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Organization to honor fallen military heroes UT community to join colleges across nation in remembrance of US veterans Victoria Wright Staff Writer Student organization Veterans at UTK will hold the National Day of Remembrance Friday at Circle Park.

The event, which runs from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., will remember all soldiers who died in combat since 9/11. More than 6,330 names will be called. Lt. Col. Dan Kelly will begin the readings. The president emeritus, Dr. Joe Johnson, will give a speech and continue the readings into the afternoon. Johnson, a veteran as well, served time in Korea during the Korean War. “We’re known as the Volunteer State,” Johnson said. “We have a large number of people that have gone into the military service, so I think it’s very proper and appropriate to have an event on campus for Veterans Day.” Colleges across the nation will join in a moment of silence at 11 a.m. PST to honor the soldiers. Douglas Oeser, senior in psychology and Veterans at UTK president, believes the event is much needed on campus due to the scarcity of events on Veterans Day last year.

“For those of us that are service members, it’s a time to pay thanks and remember them and show that they haven’t faded away,” Oeser said. “It’s just nice to step back and say thank you.”

Oeser served in the army in Afghanistan from 2007 to 2008, then from 2009 to 2010.

Over 600 students and faculty have served in the military, and Oeser said the transition from combat to the academic world can be difficult. His organization often helps ease the transition of veterans on campus

returning to an academic setting.

“We want to provide a social community to transition into the academic world,” Oeser said. “We try to make sure the veterans have a place of contact. It is a struggle to go into the classroom and take a class with 18-year-olds and you’re 21. It’s hard to relate. But we adapt and we overcome.”

Besides helping college students, Veterans at UTK also works with veterans within the community, like Volunteers of America, which helps homeless veterans receive essential services such as health and dental care, food and proper registration.

Oeser said that the homeless veteran population has decreased after 9/11 and more veterans have registered with a transition program, but there is a discrepancy in numbers between older veterans and those of the younger generation.

“I think the real issue when it comes to that older generation is not having that support and service,” Oeser said. “I hope that we don’t ever go back to the way it was before.”

Oeser hopes the organization will continue to help young veterans by offering support and an open environment for communication.

Johnson said the event is important not only for veterans, but also for students who have not served in the military.

“We’re remembering a few of those people that served in the military and given their life for those in this country to exercise our freedoms,” Johnson said. “(They’re George Richardson • The Daily Beacon helping) to keep my freedoms as an American citizen. I am eternally grateful for UTK ROTC presents the colors during the Veterans Day Parade on Nov. 11, 2010.

Veterans at UTK will hold a remembrance of soldiers who lost their lives in combat that.” since 9/11. The event will take place at Circle Park from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.

SGA calls for everyday civility

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The five-member panel discussed political civility and improving civility on campus in Baker Center on Oct. 8.

They discussed how, as the university works to get closer to the top-25 mark, the students need to look at diversity and understand its importance to campus. stressed the importance of broadening the term’s universal definition.

Deborah Ince Attendees and panelists agreed that diversity does not just relate to Staff Writer race or ethnicity, but extends to ideas, beliefs, opinions, sexual orienSGA Government Affairs hosted a Civility Panel Tuesday night as tation, socio-economic classes and various other sectors. Many stupart of its “Strive for 25” week. The committee hosted a five-person dents also shared their stories about their experiences with diversity panel that paced the night’s discussions, all of which focused on polit- on campus, relating them back to the display of civility at UT. The second civility topic examined was dialogue and improving ical civility and improving civility on campus.

“The slogan for our civility campaign is ‘One campus. One com- communication across all peoples and groups. All panelists and attenmunity. Celebrate the differences,’” Avery Howard, who facilitated the dees agreed that engaging in courteous discussion and productive debate would improve civility on campus. forum, said.

“That’s how we move forward,” Gardial said. “You take away that Attendees to the forum in the Baker Center were educated on the principles of civility and how to combat negativity and close-minded- ‘me versus you’ mentality. How do we engage in civil debate?”

The panelists also discussed how important it was for individuals ness in civil discussion and everyday interaction.

Vice Provost Sarah Gardial — one of the five panelists — stressed to feel comfortable about speaking out about their opinions and beliefs. They also urged everyone to approach different ideas with the importance of civility on campus.

“There is room for improvement,” Gardial said. “We’ve done the open minds, stating that understanding and accepting alternative research, we’ve talked to faculty and staff, and we all agree that this is viewpoints is key to civil discussion.

“If we reignite positivity,” Reid said, “then problems can be solved.” an important issue.”

Panelists urged students to voice any concerns regarding uncivil The forum is one of the many strides UT is making to improve civility on campus, as such improvement would also help better UT’s conduct to professors, department heads and other college officials, stating that being aware of the problem helps UT search for ways to chances of breaking into the top-25 lineup of U.S. institutions.

“We’re trying to see what we can do to make this university better,” address and correct it.

“I thought it was a great discussion to have,” Carrera Thibodeaux, Taelor Olive, co-chair of Government Affairs, said.

Featuring Anderson Olds from the NPHC, Vice Provost Sarah senior in political science, said. “It was a much-needed discussion.

Gardial from the Student Affairs Office, Erin Reid from LGBT, Bobby There was a lot to touch on and not enough time. Hopefully the right Patton from College Democrats and Tyler King from College people were here to make a change.”

SGA Government Affairs continues its “Strive for 25” week this Republicans, the panel represented a wide array of campus viewpoints and discussed the importance of inclusivity, diversity, dialogue and week with a letter-writing campaign and a Top 25 Forum on Thursday, as well as a Veterans Day Remembrance event on Friday. “collegiability” — all of which were named as top civility principles.

As the panelists and students discussed, they reached the consen- Flyers can be found in HBB and the UC, and Government Affairs sus that throughout communities across the globe there is a lack of urges for everyone to get involved.

In terms of the Civility Panel, all attendees welcomed increased understanding on what civility really means.

“Having a civility statement here on campus is good,” Gardial said. efforts to improve civility on UT’s campus.

“Civility is an ongoing journey instead of a concrete destination,” “We need it.”

The forum also urged attendees to really think about diversity and Gardial said. “It’s an act you work on.”

Hero awarded Silver Star for actions The Associated Press FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. — In his final actions before being shot down by a gunman in Afghanistan, Sgt. 1st Class Barry Jarvis protected the life of his platoon leader by pushing him out of the line of fire.

Jarvis posthumously received the Silver Star during a ceremony Thursday at Fort Campbell, Ky., with his family accepting the military's thirdhighest combat decoration in his place.

In all, six soldiers from the 4th Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division were killed by the rogue Afghan policeman on Nov. 29, 2010, in Nangarhar province along the border with Pakistan during a routine partnering mission with the Afghan National Army and the Afghan Border Police.

The 39-year-old career soldier from Lewisport, Ky., had joined the Army in 1999 and was the oldest and the highest ranking of those killed that day. His job as the platoon sergeant for 2nd Platoon, Bravo Troop, 1st Squadron, 61st Cavalry Regiment was to set an example for younger soldiers and protect them, said Col. Sean Jenkins, the brigade commander.

“An additional duty of the platoon sergeant is to train and mentor young lieutenants as they prepare to lead soldiers,” he said. “He not only did this, but on that November day, pushed his young platoon leader out of harm’s way, sacrificing his live to save another.”

The young lieutenant he saved, 25-year-old 1st Lt. Will Janotka, said Jarvis was an inspiring leader to everyone in the unit.

“We went through a lot together, not just myself and Sgt. Jarvis, but the whole platoon,” he said after the ceremony, standing next to a photo of Jarvis. “Just having him there made it a lot easier.

He was the epitome of what a platoon sergeant was supposed to be like.”

That day, Bravo Troop was observing the firing of 155mm

rockets from a border patrol outpost in Pachir Wa Agam district. Part of its mission was to build relationships with the Afghan security forces and help train and assist them. As the first artillery round impacted, one of the border policemen turned his weapon on the American troops, according to the military citation.

Janotka said he was standing nearby with Jarvis when they heard the shooting and both men started running to the scene.

The citation said as Jarvis came into view of the attack, he realized they were both in the gunman’s line of fire. Jarvis shoved the young officer aside and as he was turning to face the gunman, he was mortally wounded. The gunman was later killed by other soldiers, according to the military.

Janotka said it happened quickly, but he remembers Jarvis pushing him.

“I felt something, but honestly bullets were flying and my adrenaline was up,” he said. “I was concerned about my soldiers.”

Maj. Gen. James McConville, commander of the 101st Airborne Division, said the platoon sergeant’s quick actions to save another instead of himself reflected the history of the unit known as the Band of Brothers.

“On that day, Sgt. 1st Class Jarvis could have dived for cover, he could have yelled for his platoon leader to do the same, but he did the thing that all heroes do — he put others before himself,” McConville said. “His actions define what kind of man he was.”

His wife, Tina, cried as McConville presented her with the Silver Star along with his brother, Johnny Jarvis; his father, William Jarvis; and stepmother, Beth Jarvis. He had two daughters, Kitaira and Aleesha, and two sons, Donovan and William, all of Clarksville, Tenn.

Janotka said he was honored to meet his platoon sergeant’s family and relatives of the other soldiers who died that day.

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Fire trucks carry cheerleaders and the dance team past Neyland Stadium for the Homecoming Parade on Nov. 4. Groups across campus competed all throughout Homecoming Week, with Delta Zeta and Alpha Gamma Rho winning large float during the parade.

1811 — Confederate General Benjamin McCulloch is born On this day in 1811, Confederate General Benjamin McCulloch is born near Rutherford City, Tennessee.

Raised in Tennessee, McCulloch followed his friends Davy Crockett and Sam Houston to Texas in 1835. An illness kept McCulloch from joining Crockett at the Alamo, where its defenders, including Crockett, were massacred in March 1836 when the Mexican army overran the mission during the Texas War for Independence. In April 1836, McCulloch served with Houston at the decisive Battle of San Jacinto, in which Mexican General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna’s army was defeated and Texas gained its independence. After the war, McCulloch served in the Texas legislature and the Texas Rangers, the primary law enforcement agency in the Republic of Texas. He fought under General Zachary Taylor during the Mexican War (184648) and served as a U.S. marshal in the 1850s.

When the Civil War broke out, McCulloch became a colonel in command of Texas troops.

He rode to San Antonio and forced the surrender of a Federal arsenal there, while his brother, Henry, took control of Federal posts on the Texas frontier. In May 1861, Benjamin McCulloch became a brigadier general in the Confederate army and was assigned to defend Indian Territory. He formed alliances with several tribes in the area before moving his force to southwestern Missouri, where he played a key role in the Confederate victory at Wilson’s Creek on August 10, 1861.

McCulloch commanded a wing of the Army of the West as it approached a Union force led

by General Samuel Curtis in northwestern Arkansas in March 1862. Curtis took up a defensive position around Elkhorn Tavern and waited for the Confederates to attack. On the night of March 6, McCulloch marched his troops around Curtis’s right flank and prepared for an early morning assault on March 7. Curtis discovered the movement, and blocked McCulloch’s advance. That day, at the Battle of Pea Ridge, Curtis held off a furious attack by McCulloch's force. McCulloch rode forward to monitor his men’s progress and emerged from some brush directly in front of a Union regiment. Identifiable by his trademark black velvet suit (he eschewed uniforms), McCulloch was killed instantly by a volley from the Yankees. His successor, General James McIntosh, was killed minutes later and the leaderless Confederates retreated. McCulloch’s death was the turning point in the battle, and the Confederate defeat ensured Union domination of northern Arkansas for the rest of the war.

1918 — World War I ends At the 11th hour on the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918, the Great War ends. At 5 a.m. that morning, Germany, bereft of manpower and supplies and faced with imminent invasion, signed an armistice agreement with the Allies in a railroad car outside Compiégne, France. The First World War left nine million soldiers dead and 21 million wounded, with Germany, Russia, Austria-Hungary, France, and Great Britain each losing nearly a million or more lives. In addition, at least five million civilians died from disease, starvation, or exposure.

On June 28, 1914, in an event that is widely regarded as sparking the outbreak of World War I, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian empire, was shot to death with his wife by Bosnian Serb Gavrilo Princip in Sarajevo, Bosnia. Ferdinand had been inspecting his uncle’s imperial armed forces in Bosnia and Herzegovina, despite the threat of Serbian nationalists who wanted these Austro-Hungarian possessions to join newly independent Serbia.

Austria-Hungary blamed the Serbian government for the attack and hoped to use the incident as justification for settling the problem of Slavic nationalism once and for all. However, as Russia supported Serbia, an Austro-Hungarian declaration of war was delayed until its leaders

received assurances from German leader Kaiser Wilhelm II that Germany would support their cause in the event of a Russian intervention.

On July 28, Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia, and the tenuous peace between Europe’s great powers collapsed. On July 29, Austro-Hungarian forces began to shell the Serbian capital, Belgrade, and Russia, Serbia’s ally, ordered a troop mobilization against Austria-Hungary. France, allied with Russia, began to mobilize on August 1. France and Germany declared war against each other on August 3. After crossing through neutral Luxembourg, the German army invaded Belgium on the night of August 3-4, prompting Great Britain, Belgium’s ally, to declare war against Germany.

For the most part, the people of Europe greeted the outbreak of war with jubilation. Most patriotically assumed that their country would be victorious within months. Of the initial belligerents, Germany was most prepared for the outbreak of hostilities, and its military leaders had formatted a sophisticated military strategy known as the “Schlieffen Plan,” which envisioned the conquest of France through a great arcing offensive through Belgium and into northern France. Russia, slow to mobilize, was to be kept occupied by Austro-Hungarian forces while Germany attacked France.

The Schlieffen Plan was nearly successful, but in early September the French rallied and halted the German advance at the bloody Battle of the Marne near Paris. By the end of 1914, well over a million soldiers of various nationalities had been killed on the battlefields of Europe, and neither for the Allies nor the Central Powers was a final victory in sight. On the western front — the battle line that stretched across northern France and Belgium — the combatants settled down in the trenches for a terrible war of attrition.

In 1915, the Allies attempted to break the stalemate with an amphibious invasion of Turkey, which had joined the Central Powers in October 1914, but after heavy bloodshed the Allies were forced to retreat in early 1916. The year 1916 saw great offensives by Germany and Britain along the western front, but neither side accomplished a decisive victory. In the east, Germany was more successful, and the disorganized Russian army suffered terrible losses, spurring the outbreak of the Russian Revolution in 1917. By the end of 1917, the Bolsheviks had seized power in Russia and immediately set about negotiating peace with Germany. In 1918, the infusion of American troops and resources into the western front finally tipped the scale in the Allies’ favor. Germany signed an armistice agreement with the Allies on November 11, 1918.

World War I was known as the “war to end all wars” because of the great slaughter and destruction it caused. Unfortunately, the peace treaty that officially ended the conflict—the Treaty of Versailles of 1919 — forced punitive terms on Germany that destabilized Europe and laid the groundwork for World War II. 1967 — Viet Cong release U.S. prisoners of war Three U.S. prisoners of war, two of them African American, are released by the Viet Cong in a ceremony in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. The three men were turned over to Tom Hayden, a “new left” antiwar activist. U.S. officials in Saigon said that the released prisoners had been “brainwashed,” but the State Department denied it. The Viet Cong said that the release was a response to antiwar protests in the U.S. and a gesture towards the “courageous struggle” of blacks in the United States.

Also on this day: In Vietnam, the Americal (formerly Task Force Oregon) and 1st Cavalry Divisions combine to form Operation Wheeler/Wallowa in Quang Nam and Quang Tin Provinces, I Corps. The purpose of the operation was to relieve enemy pressure and to reinforce the III Marine Amphibious Force in the area, thus permitting Marines to be deployed further north. The operation lasted more than 12 months and resulted in 10,000 enemy casualties.

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

Friday, November 11, 2011

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Nashville pays large price in effort against Occupy protesters The Associated Press

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Anna Kathryn Robertson, senior in psychology, helps children with decorating cupcakes at the East Tennessee Children’s Hospital Halloween Party for the Hematology and Oncology Department on Oct. 28. Students from UT’s Dance Marathon participated in the event.

Sexual abuse victim finally heard The Associated Press MIAMI — A Miami jury returned a $100 million verdict Thursday against a retired Roman Catholic priest accused of sexually abusing dozens of boys over many years — an amount unlikely to ever be collected, but one a victim’s attorney said sends a strong message to child predators.

“It sets a standard,” said attorney Jeff Herman, who represented Andres Susana in the case against the priest, Neil Doherty. “Now we know what a jury thinks about these cases. No. 2, it sends a message that we hope will protect other children.”

Susana, now of Lansing, Mich., told reporters he was just 14 when he ran away from home and wound up in Miami’s Little Haiti neighborhood in the 1980s. It was there that more than 20 people now claim Doherty trolled for victims wearing his priest’s collar, gaining their trust and then plying the boys with drugs and alcohol and sexually abusing them.

“What he did to me, it’s unforgiveable. It’s something I’m going to have to live with the rest of my life,” said Susana, 40. “I feel that justice has been served. It’s just really satisfying that my voice has been heard.”

Despite the verdict's size, it is the least of Doherty’s legal troubles.

He has been jailed in neighboring Broward County since last year

Candidates prepare for next election The Associated Press WASHINGTON — Mitt Romney chugged ahead Thursday as the conservativefueled drive to deny him the Republican presidential nomination reached a difficult new phase: Once-surging rivals Rick Perry and Herman Cain scrambled to control serious damage, while an old face sought new ways to exploit their problems.

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich could emerge as the newest hope for conservative activists who doubt Romney’s commitment to their priorities.

But Gingrich trails Romney and others in organizing in key states such as Iowa. And he will have to prove that his long and sometimes troubled political history can withstand closer scrutiny.

Meanwhile, Texas Gov. Perry rearranged his schedule Thursday to try to mitigate a disastrous debate moment, in which he could not remember the third federal agency he has vowed to abolish. Perry cancelled a Tennessee fundraiser to appear on several TV networks and the David Letterman show, pledging to stay in the race.

He repeatedly said he “stepped in it” at the Wednesday night debate but declared in an interview, “This ain’t a day for quitting nothing.”

For Cain, the former pizza company executive, it was day 11 of trying to get beyond sexual harassment accusations leveled against him by four women, two of whom received cash settlements from a trade association Cain once headed.

Facing voters for the first time since the allegations emerged,

Cain met with tea party groups in Michigan, hoping the friendly settings would preserve the lofty perch he enjoyed in GOP polls two weeks ago.

“How you beat Obama? Beat him with a Cain!” he told one supporter at a crowded diner in Ypsilanti. The crowd cheered.

He is airing his first TV ad in Iowa, and he has hired a new lawyer who is warning women they will be scrutinized for any charges made against the candidate.

Romney, the former Massachusetts governor, stayed out of the public eye Thursday, although he blasted President Barack Obama’s Iran policy in a Wall Street Journal opinion piece. His supporters quietly reveled in the good fortune of Perry’s and Cain’s woes.

With the Iowa caucus set for Jan. 3, and the New Hampshire primary a week after that, Romney is looking strong, but he’s hardly home free. Many conservatives still resent his past support of legalized abortion and gay rights, and his requirement that all Massachusetts residents obtain health insurance.

But they have failed to coalesce around a single alternative.

Rep. Michele Bachmann briefly topped the polls, followed by Perry and then Cain. It’s unclear whether Cain can hold his position.

Some Republican insiders feel the next opportunity falls to Gingrich, the fiery Georgian who led the party’s 1994 takeover of the House (after 40 years in the minority), only to lose support in tax and budget showdowns with President Bill Clinton.

awaiting trial on multiple child sex abuse charges involving a different young victim. Doherty, 68, has pleaded not guilty to those charges.

Trial of the lawsuit lasted just a day and a half, with Susana taking the stand to describe the abuse and a psychologist describing the shame, humiliation and lasting emotional scars he suffered. Doherty testified only in a written deposition, taking the 5th Amendment against self-incrimination in answer to most questions because of the pending criminal case.

Doherty’s attorney did not immediately return an email seeking comment Thursday.

Herman said the Miami-Dade County Circuit Court jury’s verdict, which includes $90 million in punitive damages, is among the largest nationwide against an individual priest. The lawsuit did not name the Archdiocese of Miami, which has been targeted by numerous other lawsuits over allegations of sexual abuse by Doherty and other priests.

Many have been settled.

“We weren’t aware of it because it’s a civil case against an individual,” said Mary Ross Agosta, spokeswoman for the archdiocese.

A separate lawsuit filed on Susana’s behalf against the archdiocese was dismissed because it came after the statute of limitations had passed, but Herman is appealing that ruling.

Susana said he lived silently with the effects of the abuse for years before deciding in February 2010 to come forward.

“It was just time for me to let it out,” he said.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam will ask prosecutors to drop charges against dozens of Occupy Nashville protesters arrested last month for trespassing, his office said Thursday.

Haslam spokesman David Smith said the decision to dismiss the charges against 55 protesters was made in light of a federal judge’s ruling that the state couldn’t enforce the new curfew on the grounds around the state Capitol.

“We will proceed under the assumption that the temporary restraining order will be extended in one form or another,” Smith said in an email. “As the order provides, the state is not constrained in the interim from enforcing existing laws designed to preserve public safety and health.”

State troopers used the curfew to arrest protesters the nights of Oct. 28 and Oct. 29.

Both times a Nashville magistrate refused to jail the protesters, saying the state didn’t have probable cause to arrest them.

They were released with citations.

Meanwhile, emails obtained

by WTVF-TV indicate a top official at the Tennessee Highway Patrol was worried that the cost of operations against Occupy Nashville protesters would hurt troopers’ efforts to prevent traffic fatalities this holiday season (http://bit.ly/u3otsU).

“We’re coming up on the heavy holiday travel time and we could lose a great deal of the momentum we have gained in our fatalities by making the troopers burn time and not be on the road,” Lt. Col. Derek Stewart said in the Oct. 28 email.

Col. Tracy Trott, the THP’s commander, has said the operations involving more than 70 troopers on each of two nights wouldn’t cost the state any extra money in terms of overtime.

Safety Department spokeswoman Jennifer Donnals said Thursday that overtime was a consideration as part of a “a long-term plan to secure Legislative Plaza,” but that it was decided that it wasn’t needed.

“The THP is always concerned about diverting resources from its daily responsibilities for unplanned situations,” she said.

Protesters who began camping in downtown Nashville more than a month ago

acknowledged increasing problems with homeless people who had become attracted to the site. They asked the state for help in preventing thefts and assaults by homeless people, but Safety Commissioner Bill Gibbons said after the first round of arrests that the state doesn’t “have the resources to go out and in effect baby-sit protesters 24-7.”

The new overnight curfew was announced and posted around the Capitol grounds on the afternoon of Oct. 27, though there was widespread confusion over whether the state would immediately enforce the new rules.

An email from Stewart noted that The Tennessean had reported a one-day reprieve for the protesters, and asked “we need clarification ... are we a go or no?”

A later email to THP leadership to inform them that 100 protesters and up to 10 tents remained on the plaza that evening, drew at least one exasperated response. “Good grief,” responded Deputy Safety Commissioner Larry Godwin, the former Memphis police director.

The emails also show that the Safety Department conducted what it called “covert assignments” to infiltrate the Occupy Nashville protests. Assistant Safety Commissioner David Purkey instructed one of his staffers and a trooper to “report to the Capitol parking area in ‘blend in’ clothing prepared to assist CID with intel gathering in advance of extraction to be handled by THP sometime early morning.”

Gibbons and others were supplied with a running tally of events, including the number of protesters — and reporters — gathered on the plaza.

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Rare bright spots in sitcom offerings Robby O’Daniel Recruitment Editor Let’s take a look at some more sitcoms that debuted this fall season.

“Suburgatory” (ABC): “Suburgatory” might not be the best show of the new fall season, but it is certainly the most fun. It is the teenage, high school sitcom that network television needed, and it strikes this note so well that it feels so different from all the other sitcom offerings networks are providing these days.

Tessa Altman (Jane Levy) loves life in New York City.

But when her single father George (Jeremy Sisto) finds a box of condoms in her room — yes, that is the landmark event that changes everything here — he decides to move them from the city to the suburbs.

Viewers are never really told where these suburbs are, but that feels like an artistic choice, a point about the generic nature of these gated communities. These suburbs are full of essentially the plastics from “Mean Girls,” men who emphasize obscene spending, mothers with inappropriate outfits and daughters who spend their days drinking the town’s horrid drink of choice: sugar-free Red Bull.

The show finds a number of polar opposites between the two locales, most exemplified in episode six, “Charity Case,” where Tessa tries to put a stop to the school’s constant waste of food. The show portrays Tessa here as someone who has lived with less and understands the importance of sharing the wealth, but when she attempts to make a change, it turns into the whole community thinking she is too poor and needs their help.

But the show earns points for not just sticking to the characterization of “city people smart, suburbanites stupid,” with episode four, “Don’t Call Me Shirley.” Tessa gets excited when she hears emergency sirens because it reminds her of the plethora of noise from the city. She openly makes fun of suburbanites for calling the police about missing Shirley Temple dolls and glorifies how city police would not give this case the time of day.

Her father cheerfully reminds her that it’s a good thing if police have nothing better to do in a town than pursue a case that is not murder or something more serious.

Levy as Tessa hits just the right beat, not trying to emulate “Juno” or any other recent teenage movies but going for the more retro ’80s or ’90s feel to a teenage sitcom, the loner trying to fit in. This show feels more like a sitcom version of “My So-Called Life” as a result.

Sisto, most memorable as Brenda’s troubled brother Billy from “Six Feet Under,” shows his acting versatility as George. It is still so strange to see Sisto outside the Billy role.

“Suburgatory” also features an excellent ensemble cast, the highlight being Cheryl Hines as fellow neighborhood resident and Southerner Dallas Royce.

Hines pulls off a believable accent, and she miraculously manages to straddle a line between clueless and endearing remarkably.

After seeing the pilot episode of this show, I immediately watched the other five episodes that have aired. It’s a fun watch, in a television landscape with not enough of those shows.

“Man Up” (ABC): I was going to review the Tim Allen-led “Last Man Standing,” but I decided to pick this man-centric show, feeling it might actually have a chance of being good.

But the pilot is just O.K. Of course it is all about manhood. The main plot shows a father agonizing over his son’s 13th birthday present, because that birthday is apparently the one where you are supposed to get a really manly gift. The B plot centered on one of the father’s friends, in a moment of weakness, crashing his ex-girlfriend’s wedding. The groomsmen follow him back to the 13th birthday party, and the boys have to summon the courage to fight — again, like men would.

ABC’s fascination this year with the apparent loss of manhood in society is insufferable, and the only way this show could possibly succeed would be to ditch its own premise. The acting is good enough, especially Dan Fogler as buddy Kenny, but it seems unlikely that a show called “Man Up” that features its main characters playing video games with headsets for scenes, will change enough to be worthwhile viewing.

“Allen Gregory” (Fox): Why, oh why, didn’t “Bob’s Burgers” come back in September instead of January?

That show is so much better than this. Jonah Hill is already annoying, and here, he plays one of the most annoying roles imaginable: illogically pretentious child.

It’s just awful.

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

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Humankind adapts to climate T he Bur den o f I n fa l l i b i l i t y by

Wiley Robinson I remember considering myself up-to-date on the scientific specifics behind climate change before I attended a lecture on climate change ethics — a subject that should not be as novel as it is — here at UT a little while ago.

It was a nice refresher on the theory of climate change, but it also emphasized the specific rate of future temperature trends and the time frames that could be expected — things I was blissfully unaware of. Things are going to start happening in the next 60 years.

However knowledgeable Dr. Allen Thompson, the man speaking on behalf of climate ethics, was about the science behind climate change, he was not a climate scientist; he was a philosophy professor. Unsurprisingly, climate ethics was a nice marriage between science and philosophy, empirical data and epistemology.

Building off of the rather alarming data presented, Thompson made an argument about the virtue of adaptability. It built perfectly upon my own understanding of the world, that Earth has not always been the way we experience it. That around 200,000 years of human evolution have been lived in very favorable conditions for our specie’s progress; we owe every bit of our progress in technology, civilization, language — merely the complexity of our brains that has allowed us to begin comprehending and exploring existence — to the climate that has made up our physical reality ... consistent conditions we never knew had the weakness to be taken for granted. A reality of the balance of natural systems that, for economic, political and social motivations, people continue to resist.

We as a species adapted under very specific environmental conditions: Our climate had as much to do with our anatomy and physiology as the nature of the beasts and predators that hunted and competed with us.

We may have set a new precedent for survival in a world that had thus far rewarded efficiency of form and the adaptation to very specific ecosystems. Migrating from Africa, we, a single species, adapted to every environment on the planet with the very furs and skins of the beasts that were bound to the land they adapted to, because

our minds enabled us to overcome the barriers that restrict every other creature. But our success was still dependent on the rules of climate, the minimum and maximum temperatures that determined the plants, animals and natural resources that enabled us to thrive.

The deadly irony is that the fragile, serendipitous conditions that have determined our very forms and existence are being subverted by technology that they enabled us to create.

Thompson’s argument is that it is a virtuous thing to, as a species, meet the supreme challenge of our time.

Seeing, as many do, that human civilization experiences gradual moral evolution, climate change is our clarion call, our next big step. Adaptability, being our finest and most defining attribute, is the criteria for our specie’s moral evolution. What better way to judge the worth of our species than by how gracefully and effectively we overcome this inevitable, damning challenge?

He outlined what he identified as the two main perspectives of adaptability and progress, a weak and a strong. The weak perspective was, basically, our current status quo; notably, the idea that natural capital, natural resources as they are naturally on Earth, is largely interchangeable with artificial capital: currency, technology and every other kind of capital that cannot be translated back into natural resources. Natural capital, in all of its forms, is merely a commodity, and as long as our net sum of capital keeps growing every year, with the assumption that the natural and nonrenewable is indistinguishable from all other capital, we’re making progress as a nation, as a species. Moreover, total economic growth alone is the proper pace at which adaptation to challenges like climate change may occur; money will be spent on climate change as it starts affecting world economies. Remember in “Star Wars” how the planet of Coruscant was just one unending, smelly city?

They probably had this perspective.

The strong perspective makes a distinction between natural capital and others types — progress, moral and otherwise — mandates the consistent preservation of a certain percentage of our planet’s natural resources along with thinking outside economic growth. It doesn’t speak well of our ability to adapt when we leave the planet in a continuously deteriorating state to subsequent generations. It’s selfish and immoral: We should act now.

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

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It is difficult to believe that in today’s day and age, there are still movements that, sometimes quite effectively, work to ban books from the public sphere.

Such an act of censorship is most commonly associated with the Inquisition in medieval Europe or Hitler’s Nazi regime, where the powerful political groups of the Church and of the Third Reich sought to remove from public access certain books that ran contrary to their ideologies, sometimes even going to the dramatic extreme of burning the books that they had banned.

The act of censoring books, however, is not necessarily limited to more archaic times or to societies that are “backwards” in their understanding of human rights. Even in this very country, where the first amendment in our Bill of Rights explicitly outlines the right to freedom of speech and freedom of the press, books are pulled off of shelves every day for supposedly political or religious reasons. Public schools and community libraries across the nation are guilty of banning books, both old and new, in order to appease a particular community’s fear of exposing the public to books that present views contrary to those of that particular community.

The books that school boards and communities ban run the gamut of subjects. One of the most popular banned books is “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” because of its word choice in describing Jim, the escaped slave that Huck befriends. But some of the more laughable victims of book banning are books like “Twilight,” which portrays possibly the most chaste romantic relationship in the entirety of printed literature, and the “Harry Potter” series, which is banned on the premise that it promotes witchcraft and sets bad examples for children.

There are two major problems with banning books in today’s society. One is that, with the advent of television and the Internet, it seems like a waste of time to try to ban certain books by removing them from a school or library. A child who wants to read “Harry Potter” can easily obtain a copy from an Internet source.

Some of the older books that are often banned, like “Brave New World,” can be found in their entirety on web pages. Removing a book from a school library might create a bit of an inconvenience for anyone trying to track it down, but one of the greatest aspects of the Internet is the very fact that we can access such a vast collection of media at the touch of a button. We are far removed from the days of book burning, which sought to (often successfully) destroy every extant copy of a particular publication. Our current media system makes such a total banning of any book impossible.

But the far more pressing issue in regards to book banning is the ideological question: Is it truly in the best interest of the general public, and particularly children, from inappropriate, controversial or disheartening works of literature? Removing “Twilight” from a school library does not prevent a child from finding sexually charged magazines like Cosmopolitan next to the candy in the grocery store check-out line, where the child is surely more likely to absorb negative messages about sex and adolescence than from a novel that emphasizes abstinence. The argument for banning books becomes an all-or-nothing argument: Either we allow access to every possibly suggestive publication on the market in order to effectively shelter children, or we eliminate them all.

Banning older books like “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” also sparks a good deal of controversy. Most critics demand the banning of these books on the basis of their content or, in the case of “Huckleberry Finn,” the use of racial epithets. But to do so is to completely ignore the historical context in which the book was written. No one discusses banning Shakespeare’s “The Merchant of Venice,” even though its portrayal of the Jewish character Shylock is certainly more derogatory than Twain’s portrayal of Jim. We should acknowledge the prejudices held at the time as ultimately false and unfair, but that alone is not cause to ban the book.

Rather than emphasizing censorship and limiting freedoms of speech and of the press, we should be more intent on educating our children. Teaching racial equality will have a greater effect on a child than forbidding that child from reading “Huckleberry Finn.”

There will always be controversial literature published in every medium. Educating people about interpreting literature is what makes the real difference.

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

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Jackson mansion now up for sale KFC founder reveals culinary secrets The Associated Press LOS ANGELES — After Michael Jackson’s death on June 25, 2009, the gated mansion at 100 North Carolwood Drive where the pop star lived with his three children while preparing for his comeback concerts became part media camp, part Jackson tribute ground.

Hundreds of tearful fans left cards, flowers, balloons and handwritten notes in front of the threestory home resembling a French chateau, while dozens of reporters jumped at any development in the death investigation. Anyone coming in or out of the property was bombarded with questions.

Now, as Dr. Conrad Murray sits in a jail cell awaiting sentencing for involuntary manslaughter in Jackson’s death, the contents of the home — including the queen-size bed where Jackson took his last breath — sit neatly on display, just as they were, awaiting the auction block.

“We want to preserve the history of these items,” said celebrity auctioneer Darren Julien, president of Julien’s Auctions, which next month will sell the various antique furnishings, paintings and sculptures that surrounded the King of Pop in his final days.

Located on a leafy corner in the posh Holmby Hills neighborhood, the Carolwood home where Jackson lived from December 2008 until his death is separately up for sale. The house and its furnishings were leased to Jackson while he and his family lived there.

At the very moment on Monday that Murray was hearing his guilty verdict, reporters were eerily taking a private preview tour of the threestory home where the pop star lived and died.

The bedroom shown in evidence photos at Murray’s criminal trial was actually considered a “medication room” by the Jackson team. Murray was convicted of supplying an insomnia-plagued Jackson with the powerful operating-room anesthetic propofol to help him sleep as he rehearsed for a series of comeback concerts in London.

The room looked perfect, like a hotel room awaiting its first guest. There was no sign that anyone had struggled there with insomnia or drug addiction, certainly no sign that anyone had died.

Jackson maintained an adjacent bedroom that he regarded as his inner sanctum — a private place only for him.

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The company is treating the manuscript like its own Holy Grail. The manuscript is tucked inside KFC’s electronic safe in a vault at its Louisville headquarters. It sits next to the Colonel’s famous handwritten chicken recipe.

His philosophy on life and cooking spring to life from the pages, 31 years after his death at age 90 in 1980.

“We can’t wait to share its secrets with KFC fans around the globe,” said Roger Eaton, the restaurant chain’s CEO. “Colonel Sanders was a lifelong cook and sage and his life lessons are just as powerful and relevant today as they were 40 years ago.”

The company plans to publish the manuscript online, probably sometime next year, said Laurie Schalow, a spokeswoman for Yum Brands Inc., the parent of KFC. The Colonel’s insights on hard work and giving it your best will be available for free, she said.

KFC plans to share some of the recipes, but others may stay hidden in the vault.

“We’re in the early stages of testing recipes and are excited about the potential to incorporate some of the newly discovered dishes alongside the Colonel’s Original Recipe on menus around the globe,” Eaton said.

The company says it serves more than 12 million customers daily in 109 countries and territories around the world. It still plasters the Colonel’s image on its signs and chicken buckets. The chain has been struggling in the U.S. while its overseas business has been booming, especially in China, where KFC has become a fast-growing brand.

The company has no idea why the manuscript was never published. Sanders took another crack at an autobiography, titled “Life As I Have Known It Has Been ‘Finger Lickin’ Good,’” which was published in 1974. But the book didn’t include his recipes.

The unpublished manuscript was unearthed recently by Yum Brands employee Amy Sherwood while she was doing research.

“It was in an envelope,” she said. “I opened it up and immediately recognized that it was a treasure and a significant discovery.”

KFC said it concluded the text was written in 1965 or 1966 through chats with current and former employees who knew or worked with Sanders.

Internal documents also validated that he was working on an autobiography with recipes during that period, it said.

In 1964, Sanders sold his interest in the U.S. company for $2 million to a group of investors, but he remained the company’s pitchman, becoming one of the world's most recognized faces.

The Associated Press antique armoire. “TRAIN, perfection, March April. FULL OUT May,” it reads. Jackson was to begin his London concert run in July.

His private bedroom included a bathroom larger than most living rooms and two massive walkin closets.

Among the items for sale in the medication room, where evidence was collected for Murray’s trial, are upholstered chairs smudged with Jackson’s makeup and Jackson’s death bed, which looks out to an expansive backyard surrounded by tall trees. The yard is anchored by a large swimming pool and a pool house, where the singer’s son Prince carved his name on a beeswax candle.

The medication room, on the top floor, leads to another walk-in closet and bathroom, where Jackson’s makeup still remains on a small silk-covered stool beneath the vanity.

Curving staircases on each side of the mansion’s most famous room lead down to the kitchen and the elegant foyer, where a grand piano sits topped with crystal candlesticks.

Katherine Jackson’s attorney, Perry Sanders Jr., said he is aware of the Carolwood auction and has “done everything we can to ascertain that items from this address are not being auctioned using Michael’s name and likeness to enhance the items’ value.”

Photos of the house and the items available for sale are featured in a limited-edition auction catalog, which is being sold for $100. But the catalog and auction are discreetly titled “100 North Carolwood Drive” and the words “Michael Jackson” do not appear anywhere in the catalog.

The home and its decor are reminiscent of Neverland Ranch, Jackson’s famous estate near Santa Barbara, said Martin J. Nolan, executive director of Julien’s Auctions.

“He loved it because it was like Neverland,” Nolan said. “It was a very happy place where he spent his final days.”

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Colonel Harland Sanders is about to teach America “real old-time country and farm cooking before it’s forgotten.”

Yes, Colonel Sanders.

On yellowed pages hidden for decades, the white-jacketed man with a special fried chicken recipe and a vision that helped create the modern fast-food industry reveals he saw a future in another lucrative market — celebrity food books.

The recent discovery of an unpublished manuscript written by the founder of KFC shows that while Sanders was helping build Kentucky Fried Chicken into a global brand, he was recording his life and love of food — and recipes — for the world.

No, not THAT recipe.

Sanders’ secret mix of 11 herbs and spices remains locked inside the company’s vault.

But the manuscript from the mid-1960s, found recently by an employee rummaging through KFC’s archives, again shows that the man who started the world’s most popular chicken chain from a Social Security check and his secret recipe was a man before his time.

“This is a new kind of book,” Sanders wrote in the first chapter of an approximately 200-page, typewritten manuscript that KFC plans to offer up on the Internet. “There’s never been another written like it as far as I know.

“It’s the story of a man’s life and the story of the food he’s cooked and eaten, running right along with it.”

The half-inch-thick document is chock full of homespun anecdotes and life lessons from Sanders, who struck it rich late in life. It also includes a heaping helping of his favorite personal recipes.

“To me, my recipes are priceless,” he wrote.

You can say that again.

The secret blend of herbs and spices, one of the most enduring corporate secrets in American food folklore, isn’t revealed in the manuscript, KFC executives say.

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And the man who built the KFC chain by cooking up batches of chicken for prospective franchisees promised to offer insights into his culinary style: “I’ll be telling you how to prepare it like a man who’s talking to you right over your kitchen stove,”

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Weary Vols look for upset against Razorbacks Freshman Justin Worley, Tennessee hoping for late-season conference momentum Lauren Kittrell Student Life Editor The Volunteers (4-5, 0-5 SEC) are 13-3 all-time against Arkansas (8-1, 4-1) since their first meeting in 1907, but as the team travels to Fayetteville for the 17th meeting with the No. 8 Razorbacks, Tennessee is prepared for one of its greatest challenges of the season.

Though injured and weary from having the toughest schedule in the nation, the Vols look to overcome Arkansas’ impressive offense for the win. UT coach Derek Dooley said the team is focused on the game and is hoping to see improvement as they face the Razorbacks for the first time since 2007.

“Arkansas, we all know about them.

Great quarterback, great offense, a lot of fast single-digit guys running around at receiver and the return game. A top-10 team on the road,” Dooley said. “I’m just really worried about us and going out there and trying to put together four quarters against a quality SEC team on the road in all three phases. That is really our focus.

I’m looking forward to the challenge, and we will see if we are improving.”

Arkansas’ offense posts a serious threat to the Vols, but Dooley is aware of the challenges at hand and is preparing the team for the obstacles they will face to achieve the win.

“They’ve got a quarterback (Tyler Wilson) that has a real playmaking mentality — a little bit like Tyler (Bray) has,” Dooley said. “They have a lot of speed on the perimeter. They play fast. It’s not that they just run fast, they run fast without the ball. They have a real confident swagger to them. Every time a team inches closer to

them, they answer the bell. Pow! Pow! Pow! — touchdown. I’ve seen it so many games. So, yes, this will be our biggest challenge answering the pass. And it’s really hard to stop them. Not many teams have.”

Sophomore receiver Da’Rick Rogers said that he and freshman quarterback Justin Worley have been working more on getting on the same page and that with time, he hoped Worley would get a better feel for his speed and timing. Rogers said the team’s recent shutout against Middle Tennessee State may not have been as big of a win as the team had hoped for, but that it was a step in the right direction.

“It helped. We only scored 24 points, but I mean, it was a step,” Rogers said.

“The offense has been a little slow, so it was a step of getting us ready for Arkansas.”

Junior defensive back Prentiss Waggner said Wilson would pose one of the greatest issues for the defense.

“Arkansas is going to be a big test,” Waggner said. “I think we know what’s at stake this Saturday. We know Arkansas got a gun-slinger, a guy who can make all the throws. He’s not scared to make any throw.

He’s going to try to fit it in there with his strong arm. That’s a big challenge for us.”

Despite the heightened challenge against Arkansas, the Vols’ win over MTSU on Saturday sparked a new hope for the team and hopefully, a continued new winning streak.

“I think there’s a lot more confidence now,” Worley said. “We went through that losing streak. There’s a new attitude, new George Richardson • The Daily Beacon excitement ’cause we have another win under our belt. A win makes the biggest Da’Rick Rogers catches a 47-yard pass from Justin Worley right before a touchdown against MTSU on Nov. 6. Rogers had 137 receiving yards with one touchdown difference going into the next week.” against the Raiders.

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High-powered Hogs to host Vols in home finale Arkansas’ torrid passing attack, balanced run game look to exploit Vols’ weak defense Matt Dixon Sports Editor Lost in last week’s No. 1 vs. No. 2 matchup between LSU and Alabama was another SEC game featuring teams ranked in the top 10.

Arkansas used two late touchdowns to defeat South Carolina 44-28 and now sets its sights on Tennessee.

“We played very well last Saturday,” Razorback coach Bobby Petrino said. “I thought we played one of our best games in all three phases. We’re excited to play Tennessee. Another game at home, another night game at home, which will be fun.”

The game will have special meaning for a group of Razorback seniors, many of whom arrived at Arkansas the same year Petrino did.

“It’s a game we’re honoring 17 seniors, a group of young men who are very special to me,” Petrino said. “I’m excited to see them come out and play in their last game in Fayetteville.”

The Vols will have their hands full with the Razorback offense led by quarterback Tyler Wilson, who’s thrown for over 2,600 yards with 15 touchdowns and just four interceptions, and one of the top receiving cores in the country.

It’s a passing game that can score on any down and in a multitude of ways.

“The big plays are what really get you against these guys. They make them all different ways. It’s not just pushing the ball down the field,” UT coach Derek Dooley said. “They hit you a lot different ways. They hit you on the crossing pat-

terns, they hit you on the seams and they will do some play action. They have excellent scheme. They have a very good quarterback and excellent receivers.

That is why they are putting up what they are.”

Arkansas averages 37.7 points per game and ranks ninth in the country in passing yards with 318 yards per game.

As Tennessee fans have found out the hard way this year, winning consistently in the SEC also requires a productive running game to compliment a big-play air attack.

“Bobby has always done a good job of running the ball and calling a lot of runs,” Dooley said. “You look at his quarterback attempts. They are the other pro-style offense in our league, so we enjoy watching them. They are like us philosophically. He does a real good job of making sure you have to defend the run.”

Arkansas defense has given up at least 24 points in six of the past seven games, but faces a struggling Vols offense that hasn’t had its spark since quarterback Tyler Bray suffered a broken thumb on his right hand against Georgia on Oct. 8.

“What they do a lot, more than anybody we’ve played, and what is going to be hard on our young guys is different fronts, different blitzes and different coverages,” Dooley said. “They are dialing it up, and there’s no real rhyme or reason a lot of times for it formationally or down-and-distance. Our guys have to do a really good job of playing the plays on principle. That’s going to be the biggest challenge.”

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As the Cuonzo Martin regime begins, a fresh start looms not only for the men’s basketball team and its first-year coach, but also for three assistant coaches who will man the Vols’ bench this season.

Martin’s aides — Tracy Webster, Jon Harris and Kent Williams — will all be entering their first go-around on Rocky Top when Tennessee tips off its regular season against UNC-Greensboro on Nov. 11.

As the new staff seeks to make a unique mark on the program in the wake of former coach Bruce Pearl’s departure, Harris believes the blueprint for success is simple at UT. “We plan to win games,” Harris said. “That’s the bottom line.

Coach Pearl did some great things. He really did. He got the support back and the community rocking (with excitement) about basketball. But this staff probably couldn’t be any more different than him and his staff. We’re just going to go about our business in a workman-like manner and try to win games.”

Though the three assistants are new to UT, they are no strangers to success. Each played collegiately at the Division-I level and as a group combine with Martin to comprise the highest-scoring coaching staff in college basketball.

Harris played alongside current NBA star Dwayne Wade at Marquette, where he served as a team captain for two seasons.

“That’s the great thing about our staff as a whole, is that we’ve got guys who’ve played at this level,” Harris said. “We’ve had successes and we’ve had struggles, so there is really not anything that these guys are going to go through, positive or negative, that somebody on our staff hasn’t experienced.”

Webster, who starred at Wisconsin, is the lone staff member with experience in the SEC. He served on former Kentucky coach Billy Gillespie’s staff for two seasons.

As the Vols seek to continue a streak of six consecutive NCAA tournament appearances, Webster appreciates the welcome he has received from the UT fan base, even if the support comes with expectations.

“It’s great,” Webster said. “Knoxville has been really good for my wife and I. The people here are fantastic. I know we haven’t won or lost any games. But the hospitality is great.”

Williams feels similarly about the reception from the community.

“Everybody is wearing orange,” Williams said. “They’re all about it, and that’s special.”

While on staff at Missouri State in the 2010-2011 season, Martin, Harris and Williams nearly guided their former team to an upset against the Vols, before falling 60-56.

“We came here last year and got a chance to play against Tennessee,” Williams said. “We got to be on the visitors’ side. It’s definitely an impressive arena.

“The fan support has been great, as far as welcoming us to the city, to the community and really backing us. It’s hard for them to back us, not knowing what we’re going to do yet, but they’ve been very supportive.”

Martin’s lifelong friend Marco Harris joined the Vols’ support staff in the role of Student-Athlete Welfare Coordinator.

“I ensure that the guys go to class on time,” Marco said. “Basically my job is to ensure that they reach their full potential on and off the basketball court.”

Marco plans to lead by example in an effort to prevent off-court trouble, a dilemma which plagued the Pearl era.

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Lady Vols volleyball head coach Rob Patrick speaks to the team during the Mississippi State game on Nov. 6.

The Lady Vols won 3-0.

Martin signs first two recruits of 2012 Staff Reports The Tennessee basketball team started building its 2012 signing class Wednesday, as head coach Cuonzo Martin announced that Derek Reese of Orlando, Fla., and D’Montre Edwards (pronounced: duh-MAHN-tray) of Charleston, S.C., signed National Letters of Intent to attend UT and play for the Volunteers beginning with the 2012-13 season.

Reese, a 6-7, 205-pound guard, currently attends Orlando’s Olympia High School, where he is coached by Mark Griseck.

“Derek is a versatile wing who shoots the ball well and he’s a good athlete,” Martin said. “He has a good feel for the game, and he can really stroke it from 3-point range. He’s primarily a perimeter player, but he’s also really skilled around the basket.

“Derek’s a high-character kid from a good family. I’m excited about what he’s going to bring to our program.”

As a junior last season at Olympia, Reese averaged 13 points and eight rebounds per game. He

shot close to 48 percent from the floor and 41 percent from beyond the arc.

He blossomed this past summer on the AAU circuit, where he plays with the Florida Rams Q6 AllStars program coached by Willie Anderson and Reggie Tucker, each of whom played basketball at LSU in the late 1990s.

“I was looking for coaches who could help me continue to develop the way my AAU coaches helped me develop,” Reese said. “When I got to know coach Martin, he really reminded me of them, and I started to feel like he could help me grow. And after I took my visit, I just knew Tennessee was the place for me.

“The fan support really opened my eyes, too.

Tennessee fans are crazy about the program, and the support they give the team is incredible.”

Reese plans to enroll this summer and hopes to major in Sports Management.

A 6-6, 210-pound guard who attends Brevard Community College in Cocoa, Fla., Edwards will have two years of athletic eligibility remaining upon his enrollment at Tennessee.

Matt Dixon Sports Editor The face of Tennessee basketball is changing.

While the men’s program had a revolving door with recent coaches until Bruce Pearl arrived, Pat Summitt is not only the coach of the Lady Vols, she’s the face of women’s basketball.

Pearl’s firing in March after six seasons with the school led to Cuonzo Martin’s arrival in Knoxville.

As tough as Pearl’s exit was for many fans, it’s no comparison to Summitt’s announcement that she had been diagnosed with early onset dementia.

“Nothing is different,” Summitt said. “We just need to cut down nets. We have a team that is working every day and are very focused.”

This season Summitt will relegate more duties to her assistant coaches: associate head coach Holly Warlick and assistants Mickie DeMoss and Dean Lockwood.

“It is great to have that support, and they’re there every day,” Summitt said. “I am still the head coach, and I can still dictate who does what. We’re like a family. Every day I can’t wait to get on the court. I’m not ready to retire. I have a great staff.”

While the changes for the women’s team are mostly for the staff, both the new men’s coaching staff and returning men’s players had to adjust to each other, a transition Martin believes went well.

“One thing as a coach is that I don’t take a lot of things for granted,” Martin said. “I appreciate the fact that they do listen because they don’t have to. Once again, we have to make adjustments when they don’t, but I appreciate the fact that they listen. I said to those guys when I took over the program that you’re more than welcome to do what you need to do if you’re not happy with what you’re trying to do.”

The expectations of what each program is trying to do are different.

With the Lady Vols, it’s Final Four or bust, maybe even national championship or bust.

“I don’t think we really feel pressure,” senior Vicki Baugh said.

“Everyone is excited, motivated and ready to come together on the floor and prove that this team has what it takes. (Summitt) is still our coach, still very involved and interacting in practice. We are a family at Tennessee. Whatever comes our way we are willing to handle it as a family. Her health is not a distraction. She is still very focused. She teaches us to be the best we can be. There’s no selfish aspect of coach Summitt at all.”

Despite playing in an unprecedented six consecutive NCAA Tournaments, Martin’s first squad is expected to finish near the bottom of the SEC. “I see where we can go, but I’m not going to say it until we get there,” junior Kenny Hall said. “I see us shocking a lot of people and proving a lot of people wrong. We’re going in there humble, but hungry. We’ve got a chip on our shoulder.”

Two basketball programs in two entirely different situations.

Both playing with added motivation.

It’s the new face of Tennessee basketball.

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Veterans help freshmen transition Men’s team features eight newcomers ter. We’re just over here having fun, loving the game.”

Kilmartin, a 6-foot-5 guard, was redshirted at Appalachian State his first year, then Cuonzo Martin isn’t the only new addition played one game in his first season before to the Tennessee men’s basketball program. contracting mononucleosis and sitting out for The Volunteers feature eight new players the year. He’s walking on at Tennessee.

— six freshmen and two transfers.

Josh Richardson of Edmond, Okla., comes They account for more than half of the ros- in as Tennessee’s top-rated recruit. The 6ter for a team that has many questions. foot-6 shooting guard was rated a three-star Martin hasn’t seen his freshmen for too prospect by both Rivals and ESPN.com. long, but still has confidence they are ready Five of the six freshmen recruits are for the challenge of college basketball. guards, including Quinton Chievous and Wes “I think our freshmen are tough enough to Washpun. play at this level,” Martin said. “Now it’s just Yemi Makanjuola, Tennessee’s second a matter of going through the fire. I thought Nigerian player in program history, measures when I got to college that I was tough in at 6-foot-9, 244 pounds to enough, but skill-wise, I wasn’t ready. I’ve play as the Vols’ only listdealt with JaJuan Johnson and Robbie ed center.

Hummel. Those “It’s been good. guys played as Everything has been freshmen out coming together better of the gate now lately,” Richardson (at Purdue) said of the transition and I think process this summer they finwhile at the Pilot Rocky ished 15-3 Top League. “I mean, in the Big every freshman, we Ten as freshwere all kind of men. So if you nervous. … But have it in you, you we’re all adjusting can get it done.” real good.”

The two transfers are Galen Dwight Miller and Ryan Campbell and Kilmartin. Although he came last Brandon Lopez year, Rob Murphy will be able to are the two feaplay after sitting out last year after ture walk-on transferring from Lipscomb guards from University.

Knoxville.

Miller is a junior college transfer Campbell (6from Midland (Texas) College. The 6foot-3) led Fulton foot-8, 240-pound redshirt junior forHigh School to ward originally played at Pittsburgh. the Class AA state Although he saw brief time in his only quarterfinals his non-redshirt season there, he played senior year. behind eventual NBA players Sam Despite only playYoung and DeJuan Blair. ing two seasons Now, with a refueled hunger for for the Falcons competition, Miller is George Richardson • The Daily Beacon after transferring back at a big-time profrom Bearden, gram ready to prove he Dwight Miller looks for options to pass Campbell was the to during a game against LMU on quickest player to belongs.

“I don’t think I have Monday, Nov. 7. Miller and a host of reach 1,000 career ever been this excited in newcomers to the Vols hope to bring a points in school my life,” Miller said. fresh look to the program. history.

“This is an opportunity to Lopez was prove a lot of people wrong, an opportunity named All-State at Austin-East while averagto get back up to Division I basketball, and an ing 25.6 points, 8.2 rebounds and 6.8 assists opportunity to show people what I can do and per game. The 6-foot-1 guard earned a 3.9 what my team can do. And to prove to people GPA in high school and also had a 1,000that rankings, and that other stuff, don’t mat- point career.

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Isabelle Harrison brings the ball up court against Carson-Newman on Tuesday, Nov. 1. Harrison and freshman teammates Cierra Burdick and Ariel Massengale look to help lead the Lady Vols to the Final Four, after missing the shot for the last three years.

David Cobb Staff Writer The No. 3 Lady Vols begin the regular season on Nov. 13 with a roster consisting of just 11 players, three of them newcomers.

Freshmen Cierra Burdick and Isabelle Harrison will bolster the UT frontcourt, while Arial Massengale will challenge for playing time at the point guard position.

Legendary coach Pat Summitt is pleased with her team’s newest members thus far.

“These three freshmen are so passionate about the game,” Summitt said after the team’s 105-40 exhibition victory against Carson-Newman on Nov. 1. “They are going to help this team. They listen.

They want to improve daily and they are invested in everything we do. At the same time, I have to credit the upperclassmen for taking them under their wing and getting them prepared.”

UT’s veteran players have taken pleasure in bonding with their new teammates.

“They’ve actually transitioned very well,” senior forward Alicia Manning said.

“They’ve learned a lot. And they have been challenging because they also are very good athletes. So being able to play with them and kind of teach them a thing or two, and them showing us what they’ve got, it’s been really fun.”

Junior guard Kamiko Williams also credited the newcomers with making a smooth transition to the college game.

“Our freshmen have adjusted quickly,” Williams said. “It took them the summer and the preseason and now they’re acting like sophomores. They know the program.

They know everything that’s going to happen. They know what the coaches expect.

That is big and it makes things less stressful for us upperclassmen.”

Harrison, who prepped at Hillsboro High School in Nashville and grew up a r o u n d Va n d e r b i l t athletics, is enjoying

being a part of the frenzied environment that surrounds UT athletics.

“The tradition, the atmosphere here is crazy,” Harrison said. “And we haven’t even started playing yet, but just going to the football games and seeing all these diehard fans, (I) can’t wait to see that at (our) games.”

In the Lady Vols’ exhibition-opener, Harrison posted five points and eight rebounds, to go with five blocks.

Summitt commented on what the Tennessee native brings to the table.

“She’s very active,” Summitt said.

“She’s very understanding of post-play and her position. And she’s an energized player. That’s what we need.”

Burdick also recorded an impressive stat line against Carson-Newman, finishing second on the team in scoring with 15 points to go with seven rebounds.

The Charlotte, N.C., native characterized what it means to play under Summitt.

“It’s awesome,” Burdick said. “Just the amount of knowledge she has to offer me is crazy. She’s observing the game always.

She just knows so much about the game.

To come in and be around her every day is a blessing. It’s a crazy opportunity.”

Massengale was unavailable for comment at the Lady Vols’ annual media day as she was seeking medical clearance after suffering a concussion. However, the UT coaches and players offered many praises on behalf of the Bolingbrook, Ill., native.

“She understands the game,” Summitt said. “She understands how to distribute the basketball.”

The freshman guard was cleared in time to participate in the Carson-Newman exhibition. She tallied five points, one assist, a rebound and a steal in the game.

Junior guard/forward Taber Spani summarized what impresses her the most about the trio of freshmen.

“The greatest thing that I love about our freshmen is their work ethic,” Spani said. “I’ve never had to question them coming in. They work hard. And that’s something that’s hard to instill into somebody. When you have work ethic and ability, that’s a great pair. We’re excited about what they’re going to do and what they’re going to help our team with.

“As the season goes on they’ll really understand what Tennessee is all about.”

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Ariel Massengale brings the ball up court during a game against CarsonNewman on Tuesday, Nov. 1.

Massengale and freshman teammates Cierra Burdick and Isabelle Harrison look to help lead the Lady Vols to the Final Four, after missing the shot for the last three years.

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Returning Vols adjust to new style, system ers and lineups has given nearly all the Volunteers an oppor- results. tunity to make an impact.

Hall, a 6-foot-9 forward, is one of the few returning frontWhen asked who the go-to player will be for the Vols, court player. Despite the fact that in his first two seasons associate head coach Tracy Webster reflected Martin’s sense with the program he has had few chances to shine, Hall’s What a difference a year makes. career shooting percentage of 56.3 demonstrates the effect This time last year, the men’s basketball team’s hopes of constant change.

“It’s going to develop,” Webster said. “You never know. he can have on a team desperate for a strong presence down were running at an all-time high. Fresh off their best tournalow. ment finish and returning the majority of their players, the You start saying you have a go-to guy, and then they don’t get “He can run transition, so we can Orange and White entered the season with dreams of cutting it done. You have to be patient and see what you have and then roll with it.” get easy baskets,” Martin said. down the nets at the season’s end.

A key for this group’s adjustment will rest in its abili“When we get easy baskets, it From there, the rest of the story is well known. The team ties to pick up Martin’s different style of play.

And it is makes our job easier on under-performed, and now a new regiment is in town. in this adjustment that Martin feels his personoffense.”

Despite all of this, the cupboard is not bare for the nel will be able to adjust and succeed.

Hall’s abilities are not team, as a strong, albeit inexperienced, core “It’s not easy teaching the motion understated by his teamreturns. offense,” Martin said. “It can be mates.

Led by seniors Cameron Tatum — the ugly in practice running the “Kenny is ready to step team’s returning leader in games started with motion offense, but you up and take that role as a 43 — and Renaldo Woolridge, junior Kenny have to stick with it. I dominate big man,” said Hall and also sophomore Jordan McRae, the think we could be realTatum, who also predicted team looks to be in committed hands. ly good at that.” big things from the Stone At practices, the tone is different.

With this new sysMountain, Ga., native this seaPlayers are constantly shifting from tem, Martin will be son. drill to drill in a well organlooking to these As for McRae, the mercurial ized fashion, with little returning players guard whose up-and-down performto no time wasted. to help carry the ances led to many headaches for A driving load during fans and coaches alike will be looked force to this this transito as a source of instant offense. renewed optition.

“He’s a talented young man and mism comes At first competes at a high level,” Martin said. from new g l a n c e , “He wants to win. He wants to be succoach Cuonzo with the cessful.

It’s just a matter of him getting in Martin, whose excepthere and proving it.” different style and tion of Other returners for the Vols will be guards approach has rejuveTa t u m , Trae Golden, who will be looked to lead the nated several returning this team all-important point guard position for the players. looks to team, Skylar McBee, Tyler Summitt and for“I like it,” Woolridge said. “The first be lacking ward Jeronne Maymon. week of practices and workouts were in experiUltimately, the success of this season will killer. A lot of us were wondering how George Richardson • The Daily Beacon George Richardson • The Daily Beacon enced players. rest on these players and their ability to work we were going to get through. But the coaches But Martin pointed together and buy into the new system. know what they’re doing. Coach Martin knows out other players on the team who have stepped up to help “They have to get better and learn to play at this level and what he’s doing. compete,” Martin said. “I think our veteran guys have to go “It’s way more physical and intense. But it brings out that lead.

“I think the two younger guys, Jordan McRae and Kenny through the fire somewhat, and I think they have the potensense of urgency and physicality in our games.”

Hall, those guys have done a good job to try to be leaders,” tial and the toughness level. Are they where they need to be?

This sense of urgency has become a recurring theme for I wouldn’t say so right now. You have to be physically and these returning players, as Martin’s strategy of rotating play- Martin said.

In those two players especially, Martin will be looking for mentally tough to play at this level.”

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Lady Vols ready for Final Four run Matt Dixon Sports Editor Pat Summitt’s Lady Volunteers are always very talented, and this year, they are also very experienced.

Tennessee returns its top three scorers from a year ago, and seven of its top nine.

Those top three — sophomore Meighan Simmons, senior Shekinna Stricklen and senior Glory Johnson — all are preseason first-team All-SEC selections, with Stricklen tabbed as the preseason player of the year in the conference.

“I really feel like we have a veteran team,” Simmons said. “We have so many veterans that I don’t feel like there’s any excuse as to why we shouldn’t make it to the Final Four.”

Along with other returners like junior Taber Spani and seniors Alicia Manning and Vicki Baugh, the 2011-12 Lady Vols are poised to make a run to Denver, Colo., site of this year’s Women’s Final Four. Baugh, a redshirt senior, is the only player on the team who’s played in a Final Four, something the team is hoping to change.

“I think they have their eyes on it,” Summitt said. “Great focus, great leadership across the board. I know they’re aware that they haven’t cut down nets and obviously we (as coaches) don’t want to put pressure on them because of it.”

While Summitt and her assistants aren’t using the recent lack of a deep postseason run as motivation, they don’t need to. The players are putting it on themselves.

“The biggest thing is just we’re very focused,” Spani, who averaged 8 points per game and started 26 times last year, said. “We’re coming into practice every day and our mindset is get better. Get better every day. We’re not focused on the outside distractions, we’re just going to work every day with a businesslike

atmosphere.”

For the versatile Stricklen, who averaged 12.8 points, 7.3 rebounds and 2 assists per game last season, this year is about taking on more of a leadership role to go along with stuffing the stat sheet.

“I’m communicating a lot more with teammates,” Stricklen said. “(We’re) coming in every day holding each other accountable and working hard. No more complaining. I can play every position and I just want to get better at every position, whether it’s playing the point, playing wing or playing inside.”

Simmons, the team’s leading scorer a year ago averaging 13.5 points per contest as a freshman, isn’t expected to play multiple positions. Last season, she was forced to play point guard, as opposed to her more natural position of shooting guard. With the addition of freshman Ariel Massengale at point guard, coaches are hoping to play Simmons off the ball more to create additional opportunities for her to create offense. But with all Summittcoached players, it starts on the defensive end of the court.

“Meighan is trying to make a better commitment to her defense and distribute the ball more,” Summitt said. “She has the green light to shoot most of the time. We addressed better shot selection and I think she’s settled down now.”

Playing with poise and composure is a trademark of veteran teams, and most of the time it leads to better chemistry on the court. Like Dane Bradshaw was for the UT men’s teams from 2004-07, Manning appears to be that “glue player” for the Lady Vols this year. “‘A-Town’ brings the energy to this team,” Baugh said. “If only we all played like her. That’s one player who is a blue-collar worker and a lot of the time she doesn’t get appreciated for the hard work because she does the things that don’t necessarily get you on TV and stuff. She always has that work ethic, and if we play like that, we’ll be competing for a championship.”

And it’s the lack of that championship that has the Lady Vols geared for a run at the school’s ninth national title.

“For me, personally, I think about that loss to Notre Dame (in last year’s Elite Eight) and never wanting to feel that again,” Spani said. “Obviously, getting to a Final Four, we haven’t done that in four years, it plays a lot into it as much as it’s cliche, but it motivates you. It better motivate you.”

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Tatum looks to step up as leader Johnson improves into senior season Preston Noble Peeden Managing Editor “Anyone wanting Cameron Tatum? Here he is.”

This announcement made by one of the directors of media relations for the Tennessee men’s basketball team is followed by a migration of shuffling feet and a jostling for position around the lanky 6foot-6 guard.

As the reporters gather around the redshirt senior from Lithonia, Ga., and he fields his first question, it is evident that things are different. Cameron Tatum is now the leader on this team.

Tatum stands out among an inexperienced Volunteer team as one of the few constants. With 104 career appearances in games, including 43 starts, he represents a veteran core for the team to build around.

Tatum, who entered in the Class of 2007, is entering his fifth season as a Vol. During his tenure, he’s witnessed the good of UT, including the 2009 team’s run to the Elite Eight, and the bad, which can be personified by last year’s first-round exit from the NCAA Tournament to Michigan.

But these experiences have not dampened his resolve to come out on top in his final year.

“There’s no looking back at last year, period. Last year was last year,” Tatum said. “It’s a whole new start, a whole new team and a whole new book. We’re looking forward to creating something new.”

A big transition for Tatum has been the new attitude coach Cuonzo Martin has brought to the program.

“Coach Martin is bringing in a new blueprint,” Tatum said. “It’s a tough-minded blueprint. And it’s something we all have to buy in to. As long as we execute what we need to do, I think we’re going to be fine.”

For Tatum, his adaptation to Martin’s system has come along with a new role for him. This year, unlike any other in his career, he is “that guy” for the team. The go-to player.

Without even asking for it, he has become the unquestioned leader.

“I think I have to step up,” Tatum said. “I played the most games here and started the most games last year. I just talk to the guys and tell them what to expect. Whenever they’re going through a problem, I just got to help guide them. I want to be another coach out there on the floor.”

While part of Tatum’s growth as a leader comes from his mentality on the court, some of it can be attributed simply to the time he has spent at the program.

“With age comes wisdom, and he’s been here and knows the ropes,” junior guard Skylar McBee said. “He knows what it takes to win. And I think he can’t help but take that role as a leader.”

This growth and change in Tatum has not gone unnoticed by the rest of his teammates, who have

watched him grow into his present role.

“Now, it’s safe to say — even with me being a senior, too — that this is his team,” fellow senior Renaldo Woolridge said. “He’s been here so long.

He played with Chris Lofton and everybody. He’s seen everything and I just think it is good that he’s stepping into that role. And well, he’s embracing it perfectly.”

For Tatum, his views on being an effective leader do not necessarily mean being the loudest person in the gym, but rather by being the most consistent.

“Being a leader isn’t just all about being a vocal leader; it’s also about leading by example as well,” Tatum said. “I just can’t go out there and talk. I got to be the man that goes out there and talks, who goes out there and gets through tough screens, and the man that goes out there and slides his feet. I got to mainly set that example.”

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example has also helped set the tone for newcomers to the program.

“He’s one of the first guys up to do a drill or one of the first up to encourage someone,” junior college transfer Dwight Miller said. “He reaches out to other players and they respond well.”

Ultimately, Tatum’s greatest attribute as a leader comes from his selfless approach to the season.

With only 194 points separating him from breaking the 1,000 career point barrier, his focus is not on individual accomplishments, but on team success.

“It will be a great honor getting there,” Tatum said. “But my main goal is to win an SEC championship, and to try and continue the streak of getting to the NCAA Tournament. And that’s the main thing right there, first and foremost.”

other senior leaders on the court in Briana Bass, Vicki Baugh, Alicia Manning and Shekinna Stricklen.

“The team chemistry is really going great so A season after helping lead the Lady Vols to a perfect regular season mark of 16-0 in SEC play, a far,” Johnson said. “We all spend so much time off 34-3 overall record and an Elite Eight appearance, the court together and get along so well that when forward Glory Johnson is back for her senior sea- we get on it we all just connect with each other and son and is ready for the season to tip off, as coach are on the same page. My role as a senior this year Pat Summitt and the team look to bring home the is to be a leader by example on and off the court.”

One teammate that Johnson has helped mentor program’s ninth national championship.

“The off-season practices for the most part have over the last year has been sophomore point guard been really good,” Johnson said. “We have been and 2011-12 Preseason All-SEC selection Meighan Simmons, who led the team in scoring and assists focusing on improving our play as a her first year with 13.5 points per game. whole and going further than we have “Glory has really helped me develop as ever gotten. Coach Summitt has a player since I arrived here,” Simmons been emphasizing daily to us how said. “When she wants me to make a important it will be for us to keep good pass to her she will pull me to our focus this year and how we the side and say make that a betcan’t, for example, let a loss get to ter pass. Me and her have us and hold our heads down. It’s grown really close, and she’s all about making the most of been an amazing leader and basyour opportunity.” ketball player for this team.”

Johnson improving — someAlthough no current Lady Vols thing she’s done every year playing have a national championship on under Summitt — will go a long way their resume, Johnson and one toward the Lady Vols possibly cutof her teammates over the ting down the nets at the end of the summer brought something season. almost as special back home After averaging 10.2 points and with them: a USA gold medal in 7.5 rebounds per game her first the 2011 World University Games two years as a Lady Vol, Johnson held in Shenzhen, China. had a breakout junior year, which On their way to winning gold, has helped many recognize her as Johnson and All-American Lady Vol one of the top women’s college teammate Shekinna Stricklen conbasketball players in the country. tributed in major ways, as the two The 6-foot-3 Knoxville native set helped lead team USA to a 6-0 career-highs in all four categories last record and beat Taiwan in the season and averaged nearly a doublefinals 101-66. The experience double a game, as she put up 12 is something that both girls points and 9.7 rebounds. will never forget.

“It’s really important to be an “It was an amazing and asset on both sides of the ball,” a once-in-a-lifetime expeJohnson said. “When you turn rience to represent the the ball over and miss a shot you United States with have to get back on defense and Shekinna this past sumget the ball back. Both ends of the mer and win a gold medal,” Joy Hill • The Daily Beacon court are really important, and if Johnson said. “To be around so you can’t play both you are hurting many other athletes from across the world and the team. A team can have a great offense, but if they can’t hold their own on defense and create playing against them was very honoring and a feelturnovers, the chances of winning aren’t nearly as ing I can’t even explain.”

Johnson and her teammates are hoping that the high.”

Going into her senior season, she believes her 2011-12 season for the Lady Vols will be a season speed and rebounding on both sides of the ball are hard to put into words as well.

“Last year we were cut short of our top goals, her top strengths on the court, while she has been but we expect to fulfill them this year completely working on improving her mid-range shooting this by working hard as a team from start to finish and off-season.

Not only will her skill on the court play a huge by not giving in,” Johnson said. “We expect to role for her team and factor into its success, but so reach the Final Four and to of course play in the will her leadership. However, Johnson will not be national championship game. It is safe to say we alone in her leadership role, as there will be four are striving for gold this season.”

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Matt Dixon Sports Editor Vols Cuonzo Martin’s first Tennessee team is full of unknowns.

Even the team’s most experienced player, senior guard Cameron Tatum, inherits a new role as the squad’s most likely go-to player and leader.

First-year starters Trae Golden, Jordan McRae, Jeronne Maymon and Kenny Hall all enter the year as talented, but unproven players.

In addition to the roster turnover, a new coaching system and style are adjustments that will take time. This team doesn’t have that luxury with games against Duke, Pittsburgh and Memphis before starting SEC play.

Despite facing an uphill battle with lower expectations, the Vols will be a team other schools don’t want to play. Martin brings a hard-nosed coaching style to Knoxville with very physical practices that emphasizes defense, and that will translate into lower-scoring, grind-out games.

The biggest issue facing the Vols will be scoring points. Tatum has to step up and become a consistent double-figure scorer, and the other starting guards, Golden and McRae, have to find a way to be productive against quality teams for UT to reach its seventh consecutive NCAA

Preston Peeden Managing Editor Vols With a new coach, an inexperienced roster and a tough schedule, the Vols’ season seems to be stuck in rebuilding mode.

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BASKETBALLPREVIEW With this new energy, the problem of losing four starters seems to be diminished by a deep rotation of players. In the offseason, Martin was quoted as saying that he expects to play up to eight men a night, with some games calling for a ninth. This depth should help the team during both their non-conference stretch and their later SEC-schedule.

Former bench players and newcomers will be expected to play a big role this season. The performance of incoming junior college transfer Dwight Miller has some Vol fans reminiscing the days of Wayne Chism and Tyler Smith.

While there is some hope for the season, the realistic expectations are that this team will Tournament. lose more games than they win. But with a litIf they don’t, it could be a long year for Martin’s tle bit of luck and determination, a winning Vols on Rocky Top. season is possible.

Prediction: 15-15 (6-10 SEC), NIT Second Prediction: 16-14 (7-9 SEC), CBI invite Round Lady Vols Lady Vols With the recent illness of legendary coach It’s been four years since the Lady Vols played Pat Summitt, many Lady Vols fans have been in the Final Four.

Expect that to change this season with what Pat Summitt called her most versatile team at Tennessee.

Led by the trio of Shekinna Stricklen, Glory Johnson and Meighan Simmons, the Lady Vols should once again find themselves in prime position to raise another banner in Thompson-Boling Asst. Sports Editor Arena when the NCAA Tournament arrives in March.

Summitt schedules the toughest opponents year-in and year-out to prepare her team for post- Vols season play, and this year’s non-conference slate The Tennessee men’s basketball team won’t includes Baylor, Texas, UCLA, Stanford and give fans anything to look forward to after a Notre Dame.

The early-season big games will provide an tough football season.

Cuonzo Martin starts his Tennessee tenure idea of where UT stands against the other elite programs in the country, and regardless of how with a doozy of a schedule — rated as high as the those games go, the Lady Vols will be announced sixth-toughest in the nation. The Vols have 11 as a top seed on Selection Sunday with a clear games against teams in the preseason AP top 25 path to the Final Four in Denver. poll, and up to 10 NCAA Tournament teams The addition of freshman point guard Ariel from last season.

Massengale should be the spark the Lady Vols After two exhibition-esque games, the Vols need to get over that “final” hump and win a travel to Hawaii for the Maui Invitational. They national championship. will play No. 6 Duke, then either No. 11 Prediction: 27-2 (16-0 SEC), National Memphis or No. 18 Michigan. No. 13 Kansas, Champions No. 17 UCLA and Georgetown are also in the field as potential matchups. They then travel to Coach Cuonzo Martin’s team will be facing one Oakland before hosting No. 18 Pittsburgh. of the nation’s toughest non-conference schedules For a young team — Tennessee has six fresh— including games against Duke, Memphis and men and just two seniors — that could be a Pittsburgh — before entering the always-difficult demoralizing stretch early in the season. Even if SEC play.

Martin has the team playing high-paced with Despite all of this, there is optimism for the solid defense, they could still receive a few buttteam’s season. Martin’s new, more disciplined whoopings. approach has led to a revitalized feeling among Do expect that defense to return, though, just players and fans. like when Bruce Pearl first got here. Martin has Practices are more organized, more fluid and elevated the intensity in practice, and he is a big tougher overall. Whatever the Vols may lack in believer in the D. If Tennessee’s schedule weren’t experience — and talent, to a lesser extent — so difficult, it could even help them to a few they will certainly make up for in both energy and upsets. physicality.

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left hoping for some good news. Luckily this team seems more than capable of providing those kinds of moments.

Leading the group of returning players is All-American and SEC Player of the Year Shekinna Stricklen. Stricklen, a senior, has proven throughout her career to be one of the most versatile and clutch players in the SEC. The Lady Vols’ roster is also bolstered by seniors Glory Johnson and Alicia Manning, juniors Taber Spani and Kamiko Williams and sophomore Meighan Simmons, who garnered SEC Freshman of the Year honors.

The schedule for the Vols will be brutal, though, as games against Baylor, Stanford and Notre Dame stand out. But the talent on this team is undeniable — all that is missing is a second proven leader to stand up with Stricklen to replace the loss of Angie Bjorklund. If one appears, this team can prove to be special.

Prediction: 27-2 (16-0), National Champions There are hardly any favorable stretches in the schedule, and facing Kentucky, Florida and Vanderbilt twice won’t help UT’s conference record.

No more Tobias Harris, Scotty Hopson, Brian Williams and Melvin Goins is going to be tough to overcome all at once for the Vols.

Prediction: 13-17 (6-10 SEC), No NCAA Tournament Lady Vols The Lady Vols were a motivated team before Pat Summitt’s diagnosis.

UT was booted out of the NCAA Tournament in the first round in 2009. Sweet Sixteen in 2010.

Elite Eight last year.

So it only makes sense the Lady Vols will keep improving.

Ranked No. 3 preseason, Tennessee returns eight letter-winners from a team that won the SEC regular season and tournament championships on its way to a top NCAA Tournament seed and a 34-3 record.

Like the men, the Lady Vols face a killer schedule. Seven of their first 10 opponents are ranked, and they’ll play all those games before Christmas.

Tennessee will have to rely even more on one of the country’s most versatile players in AllAmerican and SEC Player of the Year Shekinna Stricklen, but she’s not alone. Forward Glory Johnson and SEC Freshman of the Year guard Meighan Simmons also garnered SEC accolades.

The Lady Vols have plenty of experience with five seniors and two juniors on the roster. Three freshmen may be enough to return UT to national title levels.

Prediction: 28-1 (16-0 SEC), National Runner-Up