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Gus Captain serves up ‘Good Times’ on Strip Robby O’Daniel Recruitment Editor Patrons of Gus’s Good Times Deli these days might ask where the Gus from the sign is. The store’s namesake, Gus Captain, is still around for football gamedays, but he has passed on the business to co-owners Aaron Hale and Gerald Nelson. Nelson has worked at Gus’s since the mid-1980s, and Hale has worked at the deli on Cumberland Avenue since 1993. The story of Gus’s begins with another deli on Cumberland Avenue. Sam and Andy’s Deli set up shop from 1946 to 1996 at the location where McAlister’s Deli is now, Hale said. Captain had family ties within Sam and Andy’s ownership, and when the building that would become Gus’s became available, his family let him know about it. So Captain stopped driving taxicabs in Miami, Fla., and began Gus’s on March 13, 1981. The story of how Hale got involved with the establishment is also rooted in family ties. Gus’ son, John Captain, owns the National Fitness Center, Hale said, and Hale’s stepbrother worked at the center. Hale himself was between jobs, and he heard that Gus’s needed a delivery driver. At the time, Hale, who grew up about 30 minutes from campus in North Knoxville, did not even know how to cook. His only related experience was working at Subway when he was 16. But now he can cook everything on the menu. “We don’t write anything down, so it’s all memory,” Hale said. “It’s kind of hard at first. There’s no computer screens. It’s all just straight memory.” Now Hale, 36, has cooked the signature Gus’ burgers for 17 years, and he said most people working there have worked for at least five years there. “It’s not just some kid off the street cooking a hamburger,” he said. The learning curve gets less steep with the hours Hale puts in. Hale’s only off day is Sunday. He works double shifts on Friday and Saturday, bringing his total work week to about 70 hours. But for him, working six days a week is just normal. “I just always have,” he said. “Because everybody works a lot here.” Hale and Nelson’s small staff features three delivery drivers and three other workers who cook and clean up. Two are part-

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Bill Phillips, left, and Ajitpaul Mangat, right, both second-year masters of accounting students in English, enjoy a late lunch in Gus’s Good Times Deli Wednesday, Nov. 3. Since 1981, Gus’s has remained open until the wee hours of night to satisfy the late night meal cravings for students on campus. time, and the rest work full-time. And on gameday, the work day just keeps going. “On a gameday, you don’t ever leave,” he said. “... It’s like an 18-hour day.” But Gus’s, just like many other establishments on the Strip, puts a lot of stock into gameday sales to make up for the dead time of summer and Christmas. “(There’s) just about four months a year when we don’t do any business,” he said. Those Knoxville Utilities Board bills are high, he said, and so is rent.

The expense of operating a business on campus and the lack of parking are major drawbacks, he said. “You got to depend on a lot of students for business, a lot of foot traffic,” he said. So Gus’s throws everything behind football season, but even that can backfire, such as during the recent woes of the Tennessee football team. “When the team sucks, then the business sucks, and you don’t have any control over that,” he said. But even when the team is not doing as good and business is poorer, Gus’s still depends on gameday sales to cover the four-month drought of sales. Moreover, Gus’s embrace of sport is what appealed to Hale in the first place. “I like sports,” he said. “That’s one of the reasons I liked working here because all the sports memorabilia and how sports-based everything is.” Sports photos of key athletes and Tennessee legends cake the restaurant’s walls. And it is not all for show. A plethora of figures, including former Tennessee players and NFL stars Peyton Manning and Reggie White, had regular meals at Gus’s. White had the polish-sausage sandwich with eggs. Manning’s favorite was a chicken breast sandwich and a baked potato. In fact, Manning still stops by. He got a hamburger on the day of the first UT football game in 2009, Hale said. Even with poor outcomes, football season is still the best time of the year for business. Hale said the economy is also to blame for poor sales. “That hurts the business late night,” he said. But people still stop in for Gus’s famous hamburgers, the deli’s most popular dish. A cheeseburger, fries and a fountain drink costs $8.19 with tax. One of those patrons is Rob Goodman, senior in physics, who enjoys the staple hamburger. “It’s my favorite hamburger joint, easily the best around,” Goodman said. Other dishes include deli sandwiches, philly cheesesteaks, fried chicken sandwiches and tuna salad sandwiches. Hale said the biggest thing he’s taken away from working at Gus’s for 17 years is how to communicate with people. “Some people you have to deal with in different ways,” he said. Usually those ways include conversations about football — whether it’s about black uniforms on Halloween or UT’s recent double-overtime victory over the University of AlabamaBirmingham, there’s always a big topic of the day at Gus’s.

Guest professor lectures on WWII Peter Fritzsche paints picture of manipulated German psyche Blair Kuykendall Copy Editor Professor Peter Fritzsche from the University of Illinois joined UT faculty and students Tuesday to deliver a thought-provoking lecture on Germany during World War II. His lecture posed a central, controversial question: “Was It Possible to Hate the Nazis and Love the Third Reich?” He delved into the various facets of the notorious regime’s impact on German citizens, exploring the population’s inability to rebel against the insidious regime. Fritzsche was well received by an enthusiastic history department. “It’s my great pleasure to introduce Dr. Peter Fritzsche,” Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius, professor of history, said. “The presentation today is funded by our wonderful program in the humanities that allows students to read some of a notable professor’s work and then interact with that scholar later on in the semester. It is a wonderful chance for students to interact with leaders in their future fields.” Fritzsche was prompt in his commencement, ready to dive into the area of his lecture’s premise. “I hope it will become clear what I mean by my somewhat poignant question, after I have presented my thesis,” Fritzsche began. He opened his lecture with an anecdote that highlighted the propaganda enlisted by the Third Reich. The scene took place at a truck stop in Dresden, Germany, as one of Hitler’s radio broadcasts droned on about the success of Hitler’s regime and its operations. The patrons of the restaurant largely ignored it, as they went about eating, drinking and playing cards. This anecdote was used to illustrate the general German population’s opinion of Hitler’s regime. They supported the Third Reich to redeem their country’s unity and prosperity, not out of love for Hitler. Scholars today debate over German opinions of the Nazi regime, some claiming support for the regime developed over time and some claiming it waned as time went on. “I want to present three case studies of citizens in Germany, to give a picture of the extent of Third Reich support in Germany, even in the face of doubt regarding the Nazis,” Fritzsche said. His first subject was a man at the age of 32, who could not stand the ideals of the Hitler regime. He felt exceedingly isolated as many of his fellow Germans bought into the Hitler lies and Nazi doctrines. “The Nuremburg Laws that indoctrinated the persecution of the Jews were particularly repugnant to him,” Fritzsche said. The young man eventually conceded that a

new era had begun, however, he desired to be part of the new political community. “He would later weep for joy at the ‘union’ of Germany and Austria,” Fritzsche said. “He hated the Nazis, but he loved the Third Reich.” He also told of a young girl, who early on was a Nazi supporter. She recounted her excitement over new cloth to make a Hitler jacket for her 14th birthday. “The positive feeling of living in a new country, deeply wounded, but picking itself up again, was all consuming,” Fritzsche said. She was overjoyed by emotional displays during one of the German regimes “elections,” when men and women came from everywhere to be a part of the new Third Reich. “Germans had been dispersed, but were coming back together,” Fritzsche said. Women at home in Germany took a scandalized view of their battle loses, unified in their loss of young soldiers. They became desperate upon German losses and uncertain as to the future of their country. Faced with subjugation once more at the unraveling of the empire during the close of World War II, the German people held on to their one glimpse of freedom under the Third Reich. “In the eyes of the German people, the German soldiers were besieged heroes, who were falling at the gates of Stalingrad pursuing national viability,” Fritzsche said. The people became all the more close to the Third Reich on the threat of failure, even while they acknowledged the possible “mistakes” of the Nazi party’s actions. “Many Germans began to realize that the country had committed a great crime, but they did not want to see their nation defeated,” Fritzsche said. “In the shock of impending defeats, the Germans were anxious to bury the crimes against Jews, Gypsies and others, to preserve the nation.” Eventually, however, they would turn on Hitler, still clinging to the national ideals of unity that were rapidly slipping away. “It took a great effort to be a Nazi, to recast morality,” Fritzsche said. Fritzsche used the story of one German novelist who fought as a soldier to portray the success of Nazi use of indoctrination. Writing to comfort one of his relatives on the loss of their son, the novelist said there was no greater honor than to die in the conquest of the Reich’s goals, even if it was because of incompetent decisions of the Nazi regime. The soldier debated the idea of euthanasia, concluding he was opposed to it, but denied the possibility the Reich could fall. He wrote of the hard and bitter trials of his time at Stalingrad, hating to think that his sacrifice was in vain. See NAZI LECTURE on Page 3

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A car drives up the crowded ramp leading to the outer levels of Neyland Stadium on Wednesday, Nov. 3. The pedestrian ramp, which also occasionally serves parking duties, is slated to be torn down to make room for a large plaza, where a large statue of Gen. Robert Neyland will stand.

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Cars race down the Strip on Tuesday, Nov. 2. Paying attention, whether behind the wheel or on foot, while moving through the Strip can make the difference between a good night out and a trip to the doctor.

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parked in the CFN1 parking lot on River Drive from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. on Oct. 28.

A UT student’s blue 2000 Volvo SGS was towed for being parked in a handicap parking space with an unauthorized handicap placard. Parking services stated that the student parked her vehicle in one of the handicap spaces on the east side of the HPER building around 9:15 a.m. The student was issued a citation. A UT student reported that several items were stolen from her white 2006 Pontiac Grand Prix while it was

A UT student reported a theft that occurred in the Sigma Chi House on Fraternity Park Drive. According to the report, an unknown suspect, described as a white male, 5’8”, with a crew cut, entered the fraternity house and stole several items between 2 a.m. and 3 a.m. on Oct. 30. — Compiled by Robbie Hargett

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

Knoxville Mayor and governor-elect Bill Haslam was incorrectly identified in the Nov. 3 issue of The Daily Beacon as “former mayor Haslam.” Haslam remains mayor of Knoxville but will resign before he is inaugurated as Tennessee’s governor on Jan. 15. The Daily Beacon regrets this error.

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College of Architecture and Design to honor work of professor UT’s College of Architecture and Design is honoring the work of one of its professors with an exhibition this month. The exhibition features the work of Professor Hansjörg Göritz, who has been internationally recognized for the past 20 years. The exhibition, called Stones and Sketches, is on display now through Nov. 11 in the Art and Architecture Building’s northeast atrium exhibition hall and consists of drawings, physical models, photographs and other representations. The work represents 25 years of selected award-winning architecture. Highlighted in the exhibition is a selected number of works relating to the international award-winning National Capitol Forum and Assembly in the Principality of Liechtenstein, which was designed by Göritz’s German-based firm. The design process is represented in great detail, with some 500 original sketches, study models and documentary films on exhibit. A special lecture and reception will be held Monday, Nov. 8. A lecture by Göritz begins at 5:30 p.m. in the McCarty Auditorium in the Art and Architecture Building and will be followed by a reception. The exhibition, lecture and reception are free and open to the public. MBA program achieves high ranking from The Wall Street Journal The 2010 Wall Street Journal executive MBA rankings were recently released, and, for the first time, the Executive MBA program at the UT made this esteemed listing. Only 56 programs were ranked out of more than 700 worldwide. UT's Executive MBA program took the top spot in level of participants’ full-time work experience, ranked #2 in organizational support and #9 in nonregional focus. Students in UT’s Executive MBA program had more full-time work experience —17.2 years — than any other program ranked. Students also had above-average organizational support. Eighty-five percent of students in UT’s program received either full or partial financial support from their sponsoring organizations; 60 percent received full support, placing No. 2 in the rankings. A third measure for the rankings was mileage traveled to attend the program. More than 70 percent of students in UT’s Executive MBA program

NEWS traveled more than 45 miles to attend the program, putting UT in the top 10. The Wall Street Journal executive MBA rankings were based on surveys of recent graduates, companies familiar with executive MBA programs, and companies that employ executive MBA students. The UT Knoxville Executive MBA program is not alone in garnering impressive rankings for the college. The College of Business Administration’s executive-level MBA programs, full-time MBA program, undergraduate business curriculum and supply chain/logistics curriculum are also ranked by organizations and in publications such as U.S. News & World Report, Financial Times, The Princeton Review, Modern Healthcare, EdUniversal, The Journal of Business Logistics, AMR Research, Supply Chain Management Review and Forbes. Governor-elect Haslam to hold press conference today Mayor Bill Haslam will hold a press event at 9:30 a.m. to outline his plans for the transition from being Knoxville’s mayor to becoming governor of Tennessee. Vice Mayor Bob Becker will also participate. This press event will be held in the fifth floor atrium of the City County Building. Mayor Haslam will be inaugurated as the 49th governor of the State of Tennessee on Jan. 15, 2011. The City of Knoxville's charter includes provisions that must be followed to fill a vacancy in the mayor's office. The steps that will be taken to fulfill those requirements will be discussed at the press event. Ribbon cutting to celebrate new public area The City of Knoxville’s Parks and Recreation, along with Ijams Nature Center, will host the ribbon cutting to celebrate the opening of the 100-acre Ross Marble Natural Area on Saturday at 11 a.m. The acreage, located across the street from Ijams Nature Center, was donated by Imerys, Inc. to the City of Knoxville (via Legacy Parks Foundation) in 2007. Since then, Ijams Nature Center has been preparing the site for public use. A partnership with the Appalachian Mountain Bike Club has resulted in 3.5 miles of multi-use trails for hikers and mountain bikers. Additional trails will be added in 2011 through a State of Tennessee recreational trails grant. The Ross Marble Natural Area, adjacent to Mead’s Quarry, is a post-industrial site featuring undisturbed woodlands, rocky outcrops and a stunning gorge. The Ross Marble Quarry incorporates a man-made rock bridge offering panoramic views of the former quarry site, while underneath the lower quarry features carved Tennessee marble shelves and rock faces. A series of gated caves protect native wildlife, including bats and the rare and threatened Berry cave salamander.

NAZI LECTURE continued from Page 1 However, the “freedom” the Germans had gained would quickly disappear. “In the minds of the Germans, the present was a difficult moment of redemption that would hopefully vanquish the failures of the past,” Fritzsche said. The Germans were continuously tormented by their defeat in World War I, as the French soldiers would ridicule the Germans by leaving 1918 inscribed in places they vacated. The German people largely opposed euthanasia and sterilization but suppressed these doubts as they struggled to hold on to a semblance of unity and accomplishment until the very fall of their empire. “The identification of the Nazi party with the survival of the German people fostered a love of the Third Reich and strengthened its legitimacy,” Fritzsche said. “Many decades later the citizens would not recognize their writings during that era,

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suffering under the Nazi worldview.” Germans repressed their doubts in an effort to gain national recovery after World War I. “The Third Reich was more important than the Nazis,” Fritzsche said. “The divide between those who considered themselves Nazis and those who didn’t was blurry, as nationalists grappled with the moral failings of Hitler’s regime.” They did not grapple with allegiance to the idea of a powerful German government, however. “Efforts of thoughtful discussion did not benefit the Nazi cause, but there was an apparent use of history to justify Nazi acts,” Fritzsche said. Some Germans were sympathetic to the plight of the Jews, but the majority of Germans boycotted their businesses. Jewish suffering was often rationalized and forgotten in the face of German suffering. “There are countless examples of Germans seeing and then justifying their atrocities against Jews,” Fritzsche said. “They continued to mull over these moral dilemmas, deciding to turn to a self-imposed complicity. They never wholly abandoned their doubts but suppressed them.”

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Rising — Basketball time in Tennessee As the UT football team recovers from a winless October, Thompson-Boling Arena is poised for the upcoming Tennessee basketball season, which by all accounts looks to be a promising one. The Lady Vols kicked off their exhibition season with a dominating 110-66 home victory over CarsonNewman on Tuesday, while the Vols took to the court Wednesday against Brevard for their exhibition opener. For the Lady Vols, the theme for the season will be experience and lots of it. Pat Summitt has constantly harped on her team’s deep roster, with hopes that experience will turn into wins come tournament time. Naturally, Summitt’s squads are used to Final Four appearances but reaching college basketball’s elite foursome will once again be the Lady Vols’ goal this year. For the Vols, coach Bruce Pearl will be shooting for a solid season to mask the unfortunate NCAA infractions his staff endured as a result of lying to college basketball’s governing body. Losing seniors Bobby Maze, Wayne Chism and J.P. Prince will change the face of Tennessee basketball, but a talented crop of newcomers will likely make the transition that much smoother.

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View of humanity influences view of world

Falling — Confusion in the College of Arts & Science After the announcement by the College of Arts & Sciences dean Bruce Bursten that he will step down from his post and return to the classroom at the end of the year, UT announced Wednesday that Harry “Hap” McSween, a distinguished professor of science in the UT Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, will assume the position of interim dean of the College of Arts & Sciences. McSween, a 32-year faculty member at UT, is best known for his work with NASA and his extensive knowledge of Mars and will take control of UT’s largest college on Jan. 1. A national search for a more permanent replacement will begin soon. Rising — Need for Hogwarts Ph.D. program In news that comes as a relief to sensible human beings, the state of Delaware, the U.S. legislature and the general civic process as a whole, alleged former witch and noted Crusader against masturbation, Christine O’Donnell, lost. O’Donnell, a former political pundit and Tea Party darling, lost to Democrat Chris Coons in Tuesday’s election. O’Donnell’s campaign had been marred with all sorts of embarrassing revelations about her personal life, ranging from clips of her appearances on the now-defunct “Politically Incorrect,” in which she admitted to dabbling in witchcraft as a teen, sordid stories about her sexual non-behaviors and onenight stands posted to the blog Gawker.com, her rampant assertions that evolution is made up and her alleged lack of being familiar with the Constitution (which is unfortunate, given that she is supposed to be a Constitutionalist). Now that being a national political player didn’t work out for O’Donnell, we at the Beacon have some career advice for her once she recoups her loses from this election. Christine, the election is over, it’s fine — you can go ahead and stop pretending, take out your broomstick and fly back to your boyfriend Snape’s dungeon. That’s right, we know, the gig is up. A lot of times, when people go through major career changes, they tend to seek out a new direction in their lives, start anew. For example, when Al Gore lost the election in 2000, he grew an awesome Grizzly Adams-esque beard, became a crazed environmentalist, left that fuggo Tipper and could finally devote the time and energy he really needed to search for ManBearPig. Christine, we implore you to take a page from Al’s spellbook and go back to Hogwarts. You can work on your Defense Against the Dark Arts (those darn liberals!), Care of Magical Creatures (someone has to look after Sarah Palin, after all) and Potions (hey ... some might say that Jager has magical healing powers), among other things. Girl, you’re totally meant to be a Hufflepuff! And look on the bright side, Christine, everyone wins in this situation. You get to further your education and really be yourself again with your pointy hat and Firebolt, and we get the luxury of never having to hear about you ever again. Everyone wins! COFFEY & INK • Kelsey Roy

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Leigh Dickey If you’d ever like to feel better about the troubled relationship you have with your family, I have a suggestion for you: Watch the 1968 version of “The Lion in Winter.” The film is set in England in 1183 A.D., and stars Peter O’Toole as King Henry II and Katharine Hepburn as his estranged wife, Eleanor of Aquitaine. The two have three grown sons: Richard (Anthony Hopkins), Geoffrey and John. The movie follows the diabolical plotting and scheming of the family to force the aging King Henry to choose one of his sons as an heir. The movie is one of my favorites for several reasons. The lines are witty, and Hepburn and O’Toole together are something out of Shakespeare. I don’t love this movie, though, just because of the talented acting. The story and dialogue of “The Lion in Winter,” like the best art and literature, speak to what it means to be human. It makes a few observations in particular about human nature that profoundly resonate with me. To remind myself of these, I watched the movie last night, when I should have been writing this column. I blame this on my roommate J. Every week I ask my friends what I should write about, and every week J is less than helpful. This week, though, she actually suggested a topic: She said I should write about “unions,” to which I replied, “No.” Then J looked frustrated but not with me. She seemed aggravated by life in general and told me to “write about whether people are innately good or bad.” When I asked what had spurred this idea, J explained: The company for which her father works is considering unionizing, and she and her dad had been discussing the pros and cons of unions. Basically, J wished that corporations could be trusted not to exploit their workers — on the one hand, thus negating the need for unions, and on the other hand, that workers could be trusted not to slack off at their jobs, even though they know they’ll be paid the same amount as the best workers for their lower quality work. Why, she wondered, couldn’t people be trusted? Are people inherently bad or good? At one point in “The Lion in Winter,” the three sons are gathered in their mother’s room, discussing who will

inherit the throne, when Richard taunts John with his knife. John cries, “He’s got a knife,” and runs to the corner, at which point Hepburn delivers one of my favorite monologues. She declares, “Of course he has a knife, he always has a knife, we all have knives! It’s 1183 and we’re barbarians! How clear we make it. Oh, my piglets, we are the origins of war: not history’s forces, nor the times, nor justice, nor the lack of it, nor causes, nor religions, nor ideas, nor kinds of government, nor any other thing. We are the killers. We breed wars. We carry it like syphilis inside. Dead bodies rot in field and stream because the living ones are rotten ...” What do you think? I don’t suggest you base your understanding of human nature on fictional episodes, but I mention the monologue, because fiction can give us a different lens through which to see the truth. Are people innately good or bad? Are wars caused by religion, politics and lack of resources? Or are they caused, simply, by you and I? The monologue continues, as Eleanor wonders, “For the love of God, can’t we love one another just a little — that’s how peace begins. We have so much to love each other for. We have such possibilities, my children. We could change the world.” While I think this assessment of mankind's potential is accurate, the fact that Eleanor says it is ironic: She is possibly the most selfish creature in the movie. We have great possibilities, yes: We could love one another and have peace. But does she? And will we? I took a modern history class last term on the wars and violence of the 20th century. The professor began by telling us his “agenda” for the course: He wanted to show, he said, that civilized society is hard work, fragile, not our default mode. Knowing how often we see the failures of man, ought we not celebrate his triumphs all the more? For me, believing that man is innately selfish doesn’t mean I reject his achievements or have no hope for his future. It does mean, though, that I receive that hope from something outside of man. How do you view humanity? Do you think human beings are innately good or innately bad? Or do you think, like a friend of mine, that they are neither, and simply choose how to act based on their circumstances? What we think about human nature, whether we realize it or not, influences how we view the world and how we relate with others, two things that I, for one, need to take much more seriously. —Leigh Dickey is a senior in global studies and Latin. She can be reached at ldickey2@utk.edu.

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I work a lowly retail job. There are two things wrong with the previous sentence: 1. That I am working (because I am horrifically lazy) and 2. That it is retail. I hate my job, with an unhealthy, burning passion, and sometimes the people I meet during work make me loathe it just a little bit more. I have never been a person who thinks the best of people — admittedly, I have a very pessimistic view of people and their attitudes, and I seem to meet the worst and biggest (insert invective of choice), therefore proving my already low opinion of people. However, I have to work in order to put food on the table and pay my rent and tuition, because I want to graduate so badly. So as galling as it is that I am more educated than 99 percent of the people I meet, and that I’m treated worse than most neoNazis, I have to tell myself that I’m working for a better life and am a better person, because I already possess the compassion to treat people a little better than crap. I hate having to work, and although it sounds incredibly elitist, I’m not used to working. Having come from an upper-middle class family, I’m used to having the best of everything my parents could afford. I wasn’t spoiled, because I had friends from all walks of life, but I usually didn’t want much to begin with, and when I did, I got what I wanted. I was probably really materialistic in my adolescence as a result but not to the point where my parents started handing out BMWs like candy (like a lot of people I see here on campus, you know who you are, you rich (insert invective of choice again)). So when my parents became unemployed because of this God-awful economy and money became more scarce than the Dead Sea Scrolls, I started working my minimum-wage job and realized just how awful things are out there, and how people who are at the lowest end of the payroll totem pole get treated. Yay for holding down a part-

time job, being poor and not giving up! FML. I have 19 hours of workload, write for the Beacon and work about 34 hours a week. I don’t get much sleep, don’t see my friends too often and haven’t seen my family since sometime in early August, because every day that I ask off, it gets rejected. The pampered part of me screams that this isn’t right, that I am supposed to be out, enjoying my youth with my friends and living up my last year in undergraduate studies. However, reality hits me like a ton of bricks, and while I am thoroughly cognizant of the fact that I am incredibly lucky, a part of me wonders if this is all that I am destined for, because I work so hard for so little, with every sinew screaming for rest and every brain cell needing its forty winks. Nothing in my college experience could have prepared me for this; no test could have measured my social ineptness with people; no project could quantify my motivation in using my job to finish college. I go to class, I work, I study, I sleep and do it all over again, with no stopping point and no gaps in between for myself. I’m told that I’m an extremely brave person because I’m willing to work instead of being a burden on society — except I’m not brave, I just know how to use my money well, my rent is criminally low and I don’t really need much. I have this personal issue with living on loans for the rest of my life, and while I have a credit card and use it reasonably, I eschew it for my Visa debit card, choosing to spend the money I do have. My consolation is that I’m not alone, and that in my head, I’m part of a Generation Z, a neo-babyboomer-affected class, who will spend the next 10 years living in fear of losing their jobs and cutting coupons like there’s no tomorrow. We go to school, don’t depend on anyone else to buy clothes or food, and do what we can to get by, knowing that somehow it will be all right. While I know that it’s hard right now for me to see the light at the end of the proverbial tunnel, I know that I’ll come out better on top later, and I’m a lot more empathetic to the plight of my fellow coworkers and people who have not had the same opportunities in life that I have had. And maybe, when we look all around us, we will realize that everything will be okay in the end, and if it’s not okay, it’s not the end. —Yasha Sadagopan is a senior in economics. She can be reached at ysadagop@utk.edu.

Thursday, November 4, 2010

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SPORTS

Lady Vols gleam in first exhibition game Zac Ellis Editor-in-Chief No Kelley Cain? No Angie Bjorklund? No problem for the Lady Vols. Forward Glory Johnson scored 26 points and grabbed nine rebounds to pace six players in double figures as Tennessee rolled past visiting Carson-Newman 110-66 in UT’s season-opening exhibition contest on Tuesday at Thompson-Boling Arena.

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Glory Johnson drives to the hoop during the season opener against Carson-Newman. Johnson is one of six returning juniors for this season. The Lady Vols return all of their starters from 2009. Without the services of virtually its entire frontcourt — center Cain and forwards Alyssia Brewer and Vicki Baugh nursed injuries — and All-American guard — Bjorklund sat out the contest for skipping class — Tennessee went deep into its bench early to showcase some new faces in the UT family. “We were playing a lot of players,” Tennessee coach Pat Summitt said. “… This was the first time for this team to be together on the floor together with people in the stands. This is why we have exhibition games.”

Taber Spani scored 22 points for the Lady Vols, with Shekinna Stricklen adding 15 — all in the first half — and Alicia Manning recording a double-double with 15 points and 13 rebounds. Mandy Mendenhall led the Lady Eagles with 16 points. The Lady Vols shot out of the gate early with two Spani 3-pointers and another Shekinna Stricklen trey to open up a 9-2 cushion less than two minutes into the contest. A fourth 3-pointer by Stricklen at the 15:34 mark pushed the Lady Vols ahead 20-5. “I think the confidence level of everyone to produce offensively has risen a lot with each year,” Spani said, who connected on 4-of-6 from downtown. “I think if we can have five people who are all major threats offensively when we’re out on the court, I think that is very hard to guard.” Spani’s jumper with 1:03 left in the half gave UT a halftime lead of 63-36. Despite the score, Summitt voiced her displeasure about her squad’s rebounding and defense. “In the seven years that we’ve played Carson-Newman, we gave up more points than we have against them,” Summitt said after the game. “Why? We just weren’t as passionate about playing great defense. “Defense and rebounding are our bread and butter. Those have to be two of the most important things for us when we step on the court.” The second half was a different story for the Lady Vols. After losing the rebounding battle 16-18 in the first period, Tennessee finished the game with a 2910 second-half rebounding advantage. UT held CarsonNewman to only 37-percent shooting after intermission compared to 45 percent during the first half. “I feel like we’re going to start off rough, and for us it was our defense,” Johnson said. “We were hitting offensively, and our shots were falling at the beginning of the game, and when we weren’t, we started struggling with our defense.

“That’s what happens when we still have stuff to work on in the first game.” The Lady Vols’ offense followed suit. Two Johnson free throws with 1:14 left in the game posted UT’s largest lead of the night at 46 points. Freshman guard Meighan Simmons provided a spark in the second half, scoring eight of her 11 points after the break. “She’s speedy,” Johnson said of Simmons. “I think that’s part of her game, and she’s good at it. So until she starts messing up while she’s going fast, I think she should keep using that to her advantage.” “She’s got a great touch, a great shooting touch,” Summitt said. “She’s very quick and a great team player. She did a lot of good things and will continue to work to get better.” The Lady Vols wrap up their exhibition contests Sunday by welcoming Union College to Thompson-Boling Arena at 3 p.m.

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Thursday, November 4, 2010

Undersized Kovacs swims big PrestonPeeden Staff Writer In the entertainment world, a cliché, of the socalled little man triumphing over great obstacles and coming out victorious, is commonly used . This idea is common in underdog movies like “ R o c k y , ” “Remember the Norbert Kovacs Titans” and “Little Giants,” but sometimes movies transcend the silver screen and find a place in real life. This can be applied to Tennessee sophomore swimmer Norbert Kovacs. Kovacs, in a way, is like a cross between the Little Engine that Could and Michael Phelps. “He’s like Rudy,” Vols coach John Trembley. “But much shorter.” And also much faster. While Kovacs is not 4 feet 3 inches as Trembley described him, he is definitely not the largest swimmer in a sport seemingly dominated by tall men. To Kovacs though, height is not a big deal. “It doesn’t matter if you’re tall or short,” he said. “You just need to swim hard.” And Kovacs, a Budapest, Hungary, native, is doing just that. So far this season, Kovacs has won five individual events in just two meets and has also stunned many with his versatility. “He can swim distance, he can (swim) middistance and sprinting,” Trembley said. “He can swim everything.” Not only has Kovacs been successful in the states, but he is an accomplished international swimmer. Kovacs competed in the European Championships this past summer, as well as representing his native Hungary in the 2008 Beijing Olympics. “It was amazing,” Kovacs said of the experience. Outside the pool, Kovacs is known less for his accomplishments and more for his personality. “He’s a very gregarious and animated person,” Trembley said. When he’s not swimming, Kovacs said he likes “to hang out with the guys (his fellow teammates), just watch some movies or, honestly, just sleep.” He likes to read books about World War II, and when asked what his favorite movies are, Kovacs

listed “Braveheart” and “Gladiator.” Sticking to action films, he also said that his favorite actor was “300” star Gerard Butler, and his favorite television show is “Dexter.” Kovacs is a finance major, and besides a career in swimming, he hopes to go to New York and “just do something involving finance.” An athlete he looks up to is fellow Hungarian and four-time Olympic medalist László Cseh. What is most amazing about Kovacs is not his times, or his jokes, but rather it is how he got to UT and how quickly he became a part of this university. Kovacs came recommended to UT from another former Vol swimmer, also from Hungary. When he arrived on campus in January, Kovacs was still learning how to speak English. “At the time I had only started to learn this language until four months before,” Kovacs said. “And, well, I didn’t speak it so fast.” Despite his small stature — Kovacs is listed at 5 feet 10 inches — his importance to the Vols cannot be measured in the inches he does or does not have but rather in the seconds he beats opponents by. He is a leader in almost every practice, something Trembley chalks up to his amazing work ethic, desire and experience. During meets, Kovacs’ personality helps him remain undaunted, as not even the greatest amount of pressure seems to faze him. Going forward, it seems as if a big part of the Vols’ overall success this season will depend upon one of its smallest member. Following the same vein of the cliché Hollywood tale, Kovacs’ height will make him seem like the underdog at first glance. But with his performance and his attitude, Kovacs will, as he said, forget about height and just “swim hard.”

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Whitney Wofford returns a shot against an opponent during the ITA Ohio Valley Regional on Friday, Oct. 15. Brynn Boren, who captured the singles title of the event, will be traveling to the ITA Indoor Championships which begin today in Flushing, N.Y.