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SGA encourages students to get involved Upgrades in academic advising, summer courses part of race to being in top 25 Deborah Ince Staff Writer “The spirit of being a Volunteer is figuring out how we remain true to who we are while encouraging students to engage academically and have faculty and staff continue to challenge them,” said Melissa S. Shivers, assistant vice chancellor for Student Life. On Thursday night, Shivers served as guest speaker at SGA Government Affairs’ Top 25 Forum, speaking about ways UT is striving to become a top 25 collegiate institution. Shivers spoke to forum attendees at the Baker Center on ways UT is working on improving overall experience for its students. The top 25 strategic goals, she stated, first began as Vol Vision — a process trying to engage students, faculty, staff, alumni, and other constituent groups through interviews and other processes to learn what UT can do to improve its campus. “We look at our top 25 peers, and we aspire to be like them, but not them,” Shivers said. Shivers listed that the five goals UT is attempting to achieve are strengthening the focus on undergraduate study, increasing research and scholarship capacity, recruiting increased numbers of diverse graduate students, retaining a higher number of faculty and staff, and extending the school’s overall resource base. “The top 25 institutions have high research and scholarship base,” Shivers said. “They’re constantly challenging students to think outside the box.” With $200,000 already invested in improving research, Shivers applauded UT’s academics and efforts to improve the school thus far, stating, “We continue to attract the highest academic students.” She believes that UT can compete with the toprated U.S. institutions in the country if it continues to listen to and address student and faculty concerns. One major goal of UT is to improve the undergraduate graduation time to four years. “Being in the top 25 for something is a good thing; it’s the same thing for school,” said Taelor Olive, a sophomore in biological sciences and Cochair of Government Affairs. “We need funding, better facilities, and money to make the university

better.” UT is currently engaging in projects that aim to uplift students in their social and academic lives, including tutoring, advising, and counseling. “We’re trying to expand tutoring here in UT in order to accommodate students who want to participate in tutoring,” Shivers said, also adding that UT has already hired a new tutoring director. This summer will also be the first time that tutors will be offered for students enrolled in summer semester courses. UT is also working to improve its academic advising. Since January, nine academic advisors have been added to staff, and a new online advising schedule is also under construction. In terms of counseling, Shivers encouraged attendees to take advantage of the on-campus resources UT offers, stating that the university is seeking more funding to support additional counselors at the Student Counseling Center. Other areas UT is working to improve are its summer school course selections, improving the Chancellor’s Honors Program, continuing the Life of the Mind program, maintaining the LeaderShape program, and expanding the Ignite program which is an opportunity for incoming freshmen to learn more about opportunities outside the classroom setting. “We want students to participate in more than just learning,” Shivers said. UT is also working on adopting a “one-stop shop” modeled after the University of Minnesota. This “one-stop shop” allows students to go to a single place on campus to get various questions and concerns answered about advising, financial aid, scholarships and other areas. At the conclusion of the forum, Shivers addressed student concerns about what they would like to see improve on-campus, including implementing more scholarships for transfer students and seeking additional funding for study abroad programs. “That’s pretty exceptional and exciting that you all have been engaging in discussions to reach the top 25,” Shivers told attendees. “We need to ask ourselves: what is it going to take for us to become a top 25 institution?”

Tara Sripunvoraskul • The Daily Beacon

Melissa S. Shivers, assistant vice chancellor for Student Life, spoke to the audience about how UT is working towards the goal of being a top 25 school. There are several goals the university wants to accomplish, including improving academic advising and summer courses.

Lady Vols excel in first big win Economic climate calls for change Patrick MacCoon Staff Writer For the first time this season the third-ranked Tennessee Lady Vols were put to a tough test, as they hosted the seventh-ranked Miami Hurricanes Tuesday night in the State Farm Tip-off Classic. The Lady Vols’ depth was too much for the Hurricanes in the end, as five players finished in double figures in UT’s 92-76 victory, extending their home win streak to 38. One of the storylines on the night was the match-up between the Lady Vols senior forward Shekinna Stricklen and the Hurricanes’ senior guard Shenise Johnson, who were both selected as preseason first-team All-Americans. Stricklen finished with 15 points (12 in second half) on 6-of-13 shooting and had seven rebounds, while Johnson scored 17 points on 8-of-19 and gathered nine rebounds. “We’ve got to have Shekinna put up big numbers to win, and that’s the bottom line,” said UT associate head coach Holly Warlick. “She didn’t get the job done in the first half but she responded and came out and had some big buckets in the second half. Your big time players have to step up for you to win.” With the national spotlight locked in on “The Summitt,” both teams came out strong on the offensive side of the ball, especially from three-

point land. Miami took an early 8-2 lead and were hot from downtown, as senior guard Riquna Willams sunk her third threepointer at the 16:03 mark to put the Canes’ up 16-10. However, the Lady Vols answered back without hesitation. Highlighted by an Ariel Massengale 3-pointer, the Lady Vols went on an 8-0 run to take back the lead 18-16 with 13:33 before the half. In the first seven minutes the two teams had combined for eight successful 3-pointers. The battle between the two carried on into the half with the score tied at 42 at intermission. Leading scorers at halftime were UT’s Taber Spani with 13 points and UM’s Williams with 17. Massengale at the half had six points and eight assists. “At the beginning of the game, everyone was talking about, ‘stay confident,’”Massengale said. “It doesn’t matter who you’re playing against. We came out ready to play.” Massengale’s presence on the floor continued to be a major asset early in the second period, as the 5-foot-6 point guard led UT on an 184 run to take a 60-46 lead with 16:10 left in the game. The Canes fought their way back again with a 20-13 run, cutting the lead down to five. However, Spani and the Lady Vols quickly extinguished their opponent’s

momentum, as she hit her fourth three-pointer as the shot clock expired, giving UT a 76-68 lead with 6:31 left to play. The Lady Vols sealed the deal, outscoring the Canes 16-8 on their way to the impressive early-season victory over a team that many believe have the best guards in the country in Johnson and Williams. “It certainly felt like a March game in November,” said UT coach Pat Summitt. “I’m proud of how our team responded tonight against a really good Miami team.” For the second straight game the Lady Vols had five players finished in double figures scoring: Spani (20), Simmons (18), Glory Johnson (16), Stricklen (15) and Massengale (11). Massengale finished one assist away from a doubledouble. Williams led Miami in scoring with a game-high 24 points. UT shot 47.8 percent from the field, while the Canes’ shot 40.8 percent. The Lady Vols were outrebounded 4439, just the third time that has happened in the past two seasons. Miami turned the ball over 21 times on the night while UT only had 13 turnovers. The next opponent on the schedule for the No. 3 Lady Vols (2-0) will be an away square-off with the ACC’s Virginia Lady Cavaliers (2-0) on Monday at 2 p.m. EST.

Morgan McConnell Staff Writer The American dream, a shining ideal that has served as a beacon of hope for so many for so long, is floundering. 25 million Americans cannot find full-time employment. One out of six people are living in poverty, people’s rights are being threatened, and corporate influence has pervaded our most basic institutions. Yet all this can be changed if Americans fight now. This idea was keenly expressed Wednesday night during Rosalyn Woodward Pelles’ lecture, “Fighting for the American Dream.” Pelles, who is the director of the Civil, Human and Women’s Right Department at the national AFL-CIO as well as chair of the board of the Highlander Research and Education Center, spoke to UT students, faculty members and activists about current issues that threaten the ideals which have become synonymous with the American spirit. “I believe that what America saw in the 1930s is once again the reality we face today — the erosion of America’s promise, and therefore the denial of the American dream,” Pelles said. Pelles, who has bent her life’s work around the organizing of workers’ and civil rights, sees the current treatment of America’s working class as one such eroding factor. “Today we are experiencing a great economic crisis that is stacked on the backs of working people while the rich continue to make profits,” Pelles said. “Right now in this crisis, millions are out of work and the official unemployment hovers just above 9 percent. The national rate is probably closer to 16 percent, which includes those who have given up and are no longer looking for work.” This is in stark contrast to the current financial state of America’s elite. “CEOs are making 343 times what the average worker makes,” Pelles said. “We’ve also watched as the folks who created this crisis got a bailout — we cannot even get a handout.” Pelles added that these bailouts have “left the rich and created hardships for the rest of us.” “Those who received bailouts did not put the profits back into our economy,” Pelles said. “They did not create jobs. Instead they sit on their money and seek ways to make more money, even in this climate. They’re happy being the one percent while the rest of us suffer.”

Still more factors that presently threaten the livelihood of the American dream include new laws that promise to make voting more difficult, the unfair treatment and elimination of public sector workers, and a tremendous rise in hate speech and violence across the country. Pelles stated that if we are to see these negative influences eradicated from our country, America’s youth must immerse themselves in the fight for their rights. Elandria Williams, Pelles’ colleague at the Highlander Research and Education Center and one-time UT student, found herself agreeing with Pelles’ points. “I think there’s so much that we, especially as young people, have to think about as we move forward,” Williams said. “We have to ask what direction do we want our country to go in and how can we get there?” Pelles pointed to participation in the Occupy movement as an excellent example of how students can get involved in moving America in the right direction. “I am so encouraged by the Occupy movement,” Pelles said. “It has raised the level of consciousness and zeroed in on what the issues are so that people are no longer being fooled. It’s really causing people to go back, rethink things and look at our system in a very different way.” Jayanni Webster, a senior in the College Scholars program and attendee of the lecture, seconded Pelles’ praise of the movement. Webster encourages students to get involved with the Occupy crusade on campus. “Students can come to our general assemblies which take place every Wednesday night at 6 p.m.,” Webster said. “We meet at the HSS Amphitheater and then move to an apartment space from there. The meetings are very participatory with the dialogue and formation of ideas.” Students and faculty can also join Occupy UT’s Facebook group or email occupyut@gmail.com for more information. “This is really a chance for people’s voices to be heard,” Webster added. In Pelles’ opinion, chances and movements like these are absolutely imperative to the preservation of the American dream. “We must close ranks and fight together across movements, across lines of race and gender, because no one can do it alone these days,” Pelles said. “Together we have to make sure that America keeps its promise. Then we can once again talk about the American dream.”

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Students play on the oversized, inflatable, Twister board during Vol Night Long. The party included a foam pit and surf simulators.

1849— Fyodor Dostoevsky is sentenced to death On this day in 1849, a Russian court sentences Fyodor Dostoevsky to death for his allegedly anti-government activities linked to a radical intellectual group. His execution is stayed at the last minute. Dostoevsky’s father was a doctor at Moscow’s Hospital for the Poor, where he grew rich enough to buy land and serfs. After his father’s death, Dostoevsky, who suffered from epilepsy, studied military engineering and became a civil servant while secretly writing novels. His first, “Poor People,” and his second, “The Double,” were both published in 1846-the first was a hit, the second a failure. Dostoevsky began participating in a radical intellectual discussion group called the Petrashevsky Circle. The group was suspected of subversive activites, which led to Dostoevsky’s arrest in 1849, and his sentencing to death. On December 22, 1849, Dostoevsky was led before the firing squad but received a last-minute reprieve and was sent to a Siberian labor camp, where he worked for four years. He was released in 1854 and worked as a soldier on the Mongolian frontier. He married a widow and finally returned to Russia in 1859. The following year, he founded a magazine and two years after that journeyed to Europe for the first time. In 1864 and 1865, his wife and his brother died, the magazine folded, and Dostoevsky found himself deeply in debt, which he exacerbated by gambling. In 1866, he published “Crime and Punishment,” one of his most popular works. In 1867, he married a stenographer, and the couple fled to Europe to escape his creditors. His novel “The Possessed” (1872) was successful, and the couple returned to St. Petersburg. He published “The Brothers Karamazov” in 1880 to immediate success, but he died a year later. 1988— Benazir Bhutto elected leader of Pakistan 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 General 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). In 1988, President Zia died along with the American ambassador to Pakistan in a mysterious plane crash, leaving a power vacuum. Bhutto returned to Pakistan and launched a nationwide campaign for open elections. In elections on November 16, Bhutto’s PPP won a majority in the National Assembly, and on December 1 Bhutto took office as prime minister of Pakistan. Her government fell in 1990, but from 1993 to 1996 she again served as Pakistani leader. 2001— First Harry Potter film opens On this day in 2001, the British author J.K. Rowling’s star creation — bespectacled boy wizard Harry Potter — makes his big-screen debut in “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone,” which opens in movie theaters across the United States. Based on the mega-best-selling fantasy novel of the same name, the film, which starred Daniel Radcliffe in the title role, went on to become one of the highest-grossing movies in history. The first Harry Potter book, “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone,” debuted in Great Britain in 1997 and was released in the United States the following year under the name “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone.” Children and adults alike were captivated by the story of Harry, his friends Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger, their adventures at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and Harry’s struggles against his main enemy, the evil Lord Voldemort. Rowling, who was born in England in 1965, first got the idea for Harry Potter while she was riding a train from Manchester to London in 1990. She began writing the first book that night and finished it while living in Edinburgh, Scotland, where she struggled financially as a single mother and battled depression. Her completed manuscript was turned down by a number of publishers before she got a book deal with Bloomsbury Publishing in August 1996. Rowling went on to pen a total of seven Harry Potter novels, all of which became international blockbusters, selling more than 400 million copies and being translated into some 60 languages in all. The books also spawned a series of movies, video games and other merchandise that made Rowling one of the wealthiest people in the entertainment industry. The first Harry Potter film was directed by the American filmmaker Chris Columbus, whose previous credits included “Home Alone” and “Mrs. Doubtfire.” Prior to being selected to play Harry, Daniel Radcliffe, who was born July 23, 1989, in London, had appeared in a BBC production of “David Copperfield” as well as the 2001 film “The Tailor of Panama,” which starred Pierce Brosnan. British actors Rupert Grint and Emma Watson were chosen for the roles of Harry’s friends Ron and Hermione. A roster of celebrated actors took supporting roles in the film and its various sequels, including Ralph Fiennes, Maggie Smith, Alan Rickman, Emma Thompson, Richard Harris and Gary Oldman. — This Day in History is courtesy of History.com.

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Book on Osama’s death forged The Associated Press

George Richardson • The Daily Beacon

A Pride of the Southland member’s tuba reflects the UT fans in the rain against Montana on Sept. 9. There was a 90-minute rain delay before the game was able to kick off, causing the Pride to not march pre-game.

Cain struggles for women’s support The Associated Press WASHINGTON — In a matter of a week, Herman Cain referred to the House Democratic leader as “Princess Nancy” Pelosi, said presidential rival Michele Bachmann would be “tuttifrutti” ice cream and shrugged off a joke about Anita Hill. The Republican presidential candidate also has denied allegations that he sexually harassed several women and, through his lawyer, threatened to investigate anyone else who makes such a claim. Now, as Cain struggles to stabilize his campaign, the Republican presidential candidate is rolling out his wife to defend him — and help shore up female support for his bid for the GOP nomination. “I know that’s not the person he is,” Gloria Cain said on Fox News Channel’s “On The Record.” “He totally respects women.” Her public foray into the presidential campaign after months of staying behind the scenes comes as polls show Herman Cain’s support among women dropping, further threatening a campaign rocked by accusations of inappropriate sexual behavior. Cain’s overall standing has slipped in surveys just weeks

before the Iowa presidential caucuses that kick off the state-by-state voting for the Republican Party’s nomination; state and national polls show former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney leading the pack, with Cain no longer challenging him for the top spot. Polls released in recent days show unmistakably that female voters have turned away from Cain since the sexual harassment allegations surfaced at the end of October. A Washington Post-ABC News poll released Tuesday shows nearly three-fourths of Republican women — 74 percent — now call the harassment charges against Cain serious, up from 39 percent earlier this month. A CBS News poll conducted Nov. 6-10 shows his support among Republican women had dropped since late October, from 28 percent to 15 percent. Credibility is a problem for Cain among women. A CNN/ORC International poll conducted Nov. 11-13 showed that majorities of all women said they tend to believe his accusers and would like to see him end the campaign. Majorities of men take the opposite position. The polls are national in

scope, meaning they’re hardly predictive of how Cain is faring in Iowa — the first state to weigh in on the GOP nomination fight on Jan. 3. Even so, the findings of the national surveys raise questions about whether Cain, should he manage to win the nomination, would be able to compete for women's votes against President Barack Obama in next year’s general election. Women have made up a majority of voters in every presidential year since 1980, and while Democrats tend to win the group, successful Republicans have had to win or come close to splitting the vote among women in order to prevail. In the 2008 presidential election, female eligible voters participated at a higher rate than males — 66 percent to 62 percent, according to the Pew Research Center. Nearly 10 million more women cast ballots than men. And Obama won 56 percent of the female vote, the biggest margin among women a Democratic presidential candidate has had since exit polling began in 1972. Cain has repeatedly denied the allegations of sexual harassment, though they aren’t going away.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Special Operations Command is calling a former Navy SEAL’s book bogus over its claims to describe the “real” version of the raid that killed Osama bin Laden. “It’s just not true,” U.S. Special Operations Command spokesman Col. Tim Nye said. “It’s not how it happened.” Laden with conspiracy theories and attacks on the Obama White House, Chuck Pfarrer’s “SEAL Target Geronimo” claims an alternative version of the raid in which the SEAL team shot bin Laden within 90 seconds of arriving at the Pakistan compound where the al-Qaida mastermind was holed up. Pfarrer claims the White House issued a fictional and damaging account of the raid that made the SEALs look inept. He says President Barack Obama’s speedy acknowledgement of the raid was a craven political move that rendered much of the intelligence gathered on the raid useless. Pfarrer’s account broke into Amazon’s top 20 book sales list last week, and Pfarrer has appeared on Fox News, CNN and in other venues to promote it. “I have truth on my side,” Pfarrer said in an interview with The Associated Press. “I spoke to the guys on the ground and in the secondary bird,” he said, referring to the aircraft full of a second SEAL team that was there to rescue the first if it came under attack so far inside Pakistan’s borders. “This is a fabrication,” Nye countered, issuing an on-the-record denial on behalf of Navy SEAL Adm. Bill McRaven, who took command of all special operations this summer. In his previous role, McRaven oversaw the raid in May as head of the military’s elite counterterrorism unit, the Joint Special Operations Command. Nye said McRaven was concerned the book would lead Americans to doubt the administration’s version of events. “We have never come forward and gone after an author and say, ‘that is a lie,’” Nye said. “That tells you how far off the mark we believe this book is.” Nye says Pfarrer had no access to any troops connected to the mission. He said there will be no investigation into whether individual SEALs spoke to Pfarrer because his account is so off-base. Among his other claims, Pfarrer insists the stealth helicopter that the White House said crashed within moments of launching the raid actually crashed later. He says the SEALs were able to launch their raid as they’d planned it, by landing atop the building while another team surged from below. Pfarrer also said the way the White House described the SEALs shooting bin Laden — that he was unarmed but trying to evade them — is “murder.” He said his version, which has bin Laden reaching for a gun, makes the killing legal.

Officials involved in the raid say Pfarrer is out of date on the post-9/11 laws of war, which sanction targeting al-Qaida with deadly force. Pfarrer defended the book as a patriotic way to laud the “heroes of the bin Laden mission.” He said the money he earns will barely cover his medical bills for a long and losing battle with colon cancer. His ruddy complexion and expansive girth bely an illness the personable Pfarrer says has now spread to his lungs. Pfarrer claims he is still part of the fighting SEAL network, even intimating that he was part of the bin Laden raid preparation. “In the weeks and months leading up to Neptune’s Spear (the code name for the bin Laden mission), it was my privilege to help troops and platoons train for submissions and run parallel HVT (high-value target) missions,” Pfarrer writes. “That is categorically incorrect,” spokesman Nye said. “He was not involved in mission planning, execution or close mission analysis.” Pfarrer responded that he conducted training for the SEAL Team 6’s parent organization, the Naval Special Warfare Command through his defense security company Acme Ballistics. He refused to describe how it was related to the raid, saying the contracts are classified. Pfarrer frequently claims that his accounts come from a top secret world, and that a reader must take his word on faith. But Pfarrer gets a multitude of facts wrong in describing events that are part of the public record. For instance, Pfarrer states that Obama appointed McRaven as the first Navy SEAL to head JSOC in April of this year. McRaven was actually appointed to that post in early 2008 by President George W. Bush. He states that the Army Special Forces Green Berets were established in 1962, instead of 1952. When U.S. special operations forces rehearsed for the famous Son Tay Raid in Vietnam in 1970, they trained at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida, not Offutt in Nebraska. And a jet bombing run, not a drone strike, killed Iraqi al-Qaida ringleader Abu Musab al Zarqawi in 2006. Special operations leaders have stepped forward to say Pfarrer is at best misinformed and at worst a profiteering self-promoter. “The reaction is stunned, chagrined, disappointment,” said retired Navy SEAL Rear Adm. George Worthington. Pfarrer has made a two-decade career in Hollywood with books and screenplays taken from his roughly eight years as a junior officer with the SEALs. His current book includes romantic descriptions of the SEAL raiders. “When a room is entered, SEALs go into a state like satori — a wide-awake Zen consciousness,” Pfarrer wrote. “All of the SEAL’s senses are magnified.”

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Editor’s Note Nation shared gains, now loses Blair Kuykendall Editor-in-Chief The world economy can’t gain any traction, and that’s really no surprise. Europe, China, and America, the long-standing economic kingpins, are all on shaky ground. Their mercurial position has left global exchange in disarray. The concept on an international, interdependant marketplace seems abstract, but it’s quickly becoming concrete for college graduates seeking to enter the job market. Unfortunately, the future looks grim on the international front. Whispers on China’s slowing growth, the vulnerability of the euro, and the U.S.’s sluggish recovery fly between continents. It is becoming increasingly likely that Greece will go: the only question now is how tumultuous a default will be. The euro zone’s already steeped in turmoil, necessitating sweeping reform. Leaders have already batted around the idea of creating an inner circle of euro nations, exacerbating uncertainty. The various doomsday scenarios contrived by investors in an unstable euro zone are holding back commerce. Speaking of skittish investors, we turn to the United States. According to the Wall Street Journal, government revenues have hit a 60-year low per share of GDP. Now more than ever the nation needs strong leadership to plan budget cuts for deficit reduction when the economy is back on its feet. It may be a pipe dream, but Americans can only hope Washington will put mindless bickering aside to make tough changes the nation needs. China’s situation doesn’t look much better. The nation as a whole is completely dependent upon export revenues. Instead of drumming up domestic demand, China funnels money into state owned manufacturers and financial institutions. The vast majority of China’s corporations are controlled by government officials who will fight doggedly to defend their holdings. Until China lets go of many of

its overbearing market management programs, their economic progress will be in jeopardy. Businesses take their cues from the world’s marketplace. They are unlikely to crawl out of the woodwork and increase risk until the international situation has calmed. The outlook is thus understandably bleak: Greek default would wreak havoc on Europe’s currency, essentially curtailing demand. China’s export driven economy will then have lost it’s most ravenous market. A crippled China, the U.S.’s primary lender, would definitely not be a positive for Uncle Sam. Around and around it goes. Eventually it hits home. The Bureau of Labor Statistics pegs the unemployment rate for adults under the age of 24 around 16.7 percent. College graduates are not immune to the dearth of openings, and many students are beginning to question the true worth of a diploma. There are some sunny spots on the horizon though. For what it’s worth, America’s long term economic outlook seems much rosier than that of its peers. The labor forces of China and Europe are in decline, while immigration will likely grow the U.S. workforce by 37 percent in coming years. The U.S is still recognized as a world leader in innovative ideas and technological expansion. This kind of technological progress expands potential GDP in the long run, and serves as a much more effective boost to production than ramping up aggregate demand in the short run. Vital signs for the U.S. economy have improved significantly in recent months. Consumer spending, jobs growth, and even the manufacturing sector are experiencing some steady gains. While these positive signs indicate that the job market will likely start to see significant improvement, speculations of contagion emanating from Europe could pack a considerable blow to recovery. Corporations have to be able to regain a sense of security, or they won’t start hiring. Europe’s woes could contribute to the pool of unemployed college graduates, but so goes life in an integrated economic system. — Blair Kuykendall is a junior in the College Scholars Program. She can be reached at bkuykend@utk.edu.

SCRAMBLED EGGS • Alex Cline

THE GREAT MASH-UP • Liz Newnam

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Choose car that protects environment Ac orns and Other Seeds by

Anna-Lise Burnette Partisan politics are boring. So boring, in fact, that even though I started to formulate a column based upon the stupidity of a raise taxes/cut taxes dichotomy, I scrapped it almost immediately. When pundits argue on television “news” programs, the idiocy pretty much speaks for itself. So instead I’m going to explore a topic that isn’t necessarily politics but has become quite political anyway — but we’ll get to that. Recently I found myself driving down the road, listening to WDVX and watching the amusing faces of other drivers going by. As I approached a stoplight, I happened to notice that the little dashboard fuel indicator was resting gently just below the halfway mark. It was then that I had the awful vision of my car running out of gasoline at an intersection — the honking horns and angry glares and reddened cheeks and everything. Fortunately, cars don’t usually sputter out at half-tank and so I was able to keep going as soon as the light changed, but it was then that my vision was replaced by an even more horrifying premonition — soon I’ll have to go buy gas. Though I didn’t run down to our local Pilot or BP this morning to check, I’m fairly certain that the price per gallon is still holding out at “more than most of you would care to pay.” And since most vehicledriving individuals in this country don’t have the option of scrapping their cars and trucks altogether, the cost of fuel is something we sort of just have to put up with. But as consumers we do have options. In the past, there weren’t very many kinds of cars to choose from, with the oldest debates ending perhaps with “Should we get the blue-black Model T or the blackest-black Model T?” But today, more kinds of vehicles comprise our nation’s fleet than ever before (and our fleet is larger than ever before, too: according to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, there are between 220 and 230 million registered vehicles cruising down our

highways). All of these cars and all of these options mean a couple of things. Firstly, and this should go without saying, everyone is expected to drive responsibly. “Accidents happen,” but far too many of them are easily preventable for the large number of driving-related fatalities to be dismissed as a characterizing hazard. And secondly, everyone is expected to drive responsibly. (“Wait, didn’t you just say that?”) This second kind of responsibility begins before you even set foot in the car. It requires you to be mindful not only of the people you can see (i.e. that driver in your rear-view mirror that seems to be in quite a hurry), but also of the countless, unknown people who live across the state or across the pond. The kind of vehicle you choose to drive is an important decision, and too often people make it solely based on aesthetics or a price tag. Whether or not you believe in global warming, there’s no denying that current vehicles are sucking oil out of the Earth at an alarmingly fast rate — which means that something about our vehicles has to change before we deplete one (or many more) of our natural resources. A step, then, is to examine current vehicles’ fuel consumption and try to make the numbers better. Some car manufacturers have been working on this for years, with varying amounts of success. But when, let’s be realistic, not everyone has the money for a Prius or the mindset for a Smart, what’s the average consumer supposed to do? Until the government decides to force car companies once and for all to produce the kind of fuel-efficient cars we need (since someone has to bite the bullet on this one), the onus is on the car buyer to purchase vehicles that meet a standard for safety and efficiency. If the American public really banded together, just-for-show gas guzzlers could be a thing of the past; and if car companies see that we’re serious, maybe there would be an even bigger push to make the next generation of vehicles even more economical. But for some reason all of this sensible talk has gotten tied up with red and blue tape. Let’s hope that someday soon that won’t be the case. — Anna-Lise Burnette is a senior in interdisciplinary studies. She can be reached at kburnet7@utk.edu.

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The last two weeks I’ve been addressing the resurrection of Jesus Christ and the evidence for it. So far, we’ve seen that it is something so wonderful and so real that the apostles were willing to die very painful deaths for it. They would not have done so for a lie — only everlasting truth. We have also seen that the idea that the apostles stole the body and that the Roman guards were asleep is completely illogical and could never have happened. This week I’ll be addressing the aspects of a crucifixion that ensure death, ruling out the possibility that Jesus’ death was a hoax. Some theorize that Jesus had been knocked out so he just looked dead. This, like the theory that the Roman guards were sleeping on the job, does not make any logical sense. First of all, his death was by crucifixion. He was nailed to a wooden cross with nails going through his wrists and one nail piercing both of his ankles. Israeli archeologist V. Tzaferis discovered tombs of people who were killed in such manners. Death on a cross was usually suffocation as the condemned were unable to support themselves well enough to breathe. Getting to this point was a long and painful process. Before this he was beaten and whipped and a thorn crown jammed onto his head. The beating was customary after a sentencing of death by crucifixion. Jewish law permitted 39 lashes, but the Romans set no such limitations. The whip used was called a flagrum. It had a solid handle and had leather thongs of different lengths attached to it. Attached to the leather were sharp pieces of glass or stone. This whipping was not just a slap. They used such force the glass or stone would dig into the skin, then they would yank the whip away taking some skin with it. As the whipping continues, more and more skin is removed. One aspect of death by crucifixion that Jesus did not endure is the breaking of the legs. This was done to speed up death if a crucifixion was taking

too long. Breaking the legs eliminated all ability to hold oneself up enough to breathe. Jesus’ legs, however, were not broken as was prophesied by King David in Psalms 34:20 “He keeps all his bones; not one of them is broken.” (ESV) Why was this done? Because they already knew that Jesus was dead. How? They slit his side and not just blood, but water gushed out. Anatomically, this happens when the sac around the heart is broken. This happens only after (or during) death. After seeing that Jesus was already dead, the Romans didn’t bother breaking his legs. It was then and only then that the Romans took him down from the cross and handed his dead body over to the disciples who took him to a sold rock tomb. In those days, before someone was closed in a tomb, he/she was thoroughly washed with warm water. Before the body was bathed, the mouth was covered to prevent water from trickling into the mouth. After the body was cleaned, the body was tightly wrapped in linen, enclosing spices. This does not mean a little cinnamon and basel was sprinkled on the linen. Historians estimate that approximately 100 pounds of spices were used in Jesus’ burial. That sounds like a lot. It was not, however, uncommon. For example, a man named Gamaliel, who was a grandson of Hillel, a Jewish scholar in Jesus’ time, was buried with 86 pounds of spices. It is not documented how many pounds of spices was used when King Herod was buried. We do know, however, that it took 500 servants to carry the spices to his place of burial. Some people claim that Jesus was just in a coma. For this to be true, he would have had to survive at least 39 lashes of a flagrum — probably more considering Roman soldiers, not Jews, were doing the lashing. He was then nailed to a cross for hours. He would have also had to survive the rupture of the sac around his heart, as water flowed from his side when he was pierced with a spear. After burial, he would have had to come out of a coma underneath 100 pounds of cloth and spices, unwind himself, move a huge stone, and walk past Roman guards. Think about it. There’s only one conclusion to be drawn: He was dead. Now He lives. — Chelsea Tolliver is an undecided junior. She can be reached at ctollive@utk.edu.

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Thailand adapts to water surges The Associated Press AYUTTHAYA, Thailand — Water fowl, monitor lizards and stray dogs have replaced the throngs of tourists at one of Thailand’s greatest historical sites. Record flooding has turned Ayutthaya’s ancient temples into islands, and a giant statue of the reclining Buddha appears to float miraculously on the lapping water. Experts fear that at least half of the more than 200 waterlogged monasteries, fortresses and other monuments in the one-time royal capital have been damaged. “Imagine a thousand tons of brick and stone resting on soft foundations, with no modernstyle pilings. We are very worried,” said Chaiyanand Busayarat, director of the Ayutthaya Historic Park. And as flood waters recede, some experts are proposing a radical change to prevent similar disasters in the future: Turn back the clock about four centuries to emulate the city’s urban planners and engineers of that time. “We can’t prevent flooding so we have to learn to live with water again, like those who created Ayutthaya. Let’s take out the old city maps,” said Anek Sihamat, deputy director-general of the Thai government’s Fine Arts Department. He recommended digging up old canals that have been paved over for roads and curbing the urban sprawl and industrial parks that block the natural runoff of water. Capital of a powerful state for 417 years, seat of 33 kings, Ayutthaya has been described as one of the greatest cities on water ever, with a canal network that measured more than 85 miles (140 kilometers). Built on the flood plain of central Thailand at the confluence of three rivers, it was inundated annually, but its citizens lived in stilt-raised houses and used boats for transport. Water also defended Ayutthaya, which once held as many as 1 million residents, until a brutal sacking by the Burmese in 1767 forced relocation of the capital to Bangkok, 50 miles (80 kilometers) to the south — where the same floodwaters that inundated Ayutthaya are now nearing the

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Gene Peterson, conductor of the UT Concert Choir and UT Men’s Chorale, speaks to the audience before the Fall Choir Concert on Oct. 11. The final Holiday Choral Concert of the year is Nov. 29 at 8 p.m. in Cox Auditorium.

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Bray returns to practice after missing time with broken thumb; not confirmed to play against Vandy Clay Seal Assistant Sports Editor

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Before the Lady Vol vs. Pepperdine game on Sunday, Pat Summitt and Women’s Athletic Director Joan Cronan received awards from the United States Sports Academy awards. Cronan recieved the 2011 Carl Maddox Sports Management Award and Summitt recieved the 2011 Mildred “Babe” Didrikson Zaharias Courage Award.

Lady Vols sweep final road trip No. 15 volleyball tops Ole Miss, Alabama, improves to 24-3 end with a drama-free trip to Alabama on Sunday, as UT disposed of the Crimson David Cobb Tide in a three-set sweep 25-17, 25-14, Staff Writer 25-13. “I was real excited about the way we The No. 15 UT volleyball squad surcame out and played from the first point vived another weekend of conference on against Alabama,” Patrick said. play on the road. Robinson and junior middle The Lady Vols defeated Ole blocker DeeDee Harrison led UT Miss and Alabama, improving to offensively. The tandem con24-3 (16-1 SEC) on the season. tributed 12 kills apiece. Robinson Friday night’s match against Ole also paced the team defensively Miss provided UT coach Rob with 12 digs. Patrick with a scare, however, as “Our hitters did a great job of the Rebels gave Patrick’s squad all playing low-error volleyball,” they could handle before falling in Patrick said. “Overall I was five sets (26-24, 26-28, 25-23, 17pleased with the defense, the 25, 15-13). offense and our serving. It was a “Mississippi played a great good win for us.” match and I’m proud of our playThe Lady Vols will close the ers, who really grinded it out and regular season with three consecuworked through a tough match,” tive home matches. Arkansas and Patrick said. “We knew it was LSU will visit Thompson-Boling going to be tough.” Arena this weekend while Sophomore outside hitter Kentucky comes to town on Kelsey Robinson led the Lady Wednesday Nov. 23, as UT will Vols, recording 24 kills. look to avenge its only SEC defeat Robinson has emerged as one of and potentially secure the conferthe nation’s elite players this seaence championship. son while leading her team and the “I’m excited about being at conference in several statistical home,” Patrick said. “We play realcategories. ly well at home. We’re playing She commented on the chalMatthew DeMaria • The Daily Beacon three really good teams at the end lenges that accompany the Lady of the season.” Vols position as conference lead- Kelsey Robinson, sophomore outside hitter, The Lady Vols are currently 10jumps for the ball against Miss. St on Nov. 6. ers. 0 within the confines of “You have a target on your Robinson had 15 kills to help beat Miss. St. 3-1. Thompson-Boling Arena this seaback and everybody is going to The Lady Vols recently defeated Alabama and son, a mark they will look to Ole Miss to bring their season record to 24-3 (16give you their best shot,” improve during the stretch. Robinson said. “You can’t ever 1 SEC). “We better come out and play expect a team to just give you five leyball,” Patrick said. “We can win match- as hard as we can,” Patrick said. “We have points because you’re Tennessee. So es in a lot of different ways and today our great fan support. And I ask all the fans to everybody is giving us their best shot defense wasn’t what it needed to be, but come out and support us here at the end right now and that’s the biggest thing our offense was able to carry us through.” of the year to help push us to an SEC that comes with being on the top.” The Lady Vols wrapped up the week- championship.” The Friday-night match signified the second time Tennessee struggled to top Ole Miss (9-17, 5-13 SEC). The Rebels fought UT down to the wire in a five-set match last month. “Mississippi just presents a bad matchup for us and they played great vol-

As Tennessee begins a regular-season playoff in its final two games in hopes to become bowl eligible for the third consecutive year, they may have gotten a boost. Sophomore quarterback Tyler Bray practiced Tuesday for the first time since fracturing his thumb Oct. 8 against Georgia. “He worked his way back,” UT coach Derek Dooley said. “He didn’t take all the reps. He’s not even close to what he was before he got injured. Not even close.” Bray had his cast removed Nov. 7, but was unavailable for Tennessee’s 49-7 loss at Arkansas. Dooley called Bray’s status “questionable” Monday when he announced Bray would practice that week. It is still not decided as to whether Bray will play against Vanderbilt this Saturday or not. “The guy hadn’t played ball in five weeks and he’s got a broken thumb that he’s rehabbing,” Dooley said. “We’ve talked about it, but probably the reality is if he’s ready to go, we’d be crazy not to at least give him a shot, given the inconsistency we have had at that position.” Senior Matt Simms took over for Bray against No. 1 LSU and No. 2 Alabama, but then true freshman Justin Worley replaced him as the starter for the past three games. The two have combined for 866 yards, six interceptions and just one touchdown. Sitting at 4-6, and 0-6 in SEC play, Tennessee hosts Vanderbilt Saturday at 7 p.m. (TV: ESPNU), then finishes the regular season at Kentucky Nov. 26. The Vols haven’t failed to reach six wins since the 2008 season, and have only failed to reach that mark three times in the past 23 years. The Vols started 3-2 with Bray under center.

Before his injury, Bray was among the top of college football’s best quarterbacks. He had thrown for 1,579 yards and 14 touchdowns to just two interceptions. Before the Georgia game, he recorded 10 straight games with at least two passing touchdowns, breaking Peyton Manning’s record of seven. “It’ll be kind of overwhelming because that’s the guy we’re used to playing with,” freshman running back Marlin Lane said of Bray’s possible return. “That’s the guy that knows this offense, that’s confident with everybody, kind of what everybody’s used to. Having him back there will be a tad bit different. He’ll be more settled in. He’ll know what to look for in the reads... It would be great for us having him back.” After Tuesday’s practice, junior receiver Zach Rogers was pleased with Bray. “He looked pretty good,” Rogers said. “It was good to see him back out here. He’s just got to get back into to it, get the rhythm back and we’ll be good to go.” Despite the likely boost to the offense Bray would provide, Dooley still wants to be cautious and patient in getting him back into a game setting. “He has a broken thumb, so you can’t grip the ball and throw it the way you do when you don’t have a broken thumb,” Dooley said. “It’s going to take some time. It’s like everything around here. We want immediate fixes. His thumb is not fixed. You don’t just put magic serum on it and he can go throw like he did five weeks ago. It will come. I don’t know if it will be this week. I know he won’t be as good as he was this week. I know that for a fact, if he plays at all. “You can’t be in a cast for a month and then come out of a cast and say you’re good,” Dooley said. “We live in ‘lala land.’ (Bray) lives in ‘lala land.’ I’m the only guy that has a sense of reality in this whole organization.”