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Staff Lot 9 considered for potential parking facility The Parking and Transportation Subcommittee selected Staff Lot 9 as one of the potential parking garage sites as part of the committee’s “Master Plan,” with the goal to improve campus street and traffic patterns, bike paths and parking The area surrounding Gate 21 at Neyland Stadium and needs at UT. Phillip Fulmer Way could look very different for future Staff Lot 9 currently serves as one of the most recognizable Tennessee students. UT officials have confirmed discussions parking lots on UT’s campus. A popular location for gameday to potentially turn Staff Lot 9 across from Gate 21 into a parkfestivities, Tennessee fans routinely fill the lot tailgating before ing facility. football games. The traditional Vol Walk passes “There is indeed some very preliminary discusdown Peyton Manning Pass on the south end of sions to locate a (parking) facility on Lot 9, which Staff Lot 9 before turning left onto Phillip Fulmer would include parking and office space,” Jeff Way, which runs perpendicular to the newly comMaples, senior associate vice chancellor for finance pleted Gate 21 plaza. and administration, said in a Nov. 2 e-mail.

Browning said the size of the garage in relation Still, Maples reiterated that any plans for a parkto the lot has yet to be decided, but discussions of ing facility on Lot 9 are preliminary, and “it is very adding green space onto unused portions of the lot early in the process.” or possibly even to the garage itself have taken According to a July 7 report by the UT Parking place. and Transit Subcommittee, Staff Lot 9 serves as “We may look at putting some kind of green one of five potential sites for new campus parking space on the Peyton Manning (Pass) end, as facilities to improve parking demand at the univeropposed to having a parking garage that takes up sity. Other sites include the current Stokely the whole lot,” Browning said. “We very well may Athletic Center and areas of the UT Agricultural look into adding some green space on the top part Campus. of the garage.”

Browning said Staff Lot 9 represents one of the Though a specific timetable for a Staff Lot 9 most viable options. parking facility has yet to be hashed out, Browning “We’ve got a lot of planning to consider in the estimated ground breaking would depend largely immediate area, which would include the renovaon the impending UC renovations, which are protions that have been recently completed, Neyland jected to begin in around three years.

Stadium and the Gate 21 plaza area,” Brian Tia Patron • The Daily Beacon “That’s going to be a huge deciding factor on Browning, director of administrative and support services for the UT Department of Finance and Cars sit parked in Staff Lot 9 on Thursday, Nov. 4. UT has confirmed prelimi- what we do and where we place the next garage,” Administration, said. “... but Staff Lot 9 is at the nary discussions to turn Staff Lot 9, one of the most recognizable parking Browning said. lots on campus, into a large parking facility.

Consequently, even though preliminary plans top of the list.” for construction are underway, students and faculThe Staff Lot 9 garage would include spaces for ty should not expect a parking facility on Staff Lot 9 in the faculty and staff but also would allocate a number of spaces for garage.”

Browning said the aging of the current UC parking facility immediate future. visitor parking to adequately serve the new UC planned for “I’d say you’re looking at, realistically, maybe three to four — which is more than 30 years old — was also taken into confuture construction.

“Most likely it would be a multifunctional designated lot,” sideration for the possible construction of a Staff Lot 9 garage. years before we’d break ground,” Browning said.

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Browning said. “Definitely visitor parking, faculty and staff but maybe some form of student (parking), maybe commuter.”

The offices of UT Parking and Transit could also relocate to the garage, which would reportedly house a proposed 1,200 new parking spaces.

“We’re looking at maybe locating Parking and Transiting services in that facility,” Browning said. “It’ll be a very similar concept to what we did with the UT police in the 11th Street

Lecture explores African ‘Flight’ Blair Kuykendall Copy Editor Michelle Commander explored the Black American quest for cultural identity in her lecture, “Flights: Black American Travelers and the Search for Africa” last Thursday.

A crowd comprised mostly of anthropology students turned out to explore the subject and awaited the lecture while enjoying a video montage of photographs reflecting important African landmarks and festivals.

Graciela Cabana, professor in the anthropology department, gave Commander a splendid introduction, enthusiastically welcoming her to speak with the group.

“Dr. Commander has a joint appointment between the English department and Africana Studies,” Cabana said. “She is a wonderful teacher, and I want to endorse the class she will teach next semester, dealing with slavery.”

Commander began by recounting the experiences leading up to her interest in studying black Americans who have decided to make a new home in Africa.

“My original project and purpose for traveling to Africa was to evaluate how the black women’s movement was working in Ghana,” Commander said. “They are currently trying to get rid of domestic abuse, and I traveled there to explore their efforts.”

As she encountered various black Americans who had chosen to abandon the United States in favor of a home in Ghana, however, she became enthralled by their stories.

“I kept meeting up with people who were visiting or living in Ghana, so I decided to keep interviewing them, noting their individual narratives,” Commander said. “This started my project.”

She made it a point to explore the entire history of Africans attempting to return from whence they were taken.

“I began to be more interested in the long trajectory of African American flights home, the first type of flight being when Africans careened off of slave trading ships, hoping to return to their homeland even just in spirit,” she said.

More recent attempts of African-Americans to achieve a national identity are her main focus.

“In the 1960s and 1970s, there was a migration of Africans back to the South as well,” Commander said. “My question is, what motivates black Americans now to seek their homes in Third World countries?”

She searched existing research that could help explain this phenomenon.

“Orlando Patterson, (professor of sociology at Harvard), argues the black Americans are seeking temporary freedom from their diasporan position, hoping to somehow suture the cultural trauma associated with natal alienation,” Commander said.

She shared a movie entitled Coming Home Ghana that demonstrated the new lifestyles of black Americans who returned to their native land.

Immigrants to Ghana from the United States described their experiences as liberating; they were

honored to have the chance to make their home in the land of their ancestors.

Commander applies learning from her English background in studying personal narratives.

“Literature becomes relevant in studying these experiences, specifically Neo-slave narratives, where characters are exposed to their slave past,” Commander said. “In these narratives, the protagonists are often exposed to violence that their ancestors encountered through some literary form of time travel, and this helps them reform their ways and embrace a new identity.”

Commander has established a pattern of exploration that black Americans go through in their journey back to the homeland.

“A catalyst prompts the black American to travel to Africa,” Commander said. “The tourist will then encounter the landscape for the first time and negotiate the differences they encounter in Africa.

After that, they gain a concept of possibilities and limitations that dwelling in Africa once more could bring.”

Not every individual who returns is guaranteed a positive experience.

“A lot of people, though, express disappointment,” Commander said. “Some eventually return home, unable to find work or build a community.”

One concern of some black Americans that make their home in Ghana is whether or not the government of Ghana has welcomed them genuinely or in an attempt to attract more capital to the nation.

“Beginning around the 1980s, middle-class African-American families set their eyes on Bahia, Brazil,” Commander said. “This city has retained a great number of African vestiges, namely in religion and culture. Many Africans own residences in this city and will live there for half of the year and in America for the rest.”

Race is different in Brazil, though, as some African-Americans are labeled “white” based simply on economic class. In this region of Brazil, race is still measured on a continuum from white to black, with more than 20 delineations.

Thus, in both Ghana and Brazil, AfricanAmericans who desire to return to their homeland may still be considered outsiders, further complicating their search for identity.

Some African-Americans have consequently taken a different route in re-creating their homeland. Oyotunji Village was founded in Sheldon, S.C., and exists as a pocket of Africa in the United States, where families can choose to live life as their ancestors did. They dwell in traditional homes, practice traditional religion and re-create all aspects of African life.

This was only one lecture in the Department of Anthropology’s Lecture Series.

Commander’s main focuses are studies in African American literatures, Pan-Africanism and race and ethnicity. She is currently studying the travel experiences of black Americans who search for their cultural identity through touring Bahia, Brazil, Ghana and West Africa.

“When you are out in the field, you should keep your eyes and ears open, because you will never know when you would find something you want to research,” Commander said.

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Students dance at the Chancellor’s Honors Program Masquerade Ball on Saturday, Nov. 6. The event, held in a heated tent in Circle Park, raised money to benefit members of the Boys & Girls Clubs of the Tennessee Valley.

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Lyndsey Stewart, junior in art and art education, browses art at Gallery 1010 during First Friday on Nov. 5. Students can take advantage of the wonderful, free entertainment each first Friday of the month at a number of downtown businesses.

Crime Nov. 3 A UT student reported that his bicycle was stolen from the Morrill Hall courtyard sometime between 2:15 p.m. and 11:50 p.m. on Nov. 2.

Two UT staff members reported that someone was making harassing phone calls to the WUOT radio station around 6:30 a.m. on Nov. 2 and Nov. 3.

A student reported that his student ID was stolen from the basketball courts at the TRECS sometime between 9:11 p.m. on Oct. 13 and 7:26 a.m. on Oct. 14.

A UT student reported that his student ID was stolen from the lobby area in Hess Hall around 12:05 a.m.

Log A student reported that his student ID was stolen from the workout area on the first floor of the TRECS around 8 p.m. The student stated that he left his cell phone, room key and student ID on a weight bench in the workout area and went to the restroom. He returned approximately five minutes later and found that his student ID was missing.

A student reported that his bicycle was stolen from Hess Hall while it was parked near the benches at the south entrance of the Hess courtyard between 9:30 p.m. on Nov. 2 and 12:40 a.m. on Nov. 3.

A student reported that his bicycle was stolen while it was parked in the alcove under the Haslam Building from 2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.

— Compiled by Robbie Hargett

Compiled from a media log provided to the Daily Beacon by the Universty of Tennessee Police Department.

All persons arrested are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. People with names similar or identical to those listed may not be those identified in reports.

1895: German scientist discovers X-rays On this day in 1895, physicist Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen (1845-1923) becomes the first person to observe X-rays, a significant scientific advancement that would ultimately benefit a variety of fields, most of all medicine, by making the invisible visible.

Rontgen’s discovery occurred accidentally in his Wurzburg, Germany, lab, where he was testing whether cathode rays could pass through glass when he noticed a glow coming from a nearby chemically coated screen. He dubbed the rays that caused this glow Xrays because of their unknown nature.

X-rays are electromagnetic energy waves that act similarly to light rays, but at wavelengths approximately 1,000 times shorter than those of light. Rontgen holed up in his lab and conducted a series of experiments to better understand his discovery. He learned that X-rays penetrate human flesh but not higher-density substances such as bone or lead and that they can be photographed.

Rontgen’s discovery was labeled a medical miracle, and X-rays soon became an important diagnostic tool in medicine, allowing doctors to see inside the human body for the first time without surgery. In 1897, X-rays were first used on a military battlefield, during the Balkan War, to find bullets and broken bones inside patients.

Scientists were quick to realize the benefits of X-rays, but slower to comprehend the harmful effects of radiation. Initially, it was believed X-rays passed through flesh as harmlessly as light. However, within several years, researchers began to report cases of burns and skin damage after exposure to X-rays, and in 1904, Thomas Edison’s assistant, Clarence Dally, who had worked extensively with X-rays, died of skin cancer.

Dally’s death caused some scientists to begin taking the risks of radiation more seriously, but they still weren’t fully understood.

— Courtesy of History.com

Monday, November 8, 2010

NEWS Carcello’s current term runs from 2011 to 2012; his two previous terms were 2006 through 2007 and 2008 through 2009.

Carcello teaches auditing, corporate governance and financial accounting courses at UT Knoxville at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. Carcello also is an active researcher in the areas of corporate governance and fraudulent financial reporting.

UT Athletics supports academics

UT institute releases report The National Defense Business Institute (NDBI) in UT’s College of Business Administration has published initial findings of an ongoing comprehensive analysis of the health of the aerospace and defense industry.

NDBI analysis revealed that the aerospace and defense industry may be looking at an extended dry spell for defense investment. The time between peaks in defense spending dating back to the late 1940s has been lengthening steadily for a variety of reasons, and the industry may be facing a business cycle now with defense outlays that will not peak again until sometime after 2020.

NDBI’s Aerospace and Defense Industry (ADI) market indices are easily compared with the S&P 500. With the state of the ADI in 1950 representing a baseline of 1.00, the ADI large company market index reached 91.0 in September 2010; the S&P 500 reached 67.0.

The ADI mid-sized company index, currently at 24.9, significantly underperformed both the ADI large company and the S&P 500 company indices.

According to Patterson, stock market valuations clearly favor the larger ADI companies over the midsized ADI companies.

Unlike past studies of the ADI that focused on shorter time intervals or small samples of companies, the NDBI study evaluated 60 years of market and financial data across a larger, representative sample of ADI companies.

The purpose of the NDBI financial analysis is to find key economic indicators that can better predict the general health of the ADI. The study may be found at http://ndbi.utk.edu/ or by contacting NDBI at NDBI@utk.edu.

UT Professor reappointed to advisory group Joseph Carcello, the Ernst & Young and Business Alumni Professor in UT’s College of Business A d m i n i s t rat i o n ’s Department of Accounting and Information Management and the director of research for UT’s Corporate Governance Center, was reappointed for a third term to the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board's (PCAOB) Standing Advisory Group (SAG).

The PCAOB was created by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act to oversee auditors of public companies in the United States and has standard-setting, inspection and disciplinary authority over all accounting firms that audit public companies. The SAG was created by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act to provide advice to the PCAOB related to its standard-setting role.

The SAG has approximately 35 members.

Carcello is one of only five academics in the group and is the first accounting academic member to be reappointed to three terms.

Other SAG members include the chief governance officer of Prudential Financial, vice president of Delta Air Lines, Americas vice chair for Ernst & Young, senior vice president of Comcast, the deputy managing partner of Deloitte & Touche, vice president of finance for Eli Lilly & Company, as well as other prominent individuals from the accounting, business, investor and legal communities.

Continuing the tradition, the UT Athletic Department is providing funds in support of academics for the University of Tennessee and the Knoxville campus. With a total gift of just more than $10 million, $1.375 million goes to support academic scholarships awarded to non-student athletes including Volunteer, Bicentennial and band scholarships, as well as scholarships for members of the Peyton Manning and Neyland Scholars Programs.

Though $1.825 million of the gift is provided to the campus as a result of the consolidation of athletic ticket and parking benefits within the Tennessee Fund office and is used at the discretion of the chancellor, a number of other items related to the university’s academic mission are funded specifical-

The Daily Beacon • 3 ly, including $107,000 for a professor position in the College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources, $15,000 to pay half the salary of an employee in Enrollment Services and $20,000 to support Team Vols, a student organization focused on community service and outreach.

Other money given to UT during fiscal year 2010 includes: $1.5 million for Thompson-Boling Arena’s operating deficit; $1.125 million in annual debt service on five university parking garages; $1.23 million for game day parking, staffing and clean-up of parking areas; $450,000 for travel and operating expenses for the Pride of the Southland Marching Band; $200,000 for Gibbs Hall operating deficit (in addition to standard housing fees); $140,000 from Aramark partnership.

There is also an additional $1 million transfer from athletics to the university from the new SEC television contract, to be allocated as follows: $800,000 for graduate assistantships campuswide; $100,000 for the Student Success Center; $100,000 for the Teaching and Learning Center.

UT Athletics is one of only a handful of athletic departments in the country that receives no funds from state subsidies or taxes. The only funding that does not come from revenues generated by the department is a $1 million yearly contribution to women’s athletics from student fees to fulfill Title IX responsibilities.

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Falling — Fear of a freshman as UT’s quarterback The battling of cross-state rivals was just as overmatched as everyone expected on Saturday night.

In UT’s 50-14 trottling of lowly Memphis this past weekend, the Vols enjoyed a rare win almost as much as they enjoyed a newfound spark under center: freshman quarterback Tyler Bray.

Bray, who was inserted into the starting lineup last week by coach Derek Dooley in favor of competent but inexplosive junior Matt Simms, wowed the UT faithful by throwing for 325 yards and five touchdowns in the first half — both Tennessee records. Moreover, UT receivers praised Bray for his pocket presence and an ability to make the game come to them, instead of the other way around.

Sure, all this hoopla came against Memphis, one of the worst defenses in college football — but Tennessee’s offense isn’t exactly an explosive unit, either. These Vols should take a victory where they can get one.

But his isn’t to discount Simms’ contributions to UT’s season thus far. The junior college transfer exhibited toughness for six games behind an offensive line hardly worthy of guarding a cookie jar.

But if Bray gives the Vols the juice needed to reach a bowl game in Dooley’s first season, the freshman need not be on the bench.

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Athletics controversy deserves second look

Rising — Alumni racing onto campus Ah yes, it’s that time of year again; as fall gives way to a brisk winter, Tennessee alumni are making the trek to Knoxville for homecoming weekend. A campus is no more proud of itself than during homecoming weekend, and UT is no exception.

Banners are already up all over campus to welcome former Volunteers back to Rocky Top. Sorority girls are already loudly complaining about the absurd amount of “pomping” on the horizon during countless hours of float-building. And, of course, UT welcomes Ole Miss to town in a football game that, by all accounts, might not be a guaranteed victory. Why couldn’t we have gotten Wyoming again?

(Oh, wait...)

To all students out there this week: Represent our campus with pride and honor. There’s nothing like some UT pride flowing through your blood, and there’s no better time for that than homecoming.

Rising — The Lord’s smiting of the BCS It’s official — the Man upstairs hates the BCS (if you believe in a man upstairs, that is).

Over the weekend, we saw the Heavenly Father basically give a giant thumbs down to everything related to the BCS system, with TCU straight up owning Utah (Utah was arguably the better team going in, while TCU was regarded as a little pansy school who never plays a difficult schedule and reaps all of the adoration and praise as a result of said lineup.)

With the continued trend of Boise State and TCU being awesome, Oklahoma getting schooled by unranked Texas A&M, Alabama falling victim to the LSU Tigers (shepherded by future-Poet Laureate Les Miles) and North Carolina beating Florida State — only one solution is to blame.

Clearly, this is a sign that the Lord (we use the term “The Lord” because we don’t claim to know who exactly is running the show upstairs, and we at the Beacon wear no religious-affiliation hat) is displeased with the seeming BCS favoritism towards powerhouse schools, and he is clearing the pathway for an eventual BCS bowl of the TCU Horned Frogs and the Boise State Broncos.

Have mercy on us all.

Rising — Reasons to drink coffee in the morning People of UT, prepare to see a dip in your sleep, productivity and sex life — Conan is back.

The zany antics of the red haired wonder are coming back tonight on TBS, just a few short months after Conan O’Brien was ousted from the “Tonight Show” gig by the bloated, annoying, squeaky-voiced Jay Leno after he decided he didn’t like his new job so much.

CoCo left NBC (and unfortunately any chance of every doing any more hilarious “30 Rock” cameos) with the grace he wasn’t awarded by the NBC suits, took his “Legally Prohibited From Being Funny” act on the road, made a guest appearance to introduce Tenacious D at Bonnaroo, grew a pretty sweet beard and went to cable network TBS to continue his reign of being awesome.

Unfortunately, NBC still retains the rights to a lot of Conan’s signature characters (some of which are a bit to scandalous to be named specifically in print), so the odds of seeing them on a rival network are rare. As long as the “Walker Texas Ranger” lever makes the move, it’s all gonna be okay.

Just remember, sex can wait — Conan is on.

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A C ol umn About A r t a n d L i te ra t u re by

Amien Essif The most controversial showdown in Neyland Stadium? UT athletics versus UT academics. Or it would be if it were not for the fact that athletics smashes academics every time like some homecoming joke team.

What makes this rivalry stand out the most, however, is the nature of the controversy. Generally, the population on campus perceives the injustice of our vast budget discrepancy, but all efforts to have a rational thought on the subject are thwarted by the following fact, which may as well be engraved in the masonry of Neyland Stadium: UT athletics is self-funded.

In other words, UT’s athletic department uses funds from ticket sales and independent donations to cast its shadow over our university campus, so we in the shade have no reason to complain. Whatever injustice we perceive is our misunderstanding of UT’s budget.

But oppression (yes, I’m using the O-word) always starts out as a feeling. Women were denied the vote based on the notion that they were not part of the public sphere. The fact is they weren’t part of the public sphere.

Education rates were much lower than men’s, and many women didn’t want to vote. But it took a second-order thought — a holistic approach — to discover the elusive injustice: Women were not part of the public sphere because they were denied the vote. All systems of oppression are reciprocal and complex, and the solution is never simple when you’re in the thick of it.

So I suggest a second-order, holistic approach to the obscene inequality we have on UT’s campus. Everyone feels it, even if they don’t mind it. Athletes get dorms with balconies, better beds and better cafeterias. They are awarded scholarships for relatively little academic achievement and receive preferential treatment in classes because of their status. I don’t blame the students; I blame the powerful monetary force behind them, using them as puppets in order to stage a clever show a few times a year.

Honors students take classes in mildewed rooms with electrical wires exposed because of a lack of renovation funds while the Goodfriend Tennis Center destroys a half-acre of student parking to erect an indoor annex.

While the university makes history, allows space for human growth and advancement, brings culture to Knoxville and accumulates intellectual capital, building a foundation for the long-term health of our economy, the athletics department trains people to jump around in a way that entertains an audience.

Sure, the income generated by a football game pumps money into Knoxville’s economy and even UT academics, but let’s forget the hocus pocus of short-term economics and look toward the long-term. The function of an economy is to provide a system that uses resources to satisfy the needs of humanity.

Athletics is a dead-end game. It provides a fickle and impermanent service (entertainment), effectively sucking money out of Knoxville’s middle and workingclass and into the estates of the most wealthy.

So what do we do about this injustice? What exactly is the problem if athletics isn’t using our money?

Even though we don’t have money to reclaim, there are a few things we can take back.

First, let’s take back our name. The Vols can keep their orange and white and their claim to “Tennessee,” but let them drop the word “University.” They are the antithesis to the principles of higher education.

Then, let’s take back our campus. If athletics wants to build another sports annex, they better not bury another parking lot or demolish student housing. And if Neyland tries to get another facelift during this time of recession and budget crisis, we ought to riot, or am I the only one that finds Neyland’s new $100 million facade a little more insulting than Lane Kiffin applying the rules of capitalism to his career?

Finally, let’s take back reality. Donating to the athletics department, one of the wealthiest corporations in the state, is not philanthropy, and yet the local upper-crust gets tax write-offs for donations — taxes that would have funded education if they were collected. Thinking narrowly, one can’t argue that athletics donors should donate to academics instead. It’s their choice. But if that absurd choice were not given to them, they might feel inspired to do something useful with their money instead.

Simply put, solving the inequality is about changing the way we look at athletics and academics. By some twist of history, sports became affiliated with universities in America. (Europe still cannot understand why.) But in the process, academics started to look like the parasite instead of the other way around — the reality.

—Amien Essif is a senior in English. He can be reached at aessif@utk.edu.

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Since the news media in general birthed the Tea Party movement with its extensive exposure of the anti-Obama protests in early 2009, we have witnessed the movement’s awkward adolescence and rapid maturation into something that has the appearance of a distinct political identity. Any press is still good press, and whatever the tone of various news outlets towards the Tea Party, it cannot be emphasized enough how it was the teat of the media that is responsible for the life of this supposedly self-propelled, “grass roots” phenomena.

This could be extended to mean that the media itself is the driving force for most popular political involvement.

Whether pamphlet or TV form, easily accessed news media is undoubtedly the great popularizer of politics.

The Tea Party is one of the most interesting selffulfilling prophecies of our time. Groomed by the press and for the press, for admiration, for ridicule, and above all, for ratings, the life of this child of corporate funding (Google: “koch brothers”, click first choice) and the media has always been a life lived in the moment; a celebrity life, with all the signs of real influence: personalities generating material for the Associated Press, gossip magazines and tabloids alike.

Yet, it’s burdened by none of the realities of an established political entity, like a consistently emphasized agenda, plan of action or anything resembling detailed policy. Even post-election, only the broadest of platforms — repealing health care, cutting taxes, shrinking government — simply Republican campaign points asserted with an even more disingenuous level of vagueness have been used. While it claims membership from individuals, such an implication is ridiculous — it requires nothing but an unembarrassed, verbal, and, considering the lack of articulated policy, emotional association; all of which have been critical for the extreme accessibility responsible for the level of enthusiasm that’s been generated. It’s been a fun, credibility losing year for everyone.

And the bizzaro-world has only begun, it seems.

The media’s loyalties lie with what it knows will get people to watch, so of course it’s completely unwilling to expose its new ratings baby for the farce that it is.

So any kind of measured, responsible analysis on the

Tea Party remains an impossibility.

It’s a harmful game they’re playing, because while the three Senate seats won by heavy Tea Party campaigners Rand Paul, Marco Rubio and Pat Toomey seem straightforward enough, it’s simply impossible to calculate what constitutes a Tea Party victory in the House, the field of conservative victory (however cyclical), with any certainty whatsoever.

“As many as 60 of the 83 new Republicans” have been projected by the Washington Post — a more definite estimate being impossible without an in-depth look at every single new representative’s campaign. An estimated 90 percent of many more mainstream Republicans are said to have defected by forging themselves a Tea Party membership mid-campaign to take advantage of the enthusiasm and energy of the mobilized voting body of this election. In most practical cases, it means that they stepped up their polarizing, anti-government rhetoric that much more... which apparently worked. So much for the growth of society?

Since trying to decipher between the media noise and the actual momentum of the Tea Party is currently impossible, the fact remains that Tea Party campaigners like Renee Ellmers and Tim Scott, with all the claims of what isn’t going to be tolerated instead of what’s going to be done, actually defeated a lot of incumbents, as well as dominated their less-Tea-Party GOP counterparts in several primaries. The enthusiasm has never been stronger. There was as much if not more radical mobilization among the middle-aged to senior demographic in this election than there was among youth in 2008.

It’s easy to forget that in our country, political parties have died under conditions of internal division like these.

It’s hard to tell if the Tea Party victors can maintain their unrealistically broad and vague identities having to participate in the system that they’ve shown nothing but rhetorical contempt for, or if this has just been a shortlived mania that will rapidly lose its momentum when it proves unable to translate into reality.

Regardless, the media’s ability to subject us to increasingly influencial political movements of its own creation is a disturbing one, especially when they’re just as disorganized and apparently substanceless when elected to government as when they were just a cheap side show. If the media keeps enabling the populist momentum for this special interest funded movement by continuing its unceasing coverage, the GOP might be looking very different come 2012.

—Wiley Robinson is an undecided sophomore. He can be reached at rrobin23@utk.edu.

Monday, November 8, 2010

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John Oates finds personal artistic identity Robby O’Daniel Recruitment Editor For legendary musician John Oates, of critically acclaimed and commercially successful Hall and Oates, 2010 is all about both looking back and moving forward.

Oates, who made a conscious effort to strike out on his own in recent years, finds himself in the middle of an oddly timed Hall and Oates revival.

The band’s gigantic 74-track, four-disc compilation, “Do What You Want, Be What You Are” came out in 2009, but two seperate Hall and Oates tribute albums have also been released in 2010.

Oates said he appreciated the tip of the cap that indie pop band The Bird and the Bee gave with its March release, “Interpreting the Masters Volume 1: A Tribute to Daryl Hall and John Oates.”

“I thought it was really cool,” he said. “I thought it was great that they would honor us and honor our music by wanting to dedicate an entire album to us.”

The two bands became fast friends as a result, and Oates even played on The Bird and the Bee’s debut of the album at a Los Angeles concert.

Unfortunately the concert came in the wake of the death of Hall and Oates bassist Tom “T-Bone” Wolk. Oates called him “the most important member of our band for over 25 years.”

Since he already committed to the Bird and the Bee, he went to New York for Wolk’s funeral and immediately hopped on a flight to LA for a concert the next night.

“I was on stage with them playing the old songs, and it was really catharctic in a way,” Oates said. “... (It) took me out of this incredible depression and made me feel like, ‘Hey, you have to move on and you have to move forward.’”

Then, there’s Koot Hoomi’s tribute album, “The Dark Side of Hall and Oates,” also released in March, which reimagines the classic songs with “off-kilter harmonies, psychedelic swirl, minor-key digressions and the occasional spot of Tuvan throat-singing,” according to the album’s website.

“It’s really interesting that our music would be a creative jumping-off point for a whole generation of musicians, whether it is as straightforward as Bird and Bee basically playing our songs ... to someone like these other guys who really took it to an unusual place, the common thread is our music somehow means to them enough that they care about and want to use it to make a creative statement,” Oates said.

Oates attributed the Hall and Oates revival in popularity to the fact that the two have never left the musical landscape.

“Daryl and I have never really stopped performing and have remained vital and have never fallen into the trap of being a nostalgia act," Oates said. “We take our musical legacy very seriously.”

But for newfound fans looking for Hall and Oates material, Oates said his concert is a

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bit different. It all begins with Oates’ solo interpretations of the classics.

“I don’t do Hall and Oates without Hall,” Oates said. “This is not a Hall and Oates show without Daryl Hall. ... I honor the songs I feel very close to that are by Hall and Oates, but I do them a very different way.”

He stressed the difference between a recording and a song, saying a recording involves studio technology and producers, whereas a song is an individual’s or band’s use of musical instruments to create music.

“I feature songs,” Oates said. “This show is all about songs.”

So when Oates plays Hall and Oates classics like “Maneater” or “Out of Touch,” they take a different, more acoustic feel.

“It becomes something totally different,” he said.

He said he started doing the solo shows because he wanted a more intimate atmosphere where he could connect with the audience and tell stories.

There is also an emphasis on Oates’ new material, which he said concertgoers prefer.

It is no longer strange playing alone for Oates after decades on stage with Hall.

“It’s no longer a transition,” he said. “It’s completely integrated into my life. I do as many solo shows now as I do with Daryl.”

Oates just finished recording his third solo album, “Mississippi Mile,” which, like the recent Hall and Oates revival, also goes back to the beginning. But this time it’s the beginning of Oates’ relationship with music.

He grew up listening to artists like Elvis Presley and Chuck Berry, and his new album features cover songs of those artists and other songs he identified as instrumental in shaping his connection with music at a young age.

“I took those songs and the ones I really liked and • Photo courtesy of John Oats reimagined them and reinvented them and rearranged them,” he said.

Like his solo versions of Hall and Oates classics, Oates said his new album, due out April 2011, will feature songs that people will recognize, but his versions are unique enough to stand on their own.

The album also includes some original material, he said, including the title track which goes into the narrative of why he called the album “Mississippi Mile” — the fact that all that music traces its roots back to the Mississippi Delta region.

At this stage of his career, Oates is talking about things people do not know about him, amplifying his life as a musician before his chance meeting with Hall in a freight elevator at a radio station.

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Monday, November 8, 2010

ENTERTAINMENT

Teebs — “Arthur’s Birds” Junip — “In Every Direction” Jose Gonzalez’ voice is always a good folk-pop centerpiece, whether it’s in his solo work or in the trio Junip. In Junip, his voice is mixed with the strong and consistently interesting percussion of Elias Araya, and with the more experimental and textural elements of Tobias Winterkorn, making for music which is largely fulfilling. “In Every Direction” combines these elements to make a song that feels as if it has just been set free and is now intently gliding westward, kicking up dust at the broken chains behind it. It’s a track for the open air and a track that calls for movement.

— Ross Stansberry

• Photo courtesy of Jon Bergmann

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• Photo courtesy of Teebs

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Monday, November 8, 2010

SPORTS

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Record-‘Bray’ker leads Vols to win Da’Rick Rodgers and Gerald Jones respectively.

The Vols’ offense scored on every possession in the first half except the first.

Jones, a senior wide receiver and veteran leader Tyler Bray’s first start at quarterback proved successful for Tennessee as the Vols (3-6, 0-5 SEC) for the Volunteers, raved about the offensive procruised to a 50-14 win over the Memphis Tigers in duction and efficiency his young quarterback possessed throughout the game.

Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium.

“That’s his forte, that’s what he does,” Jones said, Bray threw for 325 yards and completed touchdown passes to five different receivers, all of which referring to Bray’s long-ball capability and distributcame in the first half. The freshman set the record ing passes around the field. “Tyler makes the game for most passing yards in a half at Tennessee with easy.”

Jones went as far as to say he would come back 308 yards, and his accuracy picked apart the to Tennessee and play four years all over again if he Memphis secondary for most of the night.

The Tigers (1-8, 0-5 C-USA) came into the game had the chance to play alongside Bray.

“He kind of makes me wish I could start my with some offensive woes of their own and a defense that had been playing sub-par, ranking sec- whole Tennessee career over again and be a freshond to last in the nation in pass defense. The Tigers man and play under him for four years, but I can’t,” still managed to open the gates in a frenzy, stunning Jones said. “He’s going to be a really good player as long as he keeps up with (what) he is doing, and his the Volunteers early.

Bray and the white-clad Vols took the field for receivers should be very happy to have him as a the first drive of the game but could not come up quarterback.”

Poole, the Vols’ leading with points, turning the rusher this season, ran for 104 ball over on downs to yards on the ground on 16 carMemphis with a stuffed ries, including a 21-yard rushTauren Poole run up the ing touchdown. The play middle on fourth-and-2. before, the Vol defense This gave the ball to the stopped a Memphis fourthTigers on their own 38, down conversion attempt with which they used as an an interception by defensive opportunity to go right end Malik Jackson, who down Tennessee’s throat returned 35 yards to the on a well-crafted eightMemphis 21-yard line with play, 64-yard drive result5:56 left in the third quarter. ing in a 4-yard touchdown Jackson, a junior defensive pass from Ryan Williams tackle and transfer from USC, to Marcus Rucker. joked after the game that he “Yeah, they punched us finally proved to Dooley he in the mouth that first possesses “soft hands” and quarter,” said UT coach was run down behind only Derek Dooley. “They because “the other player was came out, and we didn’t really fast.” Jackson and defenfinish a drive. Then, they sive end Chris Walker each went right down the field.

Tia Patron • The Daily Beacon registered two sacks in the “We were a little bit rattled. I had to calm them Tyler Bray warms up earlier this game, with Walker’s two down. They were starry- season on Saturday, Sept. 18. Bray standing as his first and seceyed and jumpy. And then set UT records for yards (308) and ond sacks on the year.

The rest of the Volunteer we settled in and did a touchdowns (five) thrown in a singood job. We got gle half this past Saturday against defense forced five turnovers and held the struggling Tiger turnovers, which is what Memphis. offense to 308 yards on the we’ve been needing all day, 80 of which came late in season. And, when we get the fourth quarter on a 10-play drive, which ended turnovers, like any team, we play well.”

Rucker, who also caught a touchdown late in the in Rucker’s second touchdown catch. The Tigers’ fourth quarter, would be the Tigers’ only receiver to totaled just 64 yards on the ground on 31 carries.

Tennessee’s Matt Simms took over the offense score in the game. Williams 18-of-27 for 221 yards with 4:20 to go in the third quarter and finished the on the night, surprising the orange and white fans who came out in heavy numbers to see the Vols night 3-of-5 passing for 54 yards. The former starter may appear in a backup role for the rest of snap a four-game losing streak.

The stat of the night was the Volunteers’ offen- the season, as Dooley announced after the game sive production at the midway point. Tennessee that even if the Vols had faced Oregon on Saturday, amassed 398 total yards of offense and saw touch- Bray would have started the contest.

The Vols welcome Ole Miss this Saturday at 12 down catches of 14, 22 and 9 yards — all in the second quarter — from Bray to Denarius Moore, p.m. in Neyland Stadium for UT’s 2010 Homecoming game.

Colin Skinner

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Joy Hill • The Daily Beacon

Kylie Bono battles against an Alabama defender in a soccer match on Sunday, Oct. 24. The Lady Vols were able to pull out a 1-0 win over the Tide with the sole goal coming from Emily Dowd halfway into the second overtime period.

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Dooley, Vols eye bowl eligibility

Lady Vols close out exhibition slate 3-pointer with just under seven minutes remaining shortened Tennessee’s lead to 21-18. But the Lady Vols picked up the tempo before intermission, staging a 21-3 run to close out the half.

“I think we got a lot better with our defense for sure,” Johnson Tennessee’s exhibition contest against Union University was a mix of old and new on Sunday. And it took a little bit of every- said. “We’ve struggled a lot with that — miscommunication, who’s guarding who. We kind of flowed a lot better than last one to get past the Lady Bulldogs.

With the return of Vicki Baugh and Kelley Cain from injury game.”

Tennessee struggled both offensively and defensively from the and the sparks provided by freshman Meighan Simmons, the Lady Vols shook off a lackluster first half of shooting to push past perimeter against Union. The Lady Vols shot 7-for-25 from the outside while allowing Union to shoot 47 percent on 3-pointers.

Union 86-53 at Thompson-Boling Arena.

The contest was UT’s second and final exhibition game, and Summitt saw her team’s outside defense as one glaring weakness it was enough improvement for Tennessee coach Pat Summitt to heading into the regular season.

“I just think that we’ve got to do a better job when we know see on the defensive end. we have to identify the best “It’s better than what we saw shooters on the floor, then we Tuesday night,” Summitt said, have to limit touches,” referring to UT’s first exhibition Summitt said. “They are so victory over Carson-Newman. well-coached and so disci“But you’ve got to be able to look plined.” at personnel. You’ve got to have a Cain tallied six points and sense of urgency for what you 10 rebounds in her first outing want to do.” this season while also blocking Glory Johnson paced the Lady five shots, including one Vols with a double-double of 20 Union 3-pointer by LeTesa points and 11 rebounds, while McLaughlin with just more Alicia Manning added 13 points than eight minutes left in the and Taber Spani and Shekinna game, which lit a fire beneath Stricklen chipped in 10. the UT crowd.

Kayla Hudson led Union with “Obviously, Kelly and Vicki, 17 points. if we can play the two of them Baugh entered the contest in together, we can have a very the first half amid cheers, after opposing post game on both being sidelined with injuries for ends,” Summitt said. nearly 18 months. Summitt liked Simmons recorded a secwhat she saw from her veteran ond impressive contest in a forward. row, scoring eight points and “You’ve got to love Vicki bringing down five rebounds.

Baugh,” Summitt said. “Think “Meighan, she was great, what she’s been through. She’s but at other times, she was not been really working with her very good,” Summitt said. rehab. She was more mobile “That’s typical of a freshman. today than anytime that we’ve We just call her speedy, she’s seen her up until this point. She pretty quick.” just seemed confident.”

Tennessee held a 14-0 Baugh was just excited to hit advantage on fast break points the floor for the first time. and a 26-8 advantage on bench “It was awesome,” said points. But the challenge Baugh, who scored 6 points and George Richardson • The Daily Beacon imposed by Union was not snagged 2 rebounds in 11 minShekinna Stricklen puts up a shot against Union during unexpected by Summitt and utes. “It was just a pleasure to an exhibition game on Sunday, Nov. 7. The Lady Vols her squad. be back on the court. I was just cruised through their second and final exhibition game “I think we expected going one of the veterans coming of the year, winning 86-53. into this game that it was back to play with the young going to be a challenge,” kids.”

The Lady Vols caught fire early in the game against Union. A Summitt said. “I think (UT) really bought in.

“We got better and better as we went along.”

Spani layup at the 14:28 mark in the first half boosted UT’s lead The Lady Vols open up the regular season with a road to 15-4.

UT’s defense fell short deep into the first period. A Hudson matchup against Louisville on Friday.

Zac Ellis

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Matt Dixon Sports Editor One down, three to go.

The month of November has historically been very kind to Tennessee and after an “0-for-October,” the calendar change was a blessing for the Volunteers.

Saturday’s matchup in the Liberty Bowl went the way most games have gone for UT this year.

The underdog and less talented team finds a way to make a few plays early to take the lead, but eventually reality sets in, and the game plays out as expected.

Only this time, it was Tennessee that was the better team.

Despite having to travel nearly 400 miles across the state, UT felt at home in Memphis.

Fans in orange far outnumbered those wearing the hometown blue.

It should also be worth noting that the Vols didn’t win a game outside the state of Te n n e s s e e this year.

Vanderbilt is the only other road game left on UT’s schedule, and that game is in Nashville.

True freshman quarterback Tyler Bray put on quite an air attack during the first half of his first career start. However, Vol fans should tamper their excitement a bit.

Memphis is bad — really bad. It’s the worst team on Tennessee’s schedule this year. Yes, that includes UT-Martin. At best, the Tigers are the sixth-best team in the state.

Still, UT can take many positives away from the game.

Even against a terrible defense, Bray spread the ball around and didn’t appear to stare down receivers. He threw each of his five first-half touchdown passes to five different receivers.

One of those five touchdown passes was caught by highly touted wide receiver Da’Rick Rogers. It was the five-star prospect’s first career touchdown. Rogers has been getting more and more involved in the UT offense in recent games.

Getting in the end zone for the first time only helps his development.

Many backups and reserves saw playing time in the second half. This is critical for a team that has major depth issues. (Two offensive linemen had to

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play the entire game because they didn’t have backups.)

All in all, it was a great night for UT fans, who needed a win almost as much as the team did.

Looking ahead, this week’s game with Ole Miss is the pivotal game if the Vols are to play in a bowl game. At 3-6, UT needs a win against the (Black Bear) Rebels, Vanderbilt and Kentucky to reach the six-win mark and become bowl eligible.

Tennessee can outscore a dreadful Commodores offense so chalk up the “home” game in Nashville as a win.

That gives the Vols four wins, leaving Ole Miss a n d Kentucky.

The Vols will more than likely be underdogs in each of the two games, but Ole Miss is p e re n n i a l l y an underachieving team and Kentucky is … well, the same Kentucky that has lost to the Vols 25 years in a row.

Ole Miss is the key game because winning on Homecoming, as well as against Vanderbilt, would make the Vols 5-6 heading into the regular season finale against the Wildcats.

With a bowl game at stake on Senior Day, does anyone really believe leaders like middle linebacker Nick Reveiz, defensive end Chris Walker and wide receiver Gerald Jones would let this team lose to Kentucky?

Didn’t think so.

Ole Miss is all that separates the Vols from a bowl game in coach Derek Dooley’s first year.

The outcome of a bowl game isn’t what makes the feat important. It’s the two weeks of extra practice, basically another spring practice, which this team needs in order to quickly become championship contenders again.

And who knows? Likely bowl destinations for the Vols would be the Music City or Liberty Bowl, two games played within the state of Tennessee. So a bowl win would indeed be possible.

All in all,

it was a great night for UT fans, who

needed a win

almost as much as the team did.

”

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

Monday, November 8, 2010