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Streak, season over With makeshift offense, Kentucky beats Tennessee for first time since 1984, 10-7 Matt Dixon Sports Editor LEXINGTON, Ky. — Some expected Tennessee to lose to Vanderbilt. Few, if any, thought the Volunteers would lose to Kentucky.

But for the first time in 27 years, that’s exactly what happened Saturday afternoon in Commonwealth Stadium.

The Wildcats (5-7, 2-6 SEC) used a wide receiver, Matt Roark, at quarterback and found a way to end the nation’s longest losing streak to another school, defeating the Vols (5-7, 1-7) 10-7.

“Well, real bad ending to a real bad year and it’s hard to say much more than that,” UT coach Derek Dooley said. “Our biggest fears were realized.”

A win would’ve made UT bowl eligible, but the loss ends UT’s season and gives the Vols back-toback losing seasons for the first time since 1910-11.

“It’s a sick feeling to my stomach ’cause I really didn’t want my seniors — for Kentucky to be their last game and to lose to Kentucky after 26 years,” defensive tackle Maurice Couch said. “It’s just real tough to explain.”

Roark attempted just six passes, going 4-of-6 for 15 yards, but the Wildcats ran for 202 yards, including 124 from the unexpected signal-caller.

“We thought they might come out in ‘Wildcat,’” Dooley said. “Didn’t know it was going to be the whole game.”

After UT went three-and-out on the opening drive, Kentucky went on a 15-play, 62-yard drive that ended with a 24-yard field goal to put the Wildcats up 3-0 midway through the first quarter.

Despite the Vols getting inside the UK 35-yard line twice, neither team scored again until the fourth quarter.

“We were just miserable in the first half on offense and had a chance in the second half but couldn’t execute,” Dooley said.

A Michael Palardy 47-yard field goal was blocked early in the second quarter. On UT’s next possession, the Vols marched down to the UK 31-yard line, but facing a fourth-and-four, quarterback Tyler

Bray’s pass was deflected at the line of scrimmage.

In the third quarter, Bray connected with Rajion Neal on a 44-yard completion to set the Vols up with a first-and-goal from the Wildcats’ 8. Two plays later, Neal let a shotgun snap go through his hands and UK recovered.

“That’s something I’ve just got to take on my shoulders,” Neal said. “I mean, it’s ... it’s tough and I apologize for it. I was really hurting after it.”

The Wildcats took that momentum and responded with an 8-play, 77-yard drive capped off by a 6yard touchdown run by tailback CoShik Williams to put UK up 10-0 with 14:12 remaining in the game.

The key play of the drive was Roark’s 26-yard scramble on third-and-12 from the UT 33-yard line.

Roark appeared to fumble the ball as he was being tackled and UT believed it had recovered. Dooley challenged the play, but officials confirmed the call, setting up Williams’ score two plays later.

The Vols’ lone score came less than a minute and a half later on a 53-yard deep strike from Bray to Neal.

Neal was UT’s leading receiver in the game with four receptions for 125 yards and one score. It was his first 100-yard receiving game of his career.

Bray, who was sick in the days leading up the game, was just 15-of-38 for 215 yards with one touchdown and two interceptions.

“I went out there and played horrible,” Bray said.

“First half was horrible. Second half, I had that one drive, that was about it.”

A week after beating in-state rival Vanderbilt in what Dooley called “a big step for our program,” UT appeared flat against a Wildcats team playing only for pride.

“You saw it on the field, you saw it as well as I did, except I was out there playing,” senior tailback Tauren Poole said. “Seemed like everyone was down. We had the chance to go to a bowl. That chance is shot now. At the end of the day, we can’t complain. Kentucky brought it, we didn’t take • Photo courtesy of Wade Rackley/UTADPHOTO advantage of our opportunities. Here we’re sitting, Tennessee players huddle together before a play during a game against Kentucky 26-year streak gone. on Saturday, Nov. 26. The Vols dropped the game 10-7, giving the Wildcats their first “It’s embarrassing just to be a Vol right now.” win over UT since the 1984 season.

Energy security starts with ethanol Ali Griffin Staff Writer As the semester comes to an end and the holidays approach, many students will be driving miles to return home for the break.

“Going home has just become more expensive,” Elise Baskett, senior in psychology, said. “I’ve kind of accepted the fact that I have to do a lot of budgeting just to get home to Nashville.”

An increase in gas is a ramification of many factors, including the current American economy. Home-grown alternative fuel sources have been proposed as possible aids to the current economy and environmental problem.

“The biggest advantage of alternative fuel comes down to home-grown fuel sources,” Sam Jackson Ph.D., vice president of Feedstock Operations for Genera Energy, said.

Genera Energy and UT have been working together to create alternative fuels made from switchgrass, which can be grown on land that is not suitable for other crop production.

“Ultimately, switchgrass and other plant materials are simply sources of sugars to manufacture ethanol,” Jackson said.

“These sugars come from cellulose, which is found in the walls of plant cells and is one of the most common organic compounds on earth.”

Most of the ethanol fuel created today comes from corn because it is easier to break down the sugar in the kernels.

One disadvantage, however, is that a majority of the product is not used so a lot of biomass is wasted. In the production of switchgrass, the entire plant is used as a source for sugars found in cellulose instead of just one part, such as corn kernels.

“By using cellulose to create ethanol, a wide variety of new sources of sugar are available for ethanol production, and producers do not have to rely on a

specific grain commodity (corn),” Jackson said.

Jackson believes such a resource for alternative fuel will help provide energy security, which he feels is extremely valuable.

“We can increase our energy independence and security while contributing to rural economic development in the U.S. by growing biomass feedstocks for fuel, converting them and using them in local communities across the nation,” Jackson said.

There are some disadvantages to switchgrass alternative fuels, which Jackson feels are due to consumer education and acceptance.

“Ultimately, we have to more effectively educate the general public about biofuels and their positive impacts for there to be widespread adoption,” Jackson said. “We can do better with our engine technologies and automotive industry. These changes will take time, money and the simple will to change.

Change is never easy and I see that as one of our biggest challenges.”

Much of the Southeast, including Knoxville, has shown an increase in the availability of E-85, the term for alternative fuels produced by companies like Genera.

“The Knoxville area has three E-85 stations available to the public,” Jackson said.

Even greater than the increase in the use of E-85 is the availability of flexfuel vehicles that can use gasoline or a higher blend of ethanol.

“Lots of cars sold today can use anything from 100 percent gasoline to E-85,” Jackson said.

“This has been a big improvement and will help increase the use of alternative fuels.”

Currently the U.S. is using about 14 to 15 billion gallons of ethanol per year. Although this is a large number, Jackson and many other alternative fuel supporters feel this is a long way to go before it trumps the 140 billion gallons of gasoline consumed per year.

Students avoid banks with trivial fees “When they were talking about implementing a $5 fee just for using my Ali Griffin check card, I was definitely on the verge Staff Writer of leaving,” Santos said. “If they implemented a fee for simply having my Banks across America, including account, the decision would be obviWells Fargo, SunTrust and Bank of ous.”

America, have recently implemented Many students and recent graduates higher bank fees after a newly passed are frustrated that the new fees are law that prohibits banks from automatiaffecting their cally charging overdraft fees. demographic.

“I was relieved to find out that “I don’t like that I couldn’t overdraft anymore, as I the fees apply to recently graduated, and with people with less applying to graduate school it money in their was nice to not have to worry accounts,” Steve about overdrafting bank Halbert, senior in account,” Laura Boone, UT stupsychology, said. dent assistant, said.

“It seems to me Banks now are no longer that if you have less allowed to implement overdraft money, those peoprotection without the consent of ple probably have a the customer. The option is still harder time affordavailable, but is not required. ing the mainteCutbacks such as overdraft nance fee. fees may start to be offset by new “I just think it’s bank fees that many banks are frustrating as well using. that legislation was For example, SunTrust is now passed to help peocharging a $7 monthly mainteple out financially nance fee for a previously free and some banks are checking account. This fee can be still trying to make waived with a minimum daily colup the money lected balance of $500 or a somehow; or that’s monthly direct deposit amount of at least what it at least $100 at a time per billing seems like to me cycle. and many of my Initially, banks like SunTrust friends in the same and Regions decided to impleposition.” ment an average $5 monthly fee Some of these for the use of a check card. Many large banks are account holders voiced their disFrancis Glynn • The Daily Beacon offering lower rates like of the new fee and most for student checkbanks, including SunTrust, Steven Lewandowski, sophomore in public relations, with- ing. SunTrust lowRegions and Bank of America, draws money from an ATM at the Money Wall on Thursday, ered their $7 made the decision to waive this Nov. 10. Banks such as Bank of American have been forced monthly fee to $4. fee. to charge higher fees due to a national law which prohibits Bank of America “I would almost rather have them from automatically charging fees when a customer waives their monthautomatic overdraft protection overdrafts. ly fee as long as over a monthly maintenance fee,” deposits are made Boone said. “You can take some personal responsibility in making sure monthly fee,” Chris Santos, sophomore online or electronically, without the use that you do not go over your balance, in political science, said. “I bank at of a teller.

Many local banks and credit unions but with these new fees I don’t feel like Regions right now and currently there are still offering completely free checkaren’t any fees.” we even have a choice.

Santos was disenchanted with the ing. Most rates are available online and “It wouldn’t be such a problem if the offer specific rates for students. use of debit cards and checking idea of increased trivial fees. accounts weren’t a part of our everyday lives. Not having a checking account makes paying bills and daily life that much more difficult.”

With the increase of such fees, many students are considering switching to smaller banks and credit unions.

“Essentially there’s no reason to stay at a bank that is going to charge me a

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InSHORT

Monday, November 28, 2011

Tara Sripunvoraskul • The Daily Beacon

A fan at the Tennessee vs. Baylor basketball game holds a sign in support of Lady Vols head coach Pat Summitt on Sunday, Nov. 27. Since the announcement of Pat’s condition, there has been an outpouring of support for the legendary coach who has helped lead UT to eight national championships.

1095 — On Nov. 27, 1095, Pope Urban II makes perhaps the most influential speech of the Middle Ages, giving rise to the Crusades by calling all Christians in Europe to war against Muslims in order to reclaim the Holy Land, with a cry of “Deus vult!” or “God wills it!”

Born Odo of Lagery in 1042, Urban was a protege of the great reformer Pope Gregory VII. Like Gregory, he made internal reform his main focus, railing against simony (the selling of church offices) and other clerical abuses prevalent during the Middle Ages. Urban showed himself to be an adept and powerful cleric, and when he was elected pope in 1088, he applied his statecraft to weakening support for his rivals, notably Clement III. By the end of the 11th century, the Holy Land—the area now commonly referred to as the Middle East—had become a point of conflict for European Christians. Since the 6th century, Christians frequently made pilgrimages to the birthplace of their religion, but when the Seljuk Turks took control of Jerusalem, Christians were barred from the Holy City. When the Turks then threatened to invade the Byzantine Empire and take Constantinople, Byzantine Emperor Alexius I made a special appeal to Urban for help.

This was not the first appeal of its kind, but it came at an important time for Urban. Wanting to reinforce the power of the papacy, Urban seized the opportunity to unite Christian Europe under him as he fought to take back the Holy Land from the Turks.

At the Council of Clermont, in France, at which several hundred clerics and noblemen gathered, Urban delivered a rousing speech summoning rich and poor alike to stop their in-fighting and embark on a right-

eous war to help their fellow Christians in the East and take back Jerusalem. Urban denigrated the Muslims, exaggerating stories of their anti-Christian acts, and promised absolution and remission of sins for all who died in the service of Christ.

Urban’s war cry caught fire, mobilizing clerics to drum up support throughout Europe for the crusade against the Muslims. All told, between 60,000 and 100,000 people responded to Urban’s call to march on Jerusalem. Not all who responded did so out of piety: European nobles were tempted by the prospect of increased land holdings and riches to be gained from the conquest. These nobles were responsible for the death of a great many innocents both on the way to and in the Holy Land, absorbing the riches and estates of those they conveniently deemed opponents to their cause. Adding to the death toll was the inexperience and lack of discipline of the Christian peasants against the trained, professional armies of the Muslims. As a result, the Christians were initially beaten back, and only through sheer force of numbers were they eventually able to triumph.

Urban died in 1099, two weeks after the fall of Jerusalem but before news of the Christian victory made it back to Europe. His was the first of seven major military campaigns fought over the next two centuries known as the Crusades, the bloody repercussions of which are still felt today. Urban was beatified by the Roman Catholic Church in 1881.

1868 — Without bothering to identify the village or do any reconnaissance, Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer leads an early morning attack on a band of peaceful Cheyenne living with Chief Black Kettle.

— This Day in History courtesy of History.com.

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Students debate health mandate Speakers argue constitutionality of new PPACA health insurance bill Justin Joo Staff Writer On Nov. 17, students gathered in the Baker Center’s Toyota Auditorium for Public Policy to hear a student debate over the constitutionality of the individual mandate of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA).

The two debaters were Christopher Bush, a freshman in Russian studies with a pre-med concentration, and Calvin Hiatt, a freshman in public administration. Bush defended the constitutionality of the individual mandate, while Hiatt argued against it.

The individual mandate is part of the PPACA that requires everyone in the United States to have some form of health insurance. Those who do not have any health insurance by 2014 will have to pay a penalty. The Supreme Court of the United States will consider the constitutionality of the individual mandate in March 2012.

Bush argued that Congress had the constitutional right to enact such a policy because Congress has the enumerated power to regulate interstate commerce. Because health insurance can be used between states, Bush argued, it could be considered an interstate commerce that Congress can regulate as it chooses, thus constitutionally validating the individual mandate.

Hiatt disagreed with the commerce argument.

“It’s not regulating commerce; it’s creating commerce by forcing people to participate in the market,” Hiatt said.

Hiatt also argued against the usage of the penalty fee, which people would have to pay if they do not have some form of health insurance. The penalty is being defined as an excise tax, but Hiatt argued that an excise tax covers goods consumed, while the penalty would be charged to people not partaking in a good.

Bush countered by saying, regardless, the Internal Revenue Service is considering the penalty an excise tax, and therefore, the penalty and the rest of the mandate are constitutional.

Bush also involved the audience to illustrate Matthew DeMaria • The Daily Beacon how health insurance could be considered interSmokey runs through a tunnel of fans and cheerleaders ahead of the Lady Vols state commerce. He asked audience members to basketball team before a game against Baylor on Sunday, Nov. 27.

raise their hands if they’ve been sick outside of Tennessee and used their insurance.

“I think I’ve just demonstrated how (health insurance) is an interstate commerce,” Bush said.

Hiatt conceded that Bush made “a pretty good point.”

After the debate, a question-and-answer session was opened, which was moderated by Dr. Carole Myers, assistant professor in the College of Nursing, and Carl Pierce, executive director at the Baker Center. Myers and Pierce fielded the questions as well as contributed information regarding the individual mandate and other legal aspects that the debaters or the audience might not be familiar with.

The debate was put together by Myers’ UH100 class, “Healthcare Reform: Why, What and When,” which is part of the University Honors Program. More than 60 people gathered in the Toyota Auditorium, many of them students in the UH100 class, including Bush and Hiatt.

“We had research teams,” Hiatt said. “Everyone had a role in the debate. We had people who greeted; we had people who wrote up a brochure. …

Everyone took part one way or another.”

Krishna Detroja, freshman in biological sciences, enjoyed the debate.

“It opened views and gave people a lot to think about,” Detroja said.

However, she wasn’t sure which side won the debate, feeling that both sides presented a lot of information and valid arguments.

Undecided sophomore Sierra Sorter felt that both sides of the debate won, although she personally thinks the mandate is unconstitutional.

“I thought it was a very civil forum, and it provided a lot of very important information, especially considering we’re all young voters,” Sorter said.

Bush was pleased with the debate, feeling that everyone’s contribution really helped, including that of his opposition. His motivation for being the defender of the mandate’s constitutionality stems from his strong support of the health care reform bill.

“It’s a universal right that everyone have health care. It’s ridiculous to me that we haven’t done this sooner,” Bush said.

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Monday, November 28, 2011

OPINIONS

GuestColumn Marx, Wall Street, 99 percent: Part 2 According to the BBC, a poll conducted by the New York Times and CBS News (NYT 2011) shows that distrust in government is at its highest level ever. Almost half of those polled expressed the view that the beliefs carried by the Wall Street movements matched that of the general American population. And two-thirds believed that wealth should be more evenly distributed throughout the U.S. When viewed together, the NYT and CBS studies show a correlation between economic inequality and distrust in government. In short, Marx theories are eerily accurate.

When capitalism no longer serves as a device by which not only the rich can prosper but also the bottom and more importantly middle class can still provide for themselves, then this will show itself by people turning not only against the people at the top of the economic ladder but also the political system itself.

However, one has to stop before going too far and painting Marx as some kind of Nostradamus-like figure. Where Marx theory fails to materialize, when looking at modern events such as the Occupy Wall Street movement, is his prediction of bloody revolution and what he called “growing pains” as the workers united against the abolition of private property, money and eventually the state.

The Wall Street protesters are not armed; they are not fighting off the police. In fact, in the face of tear gas and batons, they are running away. If Marx was right then these protesters would be marching into the offices of the politicians and bankers and spilling blood in order to destroy the bourgeoisie state.

This is where the theories of Marxism and the modern protest situation begin to separate. The Wall Street protesters do not call for blood; they do not call for the destruction of the entire system. What they are arguing for is simply that the financial regulations be put back so that the gap between rich and poor is no longer stretched.

Marx was smart enough to predict that at a certain point people would be upset by massive wealth inequality, but he didn’t realize that money, property and capitalism would become so ingrained into the system that we could never organize society without them. What we are seeing now is only the realization of the first and far less radical part of Marx’s prediction. People don’t like massive wealth inequality and the only real unifying factor among the protesters is that, on some level, they feel apprehensive about the accumulation of wealth by the top 1 percent of earners.

So while Marx accurately predicted that at some point capitalism would produce massive inequality that would lead to resentment, what has not yet sprung true is his idea that this would manifest into global armed revolution. As yet, what we have seen is mainly peaceful protests that are designed to show politicians and bankers that the corrupt practices that led to the financial collapse have not gone unnoticed and, until changes are made, this discontent will continue to be voiced, but as of yet not by any degree of force.

— Jamie Greig is a junior in journalism and electronic media. He can be reached at jgreig@utk.edu.

SCRAMBLED EGGS • Alex Cline

THE GREAT MASH-UP • Liz Newnam

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Take some optimism on football C ampbel l’s Co r n e r by

Seth Campbell As soon as the game went final Saturday afternoon, many of us got a unique sinking feeling.

For the first time in decades, we lost to Kentucky and this is going to result in our beloved UT football team not receiving a bowl bid. Losing to a mediocre Kentucky football team is bad. Not going to a bowl game is worse. Even though both of these are disappointing, I am not willing to overreact and call for the firing of coach Dooley.

It wasn’t a minute after the game went final that Facebook went wild with sensational demands.

Many UT students were disgusted and saddened with not only the results of Saturday’s game, but with the season as a whole. I understand the disappointment entirely. What I fail to understand is any UT student who believes Dooley should be let go.

These last few years have been harsh for any UT student who enjoys Volunteer athletics, specifically football. The long-standing Fulmer was suddenly gone. His replacement, Lane Kiffin, ditched our program in the middle of the night for sunny California. To top it all off, multiple coaching candidates refused to even be considered for the head coaching gig on Rocky Top. When all seemed lost, Derek Dooley came on the scene. Though not always rhetorically graceful, he embraced the spirit of the University of Tennessee and by all indications he fits right in. Dooley was able to provide a sense of stability to a once-shaky program. He certainly wasn’t shady like Kiffin and we know he won’t suddenly leave — kind of like a good girlfriend.

Regardless of character, the past two years have left quite a bit to be desired on the football field. In Dooley’s first year, we couldn’t close out the games.

We played hard, we just couldn’t seem to find that one last break to get a win. This year was a different story altogether. Once the injury bug hit, our team

was severely crippled on the offensive side. Though our defense was solid, we couldn’t generate the offense to stay in many of our tougher games.

Furthermore, this year also saw an extremely young team take the field. Not only were many freshmen and sophomores playing crucial roles, they were also playing one of the most difficult schedules in the nation. With all these factors in play, it seems increasingly difficult to rest much blame on the coaching staff. I’m not sure the greatest coach could handle this situation.

Dooley shouldn’t be immune to all of the criticism.

For instance, chanting and raving about beating Vanderbilt isn’t the Tennessee way. Since we’re expected to defeat Vanderbilt, it should be treated like another day at work. When we begin to become elated after beating Vanderbilt, we should remember the tradition of our program. Even though our Vanderbilt locker room celebration was ridiculous, we won the senior-night game and emotions were high.

As students of this university, giving Dooley time to build a credible program should be a focus. When several call for Dooley’s firing, they must forget the turbulence our program just endured. We have a head coach who is a top recruiter, so we should give him time to build his team, not a team handed to him by his predecessors.

After such a tough season, it’s easy to overreact.

We all want results and we all want to be a top-ranked team once again. If we truly are dedicated to becoming an elite football university, we will give coach Dooley time.

Many have claimed that this football squad is the worst of all time. Having not reviewed the film of some historic UT teams, I would politely remind these pessimists that the legendary Johnny Major never won more than five games in his first two seasons. I’d say Major went on to have a pretty good career at UT. Dooley has his work in front of him. It seems to many of us that he is the man for the job. He picked us up when we were down, and though this season was disappointing, I will gladly stand in his corner while he builds a successful program.

— Seth Campbell is a senior in history. He can be reached at scampb42@utk.edu.

Avoid overextending holiday debt Off the Deep End by

Derek Mullins

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Everyone’s family has holiday traditions, especially when it comes to Thanksgiving. Whether it is gathering around the table at Granny’s, decorating an evergreen tree almost a month before Christmas, huddling up around a big screen television to watch the Detroit Lions or the Dallas Cowboys play their annual Thanksgiving games, or almost burning the house down while attempting to deep fry a turkey the size of a small car, everyone’s family has something that they usually do on that storied Thursday in late November. This year, however, I was pleasantly surprised and fittingly thankful that a tradition commonly observed by certain members of my extended family went unpracticed.

Almost from the time some genius marketing representative or business guru came up with the dubiously creative idea of offering special “One Day Only!” deals on the Friday after Thanksgiving, certain members of my family partook in the madness that has come to be termed “Black Friday.”

Their enthusiasm for shopping on this particular day became so great that it soon became a game of strategy for others, including myself, to sit at my grandmother’s dinner table with them, scan through various sales papers that were inserted into the newspaper, and assist them in planning out their days to maximize their shopping power so they could get to as many bargains as possible. After all, why not help cousins figure out how to blow their savings and checking accounts and ratchet up horrendous amounts of credit card over the span of 12 hours?

It was not my money. Besides, one should always help family members in need, right?

What was more alarming was that their spending habits went unchanged as the economy started to get progressively worse a few years ago. They continued to overspend, charging obscene amounts to their credit cards every year on that one particular Friday in November just so someone they knew could receive a flashy little gizmo.

This year, however, things changed. There was no spreading out catalogs or sales papers on the dining room table. There was no mapping out a battle

plan for my relatives to utilize the next morning.

There were no grand debates as to which stores had better deals on superior brand names. Instead, everyone acquiesced to the fact that they were broke.

Regardless of how depressing it might have felt, they realized that it made absolutely no sense to dig themselves into a hole that, regardless of their job title or description, they could not be sure they would be able to climb out of just so they could purchase a microwave for $3 or a television for four cents to give to someone for Christmas.

For once, my family came to its senses.

Unfortunately for the national sanity, many did not.

Year after year, the same story has run on news programs, both local and national. Invariably, a reporter discusses how everything hinges on consumers flocking to stores at an ungodly hour to try to buy an obscure toy that has somehow become the must-have item of the season for a supposedly good price. They make it sound as though the entire American economy will completely collapse unless Joe and Mary Blow from Topeka, Kan. rush to their local Big Box Mart and pick up that doll that wets itself for Susie, that animatronic dog for Billy and three miniature “netbook” computers … just because.

After the festivities are over, they invariably come back on the same program and celebrate, saying we have all been saved and everything is still right with the world.

This nonsense has got to stop.

I understand the compulsion to give gifts to those you care about, but a line has to be drawn. If you cannot afford to pay your bills as it is, there is absolutely no reason to go out and spend beyond your means to try to demonstrate your affection for someone with how much you are willing to spend on them. If you are strapped for cash or, should you be so lucky in these uneasy times, even have a little extra to spend this holiday season, do the sensible thing and make appropriate decisions. Though it is not a pleasant thing to do, determine an appropriate value to spend on immediate family members, extended family members, close friends, coworkers, etc. and spend accordingly. It’s O.K. to have a little debt after Christmas, just don’t overdo it.

I suppose I am asking for a bit of common sense from you for Christmas. Hope you got to Wal-Mart early on Friday to get some.

— Derek Mullins is a senior in political science. He can be reached at dmullin5@utk.edu.

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Black Friday madness sinks lower Shoppers met with unexpected challenges finding bargains The Associated Press NEW YORK — Peppersprayed customers, smashand-grab looters and bloody scenes in the shopping aisles.

How did Black Friday devolve into this?

As reports of shoppingrelated violence rolled in this week from Los Angeles to New York, experts say a volatile mix of desperate retailers and cutthroat marketing has hyped the traditional post-Thanksgiving sales to increasingly frenzied levels. With stores opening earlier, bargain-obsessed shoppers often are sleepdeprived and short-tempered.

Arriving in darkness, they also find themselves vulnerable to savvy parking-lot muggers.

Add in the online-coupon phenomenon, which feeds the psychological hunger for finding impossible bargains, and you’ve got a recipe for trouble, said Theresa Williams, a marketing professor at Indiana University.

“These are people who should know better and have enough stuff already,” Williams said. “What’s going to be next year, everybody getting Tasered?”

Across the country on Thursday and Friday, there were signs that tensions had ratcheted up a notch or two, with violence resulting in several instances.

A woman turned herself in to police after allegedly pepper-spraying 20 other customers at a Los Angeles-area Walmart on Thursday in what investigators said was an attempt to get at a crate of Xbox video game consoles. In Kinston, N.C., a security guard also pepper-sprayed customers seeking electronics before the start of a midnight sale.

In New York, crowds reportedly looted a clothing store in Soho. At a Walmart near Phoenix, a man was bloodied while being subdued by police officer on suspicion of shoplifting a video game.

There was a shooting outside a store in San Leandro, Calif., shots fired at a mall in

Fayetteville, N.C. and a stabbing outside a store in Sacramento, N.Y. “The difference this year is that instead of a nice sweater you need a bullet proof vest and goggles,” said Betty Thomas, 52, who was shopping Saturday with her sisters and a niece at Crabtree Valley Mall in Raleigh, N.C. The wave of violence revived memories of the 2008 Black Friday stampede that killed an employee and put a pregnant woman in the hospital at a Walmart on New York’s Long Island. Walmart spokesman Greg Rossiter said Black Friday 2011 was safe at most of its nearly 4,000 U.S. stores despite “a few unfortunate incidents.”

Black Friday — named that because it puts retailers “in the black” — has become more intense as companies compete for customers in a weak economy, said Jacob Jacoby, an expert on consumer behavior at New York University.

The idea of luring in customers with a few “doorbuster” deals has long been a staple of the postThanksgiving sales. But now stores are opening earlier, and those deals are getting more extreme, he said.

“There’s an awful lot of psychology going on here,” Jacoby said. “There’s the notion of scarcity — when something’s scarce it’s more valued. And a resource that can be very scarce is time: If you don’t get there in time, it’s going to be gone.”

There’s also a new factor, Williams said: the rise of coupon websites like Groupon and LivingSocial, the online equivalents of doorbusters that usually deliver a single, one-day offer with savings of up to 80 percent on museum tickets, photo portraits, yoga classes and the like.

The services encourage impulse buying and an obsession with bargains, Williams said, while also getting businesses hooked on quick infusions of customers.

“The whole notion of getting a deal, that’s all we’ve seen for the last two years,”

Williams said. “It’s about stimulating consumers’ quick reactions. How do we get their attention quickly? How do we create cash flow for today?”

To grab customers first, some stores are opening late on Thanksgiving Day, turning bargain-hunting from an early-morning activity into an all-night slog, said Ed Fox, a marketing professor at Southern Methodist University in Dallas.

Midnight shopping puts everyone on edge and also makes shoppers targets for muggers, he said.

In fact, robbery appeared to be the motive behind the shooting in San Leandro, about 15 miles east of San Francisco. Police said robbers shot a victim as he was walking to a car with his purchases around 1:45 a.m. on Friday.

“There are so many hours now where people are shopping in the darkness that it provides cover for people who are going to try to steal or rob those who are out in numbers,” Fox said.

The violence has prompted some analysts to wonder if the sales are worth it, and what solutions might work.

In a New York Times column this week, economist Robert Frank proposed slapping a 6 percent sales tax on purchases between 6 p.m. on Thanksgiving and 6 a.m. on Friday in an attempt to stop the “arms race” of earlier and earlier sales.

Small retailers, meanwhile, are pushing so-called Small Business Saturday to woo customers who are turned off by the Black Friday crush.

President Barack Obama even joined in, going book shopping on Saturday at a small bookstore a few blocks from the White House.

“A lot of retailers, independent retailers, are making the conscious decision to not work those crazy hours,” said Patricia Norins, a retail consultant for American Express.

Next up is Cyber Monday, when online retailers put their wares on sale. But on Saturday many shoppers said they still prefer buying at the big stores, despite the frenzy.

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Mr. Scrooge, played by David Kortemeier, lies on the ground as the ghost of Jacob Marley, played by Jed Diamond, hovers overhead on Tuesday, Nov. 22. “A Christmas Carol” is currently airing at The Clarence Brown Theatre, running through Sunday, Dec. 18.

Political unrest plagues Congo airport fired tear gas and live ammunition into the burgeoning crowd. Riot police manned the airport for hours afterward to prevent Tshisekedi and his convoy from leaving.

Police inspector general Charles Bisengimana said four bodies were recovered and taken to a morgue on Sunday, and said opposition supporters attacked the president's supporters. He also blamed Tshisekedi for refusing to leave the airport.

Tshisekedi said Sunday that more than 10 people were killed and 68 were wounded. He said three of the dead were members of his office and were killed by police, but he did not give details on the others. Later Sunday, Godefroid Mayobo, an official from a party allied with President Joseph Kabila, said their supporters were attacked by Tshisekedi’s supporters, leaving three dead. And two dead bodies were seen on the road leading to the airport when clashes erupted there.

The European Union’s election observation mission criticized police in a statement released Sunday.

The Associated Press KINSHASA, Congo — Election officials in Congo said Sunday that a critical national poll would go ahead Monday, after a weekend marred by deadly clashes at political gatherings, reports of delayed ballots and fears that the vote could re-ignite conflict in the large, mineral-rich central African nation.

Daniel Ngoy Mulunda, president of the Independent National Electoral Commission, said Sunday the vote would take place.

Commission Vice President Jacques Ndjoli said separately: “We invite our people to go vote calmly.”

At least four people were killed in Saturday’s clashes when political supporters headed to Kinshasa’s main airport to welcome their candidate. Main opposition candidate Etienne Tshisekedi arrived; the president — who is expected to win the poll — did not pass through as expected.

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Budget cuts hurt humanities HARTFORD, Conn. — Like many humanities advocates, Abbey Drane was disheartened but not surprised when Florida’s governor recently said its tax dollars should bolster science and high-tech studies, not “educate more people who can’t get jobs in anthropology.”

Drane, a 21-year-old anthropology major at the University of MassachusettsAmherst, has spent years defending her choice to pursue that liberal arts field.

And now, as states tighten their allocations to public universities, many administrators say they’re feeling pressure to defend the worth of humanities, too, and shield the genre from budget cuts. One university president has gone as far as donating $100,000 of her own money to offer humanities scholarships at her school.

Florida Gov. Rick Scott’s comments last month cut to the heart of the quandary: whether emphasizing science, math and medical fields gives students the best career prospects and a high-tech payback to society, and whether humanities fields are viewed as more of an indulgence than a necessity amid tight budget times.

“You can definitely feel the emphasis on campus, even just based on where the newest buildings go, that there is a drive toward the sciences, engineering and (the) business school,” said Drane, a senior from Plymouth, Mass.

“I’m constantly asked what job opportunities I’ll have in anthropology or what I’m going to do with my degree, and I tell people that it’s giving me a skill set and critical thinking you can apply to anything.”

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ARTS&CULTURE Humanities studies peaked in U.S. colleges in the 1960s and started dwindling in the 1970s as more students pursued business and technology and related fields. Today, more than 20 percent of each year’s bachelor’s degrees are granted in business; in humanities, it’s about 8 percent.

Liberal arts colleges, too, have declined. A study published in 2009 by Inside Higher Ed said that of 212 liberal arts colleges identified in 1990, only 137 were still operating by 2009.

At Amherst College in western Massachusetts, a healthy endowment makes closing the doors a remote possibility at best. But its president, Carolyn “Biddy” Martin, experienced the same concerns about the humanities in her previous job as chancellor of the University of WisconsinMadison, and was tapped this year to serve on a commission for the American Academy of Arts & Sciences to review the issue.

Martin said many universities struggle with declining enrollment in those fields, making the classes an easy budget target if their worth is not defended.

“There are more and more people in higher education — and I hope political leaders — who are understanding that an over-leaning emphasis on the sciences to the expense of the humanities is not a good thing for the country,” she said.

Therein lays the debate for many, though, including Gov. Scott in Florida, who is unapologetic about his push to direct tax dollars toward rapidly growing science, technology, engineering and math fields, known collectively as STEM.

Fiction: Interviewing Abominable Snowman the culture shock go down easy.

Olivia Cooper Staff Writer When my plane hit the tarmac in Mexico City, I felt a wave of heat sweep over me from the sun’s light pouring in through the window. I couldn’t imagine how anybody could breathe, let alone live, in the hot and humid climate. I had to imagine how he feels here under a supposed thick layer of fur.

I think all of us, “us” meaning the earth’s population, are still growing used to the idea that, yes, the abominable snowman is real and he can communicate. It was only four years ago today that a small village in Nepal reported that a yeti had appeared one morning with his hands held high and had asked a farmer to “point the gun at someone who can’t maul you in seconds.” We can all agree that at the time it was a scary statement to hear from a seven-foot-tall ape-man, but now we’ve grown used to Yeti and his sense of humor. His personality has won him TV appearances across the globe as well as a Nobel Peace Prize for stepping forward and taking a vow of peace.

It is now, in the aftermath of the frenzy, that I caught up with Yeti to ask questions that hopefully have not been addressed by countless other reporters. I kept this in mind even as I stepped into the backyard of his home that overlooks the ocean. Yeti has special made chairs for his comfort, but a butler pulls out a human sized lawn chair for me. We have small talk where he tells me he just got his hair cut for the weather, but there are noticeable pit stains on his open Hawaiian shirt. After a few drinks in the shade, he seems to cool off and talks more about himself.

Lauren Wesley: What have you thought of it all now? Leaving Nepal and traveling the globe? Do you miss it?

Yeti: I admit that Nepal did have a more agreeable climate, but I’m glad I left. Like I’ve said, seeing the world is something my kind has never done. My father would bring magazines he would gather from villages and I would dream of seeing it all.

I plan on selling this place for a flat in London, would love to see those sights.

LW: Wouldn’t we all? What has been your favorite thing so far?

Y: Hot dogs (he laughs). I got so used to eating whatever was dragged in by my father that I now prefer this mystery meat because it reminds me of him. I guess you could say I’ve been a little homesick about it all, but it is the little things that make

LW: You keep referring to your father, and you have mentioned others like you in interviews. Do you ever intend on going back?

Y: I didn’t realize it at the time, but it might be too difficult to go back. When I left, I just wanted to take a little trip to have time to myself. Now I have people following me around nonstop, I can’t put my people at risk. I’ve even had death threats saying that I’m the “abomination snowman.”

LW: Everyone’s a critic.

Y: That’s what I hear, but they’re criticizing my existence which is bothersome. I probably could have planned it better than I did, but I just wish I could tell them, “Hey. I’m sorry, but if you got to know me, you would understand I’m not that bad.”

LW: What’s been the most difficult transition for you? Besides this heat?

Y: (He laughs and looks out at the ocean.) I guess just being away from home. I wish I could just tell people, “Look, could you guys leave me alone for just a week?”

LW: The constant surveillance must get tiresome.

Y: It really does.

LW: If you knew for sure that your family would read this interview, what would you tell them?

Y: (He is silent as he scratches his chin.) It’s really nice out here, but I miss you guys. Sorry I left without real good-byes or, well, any real preparations. I wish you could join me out here, but on the other hand, I think it is best you stay up there.

Stay safe. (He grunts something unintelligible.)

The seven-foot ape-man is less willing to talk after that and our meeting ends shortly after when the President of Nepal calls and he immediately rushes inside. My time in Mexico City was brief, but I couldn’t help noticing the crowd gathered around the front gate armed with cameras so they may send pictures to their loved ones.

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

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Seth Giles, junior in wildlife and fisheries, plays a homemade guitar he custom made in between classes on the Pedestrian Mall on Wednesday, Nov. 23.

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London remembers riots, movements past Small venue stages retelling of violence launched by residents over tragic police officer death Although the theater has a left-wing reputation, it has won fans in high places. Earlier this year “The Great Game,” its The Associated Press cycle of short plays covering 200 years of Afghan history, was summoned by The Pentagon for a command performance for LONDON — It sounds like a tough sell for an evening out: senior U.S. defense officials and military brass.

Come relive the London riots.

London critics were enthusiastic about “The Riots.” The But that is the offer currently packing audiences into Independent called it a “taut, illuminating two-hour show,” London’s Tricycle Theatre, a small venue that has built a big while the generally conservative Daily Telegraph praised it as reputation with fact-based plays about divisive issues, from “thought provoking and admirably evenhanded.”

Guantanamo Bay to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The play is a patchwork that asks more questions than it “The Riots,” which opened this week, vividly recreates the answers: Was it a race mayhem that raged for four nights in riot? Was it protest or August through the testimony of real criminality? Were street people — residents, police, politigangs or government cuts cians, community workers and the to blame? Could it haprioters themselves. pen again?

Director Nicholas Kent said the There are no comfortplay was intended to take the place able or easy answers, but of a public inquiry into the riots, plenty of striking details which the government has declined that have the ring of truth to hold.

— and often humor as “It didn’t have to happen,” Kent well. said. “That’s the thing I totally took The play conveys how away from our work on the play.” different the experience “It seemed to us important to of the riots felt, dependexplore the reasons for the riots and ing on vantage point. It people’s motivations and what hapcaptures the distress of pened and what our response was to victims, the fear of police it as Londoners — and how we could officers holding the line prevent something like that happenagainst a mob, and the ing again.” excitement of particiThe riots were triggered by the pants caught up in the fatal police shooting, in disputed cirmayhem. cumstances, of 29-year-old Mark “It looked like Duggan in the working-class London Hollywood had come district of Tottenham on Aug. 4. The down, set up everything play shows how Duggan’s death led, to look like a mad war partly through accidents and miszone,” says one anonysteps, to Britain’s worst civil unrest mous rioter, wide-eyed in a generation. The mayhem across with excitement.

• Photo courtesy of Alan Stanton London and other English cities left Another boasts of his hundreds of millions of pounds’ Firefighters douse a shop and flats destroyed by arson during the initial rioting in Tottenham, London on haul from looting: shoes, worth of property damage, as well as Sunday, Aug. 7. London’s Tricycle Theatre is currently filling up with crowds who want to relive the events electronics and a Harry pain and questions, in its wake. with their play “The Riots.”

Potter DVD box set. “I Writer Gillian Slovo and her don't even like Harry researchers taped 56 hours of interviews with everyone from down next year. Under his leadership, the 250-seat venue in a Potter.” police officers on duty in Tottenham that night to community The emotional heart of the play is provided by Tottenham scruffy part of north London has gained international acclaim leaders, young looters and a man left homeless by arson. They with documentary dramas and verbatim plays which mold real resident Mohamed Hammoudan, who fled his apartment with even heard from two people imprisoned for rioting, who his two young sons after rioters set the store below it ablaze. people’s words into compelling theater. wrote to the theater with their stories after the Tricycle put an In 2003, “Justifying War” recreated the legal inquiry into Compellingly played by Selva Rasalingham, he is reflective ad in a prison newspaper. the death of David Kelly, a weapons expert caught up in a and wry, describing the surreal experience of standing amid The conservative Daily Mail newspaper criticized the comstorm about the British government’s case for war with Iraq. rioters watching his home burn to the ground. pany for giving criminals a voice, but Slovo said the rioters’ He also gets the last word, when he is asked for three words The next year, “Guantanamo — Honor Bound to Defend viewpoint was vital.

Freedom” drew on the testimony of terrorist suspects to sum up the rioters.

“I do think it’s important for us to listen and to see how After a long pause, he replies: “Just angry people.” detained at the U.S. naval base in Cuba. The play transferred they got caught up, what they think about it afterwards and “The Riots” is at London’s Tricycle Theatre until Dec. 10. to London’s West End and ran off-Broadway in New York. what provoked them to do it,” she told BBC radio. “Because otherwise how can you make sure that this won’t happen again?”

Although a few senior politicians — including London Mayor Boris Johnson and Home Secretary Theresa May — declined to participate, many agreed to give interviews, as did top police officers. Kent said many police and politicians were as shocked by the riots as most Britons, and wanted to learn the lessons.

Kent, who has led the Tricycle since 1984, plans to step

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Ellen Mullins digs down to keep the ball alive during a match against Kentucky on Wednesday, Nov. 23. With their win, the Lady Vols captured the SEC Championship, the first outright title in the program’s history.

Youth hurts team in crushing loss to Kentucky Matt Dixon Sports Editor LEXINGTON, Ky. — For the third time in the last seven years, and just the fourth time since 1988, Tennessee won’t play in a bowl game.

“It’s really disappointing,” UT coach Derek Dooley said. “It’s something that shouldn’t happen at Tennessee and hopefully it’s something that won’t happen again for a long time.”

The season-ending loss to Kentucky puts the final stamp on a year that began with some optimism and hope, maybe undeservedly so.

“There’s a lot of ways you can look at it,” Dooley said. “Sometimes you don’t get always what you want, but a lot of times you get what you deserve, and we’re not a good football team. We’ve got a lot of work that we need to do to be a good football team. We need to go to work at that. Going to a bowl will make you think you are better than you are. Probably wouldn’t have helped us, when I look at it.

“We need to know that there’s a lot of things you have to do to be a good player, and there’s a lot of things you have to do to be a good team. And we aren’t doing what we need to do, so we don’t deserve to get rewarded. That’s just how it is.”

Like last year, the Volunteers needed to win its last two games against Vanderbilt and Kentucky to reach six wins and make post-season play, but that wasn’t on the team’s mind Saturday.

“To be honest, we weren’t even thinking about a bowl,” senior defensive tackle Malik Jackson said.

“We had a lot of young guys who thought, ‘Oh, we’re supposed to beat Kentucky,’ but not really putting in the work. I feel like that’s what happened. A lot of people thought we were supposed to beat Kentucky, but it just fell in our laps. At the end of the day, they’re a team too that came out here and worked harder than we did. They deserved the win.”

That youth brought on much of the pre-season excitement, which even grew after the first two games of the year, but the veterans on the team believe the reliance on underclassmen playing key roles hurt UT,

culminating in the loss to the Wildcats.

“They’re just young,” Jackson said. “It’s hard to say, especially as a senior leaving. But they’re young, they don’t know no better. Until they get older and kind of see where we come from as seniors, then they’ll understand, but right now they don’t have a clue.”

Senior middle linebacker Austin Johnson believed some of the younger players were focused more on personal achievements than the team’s performance.

“There are too many guys that it’s all about them, their stats and stuff,” Johnson said.

Whatever it was that will keep the UT team home during the holidays, which has to include injuries to quarterback Tyler Bray and star receiver Justin Hunter, it isn’t the norm with a program like UT’s.

“As a team, we’ve got to learn how to play with adversity,” sophomore defensive tackle Maurice Couch said. “Losing Bray and Hunter at the beginning of the season, we kind of went downhill a little bit.”

“We’re just going to focus this off-season, working on getting bigger, stronger and just coming together as a team, like when times we got down, we’ve got to stick together and fight through it.”

For Jackson, who’s expected to be an early-round selection in the 2012 NFL Draft, the problems that held the Vols back this year extend outside of football, and include being more dedicated to the team.

“Just everything. Off the field, practice, everybody coming out and practice harder and not just say, ‘Oh, I’m here,’ but actually go out there and be happy they’re there,” Jackson said. “At the end of the day, that’s what we’re here for. A lot of guys don’t really understand that this is what we’re here for. They come out there and think it’s another day. It can be taken from you so fast. They just need to learn to grow up on and off the field and just as people.”

Despite the divide in the locker room and the results on the field this year, Dooley still sees a bright future for the Vols and hopes Saturday is the low point.

“We’re going to begin our climb right now,” Dooley said. “At some point, we had to hit a real low point with where this program is, and I knew we were going to hit one. I did. I hoped we wouldn’t, but it’s inevitable. You’re going to hit a bottom.”

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Just a terrible loss, season for Vols Bears end Lady Vols’ home win streak The Vols played with no heart. I would say they quit, but you’d have to play to quit.

Kentucky played like the team fighting for a bowl bid.

Result-wise, year two under Dooley was a failure. But the loss on Saturday showed a bigger problem.

Sports Editor Dooley failed to have the team fired up and ready to play when the season was on the line.

That embarrassing loss to a piss-poor team LEXINGTON, Ky. -- It was the loss Tennessee fans were hoping would never come. — even by Kentucky standards — with a wide Despite the hell the Volunteers and their fan receiver playing quarterback is squarely on base had been through since 2008, they could Dooley.

Year three under Dooley was the first time still hang their heads on beating Vanderbilt and fans could reasonably expect UT to compete Kentucky.

After Tyler Bray’s interception on fourth-and- with the top-half of the SEC. But after 18, and three knees that seasonin the victory formaending loss, tion, it happened. when can a The Vols lost to realistic Vol fan Kentucky. expect a proSure, the ass-kickgram coming ings Florida and off a 5-7 year Alabama gave UT in that lost to recent years hurt.

Kentucky for Sure, the 49-7 loss at the first time in Arkansas earlier this a generation to year was bad. But turn things those teams were around and much better than start playing UT, maybe not as with heart and much as the scores pride? indicated, but at the Yes, this end of the day, team lacks talTennessee wasn’t ent and depth, supposed to win but that’s no those games. excuse for not Tennessee was showing up supposed to beat against one of Kentucky on the worst Saturday. No other teams on your way around it. schedule, espeYeah, Tyler Bray cially with The was nowhere near Streak and a being 100 percent. bowl game on Yeah, Justin Hunter the line. missed the last nine • Photo courtesy of Wade Rackley/UTADPHOTO Had Bray games. Heck, even throw in injured Tyler Bray winds up to throw the ball during a found a way to linebacker Herman game against Kentucky on Saturday, Nov. 26. lead the Vols on Lathers and dis- Bray went 15-of-38 for 215 yards with two a last-minute missed safety interceptions as the Vols dropped the first drive to win the game, this Janzen Jackson into game in 26 years to the Wildcats. team’s probthe argument.

But that was the same Tennessee team that lems would still exist — fans just wouldn’t be so beat Vanderbilt just a week before. A outspoken about them.

The fact that UT couldn’t make just a few Commodores team that beat Kentucky 38-7 earplays to win a game against a Kentucky team lier this year.

There was no excuse for the Vols to lose that that was begging Tennessee to win should be game to arguably the worst Wildcats team since alarming.

If performances like Saturday and seasons UT’s 26 game-winning streak began in 1985. like this one continue to happen under Dooley, None. Zero.

Whatever Derek Dooley said UT accom- UT is in serious trouble.

Tennessee shouldn’t be a program that hangs plished beating Vanderbilt is gone after ending its hat on “kicking the sh-- out of Vanderbilt.” the regular season on that note.

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Taber Spani is overwhelmed by Baylor defender Brittney Griner while attempting a shot during a game on Sunday, Nov. 27. The Lady Vols, despite keeping close throughout much of the game, lost to the No. 1 ranked Bears 76-67.

Patrick MacCoon Staff Writer There was no shortage of emotions inside Thompson-Boling Arena on Sunday afternoon, as 16,623 fans were in attendance to watch sixth-ranked Tennessee take on the top-ranked Baylor Bears.

Despite dominating their opponent in the rebounding column and leading at halftime, the Lady Vols (2-2) were outmatched by Baylor (60) in the second half and saw their 38-game home court winning streak come to an end in a 76-67 loss to the Bears.

Baylor’s first-team All-American junior forward Brittney Griner finished with a game-high 26 points on 11-of-19 shooting. She also finished with a game-high seven blocked shots, which was two shy of the nine she totaled in Baylor’s 65-54 win against Tennessee a season ago.

Tennessee’s first-team All-American, senior Shekinna Stricklen, led the Lady Vols with 25 points and a game-high 12 rebounds. Senior center Vicki Baugh also posted a double-double with 17 points and 10 rebounds.

“I was proud of how hard our team played today,” UT coach Pat Summitt said. “We didn’t come out with a win, but I saw us do some really good things.”

The Lady Vols outrebounded Baylor 56-42 in the game, but the team’s poor shooting percentage of 29.3 percent (24-82) was their demise.

The last time Baylor was outrebounded was back a season ago against Texas Tech, a game the Bears lost 56-45.

“I felt like if we could control the boards that we’d have a shot at winning,” Summitt said. “We did outrebound them by a large margin and did get 28 second-chance points. We just didn’t convert on our initial shots.”

Tennessee led 5-0 early after a Stricklen 3pointer, one of her four in the game. However, the Bears led for the majority of the first half until the Lady Vols went on an 11-4 run to end

the half, as junior guard Taber Spani sunk her first three of the game with 40 seconds left to give UT a lead of 33-31 at the break.

Tennessee shot 25 percent (11-of-44) in the first half compared to Baylor’s 34.5 percent (10of-29). However, the Lady Vols outrebounded Baylor 34-19 in the period.

Stricklen led all in scoring at the half with 19 points, on 7-of-13 shooting from the floor. She also posted seven rebounds and a block in the first half.

“Shekinna showed she was an All-American today,” UT associate head coach Holly Warlick said. “She played, she competed, she handled the ball, she was a rebounder. I thought all aspects of her game were outstanding today.”

Unfortunately for UT, Stricklen and her teammates couldn’t finish the job in the second half as Baylor outscored them 45-34 to end the Lady Vols’ home-court winning streak.

Griner and sophomore point guard Odyssey Sims did the damage in the second half for the Bears, as they combined for 29 points. Odyssey iced the game in the closing minute, sinking 7of-8 shots throughout. She finished the game with 23 points, eight rebounds and nine assists.

“Baylor is a great team, and I don’t think we’ll see one any better,” Summitt said. “They present so many challengers with their inside-out game and a great back court.”

The loss for the Lady Vols leaves them at 2-2 on the season for the first time since the 199091 season when they eventually won the national title. However, despite the loss being tough to take, the team has much room for improvement and can learn from the loss.

“I know the girls are disappointed, but this is early for us and as long as it’s a learning experience for us, we can learn from the loss,” Warlick said. “If we compete like this every game, we’re going to make a difference in our basketball team and get some great wins.”

The Lady Vols’ next opponent will be Middle Tennessee State (4-2), who will visit Knoxville on Tuesday, Nov. 29. The game is scheduled for a 7 p.m. EST tip-off.