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Recycling changes promise convenience Free program initiates weekly pickups, saves travel time for Knoxville residents get recycled and then reused in our community,” Bruce said.

Brush management is also a big recyclable in waste management. Every two weeks the city of Knoxville collects tree limbs, yard debris and other brush from residents. This debris is then processed into mulching materials instead of simply dropping it into landfills.

While the recycling movement is definitely gaining stride in Knoxville, Bruce sees room for growth.

“We’ve increased the number of households recycling

One main reason people do not currently recycle is that the cost is normally greater.

“Right now people are throwing away things because we provide services to come pick them up,” Bruce said. “If Carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide, metal particles and we can figure out a way to make all of those services recyhydrocarbons — all of these can be found in the pollution clable, then I think people would be a lot more prone to released by cars. Carpooling or public transportation are recycle.” normally suggested solutions for the problem of pollution.

While there are some areas of recycling that are still Recycling, however, does not normally come to mind high-cost, the process overall has been a revenue generawhen considering the idea of air quality. tor. For example, the processing center, RockTenn, is The actual distance a bag of trash actually a paper company, but the travels from home to the landfill is need for recycling has caused it to much more extensive, expensive and implement a recycling center as pollutant than the average citizen well. This center then can provide realizes. In the city of Knoxville, the raw materials to make its prodwhen a resident sets out a bag of ucts through recycling. trash to be collected it travels over Recycling is also helping promote 20 miles just to get to Chestnut business growth in cities.

Ridge Landfill in Anderson County.

“When we meet with companies This does not include the miles it who are thinking about relocating to travels en route to other garbage Knoxville, we’ve often had them ask pick-ups. about our city’s recycling program,” While recycling may seem to pose Bruce said. “They want to know if the same problems, Knoxville’s new we offer specifically curbside pick-up “Do Your Part With Your Cart” proservice.” gram eases some of the environmenIn order to ensure that recycling tal troubles. Knoxville previously would be just as cost efficient as had a drop center style of recycling trash pick-up, the city of Knoxville where citizens had to sort their recyhad to cut back in other areas of clables then drive them to various waste management, including their recycling centers in town. The city’s backdoor pick-up service. This servdata estimates that citizens drove ice is intended for citizens who are over 1 million miles in one year recyphysically unable to do the normal cling. curbside service; but in Knoxville, The new program, implemented 15,000 out of 60,000 households

by Governor Bill Haslam’s mayoral were receiving the service. The servadministration, works similar to a ice is still available to those in need, trash pickup program and is free to but many citizens are no longer eliKnoxville citizens. Those who want gible. to be a part of the program can sim“I would definitely say one of the ply sign up online to have a recycling biggest challenges of this program cart delivered and then have weekly was making sure those citizens who recycling pickup. While there is still are no longer eligible for backdoor some driving involved, the total pick-up were made aware of the number of miles is greatly condensed change,” Bruce said.

Ian Harmon • The Daily Beacon when citizens recycle with this new Emily Culvern, a nutrition major, program. Unlike trash collection that Recycling bins sit inside SERF last fall for students to put various plastic and paper. UT does its must be driven 20 miles or more, part in recycling with the “Make Orange Green” project and a recent “Zero Waste” campaign at is excited about the new program.

“I used to have to take the recyrecycling is brought to RockTenn, a the Parent’s Weekend tailgate. cling downtown and with four roomprocessing center located in the city mates,” Culvern said. “That really of Knoxville. At this processing center, the paper and plastic are baled into squares of processed material. Seventy- from 12 to 30 percent, which is a huge step. I definitely adds up.”

She feels like the program will inspire more people to five percent of this material is then redistributed locally think we still need to raise awareness about recycling and recycle because of the convenience. and regionally, further conserving driving costs and envi- about waste management,” Bruce said.

Bruce explained certain restrictions on trash that may “Before this program, recycling was more of a chore,” ronmental impact. she said. “Now it’s just as easy as taking out the trash.”

David Bruce, along with the rest of Knoxville’s Public need to be increased in order to promote more recycling.

“Right now we limit citizens on the amount of trash we Recycling is just one step cities like Knoxville are takService department, is dedicated to making Knoxville’s will pick up in a certain week. I think maybe in the next ing to ensure air quality and a healthy environment overwaste management more environmentally friendly.

“Waste management has a lot to do with sustainability four or five years looking at things like lowering this num- all. It may seem insignificant, but according to Bruce and and Knoxville already diverts 60 percent of its waste from ber so people will have to recycle because we just won’t other pro-environmentalists, it all starts with one less bag the landfills. We do a lot to make sure that these materials collect the amount of trash they’re producing,” Bruce said. at a time.

Ali Griffin

Staff Writer

Williams to step down as dean Staff Reports Jan Williams, dean of the College of Business Administration has announced plans to retire on June 30, 2012.

In light of this news, a search committee has been formed to find a replacement.

Williams served as acting dean since July 2000 and assumed the role officially in July of 2001.

Williams proceeded Warren Neel after he chose to serve as a commissioner of finance and administration.

Williams began his UT career in 1977 as a professor. His roles at UT include having served as an associate dean of the college and as head of the college’s accounting department.

“Under Jan’s leadership, our College of Business Administration has become a national leader. Its supply chain/logistics program is among the very best in the country. Jan also was at the helm when the magnificent new James A. Haslam II Business Building opened,” said Susan Martin, provost and senior vice chancellor for academic affairs, according to a UT press release. “We wish him well in this new phase of his life, and we will work hard to find a leader who will lead the college to great things in the future.”

The search committee to find a replacement will be chaired by Wayne Davis, dean of the College of Engineering.

The members are: Kate

Atchley, distinguished lecturer and director of the business college’s Executive MBA for Strategic Leadership and leadership development programs; Bruce Behn, Ergen Professor in Business in the Department of Accounting and Information Management; Center for Business and Economic Research (CBER) faculty fellow; Jacob LaRiviere, assistant professor of economics in the College of Business Administration; Bobby Mee, William and Sara Clark Professor in Business in the college’s Department of Statistics, Operations and Management Science; Matt Murray, Ball Corporation Professor in Business; associate director of CBER; Mintha Roach, president and CEO, Knoxville Utilities Board; president, UT Knoxville Alumni Board of Directors; past chair, Chancellor’s Associates; member, College of Business Administration Advisory Council to the Deans; Tyvi Small, coordinator of diversity initiatives for the College of Business Administration; Anne Smith, Flaskerud Professor in Business in the college’s Department of Management; Ted Stank, Harry J. and Vivienne R. Bruce Chair of Excellence in the college’s Department of Marketing and Logistics; Tracie Woidtke, David E. Sharp/Home Federal Bank of Tennessee Professor in Banking and Finance; director of the doctoral program in finance; research fellow in the college’s Corporate Governance Center.

Fraternities assist training program “We listen really well,” Hicks said. “They (the fraternity houses) don’t all need their food service at the same time; they need it at different times. We really tried to pay attention to what they need so they could Though every fraternity volunteers with a charity of really focus on their studies.” its choice, five are taking the extra mile and investing Mason McGlamery, IFC president and senior in in an organization that gives homeless people more political science, believes the service has added conthan a warm shelter. venience to the fraternity houses.

The Abundant Life Kitchen is a part of the for-prof“The people have been so amazing,” McGlamery it company Lazarus Ventures, LLC. Along with offering said. “They’ve taken a lot of the grunt work off us.” culinary job training for indigent individuals, Lazarus The Abundant Life Kitchen serves lunch and dinner Ventures also trains employees for jobs in janitorial Monday through Thursday, with Fridays only serving careers. Lazarus Ventures, LLC. sits under the umbrellunch and Sunday only serving dinner. The Kitchen la of the Knoxville cooks a variety of meals, Area Rescue such as veggie wraps with Ministries, or red pepper mayo and KARM, a ministry pulled pork barbecue sandorganization that wiches. focuses on shelterStudents of the ing the homeless.

Abundant Life Kitchen “We’re able to branch outside of serving give them back their busy college students. The lives,” said Tracy students also cater at for– Tracy Hicks, director of business and communication Hicks, director of mal events, and are scheddevelopment of KARM, business and comuled to serve at the on giving homeless people more than a warm shelter munication developAmerican Red Cross ment of KARM. Banquet in Knoxville.

“We’re providing jobs to help others.”

According to Hicks, about 70 percent of the students Students of the Abundant Life Kitchen learn culiare hired into professional employment within 60 days nary skills from different chefs for 16 weeks. Students of graduating. One student now works as a sous chef in are housed at KARM and are provided medical treata popular Atlanta hotel. ment, transportation and other essential needs.

Currently, KARM is in the process of changing the Students are also trained in business etiquette, such location of its services, but Hicks hopes that once they as the importance of a presentable appearance at work move, the larger building will allow students to serve at and time management skills. more venues.

Currently, five fraternities, Sigma Phi Epsilon, Phi Andrew Hale, campus coordinator for KARM and Delta Theta, Sigma Nu and Lamba Chi Alpha, are part sophomore in finance, believes the Abundant Life of the Abundant Life Kitchen meal plan. The employKitchen provides more than shelter for homeless indiees serve about 2,200 meals a day and cook a variety of viduals. food in the Phi Delta Theta kitchen. The food is then “They’re not just bathing them and giving them a transported via shuttle to other fraternity houses in place to live, but they’re giving them resources to give professional catering equipment. back to society,” Hale said.

Victoria Wright Staff Writer

“ ” We’re able to give them back

their lives. We’re providing jobs to help others.

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Friday, October 7, 2011

Tia Patron • The Daily Beacon

Brian McHale, professor at Ohio State University, speaks at UT on Sept. 9 for his lecture “Things Then Did Not Delay in Turning Curious: Some Versions of Alice.” In the lecture he discussed and compared versions of the popular story “Alice in Wonderland.”

1913 — Moving Assembly Line at Ford For the first time, Henry Ford’s entire Highland Park, Mich. automobile factory is run on a continuously moving assembly line when the chassis — the automobiles frame — is assembled using the revolutionary industrial technique. A motor and rope pulled the chassis past workers and parts on the factory floor, cutting the man-hours required to complete one “Model T” from 12-1/2 hours to six. Within a year, further assembly line improvements reduced the time required to 93 man-minutes. The staggering increase in productivity effected by Ford’s use of the moving assembly line allowed him to drastically reduce the cost of the Model T, thereby accomplishing his dream of making the car affordable to ordinary consumers.

In introducing the Model T in October 1908, Henry Ford proclaimed, “I will build a motor car for the great multitude.” Before then, the decade-old automobile industry generally marketed its vehicles to only the richest Americans, because of the high cost of producing the machines. Ford’s Model T was the first automobile designed to serve the needs of middle-class citizens: It was durable, economical, and easy to operate and maintain. Still, with a debut price of $850, the Model T was out of the reach of most Americans. The Ford Motor Company understood that to lower unit cost it had to increase productivity. The method by which this was accomplished transformed industry forever.

Prototypes of the assembly line can be traced back to ancient times, but the immediate precursor of Ford’s industrial technique was 19th-century meat-packing plants in

Chicago and Cincinnati, where cows and hogs were slaughtered, dressed, and packed using overhead trolleys that took the meat from worker to worker. Inspired by the meat packers, the Ford Motor Company innovated new assembly line techniques and in early 1913 installed its first moving assembly line at Highland Park for the manufacture of flywheel magnetos. Instead of each worker assembling his own magneto, the assembly was divided into 29 operations performed by 29 men spaced along a moving belt. Average assembly time dropped from 20 minutes to 13 minutes and soon was down to five minutes.

With the success of the magneto experiment, Ford engineers put the Model T motor and then the transmission on moving assembly lines. On October 7, 1913, the chassis also went on the moving assembly line, so that all the major components of the Model T were being assembled using this technique. Ford rapidly improved its assembly lines, and by 1916 the price of the Model T had fallen to $360 and sales were more than triple their 1912 level. Eventually, the company produced one Model T every 24 seconds, and the price fell below $300. More than 15 million Model T’s were built before it was discontinued in 1927, accounting for nearly half of all automobiles sold in the world to that date.

The affordable Model T changed the landscape of America, hastening the move from rural to city life, and the moving assembly line spurred a new industrial revolution in factories around the world.

1984 — Walter Payton sets a record On October 7, 1984, Chicago Bears running back Walter Payton becomes the NFL’s all-time rushing leader, breaking the record Cleveland’s Jim Brown set in 1965. In front of 53,752 people at Soldier Field, Payton carried the ball 154 yards and finished the game with a new career rushing record — 12,400 yards, 88 more than Brown.

The week before, Payton had rushed 155 yards against the Cowboys, and he had only 66 yards to go before he beat Brown’s 20-year-old record. Still, the Bears had been playing unevenly since the beginning of the season — they’d won their first three games, then lost two — and the team got a slow start against the New Orleans Saints. During the first quarter Payton moved the ball only 34 yards in six runs; during the second, he made nine runs and gained 30 yards, including a one-yard touchdown with three seconds left in the half. To beat Brown’s record, he needed to carry the ball just three more yards. Almost as soon as the second half began, Bears quarterback Jim McMahon pitched the ball to Payton in a reliable play that the team called the “Toss 28 Weak.” Fullback Matt Suhey and left guard Mark Bortz protected Payton as he completed a record-setting six-yard run.

He didn’t take much time to celebrate, though.e rushing

record, but Payton maintained that the team’s momentum was more important than his achievement. So, the festivities were brief. Payton accepted his teammates’ congratulatory hugs and handshakes, turned the record-setting football over to a representative from the Pro Football Hall of Fame, and went back to the game. His dedication paid off: The Bears won the game 20-7 and Payton set one more record, for carrying the ball more than 100 yards for the 59th time in his career.

1985 — Palestinian terrorists hijack an Italian cruise ship Four Palestinian terrorists board the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro shortly after it left Alexandria, Egypt, in order to hijack the luxury liner. The well-armed men, who belonged to the Popular Front for the Palestine Liberation Front (PLF), the terrorist wing of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) led by Abu Abbas, easily took control of the vessel since there was no security force on board.

Abbas had been responsible for many attacks on Israel and its citizens in the early 1980s. On multiple occasions, he sent men on hang gliders and in hot air balloons on bombing missions to Israel, all of which turned out to be miserable failures. In an attempt to salvage his reputation, Abbas ordered the hijacking of the Achille Lauro. Yet there were no specific goals or demands set forth in the mission.

At first, the terrorists demanded that Israel release imprisoned PLF members and sought entry to a Syrian port. But when Syria denied the request, the terrorists lost control of the situation. Gathering the American tourists on board, the terrorists randomly chose to kill 69-year-old Leon Klinghoffer. The wheelchair-bound American was shot in the head and thrown overboard.

Klinghoffer’s cold-blooded murder backfired on the terrorists. The world’s outrage forced PLO chief Yassir Arafat to cut PLO ties with the terrorists and to demand that Abbas end the situation. On October 9, Abbas contacted the terrorists, ordered them not to kill any more passengers, and arranged for the ship to land in Egypt.

Meanwhile, the elite U.S. Navy SEALs were dispatched to raid the Achille Lauro. But by the time they arrived, the terrorists had already gotten off the ship in Egypt and boarded a plane to Libya. The United States then sent out two F-14 fighter jets, which intercepted the plane and forced it to land in Italy. A three-way standoff between the PFLP terrorists, the Americans, and the Italian Army on the runway in Sicily ended with the Italians taking Abbas and the other terrorists into custody.

Despite intense American pressure, the Italians allowed Abbas to leave the country, and then prosecute the four who were on board. All were convicted, but only one received a sentence of 30 years; the others got off with lighter prison terms. Italy tried and convicted Abbas in absentia, but did not seek extradition until 2003. He was captured by U.S. Special Forces in Baghdad that year and died in American custory in 2004.

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

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Egyptian army stays in power The Associated Press CAIRO — The leader of Egypt’s ruling generals said Wednesday the army has no interest in staying in power for a long time, but insisted the military council won’t step down until it has “fulfilled its commitments.”

Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi’s comments appeared designed to debunk claims by some politicians that he and the generals of the Supreme council of the Armed Forces do not intend to hand over power to a democratic government as they promised when they took over from President Hosni Mubarak, toppled nearly eight months ago in an 18day uprising.

“We will not abandon Egypt before we finish what we pledged to do and committed ourselves to before the people,” Tantawi told reporters in comments shown on state television and carried by the country’s official news agency.

“The military council has no interest in staying (in power) for a long time.”

Many activists in the youth groups that engineered the Egyptian uprising have accused Tantawi, Mubarak’s defense minister for 20 years, of being slow in dismantling the legacy of his former patron’s 29year rule and of not doing enough to stop the torture of detainees by the military.

They also accuse him of trying to steal credit for the popular uprising away from the hundreds of thousands of men and women who took to the streets across the nation during the revolt.

Last week, state television broadcast footage of Tantawi walking around downtown Cairo in civilian attire, giving rise to speculation that he might be considering a run for the country’s top job. The military has given Egypt all of its four presidents since young officers seized power in a 1952 coup that toppled the country’s monarchy. It has since been Egypt’s most powerful and secretive institution.

But on Wednesday, Tantawi denied that the military intended to nominate one of its own for the president’s job.

There has been intense speculation that a civilian with a military background, like a retired general, would be the army’s preferred choice for president. Such a figure would be loyal to the military, foiling, for example, any attempt to bring the armed forces and its budget under parliamentary scrutiny.

Alternately, the military could insist on a political role as a “guardian” of the nation in a new constitution due to be drafted next year, giving the top generals a collective say in all key policies.

Three Egyptian colum-

nists and a film critic, meanwhile, withheld their regular commentaries in an independent daily on Wednesday to protest what they said was censorship by the country’s military rulers.

The four — Belal Fadl, Omer Taher, Nagla Bedir and Tareq el-Shinawy — left their columns blank, publishing only a few words explaining their decision.

The protest by the four coincides with growing criticism of the military’s handling of Egypt during its transition period following Mubarak’s Feb. 11 ouster and dissatisfaction over a timetable floated by the ruling generals for handing over power to a civilian government.

The timetable has proposed presidential elections for the end of 2012, meaning the generals would be in power for nearly two years before they step down, rather than the six months they had initially set as a deadline when they took over from Mubarak. Parliamentary elections, the first since Mubarak’s ouster, are scheduled to start on Nov. 28.

The four writers publish their daily columns in the independent Al-Tahrir, a post-Mubarak publication edited by Ibrahim Eissa, who has long been one of Mubarak’s most vocal critics. Eissa, like the three columnists, has been critical of some of the military’s policies. The newspaper is named after the central Cairo plaza that saw the birth of the anti-Mubarak uprising.

Authorities last week stopped the publication in an independent weekly newspaper of an article critical of Egypt’s intelligence service, which is traditionally led by a military officer. The newspaper’s editor, Abdel-Halim Qandil, said officers of the intelligence service halted the printing after the presses had begun running.

Qandil said he replaced the offending article, but only after intelligence officers oversaw the destruction of some 100,000 copies.

The article was critical of the leadership of Mubarak’s intelligence service under Omar Suleiman, a close confidant of the ousted president who was named vice president shortly before Mubarak stepped down on Feb. 11. Suleiman is a career army officer.

Also last week, two other publications were subjected to censorship.

One was ordered not to publish the second part of an investigative report claiming that Mubarak had instructed authorities to drop a case against an alleged Israeli spy. The second newspaper was ordered to remove a headline saying that Tahrir Square protesters wanted Tantawi removed.

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President Obama demands action The Associated Press WASHINGTON — Defiant and frustrated, President Barack Obama aggressively challenged Republicans Thursday to get behind his jobs plan or explain why not , declaring that if Congress fails to act “ the American people will run them out of town.”

The president used a White House news conference to attempt to heighten the pressure he’s sought to create on the GOP by traveling around the country, into swing states and onto the home turf of key Republican foes including House Speaker John Boehner and Texas Gov. Rick Perry.

Giving a bit of ground on his own plan, he endorsed a new proposal by Senate Democrats to tax millionaires to pay for his jobs program. “This is not a game,” he said.

Obama made no apologies for his decision to abandon seeking compromise with Republicans in favor of assailing them, sometimes by name. He contended that he’d gone out of his way to try to work with the GOP since becoming president, reaching hard-fought deals to raise the government’s borrowing limit and avert a government shutdown, and had gotten nothing in return.

“Each time, what we have seen is games playing,” the president said. “I am always open to negotiations.

What is also true is they need to do something.”

Obama was still at the lectern when Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid told Republicans he would permit a test vote as early as late Thursday on the president’s original measure. There was little doubt it would fail, the outcome Republicans hoped for.

The president predicted dire political consequences for his opponents if they don’t go along.

“I think the American people will run them out of town because they are frustrated and they know we need to do something big, something bold.”

“We will just keep on going at it and hammering away until something gets done,” he said. “And I would love nothing more than to see Congress act so aggressively that I can’t campaign against them as a do-nothing Congress.”

Yet Obama’s campaign has not swayed Capitol Hill Republicans who oppose the higher taxes he and other Democrats want to use to pay for his proposal. They accuse Obama of playing “campaigner in chief ” instead of working with them.

“If the goal is to create jobs, then why are we even talking about tax hikes?” Senate Minority leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said Thursday.

Republicans are resolutely opposed to much of Obama’s jobs initiative, both for its tax increases for wealthier people and small businesses and its reprise of stimulus spending on roads, bridges and schools and grants to local governments to pay the salaries of teachers and first responders. They criticize his bill as another version of his $825 billion stimulus of 2009, one that this time would rely on raising taxes.

Obama did say he would support a new approach by Senate Democrats for paying for his jobs bill with a tax on millionaires rather than his plan to raise taxes on couples making more than $250,000.

The president’s strident tone underscored a difficult political predicament as he seeks re-election with the economy slowing and unemployment stuck above 9 percent. “Our economy really needs a jolt right now,” he said.

The president said that without his nearly $450 billion package of tax cuts and public works spending there will be fewer jobs and weaker growth. He said the bill could guard against another economic downturn if the situation

in debt-laden Europe worsens.

“If it turns out that there are Republicans who are opposed to this bill, they need to explain to me, but more importantly to their constituents — who’s the American people — why they’re opposed and what would they do.”

“What I’ve done over the last several weeks is to take the case to the American people so that they understand what’s at stake.”

Obama said the economy is weaker now than at the beginning of the year. Citing economists’ estimates, he said his $447 billion jobs bill would help the economy grow by 2 percent and create 1.9 million jobs.

“At a time when so many people are having such a hard time, we have to have an approach, we have to take action that is big enough to meet the moment,” he said.

Obama addressed the disaffection with politics pervasive among the public that’s driven down his approval ratings — and even more so, Congress’ — as he seeks a second term.

Appearing fed up, Obama blamed it on Republicans who he said refuse to cooperate with him even on issues where he said they once agreed with him. He talked about the ugly debate over raising the government’s borrowing limit that consumed Capitol Hill and the White House over the summer, until Obama gave in to Republican demands for deep spending cuts without new taxes.

“They don’t get a sense that folks in this town are looking out for their interests,” Obama said of Americans in general. “So if they see that over and over again, that cynicism is not going to be reduced until Congress actually proves their cynicism wrong by doing something.”

“What the American people saw is that the Congress didn’t care.”

Obama also said the “Occupy Wall Street” demonstrators protesting against Wall Street and economic inequality are expressing the frustrations of the American public.

He said he understands the public’s concerns about how the nation’s financial system works. And he said Americans see Wall Street as an example of the financial industry not always following the rules.

Asked why there hadn’t been more prosecutions in the financial sector, Obama said that many of the activities that precipitated the financial crisis in 2008 were not necessarily illegal. He said many financial schemes were probably immoral, inappropriate or reckless and required new regulations.

Obama criticized efforts in Congress, led by Republicans, to roll back some of the financial rules approved last year. He defended the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau created by that the legislation against GOP efforts to weaken it.

Obama also said that some banks are now using new regulations as an excuse to charge consumers more. It was a reference to a fee some banks are imposing to make up for restrictions on debit card fees they charge retailers.

“It’s not necessarily fair to consumers,” he said.

Obama also said the European Union has to act fast to deal with its debt crisis, but he said he is confident that European leaders are ready to take the necessary steps.

He said he hopes that European leaders have a “very clear, concrete plan of action that is sufficient to the task” by next month’s meeting of the Group of 20 rich and developing nations. Obama said the European debt crisis had already affected the U.S. economy.

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OPINIONS

Better

Than

Reality TV

Comedy debut to mixed reviews Robby O’Daniel Recruitment Editor Let’s take a look at some more debuting comedies.

“2 Broke Girls” (CBS): This was the big CBS premiere, but is it worth watching? It depends on if viewers have a problem with the filmed-in-front-of-astudio-audience sitcom. CBS still uses it heavily, but not many other networks or channels do. So fans of “30 Rock” looking for something new to watch might get immediately turned off by what sounds like canned laughter in the background after every joke.

However, a number of ’80s sitcoms like “Family Ties” or “Head of the Class” count as among my favorites.

And stuff like “All in the Family” is still revolutionary and hilarious today, even when viewed in today’s context.

So while I think these type of shows are outdated, if the right one comes along, it can still click. “2 Broke Girls,” while cheesy at times, came off as a nostalgia trip to me.

“2 Broke Girls” follows Max (Kat Dennings) and Caroline (Beth Behrs), waitresses at a diner in the big city. When Caroline’s family loses all of their money, somehow bringing her from millionaire to poor house in one fell swoop, she has to take on work as a waitress to support herself. All the while, the two have fantasies of starting a cupcake business using Caroline’s business savvy and Max’s cupcake know-how.

Yes, some of the writing is not exactly on par. In the pilot, the essence of the plot is that Max’s boyfriend is a jerk, and he tries to cheat on Max with Caroline. When Caroline refuses, he cheats on Max with someone else, suggested it’s probably habitual cheating. Caroline confronts Max about it, and Max accuses her of lying.

But then Max quickly finds her boyfriend cheating with someone else and immediately tells him to get out. Max and Caroline make up and become best friends. This all is crammed in episode one.

The problem is that this plot provokes more questions than answers. Why is Max dating this obvious idiot?

The show tries to explain it away by saying Max was just intoxicated by his body, but that seems extremely short-sighted for the character already. Plus how have Max and this guy been together as long as they had if he is stupid enough to actually bring people back to their

apartment to have sex with, while she is at work? Like “New Girl,” “2 Broke Girls” tries to get instant sympathy by having the main character getting cheated on, and it just feels tacked on and forced.

The show really works when it’s just throwing out one-liners and having fun with the few relationships it’s established. Mainly Behrs as Caroline is the breakout here. Her character reminds one of Blair from “The Facts of Life,” who also used slapstick and repartee to foil her snobbish character. Caroline is more fun-loving than Blair, but she has the expressions and mannerisms down. “2 Broke Girls” is a great, vacuous addition to anybody’s TV-watching week.

“How To Be a Gentleman” (CBS): But this show is not. Just judging from the cast, it should be a great show.

It has breakout characters from “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” (David Hornsby), “Entourage” (Kevin Dillon), “Flight of the Concords” (Rhys Darby) and more. Yet it just comes off as so flat and formulaic.

Unlike in “2 Broke Girls,” Hornsby’s Andrew Carlson, who thinks of literally everything in the sense of what a gentleman would do and writes a “how to be a gentleman” column for a magazine, does not seem like anyone someone would actually meet in real life.

His character is easily the most dislikable of the show, yet he’s the main character. That is a problem.

His foil with Dillon comes off as extremely forced.

A few of Dillon’s lines read like they are coming straight from the first draft of a script, like the last line in the pilot: “You were being you. We’ll fix that.” I feel like I have seen this show a million times already. Skip.

“Whitney” (NBC): Just judging from the bland title of the show, one can already see this is just a tableau for Whitney Cummings to try some of her relationship humor within the context of a loosely formed television show. So much of the first two episodes just read like lame stand-up comedy jokes. From a quick Wikipedia search, yes, Cummings has an extensive stand-up background.

While her boyfriend Alex (Chris D’Elia) has some hilarious facials, he constantly just comes off as fake, like he is living this wacky life with no consequences. His face is stuck in this raised-eyebrow pose for two episodes.

At its worst, the show comes off as preachy about what a relationship is and is not. At its best, it is bland.

Skip.

— Robby O’Daniel is a graduate student in communications. He can be reached at rodaniel@utk.edu.

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Deeper consequences from Iraq T he Bur den o f I n fa l l i b i l i t y by

Wiley Robinson President Obama’s commitment to finally withdraw all troop activity by Dec. 31 of this year is drawing close, and, regardless of your stance on the war, the consequences for sticking around in Iraq need to be objectively discussed.

The arbiter in the decision making process of whether to keep any troops behind, for whatever reason, is the fledgling government of Iraq itself. The “de-Baathification" of Iraq, especially in light of the spontaneous democratic movements in countries around the Middle East, raises the question of whether forcibly invading and occupying a country is the most conducive thing for allowing a state to independently evolve itself.

It’s the kind of automatic cynicism that first requires a subconscious level of liberal optimism. If this were the formula for a spontaneous chemical reaction, (L) denoting the specifically liberal state of matter, as it were, it might read something like optimism(L)+reality=cynicism(L).

Perhaps more than anything, such cynicism implies the latent hope that this vague, anticlimactic withdrawal is America’s opportunity to start showing faith in multilateral cooperation once again — the policy that once saved the world from self-destructive paranoia of out-dated conflict models. And to add another layer of liberal idealism, this could also be America’s chance to treat a Middle Eastern state with the kind of optimistic economic stewardship it showed towards Asian countries during the cold war — instead of with things like pessimistic paternalism (in the form of “tough love” carpet bombing and the imposing of pro-American dictators), messy rules of engagement that have achieved an amazing level of civilian casualties gone completely unaccounted for, and dare we forget, unwarranted invasion and occupation. These are simply not cultures we’ve had a history of giving the benefit of the doubt.

Even with a self-conscious identification tone in place, speculating about the new Iraqi state, and the small pool of any actual decision making precedence it may have, remains impractical. American interest remains the prime mover in the region, and American interest, as if the last large chunk of human history is any indication, is the practical starting point of conducive utilitarian argument for everyone involved.

A recent op-ed in The Washington Post by Meghan O’Sullivan, former deputy national security adviser to President George W. Bush, claims that despite political emotions having a continued presence in Iraq, it will be a positive thing at the end of the day; America should “reap the benefits of it’s investment.” I will resist raging overlong on how deliciously damning it is to one’s humanitarian sensibilities to refer to a violently subdued, resource rich country as an “investment,” but O’Sullivan vaguely suggests we should keep a small active force over there to keep up the appearance of staying “committed” without high troop numbers — and also to somehow help arbitrate the distribution of oil to “help the global economy.” It’s our “responsibility.”

If America has a track record that merits us being responsible for anything positive on a global scale, it’s the dissemination of economic ideas and technology, which it can be argued are ultimately stabilizing contributions for everyone. The seemingly spontaneous zeitgeist of democracy and human rights sweeping the Middle East can be reasonably linked to communication technology, with a few specific examples of social network organization, both of which America has ultimately catalyzed. Educated people have embraced these tools and it has helped them start demanding real region changes, which is very exciting.

A new and incredible development in this debate is the method of miraculously extracting oil from subterranean rock via hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking.”

This American technology has become so efficient that the global spread of energy production that has been making the U.S. feel all vulnerable and prone to sloppily invading weaker nations will rapidly center completely on North and South America. In 2008, we imported 2/3 of our oil. This year, we imported less than half.

The projections are in: In a few years we will have 2 trillion barrels of oil in reserve, more than half of what the entire Middle East maintains at a time. In five years we will have surpassed Russia as the world’s largest supplier of oil and gas, negating arguably the most important political leverage a country can have that isn’t a lot of nuclear warheads; and in 10 years, we will have exceeded the amount of oil even Saudi Arabia can pump, producing enough to exceed global demand. Aside from maintaining paternalistic delusions, the U.S. can now afford to leave Iraq and Afghanistan and own up to its neoimperialistic shenanigans. What we can’t afford to do is sit on our barrels of Carboniferous sludge and wait until other countries develop commercially viable alternatives.

— Wiley Robinson is a junior in ecology and evolutionary biology. He can be reached at rrobin23@utk.edu.

Everyone holds piece of history Chao s Theory by

Sarah Russell

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Historians and biographers almost overwhelmingly focus their research and writings on famous people.

Men and women who were active in the public sphere of history, whose names were widely recognized and whose actions were publicized and discussed across the country, inevitably draw the attention of most researchers. It is certainly easier to study the impacts of those men and women because of the greater number of sources available — people in the public sphere are more likely to appear in newspaper and magazine articles and are more likely to have their speeches or writings published for public access. But while there is no denying that these famous men and women had enormous impacts on history, too often they are given credit for initiating entire social, cultural and political movements all on their own.

History often overlooks the role that ordinary people played in these movements. Changes in the human experience, positive or negative, are not the result of one person’s single-handed efforts — these changes came about because of the combined involvement of ordinary people, whose personal experiences were the real driving forces behind these movements.

The question then becomes how to uncover and then preserve these experiences of ordinary people, which can be a fairly challenging task. Unless the individual took it upon himself to keep a diary or write a personal memoir or autobiography, a historian is left to uncover clues about the individual’s daily life without the guidelines of a written history. Without the ability to trace a person’s day-to-day activities or read their inner thoughts on the political, social and intellectual movements swirling around them, historians must rely on seemingly ordinary items to discover the places and roles that these ordinary people created for themselves.

With the right mindset, however, the stories of ordinary people are easy to find if you know where to look for them. The childhood experiences of your greatgrandmother can be just as evident in her vast collection

of Mason jars as if she had written a book about growing up during the Depression, and how her family’s poverty forced them to save everything, down to jelly jars and scraps of soap. The cookbook of 30-minute meals passed down from your mother speaks volumes about her experiences trying to work and raise a family at the same time. Your father’s old leather briefcase tells the story of his climb up the corporate ladder.

But even outside the realm of family heirlooms — or junk, depending on your family — you can tell a great deal about people you have never met through their material goods. A walk through any antique store, estate sale or yard sale gives evidence to this fact. A copy of “Jane Eyre” with an inscription in the front can tell you that the previous owner of the book loved to read classic literature at age seven. A single fur coat on a rack full of polyester jump suits tells you that someone had finally earned enough to treat herself to something nice, or just that everyone had terrible taste in the ’70s. There are certainly some items that people buy merely for show or that sat on a shelf for years without ever being used. But those who valued the things they had often put a piece of themselves into the most basic items, and those items continue to tell their stories through the years.

There is a growing movement in history to preserve these items and to study their importance as windows into the lives of ordinary people. The true connoisseurs of “daily” history are not the antique appraisers who only see the monetary value in old items, or the overworked parents selling their household miscellany in an attempt to make a few extra dollars. Those who really know about the history of the ordinary person are the oral historians and the archivists, who make their livings studying the stories and items of regular people leading regular lives. An oral historian can glean a wealth of information about the civil rights movement from an old white woman who watched it unfold from her apartment in Birmingham. An archivist can tell, merely by looking at a photograph, where and when the person lived and what their social status was.

These men and women do not disregard the stories and items of people who were not famous or in the public eye. They use the experiences of the individual to shed light on the way history affects people simply living their lives.

— Sarah Russell is a junior in history. She can be reached at srusse22@utk.edu.

Friday, October 7, 2011

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Teacher fired for addressing religion The Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio — A judge has upheld the firing of a central Ohio public school science teacher who was accused of preaching religious beliefs in class and of keeping a Bible on his desk.

Knox County Common Pleas Judge Otho Eyster said in his two-page ruling Wednesday that he found clear and convincing evidence that the Mount Vernon school board was right in dismissing John Freshwater early this year.

A request by the former Mount Vernon Middle School teacher for Eyster to conduct additional hearings “is not well taken,” the judge wrote.

The school board in the community about 40 miles northeast of Columbus first tried to dismiss Freshwater in 2008 after investigators reported that he preached Christian beliefs in class when discussing topics such as evolution and homosexuality, and was insubordinate in failing to remove a Bible from his classroom.

Freshwater appealed to an outside referee, a state hearing officer, utilizing a right of teachers facing firing in Ohio. The hearing officer recommended in January that Freshwater’s contract be terminated, and the school board formally fired him within days.

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Judge Eyster noted in his ruling that he reviewed the 6,344 pages of transcript and approximately 350 exhibits from the referee’s hearing.

Freshwater also was accused of using a science tool to burning students’ arms with the image of a cross, but that allegation was resolved and not a factor in his firing.

Freshwater said Thursday that he’s considering his next step.

“At this time I am reviewing all of my options and speaking with (The) Rutherford Institute and my personal attorneys,” he said in an email to The Associated Press.

The Rutherford Institute is a Charlottesville, Virginia-based civil liberties group which has been involved in the case.

Attorney and institute president John Whitehead said Freshwater has 30 days to file an appeal and said his group is ready to move in that direction.

“The lower courts are very difficult to get by because they do uphold local school boards almost unanimously,” Whitehead said. “We’ll have a better chance in an appeals court which will have more distance away from the school board and the local community.”

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Friday, October 7, 2011

Friday, October 7, 2011

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UT, Burroughs raise awareness World grieves loss of Apple genius Chris Flowers Staff Writer The smiling face of Steven A. Burroughs immediately greeted all those entering Presidential Court for the latest Burroughs’ sponsored event, “Stomp Out Stigma.” While at first one might think that this was an attempt

by Burroughs to get rid of all the extra T-shirts from Swagfest, quickly the mood of the event was made clear. Burroughs spent his time not self-promoting, but rather sponsoring a yearly mental health awareness event.

“We’re holding this event to raise awareness for mental health issues college students face,” Burroughs said after handing out free T-shirts and chapstick. “The goal is to remove some of the stigma surrounding mental health problems so students will be more likely to ask for help when they need it.”

Burroughs — who said he will be giving away around 1,000 T-shirts, 500 chapstick containers, six months of free haircuts and a threenight stay in a luxury cabin in Gatlinburg — pointed out that the inspiration for his involvement in “Stomp Out Stigma” came from his wife Marcie, the co-creater of VolAware Street Fair.

“At the time, I was associate director at the counseling center and we were working really hard to destigmatize mental illness and to help people realize when they are in trouble and know what resources are available,” Marcie Burroughs said. “At the street fair tomorrow there is going to be some yoga, chair massages, informational booths, QPR training sessions (question, persuade, refer suicide prevention program) and an inner-child play area where people can study crafts and really focus on well-

ness and taking care of themselves.”

After a keynote speech delivered by local talk radio host Hallerin Hilton Hill, which touched on the importance of asking for help when dealing with mental health problems, two local bands, Lions and Johnny Astro and the Big Bang, played for those in attendance.

Lions’ band members, one of whom sported Ash Ketchum’s signature hat, seemed like friendly guys as they joked with the audience throughout their show. Their high-pitched vocals and heavy use of syncopation in their driving guitar lines were reminiscent of the post-hardcore band Meet Me in St. Louis.

Johnny Astro’s brand of indie rock had a more traditional, blues influenced rock ‘n’ roll sound. The foursome won The Square Room’s Sound Off competition earlier this year, making them one of Knoxville’s hottest new bands.

Johnny Astro took a break in the middle of their set so Burroughs could draw the winners of the haircuts and cabin rental. This proved to be a fairly awkward moment, as the vast majority of those who entered the drawing did not stuck around long enough to attend it. It took seven names to get to someone who was present to win the haircuts and 15 to get to a winner for the cabin rental.

Omega Psi Phi, UT’s first African-American fraternity, followed Burroughs with an enthusiastic step performance before Johnny Astro finished their set.

The event as a whole had little to do with mental health awareness beyond the speech from Hill and a few informational booths, but it was a fun distraction for students for the night and gave those who missed out on Swagfest the opportunity to meet Knoxville’s favorite billboard.

Jake Wheeler • The Daily Beacon

Robert Myrland, senior in buissness, and Mark Bellott, junior in computer science, prepare to climb the wall in HPER’s climbing gym. The gym is open from 3-9 p.m.

Monday through Thursday, and 3-7 p.m. on Fridays.

The Associated Press Steve Jobs was grieved around the world Thursday through the very devices he conceived: People held up pictures of candles on their iPads, reviewed his life on Macintosh computers and tapped out tributes on iPhones.

One day after his death, two days after Apple introduced the latest incarnation of a touch-screen phone that touched pop culture, sadness and admiration poured out — not for a rock star, not for a religious figure, but for an American corporate executive.

By people who have grown up in a world where iPod headphones are as ubiquitous as wristwatches were to a previous generation, Jobs was remembered as their Elvis Presley or John Lennon.

Perhaps even their Thomas Edison.

“It’s like the end of the innovators,” said Scott Robbins, 34, who described himself as an Apple fan of 20 years and who rushed to an Apple Store in San Francisco when he heard the news.

Apple announced Jobs’ death Wednesday night and remembered him as a “visionary and creative genius.” The company announced no cause of death, but Jobs had been diagnosed with a rare pancreatic cancer seven years ago and had a liver transplant in 2009. He was 56.

On Thursday, the Apple website, which usually fea-

tures slick presentations of multicolored iPods and everthinner MacBook laptop computers, simply displayed a black-and-white photo of Jobs, thumb and finger to his beard as if in contemplation.

Around the world, tributes sprang up of the highest and lowest technology.

In the Ginza shopping district of Tokyo, people held up iPhones and iPads, their screens facing outward and displaying sharply defined, touchable graphics of flickering candles.

At an Apple Store in Hong Kong, old and new means of grief came together: People scribbled “RIP” and “We miss Steve” and longer notes of condolence on Post-It notes, and stuck them to an iPad display.

And at the 24-hour Apple Store in midtown Manhattan, the remembrances were more traditional. Passersby left flowers and candles, actual ones. Even there, people snapped pictures of the memorial with their iPhones.

“I was so saddened. For me it was like Michael Jackson or Princess Diana — that magnitude,” Stephen Jarjoura said at the Apple Store in Sydney.

His said Jobs left a legacy to rival Edison and Albert Einstein.

Philippe Meunier, a senior partner of a Canadian ad agency who was visiting New York from Montreal, reflected on how weird it was to receive the news of Jobs’ death on the phone he invented.

In a measure of his impact on personal technology, Jobs

was venerated by his fiercest competitors in the hours after his death.

Bill Gates, the co-founder of Microsoft, a company that Apple once treated as Goliath to its David, then blew past in market value, said it was “an insanely great honor” to have known Jobs. A statement of grief came from Sony, whose Walkman and Discman were buried by the iPod. Google added a link to the Apple site on its famously minimalist search page. Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook, thanked him for changing the world.

To the extent that there is an online version of the oldtime public square, it was overrun Thursday by remembrances of Jobs.

On Twitter, where the most popular “trending” topics change by the hour, “ThankYouSteve” and “iSad” were still high on the list a day after his death.

On Facebook, people posted revisions of the Apple logo, a stylized apple with a detached leaf and a half-moon bite taken out. One added a frown and tears to the apple.

Another replaced the bite with a silhouette of Jobs himself.

Heads of state around the world added their thoughts.

President Barack Obama said Jobs exemplified American ingenuity. Mexico’s President Felipe Calderon bemoaned the loss of “one of the most visionary minds of our times.”

India’s Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, said he was “deeply saddened.”

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SPORTS

Friday, October 7, 2011

Vols hope to rise in SEC East against Dawgs Clay Seal Assistant Sports Editor Tennessee welcomes in Mark Richt and Georgia to Neyland Stadium on Saturday for the 41st meeting between the SEC East rivals.

Georgia (3-2, 2-1 SEC) enters the game in a three-way tie for first in the division along with No. 17 Florida and No. 18 South Carolina. Tennessee (3-1, 0-1) is in fifth place.

Four of the last five meetings have been decided by at least 18 points, with the last two being at least a 26-point differential.

Tennessee lost 41-14 in Athens, Ga., last year.

“Everybody knows Georgia pretty well around here and they whipped us pretty good last year — about as good as you can get whipped,” UT coach Derek Dooley said.

“They are probably as talented as any team in the league.”

Georgia quickly jumped to a 17-0 lead in the first quarter, and had the game in hand with a 27-7 lead at halftime.

Sophomore quarterbacks Tyler Bray and Aaron Murray lead their sides as arguably the two best QBs in the SEC. Bray runs the 11th best passing game in the country, and has thrown for 1,328 yards with 14 touchdowns and just two interceptions. Bray went 21-of-30 with 342 yards passing and four scores against Buffalo in the first full game without star wide-out Justin Hunter, whose season ended after he tore his ACL against Florida Sept. 17.

“I have zero complaints,” Dooley said.

“Never as good as we want him to be but he’s played well and now let’s see how he can play against Georgia. I’m extremely pleased. It’s hard to look at his numbers and be disappointed in what he’s doing, but I don’t want to get too excited. I just want to measure us week-to-week. We’re doing good.”

Murray is just as important to the Bulldogs as Bray is for the Volunteers. The dual-threat QB accounted for 307 of Georgia’s 402 yards of total offense in last year’s match-up, throwing for two touchdowns and rushing for another two.

“Really, if you just watch the first 10 plays of last year’s game, you could tell that once he gets outside the pocket he’s dangerous,” UT defensive backs coach Terry Joseph said of Murray, who scored on a 35-yard run last year against the Vols. “For our underneath players, it will be very important to keep an eye on him and make sure what we’re going to do when he gets out of the pocket and reduce the space and make a good tackle.”

Sophomore Da’Rick Rogers had a careerhigh 180 yards on seven receptions with two touchdowns against Buffalo. Rogers is now Bray’s main target with Hunter out.

Tauren Poole notched his second 100-yard game of the season against Buffalo. However, at Florida, UT’s only SEC game this season, Poole carried for just 18 yards on nine carries. With 111 yards a game, Tennessee’s running game ranks last in the SEC. “The running game hasn’t been there all year in my opinion,” Poole said. “I have to get better at that. I haven’t really done anything this year that I was supposed to be doing.”

With the home team winning the last four meetings, Tennessee is ready to make up for last year.

“When we left Athens last year, we got our butts whipped pretty good,” Joseph said.

“Physically, we got them whipped. I think it’s evident on tape, it’s evident in the score.

Really, it’s going to be exciting to see a year later where are we. We said in recruiting we wanted to tag those needs, plug this JUCO guy in and bring these guys in. Now they’re here so it’ll be interesting to see how we Micheal DeMaria • The Daily Beacon match up against a quality team like Da’Rick Rogers runs down the sideline during the Buffalo game on Saturday. Rogers Georgia.” had 180 recieving yards and two touchdowns.

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Murray, Crowell duo leads hungry Bulldogs Patrick MacCoon Staff Writer After a rough start to the season with losses to two ranked teams in Boise State and South Carolina, the Mark Richt-led Georgia Bulldogs (3-2, 2-1 SEC) have answered back strong with three straight wins and head into Knoxville on Saturday tied for first in the SEC East, alongside Florida and South Carolina.

While sophomore quarterback Aaron Murray has not missed a beat from last year and has been the centerpiece of the Bulldogs offense up to this point in the season, throwing for 1,100 yards and 13 touchdowns, it has been the freshman running back Isaiah Crowell who has been turning heads with his explosive runs.

Through five games, Crowell has been a headache for opposing defenses, rushing for 515 yards on 99 attempts and has found the end zone on two occasions. The Tennessee Vols’ (31, 0-1) run defense will be in for a tough test, especially considering that it has allowed two opposing rushers to have 100-yard games this season and Crowell has three of those performances already under his belt.

Crowell’s best performance this season came in a 27-13 defeat of Ole Miss. On the day, he carried the ball 30 times for 147 yards.

“The thing I’m noticing about him is people are having a hard time getting clean contact on him,” Richt said. “They’re getting edges of him.

He is very elusive in space and it’s kind of subtle. The guy looks like he’s right there to hit him pretty solidly, but he does just enough to take his hips away. He gets hit but he keeps on going.”

Richt compared the freshman tailback to a former Bulldog tailback.

“The backs that can make people miss in a tight space are really very good,” he said.

“That’s one of the things I think Knowshon (Moreno) may have been one of the best I’ve ever seen as far as being a guy that could make people miss in the box or behind the line of scrimmage. He was just exceptional at that, and

Isaiah has some of that.”

Some of the other threats on offense that the Vols will have to be aware of are freshman wide receiver Malcolm Mitchell and junior tight end Orson Charles. The two have combined for 38 catches for 568 yards and seven touchdowns.

Charles leads all tight ends in the SEC with four scores.

While the Bulldogs have been solid on offense this season, averaging 34.6 points per game, they have struggled on defense at times but have settled down a little during their three-game win streak. During the streak, the Dawgs have held their opponents to a combined 7.7 points per game and have forced eight turnovers.

In their most recent win against Mississippi State, Georgia’s defense limited its opposition to 213 total yards and held State to 4-of-15 on third downs.

“We’ve worked on third down stops, and so far it’s been one of our strengths,” Richt said.

“As (defensive coordinator Todd) Grantham likes to say, ‘getting them off the field.’

Execution is the key and the big difference this year for us.”

However, the Bulldogs might suffer a bit in holding the Vols on third downs this Saturday, as they will be without starting outside linebacker Cornelius Washington, who was arrested last weekend. Washington leads the team in sacks this season with three and a half.

All in all, things are shaping up to be a very interesting game in Knoxville this Saturday, as the game has great importance to both teams.

“Playing there at their place, having to deal with all the crowd noise, having to deal with the things you have to deal with on the road, it’s going to make for a heck of a ball game,” Richt added. “I know that two years ago we got beat pretty bad. Last year, we beat them pretty good here, so you can’t go by what happened last year.

You have to play this year’s game and that’s what we are ready to do.”

A win would give Richt his 100th career win as coach in Athens. The game will be televised

by ESPN2 with the kickoff set for 7 p.m. EST.

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Matt Dixon Sports Editor Last year’s Tennessee-Georgia game was over-hyped for a variety of reasons, mostly because UT coach Derek Dooley was returning to Athens and to the school where his father is a legend.

Yet the importance of this year’s match-up hasn’t been mentioned enough.

It is arguably the most important game of the season for both teams, but especially for Tennessee.

Is it a must-win game? Of course not.

Win or lose, the Volunteers will still host LSU next Saturday. Is that a “can’t-win” game for UT? No, just like UT’s season won’t be a failure if it doesn’t beat the Bulldogs on Saturday.

Still, Dooley needs his first signature win with the Vols, and a victory this weekend would keep UT in contention

for an SEC eastern division title.

With essentially two weeks to prepare, a sold-out Neyland Stadium and a night kickoff, UT has a lot in its favor.

The home team has also won the last four meetings in the series.

Georgia, despite having plenty of talent, has had its fair share of troubles in recent years, leading to questions about Mark Richt’s future as coach.

Richt, the longest tenured coach in the SEC in this his 11th year, will most likely coach Georgia beyond this year.

Given the Dawgs’ favorable schedule the rest of the season — avoiding LSU, Alabama and Arkansas from the SEC West — a win in Knoxville puts them in the driver’s seat to represent the east in Atlanta in the SEC Championship Game in December.

But that’s a long time away and neither team has the luxury of looking ahead like the media does.

After last year’s embarrassing 41-14 loss, UT certainly shouldn’t be. The Vols have to be focused on finding some semblance of a productive running game and

containing Georgia’s backfield of Aaron Murray and Isaiah Crowell if they want to keep Richt from winning his 100th game as a head coach.

The last two times the Dawgs came to Knoxville, in 2007 and ’09, UT dominated, winning by a combined score of 80-33. The last six games in the rivalry have been decided by more than 12 points. If Saturday’s game plays out like recent history, the Vols have a good chance because UT’s offense, particularly its passing game, is more explosive than Georgia’s.

As evident by my Pick ’em prediction, I expect UT to come out on top and win its biggest game since South Carolina on Halloween in 2009. The infamous black jerseys were victorious that night and Dooley’s orange pants will produce the same result for the Vols on Saturday.

Only this time, it’ll be the biggest win for Dooley at Tennessee.

—Matt Dixon is a senior in journalism and electronic media. He can be reached at mdixon3@utk.edu.

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