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Site promotes ‘reverse social networking’ Date My School emphasizes meeting new friends online first, rather than connecting with old ones Lauren Kittrell Staff Writer On Aug. 17, a social networking site launched at 350 schools nationwide.

Date My School, an online platform designed specifically for students and alumni, was begun for schools across the country, including the University of Tennessee. Due to extensive press coverage from major media organizations like CNN, The New York Times and The Huffington Post, the site has reached over 31,000 members and the numbers continue to grow.

Created by Columbia University classmates Balazs Alexa and Jean Meyer, Date My School was founded to connect academically driven and time-constrained students who attend school in the same geographic location.

It’s purpose is to provide a unique way for students to meet students from other departments or nearby schools.

The idea started with Alexa and Meyer in November of 2010. After a young woman in nursing school complained about the lack of men in his departement, the two students realized the market at stake. After opening for one week, the site had 1,300 Columbia students.

Date My School is a new idea that was created by college students, for college students. It is the only reversed social networking site. The overarching idea of the site is to meet people online and then meet them off-line.

The site’s plan is vital to students who really wish to get to know people and not just their profiles. Marissa Landis, a junior in art history, said an important aspect in social networking sites is to actually meet the people you are interacting with on the web.

“Despite being a forum for displaying likes and dislikes, interests and beliefs, I find that social sites don’t really do much in the way of connecting me with who a person really is,” Landis said. “I usually generalize and stereotype based on these sites only to find that the actual person is far different.”

Whether people portray themselves accurately on social media sites is a frequently discussed issue, but the goal of DMS is to create an environment for students and alumni to be themselves and meet people like them from other departments in their school or – Marissa Landis in schools Junior in art history around them.

This leads to the age-old question of whether social networking sites such as DMS are safe. Though some sites may prohibit complete strangers from viewing private material, DMS takes protection one step further and provides complete anonymity to users, access only to students and alumni with active university e-mail accounts, and exclusivity.

Members are in full control of who can view their information, and the site is only available to select schools.

The goal of Date My school is to become a platform to discover new people online. Whether for dating, rela-

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tional or study purposes, DMS is the go-to place to discover new friends, not necessarily to connect with old ones.

Lindsey NeSmith, a junior in journalism and electronic media, said social media has been a means of helping her stay connected with many different groups of friends. The difference between this idea and Date My School is that the site is not meant for keeping in touch with people, but actually meeting them.

DMS offers students like NeSmith something more. As social media networks expand, grow and develop, they serve as a tool that users can take advantage of.

“Social media has transformed our generation,” NeSmith said. “I can now talk to my friends from other countries or my family in Atlanta. Social media has created a faster and more efficient way of communicating.”

Specifically for UT-Knoxville, DMS serves as an excellent resource for incoming freshmen, transfer students and upperclassmen who want to meet people outside of their department or school.

Through Date My School, students and alumni can network with people from the University of TennesseeChattanooga, Middle Tennessee State University, the University of Memphis and more.

Despite being a forum for displying

likes and dislikes, interests and beliefs,

I find that social sites don’t really do much in the way of connecting me with who a person really is.”

Gay marriage ban meets next bump sued to have Proposition 8 thrown out are arguing that ballot initiative proponents cannot demonstrate that would be The Associated Press uniquely harmed if the same-sex marriage ban is declared SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — California’s same-sex mar- unconstitutional. Demonstrating a concrete and particularriage ban faces its next legal test Tuesday when the state’s ized harm is the standard parties ordinarily have to meet to highest court attempts to shed light on whether the voter- be eligible to wage an appeal in federal court.

California Attorney General Kamala Harris has submitted approved measure’s backers have legal authority to appeal a brief saying that in her interpretation, proponents of sucthe federal ruling that overturned Proposition 8.

The California Supreme Court is scheduled to hear an cessful ballot initiatives do not have the right to defend their measures in hour of argucourt. Harris is a ments on that Democrat who question, which succeeded Gov. could prove cruJerry Brown in cial to the future January as attorof the voterney general. approved ban.

If the Supreme The federal Court says the appeals court ban’s proponents that is considerdid not have ing the initiastanding to tive’s constituappeal, and if the tionality wants 9th Circuit and the state court to ultimately the weigh in on the U.S. Supreme matter before it Court ultimately issues its deciagree, it would sion. clear the way for The 9th U.S. same-sex marCircuit Court of riages to resume Appeals has in California expressed doubts because former about the ability Chief U.S. Vaughn of Proposition 8’s Walker’s verdict sponsors to chalwould stand. But lenge the lower such an outcome court ruling would also limit absent the the potential involvement of impact of the California’s govTara Sripunvoraskul • The Daily Beacon closely watched ernor or attorney general, both of Students celebrate during a flash mob on Coming Out Day on Oct. 11 to catch because it whom refused to raise awareness of LGBT issues. In San Francisco, the same-sex marriage would prevent courts appeal a federal ban faces another battle on Tuesday when the idea of appealing the fed- higher from reaching its judge’s August eral ruling that overturned Proposition 8 is questioned. constitutional 2010 decision merits. striking down the “What the court has before it are questions about how the ban as a violation of gay Californians’ civil rights.

The court punted the question to the California Supreme state’s direct democracy rules should be understood to sync with its constitutionally-based ideas of representative govCourt earlier this year, saying it was a matter of state law.

Lawyers for the coalition of religious and conservative ernment,” Ohio State University Moritz College of Law groups that qualified Proposition 8 for the November 2008 Marc Spindelman. “Who speaks for the people and the state ballot maintain they are legally eligible to represent the — and when? Can unelected officials determine how state majority of California voters who approved the same-sex law will be defended? Should they be allowed to defend the marriage ban. They argue that because California has such a law when state officials elected by the people to represent vigorous citizen’s initiative process, it would not make sense them will not? Are state officials who refuse to defend a legal for elected officials to effectively veto measures by not measure on appeal practically exercising a veto right that the rules of direct democracy in California do not allow? defending them in court.

Proposition 8 reinstated a ban on same-sex marriages in “This is a pivotal hearing for us as we continue to fight to uphold the People’s vote to restore traditional marriage in California by amending the state Constitution to supersede California against these ferocious attacks,” Andy Pugno, a California Supreme Court ruling that had legalized gay legal counsel for the Proposition 8 coalition said in a letter unions five months earlier. The Williams Institute, a think to supporters last week. “We simply cannot allow our oppo- tank on sexual orientation and the law at the University of nents to manipulate the legal system to the point where California, Los Angeles, has estimated that 18,000 couples tied the knot during the brief window. there is nobody left to defend the People!”

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National Greek publication comes to Knoxville campus Victoria Wright Staff Writer Campus Greeks can discover a sense of community in the form of black and white, 12-point font.

First established at Indiana State University in 2009, The Odyssey newspaper is now published at more than 40 universities in the U.S., such as Penn State University and the University of California, Los Angeles. All staff is either part of a fraternity or a sorority, and the paper caters to both Panhellenic, Interfraternity Councils (IFC) fraternities and National Pan-Hellenic Council (NPHC) sororities and fraternities.

The newspaper migrated to UT recently this summer.

The newspaper contacted publisher Mason McLeod with an offer to start a publication at the Knoxville campus.

The first issue was published Thursday, Aug. 18. The Odyssey will be distributed every Thursday to the Greek houses, the Panhellenic Center and Laurel Hall.

“It’s kind of a niche paper,” said McLeod, junior in logistics. “The whole purpose of the paper is to unite the Greek community.”

The Odyssey covers a variety of articles outside of Greek events, such as writers’ columns on dating and politics. One article covered the highs and lows of dating in a recession. Currently, the newspaper has a staff of 19.

Contributing editor Rob Davis hopes to see the staff grow to about 25. Most articles focus on UT Greek Life, but some articles cover Greek events held at other universities.

More than 40 Panhellenic sororities, IFC fraternities and NPHC sororities and fraternities are recognized on campus, with about 2,100 Panhellenic members, 1,900 IFC members and about 150 members according to the Greek affairs offices.

“A lot of people think they know (about Greek life), but they really don’t. (The Odyssey) is a good way for non-Greek people to learn about Greek students,” said Bethany Mcintosh, freshman in nursing and member of the Phi Mu sorority.

In addition to gaining writing samples, The Odyssey writers also have an opportunity to add USA Today to their resume. The newspaper holds a partnership with the news source and each week, USA Today chooses one article from one of the newspaper’s campuses to publish.

Brooke Miller, a freshman in speech pathology and member of the Alpha Chi Omega sorority, hopes the newspaper will focus on philanthropic efforts of Greek life.

“You don’t hear about that enough,” Miller said. “I think a lot of people don’t know about how we’re helping other people.”

Alpha Chi Omega is involved in charity work by counseling women affected by domestic violence.

Mcintosh agrees with Miller, and also hopes a sense of community between the Greek fraternities and sororities will be highlighted in future articles in The Odyssey.

“I’d like to see it as a landmark on campus,” McLeod said.

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Wednesday, September 7, 2011

Gabi Caballero • The Daily Beacon

Greer Clayton, freshman in biomedical engineering, is handed a hotdog at the Career Services cookout before the home-opener against Montana on Saturday.

Wednesday Career Services is holding a Law School Recruitment Fair and Admissions Workshop for students interested in law school. The workshop is from 11:30 a.m.12:30 p.m. in the UC Shiloh Room, and the Law School Recruitment Fair is from 2-4 p.m. in the College of Law Commons.

1965 — Marines launch Operation Piranha U.S. Marines and South Vietnamese forces launch Operation Pirahna on the Batangan Peninsula, 23 miles south of the Marine base at Chu Lai. This was a follow-up to Operation Starlight, which had been conducted in August. During the course of the operation, the Allied forces stormed a stronghold of the Viet Cong 1st Regiment, claiming 200 enemy dead after intense fighting.

1977 — Panama to control canal On this day in 1977, President Jimmy Carter signs a treaty that will give Panama control over the Panama Canal beginning in the year 2000. The treaty ended an agreement signed in 1904 between thenPresident Theodore Roosevelt and Panama, which gave the U.S. the right to build the canal and a renewable lease to control five miles of land along either side of it.

The desire for a shorter route between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans had a long history, beginning with the Spanish explorers of the 16th century. Before the canal was built, ships were required to travel around the treacherous Cape Horn of South America, a journey that frequently resulted in great loss of life

and cargo. From 1869 to 1877, U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant authorized no less than seven feasibility studies of a canal across the thin Panamanian isthmus. In 1881, a French consortium of investors hired Suez Canal designer Ferdinand deLesseps to build a canal through Panama. The French project was called off in 1888, however, after workers died by the thousands from disease and construction accidents.

In 1904, building a canal across Panama became a pet project of President Theodore Roosevelt; the effort was led by American engineer John Stevens. Although death from jungle diseases decreased with the implementation of an improved sanitation system, designed by Dr. William Gorgas, the project dragged on so long that Stevens quit in despair. In November 1906, in an attempt to boost flagging morale and dwindling Congressional support for the project, Roosevelt visited and posed for photographs at the site, sitting at the controls of an enormous earth-moving tractor.

In 1914, after 10 years, Roosevelt’s perseverance paid off; the 51-mile-long canal opened on August 15.

The engineer who took over for Stevens quipped at the opening of the canal that “the real builder of the Panama Canal was Theodore Roosevelt.” The canal facilitated increased passenger travel and cargo shipments between nations around the world and U.S. control over the canal helped guarantee America’s status as an international power.

Transfer of ownership of the Panama Canal occurred peacefully as planned on December 31, 1999.

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

NEWS

Wednesday, September 7, 2011

North Korea looks to China for trade The Associated Press RASON, North Korea — A paved Chinese highway edged with telecommunications towers and electricity lines comes to a halt at the border with North Korea, giving way to a landscape seemingly frozen in time.

Oxen plow the fields and cooking smoke rises from farmhouses where fish and tobacco are laid out to dry. A scarecrow lists in a sea of bright green rice plants. In the distance, three men on horseback race toward a small village.

Cutting through this remote idyll is a yellow ribbon of pale dirt that is the start of a Chinese-built road to the port of Rason that North Korean officials envision as a pathway to prosperity bringing in investors, tourists and much-needed hard currency.

The project shows that North Korea is turning to China to revive a moribund economy, relinquishing years of wariness toward its giant neighbor and its market reforms in a sign of desperation.

For China, the road offers a quick route from its landlocked northeast to the ocean, big investment opportunities and a chance to prevent instability in its neighbor.

Chinese travel agents, potential investors and foreign journalists recently traveled into the North to get a look at the special economic zone Pyongyang is promoting in Rason. It lies in the far northeastern tip of North Korea, 600 miles (1,000 kilometers) from Pyongyang, but will be about an hour’s drive from China once the road is completed.

Rumbling Chinese cargo trucks already ply the route, churning up plumes of choking dust and ferrying containers of Chinese-made shoes, plastic toys, computer speakers, Tshirts and DVDs to the Rason Free Trade Market.

The market, a 13-year-old experiment in small-scale capitalism, has been so successful that the Chinese managing company, the Tianyu Group, is planning to expand the jampacked 54,000-square-foot (5,000-squaremeter) market to 320,000 square feet (30,000 square meters), Tianyu vice director Zheng Zhexi said.

“As I see it, this is the way of economic development, and it’s something that the people want,” Zheng said. “I think it’s reached a point where it cannot be reversed.”

North Korea declared the area a special economic zone 20 years ago. But after a brief flurry of activity and funding from the U.N. Development Program, the project languished without backing from Pyongyang’s leadership.

Leader Kim Jong Il had long worried about

becoming overly reliant on China, and during a decade of warming ties on the Korean peninsula, he focused on building ties with newly rich South Korea. However, nearly all trade and joint ventures have come to a standstill since President Lee Myung-bak took office in 2008 with a tough policy toward North Korea.

With North Korea’s estimated yearly gross domestic product hovering at just $1,800 per person, building the economy is at the core of Kim’s current government policy. A succession campaign to groom his son as the country’s next leader have added urgency to the economic push.

Rason has benefited from the shift in Pyongyang’s priorities. When Zheng arrived in 1997 to set up the market, people were hesitant to get involved. Now Tianyu doesn’t have the space to approve even a fraction of the applications from prospective vendors, he said.

“Ordinary people’s sense and the awareness of the market, and their views on the economy — all these have changed a lot,” Zheng said.

Foreign journalists, who typically are barred from local markets, were taken on a strictly controlled, 15-minute tour. No photos, no notes, the guide instructed: “Just use your eyes.”

Vendors, mostly women, stood behind stands loaded with freshly skinned rabbit and live chickens, as well as goods mostly imported from China: blouses, speakers, refrigerators, sofas, shampoo, playing cards, binoculars.

High heels went for 25 yuan (US$4), a Kim Jong Il-style beige suit for 85 yuan ($13) and a container of sea salt for 3 yuan ($0.47).

North Korean tour guide Mun Ho Yong, 25, said his family shops at the market several times a week to supplement state rations of rice, oil and fish.

Everything Mun wore — striped dress shirt, belt, polyester trousers and black dress shoes — was bought at the market except his pin of late President Kim Il Sung attached to his shirt, over his heart.

One major challenge will be to successfully leap from the market’s small-scale commerce to full-fledged manufacturing and trade.

Chinese companies are attracted to North Korea’s cheap labor, but Rason Vice Mayor Hwang Chol Nam acknowledges that region isn’t fully ready for factories: It lacks Internet and mobile phone roaming service and suffers frequent blackouts and train disruptions.

Officials also will have to convince the Chinese it’s safe to invest in Rason in the wake of last months’ seizure of South Korean assets last month at a resort at Mount

Kumgang, or Diamond Mountain.

Hwang promised legal protections and financial benefits.

He said investors will be allowed to fully own businesses in Rason — an exception in a country where businesses are largely stateowned. Enterprises that invest more than 30 million euros will be tax-exempt for four years, and get a 50 percent break on income tax after that.

“We think it is important to build a good climate for world investors so we are laying the legal foundation and providing favorable conditions for them,” said Hwang, who speaks fluent English and Russian.

But paving the road must come first.

“No one is going to invest in a port when getting the goods from port inland is a real trial,” said Andray Abrahamian, executive director of Singapore-based Choson Exchange, which facilitates educational exchanges with North Koreans and has been assessing Rason’s laws. “The road really has to come first.”

Meanwhile, North Korea is fast-tracking tourism through Rason.

It can be notoriously hard for foreigners to get visas to visit North Korea. However, all foreigners can visit Rason visa-free — if their trips are booked through an approved travel agency, said Park Chol Su, vice chairman of Korea Taepung International Investment Group, a North Korean agency set up to attract foreign investment.

“It’s a big change,” said Park. “We are completely open.”

Still, tourists must leave their cell phones behind in China and remain in their guides’ company at all times.

Last week, Taepung tested a new idea: a cruise ship from Rason to scenic Mount Kumgang near the border with South Korea.

Chinese passengers gave the 21-hour trip mixed reviews, saying they enjoyed the scenery but not the facilities aboard the creaky, 1970s-era Mangyongbong ship.

Cabins were musty and meals served cafeteria-style on metal trays. There were no showers.

“If they are going to run a cruise like this, there needs to be better facilities and maybe some entertainment, too, for the people on board,” said Wang Zhijun, manager of Baishan Hotel in China’s Yanji city.

The cruise ended with an embarrassing thud Friday: The ship rammed into the Rason dock, splintering a few yards (meters) of concrete.

No one was injured, but the accident could have been avoided if smaller boats had tugged the ship in, Chinese tour guide Yu Guoli said.

Unfortunately, he said, the port isn’t yet capable of providing such services.

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Gadhafi’s security chief enters Niger The Associated Press NIAMEY, Niger — Armed loyalists of Moammar Gadhafi including top brass crossed in convoys from Libya into neighboring Niger, with the toppled Libyan leader’s own security chief at the head of one of the columns as it rolled into the capital of this desert nation Tuesday, officials said.

Customs official Harouna Ide told The Associated Press that Mansour Dao, Gadhafi’s security chief, was at the head of the first convoy. He said other Libyan convoys were south of Agadez in central Niger, a desert country bordering Libya and where Gadhafi has the support of many Tuareg tribal fighters.

It wasn’t clear if Gadhafi family members were in the convoys but al-Arabiya television quoted Niger’s Foreign Minister Bazoum Mohamed as saying Gadhafi himself was not present.

Assarid Ag Imbarcaouane, an official from neighboring Mali, said the convoy was carrying Gadhafi’s entourage.

Imbarcaouane is second vice president of the National Assembly of Mali and is a proGadhafi Tuareg leader.

“As far as the information I have received, the Guide is not in the convoy,” he said, referring to Gadhafi. “Rather, it’s the people in Gadhafi’s entourage.”

The customs official said there were a dozen vehicles in Dao’s convoy, and that among passengers were about 12 Gadhafi officials, Niger’s Tuareg rebel leader Rissa ag Boula and other Tuaregs from Niger who had gone to Libya to fight for Gadhafi.

Abdoulaye Harouna, owner of the Agadez Info newspaper, said he saw one of the groups

arrive in his town Monday in several dozen pickup trucks. He said they headed for the capital, Niamey, a drive of some 600 miles (965 kilometers). The capital is in Niger’s southwestern corner near the nation of Burkina Faso, where Gadhafi has been offered asylum.

Harouna said he saw Boula in the convoy. Boula is a native of Niger who led a failed war of independence on behalf of ethnic Tuareg nomads a decade ago before seeking refuge in Libya.

The government of Burkina Faso said late last month they would recognize the Libyan rebels’ National Transitional Council. Foreign minister Djibril Bassolet also said the landlocked West African nation would welcome Gadhafi “if he wishes it.”

A top security official in Burkina Faso said government officials have not been advised about any convoy headed for Burkina Faso. The official asked not to be named because he’s not authorized to speak to journalists.

Both Niger and Burkina Faso are signatories to the International Criminal Court, which issued an arrest warrant for the Libyan leader, his son and the country’s intelligence chief. But both nations also belong to the African Union, which during a July summit called on member countries to disregard the warrant. The AU and many African leaders have become increasingly critical of the court, accusing it of targeting Africans.

Western officials said they did not have any information on the convoy. Harouna says the proGadhafi troops accompanying Boula were well-armed.

French Foreign Ministry spokesman Bernard Valero said the ministry did not know who was in the vehicles.

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Wednesday, September 7, 2011

OPINIONS

Editor’s Note

Economy stagnant, EPA reform stalled Blair Kuykendall Editor-in-Chief Americans will certainly be interested to hear what President Obama has to say about the economy this Thursday evening. Across the nation, patience is wearing thin.

In all fairness to the president, he has certainly given recovery efforts the old college try. Historically, measures like his massive stimulus package have at least given the economy a bit of a push, if not destined to serve as an economic cure-all. Unfortunately for this president, his spending plan turned out to be too little, too late. Given the lag time associated with monetary influx, it is hardly surprising that the stimulus did not take immediate effect. By the time the cash hit the economy, frozen credit markets and high unemployment were already past help.

Even if the money had been delivered on a tighter time frame, it is arguable whether or not its benefit would have had any real impact. Sometimes a boost in nominal liquidity can aid a struggling economy and raise consumer confidence, justifying the negative ramifications of an inflation tax down the road. Obama’s stimulus achieved neither.

Last week’s unemployment announcement did little to help the president’s already damaged approval ratings. A new moniker, ‘president zero,’ began to circulate. America hasn’t seen a zero net change in unemployment since 1945.

While an unemployment rate of 9.1 percent is discouraging at first blush, it is important to remember that the unemployment rate often does strange things coming out of recession. Sometimes an increased unemployment rate can actually signal the beginnings of a recovery, as discouraged

workers actively re-enter the job-seeking pool.

That may or may not be the case in this instance, as this recession has been anything but traditional.

Nonexistant job growth may be weighing heavily on the nation at large, but America faces broader, non-fiscal challenges. Last week Obama made an unexpected decision that will pose negative ramifications for our nation’s environmental future. Last Thursday, the president decided to defer stricter standards on ozone emissions put forth by the EPA. Changes would have lowered acceptable levels of ozone concentration to between 0.60 and 0.70 ppm. To put this measure in perspective, the new standard would make 85 percent of the counties in the U.S. non-compliant. That would require utilities and corporations to cease growth operations until their ratings were brought down.

While any policy that could potentially limit corporate expansion is not ideal in an economic downturn, refusing to implement stronger environmental standards may not have been a wise move for the president. Not only does this decision spell negative consequences for our already degraded environment, it may also serve to alienate the dwindling pool of individuals loyal to Obama.

In a poll taken over the last few days in August by the Wall Street Journal and NBC, only 44 percent of Americans reported approval of the president’s performance. In an even more startling figure, 73 percent of Americans believe the country’s heading down the wrong road.

Americans aren’t satisfied with the nation’s current trajectory, and expectations run high for Thursday. Hopefully the president will have some fresh ideas. With the economy seemingly dangling by a thread, one wonders why the president didn’t at least hedge our bets on the environment.

— Blair Kuykendall 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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Surviving life’s disappointments Ac orns and Other Seeds by

Anna-Lise Burnette Every once in a while we are reminded of things we know but have forgotten. This week I’d like to share a little something I’ve (re-) learned from the first three weeks of school: Sometimes even the best-laid plans go awry.

You set your alarm, check to make sure it’s actually set, sink down into your bed and drift off to sleep thinking about all the things you’ll have to do in the morning. When your eyes open you can see the morning sun seeping in through the curtains, gently illuminating the window’s edges and that’s when you realize. The sun shouldn’t be up at 5 a.m. And it definitely shouldn’t be bright. Reaching over to your nightstand you grab your alarm clock and see that someone has turned off your alarm.

There are two possibilities. Either you turned off your alarm yourself while in a hazy, dream-like state, or your good-for-nothing roommate snuck into your room at 2 a.m. and flipped the switch in order to sabotage your day. Depending on your history of sleepwalking or the quality of roommates you have, you can probably rule one or the other out. (In my case, the fact that the booby traps I laid just within the perimeter of my bedroom were completely undisturbed pointed to an “inside job.”)

Times like these are when it’s good to always have a plan B, what you might call a baseball cap and sunglasses option. Because it isn’t worth skipping school just for the sake of having clean socks, sometimes you just have to roll out of bed and go.

And it’s like that with most things. It may not be a shut-off alarm, but instead a canceled concert or a sudden illness — and you just have to go with it. For people who like to pencil things into a little schedule this can be almost unmanageable, but there’s no reason to let disappointments bog you

down. So what if your friend bailed on you?

Reschedule and do something else tonight.

At our best, we should try to see each instance of disappointment as a window of opportunity.

Instead of thinking of messed up plans as ruined, it’s more constructive to think of them as “reconfigured.” This goes for big plans, too; just because someone took your house / significant other / dinner right out from under your nose doesn’t mean that they took the last home / spouse / edible material left in the world. They just made it possible for you to find something better without the guilt of feeling like a two-timer.

Whether you believe that things happen for a reason or not, the fact remains that things happen every day to everybody. It’s easy to feel like you’re the only person in the world with problems, especially when your disappointments really are great (perhaps you’d even say justified). But the next time this happens, take a moment to reflect fully on the situation. Could you have done anything differently? Why are you angry (or sad, or confused)? What do you know now that you didn’t know yesterday?

These kinds of questions are what we use to keep ourselves sane in a world full of unpredictable happenstance and crippling injustice. Sometimes they don’t work, though, which is why it’s important to remember the everlasting maxim, “Learn from it, and move on.” Especially the “move on” part. I say this because anyone can pick out tiny bits of wisdom from a bad situation, but not everyone can pick up the pieces and live a happy life in spite of it. It takes a certain conviction to move ahead with the knowledge that disappointing things can and probably will continue to happen to you in the future. But that’s the sort of everyday conviction that characterizes our normal, everyday existence; and why, for instance, we don’t have entire nations committing suicide. Because coupled with the certainty of future disappointments is the promise of life renewed. At least that’s the hope.

— Anna-Lise Burnette is a senior in interdisciplinary studies. She can be reached at kburnet7@utk.edu.

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The TV screen has been announcing specials about Sept. 11, 2001 for weeks now. The 10-year anniversary of that day that changed history is this coming Sunday. Everyone who is old enough remembers exactly what they were doing, what class they were in, whether they were driving or already at work doing completely ordinary paperwork or on the phone talking to a client. Up until 8:46 a.m. EST, Sept.

11 was just as ordinary as Sept. 10. The YouTube video titled “First Plane Crashing Into the World Trade Center” is a perfect representation of this and is still very powerful. You’ll be hearing the facts about the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on TV. So I won’t repeat that here.

Instead, here’s some stories about what my family and friends were doing up until 8:46 a.m.

My grandparents were still in bed when a friend called and simply asked where my uncle was. He lives and works in Washington, D.C., some days in the Pentagon. My grandmother was confused as to why her friend would randomly call her and ask where her son was.

She said, “Well, he’s at home or work I guess.”

Her friend was shocked that she was so calm and quickly deduced that my grandmother didn’t know what was going on. After she told her and they hung up, my grandparents immediately turned on the TV and called my uncle. He didn’t answer. After making frantic calls to everyone they could think of, they still had no word about my uncle. That afternoon, my cousin was finally able to talk to his dad. He wasn’t at the Pentagon that day.

I asked a friend of mine to describe her day.

Her words were, “I was in fourth grade getting on the bus to go to school. All the kids were just talking and joking around. The bus driver gets a phone call and starts freaking out. We get to school and all the teachers are scrambling around. We get settled in our class and the

teacher turns on the TV. We went to our different classes but didn’t really do anything.

How could you go on with a normal day after watching that? We had a moment of silence and talked about what we had seen. The bus home was really quiet.” That simple difference is amazing. On the way to school, they were talking and joking; on the way back the usually loud elementary school kids were quiet.

Another friend of my reported, “I was in our school room in the basement of our house. My mom and my siblings were with me. I remember being tired but we were just home-schooling like any other day. It wasn’t until my dad yelled down the stairs that the first tower had been hit that we knew anything had happened.”

As for myself, I was home-schooling in 2001.

My mom and I were going through my spelling book when the telephone rang. It was my brother, Kevin. He had just watched the second tower get hit live. My mom picked up the phone, and he asked her what we were doing. When he told her that two planes had hit the World Trade Center, she had to ask him again before she believed him. My spelling, and all my other work for the day, was forgotten. We turned the TV on and stared at it. I don’t know how long we were silent, but the next thing I heard my mom say was, “What does this mean? What does this mean?”

What 9/11 means now is a day of sorrow and changing history. I read about it in a history text book and was amazed at how little it conveyed.

Yes, all the facts were there: 19 al-Qaeda terrorists hijacked four planes, the first plane hit the World Trade Center at 8:46 a.m., the second hit at 9:03 a.m., the Pentagon was hit at 9:37 a.m. and the forth plane crashed in a field in Pennsylvania at 10:03 a.m., but the emotion, the confusion and the shock cannot possibly be reproduced on the page. Perhaps the best way to remember that day 10 years ago is by looking at the pictures of the crashes, the people and the flags that were almost simultaneously hung at half-mast around the nation and remembering all that changed at 8:46 a.m. and saying, “God Bless America.”

— Chelsea Tolliver is an undecided junior. She can be reached at ctollive@utk.edu.

Wednesday, September 7, 2011

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Memorial architect’s moment approaches The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Architect Michael Arad first imagined the twin reflecting pools with cascading waterfalls — he calls them voids — as two empty spaces in the Hudson River, west of the smoldering World Trade Center.

When Arad entered a competition for a trade center memorial in 2003, the voids were in the footprints of the towers themselves, and manmade waterfalls replaced the churning river.

A jury including Vietnam Veterans Memorial designer Maya Lin chose Arad's twin waterfalls out of 5,201 entries, saying it embodied the grief and the desire for healing that the Sept.

11 terrorist attacks inspired.

The 42-year-old Arad’s 9/11 moment is arriving on the 10th anniversary of the attacks, culminating a journey for the son of an Israeli diplomat and unknown city architect whose poster board sketch became a touchstone for post-Sept. 11 battles over how to mourn and how to remember the dead.

Financial, practical and political considerations forced design changes; hundreds of trees were added to Arad’s original vision. The puzzle of how to list the dead has not been solved to everyone’s satisfaction.

Arad says the core of his original plan remains.

“We’ve gone through an eight-year-long editing process of sort of parsing it down,” he said in an interview in the Manhattan offices of Handel Architects.

“But I didn’t end up with a whole other unintended direction to this. Is it exactly as it was eight years ago?

No. But is it the same in nature? Yes.” After terrorists killed nearly 3,000 people and toppled two 110-story skyscrapers, some New Yorkers said the entire 16-acre trade center site should be a memorial or a park. Others said the towers should be rebuilt just as they were before.

In the end, Daniel Libeskind’s master plan set aside eight acres — half the site — for a memorial.

Arad’s design, “Reflecting Absence,” features waterfalls cascading into reflecting pools where the towers stood. The – Michael Arad names of all those killed on Sept. 11, 2001 and in the earli- Architect er World Trade Center attack on Feb. 26, 1993, are inscribed on bronze parapets surrounding the waterfalls.

In a change from the bare design Arad submitted, the waterfalls are nestled within a grove of swamp white oak trees that will grow as tall as 60 feet.

A museum showcasing remnants of the original trade center will open next year.

Interviewed at the memorial site, Arad referred to the pools as “voids” and said they will evoke the lives lost in the terror attacks.

“These voids that you see behind me — as you approach them as a pedestrian they’re not readily visible,” he said. “And it’s really only when you’re a few feet away from them that all of a sudden the ground opens up in front of you and you see this enormous expanse, these voids which are ringed with these waterfalls and the reflecting pool below them.”

And then the visitors come to the edge and start circling the pools, “following this river of names” around the perimeter.

Members of the jury — Lin was said to be one of Arad’s strongest supporters — said the nearly completed memorial has vindicated their choice.

Paula Grant Berry, a Sept. 11 widow and the lone victims’ family member on the jury, said the falling water “will cut out the sound of the city.”

She added, “The beauty of the design is that it maintains the footprints of the buildings.

It gives you a sense of how large the buildings were.”

Arad was an unknown architect working for the New York City Housing Authority when his design was chosen.

Arad grew up in Israel, the United States and Mexico, and served in the Israeli military. A Dartmouth graduate who got his master’s at George Institute of Technology, Arad came to New York two years before the attacks.

Arad was thinking about a Sept. 11 memorial before the competition was announced. He

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built a Plexiglas model of his cavernous holes in the Hudson and brought it up to his apartment rooftop to photograph it against the skyline.

“This idea of the surface of the river being torn open and the water flowing into this hole. ... I kept sketching it and thinking, could it be realized?” he recalled. “Could you actually create that effect? Could you cut a hole in the river?”

The answer, seemingly, was no. But the idea morphed into Arad’s twin voids in the towers’ footprints.

Not everyone loved the design. Arad keeps a digital New York Post front page — “IT STINKS!” — in his computer.

He appears to take criticism in stride.

“When I entered the competition it was a very private act,” he said. “It was something that I did by myself, sketching in my study, imagining the kind of memorial that I might want to visit someday. But when the design was selected all of a sudden it went from a constituency of one to a constituency of thousands.”

Arad said working on the memorial has been “exhausting and exhaustive” but also “a huge privilege.”

Construction of the memorial began in 2006, and it will be the first component of the rebuilt trade center site to be completed. New office towers, meanwhile, are rising rapidly to the memorial’s north and east.

According to the National September 11 Memorial & Museum, the combined cost of the memorial and museum is about $700 million with an annual operations budget between $50 million and $60 million.

A memorial to the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing that opened in 2000 cost $29.1 million.

The Sept. 11 board has raised about $400 million from private donations and is seeking federal funds so that the memorial and the museum can be free of charge — although it also said it’s considering a voluntary fee of up to $20.

Arad said every detail of the memorial has been carefully vetted, from the Virginia-quarried granite that lines the tower footprints to the hand-brushed patina that protects the bronze.

Placement of the nearly 3,000 victims’ names was always contentious.

An alphabetical list “would not have been the right move,” Arad said. “You had married families who shared the same last name and married families who didn’t share the same last name. And if you did an alphabetical listing it would privilege some over others.”

Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s proposal to list the names randomly pleased few. Victims’ family members wanted to list the dead by their employers. Relatives of the firefighters and police officers who died trying to save others pushed for their rank and ladder company to be listed.

The solution was to group people’s names near the names of their friends, family members and co-workers, and first responders were identified. Over 1,200 requests were made, and granted to list the names.

Families who died on the airplanes will be listed together, as will office colleagues who shared lunch every day.

Donald James McIntyre, a Port Authority police officer who died as he tried to make his way to the 84th floor of the south tower, will be listed next to his cousin John Anthony Sherry, who worked there.

Edie Lutnick, who heads a relief fund at Cantor Fitzgerald, the financial services firm that lost 658 people including her brother on Sept. 11, said age and affiliation “could so easily be added.”

“You would be able to know that a 2 1/2-year-old died on the plane,” Lutnick said. “You would learn a story from the memorial and not from a telephone or a kiosk.”

Arad said every choice had consequences. If a victim didn’t work for a company at the trade center, they would have been listed as unaffiliated, which is why no company name will appear anywhere.

“Again,” he says, “everything you did had issues of equity.”

These voids that you see behind me, you approach them as a

pedestrian they’re not readily visible, it’s only when you’re a few feet away that the ground opens up in front of you.

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Kravitz dips into repertoire on album Yacht Club liquor sales divide patrons New directions strengthen some songs, feel out of place on others even more into Lenny’s repertoire of uptempo tracks.

A rather weak track on this record is the Staff Writer collaboration with Jay-Z and DJ Military, What happened to the rebellion that which pushes his area of control way over Lenny Kravitz once expressed? Remember the borders, where a step to the dance the back of his “Greatest Hits” album, floor feels irrelevant even though a promiwhere he sits on the sidewalk dressed in nent artist like Jay-Z has his finger deep down the bowl worn-out jeans, a of production. ripped t-shirt and a The second colpair of snakeskin laboration is boots, along with “ S u n f l o w e r , ” fantastic and rough with DJ Drake. records such as This track “Lenny.” I fell in breathes a Latinlove with that American carniLenny. This year, val atmosphere however, Kravitz is that also seems back with yet anothmisplaced. er record to mainLiquid Jesus tain his position as is one of the one of the most mellowest tracks respected rock Kravitz has promusicians. duced regarding This often sunhis strong spiriglasses-wearing t u a l i t y .

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Despite the alienating tracks mentioned Wonder-like presence.

The powerhouse of this record is, with- above, credit has to be given to Lenny for out a doubt, “Come on Get It.” This track daring to step into his own direction and amplifies every musical element that utilize all the power he can through his talKravitz has mastered. It is a blend of the ent as a multi-instrumentalist. “Black and 2001 wrecking “Battlefield of Love,” the White America” serves the core of Lenny smash hit “American Woman” and “Are Kravitz’s base of fans, although the new You Gonna Go My Way.” It served as the directions might have a negative impact.

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Best track: “Come on Get It”

Wiley Robinson Staff Writer The Fort Sanders Yacht Club, commonly referred to as the “Barcade,” is looking to diversify.

Sitting where 17th Street intersects with Cumberland Avenue directly behind Chipotle, the Yacht Club is a laid back community bar featuring a variety of arcade and retro Nintendo games that has persevered amid the Mesozoic competition of the strip.

“Since we opened our doors Feb. 29, 2008, we’ve outlasted Guthrie’s, Sawyer’s, McDougals’s, Magic Sushi, Chili’s, Banditos, Trino’s, Bar Knoxville, Ho Ho, Pita Pit, Loser’s, Yama Tora, Falafel Hut, Legacy and Caribbean Vibe, among others, most of which opened around the same time or after us,” said John Haas, FSYC owner and proprietor.

And it has lasted this long being beer only.

“We’re aiming at being more assessable during the daytime hours,” Haas said. “We never designed this place around being in a college town, but we want this to be somewhere people can kill time between classes, get coffee and use some free high-speed Wi-Fi.” No concrete plans yet on how much earlier the Barcade might be opening its doors, but some changes have already taken place, like the clearing of a few arcade machines, leaving a total of six.

When questioned whether they would continue to downsize the arcade section, co-owner David Shirly assured the number of machines would not dip under six.

“We’re installing extra bar seating on the arcade wall, as well as a coffee table that’ll connect the Nintendo bench with the seating in the wall,” Shirly said. “We’ll also probably put a table above the TV near the entrance.”

A variety of coffees and espresso are just some of the new items being offered to patrons, as are bagels and hot dogs.

While all of these additions are scheduled

for some time in the near future, The Yacht Club is still in the process of obtaining a liquor license, a rather ambitious addition for such a compact floor plan.

“Tennessee law requires 75 seats for an establishment to serve liquor, a number that goes down with cross-board appeal,” Shirly said. “When we get the coffee, hot dogs and pastries going, the requirement will drop to 30.”

Unfortunately, it’s still too early to speculate on things like prices and daily deals, like the bar already has for its array of beer in bottle and draft.

In addition to consumables, the Barcade intends to refine its console gaming experience.

The Yacht Club boasts a fine selection of original Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) and Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) games, including all the original Marios. But some patrons desire more.

“I don’t think the changes will alter the atmosphere of the bar much at all, and the prospect of being able to sip Jameson and game is pretty exciting,” said Tyler Meier, UT Business School graduate and Yacht Club patron. “But the game area has been really disorganized for a while. I come to the Barcade a lot, but would come that much more if it were easier to switch between consoles. A Nintendo 64 and Game Cube with enough controllers and multiplayer games like Super Smash Bros would add an incredible amount to the bar.”

“We plan on setting up the TV and consoles with things like one-size-fits-all adapters to make the area more user friendly,” Shirly said.

“And for games, we were thinking of hanging the cartridges to stretching wires, so you could just pull it down and put it in. We were also tossing around the idea of adding a Sega Genesis or Atari, but it does seem like an N64 would resonate a lot more with this generation.”

Stop by the Fort Sanders Yacht Club and look for Beacon follow-ups in the coming months for further news.

Convict in girl’s rape gets 15-30 years The Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A New Hampshire man convicted of raping and impregnating a 15year-old church member, who was made to apologize to her Baptist congregation, was sentenced Tuesday to 15 to 30 years in prison.

Ernest Willis of Gilford, 52, robbed the girl of her childhood, the judge said in sentencing Willis.

A jury in May convicted Willis of raping the girl twice in 1997 — once while he was giving her driving lessons and weeks later at her Concord home.

She babysat his children and, a prosecutor said Tuesday, considered him a father figure.

“Her trust and admiration were repaid with violence and rape,” the prosecutor told the judge.

Before his trial in May, Willis pleaded guilty to one count of statutory rape. He maintained they had consensual sex on one occasion only, but acknowledged the girl was under the legal age of consent.

Willis, conveying no emotion in a lengthy statement to the court, said he was “sorry and ashamed for this thoughtless act of sexual misconduct.” He

never admitted to forcible rape or to a second rape.

His lawyers said they will appeal those convictions.

Willis remained stoic as Merrimack Superior Court Judge Larry Smukler sent him to prison for a minimum of 15 years.

“This particular day is a day for justice for the victim,” Smukler told him, saying Willis betrayed the trust of a defenseless 15-year-old.

The case remained unsolved for years because Concord police could not locate the teen.

Unbeknownst to them, the pastor of Trinity Baptist Church in Concord helped ship the girl to Colorado, with her mother’s consent, to live with a Baptist couple she did not know and put her infant daughter up for adoption.

Police located the victim, Tina Anderson, last year after a former Trinity Baptist Church member posted to a blog decrying the Independent Fundamentalist Baptist movement. The post described her church discipline session at Trinity Baptist. Willis was arrested in May 2010.

The Associated Press typically does not identify victims of sexual assault, but Anderson asked that her name be used and has given numerous media interviews.

Wednesday, September 7, 2011

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Jake Wheeler • The Daily Beacon

Players warm up before the Montana home-opener on Saturday. A storm came through Knoxville before the game started that made the Pride of the Southland walk off the field before the players could run through the Power “T.” The game finally started after a 93-minute delay.

UT to host State Farm Tip-Off Classic Katie Meier led the team to its first ever ACC Regular Season Championship in 2011.

While this year will mark the Lady Vols’ eighth appearance in the The 2011-12 women’s collegiate basketball season will be tipped off in style as the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame teams up with Classic posting a 5-2 all-time record, it will be the first appearance for Hurricanes as well as their inaugural meetState Farm, Intersport and ESPN ing against Tennessee. Additionally, it will be to host the 2011 State Farm Tipthe fifth time Thompson-Boling Arena has Off Classic on November 15. hosted the event.

This year’s Tip-Off Classic will During halftime, the Women’s Basketball feature the University of Hall of Fame’s Class of 2012 will be introduced Tennessee versus the University to the arena and the national television audiof Miami (Fla.) in Knoxville, ence. This year marks the 14th Induction, with Tenn., at Thompson-Boling the inaugural induction taking place in conArena at 6 p.m., ESPN2. junction with the Hall of Fame’s grand opening The 2011 State Farm Tip-Off in 1999. When the Class of 2012 is officially Classic marks the 19th anniverinducted on June 9, the list of individuals who sary of the event, which has File Photo • The Daily Beacon have been recognized as Women’s Basketball become synonymous with the start of the collegiate women’s Nikki McCray and Dana Johnson shake Hall of Fame inductees will increase to 127. basketball season. Once again, hands with a Vanderbilt player after the The Class of 2012 includes Nancy Fahey this year’s match-up will feature SEC Championship loss in 1995. McCray (Coach), Nikki McCray (Lady Vol Olympian some of the best players, coach- will be inducted into the 2012 Women’s and All-American), Pamela McGee (Player), es and programs in the country. Basketball Hall of Fame and will be recog- Inge Nissen (Player), Robin Roberts Led by Hall of Fame coach Pat nized during the 2011 State Farm Tip-Off (Contributor) and Dawn Staley (Player).

During this year’s game, there will be three Summitt, the Tennessee Lady Classic starting on Nov. 15.

Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame inductees sitVols are looking to make a run at the 2012 Final Four. Miami, a young team with all of their players ting on the bench for Tennessee (Summitt, Holly Warlick and back from last year, is looking to make their mark. Miami’s coach, Daedra Charles-Furlow).

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Vols leaning on nickel defense Matt Dixon Sports Editor Against spread-offenses, nickel and dime defensive packages become critical for a team, maybe even more important than its base defense.

Tennessee used its nickel defense about half the time against Montana on Saturday, and will most likely do the same this weekend against Cincinnati.

A nickel package replaces a linebacker with another defensive back. For UT, that fifth defensive back was either junior Eric Gordon or freshman Brian Randolph in the season-opener.

Gordon, who six games last season at cornerback, is very physical for a defensive back and has adjusted to playing the appropriately named nickelback position.

“I know what I need to be doing at the nickel,” Gordon said.

“I feel very comfortable at the nickel. I feel like week-in and week-out, my preparation is going to be key.”

While Gordon’s physical and aggressive playing style is an asset, UT coach Derek Dooley would like to see him learn to move on to the next play after making a mistake.

“If he could get to mentally where he is physically, it will really be a help for our football team,” Dooley said. “The problem is he steps up and makes a good play but then he has a mental breakdown and gives up a bad play. We’re looking for more consistency from Eric. The biggest breakdowns that he has are mental. He gets himself in trouble early in the down and then he can’t use his skills to help us. That’s his challenge and hopefully, he’ll keep getting better at that.”

Rotating line Against the Grizzlies, UT substituted defensive linemen every few snaps, a luxury that the depth upfront allows.

“You need fresh bodies rotating in and out,” sophomore defensive end Jacques Smith said. “That’s something we worked on against Montana. We had like perfect subs and I felt like that’s what was the key in the game having a good upfront, fresh defensive line, and that’s something we’re going to do the next game as well.”

When teams like Montana and Cincinnati run fast-paced offenses, the need to be able to play six or eight linemen without having a drop-off in production is vital for any defense.

“It helps us to have a lot of guys, but part of the reason we do that is because we don’t have a lot of really good guys,” Dooley said. “It allows you to play more. But especially with these spread teams, there’s so much lateral running and chasing the ball — you’ve got to keep fresh guys in there.”

Dooley approves Dooley spoke Tuesday morning for the first time about the hiring of Dave Hart as UT’s next athletic director.

“I’m really excited about starting a new direction from a leadership standpoint in our athletics department,” he said.

“The thing I obviously love about Dave is he’s been around bigtime college football at Florida State and Alabama. He knows what a football program needs. He knows the support we need.

That’s going to be very appreciative when he brings it to us.

(Alabama coach) Nick (Saban) had nothing but good things to say about him, and that’s good enough for me.”

Soccer keeps Shore, Dowd together The two followed each other to Tennessee and have never looked back. Both saw playing time when they arrived in 2008.

Staff Writer Dowd made 21 appearances and started six games for the Lady Vols. She made an They may not be related, but you would never be able to tell i m m e d i at e that of Lady Vols soccer players Emily Dowd and Emily Shore. impact, scoring “For me personally coming up from Gainesville (Fla.) and her first collegiate knowing someone right away has been great,” Shore said. goal in the opener.

“Dowd is like a sister, to have her on the field and off is great.”

Shore, also a Both the seniors have been playing soccer together since major factor as a they were 10 years old in Gainesville. They first played togethfreshman, saw er with a local club team called the Gainesville Hotshots, and time in 19 matchlater joined the club team IMG Academy Team, with which es while getting they won the Region Premier League in 2007 and the Disney the start nine Showcase Championship in 2008. times.

She Dowd attended Gainesville High School and helped her r e c e i v e d school to two District Championships. During the process. she Academic All-SEC became the Alachua honors her freshCounty all-time scorman and sophoing leader, notching more years.

163 career goals.

“They have Shore attended taken responsibilOak Hill High School ity of their games Matthew DeMaria • The Daily Beacon in Gainesville and and have grown Emily Shore takes a shot against helped her school to as players,” Kelly UCLA on Aug. 26. The Lady Vols three district titles. said. “When play- only loss is to UCLA (2-1), and their She was named ers embrace their next game is Friday against Gainesville Sun games, they Charlotte at 7 p.m.

Player of the Year become responsifrom 2005-2007. She ble for their game.” finished her high Kelly believes when Shore and Dowd committed to school career with Tennessee, it was a steal from the state of Florida.

133 goals and 79 Although they have had many favorite off-the-field assists. moments, their favorite soccer moment at Tennessee is winBoth players got ning the SEC Tournament in 2008 as freshmen. The two have offers from several been playing for so long they know the others moves and colleges, including Francis Glynn • The Daily Beacon where they will be on the field at all times.

Tennessee, Florida Emily Dowd battles for the ball With the little free time they have away from school and and Florida State. against Texas A&M on Aug. 28. soccer, both like to spend time with family and friends, but The pair chose Dowd has put up six points in six they have to replace going to the beach with the pool or the Tennessee for multi- games this season. lake in Knoxville. ple reasons.

After the Lady Vols’ season comes to an end, the two may “I knew I would have to be separated to fulfill their other goals in life. Dowd, grow the most under Coach Angie (Kelly),” Dowd said. “She who is majoring in sociology and criminal justice, hopes to concared so much about her players. I didn’t feel like I would get tinue her career overseas with a European soccer club. Shore, a that anywhere else.” political science major, plans to work and maybe come back to Shore knew she wanted to attend an SEC school, but did not Tennessee to enroll in law school. want to attend Florida, where she lived just minutes from. She “We will be separated for a little bit, but I am positive we will believed if she stayed close for school she would never leave. stay in touch,” Shore said.

David Abel