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Cupcake sale aims to bridge education gap UT joins national organization to raise funds enabling girls to attend school Kyle Turner News Editor Alpha Chi Omega and Phi Mu Alpha are holding UT’s inaugural She’s the First cupcake bake sale in an effort to close the gender inequality gap in education.

“One hundred and thirty million individuals are not enrolled in school,” Jarett Beaudoin, senior in global studies, said. “Of those 130 million, 70 percent are girls.”

She’s the First is a national organization aimed at raising awareness and funds to send women to school throughout the developing world.

“I consider myself lucky to go to college and yet there are millions of girls who cannot even make it to high school,” Katie Riley, senior in global studies, said.

“Many times families can only afford to send one child to school if any at all,” Beaudoin said. “For financial reasons, men are chosen over girls in many developing areas.”

Those participating in the event stress the many benefits to be had from increased education of women.

“It is important to educate girls not only for the human rights aspect but also for the progression of those countries in the developing world,” Beaudoin said.

The bake sale will be a part of a larger coordinated event that is taking place in 25 different states. Ninety teams will participate in Monday’s event, ranging from college teams to private groups, all raising money for the same goal.

The two organizations have teamed up and posed the sale as a contest to raise the most money.

“Sometimes it can be hard to make a dif-

ference on your own,” Riley said. “We decided to join Alpha Chi Omega and Phi Mu Alpha to make the most impact.”

The bake sale, Monday from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on the Pedestrian Mall, is being set as a competition to see which organization can raise more money for the cause. All students are encouraged to come show support and purchase baked goods. All of the money raised will be donated to She’s the First.

Those interested in She’s the First have the option of sponsoring individual girls throughout the world.

“One of the unique aspects of sponsoring a girl is the one-on-one ability to the sponsor and student,” Beaudoin said. “The program can open communication and show the report cards of the student. Seeing the actual impact is very important.”

The idea of selling tie-dye baked goods was hatched two years ago by a single Notre Dame student. In her effort to raise a little money, she was able to sell enough cupcakes to send three Nepalese girls to school with only $900.

Riley hopes to have repeated success at UT and keep the bake sale going for years to come with more participating teams.

Riley joined the She’s the First organization a short time after their opening two years ago. Working with the organization has opened her eyes to what she has.

“School has provided me with so many opportunities that I could have never had without education,” Riley said. “Raising money for the organization is not only important because we can send girls to school.

Many people are unaware that this inequality even exists and raising awareness is extremely important as well.”

Those interested in the organization are urged to visit www.shesthefirst.org.

George Richardson • The Daily Beacon

Alpha Chi Omega and Phi Mu Alpha are hosting the She’s the First cupcake bake sale on Monday, Nov. 7. from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. The event’s proceeds will go to bridge the gender inequality gap in education, helping to get women into more educational opportunities.

Political employees reach students Rob Davis Staff Writer

George Richardson• The Daily Beacon

Sean Aiello, senior in Italian, glues pomps to a horse as part of the Pi Kappa Phi and Sigma Kappa float for the homecoming parade on Thursday, Nov. 3. Pomping, one of the oldest and perhaps most frustrating traditions of homecoming week, requires students to fold thousands of sheets of paper to cover the floats in the annual Friday afternoon parade.

Students were able to interact with former White House aides and current Harvard Fellows Ron Christie and Linda Moore Forbes via Skype in the Baker Center’s Toyota Auditorium from 6-7 p.m. on Nov. 6.

“It’s so funny, the Clinton administration seems like it was just yesterday,” Forbes said. “To most college freshmen, this is history. Most college freshmen were born during the first year of the Clinton administration.”

Forbes served during both Clinton terms in the White House Office of Political Affairs. During the first term, Forbes served as special assistant to the president, and in the second term as deputy assistant to the president and deputy political director.

The idea behind the Office of Political Affairs is to maintain the president’s approval rating as well as his image. In addition to working with the White House, Forbes also worked with the Democratic Leadership Council (DLC).

“The DLC wanted President Clinton to change the image of the Democratic Party and to change its agenda,” Forbes said. “We had lost four out of five of the last presidential elections before the president ran. The DLC wanted Bill Clinton to put together a campaign agenda that was all about expanding economic growth and that the private sector was the engine of that growth, espousing traditional American values of community and responsibility and also providing a strong national security for our country.”

For the time, making these values part of Clinton’s campaign was very different for the Democratic Party.

Another interesting change Forbes experienced during the Clinton administration was the boom in technology.

“Technology was exploding,” Forbes said. “I remember carrying around a beep-

er, using e-mail that was only in the White House and surfing the web at the White House.”

Also present for the Presidential Perspectives event was Bush administration adviser, Ron Christie.

“I’m really psyched to have the opportunity, along with Linda, to speak to you guys tonight and share a little bit of our insights with working in one of the most amazing spaces in the world, and that is the 18-acre complex of the White House,” Christie said.

Shortly after the 2001 election, Christie received a call from Scooter Libby asking him to interview for the office of the vice president.

“I thought ‘who the heck is this Scooter Libby and how the hell does he have my cell phone number?’ He told me they were sending a plane to take me to Washington, that he wanted me to interview for OVP and I didn’t even know what that was,” Christie said.

Christie was hired to be the vice president’s deputy assistant for domestic policy.

After the terrorist attacks of 9/11, the focus of Christie’s work greatly changed.

“Shortly after the White House had been evacuated, our entire focus switched from domestic priorities to how do we reopen New York City under 14th Street, how do we get phone service back up, how do we shut down and reopen civilian aviation,” Christie said.

After this, Christie was assigned to the president’s domestic policy board.

Students were able to ask both participants questions, which ranged from what the fellows thought about Obama to how technology affected their duties at the White House.

“I hope those of you listening to us will consider a career in public service,” Christie said. “Linda and I just want to tell you what an incredible opportunity it is and how great it is to give back to your country.

It’s just a neat experience to have been through.”

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Monday, November 7, 2011

Madeline Brown • The Daily Beacon

An armor-clad Smokey looms over the MTSU mascot, Lightning, in Zeta Tau Alpha and Delta Tau Delta’s homecoming float on Friday, Nov. 4. The parade featured floats from a number of student organizations with a theme of “Clash of the Tennesseans.”

1913 — French novelist Albert Camus is born On this day, Albert Camus, future Nobel Prize winner, is born in Algiers to a working-class family.

Camus was a good student and a dedicated athlete who won a scholarship to a prestigious French high school in Algiers. His sporting endeavors were ended at age 17 by an attack of tuberculosis. Instead of pursuing an athletic career, he took a degree at the University of Algiers. He intended to become a philosophy teacher, but another bout of tuberculosis prevented him from taking a position. He became involved with a theater group in Algiers, writing and producing plays, while he also worked as a journalist. At age 25, he moved to France. During World War II, he joined the French Resistance and wrote for a liberal newspaper. He continued political journalism until 1947, while also writing plays, novels, and philosophical essays.

In 1942, his essay “The Myth of Sisyphus” set out the philosophical questions that he would also address in his novels. He analyzed nihilism and the absurdity and futility of human labor given the inevitability of death. Camus argued that man must make his own meaning by enjoying his efforts and struggles, despite their ultimate lack of significance. He continued to explore these themes in his first novel, The Stranger (1942). In his 1947 novel, The Plague, his characters maintain dignity and loyalty in the face of an epidemic in an Algerian town. In his later novels, essays, and plays, he explored the search for moral order. Camus won the Nobel Prize in literature in 1957. In 1960, after accepting a ride from strangers while hitchhiking, Camus was killed in a car wreck at age 46.

1940 — Tacoma Bridge collapses Only four months after its completion, the Tacoma Narrows Bridge in Washington State suffers a spectacular collapse.

When it opened in 1940, the Tacoma Narrows Bridge was the third-longest suspension bridge in the world. Built to replace the ferry system that took commuters from Tacoma across the Tacoma Narrows to the Gig Harbor Peninsula, the bridge spanned 2,800 feet and took three years to build. To save cost, the principle engineer, Leon Moisseiff, designed the bridge with an unusually slender frame that measured 39 feet and accommodated just two vehicular lanes.

The Tacoma Narrows Bridge opened with great fanfare on July 1, 1940. Human traffic across the waters of the Tacoma Narrows increased dramatically, but many drivers were drawn to the toll bridge not by convenience but by an unusual characteristic of the structure. When moderate to high winds blew, as they invariably do in the Tacoma Narrows, the bridge roadway would sway from side to side and sometimes suffer excessive vertical undulations. Some drivers reported that vehicles ahead of them would disappear and reappear several times as they crossed the bridge. On a windy day, tourists treated the bridge toll as the fee paid to ride a roller-coaster ride, and the Tacoma Narrows Bridge earned the nickname “Galloping Gertie.”

Attempts were made to stabilize the structure, but they were in vain. On November 7, with a steady wind blowing at 42 mph, the roadway began to twist back and forth in an increasingly violent fashion. Before closing the span, the toll keeper on the bridge’s west side let one last motorist pass, Tacoma News Tribune copy editor Leonard Coatsworth. Halfway across the bridge, Coatsworth lost control of his car. When the roadway tipped so sharply that it seemed his car would topple off, he decided to flee on foot. He tried to retrieve his daughter's black cocker spaniel from the back seat of the car, but the dog snapped at him and refused to budge.

Coatsworth ran to safety and called the Tribune, who dispatched a reporter and photographer to the scene.

Tribune photographer Howard Clifford was the last man on the bridge before the center span broke off at 11 a.m. and plunged 190 feet into the turbulent Tacoma Narrows. Trapped on the suddenly destabilized side spans, he narrowly avoided being thrown off and ran to safety. The sole casualty of the disaster was the cocker spaniel in Coatsworth’s car, which fell into the Narrows and disappeared beneath the foam.

At the time, the engineering community was perplexed about how a bridge designed to withstand winds of up to 120 mph could collapse in a wind of 42 mph. Experts still disagree on the exact cause of the bridge’s destruction, but most agree the collapse was related to resonance, a phenomenon that also comes into play when a soprano shatters a glass with her voice. In the case of the Tacoma Narrows, the wind resonated with the natural frequency of the structure, causing a steady increase in amplitude until the bridge was destroyed.

After the Tacoma Narrows disaster, bridge builders took care to incorporate aerodynamics into their designs and build structures with complex frequencies. Wind-tunnel testing of bridge designs eventually became mandatory. A new Tacoma Narrows Bridge was finally erected in 1950, complete with a wider roadway, deep stiffening trusses under the roadway, and other features designed to dampen the effect of wind. In 1992, the remains of Galloping Gertie in the Tacoma Narrows were listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

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

Monday, November 7, 2011

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Immigration key issue in recall The Associated Press MESA, Ariz. — The architect of the groundbreaking Arizona immigration law that thrust the issue into the national political debate faces a recall election Tuesday likely to be viewed as a referendum on the state’s hardline immigration policies.

The effort to oust Republican state Sen. Russell Pearce has transformed a normally quiet legislative district in a Phoenix suburb into a closely watched battleground on immigration that also features issues such as school funding cuts and state mandates on local governments.

People on both sides of the debate believe that removing Pearce would send a powerful message to the Legislature that uncompromising stands on immigration and other issues will not be tolerated by voters. On the flip side, a Pearce victory will say a tough stance on illegal immigration is just what voters demand.

“The folks running the recall are trying to send a message to the rest of the Legislature that if they can take out Russell Pearce, then they can take out any one of us, and to get us to stop running bills against illegal immigration,” said Republican Sen. Ron Gould.

Pearce is facing fellow Republican Jerry Lewis, a charter school executive and former accountant who hopes his candidacy will help the district and Arizona shed false images as being home to intolerance. The election marks the first time in Arizona that a sitting legislator has faced a recall.

It’s a surprising turnaround for Pearce, who was riding high a year ago with enactment of the immigration enforcement law known as SB1070 and his elevation to the Arizona Senate’s top leadership post.

But then came the recall drive, the state Senate’s surprising rejection last spring of a handful of Pearce-backed immigration measures and disclosures that he’d accepted numerous free trips to college football games, courtesy of the Fiesta Bowl.

The race has also been noteworthy for some of its vicious attacks, campaign shenanigans and relatively large spending for a legislative race.

Pearce is going head-to-head against Lewis, although the name of a mystery third candidate will appear on ballots despite the fact that she dropped out. A court battle over the candidate, Olivia Cortes, revealed that Pearce supporters helped her get on the ballot in an effort to dilute the vote against him. Ballots cast for her won’t count, but they could still siphon votes away from Lewis.

Advocates on both sides of the immigration debate said the election likely would have minimal impact nationally because most people concerned with the issue have fairly set positions.

But the stakes in Arizona are seen as higher.

A rare Republican lawmaker publicly supporting Lewis, Sen. Rich Crandall, said that the election outcome could affect Arizona politics and the tone of the Legislature.

“The tone is going to be what are the real solutions to real problems,” the Mesa lawmaker said.

The GOP-dominated Legislature has taken a forceful role on several conservative causes in recent years, including business tax cuts, school private school vouchers, abortion limits, gun rights, union restrictions and immigration.

Nationally, Pearce gained notice when he won approval of a 2007 state law requiring Arizona employers to use a federal system to check new employees’ work eligibility.

He followed that up in 2010 with enactment of a sweeping immigration enforcement law known as SB1070.

A federal judge has blocked implementation of key provisions of SB1070 and an appeal is pending before the U.S. Supreme Court, but Pearce’s stock soared among immigration hardliners and other states moved to enact their own versions.

Recall backers didn’t emphasize the immigration issue, instead focusing on saying Pearce was giving short shrift to concerns about education, health care and the economy.

Pearce denies that and points to his wide-ranging legislative record on concerns ranging from gun rights to business tax cuts. And despite what his opponents say, Pearce says he’s been targeted by critics of his immigration legislation.

“They’re trying to hide that issue,” he said in an interview.

Lewis, who was not part of the recall campaign, said his approach on immigration would be to do more to forge con-

sensus for comprehensive action. “The image that people have of us is something that we’re not,” he said.

Supporters of both candidates said the race is close, and voters interviewed outside the city library said SB1070 and its sponsor were concerns for them.

When asked about her decision to vote for Lewis, Mesa resident and Democrat Barbara Bryan responded: “He’s not Russell Pearce. It’s the negative tone about too many things.”

Leslie Ann Cluff, a Republican, said she supports Pearce “just became I’m against illegal aliens, and he helped to get that law passed.”

Pearce has endorsements from Gov. Jan Brewer and dozens of other elected Republican officeholders, while his pre-election campaign finance report shows that his Senate presidency and his role in promoting immigration legislation provided him with a more than 3-to-1 fundraising advantage over Lewis.

Out-of-state contributors accounted for a fifth of Pearce’s 1,800 individual donors, and most of the Arizonans had addresses outside Mesa.

Lewis, 54, appears to have significant grassroots support in the district. His campaign finance report listed more than 400 contributions from individuals. Nearly all listed Mesa addresses.

Pearce, 64, says he’s taking the challenge seriously. Lewis is perceived as a nice guy by many district residents “who don’t know what’s going on,” Pearce said. “He’ll get some moderate Republicans so it will be a close race.”

Pearce won his first legislative race in 2000 and rose to prominence in the Senate while making immigration a signature issue. He regularly recites violent crimes that involved illegal immigrants, including the 2004 shooting of his son, a sheriff’s deputy who was wounded while serving a search warrant.

While Republicans hold a nearly 3-2 advantage over Democrats in the district, the nature of the recall race allows Democrats to vote in what otherwise would be a primary between two Republicans.

Both candidates belong to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, a church whose members have played leading roles in Mesa civic life for generations despite accounting for an increasingly smaller share of the city’s population.

The candidates not-so-subtly argue that each is more in line with the church’s overall position on immigration issues.

Spokeswoman Cindy Packard said the church is neutral and won’t comment on the race, but the church last summer issued a statement saying that enforcement alone is an inadequate approach to immigration.

That could be seen as more in line with Lewis’ stance, but Pearce said immigration changes other than enforcement are federal issues, not state ones.

Meanwhile, the candidates have traded barbs about integrity issues.

Pearce’s campaign points to a lawsuit in which a fired school employee accused Lewis of stealing items donated for homeless students by giving them to a teacher. Lewis said it was an acceptable practice to give unused items to teachers, but that he wishes he’d asked the fired worker to explain her concerns at the time.

Lewis is vowing to sponsor legislation banning gifts to lawmakers and said Pearce had a conflict of interest when he accepted trips from the Fiesta bowl. Pearce said he only went at the bowl’s request to show support for it.

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Fairs, diners part of campaigns The Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. — Tears, tomatoes and teasing — the staff at Mary Ann’s Diner has seen it all from the presidential candidates who have turned the restaurant into a must-not-miss stop during the primary campaign.

Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry’s eyes brimmed with tears as he listened to a woman describe losing her job in 2003. Four years later, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani hustled through, shook a few hands then sat down to an egg white omelet, tomatoes on the side.

Teasing was on the menu when Mitt Romney stopped by in June. The former Massachusetts governor posed for a picture in front of the jukebox, told several waitresses to squeeze in closer and then pretended that one of them had grabbed his behind.

“Oh my goodness!” he exclaimed.

Joking aside, Romney and the others are plenty serious about seeing and being seen at popular campaign stops in the early voting states of Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina.

Some venues provide wholesome, All-American backdrops for photo-ops; think 1950s-style diners.

Others, such as a gun shop in New Hampshire, quickly telegraph a candidate’s position on issues important to their party’s base.

Parades, fairs and festivals

allow the candidates to play to large crowds at a safe distance.

While such stops do give voters an up-close encounter with the candidates, in-depth conversations are rare.

Candidates relish the media attention. Business owners and event organizers are glad for the free publicity.

At least four of the Republican presidential hopefuls have stopped by Mary Ann’s in Derry during the current primary campaign, said owner William Andreoli. Most customers don’t mind the commotion, which can be considerable, with television crews crowded behind the lunch counter and gaggles of reporters following candidates from booth to booth.

“There’s always a couple of people who don’t like the camera business, but all and all, people respond very well to it,” he said of his regulars.

Some New Hampshire venues and events are more popular with Republicans than Democrats.

Candidates who want to play up their support for gun owners’ rights show up at Riley’s Sport Shop in Hooksett. Those who want to be assured they’re surrounded

by GOP voters head for the Fourth of July parade in solidly Republican Amherst.

But Andreoli is an independent and his diner tends to attract candidates of both parties, as do the Red Arrow Diner and the restaurant Chez Vachon in Manchester.

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OPINIONS

LettersEditor to the

Proof from martyrdom limited In her Nov. 2 editorial titled “Apostles’ deaths give credit to Gospel,” Chelsea Tolliver fails to deliver the “logic and evidence that support the gospel” which she promises. Her “argument” is a textbook example of the straw-man fallacy, in which one oversimplifies the opponent’s argument down to a weak or even false claim, then proceeds — not unlike a schoolyard bully — to knock down the weakling argument, thereby “proving” the superiority of her own argument. But such a victory is a false one.

As a non-Christian, I find myself grossly misrepresented by Ms. Tolliver’s combative claim that I — and others like me — “have been trying to disprove the fact of the resurrection since it happened.”

Just because I’m not a Christian doesn’t mean I’m an enemy out to dismantle your faith; it simply means that I believe in something different.

Not only does Ms. Tolliver fail to adequately represent her opposition’s argument against

Christianity, the argument with which she “knocks” it down is no stronger. Citing instances of martyrdom does not prove that what these people died for actually happened; it merely proves that they believed in it enough to die for it. I, for one, fail to be convinced, and believe that Ms. Tolliver is merely preaching to the choir.

Ms. Tolliver’s argument is fallacious, and I am disheartened to see that my public state university’s student-run paper is wasting column space on such an emotionally-driven defense of a 2,000-year-old religion, whose followers, despite belonging to one of the world’s largest religions, feel it necessary to victimize themselves as if they, themselves, are martyrs.

There are so many more important and relevant issues a college newspaper could be discussing.

— Laura Sceniak is a graduate student in English.

She can be reached at lsceniak@utk.edu.

Critique on Gospel support The famous astrophysicist Carl Sagan once said “extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.” In Chelsea Tolliver’s Nov. 2 article “Apostles’ deaths give credit to Gospel,” she makes the claim that no one would die to preserve a lie, and that this “fact” is strong evidence to support the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Unfortunately, history would choose to disagree.

There are countless examples in history showing that people will, in fact, die for a lie. Take a look at Joseph Smith’s discovery of the golden plates. After all, he and his followers were willing to die for this “truth,” and in the 1838 Mormon War many did. If dying to preserve a lie is so unthinkable, then how does one explain David Koresh’s belief that he was the reincarnation of Jesus Christ? He was willing to face a terrible death for the sake of something that was not true, and his followers joined him in a fiery death in the Waco siege. Thirty-nine members of the Heaven’s Gate group committed suicide in 1997, believing founder Marshal Applewhite’s claim that their souls would board a UFO that would carry them to the next level of existence. If those deaths aren’t horrible enough, how about the millions of nonChristians (men, women and children) who were

raped, murdered, burned alive and in some cases eaten during the Crusades. If they’d sooner die than convert to Christianity, does that lend credence to their beliefs?

Christianity is not unique in having followers willing to face death rather than deny their religious beliefs. The fact that the apostles were willing to die for their belief in a resurrection says nothing about whether the belief was true, unless you are willing to assume that the beliefs I just mentioned are true as well. If one accepts that the resurrection is true because the apostles would not have died for a lie, then one must also accept that religions are true.

On a side note, I must also address the assumption Ms. Tolliver makes that the burden of proof is on those claiming that the resurrection never took place.

The burden of proof is always on the claim that X happened rather than on the claim that X did not.

One is not required to answer anything before questioning that the resurrection happened, as Ms. Tolliver so asserts.

— Thomas Brandenburg is a senior in microbiology. He can be reached at tbranden@utk.edu.

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Strict ‘manliness’ overrated, outdated D e ar Rea d e rs by

Aaron Moyer What do you think of when you hear “manliness?”

The most common stereotype of men is that a man is supposed to be a cold and emotionless tool that can lift heavy objects and cares not for the world around him. Watch any Hollywood film and the “good men” are always strong and very rarely show any emotion. Women are the emotional creatures while the man has to remain strong to save the day. This draconian classification system needs to be done away with for the betterment of humanity. There are so many problems that can be resolved once these arbitrary definitions of masculinity are removed.

I know admitting to emotions and crying are hardly signs of “traditional masculinity” and that many men will call me various insults describing my femininity, and this is absolutely despicable. I recently watched a documentary called “Tough Guise: A Crisis in Masculinity” on YouTube and it describes perfectly what is wrong with this style of thinking. Masculinity centers on the mold of males being strong, independent, emotionless robots. It encourages violence and dominance through intimidation. I decry those who value this sort of masculinity. I ask one question: “Why is it wrong for a man to cry?” Is he not human? Are emotions not a valuable source of humanity?

The fear of the usurpation of traditional roles of male dominance is a source of a large amount of the hatred and violence that possesses our world today.

Women cannot be in charge of the country because they are prone to showing emotions, while men have the emotional fortitude required. Some homosexuals blur the arbitrary line between man and woman. This idea of male dominance is absurd and insulting to not only women but the men who try to ignore it.

It is impossible to stereotype every person on the planet into these two broad categories. Every human being is an individual and does not need to conform

to a set list of rules to be who they are. If a man wants to show emotions and care about others, then there is no reason to not think of him as a man.

A new idea of masculinity needs to be produced.

Not one that conforms around the idea of male dominance, but rather that of a truly egalitarian society. Men and women are equal and are allowed to show emotions and rely on their friends and family.

Altruism should be a natural part of human society and yet it isn’t. Humanity needs altruism and kindness to survive. A care for your neighbor is not only good for them but also yourself and society as a whole. I wish each and every person would go out of their way to be altruistic. Show the world through your actions that kindness and a concern for others is not a rare occurrence. Men, be not afraid of perceived femininity for there is nothing to be afraid of. Emotions are not a harmful aspect of the human mind; rather they are beneficial. Empathy is the greatest gift we have, so use it to its fullest extent.

My favorite example of this is that of Mr. Rogers. He was probably one of the kindest people on television and showed what we as human beings should do.

I have a friend who for every Valentine’s Day sends handwritten anonymous notes to everyone important in her life. She does this not out of any expectation of reward or gratitude, but merely because she believes that everybody deserves to know how wonderful of a person they are. Both years that I have gotten one from her, I have broken down entirely from them. I still have both of them, which is amazing because I rarely am able to hold on to things for that long. The reason for this is simple: They show a true feeling of gratitude and love.

Everyone should do something similar whenever possible. There is far too little gratitude and love shown in this world. We are a people that thrives on fear of others and we need to change that. Dear readers, love your fellow man. Perform an act of altruism for a random person that you have never met. Instead of acting out of your own interests, act in the interests of others. A world where people are able to trust each other and are willing to perform random acts of kindness is the utopia that I want to live in.

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

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Sometimes it just plain hurts to be a Tennessee fan.

Now, I know what you’re thinking. You’re probably assuming that I’m about to launch into some 750word tirade about how our football team is wallowing in mediocrity and/or how the expectations for our men’s basketball team have drooped to levels that have not been seen since the ’90s. After all, attendance figures have continued to decline for both sports over the past few years and a common sense of optimism for this school’s men’s sports teams is about as hard to find as Amy Winehouse’s sobriety chips.

The truth, however, is that I have no problem with the state of our school’s more popular men’s athletic teams. In fact, I am tremendously optimistic — which is highly unusual for me given my usual pessimistic outlook — about the future for the Volunteer football team, and I think the basketball program is heading in the right direction after going through a drawn-out scandal and a coaching change.

No, the pain I get from rooting for the Big Orange does not come from wins or losses. The agony I feel comes from having to listen to other members of the Volunteer fan base.

O.K., I know that sounds like an arrogant thing to say, but hear me out.

This past Friday, while I was driving home, I was — per my traditional pre-gameday regimen — listening to one of the local sports talk radio stations.

At one point in the show I was listening to, sports columnist, author and perpetual ignoramus Clay Travis called in and was asked to opine about a variety of different topics related to SEC football.

While I normally just block Travis out with the sound of wind for his five minutes of airtime, something he said caught my ear.

When the hosts of the program asked Clay Travis what he thought about Derek Dooley’s job status, he scoffed at the idea that something akin to an 8-

4 record next season would be indicative of a step in the right direction. Instead, he said that it may be time to start rethinking Dooley’s tenure.

Now, this sentiment isn’t new. Tennessee, they reason, has normally been a perennial football power, so there is no excuse for any coach to have a .500 or worse win percentage in any given season. If a coach cannot immediately turn things around and produce wins in a speedy fashion, they all seem to believe, then he should be asked to pack his things and get out of town.

This is a really stupid mindset. What’s worse is that the number of people voicing these sentiments has only seemed to grow as this injury-riddled season has progressed.

The Big Orange faithful need to take a moment, relax and get with reality. First, someone needs to remind these unrealistic loons that Dooley walked into a terrible situation. He was going to be the third coach in three years for a program whose talent pool was — with the exception of a few standouts like Denarius Moore, Luke Stocker and Gerald Jones — more or less dried up. Under his guidance, the Vols are continuing to regain lost depth, and each successive recruiting class has helped to improve the team.

Apart from having to essentially rebuild the program from scratch, the man is trying to change the fundamental culture surrounding the UT football program.

I don’t know if you’re aware, but there’s a faux award that’s given to the Division-I football program with the most arrests in any one year. What’s its name? The Fulmer Cup. This would be humorous if it were not for the reality that the UT football team has seen more than its fair share of legal and disciplinary troubles. Heck, only months before Dooley arrived in Knoxville, three players held up a couple of rednecks with an airsoft pistol at a Pilot before taking off in a Prius. Dooley is trying to move away from these sketchy personalities, a fact that is evidenced when you look at the GPA’s of the incoming recruits.

Big Orange fans, we knew this wasn’t going to be quick or easy. Stop calling for Dooley’s head, chill out, sit back and watch as we keep rolling towards better days.

— Derek Mullins is a senior in political science.

He can be reached at dmullin5@utk.edu.

Monday, November 7, 2011

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Entertainment writer passes away Fiction: Sausage Links, Part Three The Associated Press NEW YORK — Andy Rooney, the curmudgeonly commentator who spent more than 30 years wryly talking about the oddities of life for “60 Minutes,” died Friday night, CBS said. He was 92.

Just a month ago, Rooney delivered his last regular essay on the CBS newsmagazine.

CBS said he died Friday night in New York from complications from a recent surgery.

Rooney, also a syndicated newspaper columnist, talked about what was in the news. But he was just as likely to use his weekly television essay to discuss the old clothes in his closet, why banks need to have important-sounding names or whether there was a real Mrs. Smith who made Mrs. Smith’s Pies.

He won three Emmy Awards, including one for his story revealing there was no Mrs. Smith.

Rooney began his “60 Minutes” commentaries in 1978 and was still at it three decades later, railing about how unpleasant air travel had become. “Let’s make a statement to the airlines just to get their attention. We’ll pick a week next year and we’ll all agree not to go anywhere for seven days,” he told viewers.

“I obviously have a knack for getting on paper what a lot of people have thought and didn’t realize they thought,” Rooney once said.

“And they say, ‘Hey, yeah!’ And they like that.”

In early 2009, as he was about to turn 90, he looked ahead to Barack Obama’s upcoming inauguration with a look at past inaugurations.

He told viewers that Calvin Coolidge’s 1925 swearing-in was the first to be broadcast on radio, adding, “That may have been the most interesting thing Coolidge ever did.”

Rooney wrote for CBS stars such as Arthur Godfrey and Garry Moore during the 1950s and early 1960s, before settling into a partnership with newsman Harry Reasoner. With Rooney as the writer, they collaborated on several news specials, including an Emmy-winning report on misrepresentations of black Americans in movies and history books. He wrote “An Essay on Doors” in 1964, and continued with contemplations on bridges, chairs and women.

“The best work I ever did,” Rooney said.

“But nobody knows I can do it or ever did it.

Nobody knows that I’m a writer and producer.

They think I’m this guy on television.”

Rooney angrily left CBS in 1970 when it refused to air his heated essay about the Vietnam War. He went on TV for the first time, reading the essay on PBS and winning a Writers Guild of America award for it.

He returned to CBS three years later as a writer and producer of specials. Notable among them was the 1975 “Mr. Rooney Goes to Washington,” whose lighthearted but serious look at government won him a Peabody Award for excellence in broadcasting.

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“I’m trying to get this thing,” she hit the meat grinder, “to work right.”

My poor baby was struggling. This was my chance. I cleared the block of still frozen meat that clogged the grinder and threw on my best baking apron.

“I don’t know much, but I think I can help you with this,” I tell her. It was a magical night. This wasn’t anything like planting tulip bulbs in fall with my mother. Our hands would be frozen but the thought of a full garden around us would warm us up and gives us hope that spring would come sooner than we thought. It was like that when we were making sausages. Our hands did get cold in the frozen meat, but we would look outside and see the sun coming over the valley and push on knowing that everything would soon be warm.

We were done in no time.

There was no “thank you” or “goodbye mom” but we just cleaned up and Wilma threw a sausage into a brown paper bag. She hugged me on the front door step and I saw in the back of her car stacks of boxes and suitcases. We had never really been close, but I knew that I would hear from her from wherever she was going. I ran to the car and hugged her one more time and wished her good luck. I stood by the road long after her brake lights flashed on at the stop sign and she disappeared over the hill, past the sunrise. I heard car tires come around the other end to see a police car rolling up.

“Wilma! You let me sleep in!” Wally yelled from the front door. He saw the police cruiser and hastily put on his slippers and ran out. The deputy got out and took off his hat.

“Mr. and Mrs. Winefried?” he asked.

We nodded. I didn’t want to hear. I blocked it out. Wally had to tell me later.

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“60 Minutes” for the first time on July 2, 1978.

Rooney complained about people who keep track of how many people die in car accidents on holiday weekends. In fact, he said, the Fourth of July is “one of the safest weekends of the year to be going someplace.”

The segment of Rooney’s musings quickly became a favorite feature of television’s oldest and most successful newsmagazine. Comic Joe Piscopo satirized Rooney’s squeaky voice with the refrain, “Did you ever wonder ...”

Rooney’s words occasionally got him in trouble, too. CBS suspended him for three months in 1990 for allegedly racist remarks in an interview, which he denied making. Gay rights groups were mad during the AIDS epidemic when Rooney mentioned homosexual unions in saying “many of the ills which kill us are selfinduced.” Indians protested when Rooney suggested that Native Americans who made money from casinos weren’t doing enough to help their own people.

The Associated Press learned the danger of getting on Rooney’s cranky side. In 1996, AP television writer Frazier Moore wrote a column suggesting it was time for Rooney to retire. On Rooney’s next “60 Minutes" appearance, he invited those who disagreed to make their opinions known. The AP switchboard was flooded by some 7,000 phone calls.

“Your piece made me mad,” Rooney told Moore two years later. “One of my major shortcomings — I’m vindictive. I don’t know why that is. Even in petty things in my life I tend to strike back. It’s a lot more pleasurable a sensation than feeling threatened.”

More recently, he was one of television’s few voices to strongly oppose the war in Iraq at the time it began. After the fall of Baghdad in April 2003, he said he was chastened by its quick fall but didn’t regret his “60 Minutes” commentaries.

“I’m in a position of feeling secure enough so that I can say what I think is right and if so many people think it’s wrong that I get fired, well, I’ve got enough to eat,” Rooney said at the time.

Andrew Aitken Rooney was born on Jan. 14, 1919, in Albany, N.Y., and worked as a copy boy on the Albany Knickerbocker News while in high school. College at Colgate University was cut short by World War II, where Rooney worked for the GI newspaper Stars and Stripes.

With another former Stars and Stripes staffer, Oram C. Hutton, Rooney wrote four books about the war. They included the 1947 book, “Their Conqueror’s Peace: A Report to the American Stockholders,” documenting offenses against the Germans by occupying forces.

Rooney and his wife, Marguerite, had four children and lived in Rowayton, Conn. Daughter Emily Rooney is a former executive producer of ABC’s “World News Tonight.”

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Dooley praises team after solid win Dooley ‘called frat house’ for kicker Lauren Kittrell Student Life Editor After four-straight disappointing losses for the Volunteers, a 24-0 win over Middle Tennessee State was an uplifting end to homecoming week.

Though the offense failed to show up during the second half, Tennessee’s (4-5, 0-5 SEC) defense managed to hold the Blue Raiders (26, 1-3 Sun Belt) to 97 rushing yards and record the Vols’ first shutout since Derek Dooley’s first game as coach, last year’s season-opener against UT-Martin.

Senior middle linebacker Austin Johnson said the win was a good morale boost for the team, with the shutout as an added bonus.

“First, it feels good to get a win,” Johnson said. “It’s always nice to get a ‘W’ no matter the opponent. It feels like we haven’t won in forever so it’s nice to get that under our belt and go into tomorrow with a little bit better attitude. MTSU puts up a lot of points so shutting them out was good for us.”

Dooley said the game showcased the team’s improvements over the last two seasons through coaching and player development.

“I will tell you, the coaches had a great plan.

They really did,” Dooley said. “We have grown a lot since the Oregon game last year and this past pay stub. We did an excellent job of substitutions. We were never misaligned and it allowed our players to play. We got better players. When you have better players, line up right and play hard and we win the game. I thought everybody played well. When you pitch a shutout in today’s game, it is great. I don’t care who you play. They were averaging over 400 yards and 30 points a game so it’s good.”

In true freshman quarterback Justin Worley’s second start, he threw his first career touchdown pass to put Tennessee ahead 14-0 in the first quarter. The 47-yard pass to Da’Rick Rogers ended a 17-quarter streak of no touchdown passes for the Volunteers.

Worley finished 23-of-32 for 291 yards and the

one touchdown.

“Last week, I came out of the game with a bad feeling because, obviously, we didn’t meet my expectations. We didn’t meet the team’s goals,” Worley said Saturday night. “Coming into tonight, with the offense executing like it did, I am really pleased.”

Dooley said he was proud of Worley’s game and was glad that he didn’t allow his performance against South Carolina to hinder him against MTSU. “Justin really played a game,” Dooley said.

“It is the game we were hoping he would play last week. He was just one week late. But he performed the way we have seen in practice.

He was very calm and composed, still made some mistakes but what a great game.”

Tennessee managed to force three turnovers from the Blue Raiders. Johnson and sophomore defensive back Eric Gordon each recorded interceptions, directly leading to 10 points. Sophomore defensive end Jacques Smith forced a fumble in the fourth quarter that was recovered by sophomore linebacker Dontavis Sapp.

Dooley said three turnovers per game was a goal for the team, but Tennessee has only had 12 turnovers this season, with six coming from the last two games. Johnson said the difference over the last two weeks has been achieved in practice.

“It’s been doing it in practice and that’s what our coaches have been harping on us all week, every week,” Johnson said. “The first half of the season, we didn’t have any turnovers so pushing for those turnovers in practice has paid off in the games.”

The win created a positive outlook for UT players and fans as they look forward to Arkansas next Saturday. Dooley said breaking the losing streak was healing for him and the team.

“Man, it feels good,” Dooley said. “When you lose and keep losing it pulls on your spirit you start questioning everything, you start doubting everything. Nothing heals better than a good win, and it was a good win. I’m proud of the team.”

Matt Dixon Sports Editor An hour before kickoff against MTSU, Derek Dooley faced yet another situation he’d never dreamed of as a coach: He didn’t have a healthy kicker.

With Michael Palardy nursing an injury from earlier in the week, and his backup Chip Rhome pulling a muscle in pre-game warm-ups, UT scrambled to locate walk-on Derrick Brodus.

Joseph Ayres, a 6-foot-3, 280-pound defensive tackle, even tried his hand at kicking before Brodus arrived.

“We had to make a call to the frat house. This is no lie,” Dooley said. “We called the frat house and had a policeman go get him and he goes out there, suits up and nails three PATs and a field goal.

“He got the game ball. I was proud of him.

Great story. I’m going to write a book one day about the things that happened to me over the years. I had to find a kicker out of a frat. I didn’t know what we were going to do. Just when I think it has all happened to me, we are going out to pregame without a kicker.”

Brodus, a redshirt freshman from Alcoa, was sitting on a couch when he received word of the crisis.

“I got the call around 6:10,” Brodus said. “I was planning on watching the game on TV. I am not sure what time I got to the stadium but I knew everybody was already out warming up. I was just in hurry when I got to the stadium. I got some stretching and some warm-up kicks in.”

Brodus performed well, especially given the situation, and was awarded the game ball in the Volunteers’ locker room after the game.

“You have to give the guy credit,” Dooley said.

“He went out there and stroked the field goal and all three extra points. But he did it in the spring game. Man, the team was jacked. They were fired up before the game. They were laughing.

I’m over there going, ‘It’s not funny guys.’”

Toney’s time Brodus wasn’t the only former Alcoa Tornado turned Vol walk-on who played a significant role for UT against the Blue Raiders.

Jaron Toney, a 5-foot-10, 180-pound tailback, didn’t have a carry in his career before Saturday, but the lack of production in the running game along with injures gave Toney the opportunity.

He capitalized, leading the team in rushing with 52 yards on 19 attempts.

“We are searching for the running game,” Dooley said. “Jaron has run really well in practice for a long time. He is a walk-on so you just always dismiss him. But we are not lighting it up running the ball and I wanted to see Jaron. I should have played him last week (against South Carolina).”

The Vols ran for 120 yards against MTSU, but averaged just 2.7 yards per carry. Through nine games, UT ranks 118th out of 120 teams in FCS in rushing offense.

“At some point you just say we aren’t very good at running the ball,” Dooley said. “How many times can you get asked, ‘What’s wrong with the run game?’ We are not very good at running the ball.”

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Derrick Brodus drills an extra point through the uprights during a game against MTSU on Saturday, Nov. 5. Although Brodus, a redshirt freshman walk-on, was given the call to suit up for the game just minutes before kickoff, he was able to have a perfect game, nailing three PATs and a field goal to help the Vols to a 24-0 victory over the Raiders.