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Nutrition campaign reaches out to students ‘Fruved’ promotes healthy dieting, raising awareness through guerrilla marketing for which they will be praised, or they will be caught doing something unhealthy, in which case they will be advised on Staff Writer better options and things they can do to make a better lifestyle for themselves.

Beginning on Nov. 11 and lasting through Nov. 19, the “Ultimately, it is our goal to create a buzz about the camnutrition department, partnered with The Volunteer Channel paign through interaction and word of (the UT student television station), will be getting mouth. The more ridiculous, the better,” UT Fruved. The Fruved campaign is a social marParker said. keting promotion targeting the young adults of UT. As part of the pre-screening for the event, According to the flyer for the campaign, “The there will be a BMI event (gathering weights primary goal of this campaign will be to improve and heights) at Hess Hall on Saturday, Nov. healthy behaviors including increasing fruit, veg12 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. etable, whole grain, low-fat dairy consumption and As far as more exciting events go, there physical activity and decreasing saturated fat and will be a dance-off on the Pedestrian Mall on sugar intake among young adults.”

Wednesday at 1 p.m. Each fruit/vegetable Throughout the week there will be many events team will be dancing to a specific song, such happening around campus, some spontaneous and as “Moves Like Jagger” or “Forget You.” others planned. The heaviest intervention days will However, there will be word substitutions in be Nov. 12-18. the song in order to make it more Fruved.

“The campaign will start with a ‘teaser’ week Tuesday at 1 p.m., there will be a sing-off the week prior (Nov. 7-11) just to spark interest in on the Pedestrian Mall. These songs will also the campus community,” Katelyn Parker, head of be Fruved. the project, said. “Most of the interventions are The biggest event planned is on Friday at unplanned (to the public) and will happen sporadithe Presidential Court Building at noon. cally, relying on actors dressed as fruit and vegThere will be a flash mob with everyone etable characters, and exercising guerrilla marketinvolved in the campaign. The campaign • Photo courtesy of fruved.com ing and theater techniques.” directors hope to get the dance team involved Guerrilla marketing is an unconventional form Various fruits and vegetables that are part of the Fruved campaign cross in the flash mob in order to draw attention. of marketing that relies on the imagination and Volunteer Boulevard on Friday, Nov. 12. Fruved, the name of which alludes to “We are hoping to be able to meet up with fruits and vegetables, is a UT student organization that hopes to increase involvement of the surrounding environment. The the dance team (or some of the members) for point of this surprising approach is to catch peo- healthy eating among students on campus. the flash mob and the dance-off,” director ple’s attention.

Sarah Colby said.

There will be people around campus dressed as a banana, All in all, the campaign is designed to educate and interest interacting with other students,” Parker said. grapes, spinach, carrot and tomato making surprise visits at During the surprise visits from the characters of the Fruved students in eating healthier and making healthier decisions several locations. Surprise visits can occur in any of the dincampaign, students will be filmed caught doing a healthy act, for their life.

Jessica Vinge

ing halls, bus stops, residence halls, etc. There will also be spontaneous classroom visits, radio drop-bys and TV appearances.

“We are using students dressed as fruits and vegetables to advertise and increase awareness of fruits and vegetables by

Riot Grrrl part of cultural history “I felt like I was a tailor using pins to piece together a jacket — my writing was the seams holding it together,” Marcus said. “No matter Tuesday, Nov. 9, UT played host to a spe- what I wrote, I kept coming back to the same cial guest, author Sara Marcus. Her book conclusion: Music, politics and time could not “Girls to the Front: The True Story of the Riot be talked about in isolation; they were always Grrrl Revolution” was the topic of discussion. connected, always.”

She felt that telling stories was a time-testMarcus started off by reading an excerpt of one of the narratives, changing her voice to ed way to keep people’s attention.

“It seduces readers by giving them this suit characters and even screaming the lyrics voyeuristic qualfeatured. ity of being For those inside the charwho are acter’s conunaware of the sciousness,” Riot Grrrl Marcus said. movement, it She even was an undershared some ground femipersonal stories nist punk about how she movement that was involved quickly spread with Riot Grrrl through the during the midP a c i f i c ’90s.

Even Northwest in though she was the early-toonly about 17, mid-’90s.

It she would consisted of attend rallies bands that and even made addressed her own magaissues such as zines to pass out domestic or sometimes abuse, racism sell for a dollar. and female “It was great. empowerment.

The reading was Marcus engaging, as she couldn’t help addressed not but dance only the politics along as she but also her played her w r i t i n g audience • Book cover courtesy of Sara Marcus process,” Karla samples of Wozniak, prosome bands that would be considered part of fessor in art, said.

“I thought it was really the revolution, the most famous including Bikini Kill and Bratmobile. She even added interesting to go to an event in a different area some little-known facts about the artists. For of study than my own.”

Marcus concluded her presentation with a example, Kurt Cobain is known for advising question-and-answer segment that stirred up his fans to listen to Bikini Kill instead of some ideas in the audience. One of the most Nirvana.

Marcus got the idea for the book when she memorable comments came from Kaitlin realized it was going down in history as a fad Malick, senior in sociology and African studor fashion of the time period. She presented ies, when she referenced back to the Slut Walk pictures of an oversized bulletin board cov- featured on campus a few weeks before.

“I feel like this book was a more complete ered with scrap papers held up by tiny bits of manifesto than our slut walk was,” Malick masking tape. It gave all her information in order, based on people, place and time period said. “The theory was there but not the total practice. Now there is not even a theory to it.” to make a timeline.

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Dr. Raymond Arsenault, author of “Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice,” speaks with Ernest “Rip” Patton, Jr., one of the original Freedom Riders, during a speaking event for Arsenault in the Baker Center on Wednesday, Nov. 9.

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Elias Attea, sophomore in plant science, gets a drink from Chelsie Vawter, senior in child and family studies, and Iyakndue Udo, graduate student in public health, on the Pedestrian Mall on Wednesday, Nov. 2. The Brewing for Burundians table offered a taste of Burundian breakfast while benefiting SODELA, which supports refugees and immigrants in the Knoxville area.

1986 — Ivan Boesky confesses to illegal stock trading activity Wall Street arbitrageur Ivan Boesky pleads guilty to insider trading and agrees to pay a $100 million fine and cooperate with the Securities and Exchange Commission’s investigation.

“Boesky Day,” as the SEC would later call it, was crucial in exposing a nationwide scandal at the heart of the ‘80s Wall Street boom.

Boesky testified that he had gained his $200 million fortune using illegal inside information about impending mergers to trade stock in the companies involved. As a result of Boesky’s confession, subpoenas were issued to some of the world’s most famous financiers, including “Junk Bond King” Michael Milken. Boesky’s testimony brought Milken and Drexel Burnham Lambert, an investment banking company, to justice for their participation in the illegal schemes. Milken paid over a billion dollars in fines and restitution and was sentenced to 10 years in prison; two years later his sentence was reduced to time served. In addition to his own financial penalty, Boesky received a three-year sentence, 22 months of which he served at Lompoc Federal Prison in California. Following this insider trading scandal, Congress increased the penalties for securities violations.

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

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Catholic groups fight adversity The Associated Press

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Christopher Manning, senior in industrial engineering, talks with Morgan Thompson, junior in accounting, and Alex Gainer, senior in accounting, about resources offered by the OUTreach LGBT center at the Vol Walk of Life fair on Wednesday, Nov. 9.

Germany wants Greek workers The Associated Press BERLIN — Prosperous Germany has a surprising message for sinking Greece: Help Wanted.

With a shrinking labor force and buoyant economy, Germany desperately needs skilled workers to keep its industrial engine churning forward. Increasingly, it’s seeking them from Greece and other European laggards like Spain and Portugal where unemployment is soaring amid fears of financial implosion.

Germany quickly overcame the financial meltdown that started in 2008 and unemployment is now at a 20-year low of 6.6 percent.

Companies are so desperate to fill skilled labor shortages that the government has taken to organizing matchmaking sessions between German firms and job seekers from crisis-hit countries.

Greek civil engineer Christos Kotanidis moved to Erlangen in southern Germany three months ago and quickly found work with industrial giant Siemens.

The 33-year-old’s former company in Saloniki put him on part-time earlier this year because, struck by the financial crisis, it could no longer afford to pay full salaries. It took Kotanidis only six weeks to land a full-time position in Germany.

“I decided to look for a job in Germany because it has a stable economy,” Kotanidis said. “In Greece the economic situation is bad now, but the future looks even worse.”

Unemployment in Greece is currently at 16.7 percent, but among young people it is even higher with more than 42 percent of people under 24 not finding any work. In Spain, overall unemployment hovers at around 20 percent, and more than 45 percent of people under the age of 25 are without a job. Portugal, Italy and Ireland, the other countries bearing the brunt of the debt crisis, also have bleak employment pictures.

There are no hard numbers on how many professionals from Europe’s crisis zone have been hired in Germany. Immigration to Germany has shot up by 13 percent in the past five years, and more than half of the newcomers are from within the European Union. EU citizens do not need to apply for a visa or work permit if they take a job within the bloc.

In the 1960s, Germany recruited millions of unskilled workers from Turkey to help rebuild the country from the ashes of World War II. Now the focus is on highly skilled professionals — something the struggling nations of Europe’s southern rim have in abundance.

The Association of German Engineers estimates that Germany has 80,000 engineering jobs that need to be filled; the nation’s physicians’ association says the country’s hospitals require more than 12,000 doctors. The government said this year there’s a shortage of 66,000 information technology specialists.

Over the past few months, the Federal Employment Agency has organized several meetings to match German companies with job applicants in Spain, Portugal and Greece.

“We really need physicians, nurses and engineers — and we have started recruiting them in those EU countries with high unemployment,” said agency spokeswoman Beate Raabe.

Germany’s skilled workers shortage is only projected to increase as the country’s population ages. Mid-sized companies in particular have added lots of new jobs to fulfill industrial orders.

Against that backdrop, the country pushed through new legislation this year to speed up the recognition of foreign qualifications and degrees.

Some companies have started recruitment drives in crisis-hit

countries. After organizing two job fairs in Ireland this year, Globalfoundries, a semiconductor manufacturing company in Dresden, hired and brought 30 Irish engineers to the eastern German city.

Ivan O’Connor was one of them. The 31-year-old technology engineer from Ballinhassig in Cork started working for Globalfoundries last December.

“I really like living and working here, the quality of life is very good and I was seeking a job when the opportunity came up,” O’Connor said in an email to the AP. His move to Germany was helped by the fact that the office language at Globalfoundries, as an international company, is English.

That’s an exception, as most German companies expect foreign employees to speak German. The Goethe Institute, which offers German language classes around the globe, has noticed more Europeans seeking to overcome that language barrier.

At Barcelona’s Goethe Institute, the number of language students has gone up by 54 percent in the past two years and more than 70 percent of the students say they’re learning German to improve their career chances, said Diar Amin, a spokesman for the Barcelona Goethe Institute. The situation is similar in other Spanish cities, the institute says.

With a university degree in hand and not a job in sight in his native Barcelona, 22-year-old Enrique Serratosa saw brushing up on his German as the first step toward finding work in Germany.

“The situation here is very hard, unemployment is high, and it’s all just getting worse and worse,” said Serratosa, who signed a contract with chemical company Wacker in Munich after taking language lessons to supplement his college German.

“About 80 percent of my friends are looking for jobs abroad and many of them want to go to Germany — we can learn a lot there and salaries are also higher.”

The mood among many U.S. Roman Catholic bishops was captured in a recent speech by Archbishop Charles Chaput of Philadelphia. His talk, called “Catholics in the Next America,” painted a bleak picture of a nation increasingly intolerant of Christianity.

“The America emerging in the next several decades is likely to be much less friendly to Christian faith than anything in our country’s past,” Chaput told students last week at Assumption College, an Augustinian school in Worcester, Mass. “It’s not a question of when or if it might happen. It’s happening today.”

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops meets Monday in Baltimore for its national meeting feeling under siege: from a broader culture moving toward accepting gay marriage; a White House they often condemn as hostile to Catholic teaching; and state legislatures that church leaders say are chipping away at religious liberty.

Many Catholic academics, activists and parishioners say the bishops are overreacting.

John Gehring of Faith in Public Life, an advocacy network for more liberal religious voters, has argued that in a pluralistic society, government officials can choose policies that differ from church teaching without prejudice being a factor.

“Some perspective is needed here,” Gehring, a Catholic, wrote on his organization’s blog.

Still, the bishops see themselves as more and more on the losing side of these disagreements, and they are taking steps they hope will protect the church.

In September, the conference formed a new committee on religious liberty that will meet for the first time this week in Baltimore. Anthony Picarello, general counsel for the conference, will oversee that work, which will include hiring a lobbyist. Picarello had worked for seven years at the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, a publicinterest law firm based in Washington, and also served on an advisory committee for President Barack Obama’s Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships.

Among the bishops’ top concerns are religious exemptions in states that legalize same-sex marriage. In Illinois, government officials stopped working with Catholic Charities on adoptions and foster-care placements after 40 years because the agency refused to recognize a new civil union law. Illinois bishops are suing the state. In New York, the bishops, along with Orthodox Jewish leaders and others, have complained that the religious exception in this year’s law allowing gay marriage is too weak to be effective.

On health care, the bishops have been pressing the Health and Human Services Department during its public comment period for a broader religious exception to the provision in Obama’s health care overhaul that mandates private insurers pay for contraception. Sister Carol Keehan, president of the Catholic Health Association, which broke with the bishops to support the administration’s health care plan, said a proposed exemption is so narrowly written it would only apply to “the parish housekeeper.”

The conference is also battling the agency on another front: The Health and Human Services Department recently decided not to renew a contract held since 2006 by the bishops’ refugee services office to help victims of human trafficking.

The American Civil Liberties Union is currently suing to stop the agency from making grants to groups who “impose religiously based restrictions on reproductive health services” for human trafficking victims. The women are often raped and forced into prostitution by their captors.

Sister Mary Ann Walsh, spokeswoman for the bishops, has called the decision discriminatory and a case of “ABC,” meaning anyone but Catholics.

Agency officials vehemently deny any bias and say the sole criteria for evaluating potential grantees was which group could best serve the victims.

Administration officials note that the vast network of Catholic social service nonprofits, including the bishops’ conference, receives hundreds of millions of dollars in government funding in amounts that have increased in the last couple of years.

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GuestColumn Moving beyond ingrained perception Let’s be honest with each other for a moment — you don’t know what’s best for you.

If given the choice about how you should live your life with no one over your shoulder telling you what were the culturally appropriate ways to do so, you’d be lost, slip into apathy and crumble down into a spiral of self-perpetuating defeat and malaise. You, my friends, have no idea what business you have in being alive.

You have no idea who you are either, do you?

You exist in a world in which every single aspect of your identity is commoditized. Would you like to know how to make friends? Well, there’s a place for that called “Facebook.”

Would you like to find true love? Try match.com — their deals are astounding. Are you interested in educating yourself? Well, there is a slew of online universities that can do that for you as well, with only a small fee in return. Are you unsure of the appropriate behavior when in groups during leisure time?

Try watching “Jersey Shore.” It’ll show you exactly what to do, down to the very vernacular you should apply when engaging potential partners.

Each of these influences, and many more, have forged you. Really, try to think of one single thing that one could identify as a part of their “identity” that cannot be easily bought and sold. God, you say? Well, luckily for you, both of the major political parties in this country have done extensive work in figuring out how to sell God to the populace.

My point here is simple: You don’t know who you are, and because you don’t know who you are, you have no idea what’s best for you.

I should point out here that I’m not special in this regard. I don’t know who I am either. So, how did we get here? How did we go from a

nation of fiercely independent citizens (enough to fight off one of the most powerful empires earth’s ever seen to ascertain said independence) to a nation of mindless drones, wandering around in a blissful iPhone induced slumber until the next “great” thing comes along?

At this point, you’re probably thinking I’m about to dive headlong into some convoluted conversation regarding complex ideological dismantling of the American people. Well, I’m not. I’m going to give you the answer to this question as simply as I can. How did we get here? We were led.

That’s it. We were led here by entities which saw it in their best interest to do so. And, here we remain — blissfully unaware of the puppet masters dangling our strings, zombified by the institutions that are supposed to work on our behalf, asleep at a wheel that was taken from us so long ago that most of us aren’t even sure we ever had it.

This is simply the way things are. This is the way things will remain. Only one thing can change it — you. If enough of you gather, if enough of you embody the Howard Beale call to get angry, if enough of you look up and see those degenerate, proverbial puppet masters, then maybe, just maybe, we can change things.

Or, we can continue down this road until not only are our identities bought and sold fabrications, but we become full flesh-and-bone simulations of what might have once been human. It’s a choice I’ve faced down, much to my own horror and exuberance. I hope you consider doing that same.

— Joel Higgins is a junior in English. He can be reached at jhiggin6@utk.edu.

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Religion more than arguing proofs D e ar Rea d e rs by

Aaron Moyer There is a trend among religious communities to justify their beliefs no matter how absurd their reasoning may be. The thing about religion is that it is an unprovable belief in the metaphysical to answer the unanswerable. Why are we here? What happens after we die? How did we begin?

There is nothing inherently wrong with religious belief; however, the constant need to justify this belief through hard evidence is only a sign of insecurity in the believer. Whether Jesus Christ literally resurrected or whether Mohammed really ascended into heaven at Mecca is not the point of religion. It does not matter in the slightest if one religion is correct and another is wrong. The message is what is important.

Supposing we take as factually correct the smug atheistic view that I hold, in that there is no afterlife nor is there a supreme being, it should not make a difference in how you act here on earth. One of the most common fears of atheists that I have come across is that without a belief in a higher power, there is nothing preventing us from murdering each other.

If your religion is the only thing preventing you from going on a killing spree, then there is something wrong with you. I am an atheist and yet I have never even gotten into a fight, let alone killed someone.

There is no need to bend over backwards to prove your religion is true and the others are false, because the source of your moral compass is not as important as your implementation and interpretation of it. In the case of Christianity, Jesus preached about loving your neighbors and generally being a kind and forgiving person. If it turns out that Jesus was just a madman raving on the side of the street and the Bible was just written for entertainment, it should not make a difference in how you act. While the source may be insane, the message is still a good one. The tenets of any religion do not rely on the complete veracity of the book; rather they rely on our implementation of them in the world.

Instead of focusing on proving the existence of Jesus Christ or the ascension of Mohammed, focus should be placed on the message of your religion. It should make little difference what religion you come from, since all of them preach kindness and forgiveness towards others. Each one has its own interpretation of what this is, which is what should influence your belief.

The inability to shift the focus is harmful to society as a whole. The “debate” about evolution versus creationism/intelligent design is just an argument of ignorance and insecurity. Evolution is real, it is happening all the time and whether you choose to understand that or not makes no difference to it.

Evolution does nothing to the overall message of Christianity and should not be treated as such.

Whether God created the earth in literally seven days or caused the Big Bang has no impact at all on the overall message of the Bible.

Attempts to prove your religion do nothing but point out your own personal insecurities about it.

Faith is the belief in the unprovable and by attempting to prove it, you are showing that your faith is weak or nonexistent. The power of your religion lies not in the historical evidence for each and every line of text in this old book; rather it is in the message of happiness and betterment for humanity. The supernatural elements of each religion are just that, supernatural.

All these attempts at proof do is muddle the message until it is impossible to understand. Thomas Jefferson released his own version of the Bible void of every supernatural event in it, which also makes it significantly shorter. What is amazing about this edition is that the message of Jesus is left untouched.

There is no resurrection, curing of blind men or other similar events, yet it is still possible to ascertain the fact that Jesus wanted humans to be peaceful to one another.

I see people get so lost in the proofs that they forget the message entirely. Some people can give you every bit of historical evidence surrounding the birth and death of Jesus but at the same time cannot tell you what he wanted from us. Worry less about whether your holy book is 100 percent true and more about whether you are actually following the tenets of your religion.

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

Debate defines one’s ‘personhood’ Off the Deep End by

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You know, loyal “Deep End” readers, I try.

I try to be accommodating of people with political beliefs that differ from mine, regardless of how loopy I personally find those opinions. I have tolerated and listened to Occupiers, Tea Partiers, Ron Paul supporters and even one Dennis Kucinich supporter back in 2008, but I have reached the end of my rope.

The “Personhood” movement has driven me over the edge.

Recently there was a ballot initiative in Mississippi to have the state constitution amended to include a defined “personhood.” Personhood, as defined by the proponents of the movement, calls for the recognition of a fertilized egg as a person. To state it another way, this group is essentially calling for the entire “life begins at conception” argument to be recognized as law, thus banning abortions at the state level.

Now, here’s my “beef” with this proposition.

At the very core of my being, way down deep in the philosophical epicenter of my proverbial political brain is a confined libertarian component. I may not like to admit it around those adamant Ron Paul supporters I mentioned before, but, when you get right down to it, I fundamentally believe that people should, to a certain extent, be able to do what they want in their private lives as long as they are not infringing upon those storied inalienable rights that Americans are supposed to hold sacrosanct: life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Of course, as a liberal, the same reasoning does not extend to the economic world, but the social aspect still applies.

Thus, I believe that — specifically regarding the issue at hand — the choice of whether or not to terminate a pregnancy should extend to all women.

Whether or not they choose to utilize that choice is their prerogative, but a fundamental personal choice should mostly never — in my personal opinion — be subject to the whims of any subsection of populace or, alternatively, the entire population.

Now, before you start typing those nasty e-mails,

trying to track down my phone number, or, if you are especially passionate and regularly protest and/or demonstrate on the Pedestrian Mall with horrific signs that are in no way real or even close to being a true representation of the results of the procedures in question, come banging on my door as part of a Frankenstein-esque mob toting pitchforks and torches, stop grinding your teeth in anger and hear me out.

The mindset I’m offering is in no way promoting abortion. At no point have I stated in the course of this particular column that I think all pregnant women should rush out to the nearest abortion clinic and terminate their pregnancy. I am simply stating that I think that the choice should be there. If you believe that abortions are fundamentally wrong because you have religious, moral or political objections, by all means, please do not get one. At the same time, however, I’m simply asking that opponents to the practice have the common decency to understand that not everyone shares the same religious, moral or political ideology.

I cannot deny that it is in many ways rather hypocritical of me to ask for a measure of civility after I have freely and openly admitted that I categorically dismissed an entire movement because I find the premise of its existence to be obtuse. That is, however, exactly what I’m doing. I am asking for pro-lifers to stop, take a moment and realize that what a woman does with her fertilized egg or embryo has no effect on anyone else but the woman in question. The baby?

Nope, that’s just a smattering of cells grouped together that has the potential for “personhood.” That entity could not exist outside the womb on its own at such an early time, thus it is not, in fact, a person. Fertilized eggs don’t have complex thoughts, feelings or emotions, regardless of what the “Look Who’s Talking” series might lead you to believe.

I guess if there were a larger plea to be made here it would be to not allow the efforts of these religious yahoos in Mississippi to spread. It would be to ignore their promise and declaration of their intentions to “take this fight to other states” and agree to put a stop to this attempt to press one group’s moral and/or religious views on someone else. Protection from factions and/or the majority is, after all, exactly what this nation is supposed to hold dear.

— Derek Mullins is a senior in political science.

He can be reached at dmullin5@utk.edu.

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Video game release attracts many Fiction: Sausage Links, Part Four Wiley Robinson Staff Writer

Chris Flowers Staff Writer Some say the race for game of the year is a crowded one. But based on what Turkey Creek looked like on Friday at the midnight release for “The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim,” the answer seems clear. Sales numbers for console are not clear yet, but pre-order numbers are reported to be second only to “Modern Warfare 3” — impressive for a game that boasts no online gameplay.

The larger of two GameStop stores in Farragut’s biggest shopping center is often the location with the highest amount of pre-game activity in Knoxville. Upon approach, the line for “Skyrim” appeared wrapped around the shopping center to the very back of the entire complex, by the dumpsters. And you can forget single-file — the first three quarters of the line bled out into the parking lot, a crowd saturated with 17- to 25-year-old males. A few were even dressed in facetious medieval cosplay, sporting plastic swords and make-shift cloaks.

When the conversation turned away from humorous predictions about how long one would block out one’s physical life in order to absorb as much unbroken play-time as possible, fellow linewaiters were asked what they were looking forward to in “Skyrim.” The answer was an eagerness for the freedom of a detailed open world, with all the defining fantasy fixings that never seem to get old with reinvention: swords, magic, but most specifically for “Skyrim,” a challenging, realistic simulation for the slaying of fire-breathing dragons.

Other standers-in-solidarity anticipated many changes in “Skyrim” from the last installment of “The Elder Scrolls” series, “Oblivion,” such as more hand-detailed locations and dungeons as well as combat. In short, people enjoy the world being implicitly leveled proportionally with the player in some respects — but not so streamlined to the point where it breaks one’s suspension of disbelief that they’re in a realistic world that will continue to operate without their existence. Hopes seem to be very high — the optimism is infectious.

Unfortunately, Turkey Creek’s GameStop did not host any festivities other than the opportunity to assemble in the cold and get the game at midnight. The game was promptly purchased at Walmart.

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screen since I began. I was completely absorbed in the world of Tamriel and only pried myself away because my eyes burned like only the best games can make them.

Although I was completely enthralled by the end of my first session with the game, I was initially somewhat disappointed. The introductory section had a cinematic quality atypical of “Elder Scrolls” games and the action surrounding me was fairly entertaining as my encampment came under dragon attack, but I was immediately reintroduced to the awkward melee combat of previous games and slightly underwhelmed by the graphical improvements. You are given the basic sword, shield and armor in order to make it through the combat encounters of the introduction, which doesn’t make for a great first impression. The click-to-swing melee combat is as uninteresting as it has always been in the “Elder Scrolls” games, and the randomly activated cinematic kills often come off awkwardly.

After clicking my way through a few rooms full of grunts and escaping the dragon, the open world of Skyrim was placed before me. I divided my time between exploration and the main quest line and found both to be vastly more rewarding than in “Oblivion.” The locals I encountered in my wandering painted a cohesive environment and a believable Nordic world, but each offered a unique atmosphere. The main quest line was something I completely ignored in both “Morrowind” and “Oblivion,” but “Skyrim” offers some genuine intrigue in your quest to defeat the invading dragons and uncover why you have the power to slay them. Dragon slaying is pretty much number one on my “Things I Want to do in a Fantasy Themed Game” list, and having that be the goal of the main quest line is the best possible thing they could have done for it. The combat is somewhat improved from previous entries, with the ability to duel wield spells and weapons adding some flexibility, but it does often boil down to the same old strategy of run backwards and shoot/swing. The leveling system has been simplified to a Call of Duty-like perk system, but surprisingly it is to the game’s benefit. The system works well for adjusting to your preferred play style and reduces your time staring at numbers trying to decide which one to increase.

Although I haven’t delved into what are usually the best parts of the “Elder Scrolls” games, The Dark Brotherhood and Thieves Guild, I have been completely immersed in the experience so far, though I don’t know yet if it’s a game that can convert those who were bored by previous entries.

My son could crank out sausages faster than I had seen my father when he first opened Wally’s Weenies. My son was also able to fashion weapons out of office materials which was turned against him in prison.

My son is now dead.

My wife refuses to go to the shop. My daughter is already mad at me for trying to teach her the trade, but now she’s just more upset to lose her brother and being forced back into the house. They not see I just wanted the best for them?

My dad, the original Wally Winefried, had no other skills. He was too weak for manual labor, too old for the military and had his own problems as a vacuum salesman. People used to buy them out of pity. He only knew how to make sausages. He supported us on that business. From the cart to the shop, he brought me and three other siblings through life. My sister married at a young age. My oldest brother went off to war, never came back the same and my youngest brother was never considered. It was always up to me to take over Wally’s Weenies. I’m actually the third Wally Winefried but I was the one to take it all over.

I had no choice really, no other prospects.

I was there when the business picked up, and that’s just what I came into. I never thought my own kids would grow to hate it so much.

Why couldn’t they just smile and accept it?

I went through all the letters from Junior in prison. All promising recovery, promise and hope while the officer told us he had always been hostile towards the others and actually picked fights. Did he do it on purpose?

The day of the funeral, I woke up to find Wilma in the kitchen, drinking coffee at the table. She looks at me but turns away. I pour a cup and sit beside her.

“Weird to not hear the grinder,” I tell her.

She shrugs.

“I guess.”

We sit and sip coffee. This is my daughter.

This is who I tried to pawn this business off on so that I could quit. I know she never wanted it, but Junior was out.

“Did you ever have suspicions of Junior?” she asked.

“Suspicions?”

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“About how messed up he was,” she explains and takes her cup to the sink, “even before the burglaries, he would always be weird about photos and stuff. He has books in there full of pictures from magazines where he pasted his face over the models. All kinds of pictures.”

“I’ve seen them. I didn’t see them as indicative of anything though. Your brother just snapped is all, and look where it got him.”

Wilma turns the faucet off and stares me down.

“He was pushed into it. He wanted a way out. He didn’t want the job at the shop, none of us do.”

She stomped out of the kitchen and slammed the bedroom door. I should chalk that up to the stress of everything, but outbursts like that happened before Junior died as well. I’m the bad guy all the time. I force my children into a career and it makes them snap. I didn’t give them a choice. I didn’t do any of that. My father did the same to me.

At the cemetery, it’s only us and my sisterin-law. The preacher is reciting verses from every other funeral. My son never reached out to anyone. Only four people are at his funeral and the preacher knows nothing unique about him. Did I really do that? All I wanted was for my kids to have something to hold onto, a legacy in the family. It might be a sausage shop, but it is a Winefried family operation. In the process, all they were left with were memories about sausages and being taunted by it. I can see why they would be so hurt.

A few months after Junior’s death, Wilma moves out without another word about Wally’s Weenies. She visits on holidays and calls all the time. I’ve talked to a man who is interested in buying the shop whenever I want to retire. I asked him why he wants it.

“I would pick up sausages for dinner every other week,” he tells me. “I would eat lunch here during my breaks at my first job. I took my wife here on our first date. I want to take my soon-to-be-born son here to try a real deal sausage here. I don’t want to lose all those good memories.”

I nod and tell him to never let the good ones go.

Olivia Cooper Staff Writer

— Olivia Cooper is a senior in creative writing. She can be reached at ocooper@utk.edu.

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Monday, November 14, 2011

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Improvements futile in Fayetteville Golden leads Vols to opening win Anthony Elias

play, 72-yard drive that got them down to the Razorbacks’ 5-yard line. Instead of putting points on the board, freshman quarterback Justin Worley was intercepted by Arkansas’ Tramain Thomas at the goal line.

“DeAnthony (Arnett) ran a great route,” Worley said. “I got flushed out of the pocket a little bit so my timing got thrown off, and I put the ball where

rhythm, racking up 499 yards of total offense and outscoring UT 28-0 in the second half. Hogs quarterback Tyler Wilson was 16-of-26 for 226 yards and Tennessee’s offense has struggled three touchdowns with one intercepsince Tyler Bray’s injury against tion. Johnson and the rest of Arkansas’ Georgia on Oct. 8, but against eighthstable of running backs combined for ranked Arkansas Saturday night in 254 yards on the ground.

Fayetteville, the Volunteers racked up “Because they are so explosive 376 yards of total offense. throwing the ball, you have to loosen Still, the end result was the same as up a little bit,” it’s been all year, as Dooley said.

UT (4-6, 0-6 SEC) For the Vols, sophfailed to convert omore wide receiver yards into points and Da’Rick Rogers was gave up highlight-reel the team’s leading plays to the receiver with five Razorbacks (9-1, 5-1) receptions for 106 in a 49-7 loss at yards, including a 48Donald W. Reynolds yard catch-and-run in Razorback Stadium. the third quarter.

“We had a lot of Rogers’ 15-yard opportunities the reception on a 4thfirst three quarters to and-3 on UT’s opentry and match them a ing drive kept the little bit,” Vols coach possession alive, but Derek Dooley said. “I the Vols couldn’t conthink we were knockvert a fake field goal. ing on the door about “We were against four or five times and the wind, it was a 42we didn’t convert and yarder on the right we gave up a lot of hash,” Dooley said. big plays.”

“I just thought we The first big play could execute it. I came late in the first wasn’t 100 percent quarter with confident into that Arkansas already wind. That wind was leading 7-0. Arkansas pretty rough out receiver and return there.” specialist Joe Adams The loss drops the fielded a Matt Darr Vols to 0-6 in conferpunt, ran backwards • Photo courtesy of Patrick Murphy-Racey/UTADPHOTO and broke multiple Austin Johnson looks up field for running room after hauling in an ence play for the first UT tackles en route interception during a game against Arkansas on Saturday, Nov. 12. time in school histoto a 60-yard punt Despite moments of brilliance, the Vols weren’t able to put together ry and makes UT’s remaining two games return for a touch- a full game, falling to the Razorbacks 49-7 in Fayetteville, Ark. against Vanderbilt down. and Kentucky mustThe Razorbacks would extend their lead to 21-0 after running back Dennis it should’ve been if my timing was on wins if the team wants to play in a Johnson bounced off UT defenders and time and the safety made a good play.” bowl game.

Worley finished 15-of-29 for 208 “There’s no additional pressure,” raced 71 yards for a touchdown early in yards and the interception before being Dooley said. “We’re going to get the second quarter.

UT answered with a 5-play, 77-yard replaced by senior Matt Simms in the defined by how we play the next two weeks. We play like crap and we’ll go scoring drive, topped off by an 11-yard fourth quarter.

“Justin was struggling,” Dooley down as a bad football team. If we play touchdown run by sophomore Rajion said. “(He) was making some bad deci- good, we’ll go down as a team that Neal. fought to the end and was able to pull After Arkansas missed a 40-yard sions, wasn’t in rhythm.”

Arkansas’ offense was certainly in it out.” field goal, the Vols put together a 14-

Matt Dixon

Sports Editor

Staff Writer

Nov. 11 had Trae Golden’s number written all over it, and the Vols guard did little to disappoint on basketball’s opening night.

In the Vols’ 92-63 bombing of UNC-Greensboro at ThompsonBoling Arena, Golden lit up the Spartan defense, scoring 29 points with nine assists and six rebounds.

“We did not have as many jitters as we did in the exhibition games,” Golden said. “The guys were more aggressive and that is a good thing. We wanted to show the crowd we had worked hard in the offseason, and we are here to represent Tennessee the right way.”

Golden represented himself right from the tip-off in the first half, when the Vols wasted little time bombing away at the Spartans with their high-powered offense and taking an 8-0 lead.

Junior Jeronne Maymon and sophomore Jordan McRae put up good numbers for UT as well.

Maymon shot 6-for-8, scoring 15 points, grabbing five rebounds and delivering two assists.

McRae was hot from the outside, shooting 4-for-5 from 3-point land to add to his 15-point night, along with his four rebounds and one steal.

Despite Tennessee’s unstoppable offense, head coach Cuonzo Martin wasn’t as pleased with the team’s rebounding — Greensboro dominated in offensive rebounds 20-7 — but did like the transition defense and the fast pace that the UT defense played in.

“We didn’t rebound like I would have liked, but I thought our transition defense was good, because that’s a team that gets out and runs,” Martin said. “We did a good job in that area.”

The defense allowed Golden and the Vols to get off to a quick start in the opening half as Tennessee ran out to a 13-2 lead.

The Spartans stayed in the game due in part to their bench.

Derrell Armstrong came off the bench for Greensboro, leading the reserves with 10 points and snagging a team-high eight rebounds.

Senior Cameron Tatum hit his second 3-pointer to put UT up 30-18 with 7:45 left in the half.

Still, the Spartans wouldn’t go away. Kyle Randall nailed a 3pointer to cut the lead to 37-28.

However, Golden was only beginning to shine in the opening half as the sophomore hit a second- and third-straight shot from beyond the arc, accumulating 19 points with 1:49 remaining in the half, giving the Big Orange a 43-28 lead.

Then, with 11 seconds left, Golden found McRae at the side of the arc and the guard fired and connected on a last-second 3pointer, giving the Vols a 49-30 lead heading into the locker room.

McRae, Golden and Maymon combined to score 30 of the Vols’ 49 first-half points. McRae scored 11 points with a rebound and two assists while Maymon, who scored 11 as well, was a force in the paint while racking up four rebounds and two assists.

Despite UT’s 19-point lead, Greensboro outscored the Vols 92 on second-chance points and controlled the paint, 16 rebounds to 12.

Despite struggling to contain the UT offense, Armstrong did what he could to keep the Spartans alive in the game. The guard’s play that kept UNCGreensboro under a 20-point margin came with 11 minutes left when he drove to the basket and threw up a successful bank shot while falling to the floor.

Armstrong made the free throw, giving him 10 points, and the UT lead was 70-51.

The closest UNC-Greensboro came was nine points with the help of leading scorer Korey Van Dussen, who added two assists and three steals.

The Vols will take on the ULMonroe Warhawks at 7 p.m. on Wednesday night at ThompsonBoling Arena. With no telling who will take the lead-scoring role for the Vols, Martin just wants his players to know how to attack the basket.

“We go into games and I couldn’t tell you who would lead us in scoring,” Martin said. “I think the biggest key for our guys is to play with confidence. If you have a shot, take it.”