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Summitt diagnosed with early onset dementia ketball team. “Pat Summitt is not only my mom, but also an incredMatt Dixon ible role model and mentor for me,” Tyler said. “It seems Sports Editor like she teaches me something new every day, and she is currently giving me one of the best life lessons of all: to Tennessee released a video statement Tuesday afterhave the courage to be open, honest and face the truth. noon from women’s basketball coach Pat Summitt. “This will be a new chapter for my mom and I, and we It had little to do with basketwill continue to work as ball. a team like we always Summitt announced for the have done. We both first time publicly that she was appreciate the contindiagnosed with early onset ued support of the Lady dementia, Alzheimer’s type, in Vol family. Our faith is the summer after visiting the in the Lord and we Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. trust that God has a But she is not ready to give up plan for us. Looking coaching after 37 seasons with forward, nobody is as the Lady Vols. ready for the 2011-2012 “I plan to continue to be your basketball season to coach,” Summitt said to her start as much as the “Tennessee families” in the video Summitt family. God statement. “Obviously, I realize I Bless.” may have some limitations with Summitt ended her this condition since there will be statement expressing some good days and some bad her appreciation for the days. support she has “For that reason, I will be relyreceived. ing on my outstanding coaching “I love being your staff like never before. We have coach and the privilege always collaborated on every facet to go to work every day of Lady Vol basketball, and now with our outstanding you will see Holly Warlick, Dean Lady Vol basketball stuLockwood and Mickie DeMoss File Photo • The Daily Beacon dent-athletes. I apprecitaking on more responsibility as Pat Summit and Joan Cronan celebrate Summit’s 1000th win in Feb 2009. Summit recently announced that ate the complete suptheir duties will change signifishe is suffering from early onset dementia but plans to continue coaching. port of UT Chancellor cantly.” Dr. Jimmy Cheek and The 59-year-old Hall of Fame “Pat Summitt is our head coach and she will continue UT Athletics Director Joan Cronan to continue coaching coach has amassed an NCAA-record 1,071 career wins, eight national championships and 15 SEC titles. The to be,” Cronan said. “She is an icon not only for women’s at the University of Tennessee as long as the good Lord is court in Thompson-Boling Arena is also named in her basketball but for all of women’s athletics. For Pat to willing. “I’ve been honest and shared my health concerns with stand up and share her health news is just a continuing honor. you, and now we’ll move forward to the business at hand example of her courage. Life is an unknown and none of “It takes amazing courage for Pat to come forward and ... coaching a great group of Lady Vols. For the time us have a crystal ball. But I do have a record of knowing discuss her health with her players, our fans and the being, I hope you will respect my privacy regarding this what Pat Summitt stands for: excellence, strength, honentire country, but that’s who she is,” UTK Chancellor matter.” Jimmy Cheek said in a statement. “Pat Summitt stands esty and courage.” Summitt’s son, Tyler, is a walk-on on UT’s men’s basfor courage and integrity. We will stand behind her and support her in every way possible. We look forward to her continued leadership as the Lady Vols head coach and I know that even through this adversity she will be an inspiration to all of us.” Interim Athletic Director Joan Cronan echoed Cheek’s comments in her statement.

Students partner to help end hunger UT, UGA join Ugandan House of Hope in creating food source Lauren Kittrell Student Life Editor Students from UT had an opportunity to join in diminishing poverty in Uganda through Nourish International and the Ugandan House of Hope. With the assistance of the UTK chapter of Nourish International, four students from campus were able to invest seven weeks of time and energy towards their ambitious movement. Jennifer Smith, a double major in Russian and global studies and co-leader of the Knoxville chapter of Nourish International, said the primary goal of their work in Uganda was to create a sustainable food source and income for the school and orphanage of the Ugandan House of Hope. “We were able to work alongside the children and community members to start up a highly profitable vegetable garden,” Smith said. “Although they owned the land before we got there, they had no money to buy tools, clear the field of bushes or to purchase seedlings and fertilizer. They already had the plan in place. We were merely acting as a catalyst to get it done quickly and efficiently.” Thanks to support from both UT and the University of Georgia, the students were able to provide $15,000 to the Ugandan House of Hope. Through the students involved, spinach, cabbage, green peppers, eggplant, carrots, tomatoes and more were grown to provide a new source of nutrients for the children involved and a new source of income for the House of Hope. One of the students’ goals was to form a long-term relationship with the House of Hope and to stay informed regarding the progress of the project. Smith said she wanted to be sure that the work they invested would remain sustainable and that the children would continue living healthy and beneficial lives. “I have no doubt in my mind that the four of us that went on the project will remain in contact with people we met for years to come,” Smith said. “We became a family with the children and with the adults that run House of Hope.” Nourish International not only provided a means of service to the House of Hope, but it also created an opportunity for the students involved to experience another culture and to build relationships with one another. Mary Carnes, junior in global studies, said the most powerful aspect of her experience was the chance to be immersed in a culture so different from her own. “The trip was a perfect setting in which to learn about sustainable development,” Carnes said. “We were able to deal with the hands-on component through physical labor on the farm, while at the same time working alongside and getting to know the most loving and enthusiastic group of elementary age students. The relationships with those kids are certainly what I miss the most.” Nourish International is a student-led movement that seeks to create a better world step by step, just as these students have begun to do in Uganda. The group’s goal is to minimize world poverty, creating a community of social entrepreneurs. “Nourish International is a movement of college students that believe that our generation can change the world for better,” Smith said. “Although eradicating global poverty is an incredibly ambitious — some would say impossible — goal, that’s what we are attempting to do as a community.” The movement teaches students a way to do business and still give back to their community. Smith said she learned the basics of running a profitable business where Tia Patron • The Daily Beacon employees, customers, the environment and the world benefit as well. “Nourish is a fun way to learn about the world around you, while improving yourself On Tuesday, Caitlin Burke, senior in mathematics and UT Dance Society president, hangs up a flyer, for their upcoming BOSS Dance Company Auditions. On Sunday and the world at the same time,” Smith said. “While a part of Nourish, you are actively any UT student can audition on things from ballet to hip hop at 3p.m. in AMB 209. making a positive impact in the world.” For more information visit http://web.utk.edu/~dance

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Jason Harris, grad student in Genome Science Technology, hides under a table during the brief rain that hit the Student InVOLvement Fair last Thursday.

1984 — A Wall Street scheme is hatched Martin Siegel meets Ivan Boesky at the Harvard Club in New York City to discuss his mounting financial pressures. Arbitrageur Boesky offered Siegel, a mergers-and-acquisitions executive at Kidder, Peabody & Co., a job, but Siegel, who was looking for some kind of consulting arrangement, declined. Boesky then suggested that if Siegel would supply him with early inside information on upcoming mergers there would be something in it for him. In January 1983, although little information had been exchanged, Boesky sent a courier with a secret code and a briefcase containing $150,000 in $100 bills to be delivered to Siegel at the Plaza Hotel. Over the next couple of years, Siegel passed inside information to Boesky on several occasions. With Siegel’s inside tips, Boesky made $28 million investing in Carnation stock before its takeover. But his success began to fuel investigative inquiries by both the press and the Securities and Exchange Commission. Rumors that Siegel and Kidder, Peabody & Co. were involved in illegal activities began floating around.

Despite the pressure, Siegel and Boesky met at a deli in January 1985, where Siegel demanded $400,000. This time, the cash drop-off was made at a phone booth. Siegel, who was apprehensive about his relationship with Boesky, decided to put an end to it after he had received his money. Still, he continued to trade inside information with other Wall Street executives. In 1986, the illegal schemes, which by then included many of the biggest traders in the country, came crashing down. Arrests were made up and down Wall Street, and Boesky and Michael Milken, the junk bond king charged with violating federal securities laws, were no exception. Siegel turned out to be one of the few cooperative witnesses for the government and virtually the only one who showed remorse for his role in the fraud, causing him to be ostracized on Wall Street. Nevertheless, he did fare better than the others: Milken received a 10-year sentence and Boesky received 3 years, but Siegel was only required to return the $9 million he had obtained illegally. The entire incident came to symbolize the era of unfettered greed on Wall Street in the mid-1980s. — This Day in History is courtesy of History.com.

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NEWS Anthropology. On Thursday, Aug. 25 UT Professor of Law Karla McKanders will speak on “Representing Immigrants and Refugees in Tennessee.” UT researchers develop algorithm

Paul Ehrlich to lead discussion at Baker Center Baker Center Interdisciplinary Group on Energy and Environmental Policy will present Dr. Paul Ehrlich on Aug. 25 at 3:30 p.m in the Toyota Auditorium in the Baker Center. Paul Ehrlich will give a 45 minute presentation and then lead a discussion with participants. Paul’s talk is The Population — Environment Crisis and the MAHB (Millennium Alliance for Humanity and the Biosphere). Paul will be appearing in the Forum over a weblink. Paul is the Bing Professor of Population Studies and President of the Center for Conservation Biology at Stanford University. He has won numerous awards for his service to science and the environment; is the best-selling author of environmental science books including: The Dominant Animal: Human Evolution and the Environment (2009) and Humanity on a Tightrope Thoughts on Empathy, Family, and Big Changes for a Viable Future (2010); and has published pioneering papers on coevolution, population biology, community ecology, conservation biology among many topic areas. The Millennium Alliance for Humanity and the Biosphere (http://mahb.stanford.edu) is an international initiative to address the human response to global environmental destruction. It was originally proposed as a mobilization of the social sciences and humanities, in cooperation with the natural sciences, to encourage public discourse and to inform policy making about relevant human behavior and possibilities of significant changes in that behavior. This is an opportunity for academics to share their research findings to a broad set of academics, researchers and students from outside their own discpline but who have a common interest in environmental and energy issues. For more information about the Baker Center Interdisciplinary Group on Energy and Environmental Policy visit the forum’s website: http://web.utk.edu/~jlarivi1/bcinter.html. The event is free and open to the public. Law Prof. to host lecture This fall the UT Department of Anthropology is holding its 38th Annual Visiting Lecture Series. This year’s theme, organized by Associate Professor Tricia R. Hepner, is “Anthropology in the Public Sphere: (Re)Defining Research and Practice in the 21st Century.” The series features nine invited faculty from institutions around the U.S. and more than fifteen faculty from within the university. Lectures are held Tuesdays and Thursdays from 3:40-4:55 p.m. in the McClung Museum Auditorium (MM 63) and are free and open to the public. A full schedule of lectures is available on the website of the Department of

Today someone in a remote village in India is able to run an electrocardiogram (ECG) on a loved one having a potential heart attack via their smart phone and send to a doctor in New Delhi for analysis. Mobile technology is already bringing health care to places it has never been able to reach. However, there is still room for error that can lead to misdiagnosis. Xiaopeng Zhao, assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, is working to eliminate these errors. Zhao and his team of graduate and undergraduate students and physicians have developed an award-winning algorithm that improves the effectiveness of ECGs. The ECG is the most commonly performed screening tool for a variety of cardiac abnormalities. However, it is estimated that about 4 percent of all ECGs are taken with misplaced electrodes, leading to faulty diagnoses and mistreatments. Zhao’s algorithm examines interferences that result from electrode misplacement and disturbances, including patient motion and electromagnetic noise. Unlike conventional algorithms used to evaluate ECGs, Zhao’s algorithm is more reliable because it is based on a matrix which simultaneously tests for irregular patterns caused by such interferences. Therefore, instead of a typical “yes–no” type of classification result, Zhao’s produces a more accurate A–F letter grade of the ECG — indicating specific weaknesses in the test. The algorithm also makes recommendations as to where to accurately place the electrodes. Zhao’s team has implemented the algorithm in a java program, which can be installed and operated on a smart phone. The program takes only a split second to execute on a smartphone and assess a 10-second ECG. The speed is key in situations where a second can mean the difference between life and death. The goal is for users in remote areas to be able to know which ECGs are accurate to decrease misdiagnoses and ultimately save lives. The algorithm is also helpful in intensive care units where medical staff may be overworked, as well as for novice health professionals. The algorithm recently won top honors in Physionet Challenge 2011 — two first-place finishes and one thirdplace finish. Sponsored by the National Institutes for Health, Physionet and the annual Computing in Cardiology conference jointly host a series of challenge problems that are either unsolved or not well-solved. Starting in 2000, a new challenge topic is announced each year, aiming to stimulate work on important clinical problems and to foster rapid progress towards their solution. Zhao and his team will receive an award of $2,000 and present their work at the Computing in Cardiology 2011 conference on Sept. 18-21, at Hangzhou, China. For more information, visit http://physionet.org/challenge/. This work was in part supported by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis (NIMBioS). Zhao worked with graduate students Henian Xia, Joseph McBride, Adam Sullivan and Thibaut De Bock, undergraduate student Gabriel Garcia, and physicians Dr. Jujhar Bains and Dr. Dale Wortham.

Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Haslam ignores ideas for change of legislation regarding suit payouts The Associated Press ERWIN, Tenn. — Republican Gov. Bill Haslam doesn’t intend to rework the state’s new law limiting payouts in successful lawsuits against doctors and other businesses, despite calls from some members of his own party for changes to be made in the upcoming legislative session. Placing a $750,000 cap on non-economic damages like pain and suffering was one of the governor’s main priorities during his first legislative session this year. Haslam told The Associated Press after a grant ceremony in Erwin last week that he was not aware of calls for changes to the new law. “I haven’t gotten that feedback. I’ve met probably with 100 different businesses who’ve said this really helps us,” he said. “The feedback I’ve gotten is that it addresses their needs.” But some Republican lawmakers have suggested the law could be improved. House Speaker Pro Tempore Judd Matheny, RTullahoma, said at a National Tea Party Doctors event at Lipscomb University earlier this month that he wants the caps to be lowered to between $250,000 and $300,000 to bring those damages into line with the liability limits for state government. “If it’s good enough for the government, it’s definitely good enough for our citizens,” he said. “It’s truly a double standard there that I hope to address very soon in the General Assembly.” Matheny said he sees the efforts to limit lawsuit damages as a work in progress. “It is hopefully the first step of several steps in issues that we hope to deal with in regards to tort reform,” he said. “It’s important to remember that sometimes progress is made in baby steps. “After a three- or four-year period, maybe we can look back and really see some true progress.” Meanwhile, Rep. Vance Dennis, R-Savannah, has filed a bill seeking to lift the cap in cases where injuries were caused during a felony. The House version of the bill had included that provision, but the Senate had declined to agree. The bill as passed instead lifted the caps only in cases where an offender has the intent to cause an injury. Dennis said during the second-to-last day of the legislative session in May that he was willing to go along with the Senate version in the interests of “expediency” as lawmakers were trying to adjourn for the year. The next day, Dennis filed the bill seeking to lift the caps if the defendant was convicted of a related felony under state or federal law. The bill already has 25 co-sponsors in the House. Dennis said Monday that he hasn’t spoken with the governor about his bill, but agrees that there’s no need for wide-ranging changes to the new law. “I don’t anticipate any kind of a broad, multifaceted approach as we had this year,” he said. “We will have just a handful of things to bring forward.” Haslam appears to prefer waiting to see how the original version of the law works out.

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Editor’sNote Green movement mounting in China Blair Kuykendall Editor-in-Chief The harder the sun works to shine in China, the harder politicians must work to stay in power. Environmental conditions across the nation continue to deteriorate. On Aug. 8 in Dalian, strong storms damaged the protecting wall of a paraxylene factory, the toxic chemical used in the creation of polyester. The incident led to widespread protests, with around 12,000 protesters calling for the plant’s closure. Dalian’s protests were largely non-violent, emerging rapidly and spontaneously without a named leader. The population’s quick response was certainly unnerving to Chinese officials, who have still not reconciled themselves to political activism among the masses (with admittedly good reason). Party leader Tang Jun launched a feeble attempt to dispel the rioting, but he was greeted with cries of disdain from the mob. The party was forced to announce the plant’s closure. Always to be depended upon, communist leaders ensured that all references to Dalian and DX were blocked in the Chinese blogging realm. It will be interesting to see how long the government can keep its censorship afloat, given the ever-deteriorating state of the Chinese environment. With today’s green initiatives and an increasing focus on sustainability, most people believe they are familiar with what constitutes a “deteriorated environment.” It has become fashionable to wax poetic about the tragic condition of America’s major cities, filled with air pollution, trash and general wastefulness. While Americans are certainly eons away from achieving a sustainable lifestyle, the Chinese have yet to take any strides. I must confess that I only thought I had seen smog before visiting Shanghai and Beijing. As a disclaimer, it is important to remember that the American population size pales in comparison to the nearly 1 billion Chinese. Per capita energy use in China is far, far below that of the United States. Still,

pollution is pollution no matter how many people it took to create it, and China has more than enough to be getting on with. The vital importance of conservation never truly resonated with me until I found myself short of breath in the middle of Beijing, sucking in air that contained no oxygen. On a separate occasion on top of a tower in the middle of Shanghai, visibility was so low that only nearby buildings were distinguishable, even though it was daytime and there were no natural clouds. The Chinese government has succeeded thus far in avoiding actual environmental change by making false promises of a more sustainable future. A significant portion of China’s exhibit at the world expo was devoted to artistic renderings of foliage, waterfalls and wildlife, all surrounded by phrases like “biofuel” and “algae.” While the pretty landscapes excited throngs of Chinese tourists, they achieved little more than aesthetic value. Streaming videos throughout the exhibit merely repeated “green” catch phrases, and did nothing to educate visitor’s about the nation’s environmental future. The world expo exhibit paints an excellent picture of China’s views on conservation. While pacifying international bodies such as the UN with empty promises for reform, the Chinese government continues to maintain low levels of regulation. Lax environmental standards are partly responsible for China’s economic success, with businesses racing overseas to cheaply manufacture their goods. The Communist Party has little incentive to make tough policy decisions while money continues to flow. The real victims in this situation are the Chinese citizens, who suffer daily from a lack of clean air, water and agricultural products. Under conditions of censored media, most are not even aware of how dangerous the situation has become. Since the majority of Chinese have not experienced untarnished environmental conditions, it is difficult for them to comprehend the gravity of their situation. Events like those of Aug. 8 offer some hope. Surely it is only a matter of time before the Chinese people take matters into their own hands. —Blair is a junior in the College Scholars Program. She can be reached at bkuykend@utk.edu.

SCRAMBLED EGGS • Alex Cline

THE GREAT MASH-UP • Liz Newnam

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Internet passes demystified food facts Ac orns and Other Seeds by

Anna-Lise Burnette Inconvenient truth of the day: Baby carrots actually aren’t baby carrots at all. Right now you’re probably doing one of two things. Either you’re staring ahead blankly, jaws slack and eyes wide, or you’re laughing at someone else who is. Such was the situation I found myself in a couple of months ago when I learned that baby carrots (the couple-inch long, knobby-feeling, crunchy and altogether comforting vegetable that comes in little bags) are more accurately described as “baby-cut carrots.” There are, of course, real baby carrots; they come long and thin, often with a skinny green top and a steep pricetag. But the carrots they used to serve just before naptime are nothing more than full-grown carrots cut down to a marketable size. I almost cried when the news broke. The simple happiness I thought I knew was marred by the knowledge that the cute little orange sticks of beta carotene I’d always loved to dip in ranch dressing were just imposters. I wondered what else in my life was a sham. That’s when I remembered a discovery I made last semester — the common button mushroom and the hearty portabella were the same fungi. It was another one of those seemingly innocent days when the only troubles I had on my mind were what to eat and when to eat it, and, as is often the case, the Internet was my means of learning more about my meal. So after I decided that dinner would feature grilled mushrooms, I chose to Google “mushroom” and see what would come up. And there it was, in plain typeface on agaricus bisporus’ Wikipedia page: “known variously as the common mushroom, button mushroom, white mushroom, table mushroom, champignon mushroom, crimini mushroom, Swiss brown mushroom, Roman brown mushroom, Italian brown mushroom, cultivated mushroom or when mature, the Portobello

mushroom.” Apparently the difference between the small, white mushrooms that come on a pizza and the large, toothsome mushrooms that make great veggie burgers lies in level of maturity at the time of harvest — but not in some great genetic divide. The words stung. And as I reflected on the meaning of these two great hoaxes I thought that perhaps the fault lay not with the various food distributors or with me but with the culture that could give rise to these two opposing worldviews. Because on the one hand we have the food industry, hell-bent on selling as many carrots as it can under the pretense of making vegetables more convenient or fashionable or palatable or whatever, and on the other hand we have a college senior who never stopped to question the eerily regular curves of baby-cut carrots. What’s bothersome about this is that both the hopelessly naïve and the wily advertisers are equally complicit. It takes a lifetime of suspended disbelief to navigate your way through the average supermarket, buying artificially flavored this and flavor-enhanced that. The same consumers that place their faith in the Food and Drug Administration can, without losing a wink of sleep, mistrust the CIA — but it’s all government, which means it’s all far more complex and far less personable than the average American would hope for. Which is not to say that hiking the prices of exotic mushrooms like the crimini is the same as staging a coup. Nor do I think that a bunch of seemingly friendly carrot farmers had any nefarious intent to start a national revolution; they just wanted to sell some carrots. It is the co-existing arrogance and ignorance of our culture that disgusts me. So it’s time the consumer takes responsibility. I don’t want to grow up to be a mother that chooses a certain brand of peanut butter over another just because I know mothers in the past have chosen to buy it. And I want food producers to know that I come to the grocery store equipped with the ability to read nutrition facts and ingredient labels faster than a speeding bullet. With the help of the Information Age, I can leap over their bunk in a single bound. — Anna-Lise is a senior in interdisciplinary studies. She can be reached at kburnet7@utk.edu.

Sales, bargains mislead gullible A lmo s t PC by

Chelsea Tolliver

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Stores are constantly trying to attract the attention of consumers and get them through the door of their establishment. One of the most common and most effective ways to achieve this goal is through advertising sales. Sales are wonderful things. Naturally, people want to save money. A few extra dollars in your pocket can mean a lot to a budget, especially if those extra dollars are accumulating. Nevertheless, ask yourself: “Am I really saving money or am I just foolish?” Advertisers design and set traps in hopes that you are, in fact, gullible. Take off those rose-colored glasses and think about the advertisements and sales on TV. “By one, get one half off! This weekend only at (one of the hundreds of stores that is capitalizing on the materialism of gullible consumers).” Think about it: You need one pair of black heels to go with your new dress before you go to your funeral ... I mean banquet. Then, a bogo commercial comes on and suddenly, you “could use a red pair too.” It doesn’t take a genius mathematician to realize that you aren’t actually saving money. All of a sudden, that shopping trip adds up to $30, whereas, before you heard about the special, you were only buying one pair of shoes for $20. Sure, you might have gotten a good deal on red heels but, if you have nothing to wear with them or nowhere to go in them, not only have you not saved money, you wasted money. That’s $10 that would have been in your pocket if the store wasn’t having a buy one, get one half off scam, which, of course, was the point of the “sale” in the beginning. Then, of course, there are the coupons that are printed in the hopes that the shopper won’t get to the store before the expiration date written in a microscopic font. The store’s hope is that, once the consumer is at the register with that $99.99 item she specifically made the trip to buy, she’ll buy it anyway and the consumer didn’t save that $20

she went out to save, instead the store made all $100. Also, there are the “Buy three, get two free” sales. This only has merit around a holiday when gifts are common. In such a case, five bubble baths might in fact be useful. If, however, it’s April 1 such a scam is just another successful April Fools’ Day joke. Sure, people can argue, “I’ll use them eventually.” Really? In 10 months you’ll be happy to use that same vanilla sugar bubble bath that has lost most of its scent and instead smells a bit like the Mr. Clean you’ve been storing next to it? It’s more likely that you’ll go back to the next “buy three, get two free” sale and purchase five more in a different scent. Another common tactic is “Get $10 off when you spend $100.” Translation: Come spend over $90. That ploy makes buying that extra shirt and purse to take your bill up to at least $100 sound frugal. That’s the real problem: A lot of people who want to save money are willing to spend a lot more money thinking they will “save” some money. Maybe they really could use a pair of red heels and would have had to put off buying them if they were not half off once they bought the black pair, but that’s the exception to the rule. Whether or not they do it in a failed attempt to save some money, many people spend way too much money. This should be no surprise. The Western world is becoming more and more materialistic. Having credit card debt or throwing out the budget for something extravagant is almost normal. No matter how good the price for something is, it’s too expensive if the money isn’t in your bank account. Very few things warrant debt: student loans, house payments, medical bills, even car payments to a degree, but not a big screen TV or stereo system. People who spend too much money often don’t spend enough time thinking about how they’re spending that money and questioning if that sale is actually a good idea that simply saves them money or is an all-too-successful ploy to make them spend more than they walked in the door planning to spend. Think. — Chelsea Tolliver is an undecided junior. She can be reached at ctollive@utk.edu.

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Freshmen cultivate new mindset Job Fair provides opportunities Rob Davis

The Associated Press MILWAUKEE — Mention Amazon to the incoming class of college freshmen and they are more likely to think of shopping than the South American river. PC doesn’t stand for political correctness and breaking up is a lot easier thanks to Facebook and text messaging. These are among the 75 references on this year’s Beloit College Mindset List, a compilation intended to remind teachers that college freshmen born mostly in 1993 see the world in a much different way: They fancied pogs and Tickle Me Elmo toys as children, watched televisions that never had dials and their lives have always been like a box of chocolates. Once upon a time, relatives of the current generation swore never to trust anyone over the age of 30. This group could argue: Never trust anyone older than the Net. The college’s compilation, released Tuesday, is assembled each year by two officials at the private school in southeastern Wisconsin. It also has evolved into a national phenomenon, a cultural touchstone that entertains even as it makes people wonder where the years have gone. Remember when the initials LBJ referred to President Lyndon B. Johnson? Today, according to the list, they make teenagers think of NBA star LeBron James. And speaking of NBA legends, these kids didn’t want to be like Mike — they fawned over Shaq and Kobe. In their lifetimes, Major League Baseball has always had three divisions plus wild-card playoff teams, and every state has always observed Martin Luther King Day. The “yadda, yadda, yadda” generation that’s been quoting Seinfeld since they were old enough to talk also has always seen women serve as U.S. Supreme Court justices and command U.S. Navy ships. Then there’s O. J. Simpson. These students were still in diapers when the former NFL star began searching for the killers of Nicole Simpson and Ronald Goldman. “Hmm, I know there was some scandal about him,” said Alex Keesey, 18, an incoming freshman from Beloit. “I think it was robbery or murder, maybe both.” Comments like that can be a little jarring to older folks who imagine that everyone knows about the Simpson murder trial and subsequent acquittal. But if the generation gap has you down, get used to it. The list’s authors note that technology has only accelerated the pace of change and further compressed the generational divide. Older Americans who read previous Mindset Lists felt that life

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was moving too quickly, list author Ron Nief said, and now even younger people share that sentiment. “I talk to people in their early 30s and they’re telling me they can’t keep up with all the advances,” Nief said. Nief’s co-author, English professor Tom McBride, predicts the trend will only accelerate. “If you look at the jump from e-mail to texting, or from email to Facebook, it’s been faster than the jump from typing to computers,” McBride said. “These generational gaps are getting smaller.” Still not feeling old? Consider this: Andre the Giant, River Phoenix and Frank Zappa all died before these students were born. They don’t know what a Commodore 64 was, and they don’t understand why Boston barflies would ever shout, “Norm!” Oh, and Ferris Bueller could be their father. But the list isn’t intended to serve as a cultural tombstone, its authors say, contending that the compilation also serves a practical purpose. McBride and Nief say the main lesson professors should take from this year’s list is that their incoming students have never lived in a world without the Internet. From the moment these kids were able to reach a tabletop, their fingertips probably were brushing against computers plugged into the World Wide Web. And while that was largely true for the last few classes as well, the authors say teachers need to be extra-vigilant about where this year’s students are going for information. The Internet is great for finding facts, McBride says, but there’s a big difference between facts and the knowledge that comes from understanding context behind the facts. He advises professors to teach how to supplement Internet searches with library research in scholarly journals, and to remind freshmen to dig beyond the first page or two of Google search results. Sara Ballesteros, an 18-year-old freshman from South Beloit, said she’s confident she knows how to do legitimate Internet research, by relying more on websites that end in “.edu” or “.gov” than in “.com” or “.org.” She also opined that adults worry too much about kids’ Internet habits. She referred to item No. 7 on the Mindset List: “As they’ve grown up on websites and cellphones, adult experts have constantly fretted about their alleged deficits of empathy and concentration.” “For older people who think we use the Internet way too much for bad things, it really depends on the person, on their beliefs and ideals,” she said. “Technology can be used in good ways. But adults don’t always understand that.”

Staff Writer Career Services will hold a part-time job fair for interested students at UT. The fair will be held in the UC Ballroom from 2-5 p.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 24. “The event is open to all majors, but students should be aware that this event will not necessarily have jobs within each of their fields,” Russ Coughenour, director of Career Services, said. “This event is a great place to find a job to make some money to make ends meet. It may or may not feature jobs that will complement a student’s major.” More than 40 companies will be present at the job fair and will include jobs both on and off campus. Employers that will be in attendance include Boys and Girls Clubs, Citadel Broadcasting, Aramark, First Tennessee, Jewelry TV, SmartBank, Knoxville Utilities Board, ORISE, Pilot Travel Centers and H&R Block. “It’s a good mix of opportunities for off- and on-campus jobs, plus some of the companies will even be offering fulltime positions should students be interested,” Coughenour said. One tip to make an impression on the employers is to bring a critiqued copy of one’s resume. For tips on how to succeed at the job fair, students can visit careers.utk.edu.

“Student just need to come by preferably earlier in the event as some employers will leave a bit early,” Coughenour said. “Students should bring good, critiqued copies of their resumes and be dressed business casual to professional.” The part-time job fair is the first event put on by Career Services this year. “This is our opening recruiting event of the year, so we need students interested in employment to come out and talk with the employer representatives,” Coughenour said. Other events will include the Career Services Kick-Off Cookout, which will be on Sept. 1, the Social Impact Fair on Sept. 3 and a lecture by Donald Asher entitled “Getting into Graduate School,” which will be hosted in the UC on Sept. 13. A part-time job is an easy way for students to make money; however, some jobs may cut into the social life of a student. “I worked at Best Buy this summer and was planning on doing it after classes started,” Tyler Mitchell, senior in economics, said. “I was working a few hours a week and loving the money I was making. Before I started back to classes, I let my manager know my schedule and also told him I didn’t want to work during any of the football games. Well, they came back and told me I would have to work almost every home football game.”

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Parkour may answer life’s problems

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Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Cook-Out offers quality fast food Latest restaurant on Strip serves quality meals at fast food prices

Jake Lane Arts & Culture Editor I have a new obsession. Recently I mentioned my love for the “Assassin’s Creed” series and all of its outlandish, if not unbelievable conspiracies. Also as an ambitious gamer, I have been working through the series unlocking all of the achievements on 360 (and if you want to help me grind them out, my GT is Remy A Ginsberg). The thing which I always go back to with that series, however, has little to do with plot or historical fiction, though both are stellar. My love and new fascination come from the overall gameplay style which relies heavily on parkour. For those of you who may not have heard of this phenomenon, parkour is a highly aerobic, often competitive integration of running, climbing and honing of acrobatic reflexes to scale everything from a loading dock to a skyscraper. Beginning with the series’ first installment, set during the Third Crusade in the summer of 1191, every protagonist in the series relies on this instinctive mode of getting about, and often the choice of how to scale a structure ends up determining survival and success with equal priority as more traditional game mechanics, such as stealth and weapon choice. “Le Parkour” was born in 1902, when Georges Hébert observed physical and mental fitness as a determining factor in the ability of a community to survive a volcanic eruption. Needless to say, not an everyday occurrence, but this epiphany would help shape the fitness standard for France’s military through two World Wars. Combined with the parcour obstacle course as developed by Swiss architect inspired by Hébert’s ideas, the basic foundation for the practice was born. The modern practice of parkour would be developed more than half a century later by French athlete and stuntman David Belle, circa 1990. Which begs the question: For a series which only finagles with historical accuracy to supplement story continuity, is adding 20th century innovation in physical fitness a serious crime of anachronicity? For my vote, no. To introduce the idea that reaching the precipice of any human creation is only an obstacle of willpower not only inspires recreation, but also infuses incentive to exercise into a video game, a rare feat. While games have served as the go-to scapegoat for every act of “juvenile delinquency” from school shootings to Satanism, to re-enact gameplay from “Assassin’s Creed” (minus the whole assassination part) actually inspires one to develop one’s physique and push the limit of the human body. As opposed to reasons for banning these games from consumption by the youth, they should be integrated into physical education programs across the country. It’s no secret that we as a nation are more obese as a country and continent (the U.S. and Mexico are the top two, while Canada trails at 11) than any other place on Earth. The secret to reducing these rates and getting healthier is not strictly in diet reform and breaking reliance on advertising. People won’t want to change their lifestyle unless they are incentivized to do so, and what better way than saying, “Hey, you want to be like Mario? Get healthy, fool!” So, my obsession is not only with parkour as the pinnacle of human physical dexterity, but as perhaps the path to salvation for the overfed masses. Yeah, I said it. We need a reason to get active, and sadly the Leni Riefenstahl technique will probably not work for obvious reasons. When in doubt, go to video games for salvation. — Jake Lane is a senior in creative writing. He can be reached at jlane23@utk.edu.

burger is not particularly noteworthy, but the price makes it stand out. Recruitment Manager After choosing an entree, customers can either choose two sides or “double up” with another entree. Choices are Cook-Out has popped up on The Strip seemingly hush puppies, cole slaw, onion rings, fries, chicken overnight and taken the area by storm. nuggets, chili, a corn dog, a chicken wrap, a chicken or The Southeastern fast-food chain, with its slogan of beef quesadilla or a bacon wrap. “cooked outdoors style,” sprung up at the old Guthrie’s My dining companion chose the fries and hush puppies, location just in time for the school year, and already peoso I went with cole slaw and a cup of chili. ple are buzzing about the sheer value of the place. My companion got the better end of the deal. The juicy A visit to Cook-Out at 1 p.m., on the day before classes, bore witness to constant lines of at least 10 people steak fries were excellent, recalling the underrated greatwaiting for the food. It took us two minutes of waiting to ness of Krystal fries. The problem was a side order of them was only a handful. Cook-Out is generous with everyfind a parking spot. Despite the consistent wafts of customers coming in, thing else, but the restaurant could stand to be a bit more the line moved quickly. Within seconds, we had placed an giving with its fries. Likewise, the hush puppies were at least the quality of order. And after just about three minutes of waiting, we fast-food staples like Captain D’s, which has tender, delihad our food. cious hush puppies. To put a number on The cole slaw, just like the timeliness of the servon the foot-long, is great, ice, our order number but the cup of chili would was 3156, and in about 30 be enhanced by beans or minutes, Cook-Out was something extra. It works already on order number as a topping but not as a 3191. side. There is no doubt what The beverage choices Cook-Out is known for include a large drink, a among its patrons. A sign “huge” tea, a bottle of in the restaurant brazenly water, a Coke or calls Cook-Out meals “the Cheerwine float or, for $1 best combo in Knoxville.” more, a milkshake. At a price of $4.39, I went with the Oreorestaurant-goers can pick flavored milkshake, and an entree, two sides and a despite having a bit too drink. much uncrushed Oreo left And the entree choices at the bottom, it rivals for the cheap combo are McDonald’s McFlurry. not as limiting as a Oreo is actually one of glance of most establishthe more tame flavors of ments’ $1 menus. A cusmilkshake Cook-Out tomer can choose serves. It actually has between a quarter-pound about 50 different flavors hamburger, a barbecue in its repertoire, enough to sandwich, a footlong hot make milkshake choices dog, a big double burger, legitimately one-fourth of a chicken or beef quethe menu inside. Other sadilla, a chicken sandchoices include Hershey’s wich, cajun chicken, spicy chocolate, HiC punch, chicken, barbecue chickM&M, Reeses cup and en or three pieces of Tia Patron • The Daily Beacon strawberry cheesecake, chicken strips. The sun shines outside the new Cook Out restaurant on Also, unlike other the strip. In the former space of Guthrie’s, Cook Out spe- among others. Customers can also get restaurants, these entrees cializes in milkshakes, burgers, and their late night hours. a New York-style slice of are fully customizable. When my dining companion ordered a foot-long hot dog, cheesecake for just $1.99, cheaper than the vast majority the waiter asked what toppings. She just said, everything, of restaurants, which usually use desserts as a chance to and a foot-long with chili, cole slaw, onions and mustard drag $4 or $5 more out of patrons’ wallets. Perhaps the only real negative of Cook-Out is its bland came out. Likewise, my personal choice of burger toppings decor. UT football pictures line some of the walls of Cook— cheese, mustard and lettuce — was available for the big Out seemingly out of obligation, with a Coca-Cola clock double burger. and sign thrown in for an odd variety. Despite the outThe foot-long hot dog is about as good as one can get for the price. It’s messy and requires a fork, but the restau- doors motif that the building ’s material and its slogans tout, the actual things hanging up on the walls have nothrant is generous with the delectable cole slaw. Hot dog lovers can order a regular hot dog, a corn dog, ing to do with the outdoors. Even still, who cares about what is on the walls at these a cheese dog or a mustard relish hot dog for 99 cents. Also available for a bit more are foot-longs, Mexi hot dogs or prices? Previously, McDonald’s was just about the cheapest meal one could get on The Strip, but it’s uncanny how bacon cheddar hot dogs. While not touching the greatness of the burgers at Gus’ new challengers like Niceley’s and Cook-Out are giving the Good Times Deli or Niceley’s Tavern, the big double burg- golden arches a run for their money.

Robby O’Daniel

er was way better than most fast-food burgers. Perhaps the

Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Walton hired as Memphis assistant The Associated Press Luke Walton will check out another possible career while locked out of his current one. The Lakers forward will be working as an assistant to Memphis coach Josh Pastner in a deal that ends along with the NBA lockout so he can return to Los Angeles. Pastner announced the hiring Monday in a move that must be approved by university and Tennessee State Board of Regents. But the coach said the Tigers can learn a lot from Walton, who has been coached by Phil Jackson and played with Kobe Bryant. “It’s going to be that opportunity to find out how much I’m into coaching and kind of get a lot of experience from this opportunity, to where I think most players don’t get to do anything like that until they actually retire,” Walton said in a phone interview. Walton has two years left on his contract with the Lakers, who drafted him in the second round out of Arizona in 2003, and he made clear his priority is still as a pro player. But he enjoyed his taste of coaching high school players during a camp earlier this summer, so was intrigued when his former teammate sent him a text asking if he’d be interested in coming aboard. “When this came, I just think it’s a golden opportunity to not only help the kids in Memphis but also to explore (coaching),” Walton said. “I had a great time doing it and I think obviously I wanted to play basketball and I love basketball, but unfortunately for every player there comes the end of his career and it’s just something I’ve been thinking about.” Walton said Pastner assured him he’d have access to all the Tigers’ trainers and equiptment so he can continue working out. He plans to bring his personal shooting coach him him, and knows there are other pros to work out with in Memphis. He’ll earn a paycheck — “obviously not what I was making in the NBA but still a very good living” — but had other incentive to try it instead of seeking a low-paying playing job overseas, which he didn’t think made sense given his injuries in recent years. “It’s an opportunity not about just finding a job with the lockout going. It’s a lot bigger for me,” Walton said. “It’s huge as far as learning about coaching ... gives me the best opportunity possible to stay physically fit and physically ready.” Though nobody can predict when Walton will have to leave, he said Pastner told him he'd rather have Walton for as long as possible than someone else guaranteed to be there all year. Walton will travel to Memphis later this week and work with the Tigers’ big men on a staff filled with former Arizona players, including former NBA guard Damon Stoudamire. Walton couldn’t check with the Lakers for permission because of the lockout rules, which he wanted to do because “obviously my loyalty and my career still lies with them first,” he said. “My focus and main goal is as an NBA player,” Walton added. He did talk it over with

his Hall of Fame father, Bill, who has his own history with Memphis. Bill Walton scored 44 points on 21 of 22 shooting to beat thenMemphis State 87-66 in the 1973 NCAA tournament championship. “Obviously he knows and really likes the coaching staff over there and Josh,” Luke Walton said. “He wasn’t huge on me leaving Southern California to go to Memphis and do this, but he realized that it’s a great opportunity and just like in every other thing I’ve done in my life, he said he’ll stand behind me and support me.”

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Vols worn, better as fall camp ends Matt Dixon Sports Editor The end of fall camp is finally in sight for the Tennessee football team. The Volunteers held their final “real” practice Tuesday morning and will have a “mock game” Wednesday night in Neyland Stadium. “I’ve been very pleased with the body of work of the team this camp,” coach Derek Dooley said. “We asked them to come here with the right mindset every day and get better every day. I feel like for the most part we have. Now, it’s time to turn our attention to an opponent and see what all of this hard work has done and where we are.” The nearly month-long grid has taken its toll on the team that features a roster composed of over 70 percent underclassmen. “Probably the freshmen are more fried than anybody,” Dooley said. “The upperclassmen, it’s really not that hard. You really see it in the younger guys, but you also see them come out of it. I’ve seen a lot of the freshmen have some good days here. Everybody needs the recovery.” Older players, like redshirt sophomore nose tackle Daniel Hood, knew what to expect going into fall camp and understands the two-adays and early morning practices should pay dividends during the

year. “It’s tough, but that’s what we signed on to do. This will train us,” Hood said. “I think we’ve got our bye week (in) early September. Then right after that, we hit a huge stretch where we’ve got I think Bama, LSU, Georgia (and) South Carolina all in a row without a bye week. That four weeks will be just as tough as this camp.” Defense getting better Defensive coordinator Justin Wilcox said Tuesday the entire defense has made positive strides in fall camp. “Overall, I think we have improved,” Wilcox said. “I don’t think we are where we need to be by any means. But I definitely think we have improved as a club from the front to the linebackers to the secondary. So that’s what is encouraging. You just have to continue that curve.” Secondary battles With Janzen Jackson and Brent Brewer enriched as starters at the two safety spots, and Prentiss Waggner locked in at one cornerback position, the second starting cornerback, as well as the nickel back, are still undecided. Wilcox said those positions could stay undecided until the third or fourth game of the season. “To name a starter at our second corner spot or the nickel is still up in the air,” Wilcox said. “But at the same time, all those guys, (Justin) Coleman, (Marsalis) Teague, Art Evans, those guys have all improved. It’s a good thing.”

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Summitt shows bravery with announcement Clay Seal Assistant Sports Editor Pat Summitt told the Knoxville News Sentinel Monday that she has been diagnosed with early onset dementia — Alzheimer’s type. Summitt said in a Tuesday statement that she still intends to coach the Lady Vols, although her condition may change roles for her and her staff, as “there will be some good days and some bad days.” After unusual behavior, Summitt visited the famous Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. in May, where they performed tests and gave her the unfortunate results. If I had to collectively sum up reactions from the University of Tennessee community, I’d only say, “Wow.” At least, that’s how I’m feeling. I got a pit in my stomach when I heard the news. It came as a shock. It’s not like Summitt is leaving, but hearing from the horse’s mouth that things may be changing is unsettling, because it’s probably the one thing Tennessee fans will never want to see changed. Summitt is the best coach that will ever coach women’s college hoops, one of the best basketball coach-

es in the country, and has been the epitome of consistency in her 37 years with the Lady Vols. She’s the only coach in the men’s or women’s game to reach 1,000 wins, and she has eight national championships with 18 Final Four appearances to her name. With the coaching carousel at UT in the past few years in all sports, if she wasn’t before, it’s now safe to say Summitt is the face of Tennessee athletics. What Summitt supporters have to keep in mind is that this is not a funeral in the slightest. If – Pat Summitt she is not treating it Head Lady Vols Coach like one, no one else should. “There’s not going to be any pity party,” she told the News Sentinel, “and I’ll make sure of that.” Early onset dementia, like any form of Alzheimer’s, is degenerative. It is not really one of those diseases you beat. You more or less hold it off longer than usual. It is a scary diagnosis, to say the least. One might think that being one of the toughest coaches in the business, men’s or women’s, she might keep this news private, which is very understandable. Many public figures

struggle with medical and personal issues for years without anyone knowing. It is very brave of them. But in my mind, showing her hand and announcing the news to everyone is the bravest thing she could have done. And I am not sure anything less is expected of Summitt anymore. She was brave in that she was so honest, so transparent. This has to be one of the most vulnerable points in her life, and she made a video announcement about it online for the whole world to see. The woman has been a pioneer of women’s basketball, and women’s athletics in general, around the country. Girls and young women from all parts of America like the Lady Vols because of Summitt, wishing they were a foot taller so they could have a chance to play for her one day, even if they have no other interest in the university. It is an extremely tough situation, only to get tougher down the road. But Pat Summitt is a tough individual. All she wants to do is “move forward to the business at hand … coaching a great group of Lady Vols.” Like I said, though, what else can we expect from Summitt?

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pity party, and I’ll make sure of that.

Kayla Jeter to miss season with ACL tear Staff Reports

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Kayla Jeter, senior outside hitter, prepares to block the ball against Alabama last year on Oct. 17. Jeter will be out of the 2011 volleyball season due to a torn ACL that happened at practice on Friday.

Tennessee senior leader and Preseason All-SEC selection Kayla Jeter will miss the 2011 volleyball season with a knee injury, associate athletics director for sports medicine Jenny Moshak reported. Jeter suffered a torn anterior cruciate ligament in her left knee at team practice Friday. Moshak said surgery has not yet been scheduled, and Jeter is currently rehabilitating her knee in preparation for surgery. Recovery time is estimated between six and nine months. Jeter enjoyed her best season as a junior in 2010, earning first-team All-SEC and AVCA All-America honorable mention honors. The Solon, Ohio, native ranked second on the squad with 340 kills (2.98/set) and led UT with 19 solo blocks. “We’re saddened by the fact that Kayla will be out for the season, but this now allows some other players to step up and perform,” Tennessee head coach Rob Patrick said. “Our goals have not changed because of the injury. “I know with Kayla’s work ethic that she will come back stronger and more motivated than ever to have a great year next season. We’re excited to have Kayla back in our program for another year.”