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Pearl suspended for first eight SEC games Matt Dixon Sports Editor Tennessee announced that men’s basketball coach Bruce Pearl would be suspended for the first eight games of the SEC conference season in a press conference on Friday.

Pearl, athletic director Mike Hamilton and Chancellor Jimmy Cheek addressed the action taken by the SEC. SEC Commissioner Mike Slive made the decision and informed the university in a letter on Thursday, Nov. 18 and was available via teleconference after the press conference was concluded.

According to Slive, the consequences could’ve been much worse if Pearl hadn’t admitted to misleading the NCAA earlier this year.

“In the final analysis I determined that there may well have been enough to suspend coach Pearl for the entire conference season,” Slive said. “But the fact that he owned up to what he had done, owned up to the underlying violations, I felt that half of the conference season was an appropriate penalty in this matter.”

Slive said he considered taking action against UT’s assistant coaches but ultimately decided to direct all penalties at Pearl, citing Pearl as being liable for all the misconduct of his assistants.

“I thought that the suspension of coach Pearl from eight conference games is in part premised on the fact that he is responsible for the conduct of his coaching staff, and he is accountable for their behavior, and he was in this matter,” Slive said. “This penalty is heavy and impacts the entire program, and so at the moment anyway, I am not planning any additional penalties against

the assistant coaches.”

Pearl said he wasn’t caught off-guard by the suspension, because he had talked with Slive before the season began, and Slive informed him he was considering taking action. “(I) wasn’t blindsided, because we knew, as Mike knew, that I had talked to the commission-

Despite the suspension, Pearl is humbled that he has the support of Hamilton and Cheek.

“I’m still very appreciative of the support that we’ve received, from the university in particular — Mike Hamilton and Jimmy Cheek — they have stood by me, and I know I’ve disappointed them, but they have stood by me through this,

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Bruce Pearl speaks to media on Friday, Nov. 19. SEC Commissioner Mike Slive announced Friday that Pearl would be suspended for the first eight games of the conference season because of recruiting violations that surfaced during an NCAA investigation of the basketball program. er during the basketball Media Day (in October),” Pearl said. “I knew that he was considering doing something more, and I knew he had respect for the proactive nature of what the university did.”

and I appreciate that,” Pearl said. “It’s our intention to overcome this adversity, and it’s my anticipation that we will.”

During the eight games Pearl is suspended, assistant coaches will have to increase their

roles.

“Tony Jones, our associate head coach, will coach in those eight games,” Pearl said. “He will be assisted by Jason Shay and Steve Forbes and, in particular, whoever has that scout will be the closest to Tony, in his ear.

“The suspension is, as I understand it, really involves not only eight games, but just eight days. I’ll be able to coach the team, prepare the team, but not be able to coach in those particular games, so I’ll still be involved in the preparation and the game plan, and my assistant coaches and the players will execute it.”

The Vols do play a nonconference game at Connecticut on Jan. 22, in which Pearl will be allowed to coach.

“Coach Pearl’s going to coach against UConn,” Hamilton said. “This is an SEC penalty, SEC games, and we have a full expectation that coach will coach us against UConn.”

The suspension was strictly from the SEC, and specifically Commissioner Slive. The NCAA is expected to conclude its investigation sometime next month and inform UT of its findings.

“This is a period of adversity for all of us,” Cheek said. “We believe we’ve made the right decision, coach Pearl is our coach, and he’s going to be our coach for many, many years.

We’re going to get through this adversity, and we are going to be stronger as a consequence of it.”

The announcement of the suspension comes just days before the team will travel to New York City to play in the semifinals of the Dick’s Sporting Goods NIT Season Tip-off.

The Vols will play VCU on Wednesday, Nov. 24 at 7 p.m.

Professor explores Methodism, theater Robbie Hargett Staff Writer Misty Anderson, associate professor in English, gave a presentation on the relationship between 18th-century British Methodism, satire and theater last week on Nov.16.

The presentation, a Centripetal luncheon sponsored by the University Studies Program, entitled “18th Century Methodism and the Theater of the Real,” focused on the satirical depictions of Methodism when it was an emerging, yet successful movement within the Anglican church and what these depictions revealed about British society at the time.

“As Misty’s current book, ‘Enthusiastic Methods: Methodism and the Eighteenth-Century British Imagination’ points out, Methodism made its way into the world as a dramatic spectacle in which crowds of hundreds of singing, swaying, weeping, praying women and men made their way to the altar to dedicate their lives to the Lord,” Allen Dunn, professor of English at UT, said in his introduction to Anderson’s presentation.

Anderson pointed to many similarities between Methodist field preachings and the theater, including the enormous crowds and ticketing. George Whitefield, one of the most prominent Methodist preachers of the time, was a talented actor and even had a portable stage for his very theatrical sermons.

“The Methodist preachers themselves, however, were very much against the theater as a result of actors, particularly Samuel Foote, and satirists, particularly William Hogarth, parodying Methodism to great success,” Anderson said.

“Methodist preachers had been commonly regarded as theatrical and none more so than Whitefield,” she said. “Foote’s imitation of Whitefield as Dr. Squintum, a name that stuck after his performance, provided a test case for mid-18th century ideas about authenticity. Foote’s cynical pitch that Whitefield is merely an actor who hypocritically objects to theater, masks a more substantive concern that the Methodist meaning, led by charismatic preachers, is a Theater of the Real, in which something happens, something that is an uncanny illustration of the relationship between performance and belief.”

Theater audiences in the 18th century were primed to distinguish between the actor and his role, unlike today’s theatergoers, who are invited to believe that actor and role are inseparable.

“Methodism’s Theater of the Real unsettled the boundary between actor and role, as well as the space between actor and audience, in sermons that left congregants deeply moved, even changed,” Anderson said.

Dunn said that religion remains an important part of theater today.

“It is a truism to note that modern secular drama has its origins in religious ritual and that such ritual, no matter how refined, retains an irreducible element of theatricality,” he said.

No students attended this presentation, but because these Centripetals are intended for a more specialized audience, many faculty members and colleagues of Anderson attended the luncheon.

“The Centripetal lunches are a great chance to hear what my colleagues are doing,” Dawn Coleman, assistant professor of English, said. “It’s a chance for me to really learn about what she’s working on. I think she has some really fascinating things to say about the overlap between Methodism and theatricality in the 18th century.”

Matthew DeMaria • The Daily Beacon Upcoming University Studies Centripetal luncheons include Penny White’s “Money, Sex, and Special Interest: A A UT swimmer waits for the signal to dive into the pool before a heat on Saturday, Nov. 20. Both men’s and Crisis of Confidence in Today’s Courts” and Nathan Sanders’ women’s swimming and diving programs wrapped up three days of competition in the Tennessee Invitational Sunday, coming in third and second, respectively.

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Students with Volunteers for Christ enjoy snacks at a reception on Thursday, Nov. 11. The group meets every Thursday night from 7:00-9:00 in AMB 210. For more information on campus activities hosted by Volunteers for Christ visit vols4christ.com

1963: John F. Kennedy assassinated John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the 35th president of the U.S., is assassinated while traveling through Dallas, Texas, in an open-top convertible.

First lady Jacqueline Kennedy rarely accompanied her husband on political outings, but she was beside him, along with Texas Governor John Connally and his wife, for a 10-mile motorcade through the streets of downtown Dallas on Nov. 22. Sitting in a Lincoln convertible, the Kennedys and Connallys waved at the large and enthusiastic crowds gathered along the parade route.

As their vehicle passed the Texas School Book Depository Building at 12:30 p.m., Lee Harvey Oswald allegedly fired three shots from the sixth floor, fatally wounding President Kennedy and seriously injuring Governor Connally. Kennedy was pronounced dead 30 minutes later at Dallas’ Parkland Hospital. He was 46.

Vice President Lyndon Johnson, who was three cars behind President Kennedy in the motorcade, was sworn in as the 36th president of the U.S. at 2:39 p.m. He took the presidential oath of office aboard Air Force One as it sat on the runway at Dallas Love Field airport. The swearing in was witnessed by some 30 people, including Jacqueline Kennedy, who was still wearing clothes stained with her husband’s blood. Seven minutes later, the presidential jet took off for Washington.

The next day, Nov. 23, President Johnson issued his first proclamation, declaring Nov. 25 to be a day of national mourning for the slain president. On that Monday, hundreds of thousands of people lined the streets of Washington to watch a horse-drawn caisson bear Kennedy’s body from the Capitol Rotunda to St. Matthew’s Catholic Cathedral for a requiem Mass. The

solemn procession then continued on to Arlington National Cemetery, where leaders of 99 nations gathered for the state funeral. Kennedy was buried with full military honors on a slope below Arlington House, where an eternal flame was lit by his widow to forever mark the grave.

Lee Harvey Oswald, born in New Orleans in 1939, joined the U.S. Marines in 1956. He was discharged in 1959 and nine days later left for the Soviet Union, where he tried unsuccessfully to become a citizen. He worked in Minsk and married a Soviet woman and in 1962 was allowed to return to the United States with his wife and infant daughter. In early 1963, he bought a .38 revolver and rifle with a telescopic sight by mail order, and on April 10 in Dallas he allegedly shot at and missed former U.S. Army general Edwin Walker, a figure known for his extreme right-wing views. Later that month, Oswald went to New Orleans and founded a branch of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee, a pro-Castro organization. In Sept. 1963, he went to Mexico City, where investigators allege that he attempted to secure a visa to travel to Cuba or return to the USSR. In October, he returned to Dallas and took a job at the Texas School Book Depository Building.

Less than an hour after Kennedy was shot, Oswald killed a policeman who questioned him on the street near his rooming house in Dallas. Thirty minutes later, Oswald was arrested in a movie theater by police responding to reports of a suspect. He was formally arraigned on Nov. 23 for the murders of President Kennedy and Officer J.D. Tippit.

On Nov. 24, Oswald was brought to the basement of the Dallas police headquarters on his way to a more secure county jail. A crowd of police and press with live television cameras rolling gathered to witness his departure. As Oswald came into the room, Jack Ruby emerged from the crowd and fatally wounded him with a single shot from a concealed .38 revolver. Ruby, who was immediately detained, claimed that rage at Kennedy’s murder was the motive for his action. Some called him a hero, but he was nonetheless charged with first-degree murder.

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

Monday, November 22, 2010

Governor-elect Haslam to speak at fall commencement Governor-elect and Knoxville mayor Bill Haslam will address graduates at the fall commencement ceremony at UT. The ceremony will take place at 9 a.m., Saturday, Dec. 11, at Thompson-Boling Arena.

More than 2,900 undergraduate and graduate students, who have completed degree programs during the summer or fall semesters, will be awarded diplomas. Five graduates will receive commissions as second lieutenants in the U.S. Army.

Students earning post-graduate degrees will be honored in a graduate hooding ceremony at 4:30 p.m., Friday, Dec. 10, at the arena.

Haslam, a Knoxville native, began working at age 13, pumping gas at one of a few service stations owned by his family. He attended Emory University in Atlanta, where he volunteered with the Young Life organization, a Christian ministry that reaches out to adolescents, and worked summers on the grassroots political campaigns for Sen. Howard Baker Jr. and Sen. Lamar Alexander, who at that time was campaigning for governor.

After graduating from Emory, Haslam returned to Knoxville and began traveling throughout the country, scouting locations for new travel centers. The small chain of stores grew into what is now Pilot Flying J. Haslam served as president and a director of the company from 1980-1999. During his time at the helm, the company grew from 800 employees to more than 14,000 in 39 states. He continued to serve on the board until 2003 when he was elected Knoxville mayor.

He has served two successful terms as mayor, balancing seven consecutive budgets, tripling the city’s Rainy Day Fund and recruiting and retaining thousands of jobs for the city. On Nov. 2, he was elected Tennessee’s 49th governor and will officially take office on Jan. 15, 2011.

For more information regarding the ceremony, call the registrar’s office at 865- 974-2101 or visit http://registrar.tennessee.edu/.

The graduate hooding will be webcast live at http://tinyurl.com/24b9l86.

The undergraduate commencement ceremony will be webcast live at http://tinyurl.com/2bg8zpd.

UT students to share Thanksgiving meal with Iraqi refugees On Saturday, a group of Iraqi refugees and a group of undergraduates from UT will sit down to a Thanksgiving feast to give thanks.

Chances are, they will give thanks for what they’ve learned from each other.

Fifteen undergraduates, all kinesiology or recreation and sport

NEWS management majors, spent this semester in a first-of-its-kind service learning class sponsored by the Department of Kinesiology, Recreation and Sport Studies in the College of Education, Health and Human Sciences. The course is taught by Adjunct Professor Sarah Hillyer and doctoral student Ashleigh Huffman, director and assistant director of Sport 4 Peace (http://www.sport4peace.org ).

The Thanksgiving party will include a traditional feast, games and activities for the children and a store of collected household items for the families.

Hillyer said there are more than 130 Iraqi families with refugee status living in Knoxville. They are scattered throughout the community. Though they were professionals in Iraq, many of the refugees are unable to find comparable jobs here and are striving to make financial ends meet in a struggling U.S. economy.

Hillyer and Huffman told their class that service learning is more than logging volunteer hours; it involves the application of theories learned in the classroom to meet the needs of the community.

With the goal of providing some sort of exercise or recreational outlet for the Iraqis, the students’ first task was to figure out what the refugees wanted and needed.

With some assistance from Bridge Refugee Resettlement Agency, Hillyer and Huffman laid the groundwork by finding individual Iraqi families and visiting with them. The students then hosted a big welcome party for the refugees at the UT softball complex and took them to a UT women’s soccer game.

By engaging in conversations with the Iraqi families, UT students learned that the greatest concerns included social interaction, health and fitness, and opportunities for their children to play. To address those needs, the class created three social events for the families, held weekly exercise classes for the women and provided games and playtime for the children.

After a semester of interaction, Hillyer said refugee families and UT students have made new friends and enjoyed getting to know one another through various social outings.

At the beginning of the semester, Hillyer and Huffman asked their students to write down the first words that came to mind when they thought of Iraq.

The students’ responses included “terrorists,” “poor” and “war.”

Recently, the students did the same exercise. This time, their responses included “loving people,” “kind,” “grateful,” “hard workers” and “educated.”

The service learning class will be offered again in the spring.

UT Gardens to offer holiday craft-making workshops UT Gardens will offer wreath-making and flower arranging workshops that will help you deck the halls, tables and doors of your home this season. All classes require preregistration through Emily Smith, UT Gardens education coordinator.

Adult Holiday Wreath Workshops will be held Sunday, Dec. 12 from 1 to 2:30 p.m., and Monday, Dec. 13, from 6 to 7:30 p.m. All materials are included. The cost is $30 for Gardens members and $35 for nonmembers.

The Family Wreath-Making Workshop will be held Sunday, Dec.12 from 3:30 – 5 p.m. Patterned after the annual Holiday Wreath Workshop, this class is for families who wish to create their holiday wreath together. The class will use fresh-from-the gardens evergreens, pinecones, winter berries and other holiday materials. Each family will construct one wreath. This class is designed for children ages 6 to

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12 accompanied by one adult. All materials included. The cost for this class is $30 for UT Gardens member families and $35 for nonmember families.

The flower-arranging workshop, brought to you by the UT Gardens and the Knoxville Botanical Garden and Arboretum, will take place Saturday, Dec. 18 from 10 – 11:30 a.m. This class will focus on the holiday season, and participants will create an arrangement full of fresh evergreens, pinecones and other holiday accents to complement your holiday festivities. Holiday refreshments and music will be provided.

All materials are included, and the cost is $30 for UT Gardens and Knoxville Botanical Garden Arboretum members and $35 for nonmembers.

For more information, or to register, contact Emily Smith, education coordinator, at 865-974-7151, or email esmith27@utk.edu. To learn more about the UT Gardens and other educational programs and events that the UT Gardens offers, visit http://utgardens.tennessee.edu.

UT Extension appoints new regional director James G. Stewart has been appointed as the new Central Region Director for University of Tennessee Extension. Stewart’s appointment is effective January 1, 2011.

UT Extension is organized under three regional units — Eastern, Central and Western. As director of the Central Region, which is headquartered in Nashville, Stewart will oversee Extension’s adult agriculture and family and consumer science educational activities as well as the 4-H youth development activities of the region’s 31 counties. For the past 13 years Stewart has served as the region’s adult agriculture and 4-H program leader.

In a note to faculty and staff UT Extension Dean Tim Cross said Stewart’s extensive Extension background will be an asset to his efforts on behalf of the Central Region.

Stewart has performed numerous leadership roles while serving UT Extension. Most recently he has been a member of the UT Extension Strategic Planning Committee, which is working to set guidelines for UT Extension’s next 10 years and beyond as the university’s off-campus educational outreach program. Co-director of the State 4-H Performing Arts Troupe, Stewart is also a representative on the UT Extension Advisory Council, which meets twice a year with stakeholders statewide to ensure that the direction and quality of programming available is on target regarding community needs.

Stewart is a founding member of the Tennessee State Fair Livestock Advisory Committee. He is also a member of the National Association of County Agriculture Agents (NACAA), the Epsilon Sigma Phi Extension Honorary Society, and the Gamma Sigma Delta Agriculture Honor Society as well as a 2009 graduate of the LEAD21 National Leadership Program for faculty and others associated with land grant universities’ colleges of agricultural, environmental and human sciences.

Stewart earned a B.S. degree in Forestry from the University of Kentucky in 1985 and a Master of Public Administration from Valdosta State University in 1996.

Stewart resides in Lebanon with his wife Katie and replaces longtime Central Region Director Herb Lester, who retired earlier this year. Janet Cluck, Dickson County Extension Director, has been serving as Interim Director for the Central Region since Lester’s retirement.

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Students take a break during the Tennessee Louis Stokes Alliance for the Minority Participation conference on Friday, Nov. 5. TLSAMP is a program working to increase enrollment and graduation rates of underrepresented ethnic minority students in science and engineering majors.

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Monday, November 22, 2010

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Falling — Beautifully played games by the Vols Yuck. That wasn’t pretty.

Tennessee turned in an ugly performance on Saturday against Vanderbilt in Nashville, a game that displayed the one-sided, in-state rivalry so many UT fans cherish this time of year.

Sure, Tennessee pulled out a 24-10 victory amid a mostly orange-clad crowd in our state’s capital, but the manner in which it did so left a bad taste in fans’ mouths.

UT committed nine penalties for 75 yards against the Commodores, a perennial cellardweller in the SEC. The Vols also fumbled a punt (a scenario that’s becoming more inevitable with each passing game) and had a touchdown interception called back because of a weak roughing-the-passer penalty. Tyler Bray also threw two interceptions himself.

Needless to say, a win is a win, especially for a team still vying for that ever-elusive bowl berth. But these Vols looked entirely different from the UT squad that crushed Memphis and Ole Miss on the last two Saturdays.

Still, the agenda remains the same: Beat Kentucky, a team that hasn’t defeated UT in a quarter of a century, and the Vols are goin’ bowling. A likely scenario is reportedly the Music City Bowl in Nashville. Think Vol fans will travel for that one?

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Vegeterianism more than just picky eating A Col umn About Column A r t a n d L i te ra t u re

Rising — Harry Potter-obsessed students For those of you that were hiding under a rock this past week and didn’t hear the squeals of Muggles, the final installment — Part I, at least — of the “Harry Potter” film series launched in theaters late Thursday night.

As expected, wizards came out of the woodwork for this highly anticipated release. Lines formed late into Wednesday evening at theaters across Knoxville as fans cast spells and discussed their favorite “Potter” characters with glee.

UT students were not excluded from the fanfare, as much of the campus population spent the necessary money and time to witness the first half of Harry’s final rodeo. Several students even mentioned seeing the film not once but two or three times throughout the course of the weekend.

If the movie’s release proved anything, it’s this: “Harry Potter” fandom has no age limit.

Those who don’t appreciate its greatness are nothing more than, well, Muggles.

Rising — Need for a new token party song People of UT, the time has come. Maybe you’ve noticed on game days, as you walk to the stadium. Maybe you’ve noticed when your drunk neighbors sing it for the fifth time in a row on a Friday night and you can hear them through the walls. Maybe you’ve noticed in a bar, as everyone throws their arms around each other and collectively gathers together, drinks sloshing about and a moment of community and unity is understood amongst perfect strangers.

Any way you’re rocked, you’ve noticed it.

The time has come, collegiate minds, to find a new token party song, because “Wagon Wheel” by Old Crow Medicine Show has certainly worn out its welcome.

It isn’t exactly clear when “Wagon Wheel” became the song of choice for merrymaking adventures, maybe it was the combination of the simple, repetitive lyrics and the light, delightful banjo tune.

But then again, there isn’t a lot of great music to replace “Wagon Wheel” these days.

Between the musical styling of 8-year-old headache Willow Smith and perpetual ghetto trash Ke$ha, the music of today can generally be summarized as annoying, and it seems fruitless to resurrect old favorites like Bon Jovi’s “Livin’ On a Prayer.”

So, what is to be done? We can’t keep shouting the same song forever.

How about we stop associating songs with drinking and start associating songs with being of genuine quality, not how danceable they are or how catchy the lyrics or beat is?

But then again, if this really was the philosophy upon which we chose our music, Lil Wayne would have never had a chance.

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Amien Essif Six years ago, on the day after Thanksgiving, I became a vegetarian. Since then I have eaten one salmon steak, two chicken strips saved from the trash, a piece of deer jerky, a slice of ham, a few dozen stray bacon bits and a mockingbird. But everything else has been dairy, eggs, vegetable matter and things from the “other” category like Oreos and Gatorade.

I can explain all the meat I’ve eaten — it has never yet gone against my philosophy of vegetarianism.

I ate the salmon steak and the slice of ham because they were prepared especially for me on special occasions by people I respected, and there is nothing unnatural about enjoying a piece of flesh deliberately two or three times a year.

I ate the chicken strips and the bacon bits for about the same reason. I was at a Cracker Barrel, and the person I was with wouldn’t finish their chicken and gravy. Although I was eating saltines and sugar packets to assuage my hunger, I did not ask for the chicken until the server began taking the plate away. Then, I snagged them. The rule is: Meat from the trash is ethical meat. When I position myself on the food chain in this circumstance, I see myself as a decomposer rather than a consumer, the most inefficient role.

The same goes for the bacon bits. When you live as a vegetarian in the South, you just have to accept that every apparently vegetarian option on the menu has had bacon bits sprinkled on it. Either that, or the bits have burrowed in from underneath. You can’t get rid of them. They’re like ants at a picnic, and just like with ants, sometimes you just have to eat them. The rule is: Meat that can’t be picked off and given to a nonvegetarian is ethical meat.

The mockingbird, I shot and ate. I did it to spite Harper Lee. And also because my last and most important rule (which explains the deer jerky as well) is that conscientiously hunted meat is ethical meat.

I guess, strictly speaking, I’m not a vegetarian,

even though the amount of meat I’ve eaten in the past six years could fit on a hamburger bun.

Avoiding animal flesh like it was contagious is unnatural and pathological. I once went to Subway with a couple other vegetarians, and one of them made the server change her gloves before she touched his vegetables. I told her afterwards that I wasn’t with them, and I wanted to clarify my philosophy right then and there for her sake and for my own sake — so I would understand why that bothered me almost as much as someone selfrighteously eating pulled pork in front of me.

So I’ll clarify right here and right now. This is why I’m a vegetarian: I like to have some way to refer to myself that lets other people know I’m more moral than them.

Just kidding.

It may surprise many a food blogger, but vegetarianism is not just a form of asceticism to prove superiority, and it’s not about picky eating.

As lame as it sounds, I can imagine no method other than denial that would allow me to support the meat industry. I know it is natural to eat animals, but most people forget the middle step wherein the animals are mass reproduced, caged from birth and forced to live like items on an assembly line until they are slaughtered, packaged and shipped across the country to a processing plant and then to our table.

Vegetable consumption often follows a similarly unnatural process, but at least there is not mass suffering involved. I don’t dare address the cognitive capacities of pigs versus human infants (or the family dog), because I know the argument rarely works for people who like the taste of barbecue and aren’t willing to sacrifice flavor in order to decrease the horrific suffering that goes on in factory farms.

But I guarantee you that the population of vegetarians would triple if we had to get our meat bloody from the slaughterhouse instead of looking like clean, ethical matter from a store or a restaurant.

Meat eating is about denial, not about really enjoying the flesh of an animal, which is a natural concept.

So I’m still a carnivore, and I still love the taste of meat, but I have found that creating a rich and fulfilling diet out of vegetables and their cohorts is much easier and much more natural than it seems at first. And I’m less likely to get colon cancer.

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

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It seems like the rest of the Western world has answered the question of religion. England, Italy, Germany and France, themselves the ancient seats of one brand of Christianity or another, had slaughtered each other under the auspice of religion for nearly 10 centuries. Though an old statistic, it is worth repeating: These same countries have almost no church attendance. They’ve killed each other over it too much. Sure, things like the English Civil War were caused by economic changes like the rising middle class — but it was the Protestant Reformation and religious ideology that moved men to pick up the weapons.

The Anglican church, or Church of England, is still sponsored by the state (yes, completely by taxpayer dollars), yet about 2 percent of the population regularly attends. Religion in England is a cultural relic; its sponsorship by the state is written in stone to this day.

America has a reported attendance of 43 percent, and the foundation of our country also has something definite to say about religion: Under no circumstances will the state have anything to do with it, aside from assuring the freedom of its pursuit.

Then, there’s the de facto political reality that we’re all too aware of: the skewing of religion’s role in politics, due most directly to the exploitation of voter demographics, that’s responsible for the most controversial cultural issue of our time despite the clear role that is written in our Constitution. What causes (media sponsored) public figures like Christine O’Donnell, who, despite her defeat, remains the topqueued “Christine” if you Google the name, to feel justified in not just subverting but entirely blocking out the portion of our Constitution that demands religious freedom?

The open contempt for one clause in the Constitution, seen in the most optimistic light, might seem like a valid stance that doesn’t necessarily reject America’s founding document as a whole. Unfortunately, the clause the separation of church and state is in prevents such convenient selectiveness, like à la carte interpretation: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.”

To reject the first clause of this amendment is to undeniably reject it as a whole. False dilemma? For the

government to restrict or promote religion, a very natural form of expression, in any way would unravel the rest of our founding’s cardinal amendment. Yet the delusion persists.

England, whose religious intolerance motivated the intellectual founders to yearn for religion to be a political nonissue, has culturally “outgrown” strong religious identity as a culture despite its continued legislative bias.

America, intended from Day One to be free from religion’s infinitely biasing effect on the functions of government, especially a purposefully limited one, is now far more religiously biased and intolerant than England. A grand irony and a testament to maddening complexities of culture and the failure of government-sponsored religion in the modern day.

Historically, what do we have to quickly explain this turn of events? We can’t ignore the success that is the free market of religion. From the wording in the First Amendment, the founder’s themselves craved a freedom from religion as much as the freedom to pursue it. But they were the governors, the “elitists” of their time. The colonists that continued to pump into America had a much different perspective; in a way, it was they, in their new, huge environment that preserved the religious intensity that continues to demand treasonous political inclusion.

The Republican Party has transformed its campaigning process to exploit this strong cultural identity — exploit, because it actually does nothing to support Christianity besides claiming a general solidarity with Christians.

Why? Besides the First Amendment, Christianity operates on a cellular level: There are simply too many brands that don’t have a strong enough bond. There’s nothing monolithic about it.

The pick-and-choose attitude of the multitudes is not limited to the Constitution — American Christianity itself has no consensus. The Old Testament can only really be understood in the cultural context of ancient Judaism; capitalism itself ignores the fourth commandment — keep sacred the Holy Sabbath — by working on Sunday. What does the Bible demand of people who work on the Sabbath? Death (Exodus 31:15), same as the other commandments, because “thou shalt not kill” meant don’t kill your fellow Jews unprovoked.

Without the possibility of literal translation there can be no consensus. And good luck getting people to focus literally on the New Testament: It takes a real “liberal” interpretation of Jesus’ teachings for them to complement conservative economics. There’s just no excuse for promoting a cultural identity at the scale it’s being done.

There is no controversy: It’s a direct attack on the only thing ensuring America’s theoretical moral superiority.

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

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‘Dead’ Mississippian pleads not guilty Associated Press A Mississippi man who authorities thought had been dead for more than 15 years pleaded not guilty Friday to kidnapping a 12-year-old girl whose body was found by hunters in remote Louisiana woods.

Thomas Steven Sanders, suspected of shooting Lexis Roberts of Las Vegas before dumping her body in central Louisiana’s Catahoula Parish, said little Friday during the hearing in federal court in Alexandria, La. Shackled and wearing an orange prison jumpsuit, the 53-year-old Sanders spent much of the hearing leaning forward in his seat and reading documents with his lawyer. Sanders had shaven off the bushy, white beard seen in police photographs before his capture.

Sanders wouldn’t say anything when questioned by reporters about the case outside the courtroom.

His public defender, Rebecca Hudsmith, said she had met with him for the first time Friday and

wouldn’t comment on his mental state or whether he’d offered any details about the case.

A federal kidnapping charge in a case that results in death is punishable by life in prison or death, said Lisa Langley, a spokeswoman with the U.S. attorney’s office in Louisiana. As of Friday afternoon, prosecutors had not indicated whether they would seek the death penalty.

James Kelly, sheriff of the parish where Roberts' body was found by hunters Oct. 8, also was at the hearing. Kelly said he’ll charge Sanders with firstdegree murder in state court when the federal government finishes processing him, possibly early next week.

Authorities said security footage showed Sanders buying ammunition Sept. 3 at a Walmart in Las Vegas. The bullets are allegedly the same type that killed the girl.

Sanders also is a suspect in the disappearance and likely death of the girl's mother, 31-year-old Suellen Roberts. Investigators are using dental records to determine whether a body found Monday in Arizona is hers.

Haslam office space in question Associated Press

an e-mail.

The governor’s suite in the Capitol includes a reception area, a conference room and his personal office. The deputy governor, the administration’s top lobbyist and the finance commissioner also currently have offices on the main floor of the Capitol, while other top aides like the communications and legal teams are housed on the level below.

An average of about 35 staffers for Gov. Phil Bredesen work in Capitol offices, said spokeswoman Lydia Lenker.

The secretary of state, comptroller and treasurer also have offices in the Capitol, though most of their staffers work in other state buildings.

Gibbs said the incoming governor’s understanding is that the project is scheduled to begin in mid-2011, but that it may also be possible to defer the work until the following year.

The date for Governor-elect Bill Haslam to be sworn into office is set for Jan. 15.

What’s unclear is where that office will be.

The Capitol is scheduled to shut down after the Legislature adjourns next year to upgrade and repair the heating and air conditioning system in the 151-year-old building.

That means the new Republican governor could move into his Capitol office in January, only to have to move out again by June. Or he could choose to immediately seek out other office space and move to the Capitol once the work is done.

Haslam spokeswoman Christi Gibbs said office space hasn’t been a major concern of the transition team.

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If that body turns out to be Suellen Roberts, it’s likely Sanders will at some point be charged in Arizona state court. Arizona, Louisiana and federal officials have been working together on the case.

“We’re kind of third in line,” Yavapai County Sheriff’s spokesman Dwight D’Evelyn said Friday.

“Fortunately, he’s in custody so we have the luxury of time.”

Sanders was arrested Sunday in Gulfport, Miss., after a massive manhunt to find the missing woman and her daughter. Authorities say Sanders and Suellen Roberts were in a relationship and took Lexis on a road trip for the Labor Day weekend.

The last place they were seen alive was in Arizona.

The case took a bizarre twist when authorities realized their prime suspect in the disappearances had been declared legally dead in 1994.

Sanders’ parents, brother and ex-wife petitioned a Mississippi court for the death declaration in 1994, saying nobody had heard from him in seven years. Even so, Sanders drifted from state to state unnoticed despite being arrested in Georgia and Tennessee under his real name.

Sanders was arrested in January 1994 and charged with two counts of cruelty to children in Winder, Ga., where prosecutors said he repeatedly hit a boy on the back of the legs and put a pair of soiled underwear in the boy's face, according to court records. Sanders was sentenced to two years of probation and fined $500.

In November 2002, he was arrested in Clarksville, Tenn., for driving on a revoked license.

Police records indicated he had Tennessee identification even though he was from McComb, Miss.

He listed his address as a room at a motel where many transients live. Sanders was arrested in Tennessee again in March 2003 for alleged possession of drug paraphernalia.

Little else is known about Sanders’ life after being declared dead. He didn’t buy property or establish many bills in his name, things that create paper trails for most people.

He has worked as a laborer, a welder and a scrap metal collector. Authorities said he sometimes gave his name as Tom or Steve or the nickname “Spider.”

State elections trend moderate Associated Press Republicans have been making rapid gains in Tennessee, but the most conservative elements of the party have failed to take control amid the rising GOP tide.

In the most recent example, Rep. Beth Harwell of Nashville won the House GOP speaker’s nomination last week despite vocal opposition from outside tea party and gun rights groups.

That followed Knoxville Mayor Bill Haslam’s easy win in a three-way GOP primary in August that featured two opponents who pilloried the eventual governor-elect as an “establishment moderate.” Also, Stephen Fincher cruised to the GOP nomination and was later elected to Congress despite tea party movement howling over the millions he had received in federal farm subsidies.

Even the narrow election of Chris Devaney as Republican Party chairman in May was seen as a reaction to the more hard-right tenure of his predecessor Robin Smith, who in turn lost her

bid for Congress in the GOP primary.

While Democrats are licking their wounds over losing 14 seats in the state House, some are consoled that more moderate leadership has preservered among their Republican counterparts.

“I was a little surprised that with the endorsement of the talk radio establishment, the gun establishment and the tea party establishment, that (Republicans) went against their wishes,” said House Democratic Caucus Chairman Mike Turner of Nashville.

Asked by a reporter whether he perceives a repudiation of hard-core conservative elements in the GOP, Turner responded: “I would say yes, what else can it be?”

Mark Skoda, who heads the Memphis Tea Party was an outspoken critic of Harwell before she was nominated in a secret ballot on Thursday.

“It’s business as usual in Nashville,” he said after the vote. “We worked very hard to get conservatives elected in Tennessee. And this is certainly a move toward a moderate.”

Harwell has rejected suggestions that she is not conservative enough to

reflect the mood of the electorate.

Skoda said he’s skeptical, but is holding out some hope.

“Perhaps she’ll be more conservative than we think,” Skoda said.

Conservative radio talk show host Steve Gill, who has run for office as a Republican, was not so sure. In a Twitter post after her nomination as the GOP’s speaker candidate, he said: “Look for primary challenges and third party candidates in TN House races in 2012.”

The pressure from outside groups over the caucus vote for speaker has caused some grumbling in the hallways of the legislative office complex, though lawmakers turn back suggestions that the campaign to nominate Rep. Glen Casada backfired on the Franklin Republican.

“We live in a democracy,” said Rep. Mike Harrison, a Rogersville Republican just elected to his fifth term. “If you can’t handle people letting you know how they feel about things, you don’t need to be in politics.

That’s just part of it.”

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Lethal injection use overturned Associated Press A Davidson County judge ruled Friday that the state’s lethal injection method is unconstitutional, paving the way for a delay in the execution of death row inmate Stephen Michael West.

A final decision on the issue will be made by the state Supreme Court, which technically must issue a stay for the execution to be delayed. Sharon Curtis-Flair, a spokeswoman for the state Attorney General, said an appeal is likely.

Chancellor Claudia Bonnyman ruled that West’s lawyers showed that Tennessee’s lethal injection procedure “allows for death by suffocation while conscious.”

She said the state had the opportunity to put in safeguards in the lethal injection method when it was studied in 2007 but did not.

West had been scheduled to be executed Nov. 30 for the murder of a Union County woman and her teenage daughter. His execution was initially scheduled for Nov. 9, but West was given a temporary stay to address his attorneys’ claims that the state's threedrug method was unconstitutional. Another inmate, Billy Ray Irick, joined in the case as an additional plaintiff and his execution scheduled for December could also be delayed by the ruling.

Bonnyman said this case differs from a

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Kentucky case decided by the U.S. Supreme Court because the Kentucky case had no dispute over the amount of sodium thiopental, the drug used to render the inmate unconscious, as long as it was administered properly.

She said in this case, she found that the level of sodium thiopental is not sufficient and it’s up to the state to decide what the level would be.

Bonnyman made her ruling after hearing further arguments from West’s attorneys that the state's lethal injection procedure would violate the Constitution’s Eighth Amendment barring cruel and unusual punishment.

Medical experts testified over two days this week about the effects of the drugs on inmates.

Assistant Attorney General Mark Hudson said in closing arguments that the court should consider the standard for lethal injection challenges following the U.S. Supreme Court’s upholding of Kentucky's execution process.

The Tennessee Supreme Court set that standard as an “objectively intolerable risk of severe suffering or pain during the execution process” when it granted West a temporary stay until Nov. 30.

“This testimony taken all together does not establish or meet this objective standard that is required,” Hudson said.

Medical examiner Dr. Feng Li testified on Friday that the level of sodium thiopental, the first drug used in the three-drug cocktail, was enough to cause the inmates to lose consciousness.

He noted that the autopsies of two of the inmates were taken several hours after the executions. In the case of Phillip Workman, who was executed in 2007, the autopsy was done 10 days after the execution.

He said based on his medical knowledge, he believed that if the blood had been analyzed immediately after the execution, the concentration of the drug would be much higher.

“This reflects in that particular moment the levels of concentration in the body,” he said, when describing toxicology results in autopsies.

Nevertheless, he said in all three cases the levels of the drugs found in the autopsies were within the ranges of toxic to lethal levels in his opinion.

Federal public defender Stephen Kissinger challenged Li’s testimony, saying Li did not specialize in anesthesiology and questioned what resources and research he used to determine his opinion.

Kissinger presented two medical experts who testified on Thursday that the autopsies of three executed Tennessee inmates showed concentrations of the two of the drugs were too low to cause the intended effect.

TN REPUBLICANS continued from Page 5 Harrison was among the majority of Republican members who cited caucus unity in declining to say whom they supported in the speaker’s race.

Casada bowed out of seeking any leadership position within the caucus after losing the speaker’s nomination to Harwell. “I am going to be a backbencher, but I’ll support the caucus to the utmost,” he said.

Casada chalked up his defeat to Harwell being more persuasive with the membership rather than an ideological division, though he maintains he was the more conservative choice.

“I think she campaigned better, more effectively than I did,” he said. “She’s very smart, very articulate, and I think she’ll make a great leader.”

Senate Speaker Ron Ramsey of Blountville, who was one of the unsuccessful challengers to Haslam in the Republican gubernatorial primary, again failed to see his preferred candidate nominated for speaker in the lower chamber after his protege Jason Mumpower lost by one vote in 2008.

Ramsey told the Chattanooga Times Free Press before the vote that he thought Casada would “make a great speaker.”

His appraisal of Harwell was less glowing. She “would be a good speaker, too, I suppose,” he said.

HASLAM continued from Page 5 One possible alternative space for the new governor would be in the nearby William R. Snodgrass Tennessee Tower. The state bought the 31-story building from the American General Life and Accident Insurance Co. in 1994, and more than 1,000 state employees from numerous agencies work in the building.

The state Department of General Services this year moved to the former Nashville Gas building, freeing up space on several floors in the tower, said spokeswoman Lola Potter. But she stressed that any decision on moves will be up to the new administration.

The repairs will complete a $14 million upgrade of the Capitol’s mechanical and electrical systems. Similar work was performed on the Senate and House chambers last year.

At least Haslam knows where he will be living when he moves from Knoxville. He has already said he will live in the governor’s mansion in Nashville. Bredesen chose to stay at his own Nashville home during his two terms in office while an $18 million overhaul was performed on the official residence.

Improvements and restoration work included fixing a leaky roof, making the residence accessible for people with disabilities and building an underground entertainment hall that critics dubbed the “Bredesen Bunker.”

Monday, November 22, 2010

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Keith Urban records despite Nashville flood Associated Press NASHVILLE — Keith Urban had a difficult decision to make in the days after last spring’s flood.

The rising Cumberland River wrecked just about every piece of equipment the country music superstar owned, from priceless vintage guitars to his favorite amps. He was scheduled to begin recording the tracks that would eventually become “Get Closer,” and he wasn’t sure if he should just scrap the whole thing until later.

“I think any musician will tell you: Give us something to make music with and we make music,” Urban said. “It felt like we had some really good songs for this record. I felt really good about the songs. The band was ready. We had the studio booked. It wasn’t that long ago I only owned one guitar anyway. I made a record with very few instruments in the beginning, so it was making the most of what we’re given.”

He borrowed a guitar from his guitar tech the first week and things went well enough that he decided to keep going.

He added gear over the next few weeks, hitting eBay for a few guitars and amplifiers, and slowly expanded the sonic

palette for the album. He used the first guitar he bought off the Internet to lay down the lilting, addictive riff on lead single, “Put You in a Song,” and never looked back.

“I thought, ‘Well, let’s explore new sounds, new guitars,’ and I think from that a real different, not just a sound, but a different feeling came from this record,” Urban said.

He ended up with perhaps his most personal album. The eight-track standard release issued by Capitol Records (there’s a 15-song Target exclusive as well) reads like a love letter to his wife, Nicole Kidman, though Urban says the album is really about couples and draws from several wells.

Urban hasn’t talked in great detail about his losses since that first week in May. He assumed most of his favorite guitars were destroyed and it was a blow. But over the six months since record rains led to 22 deaths in Tennessee and did more than $2 billion in damage in Nashville alone, luthier Joe Glaser has managed to save some of the most important pieces.

Among them is a 1957 Les Paul Goldtop, worth six figures before Urban bought it and much more now that his name is attached to it. It’s a special guitar with an

unmatched sound and Glaser realized he was doing more than cleaning and gluing when he reclaimed it.

“It doesn’t matter who somebody is,” he said. “If they’re good at all, their relationship with their instrument is personal and one-on-one. ... Their relationship with their instrument is kind of like their relationship to their dog.”

Glaser, who assists in the NasH20 charity that sells some of the stars’ damaged instruments to benefit musicians, says he’s repaired eight to 10 of Urban’s guitars and could keep working on most of the other 50-plus pieces Urban lost if the singer chooses.

Fittingly, the only guitar Urban didn’t lose was the one with a lot of personal meaning. That guitar was owned by Waylon Jennings and was a gift from Kidman, who surprised him with it. He wrote two songs on the album with it: “Right on Back to You” and “Georgia Woods.”

“It’s such a profound piece of musical history — not just for the journey it’s had through Waylon's life, but it was given to Reggie Young, who’s a legendary session musician here in town,” Urban said. “Waylon gave it to Reggie something like 25 years ago. It’s got some stories to tell. I wish it could speak.”

8 • The Daily Beacon

Family to share rights to ‘I’ll Fly Away’ Associated Press NASHVILLE — Family members in a bitter dispute over the rights to popular gospel song “I’ll Fly Away” all own a piece of the work, a federal jury has decided.

“I’ll Fly Away,” which was featured in the movie “Oh Brother, Where Art Thou” and is one of the most recorded gospel songs of all time, has been the subject of a nearly two-year court battle between the heirs of Albert Brumley Sr. Brumley first conceived of the song about glory in the afterlife in 1929 while picking cotton on his parent’s Oklahoma farm. He died in 1977.

Three of Brumley’s children, four grandchildren and a daughter-in-law filed a lawsuit against one of Brumley’s sons and two music companies, arguing that they should be able to get a share of the royalties from the song. They asked the court to terminate the copyrights to the song, which was being held by a company owned by son Robert Brumley.

Jurors had to decide whether the older Brumley composed the song on his own or if he did it while working as a staff writer by a company that has since been purchased by Robert Brumley.

Jurors on Wednesday found that Albert Brumley wrote the song on his own. The finding means that the plaintiff family members are entitled to inherit rights to the song.

U.S. District Judge Aleta Trauger ordered the family members into mediation so they can decide how to split the royalties and who will control them.

“The parties are going to try to work a resolution,” said Jason Turner, one of the attorneys who represents the family members who sued Robert Brumley.

Neither Robert Brumley nor his attorney could be reached for comment.

Turner said the song generates roughly $300,000 in royalties a year, and that’s without anyone pushing it to be recorded.

“I’ll Fly Away” has been recorded and performed by artists from many different types of music genres, including rapper Kanye West, Johnny Cash, blues and jazz singer Etta James and Christian band Jars of Clay.

Monday, November 22, 2010

ENTERTAINMENT

Veteran able to sue ‘Locker’ in Calif.

Associated Press NEWARK, N.J. — An Iraq war veteran can sue the makers of the Academy Award-winning film “The Hurt Locker” in California, not New Jersey, over his claim that the lead character was based on him and he was given no credit or compensation, a judge ruled Friday.

U.S. District Judge Dennis Cavanaugh also denied the defendants’ motion to dismiss the lawsuit, though the ruling focused on the issue of jurisdiction and not on the merits of the case.

The lawsuit was brought last spring by Master Sgt. Jeffrey Sarver, an Army bomb disposal expert.

Screenwriter Mark Boal wrote about Sarver in an article published in Playboy magazine in 2005.

Boal and director Kathryn Bigelow are defendants in the lawsuit, as are Playboy Enterprises, Kingsgate Films and other companies involved in the film’s production and distribution.

“The Hurt Locker” won six Oscars in 2010, including best picture and best original screenplay.

Sarver brought the suit in New Jersey because he lived there during the time the film was produced, according to court filings. But Cavanaugh’s ruling noted that Sarver had moved to Tennessee by the time the film opened nationwide

and called the choice of New Jersey “seemingly random.”

According to the lawsuit, Sarver deployed to Iraq in 2004 as an explosive ordnance disposal technician tasked with identifying and disposing unexploded munitions and IEDs. Boal was embedded with Sarver’s company for 30 days in late 2004 and ultimately produced an article, “The Man in the Bomb Suit,” for Playboy that revealed numerous details of Sarver’s personal life.

Sarver claims that the “Hurt Locker” character Will James, played in the movie by Jeremy Renner, “is really the Plaintiff, the Plaintiff’s name and likeness, and Plaintiff’s personal story which were misappropriated by Defendants without Plaintiff’s consent.”

The suit also claims Sarver was Boal’s source for the phrase “hurt locker,” which the writer • Photo courtesy of rottentomatoes.com heard Sarver use several times.

When the lawsuit was filed, Boal disputed that the lead character was based entirely on Sarver and said the film was a work of fiction.

“Judge Cavanaugh made the right decision in transferring the case to the Central District of California where the merits of the claims and the defense will be addressed,” said Stephen Orlofsky, a New Jersey-based attorney representing Boal and Bigelow.

Todd Weglarz, Sarver's attorney, didn’t return a phone message Friday.

Bonnaroo tickets go on sale on Black Friday MANCHESTER, Tenn. — Music fans who sleep in on Black Friday can still get a deal.

Discounted early bird tickets to the 10th annual Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival go on sale at noon EST Nov. 26.

Festival organizers announced the tickets will sell for $209.50 plus service charge. When those are gone, a second batch of pre-sale tickets will be available for $224.50 plus service charge.

During the presale, Bonnaroo will offer VIP tickets and a payment plan program.

Festival dates for 2011 are June 9-12.

Publicist confirms Eddie Montgomery has cancer NASHVILLE — A publicist for Eddie Montgomery has confirmed that the Montgomery Gentry star has prostate cancer.

An e-mailed statement from the 47-year-old Kentucky native says he will undergo surgery to remove a cancerous tumor in December.

Montgomery asks supporters to keep him and his family in their prayers. And he promises to be “back in January and ready to rock for all the fans!”

The news was first reported on cmt.com, the website of County Music Television.

• Photo courtesy of Eddie Montgomery

U2 won't play LP Field over scheduling conflict NASHVILLE — U2 will play a smaller venue for the band’s first appearance in Nashville in almost three decades.

The ban will appear in Vanderbilt Stadium in Nashville next summer rather the larger LP Field, meaning there will be 28,000 fewer seats available.

The Tennessean reports that the Tennessee Titans, who play in and operate LP Field, were approached by promoters but turned them down. The venue’s agreement with the CMA Music Festival, which will be held June 9-12, says no other concerts can be held within 30 to 45 days of the festival unless the Country Music Association agrees.

Titans executive vice president Don MacLachlan says the team didn’t ask the CMA about the dates and decided against the booking over concerns the field could not recover in time for the preseason.

Monday, November 22, 2010

SPORTS

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Lady Vols oust ASU despite poor shooting UT rallies from just 34-percent shooting in first half, shoots 57 percent in second half the game. Williams responded with 12 points in 20 minon the afternoon.

“I liked the second half a lot better than the first,” utes and defense that, according to Summitt, was lacking Summitt said. “I thought we did a lot of good things. We during Williams’ freshman campaign.

“As a freshman, about two minutes and we had to pull Poor shooting doesn’t always translate into a loss in col- got five players in double figures; I like the balance of that. her,” Summitt said. “Now, even when she gets tired, she We did a much better job of getting on the boards, much lege basketball. The Lady Vols proved as much on Sunday.

Tennessee (4-0) shook off a shoddy afternoon from the better defensively. I thought we shared the ball really can push through it. That right there can help us tremendously. Her defense, I thought, was really solid.” court to outlast Arizona State (2-1) 80-64 at Thompson- well.”

The Lady Vols did struggle from the free-throw line, hitThe first period featured a seesawing 20 minutes of Boling Arena. ting only 15-of-28 (54 percent). play.

After UT jumped out to a quick 10-2 lead, Arizona Shekinna Stricklen led UT with 18 points, with Glory “I’m not happy,” Summitt said. “We will be shooting a Johnson adding 14 points —13 in the second half — and State staged a rally midway through the half to take an 18lot (Monday).”

17 lead on an Adrianna Thomas layup with 8:40 to play.

15 rebounds. Five Lady Vols scored in double figures.

The lead, however, would be short lived.

The Lady Vols buckled down on defense, finishing the half on a 16-0 run for a 33-18 lead at intermission.

“Our defense elevated there,” Summitt said. “I think that got us a few baskets.”

Tennessee didn’t look back in the second half. A Meighan Simmons layup gave UT its largest lead of 23 with just less than six minutes left in the game.

Stricklen said a rough Friday practice cemented the importance of defense into the team’s mindset.

“I think that’s just what we carried over into the game today,” Stricklen said. “Everyone was really focused on their defense. I think that helped a lot.”

Summitt said the catalyst for Tennessee’s second-half effort was Johnson, whom Summitt called UT’s “best athlete” on the roster. The coach pulled Johnson aside during the first period, scolding the forward for her lackluster effort.

“She had to step up for us,” Summitt said. “She was blending in. I just felt like she was rushing. (But) she responded.”

Summitt said the box score told the story.

“Fifteen boards,” Summitt said of Johnson’s statline. “(I) wish we’d get that every game.”

Tara Sripunvoraskul • The Daily Beacon Matthew DeMaria• The Daily Beacon Johnson’s offense blossomed in the Glory Johnson rests between free throw attempts on Sunday, Shekinna Stricklen shoots a free throw on Sunday, Nov. 21. second half, thanks in part to Summitt’s Nov. 21. After starting slow in the first half, Johnson posted a halftime adjustments.

Stricklen led the Lady Vols with 18 points in an 80-64 victory “I love rebounding, I love playing double-double with 14 points and 15 rebounds. over the Arizona State Sun Devils. defense,” Johnson said. “It just so hapPlayers said the scoring balance, however, was key to pens that (Summitt) loves defense and she loves reboundDymond Simons led Arizona State with 13 points.

For Tennessee coach Pat Summitt, it was a tale of two ing. I have a great jumping ability, and I’m going to use the victory and is quickly becoming a staple of this year’s Lady Vol squad. halves. UT hit 34 percent of its shots in the first period what God gave me to rebound.”

“We’ve had a lot of people step up this year to score,” With foul trouble plaguing Simmons, Summitt used before bouncing back to hit at a 57-percent clip after halftime. Tennessee and Arizona State combined for 49 fouls Kamiko Williams at point guard in key spurts throughout Stricklen said. “... That’s a big plus for us this year.”

Zac Ellis

Editor-in-Chief

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Monday, November 22, 2010

THESPORTSPAGE

Vols edge Commodores in sloppy win UT supports Pearl despite suspension Matt Dixon Sports Editor NASHVILLE — Tennessee (5-6, 2-5 SEC) played a sloppy, mistake-filled game Saturday against Vanderbilt (2-9, 1-7 SEC) but found a way to leave Nashville with a three-game winning streak and the possibility of a bowl game still alive.

The Volunteers looked as if they would pick up where they left off each of the last two weeks in the first half but had to fight off a valiant Commodore effort to win 24-10 in front of a crowd of 37,017.

“We made enough mistakes today to last us for a season,” UT coach Derek Dooley said. “I knew this was going to be a tough game. Give Vanderbilt a lot of credit: They brought it for 60 minutes, and we really struggled, had a lot of opportunities to put the game away, and we didn’t capitalize.”

UT’s offense, which scored 102 points against Memphis and Ole Miss in its last two games, failed to find an identity against Vanderbilt. True freshman quarterback Tyler Bray threw two touchdown passes in the first half to give the Vols a 14-0 lead midway through the second quarter but was out of sync the rest of the game.

“Tyler struggled with decision-making, and you have to give Vanderbilt a lot of credit for that,” Dooley said. “I knew it’d be a tough game for Tyler.”

Bray finished 16-of-27 for 232 yards with two touchdowns and two interceptions. His first interception came with the Vols deep in Commodore territory and changed the momentum of the entire game.

Instead of going up by three scores, the interception allowed Vanderbilt to put together a 17-play drive, which resulted in a field goal as the first-half clock expired.

Neither team scored in the third quarter, but Vols’ kicker Daniel Lincoln extended the UT lead back to 14 with a 28-yard field goal early in the fourth quarter.

After trading punts, the Commodores drove to the UT 13-yard line before sophomore free safety Janzen Jackson intercepted a Jared Funk pass at the goal line. The interception kept the Vols up by two touchdowns and proved to be a difference in the game.

“It was big,” Jackson said. “We need a turnover or a stop right there in the red zone, because we knew that they would have another chance to get the ball if they scored. That was big for us.”

The Commodores got into the end zone for the first time in the game with 2:33 remaining when Funk connected with wide receiver Jordan Matthews for a 16-yard touchdown pass to bring Vanderbilt within a touchdown at 17-10.

After recovering an onside kick, the Vols faced a fourth-and-2 from the Commodore 28-yard line.

Junior running back Tauren Poole took the handoff and raced through a hole on the left side of the offensive line to the end zone to help preserve the UT victory.

“My hat’s off to Vanderbilt, because they played extremely hard,” Poole said. “They out-efforted us tonight. We give it all to them because they played hard, and we have to play better to beat Kentucky.”

Poole finished the game with 99 yards on the ground, but the running game once again had a hard time getting yards consistently.

“We’re not good at running the ball, and that’s why we struggled,” Dooley said. “We played really well for being not good at running the ball. We stink at running the ball.”

The Vols’ defense did play well, however. The 10 points UT gave up were the fewest it had allowed to an FBS team this season.

“Give the team a lot of credit, because with all the mistakes we made, we held them to 10 points, which is a great effort by the defense,” Dooley said.

“We won the game, we found a way to win, and that’s what matters.”

Senior defensive end Gerald Williams had his best performance as a Vol. The 6-foot-3, 250-pound Williams recorded eight tackles — a career-high — and notched a sack and a blocked field goal, which he recovered.

His most notable play, however, didn’t appear in the box score. Williams intercepted a Larry Smith pass and returned it 71 yards for a touchdown, but the play was called back because of a personal foul

Matt Dixon Sports Editor Friday’s press conference, where Tennessee announced SEC Commissioner Mike Slive had suspended men’s basketball coach Bruce Pearl, came as a surprise to some.

It was a surprise even to members of the media who arrived at Thompson-Boling Arena expecting Pearl to address the upcoming trip to New York City for the semifinals of the Dick’s Sporting Goods NIT Season Tip-off.

Instead, the suspension of Pearl for the first eight conference games of the Vols becomes the headline in a week UT hoped it could shift the attention from Pearl’s off-the-court problems to the team’s performance in one of the iconic sporting venues in the

Matthew DeMaria• The Daily Beacon

Denarius Moore narrowly avoids Vanderbilt cornerback Casey Hayward for a touchdown on Saturday, Nov. 20. Moore’s touchdown aided in a 24-10 victory over the Commodores, which helped keep the Vols’ bowl chances alive heading back home to Neyland Stadium to face Kentucky in the last game of the regular season. on junior defensive tackle Malik Jackson.

“He was active,” Dooley said. “Blocked a field goal, and he had the pick-six that didn’t count.

That’s unfortunate, you know, guys dream about (those).”

The win puts the Vols in position to end the season on a four-game winning streak and become bowl eligible. UT’s regular season finale will be Saturday against Kentucky, who the Vols have beaten 25 times in a row — the longest such win streak in the country.

“We’ve got a one-game season,” Dooley said. “We lose, we go home. We win, we’ve got a heck of an opportunity to go to the postseason.”

country: Madison Square Garden.

Not a TV timeout will go by without ESPN hammering home the fact that Pearl will miss half of the conference season and is still under investigation by the NCAA. Still, if UT fans think this suspension is harsh, they should wait until the NCAA concludes its investigation of the Vols’ hoops program. The NCAA turns a blind eye to a lot of things, but one thing it doesn’t blink from is being lied to.

Pearl did this, and the basketball program will suffer because of it.

Pearl still has the majority of support from fans,

and more importantly, the people in power at UT, at least for now. This was evident once again on Friday when Chancellor Jimmy Cheek publically acknowledged that Pearl would coach at UT for “many, many years.”

Standing by Pearl is the only real move UT has at this point. The school won’t get rid of Pearl unless it absolutely has to.

By not firing Pearl upon his admittance to lying to the NCAA, regardless of whether it should have or not, Tennessee put the future of the basketball program solely on Pearl, despite the national backlash it received.

And why not?

Pearl took a Tennessee program from the bottom of the SEC and lifted it into national prominence. Pearl inherited a program that was a sleeping giant — a hungry, passionate fanbase, a topnotch arena and the resources to compete with any other team in the country.

If UT was going to get rid of Pearl, it would’ve done so in the summer, when these allegations came to light. But it was the school’s decision to stick with Pearl and suffer the consequences for his violations and subsequent lying to NCAA investigators.

Tennessee fans can no longer make fun of Kentucky coach John Calipari for his vacated Final Fours. They can also no longer scold Alabama for being cheaters, because like Calipari and the Crimson Tide, Pearl went past the gray area outlined by NCAA rules.

Still, did Alabama fans care about the Albert Means scandal last January when the Crimson Tide were capping off a perfect season by winning a national championship? Did the Big Blue Nation care about test scores of Calipari’s players at Memphis when they were the top team in the country for much of last year?

Of course not.

The NCAA could take scholarships away and/or give the Vols a postseason tournament ban for a couple of years. If either or both of those occur, UT will almost have to see a decline from where it is now as a basketball program.

The question then becomes can Pearl overcome adversity once again. It took Pearl 20 years to overcome adversity in the coaching community to become a head coach at a prominent school like UT in 2005.

Pearl turned a Tennessee basketball program around seemingly overnight and must find a way to keep the Vols at or near the top of the SEC while enduring the university, SEC and, ultimately, NCAA sanctions.

The only reason Pearl is still at UT now is because of his success on the court. If that success begins to falter amid troubles off the court, it could still cost him and athletic director Mike Hamilton their jobs.

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