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Seasoned students offer final exam advice Tips include studying early, learning from peers, alleviating stress through exercise Kristian Smith Student Life Editor As classes wind down and finals are rapidly approaching, most UT students will be spending a majority of the next two weeks studying.

Most students have their own distinct approaches to studying, but for those who are worried about making it through their exams, many UT students have advice about the best ways to study.

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For those who are very unsure about studying, students can make an appointment with an academic coach at the Student Success Center to make a study plan for finals by calling 974-6641 or sending an e-mail to www.studentsuccess@utk.edu.

Study Tips

Wood said exercise and eating right can help combat stress.

“Running really helps with stress,” she said.

Blackburn said she rewards herself for studying.

“If I study for a few hours, I’ll go out to eat with friends for a few hours,” she said.

Besides these student tips, according to an article on about.com, sleeping on a regular schedule, eating a balanced diet with fruits, vegetables, whole grains and protein and getting some social time can also help reduce stress.

For a break from studying, Career Services will be holding a “Study Break” in Dunford Hall from 4-6 p.m. on Wednesday.

The event is hosted by Phi Eta Sigma and open to all students. Light refreshments and some free study supplies will be provided.

Many students believe that preparing early is the best way to ensure success on exams.

Tips for Freshmen “I started preparing a week in advance this year,” Sarah Wood, sophomore in While upperclassmen usually have ecology and evolutionary biology, said. “I found a way to study successfully by now, have two exams on the same day, so I many freshmen may still be looking for a started earlier.” study plan.

For other students, procrastinating Blackburn said students learn not to works better than studying early. procrastinate.

“I always wait to the last second, and I “Studying this week is very helpful,” she have always done fine,” Courtney Vick, said. junior in journalism and electronic media, Vick said her main advice for students said. “Some people do better that way, taking finals for the first time is not to but it’s different for each individual.” freak out about the tests.

Students also disagree about the beneGeorge Richardson • The Daily Beacon “I worried freshman year that my whole fits of studying alone versus studying in Hodges Library glows in the early evening on Monday, Feb. 15. A semester’s worth of pro- grade depended on the final, but I found groups. crastination will culminate with students traveling en masse to the stacks to attempt to out after taking those first exams that your Wood said she studies alone. grade really depends on how well you do “I re-work problems and do practice catch up on studies before final exams start later this week. during the whole course,” she said. tests,” she said.

For freshmen worried about a place to On the other hand, Hailey Blackburn, sophomore in busiStress Management study, there are options other than dorm rooms. ness pre-major, said she prefers to study with others.

Like last year, Hodges Library will remain open continu“I study with friends in my classes,” Blackburn said. “We While studying is important, managing stress is another ously until Dec. 9 at midnight. go over old tests and classwork together.” important part of getting through finals. Studying usually For those who would like a quieter place to study, the UC, Vick also thinks study groups are beneficial.

“Someone else always knows something you don’t,” she leads to stress, and many students have advice on ways to alle- along with the candy counter, will be open until 1a.m. on Dec. viate stress when studying.

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Organization enlists help for Haiti UT student films documentary to raise money for orphans was shown at the Walk for more than 1,300 students.

Kristian Smith “The video helped raise a total of Student Life Editor $20,808 dollars for the pavilion,” he said.

Since the money raised well exceeded One UT student is using his skills to the cost of the pavilion, Frazier said the make a difference in the lives of others.

Ethan Frazier, junior in business, went extra money will help speed up the conto Arcahaie, Haiti a month ago to shoot struction of the orphanage.

Frazier said this is his third trip to a documentary footage in Haiti in order to third-world country. raise money for an orphange.

“After going to Kenya last year on a “I worked for Sevier Heights church, and they partner with One Vision very similar trip, I realized I had a passion for using the gifts God has given me International,” Frazier said.

The Walk, a campus ministry organiza- to bring light to these not-so-bright parts tion, also partners with One Vision, a of the world,” he said.

Frazier said he has done professional nonprofit organization that extends aid videography for three years, but he really and support to those who are less fortuenjoys working with One Vision. nate.

“I Frazier e n j o y said One my job Vision has v e r y a n m u c h orphanage and am i n so excitArcahaie ed I was that housable to es close to help out 75 chilO n e dren, and Vision the chiland the dren are – Ethan Frazier, junior in business, on shooting people cared for documentary footage in Haiti o f by three Haiti,” mothers. he said.

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the orphange has bedrooms, Frazier said the children spend most of their time in a pavilion in the courtyard of the orphanage.

He said the pavilion is an eight-beam shelter with a tin roof, and the children eat, play, go to school, go to church, nap, do crafts and hang out in the pavilion every day.

One Vision has decided to build a new orphanage and pavilion, and The Walk will cover the cost of the new pavilion.

This is where Frazier’s documentary footage is important.

“My job was to document the children and what they do under the pavilion in order to show the tremendous need that these kids have and how much joy and everyday use they get out of the pavilion,” he said.

Frazier said The Walk is covering the costs of the new pavilion, and his video

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Frazier said his favorite part of the trip was getting to know the people in Haiti. “(The people in Haiti) are so loving and so awesome,” he said. “Getting to know the local people helped me to better understand what’s going on down there.”

Other UT students think Frazier’s trip is a good example for others.

John Reinhardt, senior in political science, is a member of the UT Air Force ROTC with Frazier.

“One of our Air Force core values is service before self, and Ethan exemplifies this value with his trip to Haiti,” Reinhardt said.

Frazier said he encourages others to go George Richardson • The Daily Beacon on similar service trips.

“I think it takes a special person (to go The Torchbearer looks out into the night sky on Friday, Nov. 12. Although the design on these trips), but I encourage anyone to of the official symbol of the university was created in 1932, the statue was not try it,” he said. “It’s a very humbling expe- placed on campus in Circle Park until 1968. rience.”

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Members of the Pride of the Southland Marching Band perform at the groundbreaking ceremony of the new music building on Wednesday, Nov. 9. The band, which performed as a surprise for those in attendance, is expected to settle into the new building upon completion in 2013.

1886: Folies Bergere stage first revue Once a hall for operettas, pantomime, political meetings, and vaudeville, the Folies Bergère in Paris introduces an elaborate revue featuring women in sensational costumes. The highly popular “Place aux Jeunes” established the Folies as the premier nightspot in Paris. In the 1890s, the Folies followed the Parisian taste for striptease and quickly gained a reputation for its spectacular nude shows. The theater spared no expense, staging revues that featured as many as 40 sets, 1,000 costumes, and an offstage crew of some 200 people.

The Folies Bergère dates back to 1869, when it opened as one of the first major music halls in Paris. It produced light opera and pantomimes with unknown singers and proved a resounding failure. Greater success came in the 1870s, when the Folies Bergère staged vaudeville. Among other performers, the early vaudeville shows featured acrobats, a snake charmer, a boxing kangaroo, trained elephants, the world’s tallest man, and a Greek prince who was covered in tattoos allegedly as punishment for

trying to seduce the Shah of Persia’s daughter. The public was allowed to drink and socialize in the theater’s indoor garden and promenade area, and the Folies Bergère became synonymous with the carnal temptations of the French capital. Famous paintings by Édouard Manet and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec were set in the Folies.

In 1886, the Folies Bergère went under new management, which, on November 30, staged the first revue-style music hall show. The “Place aux Jeunes,” featuring scantily clad chorus girls, was a tremendous success. The Folies women gradually wore less and less as the 20th century approached, and the show’s costumes and sets became more and more outrageous. Among the performers who got their start at the Folies Bergère were Yvette Guilbert, Maurice Chevalier, and Mistinguett. The African American dancer and singer Josephine Baker made her Folies debut in 1926, lowered from the ceiling in a flower-covered sphere that opened onstage to reveal her wearing a G-string ornamented with bananas.

The Folies Bergère remained a success throughout the 20th century and still can be seen in Paris today, although the theater now features many mainstream concerts and performances. Among other traditions that date back more than a century, the show’s title always contains 13 letters and includes the word “Folie.”

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

Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Tennessee woman seeks to give back crocheted flag to US soldier’s family

NEWS

Students send supplies to troops Alyce Howell

Associated Press

Staff Writer

JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. — A Tennessee woman is hoping to give a crochet American flag to a soldier who took her seat on a flight from the Atlanta airport six years ago.

Joyce Hyde of Greeneville, Tenn., knows practically nothing about the soldier, other than he was flying home from Atlanta to Tri-Cities Regional Airport to see his grandfather, who was ill.

The soldier’s family was grateful to Hyde for giving up her seat, so they gave her a crochet flag as thanks. Now, Hyde told The Johnson City Press, she wants to return the flag to the family of the mystery soldier.

Hyde said she gave up her seat on the flight so the soldier could make it home, but she forgot to get his name.

“He’d been there a long time,” Hyde said. “His grandfather was really sick. He wanted to go home to see his grandfather.”

The meeting happened as Hyde was flying home from vacation and was waiting with her sisters for a Delta Air Lines flight home. She overheard the announcement about the soldier waiting for a standby seat and that no one had volunteered to take a later flight all day.

“I just can’t believe nobody would have done that for him, but they didn’t,” Hyde said.

The soldier, who was on a week’s leave from serving in Iraq, was grateful to Hyde for her generosity and thanked her repeatedly, she said. Hyde, whose husband, Don, fought in Vietnam, said she understood the desire of military families to see their loved ones who had been overseas sooner rather than later.

While Joyce Hyde was giving the soldier her seat, Don Hyde was at Tri-Cities Regional Airport and knew his wife was running late, but didn't know why.

Don Hyde met the soldier’s mother, who said she was waiting for a lady who had given her seat to her son.

“I said, ‘That sounds like something my wife would do,’ “Don Hyde said. “And sure enough, it was her.”

The soldier’s mother intended on giving Hyde a crocheted American flag she had made as a way to say thanks for allowing her son to take her seat on the plane.

When Hyde finally arrived hours later in the Tri-Cities, she was greeted by the soldier’s mother, who presented her with the 66-by-32 inch crocheted flag that was intended for her son.

The son had already gone to visit his grandfather in the hospital; but he had insisted Hyde receive the flag for her kindness.

“I just remember her saying how appreciative she was that I gave up my seat for her son,” Hyde said. “You can tell there was a lot of love put into this flag. It’s beautiful.”

Now, Hyde wants to return the flag to the soldier. But, with no name or way to trace the soldier, she's hoping publicity will let them link up again.

Two members of the UT community are working to lift the spirits of Marines in Afghanistan.

“Some people don’t even realize that the war is still going on,” Amanda Oaks, senior in microbiology, said.

The War on Terrorism has had a personal impact on Oaks and Keely Elledge, a UT graduate, because their childhood friend, Travis Ervin, joined the marines.

“During basic training, Ervin met Jon (Book), and they became friends before they were deployed to Iraq,” Oaks said.

Elledge went to see them off and was introduced to Book. They kept in contact regularly and a relationship was formed.

After serving in Iraq, Ervin and Book were deployed to Afghanistan, where their conditions were dramatically different.

“They are stationed apart,” Oaks said. “ ... (They) can only call once in a while, if they’re lucky, from an unreliable satellite phone for about 10 to 20 minutes, and they only get three hours sleep at night.”

Other conditions they have to face in Afghanistan include living in clay huts powered by generators, eating dehydrated food, being under constant threat of ambushes and living without indoor plumbing.

“They have a shower about once a month with a fellow marine pumping cold well water on top of them and the water is not clean,” Oaks said. “It contains a blood parasite that causes them dysentery.”

Elledge found out about these conditions first and sent care packages to the soldiers before she told others about their conditions.

TVA leaning toward Clean Line model Associated Press CHATTANOOGA— The Tennessee Valley Authority favors a Houston company’s effort to build an electrical connection between windmills in Oklahoma and Texas and power users in the Tennessee Valley.

The proposed $3.5 billion project would use direct current rather than the alternating current of most electric lines and needs to get approval from at least four regulatory agencies.

TVA transmission strategies general manager David Till told the Chattanooga Times Free Press the green power proposal “has great potential.”

A spokesman for the company, Clean Line Energy Partners, said permission is being sought from regulators in Oklahoma and Arkansas for transmission lines that would stretch from Diamond, Okla., to the western edge of the TVA service territory in Memphis.

Spokesman Jimmy Glotfelty said Clean Line wants to be classified as a utility — allowing it to condemn property if needed — and wants to build the first of two 3,500-megawatt lines by 2015.

Glotfelty said Clean Line has asked state regulators in Oklahoma and Arkansas for permission to pursue the project.

“The goal is to work with TVA to drive down the price of wind energy and to make it more reliable and cost effective,” Glotfelty said. “With the DC electric line, you will be assured that, when the wind blows, you will get that electricity almost instantaneously.”

Despite big costs up front, Glotfelty said developers believe the DC lines will lessen power loss over the 800mile distance compared with AC transmissions. Highvoltage, direct current lines lose less power during transmission than their AC counterparts, although they do require more costly converters. Glotfelty said Clean Line plans to build $250 million converter stations at each end of the DC line.

He said construction is projected to generate 10,000 temporary jobs and open more long-term energy options for utilities.

“This could help dramatically reduce air emissions for TVA and other Southern utilities, and TVA could potentially even make some money wheeling power across its territory for other utilities,” he said.

Till said Clean Line is among several wind and transmission companies seeking interconnection agreements with TVA. A draft version of TVA’s 20-year energy plan calls for up to 3,500 megawatts of wind and other renewable power. The utility already has contracted to buy 1,380 megawatts of wind energy from seven wind generators in Illinois, Iowa, Kansas and North and South Dakota.

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After hearing about the soldiers’ conditions, Oaks wanted to raise their morale, so she talked with the rest of her sorority, Phi Mu. “When the war began in 2001, my seventh-grade class started a pen-pal system with the marines in Iraq, and I wanted to start a penpal system between the guys in Jon and Travis’s companies and my sisters,” Oaks said. “But I heard from Jon that supplies were needed more.”

The supplies needed were anti-diarrhea medicine, blankets, toiletries, food, energy drinks, water-purifying tablets, baby wipes, reading materials, DVDs, chapstick, razors and soy sauce.

Along with Phi Mu, Oaks and Elledge went out and talked about what they wanted to do for the soldiers to the community though Facebook. They got a great response, and they were sent money and items.

Within two weeks, they had 32 full flat-rate boxes to send to Book and Ervin for their companies to use.

Sixteen boxes were sent to each company, though two boxes were specially saved for Book and Ervin and were filled with photos, letters and special gifts.

Accompany the care packages were Thanksgiving-themed thankyou cards with a big picture of all Phi Mu’s members.

“The boys ran to them like it was Christmas,” Oaks said.

A collection for the soldiers will still be taken up, and all non-perishable items can be taken to the Phi Mu suite.

When Elizabeth Hawkins, a business pre-major sophomore, heard about what Oaks was trying to do, she said that she admired her work.

“I think it’s ambitious and I think it’s something that not a lot of people think about it,” Hawkins said.

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StaffColumn Music provides unique memory trigger Brandi Panter Managing Editor The power of memory has quite possibly always been my favorite philosophical and psychological concept.

The haunting ghost of past experiences, the agony of tiny mental video clips that play on loop in our minds every minute of every day (I include the subconscious version: the dreaming state.), always seem to be triggered by the tiniest of details. The most peculiar memory trigger for me, though, is music.

For example, “Pretty Wings” by Maxwell always manages to make me remember lying in bed for four days, crying almost non-stop, while eating nothing but Golden Oreos and staring at my Christmas tree freshman year. It also reminds me, on a much more basic level, the first time I was ever genuinely in love with someone else and had my heart completely broken.

Anything by the Backstreet Boys reminds me of one of the design editors from last year and our really obnoxious duets when we worked together, and country duo Sugarland makes me think of my mother and also my best friend.

I associate nothing good with “Wagon Wheel” by Old Crow Medicine Show, and John Mayer, for the whole five seconds I will allow one of his songs to play before I realize who it is and turn it off, reminds me of a suicide I would willingly assist with, if the opportunity ever arose.

“Cannonball” by Damien Rice reminds me of my freshman year of college, when I figured out I wasn’t happy with my major, and I listened to his album “O” on repeat. It also reminds me of the professor, who has since moved on to UCLA, who helped me find out what I want to do. I miss him a lot, and that song always reminds me how happy I am that we, the two bitter cynics with love for dry humor and old buildings, met for a brief semester. Whether or not he realizes it, he made the biggest difference in why my life is the way it is now, and I’m forever grateful.

It’s amazing the amount of weight that music and memory have intertwined with each other.

I think music, at least in this case, manages to be the best mental catalog we can ever have for eras in our life.

Look no farther than “Rocky Top” if you need a good example of how music ties into memory. It doesn’t matter what point you heard this song in your life, or if you ever heard it before you came to UT. A song about moonshiners, rape, Southern isolationism, fear of the government and the North and extreme poverty somehow became not only one of the state songs of Tennessee (along with the

“Tennessee Waltz,” which is about a man getting left by his sweetheart for a friend — way to pick ’em Tennessee legislature) but the unofficial song of the University of Tennessee.

For me, “Rocky Top” was always that dumb hillbilly song with banjos that sounded really, really ignorant when I heard the words. Then, naturally, I came to college and “Rocky Top” became something completely different. It became the song that I hear and almost automatically think of every memory I’ve ever had in Neyland Stadium, and at the university in general. It, whether or not I like it, will remind me of everything I’ve ever done in college, good or bad.

Music is, for me at least, some of the only concrete proof I have that I was ever alive, like a mental photograph. It is a reminder that I was here, and that I felt something while I was at it.

I usually listen to something and wonder what the person writing was feeling — less so who is singing it. It takes a certain amount of vocal talent to turn a bunch of words into a melody worth listening to more than once and buying it to put on your iPod. It takes a completely different kind of person to think a thought and feel a feeling, then try to put that into words. It’s one thing to write a column, like I do from time to time, but it is a completely different beast to try and make a thought into a type of musical poem that other people can connect with and find audibly pleasing.

Music is, more than movies and television shows, the biggest pop-culture marker of a generation. What we listen to on the radio, what albums we buy, whose concerts we attend: It all speaks volumes about where we are as a society. The Beatles, Elvis, The Rolling Stones, Whitney Houston, Madonna … they aren’t just artists now resigned for the “classics” category but are also an excellent summary of the attitudes and progression of our culture.

Our music is our progression; it is what speaks to our minds and our hearts. I don’t necessarily think that some of today’s artists speak to anything other than a dumb lather-rinse-repeat cycle of bubble-gum idiocy, but the fact that a woman who goes out in public rocking a dress made entirely of meat and openly cheers for gay rights and female empowerment (Miss GaGa) is as commonplace a fixture today as Microwave ovens and Pop Tarts.

So the next time you pop in the earbuds, give what you are listening to a little bit of extra thought.

What does it remind you of? Why does this song mean so much to you? How do you feel when you listen to it? It meant enough then, so surely it still means something now.

Fun facts: “Teenage Dream” by Katy Perry will always be the song I associate with working at the Daily Beacon, and “Shelter” by Ray Lamontagne is my all-time favorite song, in case you ever need to know.

—Brandi Panter is a junior in history and English literature. She can be reached at bpanter1@utk.edu.

Coffey & Ink • Kelsey Roy

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Imperfect world still provides plenty of hope T he F - Wo r d by

Melody Gordon We don’t live in a perfect world. I wish we did, but everyone knows we just don’t.

Case in point: I thought last week was my final column. Oops? People aren’t perfect, either. There are so many issues and so many feminist-related problems that should be fixed, corrected or changed. Not for our own sake, but for the sake of the upcoming generation.

If I had a giant magic eraser, I know all the things I’d rub out first. Sexism and racism, of course.

Those are givens. But the media’s obsession with teen stars and their virginity would be next.

Everyone who thought domestic abuser Chris Brown’s crying publicity stunt at the BET Awards was legit would be high up. I’d have to get rid of abstinence-only education for a lot of reasons. Oh, and all the unoriginal make me a sandwich/get back in the kitchen/you’re just bitter and lonely jokes anonymous folks make on the Internet to discredit feminist arguments.

However, those are the easy ones to erase. It’d probably be harder to take away Sarah Palin's new reality show, Disney Princess merchandise and the idea that a size eight is plus-sized in the fashion world.

There’s a lot wrong with the world, but oh my God — there is a lot that gives me hope, too.

There’s a viral video of a woman on a subway in New York shaming a street harasser who first tried to shame her. A group of models plan to sue their agency for more than $3 million because of shady business deals — even though it will probably ruin their careers — so other upcoming models won’t get cheated. There’s a movie, albeit depressing as all get out, in which the entire leading cast is comprised of black females and not a single rapper or pimp goblet in sight.

You know what else should give you hope, too?

Kathryn Bigelow won Best Director last year — the first time a woman has ever won it. An 11-yearold girl is on the Billboard Top 100. A woman is

directing the most expensive Broadway play of all time: Spiderman (please, don’t suck ... please, don’t suck ... please, don’t suck). Christine O’Donnell is not in the Senate. Eight Palestinian women have started an all-female race car team. And I’m sure there's more out there, but I should have finished this 30 minutes ago and I have a class in 20.

The point I’m trying to get to is that things are looking up. Even though I’m positive there’s another bad to outweigh the good, the good exists.

We’re fortunate enough to live in the technological age where if we don’t like what we see on television, we can turn it off. We can get online or we can watch a movie. We have so many alternatives that if we don’t think it’s cool to sit through yet another rape scene in “Law & Order: SVU,” we don’t have to. We can shield ourselves and we can overexpose ourselves, too.

Sometimes I fear I’m just living in a cocoon by filtering all the bad information (and videos and shows and e-mails). Like I’m taking the chicken way out by only bookmarking the blogs that agree with my point of view.

Other times I feel as if it’s my duty to drink in as much feminist material as I possibly can. That’s why it’s there, so I can learn something. Or send an angry e-mail if I don’t learn anything, even if I disagree with it. That’s alright. I’m free to disagree.

Even if I think it’s not well-written. That’s okay, too. I can edit it in my head as I go along. I can even make a game out of how many errors I can find.

We don’t live in a perfect world, and until we do, or until things begin to improve in some ways, I can at least be proud that we’re (slowly) moving forward. There are women, men and children all over the place challenging what it means for a boy to wear pink, what it means to be pro-life or prochoice, why double standards exist and what we can do about them, to name a few.

As long as the feminists out there keep asking weird questions that no one else wants to ask (What the hell is a prostitot? What is pro ana and pro mia? Is Lady Gaga feminist or no?), then it’s my sincerest hope we’ll have 10 paragraphs full of hopeful things to look forward to in the not-sodistant future.

—Melody Gordon is a senior in journalism and electronic media. She can be reached at mgordo10@utk.edu.

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Tis the season … of giving! In the midst of the holidays, with everyone gearing up to knock out all those finals (Everyone’s getting As, right?), it’s easy to put off your holiday shopping. For those of you that can even pull it off last minute, my hat’s off to you; you’re lucky. But for those of you that struggle just a bit (like me), no worries, we’ve got plenty of time!

Many of you are all stuck in a similar situation at the moment. You’re trying to decide on that perfect, ever-so-special gift for your sweetheart.

Hopefully you’ve saved a little extra in your piggy bank, because while your gift doesn’t have to be overly expensive, it shows when you’ve planned ahead!

While I may be somewhat biased on this subject, I have to say that guys have it a little easier in this area. Get us something pretty and we’ll like it. Get us something sparkly, and chances are we’ll love it.

Now, buying for guys is a whole different story, but it’s just as important to them for it to be special!

Here’s what some students have to say on the subject: “Receiving something unique and distinctive makes a gift special. Maybe it has to do with an inside joke between the two of us. Surprises are always great, but really we’ll like whatever the gift is, because we know you took the time, thought and care to get us something.” — Matthew, junior “I’d love tickets to watch my favorite team, and I think any guy would agree with me on that one.

Or maybe a Red-Ryder BB gun.” — Kevin, junior “If it has to do with a hobby of mine, I know I’d love it. For me, anything that has to do with golf.

Whether it be gloves, a new club, or a round with the guys at my favorite golf course. But I’d say lessons aren’t a great idea (unless he’s told you he specifically wants them), we don’t want you to think we aren’t good.” — Ben, graduate student

So ladies, if you’re stumped on what to get your man for Christmas, start with his favorite hobby or pastime, and go from there. You can even go big and surprise him with Titans tickets or tickets to see Lil Wayne (now that he’s finally out of jail …).

Not only will he take note that you’re interested in his hobbies, but a gift like this will also make for a memorable experience. Just promise me you’ll stay away from personalized boxer shorts or any kind of his and hers paraphernalia. This is HIS Christmas present, not yours …

Now guys: From a girl’s perspective, as long as it really does show you’ve put thought and creativity into our present, it doesn’t have to break your bank.

While I can assure you that no girl will turn away a pretty piece of jewelry, it’s still more the thought behind it that counts.

“It’s sweet when you have pointed something out or said something you like, and he listens and remembers it for Christmas. Not only is that special, but you’re surprised, too.” — Margaret, junior “Perfume is a great go-to present, because it shows they took the time to pick it out and it’s also personalized in some way.” — Elizabeth, sophomore “Planning a really fun, romantic date or doing something super creative would mean a lot to me.

And if that falls through, I’d love a cute dress.” — Jenn, junior The underlying trend among all these ideas is the fact that it has to be thoughtful. Whether it be a small trinket or a grand gesture, both have to show that the gift was not a last-minute decision.

Visiting where you two first met or doing something that brings back wonderful memories in order to exchange gifts would also add to the uniqueness of the moment.

When it all boils down to it, it’s all about knowing the heart of the individual to whom you’re giving the gift. Know their likes and their dislikes, their hobbies and interests. Find out what makes them tick, and once you’ve put a little thought into it, I’ve no doubt in my mind your sweetheart will love any gift you’ve picked out just for them.

—Kathryn Cunningham is a junior in psychology.

She can be reached at kcunnin4@utk.edu.

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Strategic territory fuels Korean dispute Associated Press YEONPYEONG ISLAND, South Korea — The view from this South Korean island takes in the undulating hills of North Korea just seven miles away and the seafood-rich waters all around — a region of such economic and strategic importance to both countries that one expert calls it a recipe for war.

Violence often erupts in this slice of sea claimed by both countries. Boats routinely jostle for position during crab-catching season, and three deadly naval clashes since 1999 have taken a few dozen lives.

The South’s president took responsibility Monday for failing to protect his citizens from a deadly North Korean artillery barrage on Yeonpyeong Island on Nov. 23. The origins of the attack can be traced to a sea border drawn at the close of the Korean War, nearly 60 years ago.

As the conflict ended in a truce, the U.S.led U.N. Command divided the Yellow Sea without Pyongyang ’s consent, cutting North Korea off from rich fishing waters and boxing in a crucial deep-water port, a move that clearly favored the South.

North Korea has bitterly contested the line ever since, arguing that it should run farther south. But for Seoul, accepting such a line would endanger fishing around five South Korean islands and hamper access to

its port at Incheon.

“It is the perfect recipe for ‘accidental’ warfare,” Erich Weingartner, editor-in-chief of CanKor, a Canadian website focused on North Korean analysis, wrote recently.

“The navies of both sides protect their respective fishing vessels. Mischief and miscalculation does the rest,” he added.

“The outbreak of hostilities is less surprising to me than the fact that for 60 years these hostilities have been contained.”

The Nov. 23 attack hit civilian areas in Yeonpyeong (pronounced yuhn-pyuhng), marking a new level of hostility along the contested line. Two civilians and two marines died, and many houses were gutted in the shelling.

Normally home to about 1,300 civilian residents, the island was declared a special security area Monday, which could pave the way for a forced evacuation of those who did not flee last week. Military trucks carrying what appeared to be multiple rocket launchers were seen heading to a marine base on the island.

Long-range artillery guns and a halfdozen K-9 howitzers were also on their way, the Yonhap news agency reported, citing unidentified military officials.

South Korean President Lee Myung-bak, in a nationally televised speech, vowed tough consequences for any future aggression, without offering specifics.

“I feel deeply responsible for failing to protect my people’s lives and property,” he said.

After his speech, Yeonpyeong officials announced new live-fire drills for Tuesday, warning residents to take shelter in underground bunkers. Another announcement later in the evening said there would be no exercise; marines on the island had failed to get final approval from higher authorities.

The attack came on the same day South Korea conducted artillery drills from the island. The North says it warned Seoul that morning not to fire into the disputed waters.

The North’s anger has only increased as a nuclear-powered U.S. aircraft carrier and a South Korean destroyer take part in previously scheduled joint military exercises this week farther south in the Yellow Sea. On Sunday, North Korea described the disputed waters as “the most acute and sensitive area where military conflict might break out anytime due to the illegal ‘northern limit line’ unilaterally drawn by the U.S. and the ceaseless provocation of the South Korean puppet group.”

The U.N. Command demarcated the line after failed attempts to negotiate a sea border. Andrei Lankov, a North Korea expert at Kookmin University in Seoul, said the move clearly favored the South, exploiting the weakness of the North Korean navy.

Many experts believe North Korea would be given greater territorial waters than it currently has if the issue were settled by arbitration or some other impartial means, said Daniel Pinkston, a Seoul-based analyst for the International Crisis Group.

“International law is on their side in this case, but it does not justify the action they’ve taken in any way,” he said. “In fact, it undermines their legitimate arguments for the establishment of an equitable maritime boundary.”

The waters were the scene of deadly skirmishes in 1999, 2002 and 2009 and then, in March, the worst attack on Seoul’s military since the Korean War. A South Korean-led international investigation found that a North Korean torpedo sank the Cheonan, a 1,200-ton South Korean warship, killing 46 sailors. The North denied it.

Rodger Baker, an analyst for the U.S. security think tank STRATFOR, said the North is stepping up its efforts to draw the world’s attention to its push for a change in the maritime border.

“They’re now shelling South Korean islands,” he said. “The question is how far do the North Koreans have to go before the crisis either draws attention in the way they want or forces a response from the South Koreans and, ultimately, from the United States?”

Death row inmate challenges execution Associated Press NASHVILLE— Attorneys are making a last-ditch effort to save convicted killer Stephen Michael West from death row as Tennessee officials prepare for his execution.

West, who has been moved to death watch, is scheduled to die by lethal injection at 10 p.m. CST Tuesday for the 1986 stabbing deaths of a Union County woman and her teenage daughter.

He has challenged Tennessee’s three-drug execution protocol, saying it violates the constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment. Even though the state changed its execution procedure, West’s attorneys say he shouldn’t be put to death because officials still haven’t proven the new method passes muster.

On Monday, West, 58, appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court and the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals to stay his execution.

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Chancellor Claudia Bonnyman ruled last week that Tennessee’s process “allows for death by suffocation while conscious,” in an appeal by West.

Bonnyman said in her ruling that the 5 grams of sodium thiopental, the first drug meant to render the inmate unconscious, was insufficient. She said the state should adopt some method to determine whether the inmate was awake before being injected with the second drug, a paralyzing agent.

In response, the state added a procedure in which a prison warden will brush a hand over an inmate’s eyelashes and gently shake the inmate to check for consciousness.

If the warden determines the inmate is unconscious after the first injection, he directs the executioner to administer the next two drugs. If the warden determines the inmate is still conscious, a second IV line will give a second dose of 5 grams of sodium thiopental.

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However, West’s attorneys asked in court documents Friday to halt the execution because they say the state hasn’t proven that the new procedure is constitutional.

“Defendants waited until the eve of the Thanksgiving holidays to spring a new protocol on the court and Mr. West with nothing to demonstrate its constitutionality,” the attorneys said.

How the state high court rules may also affect next month’s execution of another inmate who joined the appeal, Billy Ray Irick.

Correction Department spokeswoman Dorinda Carter told The Associated Press on Monday that West is on death watch, which is a cell adjacent to the execution chamber.

She said he’s allowed visits from family, his attorney and a spiritual adviser. For his last meal, Carter said West has requested an extra large Domino’s pizza with everything except black olives and pineapples.

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UT’s business education nationally recognized The College of Business Administration at UT has a strong reputation nationally and internationally, according to the 2010 Eduniversal survey, which ranked the top 1,000 business schools worldwide.

The college received “three palmes,” indicating an excellent business school that is nationally strong and has international links.

Palmes substitute for stars, which are typically used in rankings; a multicolored palme is part of Eduniversal’s logo.

Eduniversal asked the deans from each of the 1,000 selected business schools worldwide to decide which ones they would recommend to students by answering the question, “Which business school(s) would you recommend to anyone wishing to study in this country?”

Their responses were given to a committee of nine independent academic experts, who then ranked each of the 1,000 institutions.

Created by SMBG, the leading company in France in student orientation, www.eduniversal.com was launched in October 2007 to serve as a search engine for all new higher education projects and international recruitment.

The College of Business Administration at

NEWS UT also has garnered top rankings for its undergraduate business curriculum, full-time MBA program, executive-level MBA programs, and supply chain/logistics curriculum by organizations and in publications such as U.S. News & World Report, The Princeton Review, Modern Healthcare, The Journal of Business Logistics, AMR Research, Supply Chain Management Review, Financial Times and Forbes.

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

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.

Parking for commencement is available at any student parking area on campus. Parking for disabled persons is available in the Neyland Drive garage (G-10). For a campus parking map, visit http://www.utk.edu/maps/campus/.

‘A Christmas Carol’ now showing The Clarence Brown Theatre once again proudly presents Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol,” adapted by Edward Morgan and Joseph Hanreddy.

For those who have embraced this Dickens classic as part of their holiday ritual, and for those about to discover it for the first time, Scrooge, the Crachits and the ghosts of Christmas past, present, and yet-to-come return to the Clarence Brown mainstage.

The performance is sponsored by the Rotary Club of Knoxville with additional sponsorship provided by WBIR, Comcast, The Knoxville News-Sentinel, WUOT, B97.5, NewsTalk 100 and 90.3 The Rock.

There will be an interpreted production for the hearing impaired on Thursday, December 2.

UT scientist cracks mystery A systematic study of phase changes in vanadium dioxide has solved a mystery that has puzzled scientists for decades, according to a UT researcher working at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

Scientists have known that vanadium dioxide exhibits several competing phases when it acts as an insulator at lower temperatures.

However, the exact nature of the phase behavior has not been understood since research began on vanadium dioxide in the early 1960s.

Alexander Tselev, a research assistant professor in physics working with ORNL’s Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, in collabo-

Tuesday, November 30, 2010 ration with Igor Luk’yanchuk from the University of Picardy in France, used a condensed matter physics theory to explain the observed phase behaviors of vanadium dioxide, a material of significant technological interest for optics and electronics.

Vanadium dioxide is best known in the materials world for its speedy and abrupt phase transition that essentially transforms the material from a metal to an insulator. The phase change takes place at about 68 degrees Celsius.

Devices that might take advantage of the unusual properties of VO2 include lasers, motion detectors and pressure detectors, which could benefit from the increased sensitivity provided by the property changes of vanadium dioxide. The material is already used in technologies such as infrared sensors.

Researchers said their theoretical work could help guide future experimental research in vanadium dioxide and ultimately aid the development of new technologies based on VO2.

The results were published in the American Chemical Society’s Nano Letters. The research team also included Ilia Ivanov, John Budai and Jonathan Tischler at ORNL and Evgheni Strelcov and Andrei Kolmakov at Southern Illinois University.

The team’s theoretical research expands upon previous experimental ORNL studies with microwave imaging that demonstrated how strain and changes of crystal lattice symmetry can produce thin conductive wires in nanoscale vanadium dioxide samples.

This research was supported in part by the Department of Energy’s Office of Science and by the National Science Foundation.

Researchers also used instrumentation at the Office of Science-supported Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences and Advanced Photon Source User Facilities at Oak Ridge and Argonne national laboratories, respectively.

CNMS is one of the five DOE Nanoscale Science Research Centers, premier national user facilities for interdisciplinary research at the nanoscale supported by the DOE Office of Science. Together the NSRCs comprise a suite of complementary facilities that provide researchers with state-of-the-art capabilities to fabricate, process, characterize and model nanoscale materials and constitute the largest infrastructure investment of the National Nanotechnology Initiative. The NSRCs are located at DOE’s Argonne, Brookhaven, Lawrence Berkeley, Oak Ridge and Sandia and Los Alamos National Laboratories. For more information about the DOE NSRCs, please visit http://nano.energy.gov.

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New book details murder case Authors explore investigation, resolution of killing from 1975 Associated Press NASHVILLE— A new book about Na s h v i l l e ’s most notorious slaying recounts how police pursued the wrong suspect for more than 30 years.

“A S eason of Darkness” by Douglas Jones and Phyllis Gobbell tells the story of the 1975 killing of 9-year- old Marcia Trimble, who was strangled while delivering Girl S cout cookies in her middle - class n e i g h b o rh o o d w h e re c r i m e wa s u n c o m mon.

Her body was not discovered for 33 days despite a massive search. It finally was found partially covered in a garage just 150 yards from her home.

Until 2008, police focused on a 15year- old boy in the neighborhood who the girl visited while distributing the cookies.

He was arrested in 1979, but the charges were dropped.

Finally, investigators using DNA linked surprise suspect Jerome B arrett to the slaying, and he was convicted and sent e n c e d t o 4 4 ye a rs i n p r i s o n , e n d i n g Nashville’s three - decade ordeal. Months

earlier he had been sentenced to life in prison in a similar case.

The book, due on shelves Dec. 7 and p u b l i s h e d b y t h e Pe n gu i n Gro u p , s ays “detectives wasted 33 years trying to pin the Trimble murder on a teenager who passed numerous lie detector tests and whose DNA never matched the victim’s evidence in any test , by any lab.”

Po l i c e Sg t . Pat Po s t i g l i o n e , w h o worked the later st ages of the investigation, s aid authorities were just never able to link the teen to the slaying except for circumst antial evidence. “ The case haunted a lot of the detectives,” he s aid in an Associated Press interview.

The girl’s mother, Virginia, now in failing health, has s aid that police worked hard on the case. After B arrett’s trial, she gave one of the detectives involved a picture Marcia had drawn shortly before the slaying. The girl’s father has died.

B arrett , who lived in Memphis when he was arrested, was in prison on sex charges between 1974 and 2002 except for about a year when the girl dis appeared.

Detectives focused on the neighborhood boy because he had been with M a rc i a s h o r t l y b e f o re h e r d e at h a n d because he was rather uncooperative at times. He was also carrying a condom at their first meeting and had an obscenity w r i tt e n o n h i s t e n n i s s h o e s , t h e b o o k s ays.

However, Postiglione s aid that even t h o u g h t h e yo u t h wa s s u s p i c i o u s , “ We actually were leaning away from him. We just didn’t know who did it .”

Parts of the case remain a mystery. It’s not clear how police and search dogs overlooked the body. And it’s still puzzling why no one in the neighborhood s aw her being grabbed or screaming. “ T h i s a l l wa s s u c h a m ys t e r y, ” Postiglione s aid. “How could a little 9year- old girl walk out of her house and vanish in just minutes while delivering G i rl S c o u t c o o k i e s i n a n e i g h b o rh o o d w h e re s o m e t h i n g l i ke t h at n e v e r h a p pened.

“Even today, anyone who has ever lived here knows this case. It was a nightmare for the city.”

Campaign to sponsor rebuild of Civil War general’s grave

Associated Press CHATTANOOGA— Gen. William H. Lytle has come up a few cannonballs short of a pyramid.

Fortunately for the longdead Union general, two preservation groups are uniting to rebuild his monument at the Chickamauga Battlefield by recasting 323 cannonballs stolen by looters or borrowed to fill in at other monuments.

Only a single layer of cannonballs — 15 on each side of the pyramid — remains on the monument for Lytle, a Union general from Cincinnati.

The Friends of Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park and the Cincinnati Camp of the Sons of Union Veterans have teamed up to launch a fundraising campaign to rebuild the monument.

The groups hope to host a dedication ceremony as part of the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Chickamauga in 2013.

Patrice Glass, new executive director of the Friends group, said the monument's remote location an eighth of a mile off a paved road may have been its undoing. Both park staff and illegal relic hunters may have seen the general’s pyramid as an outof-the-way source for cannonballs.

“They thought, ‘This is the farthest one from the road, nobody will notice,’ and then we get this,” said Glass, gesturing at the single layer of spheres.

Lytle’s monument was one of eight large pyramids built in the park in 1894 to mark the sites where commanding generals from both sides were killed.

“Once this one is restored, the collection can be complete again,” said Kay Parish, outgoing director of the group.

Lytle was fairly well known as a lawyer and legislator, and his poem “Anthony and Cleopatra” gained some notoriety across the country.

“At the time he was certainly recognized,” park historian Jim Ogden said.

When Lytle fell, Confederate commanders stationed a guard detachment around the poet-warrior's body so it could be returned safely across Union lines.

The friends group estimates each cannonball will cost $200. Coupled with the cost of restoring the path to the pyramid, they expect to need about $65,000 overall.

So far they have raised $8,400.

Kerry Langdon, commander of the Cincinnati camp that bears Lytle’s name, said his men traveled to the battlefield and were “saddened” to see the monument's condition.

“It’s a worthy cause, we believe,” he said. “We don’t want to see any historical leader with his monument reduced.”

Ogden said cannonballs used to be easier to take because 19th century welding technology did not allow for sturdy connections between the balls. Modern welds should keep the new balls in place and foil all but the most dedicated vandals.

Glass said park policies have changed over the years. While modern caretakers would never steal from one monument to build up another, it was apparently acceptable practice decades ago.

“With a park this old, there were a lot of things going on,” she said.

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Journalism founded on fact, not opinion Jake Lane Arts & Entertainment Editor Before I stepped foot in my first class at UT, I was already working for the Daily Beacon. I came in during the summer to try and find some work in the journalism field, thinking I could use the experience and that the work would be fun. B oth of these things proved true, but that’s not really the point.

Deciding to leave my post at the Beacon, in a way, is like a graduation of sorts. While I won’t be done here at the university for another year, I have spent most of my college career here writing for this paper and have received as much of an education here as in any of the classes I’ve taken. The decision to move on is informed by a need to move on to the next step in my life, not unlike when one graduates and hopes to start a new career.

Since beginning as a production artist in the fall of 2008, I’ve encountered innumerable opportunities under the Beacon’s flag. From talking with various local restaurateurs while building dining guides to running frantically back and forth to various concerts at this year’s Bonnaroo and Big Ears festivals, trying to absorb as much action as possible to report back to the Beacon audience, the lessons that I have been able to glean from the work that I’ve had the pleasure of undertaking have endowed me with priceless life experience I hope to build on in journalism or whatever field I find my calling in creatively.

Writing about entertainment and art was always my goal when I got to the Beacon. I’ve written my entire life, always about those things that have captivated my mind and inspired me to want to create art of my own. When writing for other people, one encoun-

ters types of music or films, even books, that may not appeal to their own interests (or obsessions), yet they are able to grow and find new outlets for inspiration in the world.

There have been stories over the past year or so that I begrudged myself to write, just because I didn’t see the point in wasting the readers’ time on material I found to be largely uninteresting. But therein lies the purpose of a journalist, student or not. As trades• Photo courtesy of Jake Lane men we are confined largely to fact, Entertainment editor Jake Lane formulates ideas for his column in this undated unless one embarks on a self-serving photo. Although he was unable to recall the aforementioned thoughts, Lane was able to think of new concepts which he used for today’s column. editorial such as this.

However, the principle that is most important to any journalist is that the power of the written word, the currency in which our stories trade with the intellect of the reader, is how we use the facts given to inform the reader. As an impassioned and opinionated person, it is always my intent to make the reader feel something. As a journalist, I ascribe to neither political party nor any one ideology, but hope that my words will make the reader want to do the right thing.

The downfall of journalism, when observed by our descendants in years to come, will be the reactionary punditry that has infiltrated and redefined the trade over the last half-century, not to mention named one of the greatest bands in history, and Radiohead by proxy. It’s no easy feat to approach a topic like art without such partisan vitriol, but I have made an attempt to reign it in since taking this position, and take the ability to do so as the greatest lesson I have learned in my years at UT. Just remember, don’t be the guy on YouTube who drinks a bottle of Patron in 12 seconds, and if you do, call me. Good luck, Will.

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‘127 Hours’ highlights true heroism James Franco delivers moving performance of real-life rock climber Will Abrams Staff Writer Heroes are hard to come by these days.

Unless someone has been bitten by a radioactive spider, the term is rarely even used today.

People like “Sully” Sullenberger, who landed a U.S. Airways plane on the Hudson River back in 2009, are forgotten about pretty quickly, while America continues its fascination with near-celebrities like the Kardashians.

Another story that many have probably let slip from memory is the dramatic escape from death by Aron Ralston in 2003. While canyoning near Moab, Utah, a boulder fell on Ralston’s right arm, pinning him in a narrow corridor miles from civilization. After deplet-

the audience is in for a real treat. Characters don’t get to bring up feelings in conversation like “I am hungry.” Instead, they have to display a myriad of emotions using only their physical expressions.

Given this criteria, Franco delivers one of this year’s most powerful performances. Not only does the actor mix sobering fear with biting sarcasm throughout the film, but an actual transformation of the character can be witnessed.

At some point, people are going to say that Ralston is an idiot for putting himself into this kind of situation. Why should the audience care about someone who is dumb enough to not tell anyone that he is going to a very secluded place to partake in a dangerous activity? As the film points out, no one knows this better than Ralston.

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Sarah Bulzan Bright, junior in business, sings at the I-House’s music night on Tuesday, Nov. 23. Bright won the contest with an a cappella song and two composures on the piano.

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ing his limited water supply over a course of five days, Ralston resorted to cutting off a large portion of his arm with a blunt knife in exchange for his freedom.

While Ralston didn’t necessarily save a bus full of children, his actions were heroic nonetheless — so much so that director Danny Boyle (“Slumdog Millionaire”) has crafted his latest film, “127 Hours” from the daring mountaineer’s account.

Ralston (James Franco) is an engineering graduate from Carnegie Mellon University who likes to spend his free time in the wilderness of the Utah/Colorado area.

Unfortunately for the climber, he likes to do this alone and without a word to anyone about where he’ll be. Struggling to survive in the harsh desert climate of Blue John Canyon, he must find a way to free his arm from the canyon wall before succumbing to the elements.

Similar to films like “Cast Away” or, more recently, “Buried,” any time that one actor has to carry a film with very little dialogue,

While delivering a historical account of a heroic tale, Boyle also provides clear insight into what was going through Ralston’s mind during the event. Providing expert opinion on his story as well as appearing in one of the film’s more powerful scenes, Ralston’s involvement with the film makes it all the more moving.

Though the film is fantastic throughout, the scene that really stands out — and how could it not? — has to be the climactic amputation scene. Despite the reports of a few audience members fainting during a screening in Toronto, the scene is not something out of the “Saw” series. On one hand it is a skin-crawling moment, but it is also incredibly put together by Boyle and Co. One is free to cover their eyes if necessary; however, they will lose out on a well-crafted scene.

“127 Hours” is one film “based on a true story” that actually lives up to its superb source material.

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Lady Vols volleyball enters NCAA Tournament seeded 11th Staff Reports The University of Tennessee volleyball team will enter the 2010 NCAA Tournament with the highest national seed in school history at No. 11. The Lady Volunteers will travel to Bloomington, Ind., for the first and second rounds of the tournament which will be held at University Gymnasium, Dec. 3-4.

Tennessee (24-6) will open the tournament against Alabama A&M (16-10) at 5 p.m. on Friday before Miami (Fla.) (23-8) squares off against Indiana (21-11) at 7 p.m.

The winner of both contests will advance to a second-round showdown at 3 p.m. on Saturday for the right to move on to the NCAA Regional in Dayton, Ohio, Dec. 1011.

“The first thing that I like about our draw is that we stay in our time zone,” UT Head Coach Rob Patrick said. “For me, that was really important. I don’t know very much about Alabama A&M, but every team that makes it to the NCAA Tournament deserves being there, so we’ll take it one match at a

time, just like we have done all year.

“Miami is coming out of the ACC which got five teams in so that tells you a little bit about the strength of their conference and Indiana is in the Big Ten which is always one of the top two conferences in the country. We know that both of teams will be battle-tested and ready to play at a high level.

“We need to get in and watch some film on Alabama A&M to get ready for that match, but our main focus is making sure that we take care of business on our side of the net. Our players have done a fantastic job of that all year and that has played a big role in our success, so we will just keep working on those things as we get ready for next week’s matches.”

The No. 11 national seed is the highest in school history, topping the only two previous seeds of No. 12 in 2004 and No. 15 in 2005.

The NCAA Tournament bid, meanwhile, marks UT’s 12th all-time, third straight and sixth in the last seven years. The Lady Vols are 11-11 in their 12 NCAA Tournament appearances.

The Big Orange is one of six Southeastern

Conference teams selected to participate in the tournament and one of three seeded squads from the league, joining No. 1 Florida and No. 13 LSU. The Gators will open at home in Gainesville as part of the Austin, Texas, regional, while the Tigers will head to Norman, Okla., to start the tournament in the University Park, Pa., regional.

The SEC’s six teams rank second behind only the Big Ten which had eight squads make the tournament. The Pac-10 also had six, followed by five each from the Big 12 and the Atlantic Coast Conference and four from the Missouri Valley.

“I am so excited for our team,” Patrick said. “They have put in a lot of hard work since last summer and have been really coachable and focused on what they wanted to accomplish, so it is neat to see them get the respect they deserve following a terrific regular season.

“Not only were we successful against a very tough non-conference schedule, but also making a great run through the SEC which just continues to establish itself as one of the top volleyball conferences in the country.”

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Kayla Jeter spikes a shot through multiple LSU defenders on Friday, Nov. 12.

The Lady Vols travel to Bloomington, Ind., for the first and second rounds of the NCAA tournament this week, carrying the highest national seeding, No. 11, in the history of the program.

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Titans moving on from loss, fight Associated Press Andre Johnson and the Texans easily handled the Tennessee Titans. It’s the potential consequences of his fight with Cortland Finnegan that have Johnson and his Houston teammates worried.

After the Texans beat the Titans 20-0 on Sunday, Johnson was concerned that his onfield brawl with Finnegan could keep him out of Houston's game Thursday night in Philadelphia.

“I wish that I could take back what happened but I can’t,” Johnson said. “It's over and done with now. I'm pretty sure I'll be disciplined for it. When that time comes and I find out what it is, I’ll have to deal with it from there.”

Finnegan set off the fourth-quarter fistfight by pushing up Johnson’s face mask at the line of scrimmage. Johnson ripped off Finnegan’s helmet and landed at least two punches to Finnegan’s head and neck. Finnegan tore off Johnson’s helmet before players and referees intervened.

The game was halted for more than five minutes as officials sorted out the chaos.

Johnson received a standing ovation as security guards escorted him off the field and the Wade Rackley• The Daily Beacon crowd chanted his name long after he’d left.

Smokey catches a ride on the floor mop of a volunteer at the Tennessee- Finnegan taunted booing fans as he exited out Chattanooga basketball game on Friday, Nov. 12. Smokey donned a camo outfit to the opposite tunnel. honor those that served in the armed forces for the game which took place on Johnson, who had a touchdown Sunday, is almost certain to be fined for the incident, but Veterans Day. it is unclear if he would be suspended.

Oakland defensive tackle Richard Seymour was fined $25,000 last week after his ejection for hitting Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger with an open hand in the jaw, but he was not suspended.

Texans owner Bob McNair doesn’t believe there should be any punishment for Johnson.

“I don’t know why there would be,” he said.

“The DB (Finnegan) was all over him and he’s the one that initiated it and he'd been doing it the play before and all game. So he just went a little too far and Andre’s the one that was on camera when the action heated up. That’s not Andre, but sometimes enough is enough, I guess.”

Finnegan did not talk to reporters after the game, but Titans coach Jeff Fisher addressed the fight.

“Cortland said he never took a swing, he just knocked his helmet off,” Fisher said. “I’m a little confused as to why they said they both threw punches. I have to look at it. I don’t know.”

The two got into a milder shoving match on the play before the fight, with Johnson giving Finnegan a shot in the back before

Finnegan took off his helmet and walked away.

The incident marred an almost perfect day for the Texans (5-6) who held Chris Johnson to a career-low 5 yards rushing and intercepted rookie quarterback Rusty Smith three times in their first shutout since 2004 and just the second in franchise history.

Before Sunday they hadn’t allowed less than 24 points in a game this season.

Arian Foster ran for 143 yards and had nine receptions for a career-high 75 yards, to help the Texans break a four-game losing streak. He set a team record with his sixth 100-yard game of the season.

“He’s done that all year against everybody,” Fisher said. “He is hard to tackle. We told them that all week. He’s a hard guy to get down one on one.”

The Texans built a 14-0 halftime lead thanks to Johnson's touchdown and one by Joel Dreessen in the second quarter. Houston only managed a pair of field goals in the second half, but with Tennessee's offense sputtering, it was plenty for the win.

The Titans (5-6) didn’t get into Texans territory until a late hit penalty on a punt put them at the Houston 36 with about 13 minutes remaining. They still came up empty when Glover Quin intercepted his second pass of the day just outside of the goal line.

It was a big day for Quin, who set a franchise record with three interceptions. He needed a boost after a tough couple of weeks that included deflecting the ball into the hands of Mike Thomas on a 50-yard desperation pass on the last play of the game to give Jacksonville a 31-24 win.

“That’s great for him to get three interceptions after all the abuse and criticism he's had,” McNair said. “That’s going to help our defense’s confidence so much. I think you’re going to see them play better.”

The Titans capped off a drama-filled week with their fourth straight loss and were forced to go with Smith this week because Vince Young is out with a thumb injury. Young argued with Fisher after he was taken out of last week’s loss to Washington after he was injured. Young was placed on injured reserve and apologized to Fisher via text message.

Young did not join his team for Sunday's game.

Titans offensive coordinator Mike Heimerdinger was on the sideline calling plays after he was diagnosed with cancer this week. He’s due to start chemotherapy Monday.

Johnson downplayed the notion that the problems with Young contributed to their poor performance on Sunday.

“I wouldn’t blame it on that,” he said.

“That’s just an excuse.”

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UConn, Vols make biggest jump in AP poll Tennessee moves up 11 spots to No. 13 after winning NIT Season Tip-Off Associated Press There’s no arguing Duke is No. 1 in The Associated Press college basketball poll and no doubt that Connecticut has moved into the Top 25.

The Blue Devils (6-0) received all 65 first-place votes from the national media panel Monday, and the Huskies (5-0) made the second-most impressive jump into the rankings in the last 21 years, moving in at No. 7.

Duke was No. 1 on all but seven ballots last week but Michigan State, which got six No. 1 votes, and Kansas State, which had the other, both lost — the latter to the Blue Devils as they won the CBE Classic.

The wins over Marquette, Kansas State and Oregon made the Blue Devils the first unanimous No. 1 since Kentucky did it for one week last season.

Connecticut beat then-No. 2 Michigan State and then-No. 8 Kentucky on the way to winning the Maui Invitational. Since the poll expanded to 25 teams in 1989, the only more impressive entrance was Kansas' jump to No. 4 after beating No. 2 LSU, No. 1 UNLV and No. 25 St. John’s on the way to winning the 1989 Preseason NIT. “It’s tough to imagine something like that even though everybody says they don’t pay attention to the polls,” Connecticut coach Jim Calhoun said before Monday’s practice. “It’s nice to be there at this point of the season but I always tell my teams ‘Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today.’”

Taking a team with five freshmen in its rotation to play in a tournament such as the Maui Invitational is a dicey proposition because you could come out with one win or maybe with an 0-3 record.

“I was very worried,” Calhoun said. “In life you have to be bold enough to try. We did and we succeeded. I would have been happy with terrific effort to show we were equal to the task. We could have lost the first two games we played, then we were great against Kentucky. The only way to grow is to face teams early like we'll see throughout the season.”

The Huskies were ranked for the first 10 weeks last season as well as in one other poll. They dropped out for good on Feb. 1 and didn’t make the NCAA tournament.

“The No. 1 thing for this team now is that tomorrow is one of the biggest games of the season,” Calhoun said of the home

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game against New Hampshire. “We have to validate what people think of us, it’s quite that simple. I will remind them we were down three at the half to Vermont before we went to Maui. We have to keep getting better and we all have to be tuned in to that.”

UNLV (6-0), which won the 76 Classic, and Notre Dame (7-0), which won the Old Spice Classic, were this week's other newcomers to the poll at No. 24 and 25. Both were ranked last season.

Temple, Gonzaga and North Carolina dropped out of the rankings.

A lot of movement was expected in the poll after half of the top 10 lost a game last week, while three other ranked teams lost, including Washington and Temple each dropping two games.

Ohio State moved up one spot to second and Pittsburgh and Kansas both moved up two places to third and fourth.

Kansas State, which lost to Duke in the CBE Classic final, dropped one place to fifth, while Michigan State, which lost to Connecticut in the semifinals at Maui, fell four spots to sixth.

Connecticut, Syracuse, Missouri and Kentucky rounded out the top 10.

Baylor moved up one place to 11th and was followed by Villanova, Tennessee, Memphis, Minnesota, Georgetown, San Diego State, Florida, Texas and Illinois.

The last five ranked teams were BYU, Purdue, Washington, UNLV and Notre Dame.

Temple (3-2) fell out from 21st after losing to California and Texas A&M at the Old Spice Classic. Gonzaga (3-2) was 22nd but the Zags lost to Kansas State in the CBE Classic semifinals. North Carolina (4-2), which dropped from No. 8 to 25th in the previous poll after two early losses, fell from the rankings despite beating UNC Asheville and College of Charleston last week.

Tennessee, which won the NIT Season Tip-Off by beating Villanova in the championship game, had the biggest jump in the poll, moving from 24th to No. 13. The biggest drop was Purdue’s fall from 10th to No. 22 following a 65-54 loss to Richmond. Washington, which lost to Kentucky and Michigan State at Maui, dropped 10 places to 23rd.

There are only two matchups between ranked teams this week. Georgetown meets Missouri at the Sprint Center in Kansas City, Mo., on Tuesday, and Michigan State is at Duke on Wednesday, a game that would have been a 1-2 matchup until this week.

ESPN to televise UT, SEC baseball Staff Reports As part of an unprecedented agreement between ESPN and the Southeastern Conference, the University of Tennessee baseball team has been selected as one of two squads to be featured twice on ESPNU’s groundbreaking Thursday Night SEC Baseball Game of the Week during the 2011 season.

The Volunteers will kick off the inaugural seven-week series, a first for the sport, when they host defending NCAA National Champion South Carolina at 7:30 p.m. on April 7 at Lindsey Nelson Stadium. UT will then take part in the event the next week as well when it travels to Tuscaloosa, Ala., to square off with Alabama on April 14. Both contests will be televised nationally on ESPNU which is now available in 73 million homes. Ole Miss is the only other team set to be featured twice.

“ESPNU is thrilled to feature a sevenweek SEC Thursday night baseball series,” said Rosalyn Durant, Vice President, ESPNU. “Showcasing the vast talent of SEC baseball is great for the sport, fans, league and ESPNU. We appreciate the partnership with the SEC in creating this consistent Thursday night national package.”

SEC weekend baseball series typically run Friday through Sunday but will be played Thursday through Saturday for the selected three-game sets that will be part of ESPNU’s Thursday Night SEC Baseball Game of the Week.

“The Thursday night package of SEC games on ESPNU is a great opportunity for us to showcase the outstanding baseball that is played in our conference,” said SEC Commissioner Mike Slive. “The ESPNU package will be able to draw attention to the outstanding game-day atmosphere we have at our baseball stadiums as well as the rich tradition and history of SEC baseball.”

SEC baseball is coming

off a successful season that saw South Carolina win the 2010 National Championship Series, Florida advanced to the College World Series and eight SEC teams overall earn NCAA postseason bids.

It marked the sixth time since 2000 and the third consecutive year an SEC team played for the national title.

Additional SEC baseball games will be aired on the ESPN family of networks as well as other networks and will be announced at a later date. No other games will be moved to Thursday other than the games listed below.

ESPNU SEC Thursday Night Baseball Schedule Date Time Game April 7 7:30 p.m.

South Carolina at Tennessee April 14 7:30 p.m.

Tennessee at Alabama April 21 7:30 p.m.

Ole Miss at Auburn April 28 7:30 p.m.

Kentucky at LSU May 5 7:30 p.m.

Florida at Arkansas May 12 7:30 p.m. Mississippi State at Ole Miss May 19 7:30 p.m. Vanderbilt at Georgia

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Matt Dixon Sports Editor

W

ith Thanksgiving being last week and this being the last Daily Beacon issue of the semester, it’s time to give thanks to one underrated aspect of the Tennessee football season: Derek Dooley’s sense humor. The first-year coach was full of quotes throughout the season.

Many couldn’t find a place in Beacon articles, until now. So here are some of Dooley’s leftover quotes.

On South Carolina running back Marcus Lattimore’s performance against the Vols:

“They hand the ball off to 21 and he looks like Secretariat running through us.”

practice and elsewhere. I’m hoping we show some improvement in that.”

On the team being overconfident after the UT-Martin game: “Well, if they look at the film and they get overconfident, then we've got a bigger problem. We've got an intelligence issue that we have to deal with. And then I’ll probably send them to Thornton Center for a little work. If I've got to worry about that this week, we’ve got bigger issues than you guys can ever even imagine.”

On defensive back Marsalis Teague’s turf toe injury:

“Toes are scary.”

Sept. 21 On intelligence’s role in football: “Your intellectual capacity is an important part of playing football. When I say intellectual I don’t mean your ability to read Shakespeare. I just mean your ability to retain schematically what your job is and then be able to play the play on principle, fast, when things change. That takes a quick mind, and we need more of that.

I think we’re a little slow minded at times.”

Sept. 28 On preparing the team for its first road game at LSU: “Well, I was going to paint the field. But that didn’t work for Oregon State. If they had beaten Boise (State), I might have put a big eye on our field.”

Aug. 31 On starting a 250-pound defensive tackle: “I think we had one at Clarke Central, when I was in high school … You know, back in the old days some of the greatest D-tackles ever were about that size. So we’re going old school.”

On getting anxious: “I’m not always even keel. You just see me when I am. That’s why we closed practices, so you guys can always see me even keel. I won’t be even keel in the games. I’ll have anxiety. I hope I have it if I’m coaching 20 years from now. I think it’s healthy to be a little nervous and to be a little on edge, because your mind's working. I don’t have it right now because I’m really worried about today’s practice and that’s all I’m concerned about, but I’m sure I’ll have some. But you also have to maintain a cool head. Learning how to control your fears and anxieties is important as a coach, just like it is as a player.”

Sept. 7 On the team’s bad showering habits: “We’ve had a few staph infections, so we did a clinic yesterday on proper shower technique and soap and using a rag. We put some new rags in — y’all think I’m kidding, but I'm serious.

“We had, I told them, the worst shower discipline of any team I’ve ever been around. So we talked a little bit about application of soap to the rag and making sure you hit all your body. You know, you can neglect it trying to cut corners, and it shows in how you

Oct. 2 On coming back to LSU and playing in Tiger Stadium: “It was a good team we played. What do you want me to say? It is a big stadium, got a nice video board, band was playing a little bit. They’ve got new skyboxes that are really nice. Seats were the same, the field was a lot better, they have improved their grass so that was kudos to their administration for that. The eye hadn’t ruined the field with the paint, that was a problem in the past.

They’ve still got the old goal posts, that’s a tradition here. They’ve only replaced one of those video boards, so they need to put in another one, they need to fix that one.”

Oct. 4 On Cody Pope's injury: “The longest stinger injury in the history of college football.

That’s what’s new. It might be because he doesn't eat meat. I’m starting to think red meat and chicken is the cure for stingers.

That’s my conclusion. We’re out of any other medical options. So I’m going to try to force a steak down him tonight.”

On what he did when he thought the LSU game was over: “Well, I didn’t know there was a penalty. I didn’t even know there was a flag. I didn’t know there was a flag. I went over there to shake the coach’s hand. I was going over to do an interview. CBS was right there. Thank God I didn’t do that. That would have really been embarrassing.”

Oct. 18 On the media tweeting during his press conferences: “I found out last week you guys tweet right in the middle of this thing. Is that what you all are doing? Sorry. I come back and they

go, ‘Hey, I heard you said this.’ I said, ‘Was it on TV?’ ‘No, they were tweeting it.’ It’s a whole other — I don’t know where I was.

That’s why I don’t allow cell phones in our meeting rooms.

Oct. 25 On the team needing to be more self-sufficient on the field: “Right now, we’re like the Germans in World War II, all right? Here come the boats. It’s coming. The binoculars, like, ‘Oh my God, the invasion is coming.’ That’s what they were doing.

They were in the bunkers. ‘It's coming.’ They call Rommel. They can’t find Rommel. ‘What do we do? I’m not doing anything until we get orders. Have you gotten Rommel yet? The Americans were the exact opposite. We hit the beach, and we’re on the wrong spot, what do we do? I don’t know, but these guys are firing, we better hide over there and blow some stuff up to get up there. They weren’t looking for (orders).

So we’ve got to make that transition. I don’t want the German people to get upset at me. I’m not attacking. But that’s what happened.

You had one group, they weren’t worried about what the plan was, what the orders were. When the war hit, things change. You’ve got to go. You’ve got another group, now wait a minute, they told us the invasion was way farther north, where we had the empty tanks and were hiding Patton out. ‘We weren’t ready for this. What do we do?

Well, we better wait until Rommel tells us what to do.’ I hope I got my names right.”

Nov. 15 On offense’s new “loco” celebration: “To the crazy deal? I never know if they tell me the truth. They say they’re just going crazy, you know, out there. I told them I do that in the office when I watch the film and I see them line up wrong. In October, I spent a whole month doing this (gestures). I may do it when they mess up, and they can do it when they do well; then we’re even. I don’t know. If that brings them juice, then I’m all for it. I guess it’s kind of like, what was it, Nuke LaLoosh, when he was wearing the ladies’ undergarment?”

Nov. 15 On pronouncing South Carolina as the SEC East champions after the game against the Gamecocks in October: “By the way, who was the one who challenged me? Who was that? (Told it was someone from South Carolina.) Can we send a memo to him that he can further change all my quotes back to the original. I’ve been waiting on that one. If you all weren’t at South Carolina, you wouldn’t get it. So you had to be there.”

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Tuesday, Nov. 30 — Men’s Basketball Middle Tennessee State Knoxville 7:30 p.m.

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1. No. 2 Oregon at Oregon State 2. No. 9 Oklahoma at No. 13 Nebraska 3. No. 11 Boise State vs Utah State 4. No. 15 Virginia Tech vs No. 21 Florida State 5. No. 17 Nevada at Louisiana Tech 6. No. 23 Arizona vs Arizona State 7. No. 24 West Virginia vs Rutgers 8. No. 25 Northern Illinois at Miami (OH) 9. Connecticut at South Florida Game of the week: No. 1 Auburn vs No. 19 South Carolina

Friday, Dec. 3 — Women’s Volleyball Alabama A&M Bloomington, Ind. 5 p.m.

Saturday, Dec. 4 — Women’s Volleyball Indiana/Miami (FL) Bloomington, Ind. 3 p.m.

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1. Oregon 2. Oklahoma 3. Boise State 4. Virginia Tech 5. Nevada 6. Arizona 7. West Virginia 8. Northern Illinois 9. South Florida 10. Auburn (30-27) Last week: 7-3 (.700) Overall: 92-28 (.767)

1. Oregon 2. Nebraska 3. Boise State 4. Virginia Tech 5. Nevada 6. Arizona 7. West Virginia 8. Northern Illinois 9. South Florida 10. Auburn (41-21)

1. Oregon 2. Oklahoma 3. Boise State 4. Florida State 5. Nevada 6. Arizona 7. West Virginia 8. Northern Illinois 9. South Florida 10. Auburn (35-14)

Last week: 5-5 (.500) Overall: 88-32 (.733)

Last week: 7-3 (.700) Overall: 92-28 (.767)

It’s hard to rattle him.

We get a lot more rattled as coaches watching him.”

– UT coach Derek Dooley on his freshman starting quarterback, Tyler Bray

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Chief Copy Editor 1. Oregon State 2. Nebraska 3. Boise State 4. Virginia Tech 5. Nevada 6. Arizona 7. West Virginia 8. Northern Illinois 9. Connecticut 10. Auburn (31-20)

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Managing Editor 1. Oregon 2. Nebraska 3. Boise State 4. Virginia Tech 5. Nevada 6. Arizona 7. West Virginia 8. Northern Illinois 9. South Florida 10. Auburn (33-24)

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