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Women philanthropists to award grants Flora Theden Assistant Managing Editor The UT Alliance of Women Philanthropists is accepting applications for the 2010 academic year for its Giving Circle Grant Program, which awards anywhere from $5,000 to $25,000 annually. The Alliance of Women Philanthropists, founded in 1998, is made up of UT alumni from the entire UT system, as well as friends of the university, which are women who either live in the area or share a special affection for the school, Suzy Garner, director of development, said. Garner said the women in the alliance created the grant program to find a unique way to impact women at the university. The idea
of this program excited the women because they wanted to learn about things going on at UT which they never would have known about, Garner said. “These women just wanted to reward the hard work of students and faculty,” Garner said. Garner said the alliance pools together about $35,000 annually, and this year, which will be its third round of grants, the alliance has slightly under $50,000 to give for grants. The grant is available to students, faculty, staff, departmental units and student organizations. Recipients will have up to one year to use the funds and are not required to match any of the donation, which is a requirement for many federal and state grants, Garner said.
Individual grants are not given, but recipients could be a couple of groups on campus, like several different organizations collaborating on a project or two departments that are wanting to pursue a line of research, Garner said. Garner said the organization favors recipients that use the Giving Circle Grant, as well as other forms of grants and donations, to fund its research. Lori Calvert, director of alumni programs, said the organization is looking for grants that are innovative and interdisciplinary. The application for the grant is two pages, and Calvert said candidates with a clear, concise application and an unambiguous budget will have a better chance. Once applications are submitted, a com-
mittee made up of five women from the alliance make the final decision. “It all just depends on the types of applications received and what the different groups are trying to accomplish,” Garner said. Past Giving Circle Grant recipients include the UT-Chattanooga School of Nursing and the UT Institute of Agriculture’s Helping Hands Learning Garden. “We helped pay for a percussion group to travel to Mexico and also helped fund research for non-surgical pet contraception,” Garner said. “We keep an open mind about what we’re going to give the money for.” The deadline for submissions is December 31, 2009, and applications must be submitted electronically through the organization’s Web site, http://alliance.tennessee.edu.
Lecture to delve into new military history Blair Kuykendall Staff Writer
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Students dance the night away at the 3rd annual Masquerade Ball at Circle Park Saturday evening. Proceeds go to Big Brothers and Big Sisters of East Tennessee.
Weight-loss program creator examines overeating origins
Author looks at Army’s evolution Kyle Turner
Maria Lund Staff Writer Gerard Musante, founder of Structure House, a weight-loss retreat, spoke to faculty and students Friday about the importance of structured weight loss. Musante, who received a Ph.D. in clinical psychology from UT in 1971, said his experience at UT helped him when he was starting Structure House. “UT had everything, as far as I’m concerned, in the clinical program,” Musante said. “They had a very unique program when alternating between clinical and experimental psychology.” Structure House is a residential program designed to help people who feel like they have few options left when it comes to losing weight, Musante said. “We tried to create a home-like environment, something comfortable so that something could be accomplished,” Musante said. “In 1977, we founded Structure House. It was a different time. No one worked in this field, and I was counseled not to (start the program) by senior members of the program.” Musante said the idea behind his weight-loss program was to provide patients with a structured
way to look at eating. “Structure was important,” Musante said. “We had a powerful problem, and we needed a powerful solution. We began to look at structure as a way of solving the problem. Instead of telling people the dos and don’ts of what they should be doing, we offered a problem-solving strategy.” Looking at why people overeat is one of the aspects Musante studied when designing his program. “All of us engage in two types of eating: structured, which is done simply to nourish, and unstructured,” Musante said. “It’s like a gas tank: when you’re full, you don’t need to eat more. It’s the same with our bodies, so why do we eat all these other foods?” Musante’s research led him to the conclusion that there are several aspects to why people might overeat. “We began to see that it boiled down to three reasons — boredom, stress and relaxation,” Musante said. “So what we had to do was separate out between structured eating and unnecessary eating.” Musante explained that Structure House has several different goals when it comes to helping patients. See MUSANTE on Page 3
Staff Writer Professor and author Beth Bailey examined the key social and developmental issues in the vastly changing United States Army on Thursday. Bailey, professor of history at Temple University, spoke about her recent book, “America’s Army: Race, Gender, and Social Good in the Post-Cold War Military.” Bailey said that with the rise of the two world superpowers, the United States and the U.S.S.R., military budgets were justified but with the end of the Cold War, the U.S. military was put into uncertainty. “The current U.S. military is a product of the Cold War,” Bailey said. She said when the Soviet Union collapsed, the American government and military lost their “vision of a clear and present danger.” To promote its survival, the U.S. military never gave up its argument for its role of protecting the country but instead began to market itself in the 1990s as a group promoting social good. “(The U.S. military) promotes itself as contributing in times of peace and war and not just in terms of deterrence,” she said. For a time, the military began branding itself through ads as an organization that could take at-risk youth and offer a source of redemption, turning out productive and better members of society. Any and all promotions produced by the U.S. Army have the highest quality research to prove them successful. The Army has at its disposal an array of resources that produce advertisements that are poignant and effective. This is not to say that many might feel there have been certain misses in their advertising, but all promotions were continued with the best knowledge possible for the time.
Though the U.S. Army’s marketing messages and strategies have changed, they have always been consistent in the areas of thorough research and quality. “I came for a marketing class to observe how the military made advertisements,” Nathan Wade, junior in retail, hospitality and tourism management, said. “I think they did an effective job with the use of music, being able to stir emotions.” It was not until the mid-1980s that the military lost gender identity. No longer were ads aimed at unwed women to join and find a husband, but instead, the ads lost gender altogether. Evidence shown by Bailey included magazine advertisements of pictures where the gender of the soldiers repelling from a helicopter was purposely unrecognizable. The military also sought to change its message from a person serving in the military to the military serving for that person. The plethora of skills and knowledge to be gained from military service was highlighted thoroughly, especially in Congressional hearings about the state of the U.S. Army. It seems that the military has moved away from singling out genders and race and has developed the message of solidarity. “The Army claims to serve as an organization that embodies the American Dream and offers a sense of inclusion,” Bailey said. This message of inclusion and fulfilling the American Dream has been especially felt among the immigrant and first-generation communities. Bailey said the U.S. Army has changed throughout the years, being faced with new challenges but has remained vital to national security, morphing itself into a beacon of social good, beneficial to American success.
In honor of Charles W. Johnson, the founder of UT’s Center for the Study of War and Society, Robert M. Citino will deliver the lecture “Pride or Prejudice?: Military History and the Academy” Monday at the Baker Center’s Toyota Auditorium. Citino, a prominent military historian, is from the University of North Texas. He has authored eight books, the latest “The German Way of War” (2005) and “Death of the Wehrmacht” (2007). In addition, Citino was rated the “No. 1 professor in the U.S.” by the Web site http://www.ratemyprofessors.com, an online service designed to allow students to comment on and review the performance of their professors. He has also appeared on the History Channel. This lecture will honor both Johnson and the center he founded in 1984. “The UT Center for the Study of War and Society wanted a very special speaker to invite for this event on its 25th anniversary,” Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius, Lindsay Young Professor and director of the Center for the Study of War and Society, said. The lecture will provide attendees with a new perspective on the study of military history. “In this lecture, Dr. Citino will introduce the latest developments in the field of research of ‘new military history,’ which is the study of war and the military in a way that integrates cultural, social and political histories,” Liulevicius said. Citino’s address is designed to present a unique enrichment opportunity for UT students interested in studying history, or who are simply anxious to better understand current events. “A person’s political ideals often color their views about the military history profession and even whether it should be a program of study at universities,” Cynthia Tinker, project coordinator for the Center for the Study of War and Society, said. “This is in spite of the fact it’s popular with the public and a great number of students. We want this lecture to be thought-provoking. Military history is not just about strategy and tactics, guns and armor; it encompasses social, cultural, political and diplomatic areas.” Citino’s address will cover several different aspects of this subject area. See JOHNSON on Page 3
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• 5 p.m. — Robert M. Citino, professor at the University of North Texas and one of the country’s most distinguished young military historians, speaks on “Pride or Prejudice?: Military History and the Academy” in the Baker Center’s Toyota Auditorium. Citino has written eight books, several of which have won awards. His lecture is free and open to the public.
• 7 p.m. — Kimberly Dark performs “Stripped and Teased: Scandalous Stories with Subversive Subplots” in the UC Auditorium. The solo performance challenges the audience’s concept of sex and gender roles through smart and vibrant storytelling, passionate poetry and intimate audience interaction. The event is sponsored by the CPC Women’s Coordinating Council and is free and open to the public.
Tuesday, Nov. 17— • 6 p.m. until 8 p.m. — The International House offers free belly dancing lessons, led by instructor Sonja Oswalt
Friday, Nov. 20 — • 7 p.m. until 11 p.m. — The CPC Film Committee screens two showings (at 7 p.m. and 9:45 p.m.) of the film “Funny People,” closing out the committee’s fall lineup of films. Tickets are $2 for those with a UT ID and $3 for those without.
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Wednesday, Nov. 11 • 12:37 p.m. — Officer was dispatched to Sutherland Avenue Apartments to investigate the burglary of a vehicle. The victim reported that her purse had been stolen from the console of her vehicle between 10 a.m. on Nov. 7 and 8 p.m. on Nov. 10. There was no sign of forced entry, and the victim said she must have left it unlocked. The purse, a black leather Gucci valued at $600, contained a Capital One credit card, a U.S. Bank card and two checkbooks, all of which have been canceled. • 3:48 p.m. — Officer received a call in reference to a vehicle parked in Garage 11 on Lake Avenue with the window broken out. On arrival the officer examined the vehicle and found that the driver’s side window had been broken out with a large rock that was lying in the driver’s side floor board. He contacted the owner, who parked the vehicle at 8:45 a.m. prior to attending class. Missing were a grey Navi Gemini GPS, a black iPod classic in a black leather case and a DC power adapter. No other vehicles in the garage were damaged.
THIS DAY IN HISTORY • 1532 — Francisco Pizarro, the Spanish explorer and conquistador, springs a trap on the Incan emperor, Atahualpa. With fewer than 200 men against several thousand, Pizarro lures Atahualpa to a feast in the emperor’s honor and then opens fire on the unarmed Incans. Pizarro’s men massacre the Incans and capture Atahualpa, forcing him to convert to Christianity before eventually killing him. By 1532, the Inca Empire was embroiled in a civil war that had decimated the population and divided the people’s loyalties. • 1863 — Confederates under Gen. James Longstreet fail to defeat a Union force under Gen. Ambrose Burnside near Knoxville, Tenn. After the Battle of Gettysburg in early July, Army of Northern Virginia commander Gen. Robert E. Lee allowed Longstreet to take two divisions to reinforce Gen. Braxton Bragg’s army around Chattanooga. Longstreet arrived just in time to execute a crucial attack in the Confederate victory at Chickamauga in northern Georgia. In late October, Union troops drove Longstreet’s force away from Brown’s Ferry, allowing the beleaguered Union troops in Chattanooga to resume shipping supplies via the Tennessee River. This led to a permanent split between the Confederate generals, and Bragg allowed Longstreet to head for eastern Tennessee in an attempt to secure that area for the Confederates. Campbell Station was the first engagement of his attempt to capture Knoxville, an area of intense anti-Confederate sentiment. • 1988 — In Pakistan, citizens vote in their first open election in more than a decade, choosing as prime minister the populist candidate Benazir Bhutto, daughter of former Pakistani leader Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. She was the first woman leader of a Muslim country in modern history. After Gen. Mohammed Zia-ul-Haq seized power in Pakistan in a military coup in 1977, Zulfikar Bhutto was tried and executed on the charge of having ordered an assassination in 1974. Benazir Bhutto endured frequent house arrests during the next seven years. In 1984, she fled to England, where she became head of her father’s former party, the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP). — Courtesy of History.com
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Artist Marlee Parnell draws a caricature of Brittany Mitchell, junior in animal science, at VOL Night Long Saturday night at the University Center.
Monday, November 16, 2009
H1N1 vaccinations available on campus Tuesday UT will offer vaccinations for the H1N1 flu Tuesday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at TRECS. The clinic will open to all UT Knoxville-area students, faculty, staff and their immediate family members including children age 14 and older. Vaccines will be given free of charge. Due to the limited amount of vaccine available, doses will be given on a first-come, first-served basis. The campus will hold future vaccine clinics as additional shipments are received. Both the flu mist nasal spray and the injection vaccine for H1N1 — also known as swine flu — will be available. Individuals between 14 and 49 years old who are healthy and not pregnant can choose which form of the vaccine to receive. Those age 50 and older are not eligible to take the nasal spray. Blood donations accepted throughout campus this week The MEDIC Blood Center is having its 22nd annual blood donation battle between Kentucky and Tennessee this week. Students from both schools will donate blood to support their blood centers. All week, blood donations will be accepted in the UC suites 223-225 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. There will be other donation stations throughout the week including: The Rock (in the Bloodmobile) on Monday from 12 p.m. to 8 p.m., South Carrick Hall lobby on Tuesday from 12 p.m. to 8 p.m., Clement Hall (in the Bloodmobile) on Wednesday from 12 p.m. to 8 p.m., Hess Hall lobby from 12 p.m. to 8 p.m., and Hollingsworth Auditorium on the Ag Campus on Thursday from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. This year any individual donor will receive a free Tshirt, a coupon for a pint of Mayfield Ice Cream and a coupon for a free one-topping pizza from Mr. Gatti’s Pizza. Peace Corps recruiters to take applications from UT students The Peace Corps is seeking applicants with the qualified education and skills to work overseas in a variety of forestry assignments around the globe. Recruiters will be available Wednesday at 6 p.m. in the Pendergrass Library Alcove at the Veterinary Teaching Hospital. Students interested in applying can apply online for 2010-2011 assignments at the Peace Corps Web site, http://www.peacecorps.gov. For more information, call 1-800-424-8580 ext. 1.
MUSANTE continued from Page 1 “We are dealing with people who have an increased level of binge eating, who might be dealing with depression or a poorer quality of life,” Musante said. “Our goal is to help them be successful, and we try to deal with people in a real-life situation. We have to look at what’s
going to be effective and get the job done and then help people lose the weight and keep it off.” Hollie Raynor, associate professor in the Department of Nutrition, said Musante’s program is well-designed for those hoping to successfully lose weight. “Dr. Musante offers a unique and very necessary approach to weight management,” Raynor said. “We are very fortunate to have him here with us today.”
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their own class schedules. The Associated Press One of Laurel High School’s unique offerLAFOLLETTE, Tenn. — Spenser Karl, a ings is rock climbing, coached by Kelly Brown, senior at Laurel High School, moved like a spi- a legend in the Knoxville rock-climbing community who has taught at Laurel High for 20 der monkey along the face of the rock. years. Locking his heels “A lot of kids their age are over the lip of the overlooking for an element of danhang, he worked his ger, and some of the things way to the end of the they’re drawn to are not traverse, where a solid healthy,” Brown said. hand hold enabled him to “Climbing gives you an adrenswing into a vertical position aline rush, and it’s something and hoist himself to the top. you’re not going to get arrestNo one had ever completed for.” ed this bouldering route In bouldering, climbers before. For Karl, it was a first attempt difficult moves that ascent, even if he had never are low to the ground and gotten more than eight feet don’t require ropes. The off the ground. person bouldering is spotFor the students of Laurel ted by friends who use High School, bouldering isn’t padded mats as well as just a sport, it’s a lesson in – Kelly Brown their bare hands to prevent life. Located in the Fort Rock climbing coach injury in case of a fall. It’s a Sanders community of fast-growing discipline of rock Knoxville, the private school climbing with close ties to the offers a traditional curricupowerful and dynamic style of lum along with alternative classes that encourage students to explore their interests and set climbing developed in indoor climbing gyms.
“The lecture will argue that this (new) perspective is especially needed today, as conflicts rage around the world in our own times,” Liulevicius said. “Students will be introduced to the contributions of the new military history as a field of study, perhaps one they would like to pursue here at UT, for example in courses in the history department or through the internship at the Center for the Study of War and Society which they can apply for.” The lecture will serve the dual purpose of educating on military affairs but also to honor the memory of Johnson, a revered member of the history department. He joined the history department in 1965, after he received his Ph. D. from the University of Michigan. Johnson taught both graduate and undergraduate classes for UT and earned the UT National Alumni Outstanding Teacher Award.
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Richard and Mayumi Heene, the parents of the balloon boy, agreed to plead guilty in order to avoid lengthier prison sentences, larger fines and Mayumi’s potential deportation to her native Japan. Under this agreement, Richard Heene faces 90 days in prison for a felony charge of attempting to influence a public servant, and Mayumi Heene will be sentenced to a maximum of 60 days for a misdemeanor charge of false reporting, according to a Nov. 13 CBS News article. Part of the plea deal will also allow the Heenes to maintain custody of their three children. As as result of the Oct. 15 stunt, the family also faces penalties for the balloon’s effects on air traffic: “The Heenes face a civil investigation by the Federal Aviation Administration. Possible penalties range from a letter of reprimand to a fine,” according to the CBS News article. “The balloon briefly forced some planes to switch to a different runway for takeoff at Denver International Airport.” Staying the same — The status of Margaret Thatcher’s life In Canada, “a misconstrued text message announcing the passing of a beloved pet has sparked a flurry of diplomatic activity,” a Nov. 13 BBC article reads. Canadian transport minister John Baird sent a text message saying “Thatcher is dead.” Confusion ensued as calls of condolence were made to the British government, and an aide prepared a statement mourning the death of the former prime minister. The death, however, was not of 84-year-old Margaret Thatcher but rather of a 16-year-old gray tabby named for her. British officials assured Canadian ones that the “Iron Lady” is indeed alive and well. Falling — The comprehensive quality of education in the U.S. Obama’s new education stimulus plan encourages states to compete to be the top few states most in compliance with the administration’s goals for education. The winners — a set number of winning states has not yet been determined — will receive some portion of the $4 billion available in this “Race to the Top” program. The problem with this plan is that some states are already closer than others to Obama’s goals for education reform. So it will take much less effort for them to reach the “top” than it will for the states that are already behind. “The administration would like you to think that this is the equivalent of getting extra credit or a gold star for a job especially well done. (”Rewarding excellence” is their terminology.) But it’s really like a teacher staying after-school to tutor only the teacher’s pets,” Chadwick Matlin wrote in his Nov. 13 TheBigMoney.com article, “Race to the Bottom.” “The students who really need the help are the ones who are being ignored. And once they know the teacher doesn’t have the time to pay attention to them, there’s little incentive to keep trying to please.” Matlin interviewed the spokesperson for the Department of Education, Justin Hamilton, and asked him how the states already lagging behind would be able to catch up, especially after the rewards are given and some states are even further ahead quality-wise than before. “Hamilton’s sense is that by having a statewide conversation about education reform, it better preps the states to reform once they do have the resources,” Matlin wrote. “It’s like priming a wall but not being able to afford the paint. Eventually, once you do go through with the whole job, you’ll already be one step closer.” While it makes sense that states will be motivated by this competitive incentive, it’s also not responsible to motivate the states to begin reforms they can’t financially afford to complete. SUPER BROCCOLI • Sumter & Starnes
Death shows importance of relationships Bec aus e I Said So by
Amber Harding
A couple weeks ago, I wrote a column titled “Society encourages false masculinity.” In it, I explained the message of high school football coach and former NFL player Joe Ehrmann. He believes that the true measure of a man lies in the relationships that he builds with others. If a man doesn’t love — if he doesn’t strive to be an excellent father, brother, husband, son and friend — he is nothing. Over the past week, I have discovered how true this philosophy really is. But it doesn’t just apply to men. People, in general, are ultimately defined by the relationships they form. On Nov. 7, I went to visit my greatgrandmother in the hospital in southern Indiana. The doctors had said that she only had a few days left to live. She was in the ICU when I got there, and they were only allowing one visitor back at a time. It was heartbreaking to see her lying there. She reached for me. We hugged. She told me she loved me. As I stood there holding her hand, it was the most sobering experience of my life. It put everything in perspective. I started to realize that all the things we, in our modern society, care so much about — having lots of money, wearing nice clothes, obsessing over celebrities — mean absolutely nothing. Because none of that shallow stuff matters when you’re lying on your deathbed. My family filled the waiting room. It was, quite literally, standing room only. Saturday evening, the hospital staff moved Mamaw to a bigger room to accommodate all of her visitors. They gave up on the one-person-at-a-time rule. This is when it occurred to me: This is what life is about. We all stood, wall-to-wall, with Mamaw throughout the day and into the night. We told her how much she meant to us. We told stories to each other about our memories of her. My great-
grandfather, her husband of 70 years, would not leave her side. I couldn’t take my eyes off Papaw. It was devastating to imagine what he must have been going through. But it was beautiful to see how much he loved and adored her. Mamaw passed away early Sunday morning. The hospital room was still full. And as a constant stream of people poured into her showing and funeral, one thing was very obvious: A whole lot of people loved this woman. In her 89 years on earth, Mamaw touched countless lives. Papaw served as a minister for 41 years, and Mamaw always sang in the church choir. She was involved with the church and with the Evansville Vanderburgh School Corporation in Indiana. She met numerous friends through her square-dancing days in Corpus Christi, Texas. But, most importantly, she was an incredible role model to her three children, her eight grandchildren and her five great-grandchildren. Losing Mamaw was a devastating experience for everyone who knew her. But I think it was also eye opening. Seeing how many people mourned her and how many people were by her side until the very end made me think about the relationships in my own life. I’m young. Most of you who are reading The Daily Beacon are young too. But that doesn’t mean it’s too early to start thinking about what we leave behind. It’s never too early to strengthen the bonds we have with our friends and family members. In fact, we can’t procrastinate. Someday, no one’s going to remember how much money you made or how cool you were in college. They will remember the way you treated people. Someday, you will leave only memories behind. When it’s my time, I hope that I, too, can fill up a waiting room. Just before Mamaw passed away, Papaw shared an important observation with me. I can always see the wisdom in his eyes when he speaks. “Love makes us pay for it in the end,” he said. “It’s worth it,” I answered. “You got it, girl,” he said with a smile. — Amber Harding is a junior in journalism and electronic media. She can be reached at ahardin8@utk.edu.
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I found out about the death of Claude LeviStrauss, French intellectual giant, more than a week after he died. I found out about Michael Jackson’s death before rigor mortis set in. And I was likely the last person in the Eastern Time Zone to get the news. I swore on the graves of people I love that I would never mention Michael Jackson’s death in one of my columns. He’s gotten too much attention already, I thought. Why beat him into the ground? Let him rest in peace, I said to myself. The half of the world who considers him important kept him on television, and the other half who considers him superfluous went on television to criticize how often people talked about him on television. Oh, God. It’s happening. I’m talking about Michael Jackson in my column. The media machine has sucked me into its gears. Well, forget it. I’m going to talk about Levi-Strauss instead. As I was saying, I was going to demand to know why the death of the father of modern anthropology and a pioneer of structuralism passed so quietly while Michael Jackson seemed to explode like a coffin rolling through a mine field. My first thought concerned the injustice of such off-balance media attention, but my thoughts eventually ended up here: Who gives a crap about Levi-Strauss? He was an intellectual who did some research and writing in France, a lot of it about dead people from dead cultures, then he joined them, and then the University of Tennessee beat Memphis and that was cool. The New York Times said that Levi-Strauss, who “transformed Western understanding of the nature of culture, custom and civilization, has died at 100.” That’s like eulogizing the person who invented vinyl siding, so why should we ... whoa! Wait a minute. He was 100 years old? Well, now, that’s something special! Levi-Strauss, according to the New York Times, believed that “every culture’s mythology was built around oppositions,” which are the structure of culture, hence the name “structuralism.” And it looks like we’ve got ourselves an opposition right here: intellectual icon versus pop-music icon. Sarcasm
aside, I’m not surprised or even upset that pop music won the loud funeral award. First and second of all, Levi-Strauss was not cut down in his 10-years-past prime, and he requested a “discreet and sober” funeral. Michael Jackson, on the other hand (the one with the glove), was half the intellectual’s age, his music arguably affected (or interfered with) the lives of more people and he could walk backwards while appearing to walk forwards. That is the formula for a famous death. Music in modern Western culture, according to the intellectual himself, functions in the same capacity as did the myths of primitive cultures. It expresses the power of the conflicts and oppositions on which society is based. That right there is the reason I cannot begrudge the students at UT for not caring that Levi-Strauss died. I wish I had a better example to work with, but Jackson was at the center of our culture. Levi-Strauss, at least in America, was on the periphery, looking in and taking notes. Here is where my argument starts. Why do we keep our intellectuals at such distance from the heart of our culture? Philippe Descola, another French anthropologist, said that “People realize (LeviStrauss) is one of the great intellectual heroes of the 20th century.” Maybe in France they do. In America we say, “Hero? Really? Where’s his cape?” I’m not demanding that we start worshipping our intellectuals as if they were pop-charts prodigies. They would then become empty symbolic media vessels like the rest of the celebrities, and it would be more respectable to allow that social position to be filled by people who can dance like programmable robots, literally and metaphorically speaking. But is it weird to ask that we give famous intellectuals more attention and respect? Because if it is, I’ll stop. Just kidding. I take it for granted that the average American citizen will live and die without ever having heard of structuralism, unless someone like our former president thinks he made the word up and uses it in a speech about tall buildings. But this is a university newspaper, and we’re in college. So we ought to be able to see why thinking critically about things and coming up with ideas that transform the world’s understanding of itself is an important endeavor. It follows, then, that we should pay attention to the people who do this particularly well. Also, since I am open to compromises, I don’t think it would hurt if a famous intellectual were to appear every now and then in a music video. — Amien Essif is a junior in English literature. He can be reached at aessif@utk.edu.
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Band goes from garage to cross-country tour Will Abrams Staff Writer Wind-up Records has always been about pushing music for a younger crowd into the mainstream spotlight. From artists like Hawthorne Heights to Evanescence to Finger Eleven, the record label speaks to an audience that is often overlooked. One of the newer artistic ensembles to grace the label is Push Play, a fourmember band from Long Island, N.Y. The band is composed of vocalist CJ Baran, guitarist Steve Scarola, bassist Nick Deturris and drummer Derek Ries. Growing up in New York, Baran and Deturris started out their musical careers like many future rockers — with a garage band. “Back in the 6th grade … I met CJ and he asked me if I wanted to join in his little garage band, Caution,” Deturris said.
After experimenting in the garage for a few years, the two decided to become more serious about their music. “About four years ago, we met Derek and Steve in a recording studio,” Deturris said. From there on out, it was all Push Play. As the band starts to find its way, each and every member works together in order to produce the best sound possible. “A lot of times we’ll write the songs together or … we’ll bounce ideas off each other ... and all put our own spin and touch on it,” Deturris said. This past September, Push Play released its debut album, “Found,” which includes “Midnight Romeo,” the band’s first single. “My favorite song (from the album) is probably ‘Watch It Burn,’” Deturris said. “It’s the first track on the album, and I think it’s a great way to start the album off.”
When watching the music video for “Midnight Romeo,” one might notice that Emily Osment, of “Hannah Montana” fame, makes a cameo appearance. “A lot of people don’t know this, but Emily is signed to Windup also,” Deturris said. “(Our label) thought it would be a cool idea if we were in her video, and she was in ours.” One can see the band rocking out with Osment in her video “All the Way Up.” Although Push Play teamed up with the Disney star, the band does not want to be known as another band like the Jonas Brothers. “We’re definitely not a teen band,” Deturris said. “I mean we play our own instruments and … I think the only comparison that people can really say is that we look the same age as them.” The band kicked off its 28-stop tour on Nov. 2, which includes shows all over the country, includ-
ing two stops in Tennessee. “Playing in front of all the fans is a big motivation, and we just play our hearts out,” Deturris said. “(Our concert) is definitely a rockin’ live show as opposed to a pop show.” While playing in front of thousands of people is arguably the highlight of any tour, the band
also likes to enjoy the little things while traveling. “I love just seeing the road, waking up in a new state … meeting people, and trying all the great foods from different regions,” Deturris said. Push Play will perform at the Square Room on Monday.
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I-House week to explore religious history, attitudes Katharine Heriges Entertainment Editor The final week of the International House’s culture theme weeks has finally arrived, and there are many unique events in store for students. The theme for the last week is the Middle East, and the I-House is cramming as much into one week as possible. “Oh yes, there is something special planned,” Qi Fu, I-House graduate assistant, said. “You know we normally have the movie on Thursday? Well this time we’ll have the movie on Monday, and that’s in Hodges Library room 253, and before that we will have a Arabic language workshop at the I-House.” “It’s hosted by Mohammed Alsomali, a student that works here who is from Saudi Arabia,” Fu said. The Coffee House this week is going to be a sequel of sorts to last week’s Latin
American tango lessons. “It’s going to be belly dancing lessons,” she said. “I was talking about this to the (tango) dancers, and they were really excited about it.” The instructor will be Sonja Oswalt, who operates a service locally as a dance teacher, formally known as Knoxville Belly Dance with Sonja. “She will be talking about the cultural components of the dance first, and then will be the instruction,” Fu said. But the Wednesday and Thursday events — a pair of discussion forums that will address religious issues in the Middle East — will serve as the centerpiece of the week. “The Wednesday event is really special,” Fu said. “The topic is Christianity in the Middle East, and there will be two guest speakers, one from UT in the Department of Religious Studies.” Lee Rhea, I-House director, said this
topic is especially interesting because, while we tend to focus on the Jewish and Muslim communities and their conflicts in the Middle East, many forget about the large amount of Christians and Christian history there. “And on Thursday, what is usually the movie time, we have another topic: Muslims in America,” Fu said. The topic is a companion piece to the previous night’s discussion. “What we’re going to do is show a very short film that’s designed to create discussion on Islam,” Rhea said. “The film is about people building a mosque in the United States. Then afterwards we will be having a discussion about Muslims (in) the United States.” The film is called “Talking Through Walls.” Rhea said the nature of the week’s programs were somewhat altered due to the recent tragedy in Fort Hood, Texas. He
said they felt this would be a good time to have these discussions. The I-House used a program called “20,000 Dialogues,” as a guide to frame the night’s talks. It is described on the program’s Web site as an “initiative that uses films to facilitate dialogue about Muslims and Islam.” “We’re going to talk about how people react to Islam in the U.S. and how people perceive Muslims in America,” Rhea said. There will be guest speakers at the forum on Thursday as well. Friday night will top the week off with the continuation of the Turkish cooking class. One can find more information about the I-House and all its events at http://web.utk.edu/~ihouse, the I-House’s official Facebook page or in the I-House itself, located on Melrose Avenue across from Hess Hall.
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Running Rebels’ ground game leads to win Zac Ellis Assistant Sports Editor OXFORD, Miss. — When Ole Miss running back Dexter McCluster punched in an early first-quarter touchdown in Saturday’s matchup against Tennessee, the score marked more than just a hiccup in the Vols’ defense. It signaled the beginning of a long afternoon for the Volunteers in Oxford. Behind McCluster’s 282 rushing yards and four touchdowns, Ole Miss dominated the ground game and the scoreboard as the Rebels outgunned Tennessee 42-17 Saturday at VaughtHemingway Stadium. McCluster set school records for rushing yards (282) and all-purpose yards (324) against the Vols, with three of his four touchdowns coming in the first half. The senior’s rushing total is the most ever allowed to a single player by a UT defense.
“We didn’t have a way to tackle him,” UT head coach Lane Kiffin said. “He set the school record for rushing yards, and we probably set the school record for missed tackles.” The Vols (5-5, 2-4 SEC) had no answer for the Rebels’ running attack, as UT allowed 492 yards of offense from Ole Miss (7-3, 3-3), with 359 yards produced on the ground. Tennessee put up only 275 yards of offense and 99 yards rushing. UT’s Montario Hardesty led the Vols’ ground attack with 55 yards and needs only 44 yards to reach the 1,000-yard mark on the season. Hardesty admitted UT had difficulties finding rhythm on offense, especially on the ground. “It was just one of those days offensively,” Hardesty said. Tennessee won the turnover battle, 1-0, with defensive tackle Wes Brown’s third-quarter interception of Rebel quarterback Jevan Snead standing as the game’s only miscue.
Many players credited the outcome to UT’s inability to gain momentum, as the Vols converted only 4-of-13 third downs. “Sometimes things happen with the game of football,” UT quarterback Jonathan Crompton said. “A little play here, a little play there, and momentum goes the other way.” The Vols leaned on the passing game early against Ole Miss. Crompton found tight end Jeff Cottam in the end zone to tie the
game 7-7 with 4:52 left in the first quarter before hitting receiver Denarius Moore early in the second period for a 25-yard touchdown strike. Ole Miss led a close halftime score, 21-14, but the Vols failed to reach the end zone or contain the Rebels’ ground game in the second half. A 27-yard field goal by Daniel Lincoln in the third quarter stood as the Vols’ only other points of the contest. Crompton threw for 176 yards on 20-of-37 attempts to push the senior past the 2,000-yard mark on the season. Despite the passing game, Moore said the discrepancy between the running attacks kept the Vols from gaining the lead throughout the game. “I guess we thought (Ole Miss) would run more man-to-man to try and stop our receivers, but they switched up and focused on stopping the run,” Moore said. “They did
cover two over the top, so that was kind of hard to adjust to.” The matchup was Tennessee’s first without three freshmen. Mike Edwards, Janzen Jackson and Nu’Keese Richardson, all Kiffin recruits, were arrested Thursday morning in Knoxville for attempted armed robbery. The game was also UT defensive line coach Ed Orgeron’s first return to Oxford since being fired as the Rebels’ head coach in 2007. With games against Vanderbilt and Kentucky left on the schedule, Tennessee still searches for its sixth win of the season to become bowl-eligible. Kiffin said while bowl-eligibility is the goal, the team has work to do for the future. “We’re trying to build a championship program, but we have a long ways to go,” Kiffin said. “One game never defines us; that’s why we never get too high or too low. We’re optimistic.”
Vols adjust after first-half miscues Anthony Elias Staff Writer In a night featuring many magic tricks, Scotty Hopson showed he could make the ball disappear — into the hoop, that is. Hopson led the Vols’ fast-paced offense with 16 points, four rebounds and two assists as No. 10ranked Tennessee outlasted a first-half scare by Austin Peay (0-1, 0-0 OVC) to win, 83-54, in its season opener on Friday night at Thompson-Boling Arena. The Vols are now 42-2 in their last 44 regular season openers, and the Vols are now 8-0 alltime against the Austin Peay. “Austin Peay runs a bunch of good stuff, and I think to hold them down to (35) percent, it’s good; it was an accomplishment,” UT head coach
Bruce Pearl said. “I thought you could see the pressure and the rotation, wear them down with the exception at the end of the first half when they had a (15)-4 run, I thought we were pretty much in control of the ball game.” “My confidence is high right now,” Hopson said. “I’m playing well. The whole team is playing well. I think our motivation coming into the game, we just wanted to get off to a good start.” Governors forward Anthony Campbell was Austin Peay ’s leading scorer with 17 points, with nine points from three -for-five shooting from behind the 3-point line. The Govs tested UT throughout the first half with agile scoring by sophomore Tyrone Caldwell and senior Wes Channels; the two guards
combined for 18 of Austin Peay’s 25 first-half points. Even with the loss, Austin Peay head coach Dave Loos was still impressed with his team’s effort. “I think we showed some good things tonight,” Loos said. “ Tennessee is as advertised for the whole game; they outshot us in the second half and got some turnovers early, which kind of set the tone for the second half. Then we played better. I thought our effort was good.” UT’s 11 first-half offensive turnovers were also a key factor in Austin Peay staying close at halftime. The Vols finished with 22 for the game. If the second half was any indication, the halftime talk seemed to motivate the players to get back on track. See VOLS on Page 7
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Sophomore guard Scotty Hopson looks for an open pass in Friday’s season opener against Austin Peay.
VOLS continued from Page 6 “He said we succumbed to fatigue,” Hopson said. “I know going into halftime Tony (Jones, associate head coach,) had us together and said, ‘We got to come out and play like we’re down 10,’ and that motivated us, so we came out with the intensity and effort.” In the second half, the Vols came out and never looked back. The second half started with a 23-7 run led by the fast-break play of Bobby Maze, whose three assists ended with the team’s zone defense finally settled in against Campbell, who proved to be a major threat. For the Governors, Caldwell finished with 11 points and two assists, while Channels had 13 points and eight rebounds. Cameron Tatum came off the Volunteer bench and scored 15 points and grabbed four rebounds. The Vols’ bench outscored the Governors 38-10, which Pearl said was why he’s
Kentucky QB sidelined for season LEXINGTON, Ky. — Kentucky quarterback Mike Hartline will miss the rest of the regular season to receive surgery on his injured knee, coach Rich Brooks said Sunday. The junior quarterback was featured in the Wildcats’ 24-13 win over Vanderbilt on Saturday, throwing 2-of-6 for 10 yards and an interception. Brooks said the pace of the game agitated a knee injury Hartline picked up five weeks ago enough to warrant immediate surgery. “When the game started flying as fast as it did, (the knee) just wasn’t functioning correctly,” Brooks said. Hartline had started the Wildcats’ first five games of the season before injuring the knee in a loss at South Carolina. After weeks of rehabilitation, he returned to practice last week to prep for the Vanderbilt game. Brooks had hoped to use Hartline as a backup to Morgan.
“been singing his (Tatum’s) praises in practice.” The Vols opened up their first game of the season with a 7-0 run, but Austin Peay responded by closing the gap to as close as 12-10, silencing the home crowd. Hopson responded by drilling a 3-pointer from the corner of the arc to give the Vols a 15-10 lead, and UT scored 15 unanswered points. It looked like the Vols would run the Governors out of the building with a 27-10 lead, but missed dunks and cold 3-point shooting opened the door for Caldwell and the Govs to go on a 15-4 run. Channels capitalized on a swift layup just before the half, and with 24 seconds left in the half, the Govs had closed the Vols’ lead to just 31-25. The Vols reopened the point gap in the second quarter to win the game with a final score of 8354. Tennessee’s next game is scheduled for Tuesday night in a home matchup against UNC Asheville.
No. 9 LSU crushes Centenary 92-19 BATON ROUGE, La. — Senior guard Allison Hightower scored 20 points before sitting for most of the second half, and No. 9 LSU ran away to a 92-19 victory over Centenary on Sunday. The 73-point margin of victory was the second-largest in LSU history, three shy of the 104-28 victory over Prairie View A&M on Dec. 1, 1995. Hightower, the SEC preseason player of the year, hit all four of her 3-point attempts, putting her halfway to her total for the entire 2008-2009 season. LSU (1-0) finished 10-of-17 from 3point range. Ashley Jackson had seven points to lead Centenary (0-2), which had more than twice as many turnovers (21) as points in trailing 51-9 at halftime. Both teams looked sloppy early, and LSU coach Van Chancellor called a timeout with a 3-2 lead just 2:17 into the game. Hightower then hit two 3-pointers in less than a minute, and the Lady Tigers were rolling. Centenary finished with 33 turnovers and shot 18.2 percent from the field. Ames wins in playoff at Disney LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — Stephen Ames won his second title in three years at the Children’s Miracle Network Classic on Sunday, edging George McNeill and Justin Leonard in a playoff. Ames was calm and cool on greens that were too slick for most of the field on a sunbaked day at Disney World. He finished with an 8-under 64 for the clubhouse lead, watching as McNeill (67) and Leonard (67) failed to pass him.
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Leonard rimmed out a 16-foot putt for the win in regulation, even beginning to pump his fist in celebration only to watch the ball bounce off. He twice left putts short when he was eliminated on the first playoff hole. “To be this close and not be able to pull it out is disappointing,” Leonard said. “Obviously I thought I made it by my reaction. I was surprised it didn’t go in.” McNeill had a 6-foot putt on the second playoff hole trickle around the rim and pop off to give Ames the win. There were other rallies that didn’t end up on the leaderboard. Bush’s two TDs help Saints stay unbeaten, 28-23 ST. LOUIS — Reggie Bush helped the unbeaten New Orleans Saints overcome another bundle of mistakes and get off to the best start in team history. Bush scored twice for the first time in more than a year, and Drew Brees compensated for two interceptions with two touchdown passes in a 28-23 victory over the St. Louis Rams on Sunday. Courtney Roby opened the second half with a 97-yard kickoff return, and Robert Meachem’s 27-yard grab early in the fourth quarter gave New Orleans (9-0) just enough breathing room to tie the franchise record with nine straight wins. Marc Bulger’s 19-yard pass to Donnie Avery shaved the deficit to five with 2:44 to go, and the Rams (1-8) made it to the New Orleans 32 before Bulger threw incomplete into the end zone on the final play. The Rams had a season high for points against a defense that played most of the second half without both starting cornerbacks. Tracy Porter limped off with a left-knee injury in the opening minute, and Jabari Greer was inactive because of a hurt groin. The Saints turned the ball over three times Sunday after losing 10 in their last four games.
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“We didn’t have a way to tackle him. He set the school record for rushing yards, and we probably set the school record for missed tackles.” – Tennessee coach Lane Kiffin, on the Vols’ poor performance against Ole Miss
The numbers are pretty simple to understand after a 42-17 Ole Miss beatdown of Tennessee, but here’s a closer look at the numbers equaling the worst defeat of the Lane Kiffin era.
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— Big distraction. The Vols can pay lip service to the contrary, but they simply weren’t ready to play Saturday. Whether it was the 11 a.m. local time kickoff or, more likely, the trio of arrested freshman that distracted them from the task at hand, they got taken to the woodshed by the Rebels. They gave up a whopping 257 yards on first down alone, an eight-yard average per play. Subsequently, Ole Miss faced second and third and short all game, and the defense couldn’t manage to get off the field. The biggest reason for their inability to do so was the glaring absence of safety Janzen Jackson, whose assignment it is to make the tackles that prevent huge runs like the ones Dexter McCluster accumulated time and time again. Prentiss Wagner was unable to make plays in his stead and as a result, the Vols will bowl in Atlanta, Nashville, or Shreveport, La., instead of Dallas, Tampa or Orlando.
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— For Dexter McCluster. McCluster more or less railed Tennessee all by himself; his 324 yards of total offense were 49 more than the Vols had as a team. His 282 yards rushing set a school record and came on just 22 carries. He also added 42 yards receiving to go along with four touchdowns. McCluster was special on Saturday despite the glaring void in the middle of the Tennessee defense created by multiple injuries at the middle linebacker position and the suspension of Jackson. However, in spite of all those things, Monte Kiffin had still managed to call phenomenal defense all season,
except for Saturday. When you get beat 42-17, there is plenty of blame to go around, even if your name is Monte Kiffin.
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— Six of Tennessee’s 21 rushes in the game went for negative yardage, including three of the first four in the game. They also had a pass play go for minus 11 yards in the game. The Ole Miss defensive front, led by Jerrell Powe, was dominant at times, mauling Tennessee’s undersized offensive line and leaving little to no running room for a UT running game. Tailback Montario Hardesty has had an outstanding senior season, but even at his high level of play, if he’s required to break three tackles before he makes it out of the backfield, he’s not going to find much success on the ground. He had just 55 yards on 14 carries in the game, and the run game was a no show as a whole in Oxford, accumulating just 99 yards on the ground. While the line yielded just one sack in the passing game, their inability to run block rendered the playaction pass game ineffective in the second half. As a result, UT was outscored 21-3 in the second half, leaving them wounded, embarrassed and still a win shy of bowl eligibility.
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— Blocked field goals this season. Blame who you want, but UT’s special teams has been woeful this season, particularly the kickoff coverage and field goal units. Daniel Lincoln blamed injury earlier this year for the blockfest, but what’s the excuse this time? Simple answer: Lincoln hasn’t even pretended to resemble an SEC-level kicker since his freshman season. The kicking game didn’t cause a 42-17 drubbing, but a made field goal in the third quarter makes it a two-possession game and at least gives them a fighting chance down the stretch. Forgotten deep snapper Morgan Cox continues to put the snap on the money every time, and
holder Bram Cannon continues to get the ball placed, but Lincoln just can’t find the means to put it through the uprights. Fortunately for Tennessee, U.S. Army All-American kicker Michael Palardy out of St. Thomas Aquinas High School in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., arrives on campus in a few short months.
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— For Denarius Moore. Moore, who had 69 yards on five catches and a touchdown, continues to emerge as one of quarterback Jonathan Crompton’s top targets. The former track star out of Tatum, Texas, has quietly developed into a polished receiver, continuously making big plays for the UT offense. He got behind the defense again Saturday, hauling in a 25-yard touchdown pass from Crompton in the first half to tie the game at 14. With Moore’s speed, if he can continue to improve his route running and football savvy, he will be a huge weapon in Kiffin’s back pocket headed into next season.
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— Road wins this season for Tennessee and zero for Lane Kiffin’s young career as UT’s head coach. After coming perilously close to knocking off Alabama a few weeks ago and a good showing at the Swamp in September, most assumed the Vols would play well on the road against Ole Miss. They didn’t. For the first time all season they looked flat-out overmatched, and even when the game was tied, lacked any sort of control over the contest. The Vols have one more shot on the road this year, and it comes against 6-4 Kentucky. The good news there: Tennessee has won 24 straight in the old Beer Barrel Rivalry.