed provide strong support for Lincoln. On January 31, 1865, Congress approved the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution banning slavery.

— This Day in History is courtesy of History.com.

Monday, October 31, 2011

Occupy Wall Street protesters refuse to obey new curfew

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NATO convoy target of latest attack The Associated Press

The Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Occupy Wall Street protesters chanted slogans, danced to stay warm and defiantly protested into the early hours Sunday near Tennessee’s Capitol building, squaring off for the third consecutive night against state authorities.

But this time, the protesters stayed through the night without anyone being arrested for curfew violations. The arrests in Nashville came during a week of clashes between police and demonstrators that led to arrests in California, Atlanta, Denver and Oregon.

“Whose plaza? Our plaza!” about 50 demonstrators chanted early Sunday in defiance of the curfew, which is in effect from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. CDT. Capitol police sporadically made their rounds and a state trooper occasionally walked past the protest in the predawn hours, but organizers said authorities did not make arrests as law enforcement agents had done on the two previous nights.

Elizabeth Sharpe, 20, took part Sunday and said she was inspired by the Occupy Wall Street movement after seeing a 2003 documentary called “The Corporation.” She said she felt the need to be an activist in the movement that expresses opposition to perceived greed on Wall Street and across corporate America.

“How can I as an individual change this?” she asked, speaking with an Associated Press reporter. With the Occupy movement’s far-flung reach across American cities, she said she felt there was strength in numbers, adding, “I got for the first time a glimpse of hope.”

Some danced to keep warm on a chilly morning and others shivered in the frosty air, huddling under blankets.

The protesters have been galvanized by the friction between state officials and a local magistrate who said the demonstrators could not be jailed for remaining at the plaza past curfew. Several new demonstrators showed up at the state-owned plaza near the Capitol for the first time earlier in the day.

As many as 75 people initially remained after the curfew started at 10 p.m. But by early morning only about 50 people

remained.

Nashville magistrate Tom Nelson has said recently that there’s no legal reason in his city to keep the demonstrators behind bars and he has released them after each arrest. He has refused each night to sign off on arrest warrants for more than two dozen people taken into custody.

Some legal experts agreed with the judge.

The arrests appeared to be a violation of First Amendment rights that allow for people to peacefully assemble, said attorney David Raybin, a former prosecutor. He and others said the nature of the arrests, coupled with the judge’s refusal to sign off on the warrants, could become ammunition for lawsuits.

“The government is exposing itself to serious liability here by doing this,” Raybin said.

Nelson did not return an email seeking comment, and a phone number for him could not be found.

State troopers had begun enforcing the curfew at the Legislative Plaza on Thursday night.

Others questioned the timing of the curfew. The protesters had been demonstrating for about three weeks before it took effect, a point that Nelson said he factored into his decision.

“You can’t pass a curfew mid-protest because you disagree with this group of protesters,” said criminal defense attorney Patrick Frogge, who is representing some of those arrested.

The state Department of Safety has been carrying out the arrests. Commissioner Bill Gibbons, who until he joined the Haslam administration was the district attorney in Memphis, said he didn’t have a role in developing the curfew but assured Haslam his department could enforce it.

Gibbons developed a reputation as an able and tough prosecutor in Memphis, where gang and drug violence have been problems for years. He ran against Haslam for governor in the GOP primary, touting his law-and-order credential and sharply attacking his multi-million-dollar opponent for refusing to divulge how much income he gets from the family-owned chain of Pilot truck stops.

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KABUL, Afghanistan — The weekend suicide bombing of a NATO convoy that killed 17 people in Kabul adds urgency to the U.S.-led coalition’s work to expand a security bubble around the Afghan capital.

With most of the attacks in Kabul blamed on the Pakistanbased Haqqani network, the latest reinforced U.S. and Afghan demands that Islamabad do more to curb militant activity and sanctuaries on its territory.

While there is no specific information linking Saturday’s convoy attack to the Haqqani network, investigators say they soon will have evidence the bombing was “Haqqani-related,” a western diplomat said Sunday. The diplomat, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the investigation, said it was “very possible” the attack was the work of Haqqani fighters, who have ties to both al-Qaida and the Taliban.

In the brazen midday assault, a suicide bomber rammed a vehicle packed with explosives into an armored coalition bus traveling in the southwest end of the city. Heavily armored military vehicles also were in the convoy, but the bomber targeted the bus, which was carrying troops and civilians contractors.

The Haqqanis were the specific focus of two military operations this month that involved tens of thousands of Afghan and NATO troops. They were conducted over nine days in Kabul province, Wardak, Logar and Ghazni provinces south and west of the capital and Paktia, Paktika and Khost provinces along the border. More than 200 insurgents were killed or captured. At least 20 of them had ties to the Haqqani group, including 10 identified as leaders of the network.

Marine Gen. John Allen, the top commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, said in a recent interview with The Associated Press that the operations against the Haqqanis were conducted in preparation for next year’s plan to step up operations to keep insurgents from infiltrating across the Pakistani border and into the capital, especially from the south.

“The campaign plan is to extend operations down in that area — pretty significantly — to secure the orbital districts around Kabul and push that security zone out,” Allen said.

“The overarching campaign plan for next year is going to see us consolidate our holdings in the south, conduct operations in the east to expand the security zone around Kabul and then connect the two,” he said. That also would facilitate travel along a highway that connecting Kabul with southern Afghanistan, he said.

In Saturday’s attack, the force of the explosion knocked the bus on its side and ignited a large fire that sent heavy black smoke rising above the scene. Seventeen people died — five NATO service members, including one Canadian soldier; eight civilian contractors, including two from Britain; and four Afghans, including a policeman.

A U.S. defense official initially said all the foreigners killed were American, but that could not be confirmed. NATO does not disclose the nationalities of those killed.

Fluor Corp., a company based in Irving, Texas, that

employs contractors in Afghanistan, confirmed on Sunday that some of its employees, including the two British nationals, were killed in the attack. Their names were not being released out of respect for their families, said Keith Stephens, a company representative.

The deadly attack was on a thoroughfare near the landmark Darulaman Palace, the bombed-out seat of former Afghan kings. At the time of the blast, Afghan lawmakers and ministers were gathered at the parliament building nearby to remember six lawmakers killed in a 2007 suicide bombing in Baghlan province. A lawmaker from Kunar province, who was making a speech, ducked when he heard the loud explosion.

At least 11 of about 15 major attacks in the capital this year can be blamed on the Haqqanis, according to a senior official with the coalition who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss undisclosed investigative reports on the incidents.

Last month, then-Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Adm. Mike Mullen said the Haqqani network “acts as a veritable arm” of Pakistan’s intelligence agency — an accusation that Pakistan has denied.

Mullen accused the network of staging an attack against the U.S. Embassy and NATO headquarters in Kabul on Sept.

13 as well as a truck bombing that wounded 77 American soldiers in Wardak province. He claimed Pakistan’s spy agency helped the group.

The senior coalition official said that the Taliban, based in the Pakistani city of Quetta, appeared to linked to the Sept.

20 assassination of former Afghan President Burhanuddin Rabbani, but that investigators did not see any direct tie to the Pakistani intelligence service. Rabbani, who was leading the Afghan government’s effort to broker peace with the Taliban, was killed at his Kabul home by an assassin posing as a peace emissary from the insurgent group.

The United States has stepped up criticism of Pakistan and its counterterrorism cooperation but at the same time has worked to cajole the increasingly angry and resistant Pakistanis into doing more to squeeze militants on its side of the border.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton delivered an unusually blunt warning to the Pakistanis when she visited the region last week. She said Pakistan “must be part of the solution” to the Afghan conflict. Clinton said the Obama administration expects the Pakistani government, military and intelligence services to “take the lead” in not only fighting insurgents based in Pakistan but also in encouraging Afghan militants to reconcile with Afghan society.

U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Curtis Scaparrotti, who directs dayto-day military operations in Afghanistan, said this week that he thinks the goal to have Afghan security forces in the lead across the country by the end of 2014 can be achieved without work against militant sanctuaries in Pakistan. But he said it would be a challenge.

“In order to do that, we have to build a strong, capable layered defense with the Afghan national security forces in order to provide, you know, a proper interdiction. And that it’ll be a much tougher task,” he said.

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Monday, October 31, 2011

OPINIONS

GuestColumn Explore research opportunities There is an amazing array of undergraduate research opportunities out there. I help to coordinate one such opportunity, a summer research experience for undergraduates (REU) program here on campus at NIMBioS, the National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis.

This past summer, 16 undergraduate students from all over the country came here to Knoxville where they lived on campus and worked in teams with UTK faculty and staff on research questions at the interface of mathematics and biology.

Projects covered many areas of biology, ecology and health, all with strong mathematical tools. Biology and mathematics majors learned how to capitalize on each others’ strengths and work together. There were six projects in all. One team worked on modeling the feral cat population in Knox County in order to come up with recommendations for more effective and humane strategies to control the population.

Another worked on mathematical modeling of the dynamics of Simian Immunodeficiency Virus, a pathogen similar to HIV. In their spare time students got together for group dinners, fireworks and a picnic on the 4th of July, hiked and went tubing in the Smokies and, overall, had a very fun and unique summer. This was an internship and students were paid a significant stipend for their hard work, but they took home more than that — memories for a lifetime, and insight into what research really is: collaborative, challenging, rewarding, frustrating and exciting!

Opportunities abound at UTK, a worldclass research institution, and are perfect for gaining experience during the school year and summer. But a simple Google search for “undergraduate research experience” will open up a world of opportunities. The

NIMBioS REU is open to applications from any undergraduate student enrolled in a college in the U.S. Many programs like ours start soliciting applications in NovemberFebruary for summer internships.

Great undergraduate research is everywhere. Last week, NIMBioS hosted over 100 undergraduate students and faculty mentors from 20 U.S. states, Puerto Rico and Canada for an Undergraduate Research Conference at the Interface of Mathematics and Biology. Over 50 research talks and posters were presented by undergrads. Many of these students are publishing, yet another laurel to add to their resumes or graduate school applications. Many of these students had discovered a passion for research that they were excited to continue in graduate school. Many of them will have great graduate school opportunities open for them since they’ve already proven they can do research, something the GRE can only try to predict.

College is a time of great discovery.

Undergraduate research is an opportunity for you to make great discoveries in whatever field you are interested in, while also making great discoveries about yourself. Many years ago, I applied for and got an opportunity to do undergraduate research at Argonne National Laboratory near Chicago, and I fell in love with science. Now I enjoy helping make that possible for others. If research sounds interesting to you, I strongly urge you to visit your Office of Undergraduate Research website, or plug your dream summer internship into Google and see what exciting things pop up.

— Kelly Sturner is the education and outreach coordinator for the National Institute for Mathematical & Biological Synthesis. She can be reached at kmoran@nimbios.org.

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Street preaching causes unrest D e ar Rea d e rs by

Aaron Moyer “Oh father high in heaven — smile down upon your son who’s busy with his money games — his women and his gun. Oh Jesus save me!” — “Hymn 43” by Jethro Tull Anyone who has been on the UT campus over the past couple of weeks can agree with this statement because the recent influx of street preachers has created a disturbing and uncomfortable atmosphere on campus. Seemingly every day, I, as well as every other person on campus, am told that I am destined for hell because I do not believe specifically what the preacher has to say.

I know I am not the only one who is sick and tired of these insults being hurled at me while on my way to class. The other day one particularly aggressive provocateur had gathered a large crowd of angry students. Not only was this an absolute pain to get through, since it completely blocked my path, but the mob was nothing but indiscernible grunts and chants. The instigator of all of this had apparently decided that UT needed to hear how every student was evil in various ways and destined to hell because they have the audacity to be independent individuals. What was heartwarming about this belligerent hate-monger’s speech is that no one listened to him. Everybody fought back against him and forced him to take his bigotry and hatred somewhere else.

This is not the first time that such hatred has infiltrated the UT campus, nor will it be the last.

There are few things more frustrating to me than purposeful ignorance and blind hatred. These street preachers have no clue what the tenets of their religion actually are; all they care about is letting others know how inferior they are. I am an atheist and I know there are many more irreligious students on campus who feel just as uncomfortable and pointlessly vilified for their lack of beliefs. I respect religion and religious people, however those that pervert their religion to support their own bigotry are destroying what respect I have left. I know I am

not an amoral person, just as I know that Christianity and Islam are not about hating those who are different. Being judged by complete strangers simply due to my irreligious nature is not only an insult to myself but also to the religion the person supposedly follows.

When the atmosphere is polluted with the shouts of hatred from these ignorant bigots, it is comforting to see the religious groups on campus fighting back against them. Various Christian organizations take this opportunity to declare that Christianity is not actually like this and attempt to overshadow the hatred with love and forgiveness. That kind of proselytizing I can support because it is actually closest to what Jesus preached. “Love thy neighbor” is one of the most important phrases spoken by Jesus and needs to be acknowledged more.

Religion is not evil nor does it corrupt those who follow it. The particularly egregious followers already were the hate-mongers and bigots before they perverted their religion to support their own beliefs. These types need to be exiled from the religious community because they are parasites to any religion. Whenever the campus is invaded by these parasitic vermin, they need to be expunged like the disease ridden rats that they are. They do nothing but poison the air with their hate-filled bile and cause the good nature of their religion to come into doubt.

This perversion of religion is neither a new nor specifically Christian behavior. Al-Qaeda is as much of a representation of Islam as the KKK is of Christianity. The sane religious followers need to stand up against these fringe groups. These groups cannot be ignored and must be ostracized for the good of humanity. Stand up against these bigots and false representations and show the love and acceptance of your religion. There is nothing wrong with being religious; however, there is a lot wrong with using your religion to justify your hatred and ignorance.

If nothing is done about this, religion becomes nothing more than a tool to justify your hatred. The actual meaning of the religion will be dissolved in the acidic pool of hatred that is created in everybody’s minds. Jethro Tull’s “Hymn 43” says it all: “If Jesus saves — well, He’d better save Himself from the gory glory seekers who use His name in death.”

— Aaron Moyer is a junior in philosophy. He can be reached at amoyer3@utk.edu.

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It’s the topic of discussion that just will not go away. As much as some Americans might like it to just disappear, the Occupy Wall Street movement simply continues to stand out among most everything that is taking place in the news at this point in time. Now, while I have not been very sympathetic to their cause — a fact that has earned me many less-than-cordial e-mails over the last few weeks — even I cannot deny that the “Occupiers” are a passionate group of people. However ineffective and overly idealistic I think they might be, they are nonetheless resilient and deserve respect because of that fortitude. That’s true for both the original protesters who set up shop in New York City to directly protest Wall Street and others across the country and the world. An alarming series of events, however, has given me cause for hesitation in my decrying of their methods and ideology and has nearly brought me to the brink of outright defending them.

Oh, what the heck, might as well jump in with both feet, right?

Last week, Governor Bill Haslam signed off on a measure that instituted a curfew on Occupiers protesting in Nashville, specifically around Legislative Plaza. When he spoke to the news media about the measure, he claimed that he had a duty to protect all Tennesseans. I think we can all pretty much agree that his and other like-minded officials in our state government’s ultimate goal was nothing short of trying to bring the protests taking place in the heart of Nashville to a halt and have the Occupiers simply vanish into the night.

Well, those wishes have gotten mixed results.

Dozens of protesters have been arrested so far, charged with criminal trespassing in violation of Haslam’s curfew. While a few brave officials in Nashville have refused to participate in what essentially amounts to the prosecution and persecution of members of the Occupy Nashville rally by not assisting in the arrests or not signing off on the requisite warrants, many protesters have found themselves in the back of Tennessee Highway

Patrol cruisers, bound for the city jail.

With that background information in mind, I ask that someone please get the following message to Haslam as soon as humanly possible: “YO, NUMBSKULL, YOU’RE DOING IT WRONG!” First of all, Billy Boy, if you’re going to try to toss a group of protesters out of the capital, don’t pick the one movement that prides itself on being an organization whose roots lie in the fertile soil of civil disobedience. They’re simply going to want to stay all the more to try to get attention for their cause and get their point across to a greater number of people. Beyond that, Billy, they are going to make you and your lackeys look like a bunch of tyrannical idiots and this state look like the backwards bastion of conservative politics so many across the country already believe it to be.

Then again, you’re doing a pretty good job of looking like a tyrant, yourself, and that brings me to my second point…

Governor Haslam, you, sir, have gone too far.

If you had come out in the news and stated that you disagree with the Occupiers’ message and politely asked that they vacate Legislative Plaza, that would be one thing. Instead, you made this an issue on which I, as an American citizen who is already wary of an erosion of constitutional rights in the face of intolerant bureaucrats, have to give them my full support. I don’t like having to side with the Occupiers!

Whether you like it or not, Bill, the Occupiers had not done anything wrong before you enacted that stupid curfew and — at the time of this column’s penning — still have not done anything wrong other than oppose an unjust law. You have effectively brought criminal charges against people for exercising their First Amendment rights, and you have opened up yourself and the state government over which you preside to a bevy of lawsuits championed by civil rights lawyers and watchdog groups like the American Civil Liberties Union who would like nothing more than to make both entities look like fools. Several motions seeking injunctions against these unlawful arrests are already waiting for a judge to hear them.

If someone actually does get this message to you, do the right thing and repeal this curfew before it’s too late. Your reputation and the reputation of our proud state stand to take a heavy blow if you fail to do so.

— Derek Mullins is a senior in political science.

He can be reached at dmullin5@utk.edu.

Monday, October 31, 2011

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Coroner’s office inks TV contract Fiction: Sausage Links, Part Two The Associated Press LAS VEGAS — About 14,000 people die each year in and around Las Vegas. The Clark County coroner’s office investigates about 3,500 of those deaths and conducts about 1,500 autopsies.

There are stories behind those corpses — untold drama in the discovery of how the person met his or her end and the search for next-of-kin. For some, the name is the final mystery.

All of which prompted a cable television network to approach Coroner Michael Murphy to tell what his team of five medical examiners and 12 forensic technicians have learned about life and death in Sin City. The county recently inked a deal with Discovery Studios to make the medical examiner’s office the subject of a series of TV episodes.

Murphy said he hopes to teach people about dangerous lifestyles while also putting a name to an unidentified body or two to bring closure to families that don’t know what happened to a missing loved one.

“The vast majority of people don’t die from violent acts,” Murphy said, putting diabetes, heart disease and prescription drug abuse atop the list of causes of death in this Nevada county home to almost 2 million residents and a neon-lit city that draws 40 million visitors a year.

“Hopefully it’ll be a good way for people to think about health risks,” he said. “We don’t want clients.”

Michael Masland, the Discovery Studios development official who worked for two years to reach a production deal with Murphy and Clark County, said he expects filming to begin soon and a pilot to air sometime in 2012, with at least several segments to follow.

“They know somebody’s life is going to be changed by what they find,” Masland said. “It’s real human drama. But it’s not reality television.”

The Clark County Commission unanimously approved the production deal in September with a promise that the county will get $5,000 per episode and Discovery Studios LLC of Silver Spring, Md. and won’t show personally identifiable characteristics. Clark

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County officials get to see rough cuts before the shows air.

Murphy, meanwhile, gets to include a public service announcement with each episode featuring one of his office’s 202 currently unsolved cases.

The goal, Murphy and Masland said in separate interviews, is not to produce a show like CSI-Las Vegas, COPS, Las Vegas Jailhouse or even Dr. G: Medical Examiner.

Instead, they want to show coroner investigators and medical examiners at work — from accident or crime scene to autopsy and medical examination to search for and notification of next-of-kin.

Murphy is an energetic and completely bald 57-year-old former police officer and jailer who speaks frequently at conferences and seminars. He sheds his button-down look to make vacation trips to Africa to teach investigative techniques to police in Uganda and Tanzania. He underwent knee replacement surgery recently, and returned to work so quickly that his doctor had to warn him to slow down.

He likes to say his staff speaks for the dead. He speaks for his staff.

“We see this as an opportunity to show people what we do, but it’s not designed to show specific cases,” Murphy said of the Discovery project. “We’re not going to embarrass families.”

Murphy made a name as an innovator in November 2003, shortly after he became coroner, when he began posting photos on the Internet of some of Las Vegas’ 182 unidentified dead people. Critics said the images would be distasteful or macabre.

He promised they’d be presented with respect and dignity.

The first day, a corrections officer called with the name of a man unidentified for 20 months after being hit by a vehicle.

Twenty-eight other identifications quickly followed. By 2008, the federal government initiated a site dubbed the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System. The pioneering Las Vegas program is now being folded into the nationwide effort.

Masland said he expects to show Murphy and his staff as “advocates for people who have met their untimely demise, and of their families.”

“The interesting part is the real skills that Mike and his team

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Staff Writer Dear Wilma, Your last letter seemed all over the place. I hope everything is going O.K. I understand that the business can get you down, but if you keep at it, you’re bound to maintain Wally’s Weenies’ success and make Pop proud.

I know he’s still mad at me, but he had to have known I was never that great at making sausages. Every Saturday morning was the same. Wake up before the sun, mix up the meat, shove it in the grinder, twist the casings and ride with him to the shop where there was nothing to do. I missed every single cartoon. While everyone else in school was talking about what Shredder had done to the turtle gang, I only knew that it was important to not skimp on the pork jowls. It was embarrassing to just know what he had taught me.

That’s all in the past, though, I guess.

I’m stuck here now. Pop still thinks I’m avoiding hot dogs due to some loyalty. I love him to pieces, but he can’t know about why I really avoid them. That news report did some major damage to the business I will admit, but all the guys here got a crack out of the reporter mistaking my name. I’ve gotten it shortened to W.J. finally because people come and go, but I’ll hear a “Weenie Junior” whenever the lights go out.

Just the other day, my friend, Cleaver, actually flipped someone off for calling me that. He’s probably the only nice guy I’ve run into here. He said he’s run into his fair share of financial troubles. He’s in for just a few months, but I told him he can get a job at the shop if he wants.

I know I write this every week, but I wish you would get me the addresses of those people. I was in a bad place when I did what I did. Truth be told, I didn’t even want their stuff. I just wanted to be taken seriously, you know? For a girl, I imagine you got off fairly easy with the whole weenie family bit, but for a guy, it was too much. That just leaves the door wide open.

I think I’m getting better though. I’ve been talking to the prison therapist, and she says she will put in a good report.

When I first got here, I’d snap at every-

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body, and that would usually end up with me losing a fight. I learned that I had to start a fight to start winning them and get the upper hand. That got old after a while, though, and I think I’ve earned enough respect to calm it down.

That’s enough about me. Tell me more about what is going on. Pop really think you got the skills to make sausages? How’s Mom? Is she still working the cash drawer? Can she make it to my parole hearing? I feel really good about this one.

Like I said, the therapist said I’ve been good, and I’m sorry you have to hear this from your own flesh and blood, but I’d like to be bad with her. I think she thinks the same way about me too.

Cleaver doesn’t really like her for some reason, but I trust my instinct with this one.

You ever think there are other paths in life, sort of an alternate universe kind of thing? I think if we were born into some other family, I’d be awesome at making something else. Our dad wouldn’t be so stubborn about pushing us into a business and I never would snap so often.

I’m glad you never saw me in that state. I got pretty good with hiding it. If it wasn’t for that stupid sausage smell, I’d have gotten away with it and had my release whenever I felt tense. But I’m still regretful. I probably should have just taken up boxing or something like that. I got good at fighting in here, so I would have caused serious damage. I’d get some great tattoos that had my fighter name and stuff. I have an awesome collection of tattoos now. It’d be way better than being branded as heir to Wally’s Weenies.

Lights are going out, and Cleaver is kicking my bunk. He keeps telling me to stop writing and trade bunks. I guess I should. Tell everyone hey, and I hope Pop visits eventually.

Two years to go, Wally Junior.

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use,” Masland said, “the science, forensics and problem-solving.”

Walking through his modest county-funded office past cubicles where investigators work to track down next-of-kin, Murphy pointed to a photo of Dr. Jan Garavaglia, the Orlando, Fla.based medical examiner and author who stars in the Dr. G shows on Discovery Health.

At conferences, the two sometimes compare stories and experiences, Murphy said. But their roles are different.

Through a security door into the Clark County morgue, Murphy explains that he’s an administrator, not a medical examiner who conducts autopsies.

“We want to show how we come to the conclusions, the cause and manner of death,” Murphy said later. “We want people to see the hard work and emotion that are involved. It’s more of a look behind the scenes.”

DNA testing, blood toxicology and forensic dental work are common. Medical examiners still sometimes use Silly Putty to get fingerprints from dehydrated digits. An anthropologist may be enlisted to identify or date bones.

An entomologist might be brought in to study insects collected with the corpse.

Actual dead bodies won’t be shown, Murphy and Masland promised. But re-enactments might feature tricks and techniques unique to that case.

Family members and witnesses might be enlisted, if they sign legal waivers.

“There are ways to film conversations and not give away what they’re pointing to,” Masland said. “We can use synthetic bodies or computer-generated graphics to show the forensic or investigative work and really make it understandable for an audience.”

Murphy said he sees the Discovery programs as part of an ongoing effort to reach and teach people about “how the decisions you make can affect whether you live or die.”

“It’s a delicate balance,” the Sin City coroner said. “The overall goal is to educate people about what we do and how we do it, and to help prevent death. We’d like to make it later, rather than sooner.”

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Titans defeat winless Colts, 27-10 The Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The Tennessee Titans avoided becoming the first team to lose to the winless Indianapolis Colts. A running back controversy may be inevitable.

Matt Hasselbeck threw for 224 yards and a touchdown, and Nate Washington scored twice and the Titans beat Indianapolis 27-10 Sunday.

Rob Bironas kicked field goals of 51 and 50 yards, and Jason McCourty recovered a blocked punt in the end zone as the Titans (4-3) snapped a two-game skid.

They also sacked Curtis Painter twice and intercepted him twice, turning those turnovers into 14 points for their first win in this AFC South rivalry since Oct. 27, 2008.

The Colts (0-8) never really threatened to win their sixth straight in this matchup.

Already without Peyton Manning, who signed autographs in the end zone during warmups, the Colts trailed 20-0 by halftime coming off a 62-7 loss to the New Orleans Saints.

The Colts outgained Tennessee 399-311, but couldn’t overcome 10 penalties for 66 yards.

The Titans came in with the NFL’s worst running game.

Chris Johnson struggled again and heard more boos from the home fans as he ran 14 times for 34 yards.

This time, backup Javon Ringer was more productive as he ran 14 times for 60 yards. He also caught a team-high five passes for 42 yards and was on the field late in the fourth quarter.

Indianapolis reshuffled its offensive line again due to injuries with left tackle Anthony Castonzo, left guard Joe Reitz and right guard Ryan Diem out. Jeff Linkenbach swung from right to left tackle.

The Colts pulled within 20-10 when Donald Brown capped an 80-yard drive with a 4-yard TD with 13:29 left. The Colts got their lone sack of Hasselbeck and forced the Titans to punt with 9:38 left. But Titans defensive end Jason Jones tipped Painter’s pass into the air, and linebacker Barrett Ruud hauled in the interception with 8:18 remaining.

Hasselbeck found Washington alone in the end zone for a 14-yard TD pass to seal the victory with 5:20 left.

Indy tried to rally and had 1st-and-goal twice down the stretch. But Michael Griffin broke up a fourth-down pass to Dallas Clark with 2:37 left, and Painter missed connecting with Pierre Garcon on the second with 26 seconds remaining.

Tennessee relied on special teams most of the first half as the offense bogged down early, settling for field goals of 51 and 50 yards from Bironas.

Patrick Bailey broke through and blocked Pat McAfee’s punt, and McCourty grabbed the ball out of the air before falling to the ground for the TD and a 10-0 lead with 9:52 left in the second.

McCourty also tipped a pass intended for Garcon to Griffin for the interception. That seemed to give the Titans a spark on offense along with Ringer at running back and Johnson watching from the sideline.

With first-and-goal at the Colts 3, Washington ran in for his first rushing TD just before halftime for a 20-0 lead.

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Kelsey Robinson blasts a shot past South Carolina players during a match on Sunday, Oct. 30. The Lady Vols continued their SEC dominance, sweeping the Gamecocks in three sets, improving to 20-3 and 13-1 in SEC play.

Monday, October 31, 2011

Different team without Bray, Hunter

Matt Dixon Sports Editor Tennessee entered this year with little margin for error.

Despite the lack of depth and experience, virtually across the board on both sides of the ball, the Volunteers were expected to be able to score a lot of points with a high-powered passing game and compete with and possibly upset a team or two they weren’t expected to.

How different the season has turned out.

Even for the most optimistic UT fans, any chance of winning a very down SEC East ended when Justin Hunter’s left knee came down awkwardly early in the first quarter at Florida on Sept. 17.

And if losing one of the most talented receivers in the country wasn’t bad enough, Tennessee fans had to see Tyler Bray break his thumb in his throwing hand against Georgia on Oct. 8.

The Vols’ two best offensive weapons — injured and out of the team’s most difficult stretch of games.

The result? UT is sitting at 3-5 and 0-5 in SEC play, and as coach Derek Dooley said after Saturday night’s 14-3 loss to No. 14 South Carolina, “We are just a mess on offense.”

The Vols have been outscored 109-28 in their last four SEC contests, including games against the two best teams in the country — LSU and

Alabama. Currently, UT has gone 10 quarters without a touchdown.

Obviously with Hunter and Bray, those numbers would most likely be different.

Would Tennessee have beaten Georgia or South Carolina, or even Florida for that matter, if Hunter and Bray were healthy for four quarters in those games? Maybe not, but the fact that UT is without the two players who were expected to be a big part of the offense has taken its toll on the team and fan base.

“It is hard to expect 17 freshmen and sophomores to play like Hunter and Bray,” Dooley said. “Every good football team you need two or three dynamic playmakers on offense and defense. That’s what you have to have to be a good team. When you don’ t have them and nobody is filling that void, it becomes tough. Right now there is not a whole lot of dynamic playmaking going on. We have to find them.”

And finding playmakers this late in the season is a difficult task for UT coaches.

The hope that surrounded a team full of underclassmen at the beginning of the year is seemingly gone. All that’s left for the Vols is to find a way to beat MTSU, Vanderbilt and Kentucky and make a bowl game.