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Students protest pay raise Nursing professor “For what purpose is Jimmy Cheek getting a raise?” Tipton asked.

Staff Writer “Has our university improved by 2.5 percent in the last year? Dipietro is In the wake of the latest tuition also receiving a 2.5 percent raise to increase, UT students are taking go along with Cheek’s 6 percent action. raise. This is an example of the pubStudents are airing their grievlic sector needlessly spending money ances in support of an online petition with the understanding aimed at Chancellor that someone else will Cheek. The measure eventually have to pay calls on Cheek to for it.” decline his $22,356 pay Tipton questions the raise as a sign of solivalidity of a merit-based darity with the burpay raise for the chanceldened student populalor. tion.

“Cheek received a pay “The petition isn’t bump last year along about changing the with this one, but I see tuition increase, and it no new innovative ideas isn’t about the job or policies,” Tipton said.

Cheek has done as “The ones that have been chancellor,” Andrew initiated, like ‘Big Doss, the petition’s Orange, Big Ideas,’ have creator, said in a statealso been needlessly ment. “It’s about the wasteful.” principle that Cheek Doss cites the responshouldn’t accept a pay sibility of the chancellor raise during a tuition to reach out in underhike when so many stustanding of the circumdents are struggling to stances faced by many pay as it is.”

UT students.

Doss, senior in elec“I hope Cheek considtrical engineering, creers these things and can ated the petition as an empathize with these outlet for the frustrastudents,” Doss said. tions of the student “Then I’m sure he would body. He was not surrealize that the right prised by the tuition thing to do would be to increase, given the uninot accept the raise. versity’s ardent focus With the influence that on the Top 25 initiathe chancellor has, tive.

File Photo • The Daily Beacon Cheek has a great oppor“I agree that it is necessary to accom- Chancellor Jimmy Cheek talks with media in this undated tunity to set precedence plish the goals that the photo. There is a petition that has been created to urge for leaders in higher education across the counadministration has set Cheek to decline his $22,356 pay raise. try.” for the university,” As the Daily Beacon was going to Doss said. “However, I thought it istration should stand up and show was wrong that while students were that they understand this is a prob- press, the petition has over 500 sigbeing put in a worse situation, Cheek lem for students. Cheek is the per- natures.

Those who wish to learn more was being put in a better situation. fect man for the job, and declining about the petition can access it on It’s the principle of the matter. Cheek his raise would be the first step.” at Hunter Tipton, senior in biologi- www.change.org, should be a leader and decline the https://www.change.org/petitions/ji cal sciences, signed the petition to raise.”

A petition seemed to be the meas- express his opinion on the state of mmy- cheek- do -not-accept-your-22356-dollar-pay-raise. the university.

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ure most likely to catch the administration’s attention.

“Obviously, the school being so large, it’s difficult for the administration to cater individually to students,” Doss said. “That’s one reason I thought the petition would be necessary. I think someone in the admin-

receives award Wesley Mills News Editor Tami Wyatt grew up around nurses. She baby-sat for them. She had relatives that were them. She knew a lot about them. It made sense then that she was destined to become one of them.

Wyatt’s first experience in nursing came when she went straight into the neonatal intensive care unit in 1988.

From there, however, she realized that she wanted to teach.

After receiving her doctorate degree from the University of Virginia, Wyatt traveled west to UT to teach at the College of Nursing.

During the eight years she’s been at UT, she has earned plenty of awards to show for it. She is a 2012 Harvard Macy Health Education Professions Educator Scholar, Tennessee Nurses Association Nursing Teaching Excellence recipient, and recipient of many other awards.

But Wyatt has never received an award like the one she will receive on Sept. 21, when she will be inducted into the Academy of Nursing Education Fellows, part of the National League of Nursing’s Academy of Nursing Education.

“This is just recognition for contributions to nursing education,” Wyatt said.

The award does not just recognize professors for doing their job, but instead for doing more than what was expected from them at their job.

“The key to receiving an award like this is that I must demonstrate ways that I’ve gone above and beyond my duties as a professor to expand nursing education,” Wyatt said.

“Not just how I meet my job responsibility, but what I’ve done above and beyond that.”

Wyatt’s education specialty is technology. She has a degree in instructional design, and she uses a lot of different technologies to try and enhance educational experiences.

Along with some others, Wyatt just recently built an application that is used for educational purposes and sold it to an international publishing company.

“I teach how to use it, I teach with it, I build it, and I research it,” she said.

But Wyatt’s colleagues don’t exclusively know her as a professor with high IQ, innovative technology and awards to back it up. Rather, she’s known as personable, patient and peaceful.

“Dr. Wyatt is a great listener and encourager,” Sandy Mixer, Assistant Professor in the College of Nursing, said.

“She is a master at assisting others with problem solving and examining options. She helps people become the best they can be.”

Mixer said Wyatt’s door is always open for students and faculty to come in and talk about anything with her.

Sandra Mixer met Wyatt four years ago, and the impression Wyatt made on Mixer has been lasting.

“Dr. Wyatt lives by faith,” Mixer said. “Her principles, integrity, and character demonstrate this strong foundation.”

Mixer says that her devotion to excellence and her willingness to think beyond the here and now puts her ahead of those in her field.

See NURSING on Page 3

Tenn. abstinence law criticized The Associated Press Spurred by a classroom demonstration involving a sex toy, Tennessee recently enacted a pro-abstinence sex education law that is among the strictest in the nation.

The most debated section of the bill bars educators from promoting “gateway sexual activity.” But supporters seemed too squeamish during floor debate to specify what that meant, so critics soon labeled it the “no holdinghands bill.”

One thing missing from the debate in the Legislature was a discussion of whether the law signed by Republican Gov. Bill Haslam last month really would help reduce Tennessee’s high teenage pregnancy rate. Experts say it won’t and warn that it leaves teenagers inadequately educated about sexuality and prevention of pregnancy and disease.

Tennessee’s pregnancy rate among girls 15 to 17 has dropped steadily since the first abstinence-focused sex education curriculum was put in place in the 1990s, according to figures from the state Commission on Children and Youth. In 2009, the latest data available, there were 29.6 pregnancies per 1,000 girls, down from a rate of 48.2 in 1998.

Yet the state’s teen pregnancy rate remains one of the highest in the nation, according to the New York-based Guttmacher Institute, a reproductive health research organization.

Elizabeth Nash, state issues manager for the institute, said state lawmakers across the country began considering more comprehensive sex education programs that talked about abstinence, but also included contraception, about 10 years ago.

Despite declining pregnancy rates around the country, Nash said, there’s been a shift by states over the past two years to promote abstinenceonly education. A Utah bill that would have prohibited any discussion of contraception or homosexuality in sex education classes passed the Legislature but was vetoed by the governor.

“Our perspective is that comprehensive sex education is appropriate and necessary for young people,” she said.

“What we know ... from the research is that comprehensive sex education works. It delays sexual activity, it reduces the number of partners teens have, and it increases contraceptive use. There is very little in the way of any rigorous research that shows that abstinence education has any of these long-term benefits.”

Barry Chase, president of Planned Parenthood Greater Memphis Region, agreed.

“This bill ties the hands of educators in Tennessee and will prevent them from providing the comprehensive education that students want and need and their parents expect,” he said.

Rep. Jim Gotto, who sponsored the legislation, disputed the way the bill is being characterized.

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Students set up a presentation during a video from UT about their Lean Enterprise Summer Program. The program is for students from Mexico, China, and Brazil to participate in the classroom as well as apply the lean concepts learned to help local companies.

UT program draws global engineers Staff Reports More than ninety students from developing countries will converge on the UT campus next month for a College of Engineering program to learn cuttingedge industrial engineering practices and gain cultural experiences.

The program, called the Lean Enterprise Summer Program, led by the Department of Industrial and Information Engineering, is intended to allow students from different cultures to work together to accrue the technical knowledge of Lean—the practice of creating

more value for consumers while using fewer resources and eliminating waste.

Media are invited to the opening ceremony held at 9:00 a.m. on Monday, July 2, at the Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy’s Toyota Auditorium. They are also invited to attend class sessions and shadow students at participating businesses.

The program began in 2010 to include students solely from Mexico but has expanded to universities around the world, bringing people from developing countries that have big influence in today’s global dynamics. Ninety students from five institutions within Mexico,

China, and Brazil will attend this year.

“The program focuses on introducing students to the technical skills in Lean principles and the creation of an environment that allows a unique exchange of ideas across cultures,” said Rupy Sawhney, Weston Fulton Professor and head of the Department of Industrial Engineering. “This allows foreign participants to better understand multicultural environments, and helps US citizens to interact with people from other cultures, helping to better prepare all for today’s world.”

See INTERNATIONAL on Page 3

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Tia Patron • The Daily Beacon

McAlister's Deli, empty on June 25, is the latest resturant to close on the strip. Just earlier this month Krystal also closed its doors.

1541 — Conqueror of the Incas assassinated Francisco Pizarro, the governor of Peru and conqueror of the Inca civilization, is assassinated in Lima by Spanish rivals.

The illegitimate son of a Spanish gentleman, Pizarro served under Spanish conquistador Alonso de Ojeda during his expedition to Colombia in 1510 and was with Vasco Nunez de Balboa when he discovered the Pacific Ocean in 1513. Hearing legends of the great wealth of the Incas in South America, Pizarro formed an alliance with fellow conquistador Diego de Almagro in 1524 and sailed back to the Americas. Their first expedition only penetrated as far as present-day Ecuador, but their second reached farther and discovered evidence of the existence of the Inca kingdom.

Securing aid from Emperor Charles V, and a guarantee that he, not Almagro, would receive the majority of the expedition's future profits, Pizarro sailed to Peru and landed at Tumbes in 1532. He led his army up the Andes Mountains to the Inca city of Cajamarca and met with Atahualpa, the king of the Inca kingdom of Quito. After winning his trust, Pizarro captured Atahualpa, exacted a room full of gold as ransom for his life, and then treacherously had him executed. The conquest of Peru came quickly to Pizarro and his army, and in 1533 Inca resistance came to an end with their defeat at Cuzco.

Pizarro, now the governor of Peru, founded new settlements, including Lima, and granted Almagro the conquest of Chile as appeasement for claiming the riches of the Inca civilization for himself.

However, Pizarro failed to provide Almagro with all the land he had promised, and Almagro responded by seizing Cuzco in 1538. Pizarro sent his half brother, Hernando, to reclaim the city, and Almagro was defeated and put to death. Three years later, on June 26, 1541, a group hired by Almagro's former adherents penetrated Pizarro's palace and slew the conquistador while he was eating dinner. Shortly after his death, Diego el Monzo, Almagro's son, proclaimed himself governor of Peru.

1956 — Congress approves Federal Highway Act On this day in 1956, the U.S. Congress approves the Federal Highway Act, which allocates more

than $30 billion for the construction of some 41,000 miles of interstate highways; it will be the largest public construction project in U.S. history to that date.

Among the pressing questions involved in passing highway legislation were where exactly the highways should be built, and how much of the cost should be carried by the federal government versus the individual states. Several competing bills went through Congress before 1956, including plans spearheaded by the retired general and engineer Lucius D. Clay; Senator Albert Gore Sr.; and Rep. George H. Fallon, who called his program the “National System of Interstate and Defense Highways,” thus linking the construction of highways with the preservation of a strong national defense.

President Dwight D. Eisenhower had first realized the value of a national system of roads after participating in the U.S. Army’s first transcontinental motor convoy in 1919; during World War II, he had admired Germany’s autobahn network. In January 1956, Eisenhower called in his State of the Union address (as he had in 1954) for a “modern, interstate highway system.” Later that month, Fallon introduced a revised version of his bill as the Federal Highway Act of 1956. It provided for a 65,000-km national system of interstate and defense highways to be built over 13 years, with the federal government paying for 90 percent, or $24.8 billion. To raise funds for the project, Congress would increase the gas tax from two to three cents per gallon and impose a series of other highway user tax changes.

On June 26, 1956, the Senate approved the final version of the bill by a vote of 89 to 1; Senator Russell Long, who opposed the gas tax increase, cast the single “no” vote. That same day, the House approved the bill by a voice vote, and three days later, Eisenhower signed it into law.

Highway construction began almost immediately, employing tens of thousands of workers and billions of tons of gravel and asphalt. The system fueled a surge in the interstate trucking industry, which soon pushed aside the railroads to gain the lion’s share of the domestic shipping market. Interstate highway construction also fostered the growth of roadside businesses such as restaurants (often fastfood chains), hotels and amusement parks. By the 1960s, an estimated one in seven Americans was employed directly or indirectly by the automobile industry, and America had become a nation of drivers.

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

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President’s endorsement intensifies gay marriage debate, emphasizes divide The Associated Press WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama’s endorsement of gay marriage appears to have made Americans on both sides of the issue even more entrenched in their positions, firing up his young, liberal backers and intensifying opposition from Republicans and conservatives, according to a new poll.

Overall, his announcement last month that he supported gay marriage did little to shift the nation's views on the subject, with the country remaining evenly divided on it, the Associated Press-GfK survey found. And people still seem to favor him over Republican presidential rival Mitt Romney when it comes to handling social issues.

Even so, the poll, out Friday, found stronger approval from Democrats and liberals for the way he's handled gay marriage over the last year and deeper discontent over that performance from the other side.

In the poll, 42 percent of respondents oppose gay marriage, 40 percent support it and 15 percent are neutral. Last August, the country was similarly divided over whether same-sex couples should be allowed to be legally married in their state, with 45 percent opposing, 42 percent favoring and 10 percent neutral.

The country’s divisions — and conflictions — are clear in the voices of Americans.

“Marriage is a marriage, and it's between a man and a woman,” said John Von Sneidern, a 76-year-old Republican from Fairfield, Conn., before pausing. “But on the other side of that, there are a lot of gay couples who are responsible and dedicated to each other and deserve a lot of the benefits of marriage.”

The issue, however, won’t shape his vote. He plans to vote on the economy and support Romney because of his private-sector experience.

Katherine Galdarisi, a 67year-old Democrat from Sacramento, Calif., backed Republican John McCain four years ago but plans to vote for Obama this time.

That’s partly because she faults Republicans for not working with the president on issues voters care about, saying: “They fight him every step of the way and talk about things that don’t matter, like gay marriage.”

“It’s none of anybody’s business,” Galdarisi said. “It doesn’t affect me in the least.”

For years, Obama faced pressure from the left to announce his support for gay marriage, and he spent a chunk of his presidency signaling that he would do just that by saying that he was “evolving” on the issue.

While the economy continues to dominate the presidential race, Obama’s team was mindful that anything — including social issues like gay marriage — could shift the balance in a contest that appears close five months from the election. Even so, Obama announced his reversal and risked turning off some conservative, moderate and independent voters across the nation and in states like Virginia and North Carolina that hadn't voted for a Democratic presidential candidate in decades until Obama won them four years ago.

But the AP-GfK poll suggests that voters, at least nationally, didn’t flee the president.

When asked which candidate Americans trust to do a better job of handling social issues such as abortion and same-sex marriage, there was little change from a poll taken about a week before Obama’s May 9 announcement; 52 percent now side with Obama, compared with 36 percent for Romney.

And more Democrats and liberals said they strongly approved of the president’s handling of gay marriage than they did in August; 41 percent of Democrats now say that, compared with 26 percent then, and 48 percent of liberals have that view, up from 28 percent almost a year ago.

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Lauren Gibson waits for the play against UAB on May 19. Gibson helped the USA's Softball Women's National Team defeat Canada 9-1 on June 24.

NURSING continued from Page 1 “Everything Dr. Wyatt does demonstrates excellence — whether teaching, engaging in scholarship, or service,” Mixer said. “She is a visionary. She sees the world of education and educational technology and envisions what it can become, then she invests the creative energy and hard work to make it happen.”

But it’s the small things — the impromptu meetings with students, the time to mentor colleagues, and the desire to always learn — that make her who she is today.

“As she is teaching, she is learning and as she is learning, she is teaching,” Mixer said.

“That is an example of a master educator.”

This is the NLN’s sixth class of fellows, but the first ever class to award a UT professor. When Wyatt first got news that she

received this award, she was flooded with humility.

“For me, it’s always important to reflect how you received that type of recognition,” she said. “I always feel very humbled when things like this happen because what I know is no one can accomplish these type of goals without a great deal of support and encouragement from your fellow colleagues, from your university and from your administration. I’ve always received that.”

In some cases, people have to go through obstacles and climb mountains and cut down trees to get to their reward. In the case of Wyatt, her support is what enabled this achievement.

“I’ve never been told no,” she said. “I’ve never been told I couldn’t explore the things I wanted to do. I’ve always been fully supported. When I receive awards and recognitions, it really makes me feel quite humbled, and certain that I am at UT, where I am supposed to be.”

INTERNATIONAL continued from Page 1 Students will take classes during the morning with UT faculty. In the afternoons, they will work with companies such as Arc Automotive, B r u n s w i c k- K n ox v i l l e Manufacturing Facility, East Tennessee Children’s Hospital, Energizer Personal Care, Fulton Bellows, Homesteader Inc., Jost International, and Monterey Mushrooms, learning how to apply the right tools for the right processes and develop a sustainable culture.

After four weeks, students will present their reports to the companies’ leaders and receive a certificate pending successful completion of requirements.

Many companies have implemented student recommendations from past sessions. For example, students optimized the scheduling and sequencing of several departments at Fulton Bellows.

“The students were professional, methodical, and effective,” said Bryon Joganich, President of Fulton Bellows LLC. “By implementing many of their suggestions, we have been able to gain market share on critical product lines and help secure our future.”

Isaac Mitchell, lean process coordinator with East Tennessee Children’s Hospital, said a student’s project “resulted in a planned redesign and renovation of our surgery instrument decontamination room and instrument storage rooms.”

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‘Top 25’ initiative no longer in focus Preston Peeden Managing Editor What really is the value of your degree?

As I get closer to my graduation date, I have started to wonder how much my degree is actually worth.

Fiscally, the answer is simple. It’s the combination of eight semesters of tuition, board, books and food costs minus whatever scholarships I’ve lucked in to.

Emotionally and developmentally, my net worth is measured in the whacky shenanigans of these four years added with a hopefully sufficient dose of personal growth and lifelong friends. But these aren’t the figures I find myself tossing and turning over. I worry lately about the actual worth of my degree on the job market, or rather my degree prestige.

The level of UT’s degree prestige has been under construction this past year with the administration’s “Big Orange, Big Ideas” campaign. The idea is simple; get UT into the Top 25 list of Public Universities. But the results (with the exceptions of a tacky sign campaign and abundant free t-shirts) have not been forthcoming.

Currently, UT is stuck somewhere around the mid-40s, desperately trying to break into what is essentially a stagnant group of our nation’s Cal-Berkleys, Virginias and North Carolinas. To combat this standstill, it seems like UT is constantly discussing some new broad plan to put Tennessee into the rankings, and one part of said plan was discussed last week. And yet, it only seems to me like our tuition was increased.

For those who don’t know, the UT system Board of Trustees met last week to vote on several proposed changes. One such change was an increase in UT’s tuition, which was described by both Governor Bill Haslam and UT president Joe DiPietro as a step towards the future. Haslam decreed it to be a step towards stopping tuition increases in the future (which is a statement laced with irony considering he literally voted for a tuition increase), while DiPietro described a far-off future of success and the advancement of our system’s “reputation.”

To be honest, I wasn’t too bothered about the proposed increase until I heard how our own governor and school president describe its intended effects. I can understand needing to increase our tuition due to financial issues.

First and foremost, a school needs to make money. It needs that money so that it can keep its doors open

and its teachers paid, because without money there can be no school. And if that had been the expressed goal of the increase, I would have been perfectly fine with it. I want my school to be here and if I need to, I’ll shell out a couple extra bucks to ensure it stays where it is.

But that’s not the route they took; instead, everything revolves around degree prestige and our own “reputation.”

As if the US’s education system wasn’t already completely saturated by hubris and extremely outdated hierarchies, our school’s leaders have decided to add more supercilious wood to the fire. But no, we don’t need a tuition increase because of our own financial burdens — which, though I am not privy to facts and figures, by judging our entire nations financial situation, I can hazard a guess that we too are in the red — rather we need it to keep chugging along towards the Xanaduesque pleasure domes of the “Top 25.”

In short, we’ve become obsessed with the idea of our degree’s prestige.

I might be acting too unkindly towards the administration and the Top 25 initiative here. It goes without saying that I want my degree to be worth as much as it can be. I feel like I have received a very good education here and when a future employer sees my resume, I want him to think highly of the four years I spent at UT. But that doesn’t mean I’m all for quantifying the value of our education into a list of schools more superfluous than a preseason Top 25 list in college football. You can’t put a value on the worth of someone’s degree, because it is all dependent upon the individual and their own time at that school. This trend turns people into numbers and educations into figures, which ultimately devalues any schools’ degree prestige.

The value of a degree is not an easy thing to assess.

It’s entirely subjective. But despite the fact of an education’s individuality, universities still gesticulate plans to raise their school into the upper-echelon of quantifiable education. “Big Orange, Big Ideas” and its Top 25 plan aren’t bad ideas in the sense that they are meant to be malicious. I do believe that President DiPietro, Governor Haslam and Chancellor Cheek do truly want UT to be the best school it can be. I do also want there to be an raise in pay for UT faculty, something that was also approved at the meeting. The problem is that it feels like they’re going about it the wrong way.

It feels like we’re moving toward a phase where UT is measured by facts and figures, not the people within it. And the cost of that is much more than an 8 percent tuition increase.

— Preston Peeden is a senior in history. He can be reached at ppeeden@utk.edu.

SCRAMBLED EGGS • Alex Cline

RHYMES WITH ORANGE • Hilary Price

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Bleak, obese future in store for U.S. Shal l o w a n d Pe d a n t i c by

Robbie Hargett New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg wants to ban supersize soda cups and limit most sugary beverages to 16 ounces. Rasmussen Reports did a national telephone survey regarding the ban, which may take effect March 2013.

Here are the straight facts of the survey results: The survey found that 65 percent of American adults opposed a law like this, while 24 percent favored it and 11 percent were undecided. Nine percent believe the government has the constitutional authority to impose such a ban, while 85 percent disagree. Women are more supportive of the measure than men, but both groups largely agree that the ban is unconstitutional.

Younger adults are also more supportive of the ban, as are government employees.

One of the more interesting findings was that adults with children oppose a ban on supersize drinks even more than those who don’t have children. And here we are supposed to be more conscious of our children’s health. There are many possible implications, of course.

It would be reasonable to suggest that parents may buy one supersize drink to share among several kids rather than buy three or four smaller cups. This is pure speculation, and it doesn’t take into account the fact that a health-conscious parent would still rather pay for a few low-fat milk “jugs” or juice boxes. And you can’t get those supersized for the entire family.

It’s funny how 85 percent of the polled Americans want to shoot down the ban because it is, in their opinion, unconstitutional. We freely mistake appeals to emotion as rational arguments — arguments like whether or not a ban is constitutional — until constitutionality actually serves our end. Then all of a sudden we remember our country was founded on principles of integrity, and we cry foul. We argue back and forth like children. But, as we in our early 20s are beginning to figure out, adults are remarkably like children. They are selfish and solipsistic, they throw each other under the bus, and darnit if they can’t have their supersized Diet Coke.

Quietly and sadly, one might think that our bodies are becoming so conditioned to junk food that we may actually need it. There was a child who had a proclivity for sodium that was off the charts — he literally ate handfuls of salt, which is generally considered bad for children — so his parents greatly reduced his sodium intake. He became ill, and doctors couldn’t figure out the cause. Everything was normal, including his sodium levels. He died shortly thereafter because, it is now known, he had a mutation that required extreme amounts of sodium to survive.

It’s not so hard to picture our entire culture heading in this direction. We will become so dependent on sugar and salt and unhealthy fats that our diets will require higher and higher levels of them to sustain us, and in turn we would be creating a standard of obesity.

It would be one thing if people could counter with, what’s so bad about being obese? But we know the problems associated with obesity, even if the topic is sometimes sugarcoated.

Admittedly, this is a bleak image of the future, and large-scale changes in the makeup of a society don’t necessarily happen so quickly. But conditioning is a powerful thing. Eating turkey burgers a few dozen times is enough to make a person enjoy them, or perceive that they enjoy them, or at least cringe the next time they bite into a red, dripping steak burger.

Just look at that scenario’s opposite, and there you have the majority of Americans.

We like food that isn’t always good for us. So what?

What really is good for us? It’s so fiercely contested; so many studies go back and forth on the actual benefits of acai berries, which have a more dubious origin than most people realize, and which probably, in the end, are no more “super” than blueberries or strawberries.

And these studies always seem to be melded inseparably to biases, so what can we really take away if we genuinely want to improve our health?

Much of this is cynical, and I also know that a ban on supersize sodas isn’t going to change much, given that gaining weight involves so many more factors than just sugar intake. But if we could be free of our cynicism for a moment, we would embrace a government measure that on the surface actually has its constituents’ interests, whether they like it or not, at heart.

— Robbie Hargett is a graduate in English. He can be reached at ghargett1@utk.edu.

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Let it be said that most jobs are thankless, and even those which get some props don’t usually reward the actual work being done, just some vague idea or association.

Take the U.S. military for instance, whose inherent infallibility has often been touted by partisan news outlets and the jingoes in our midst, yet the bolstering of our freedoms for which our thanks and praise is demanded is at best being perpetuated by unmanned drones flown from hundreds and thousands of miles away. So yes, a controller behind a heads up display is keeping us safe from tribal Pakistanis and Yemenis. Let us now praise famous slackers.

Earlier this afternoon I was reprimanded for dismissing the role of several surveyors as they checked out a parking lot behind the Strip. My contention was that they were simply adding to the pay-to-park plutocracy in the lower Fort by keeping a pay lot in shape, and so if I briefly walked in front of their optical equipment I was simply slowing their progress. This led to a reminder that when I work as a cook and get complaints on food prepared perfectly to spec a certain self-destructive fury descends from high and I have the express urge to destroy every piece of porcelain in the kitchen. Thus, no matter what I think about a person’s job, to be dismissive and rude to them for just working to pay the bills is an incredibly hypocritical move.

One of the members of our party brought up the fact that these men were like geographers, who do this kind of work since it requires expertise in their field. Even so, it isn’t particularly fulfilling work. I started thinking about what exactly I could do with my well-framed liberal arts, do-you-wantfries-with-that degree and realized many of the options are equally mundane. After all, I could continue my studies and eventually terminate with a Ph D., maybe publish some books along the way

and maybe even find a place in the American canon — that’s the dream of most people in my position.

On the other hand, I could write greeting cards or vapid ad copy for the rest of my life. The fact of the matter is that just because you have a college degree doesn’t mean you’ll find stellar work in your field of choice, but there is always a niche to be filled that society might continue to chug along like the bloated behemoth it has become.

Appreciation of people’s work, whatever it may be, is a simple act of compassion and commiseration. It’s safe to say that most of us in the working world are not excelling at the jobs we hoped to have growing up or during our studies, but the argument about there being so few jobs available becomes moot when we turn our noses up at less-than-desirable work that actually keeps the status quo in check. Someone has to cook your food or cut your hair, to comfort or entertain you, and while you could argue these are things you can do yourself, by reading this your have bought in to the social contract and body politic we propagate through work and consumption, so you’d better learn how to interact with others in a respectful and hopefully thankful manner.

Perhaps this is blowing one interaction completely out of proportion, or an admission of guilt and a mea culpa. Whatever the cause, sometimes a reality check can come from the most unlikely of places and no matter the catalyst, I’m grateful to have it. Fighting the overwhelming compulsion to become the biggest cynic in the room and deflate everyone’s optimism is a day to day fight, and sometimes being called out for a random act of passive aggression can be all the cause you need to turn your attitude around. Or, you know, someone calling you pig in jest for a little while.

As you walk the rapidly diminishing real estate venture that is Cumberland Avenue and see people at work, try to appreciate what they are doing, no matter if it is slightly obstructive. You can get in the boat or you can swim, but you will get where you’re going a lot faster with a few more people rowing than dog paddling against the current.

— Jake Lane is a graduate in creative writing. He can be reached at jlane23@utk.edu.

Tuesday, June 26, 2012

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Grace Potter and the Nocturnals showcase new album “Timekeeper” on which Grace hopped on her Hammond B3 organ to play a dark but catchy riff and “The Divide,” on which she picked up a Flying-V and sounds something like if Janis Joplin had written Led Zeppelin’s “Kasmir.”

After “The Divide,” “Paris” was played to a packed, though not sold out, Tennessee Theater before the band went off-stage. The band didn’t leave without an encore however, which was a fantastically grungy cover of ZZ Top’s “Tush” with a much sexier delivery than the original, and the band’s own “Medicine” completed the night.

Grace Potter and the Nocturnals’ success since their eponymous album released in 2010 has been explosive, reaching top 20 on the Billboard charts. The same could be anticipated of this new album as the band puts a new spin on it’s rock and country influences.

Grace and the Nocturnals are scheduled to tour nationally for most of the rest of the year. The band also made an appearance on Conan and aired a VH1 Storytellers episode in the last two weeks.

As the press picks up and the Nocturnals hit the road it will be interesting to see how “The Lion the Beast the Beat” picks up momentum of its own.

Gabe Quistorff Staff Writer The Tennessee Theatre was lucky enough to host the beautiful and talented Grace Potter and her band, The Nocturnals, last Friday, just two weeks after the release of their fourth studio album, “The Lion the Beast the Beat.”

The band opened with the album’s title track that builds from an aggressive almost war-like drum beat as Grace sings “I found the heart of a lion/ In the belly of the beast.”

A crunchy guitar lick driven by a heavy kick-drum interrupts this war-chant as the song comes into full-swing.

Embracing her wild-child reputation, Grace sings throughout the song, “I’m running wild with the lion, the beast, the beat.”

The Vermont band, known for their live shows and Potter’s sexy and powerful stage presence, has also spent some time on the jam band circuit, supporting acts like Gov’t Mule and moe. The band plays together with a confident fluidity that is apparent on songs like “Stop the Bus” off of their 2007 album This is Somewhere, moving between a mellow country chorus and syncopated rhythms, demonstrating this influence. Some other tracks played from the band’s new album included

Law allows media more funding political advertising and public issue ads may undermine the trusted relationship we have with the American public and the objective environment we create for our programs,” said Anne Bentley, spokeswoman for PBS. National Public Radio said it will be up to individual stations to decide for themselves how to respond.

The case came to the court’s 9th Circuit on appeal from the Minority Television Project, a corporation that operates the San Francisco television station KMTP-TV. While classified a public broadcaster, it gets no funding from the national Corporation for Public Broadcasting. A decade ago, KMPT-TV ran nearly 2,000 ads and was fined by the Federal Communications Commission. Their appeal challenged the advertising ban in general.

Product commercials are banned on the theory that public stations would reject educational programming in favor of more commercially popular fare to support the advertisers. The appeals court said, however, there's no evidence that political or public service messages would have the same impact.

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NEW YORK — A federal court decision has created the possibility that some public television and radio stations that are perpetually challenged financially could see a windfall of cash from political advertising.

Stations that get that chance would have to weigh whether the money is worth the risk of alienating their audiences.

The U.S. Court of Appeals in San Francisco ruled in April that federal law prohibiting public broadcasters from airing political or issue advertising is unconstitutional, even though the same court said a ban on commercials by for-profit products could stand. The U.S. Justice Department must decide by next week whether to ask the court to reconsider its divided decision, or bring an appeal to the Supreme Court.

Stations have held off changing their policies because of the uncertainty of an appeal, and because it so far affects only a limited area out West.

“We are monitoring the case closely and are concerned that lifting the ban on

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Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Former UT track athletes set for London Staff Reports There are now three former Tennessee track standouts headed to London. Justin Gatlin and DeeDee Trotter followed in Tianna Madison’s footsteps from Saturday night, punching their tickets to the Olympic Games in front of a crowd of 21,809 at the U.S. Olympic Trials at Hayward Field on Sunday.

Gatlin, whose return from a highly-publicized suspension has gone well despite a four-year absence from the sport, capped off that comeback by becoming America’s fastest man in 2012 with a career-best time of 9.80 seconds to win the 100 meters at the U.S. Trials. He’ll be making his second Olympic appearance, but first since 2004, with the number-two time in the world behind Jamaica’s Usain Bolt.

In his first appearance at the Games in Athens back in 2004, Gatlin won three medals for America. He took the gold in the 100m dash, aided the 4x100m relay to a silver and grabbed a bronze in the 200m dash. He is expected to start his Olympic quest in the 200m at the U.S.

Trials, beginning on Friday.

In the women’s 400-meter dash final, there was little mention of Trotter in the pre-race build up. But as she did so many times as a Lady Vol, Trotter made a strong finish over the final 150 meters and qualified for her third Olympic Games by taking second behind victor Sanya Richards-Ross in 50.02.

The fifth-place Olympic finisher in the 400m in 2004 and a gold medalist with the 4x400m relay that year, Trotter only ran the 400 in 2008, advancing to the semifinal round after overcoming injuries to make it to the Games. She wasn’t on the 4x4 team that season, but she should be a key component of that relay again in 2012.

Monday’s action at the U.S. Olympic Trials includes former Lady Vol Phoebe Wright trying to make the Olympic Team in the 800 meters with a final at 9:50 p.m. Eastern time and her former UT teammate Jackie Areson competing in the qualifying round of the 5000m at 6:30 p.m. ET. NBC Sports Network will televise action from Eugene on Monday from 9-11 p.m. ET.

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After earning first place in the 4x100M relay, Leonard Scott, Justin Gatlin, and Sean Lambert cool down in this photo from 2002. Gatlin won gold in the 2004 Olympics for the 100m dash.

UT releases athletic Academic Progresss Rates Staff Reports Tennessee announced academic progress rates (APR) for its athletics teams on June 20, including three programs that received APR Public Recognition Awards for posting a multi-year APR score in the top 10 percent in their sports nationally: women’s basketball, women’s golf and women’s tennis. The golf and tennis programs earned this distinction for the third consecutive year, while basketball received the honor for the second consecutive year.

The Academic Progress Rate, now in its eighth year, measures the eligibility and retention of scholarship student-athletes competing on every

Division I sports team. It also serves as a predictor of graduation success.

The most recent APR scores are based on a multi-year rate that averages scores from the 2007-08, 200809, 2009-10 and 2010-11 academic years.

The APR is based on each studentathlete, having the opportunity to earn two points during each regular academic term of full-time enrollment (e.g., fall semester). One point is awarded if the student-athlete is academically eligible to compete the following regular academic term (or has graduated). The other point is awarded if the student-athlete returns to the institution as a full-time student the next regular academic term or gradu-

ates from the university. The APR is calculated by adding all points earned by student-athletes over the past four academic years and dividing that number by the total possible points that could have been earned. That number is then multiplied by 1,000.

When a team’s academic performance, measured by that team’s multiyear APR, falls below 925, that team becomes subject to penalties if any student-athlete on that team did not return to the institution as a full-time student and was not academically eligible when the student-athlete left the institution. This penalty is known as a contemporaneous penalty and potentially limits the amount of athletics aid that the team may award.