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UT welcomes students’ families to campus Jessica Vinge Staff Writer For the past 10 years, UT has held an annual family weekend on campus for students and their parents with tons of events and activities to engage in together. This year promises to be even better with approximately 3,700 students and family members expected, more activities and the celebration of 10 years of the event.

“Our office and staff within the Division of Student Life looks forward to this annual event when we welcome family members to campus,” Emily Parker, director of the Parents Association, said. “There are so many events for parents, students and guests to spend time on campus and take advantage of great programming.”

Coordinated by the Office of the UT Parents Association, Family Weekend kicks off on Friday, Sept. 9, when UT families will begin checking in for their weekend stay in Knoxville. Check-in begins at 4 p.m. followed by tours of the historic and newly renovated Ayres Hall.

On Friday, from 4-8 p.m., there will be a silent auction held in the UC for all guests to attend. There will be 140 items available at the auction, including tickets to football games, sports memorabilia, movie passes and screenings, dinner gift certificates, hotel stays, original art and lots of exciting Volunteer gear according organizers. All proceeds from the silent auction will directly benefit the UT Parents & Families Fund, which provides scholarships to UT students.

Friday evening will also include activities such as a Lady Vols soccer game, an ice cream social for all parents and guests to attend and a comedic performance put on by “Mad Chad” Taylor, who will be juggling chain saws.

To end Friday night, there will be a showing of “The Blind Side” in the UC, or parents can head to the Nielsen Physics Building for star gazing with the Astronomy

Department. All of the events planned are very family friendly in respect to all of the guests attending family weekend.

Saturday is a big day for UT as there is a football game on campus against the University of Cincinnati Bearcats. Kickoff is not until 3:30 p.m.; however, there will be several events to attend beforehand.

Beginning at noon, there will be a tailgating event in Circle Park with plenty of entertainment, music and games for the whole family. During the tailgate, guests will be able to make any final bids on any item at the silent auction.

The Parents Association is excited to partner with Volunteer Dining to support the Make Orange Green Initiative on campus according to organizers.

“We are really pushing for a zero waste event,” Avery Howard of the Parents Association said. “There will not even be any trash cans on site; only recycle bins. We are trying to keep UT a green campus.”

All plates, napkins and cutlery used at the tailgate are 100 percent compostable, and all cans and bottles will be recycled.

Since it is game day, the traditional Vol Walk will take place as always before the game. Guests will be able to join in on the UT tradition as the football team makes its way into Neyland Stadium.

As a Family Weekend conclusion on Sunday, there will be two different brunches held in Presidential Courtyard. The first brunch will be for alumni parents and families to attend as well as general Family Weekend guests, while the second brunch will be for the parents and guests of the Greek students at UT, along with the rest of the general Family Weekend guests.

After the brunch, parents and guests will have the opportunity to attend several different events on or off campus, such as visiting the McClung Museum, the Knoxville Museum of Art or visiting the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame, along with other activities available to participate in.

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Breia Reed, sophomore with a pre-professional interest, enjoy’s Family Weekend 2010 with her mother. Family Weekend starts Friday with a silent auction and several activities, including a UT Bookstore sale from 4-8 p.m., Lady Vols soccer at 7 p.m. and a guided tour of the renovated Ayer’s Hall at 5:45 p.m. and 6:45 p.m.

Students choose Volapalooza artists “We pretty much went off the survey results. There were so many suggestions, from Carrie Underwood to Staff Writer Matt & Kim to Bassnectar. Hundreds really,” Swing said.

The survey for the headlining band at Volapalooza has “There’s always the humorous ‘get Kanye West or U2 or Beyonce’ response too. Trust me, we wish we had that opened to students and will run through Sept. 23.

UT’s Campus Entertainment Board looks to make this kind of budget. But we went with what was most feasible with our budget and had a good response from the stuyear’s event more spectacular dents.” than ever.

After the survey is closed, the “This year will be results will be totaled and then the Volapalooza’s 10th-year CEB will make the next move. anniversary,” said Michelle “The next step is to filter Swing, Campus Entertainment through the survey results and get Board, Volapalooza director. the counts from each genre and “You can expect some great artist. We look at the demand for things to come this year.” specific genres and artists and Students can log on to come together as a committee with Volapalooza.com and fill out a the other student organizations brief survey to help the involved and come to a decision on Campus Entertainment Board what offers we want to send out to select a headlining band for artists,” Swing said. “If all goes this year’s event. well, the artist accepts the offer, but One question on the survey we’re not always that lucky. asks students whether or not Sometimes there are schedule conthey would be willing to pay flicts, the price is just too high or $5-$10 for Volapalooza 2012. the artist isn’t even touring. We’ve “All student organization definitely run into that problem in budgets have been cut, so the the past. Then we wait for confirmain focus this year is partnerTia Patron • The Daily Beacon mation and continue to shape the ing up for co-sponsorships with various student organiza- Confetti is released towards the end of Girl rest of the event as a whole.”

As far as the genres of the bands tions, as we have in the past Talk’s performance last year during go, it’s all up to the students. with CAC and SGA, to make Volapalooza. Campus Entertainment Board If the survey comes back and this event the best that it has wants students to go online and suggest says that a majority of the people ever been,” Swing said. “We artists for 2011’s Volapalooza. To fill out the took the survey and want to hear a are also on the hunt for corporate sponsorships, which is survey go to http://www.volapalooza.com/. country band, then the CEB will seek a country band. something that has never been “Volapalooza is a great event that displays many musidone before.”

During the survey period last year, around 3,000 stu- cal talents that any student could enjoy,” Sam Owens, jundents responded. Swing said that is not quite representa- ior in public relations, said. “It’s important that students give their feedback to the CEB as to who they would like tive of the student body. to see. Personally, I would really enjoy Matt & Kim as a So far, 1,200 students have responded to the survey.

The Volapalooza lineup for 2011 featured Kingston headliner — their songs are all really catchy, have great lyrics and a very unique sound.”

Springs, Matt Costa and Girl Talk as the headliner.

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9/11 memorial to be unveiled The Associated Press NEW YORK — With the opening of the Sept. 11 memorial days away, Mayor Michael Bloomberg still wonders if the choice of a design for the tree-lined, 8-acre plaza may have been too rushed.

“I always thought that we did it a little bit wrong,” the mayor, who is also the chairman of the memorial foundation, said ahead of the 10th anniversary of the attacks. “We picked a design right away and then waited for things to quiet down before raising the money. You want to raise money when the juices are flowing and then have the perspective of history as opposed to journalism to design things that go on for a long time.”

“The connection between today and 100 years from now is pretty tenuous,” Bloomberg added. “Hopefully this memorial will still ... give a message 100 years from now.”

The decision to place the memorial on the decimated World Trade Center site made it necessary to move forward fairly quickly on its creation, Joe Daniels, the president of the memorial foundation, said Thursday.

“We’re building on the site where the atrocity took place,” Daniels said. “It’s very important to stitch back together the actual, physical real estate.”

In a wide-ranging interview with The Associated Press on Wednesday, Bloomberg spoke about the attacks that helped define the final months of his campaign for office — and may have helped him win the city’s top job. The mayor will join President Barack Obama and other officials at Sunday’s national commemoration ceremony.

A decade ago, Bloomberg told voters that his years building and directing his media empire would help him repair the city’s economy, and he has a reputation as a business-minded, pragmatic politician. At times, his brusque manner has led to misunderstandings with family members of 9/11 victims.

But the mayor says that, from his perspective, a focus on the city’s finances is a key way to honor the dead.

“They wanted to build a better life. They were working for a living to take care of their families,” he said. “We can’t bring them back, but we can take over that responsibility for them.

And that means you have to have an economy. You have to have a tax base. You have to have social programs, and schools.”

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LettersEditor to the

The cover photo of a man plummeting from the World Trade Center on today’s Beacon caught my eye and brought back painful memories from that day nearly 10 years ago. I was serving in the U.S. Air Force at the time, and conducting an educational session with my resident physicians. I spent the day in a haze, wondering what was to become of myself and my trainees as talk of war began to circulate around the base. Watching the images on TV at the hospital where I taught seared this event into my memory forever. The remainder of my military career, including service at a combat hospital in Iraq, was largely scripted by the response to that event. This response still involves tens of thousands of military families across America.

As I read the accompanying article I became very frustrated at the whitewash your writers made of that day. It was called a “tragedy.” You reserve that word for hurricanes, earthquakes and the like. This was a cold-blooded attack on civilians. Calling it an

outrage, or an atrocity still would still not do it service, but would be more appropriate. What killed those 3,000 people? All the story says is “the day,” and the “towers collapsed.” Why? Was it an earthquake? Some structural engineering problem? I seem to recall 19 al-Qaeda terrorists having something to do with it, but you see no mention of that fact anywhere in the story. Or the role their radical view of religion had to play in their motives. As you correctly note in the article, most current UT students were not even teenagers on 9/11/01.

Perhaps they could use a little reminder about the men behind the attack and their motivations.

As for my memories of watching those who jumped to flee the inferno, my emotion was rage. I suppose I still carry it to this day.

1863 — Yankees capture Chattanooga Union General William Rosecrans completes a brilliant campaign against the army of Confederate General Braxton Bragg when his forces capture Chattanooga, Tenn.

The capture of Chattanooga followed a campaign in which there was little fighting but much maneuvering. On June 23, Rosecrans marched his troops out of their camp in Murfreesboro, Tenn., just south of Nashville. Bragg, who hoped his defensive line could keep Rosecrans out and protect the rich agricultural resources of south central Tennessee, had his army arrayed northwest of Tullahoma.

When Rosecrans moved his army to Bragg’s right flank, the Confederates found themselves in a dangerous position and so Bragg pulled his forces further south to Tullahoma. But Rosecrans then feinted toward Chattanooga, forcing Bragg to give up Tullahoma and retreat into Chattanooga. At the cost of only 560 Yankee casualties, Rosecrans had taken south central Tennessee from Bragg.

Approaching Chattanooga from the west on Sept. 8, Union forces began crossing Lookout Mountain above the city. Again, Bragg was outma-

neuvered and was forced to leave Chattanooga with only minor skirmishing. On Sept. 9, triumphant Union troops entered the city.

Bragg finally gathered his troops and dug in his heels in northern Georgia, just south of Chattanooga. The two armies collided again at Chickamauga on Sept. 19 and 20, when Bragg finally sent Rosecrans in the other direction. The Union force then retreated back into Chattanooga.

— Mark S. Rasnake, M.D., FACP Infectious Diseases Consultant Internal Medicine Program Director UT College of Medicine, Knoxville

1972 — DeBellevue becomes leading American Ace U.S. Air Force Capt. Charles B. DeBellevue (Weapons Systems Officer) flying with his pilot, Capt. John A. Madden, in a McDonnell Douglas F4D, shoots down two MiG-19s near Hanoi. These were Captain DeBellevue’s fifth and sixth victories, which made him the leading American ace (an unofficial designation awarded for having downed at least five enemy aircraft in air-to-air combat) of the war. All of his victories came in a four-month period. Captain Madden would record a third MiG Tara Sripunvoraskul • The Daily Beacon kill two months later.

Marta Lee, sophomore in printmaking, plays guitar outside the Art and Architecture Building on Aug. 30. Lee was practicing for her First Friday performance.

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

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Drug trafficker provides defense The Associated Press CHICAGO — The handsome, squarejawed young man held in isolation in a Chicago jail doesn’t deny he was a top lieutenant in his father’s Mexican drug cartel but instead has offered a novel defense for his drug-trafficking.

Vicente Zambada’s lawyers claim he and other cartel leaders were granted immunity

by U.S. agents — and carte blanche to smuggle cocaine over the border — in exchange for intelligence about rival cartels engaged in bloody turf wars in Mexico.

Experts scoff at the claim, which U.S. prosecutors are expected to answer in a filing Friday in federal court. But records filed in support of his proposed defense have offered a peek at the sordid world of Mexico’s largest drug syndicate, the Sinaloa cartel, which is run by his father, Ismael Zambada, and Mexico’s most wanted man, Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman.

It’s a world of brutality, greed and snitching, and federal agents would love to have the younger Zambada pass along more intelligence, especially if it could help bring down his family’s operation or lead to the capture of Guzman, a billionaire who escaped from a Mexican prison in a laundry truck in 2001.

“It comes down to whether he would be willing to give up his dad or Guzman,” said David Shirk, who heads the Trans-Border Institute at the University of San Diego.

“Would he be willing to give up his own dad? It seems unlikely.”

Zambada, 35, has rarely been seen since his 2009 arrest in Mexico City, after which Mexican authorities paraded him before TV cameras in a stylish black blazer and dark blue jeans. His suave image was a sharp contrast to a photo of him with moustache and cowboy hat released by the U.S. Treasury Department in 2007.

He may have upgraded his look after he assumed control over cartel logistics in 2008 and, federal officials say, received authority to order assassinations. He was arrested and extradited to Chicago a year later to face trafficking conspiracy charges punishable by up to life in prison.

The Sinaloa cartel is one of Mexico’s most powerful. Named

after the Pacific coast state of the same name, it controls trafficking on the border with California and is battling rival cartels in an effort to expand east along the 2,000mile-long U.S.-Mexico border.

Accustomed to luxury in Mexico, Zambada has been held in a 10-by-6 foot cell in Chicago, is often served meals that have gone cold and hasn’t been outside in 18 months, his attorneys say. U.S. District Court Judge Ruben Castillo told the government Thursday to file a response to those complaints.

Armed marshals led the shackled Zambada into Thursday’s hearing. He appeared at-ease, even smiling and winking at a woman sitting on a spectators’ bench.

Castillo will decide later whether Zambada’s provocative immunity claim has any credibility, but many experts said they were skeptical.

“Personally, I think it is a bunch of malarkey,” said Scott Stewart, who analyzes Mexico’s cartels for the Texas-based Stratfor global intelligence company. “I mean, what the defense is saying is that a huge amount of cocaine was allowed to pass into the United States unimpeded. Why would you even have sought his extradition if there was this potential backlash?”

U.S. prosecutors briefly discounted Zambada’s claim in one filing, but more details are expected in Friday’s documents.

A spokesman for U.S. Atty. Patrick Fitzgerald would not comment on the allegation. Neither would a Washington spokesman for the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency, whose agents Zambada claims to have dealt with in Mexico.

However, clandestine intelligence deals are not uncommon, and conspiracy theories abound in Mexico about the government going easy on one cartel to keep the others

under control.

The Sinoloa cartel’s adept use of information has helped it gain power as some others waned, trafficking experts say. The government has had only limited success battling it since President Felipe Calderon declared war on the cartels five years ago.

Since then, more than 35,000 Mexicans have died — mostly in cartel-on-cartel violence.

Zambada’s lawyers say the U.S. government believed turning a blind eye to the Sinaloa kingpins was “an acceptable price to pay, because the principal objective was the destruction and dismantling of rival cartels.”

To bolster their claim, they point to the way the U.S. and Colombia fought that country’s once mighty cartels.

The Medellin and Cali cartels were laid low in the 1990s, in part by a divide-andconquer strategy in which U.S.-backed authorities brought down the former before going after the latter, trafficking experts say.

In some cases, they relied on informants.

The demise of Colombia’s cartels and U.S. successes in disrupting smuggling routes in the Caribbean contributed to the spectacular rise in influence and wealth of the Mexican cartels. Today, about 90 percent of U.S.-bound cocaine goes through Mexico, according to the DEA. Mexican authorities arrested Zambada just hours after he supposedly met DEA agents in a Sheraton Hotel in Mexico City.

He told the agents he wanted to start providing information directly to them rather than through a cartel attorney, according to the defense filings.

Experts, though, say the kind of collusion described by Zambada’s attorneys goes far beyond what U.S. authorities were likely to have contemplated.

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Charges dropped in police shooting The Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Charges were dropped Thursday for a woman accused of trying to kill a Memphis police officer who misled investigators when he reported the shooting, a prosecutor said.

Shelby County District Attorney Amy Weirich said there is not enough evidence to charge Martha Mote, 54, with the shooting of Sgt. Norman Benjamin. No one else has been charged, and authorities are still investigating.

Benjamin was rushed to a hospital in critical condition Saturday after he was shot in east Memphis. Police at the time reported that Benjamin said he was shot in his car by a Hispanic male and officers began looking for the suspect.

The white, unmarked car was found in the parking lot of a Mexican restaurant and a market. Patrons and employees were detained for questioning for two hours or more.

Memphis Police Director Toney Armstrong later said investigators believed Benjamin misled investigators and he actually had been shot during a domestic argument by a woman with whom he was romantically involved. Mote was then charged with attempted second degree murder and a weapons charge.

“There are a lot of angles, twists and turns to this,” Memphis Police Director Toney Armstrong told reporters.

Benjamin remains hospitalized in critical but stable condition. He has not been charged.

There is no published number available for a Norman Benjamin in Memphis.

Neither Armstrong nor Weirich would release details of the investigation.

“I wouldn’t assume anything at this point,” Weirich said. “I would just know that the charges against Ms. Mote have been dismissed and the investigation will continue.”

Mote does have some personal involvement with Benjamin, but the level of the relationship was not clear, Armstrong said.

“You have to look at the character of the people involved to understand the complexities and how difficult a case like this is to investigate,” he said.

Weirich said every possibility was being investigated, including if Benjamin shot himself.

Armstrong said Benjamin is to blame for the confusion, then hinted that a young lady may be part of the investigation.

“He could have pretty much quelled this entire investigation (by saying) ‘Hey, I’m involved in a relationship with a young lady and it went this way or that way or whatever,’ and the facts would have laid right there,” Armstrong said.

Benjamin is a sergeant in the auto theft department. A police spokeswoman at the crime scene Saturday said he was not out on a specific call, but may have been following up on one of his cases.

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‘Sopranos’ flawed, still brilliant RobbyO’Daniel Like with all the hype around “Lost,” I went into watching “The Sopranos” last year after the fact.

Unfortunately my impressions of the series were colored by how I watched it.

A roommate owned the entire series and wished to rewatch it at the same time. Another roommate wanted to see it too. Thus we could only watch “The Sopranos” as a group, and with collegiate life, usually that translated to two or three episodes beginning at 11 p.m. My tiredness, coupled with the show’s slow pacing, led to foggy memories and groans at episode running times of longer than 50 minutes. But eventually, by say, season three, I got into it. I ended up watching a marathon of the last seven or eight episodes in a day.

For readers who have not seen the show, what are your impressions of “The Sopranos?” It’s a mafia show, right? It is basically going to be like Martin Scorsese’s “Goodfellas,” isn’t it? “Goodfellas” is one of the best movies of all time, bolstered by its excellent cast but more so, by its tight writing, fast pacing and excellent choice to use first-person voiceover narration, that cram tons of story information into short, concise scenes. I had seen “The Godfather” and “Casino” but did not remember those either. I was expecting a brisk thrill ride like “Goodfellas.”

But “The Sopranos” was totally unexpected, for good and bad reasons. My roommate who owned the DVDs, the esteemed Rob Goodman, summed it up best: Every season, the show slowly builds up plot lines, only to have them explode in one episode, usually the season finale. Now, that is not a novel approach to television, but its style was groundbreaking at the time.

While this led to slow-paced episodes and the occasional obnoxious filler installment, the storytelling approach also led “The Sopranos” to go down narrow alleyways in its universe. Some of the best episodes from the run are ones that had little to do with Tony Soprano himself or the mob world in general.

“Members Only,” the sixth season premiere, might be my favorite. It shines the spotlight on a small supporting character in the series and his humble attempt to retire.

The raw emotion brought out from the viewer based on how his story turns out is much more compelling

than many of the landmark killings in the show.

Likewise, I know people who classify Vito’s season six outing as a homosexual and sojourn through New Hampshire to find himself as one of the weak points in the series, but it actually is one of the series’ strongest.

It has the courage to abruptly tear away from the built “Sopranos” universe in its final season to explore an interesting story opportunity: What happens to someone when he has to get away from the mob family?

Its excellent supporting cast bolstered the show. It took awhile, but the series finally found compelling antagonists for Tony Soprano in the New York mob’s Johnny Sack and Phil Leotardo. Both had such a chivalry and esteem for their families that they juxtaposed Tony’s looser hold on the New Jersey mob well. In particular, Phil angrily explaining the origin of his family’s last name rings true as an excellent example of character development.

The show still had its flaws. As mentioned earlier, a few episodes just reek of filler. Also, too often, the show would string out a long-term plot line and then have it not pay off in a big way — or not at all. Major spoilers ahead: Adriana’s stint as an FBI informant was one of the most interesting plot angles the show had in play at any given time, and it ended so abruptly.

Tony’s wife, Carmela, and her mutual infatuation with Soprano mob henchman Furio screamed for an eventual standoff between Tony and Furio, but Furio quickly left before anything came of it. Tony’s rage upon finding out after the fact only made the viewer want to see him confront Furio more. And what happened to the Russian from the infamous “Pine Barrens” episode?

Even still, “The Sopranos” creators made all the decisions they did usually in the interest of logic or realism, and even if that came at the expense of drama occasionally, no one can argue with the result. After all, there is a reason why two of the show’s writers and producers, Terence Winter and Matthew Weiner, went on to helm two of television’s best current series, “Boardwalk Empire” and “Mad Men,” respectively.

That controversial finish, which should not be controversial because he clearly dies, caps off a great series with a great ending from the very first chord of Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believin’.”

— Robby O’Daniel is a graduate student in communications. He can be reached at rodaniel@utk.edu.

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Military spending cripples nation C ommit tee o f I n fa l l i b i l i t y by

Wiley Robinson I miss the Iraq War. I don’t have much access to strategic U.S. documentation about troop and supply movement in the Middle East. I couldn’t lay down a super cool logistic about when it started becoming apparent that things were slowing down over there outside of some jumbled, projected dates I heard on the news. It’s O.K. I don’t see any popular historians jumping at the opportunity to be first to strategically analyze the Iraq War. With the Iraq War, we can pretty much talk about one of two things: Was it a valid military operation or wasn’t it? I miss endlessly talking about that. And I could be sitting now, drinking hot cocoa and trying to squeeze the last little bit of controversy out of that decade of my life. If only Bin Laden were still around.

Do you remember? Oh, it was so important to everyone. Honestly, who’s had as much consistent fun whining about something? It divided the country straight down the middle for a decade. Whenever there was nothing else to talk about, there was the war. Like, was it even a war?

More than anything I miss the public energy — when people were actually looking in the general direction of where 70 percent of the government’s money goes — and has increasingly been going — for the last decade. Now, something about overwhelming, destabilizing debt is what people are talking about. Good thing the government and media are talking about all of the other way crazier budget imbalances, and that there’s no correlation between military spending and government spending. Ignoring our activity overseas makes me feel like America is attending more to its domestic issues. That makes me feel nice.

However, the government can spend its secret government money on what it wants when it’s in places I just don’t care about. We do not need reasons anymore, and thank goodness they’ve given up trying to manufacture them; especially now that Osama is dead, that Muslim Voldemort whose swift death just

as quickly killed any meaningful emotional involvement people had over there. But that was getting really old, even though one of my favorite words, “terrorist,” became a cliché in circles of most self-aware mammals as a result.

But when the cameras face inwardly, of course we need to know exactly what’s going on. Who cares if civilians are being killed by soldiers who kill themselves as much as bombs and bored farmers with AK-47s do?

We have too much to worry about. Like what’s being done with the little money not being used by the Pentagon to secure commodities in less stable countries.

The money (and life) that is being used up by the Pentagon, well, it’s not important anymore. Has Iraq or Afghanistan come up once in a political election of late? There is no controversy anymore. And if there is, it isn’t up to us to think about, guys. The people who are squabbling theatrically over how much they’re going to put government spending in check have got this covered. They probably know something that we don’t — like about how “dependence on foreign oil” wasn’t actually a bad thing. Obviously fossil fuel security is worth running our entire economy into the ground; because people advocating meaningful research into alternatives don’t have the pre-existing moneyed interests to be properly heard. Obama himself has had many such jokes at our expense.

Perhaps fascism is too strong a word to describe this unforgivable disconnect with reality. Government spending has caused a debt crisis, but it’s done so funding wars and paying off the megalomaniacal financial sector. To point the finger at education and public services is nothing short of the purest evil. But there are pieces of this political philosophy that have undeniably earned their validity; when was the last time you heard the news suggest funding anything with cuts to military spending? You haven’t.

I miss the Iraq War because, compared to now, it was a care-free conversation about the injustice of the most stabilizing country in the world arbitrarily adopting a primitive, violent foreign policy. We wrote the book on multilateral cooperation and peace through economic growth, won the heart of the world, and then abandoned all of it for something that is financially destroying us in a very real way. And conservatives would hold public school teachers accountable.

— Wiley Robinson is a junior in ecology and evolutionary studies. He can be reached at rrobin23@utk.edu.

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Everyone on the UT campus knows about Hodges Library. We all have fallen asleep in one of those big green chairs and been glared at for talking too loudly on the quiet study floors. We print papers that are due in 10 minutes at the Commons, we use it as a cut-through between Pedestrian Mall and the Hill, and we buy our overpriced Starbucks at the store conveniently located within 10 feet of the front door. But an alarmingly small number of UT students have actually explored the heart and soul of the library: the books and the archives.

Yes, believe it or not, libraries still contain hard copies of books to check out, as well as rare manuscripts and university archives. In my opinion, the real tragedy of modern libraries is how their vast reservoirs of books and other papers are increasingly underused each year. It is becoming less common for a university student to know where the library books are, let alone how to navigate the maze of stacks organized by the Library of Congress classification numbers.

Don’t get me wrong — as a historian, I am indebted to online databases. The ability to access a Chicago newspaper from 1915 on my laptop is an amazing feat of technology. Researching becomes far easier and more efficient when you don’t have to fly to Chicago and fill out a form in order to access the original and probably crumbling piece of newsprint. There is also an abundance of peer reviewed journal articles available at the click of a mouse, as well as several legitimate scholarly Web sites available on the Internet. Even Wikipedia is becoming increasingly reliable as a source. (Note to my professors reading this article: I am not endorsing the use of Wikipedia as a source for a paper. I promise.) Of course, it makes perfect sense for fast-moving disciplines like the sciences to use technological sources to support their research.

But when it comes to the study of people and the way they think and behave, it is hard to find a more reliable and enlightening source than a physical piece of paper.

Now, I am not talking about the modern massproduced novel, or even the copies of books based on scholarly research, although both of these genres are valuable in their own way. The most enlightening and historically valuable papers are the personal papers of ordinary people that the average researcher rarely consults. I work in the Special Collections department of the library, which is the department that houses the rare books and manuscripts as well as the archives for the University of Tennessee. We process many bound pieces of paper that the vast majority of people affiliated with the university will never see, yet those pieces of paper contain more historical information than relevant websites or even textbooks.

One of the recent collections that I recently processed was a number of personal diaries and letters written by a man named Robert Tatum from the early 20th century. Tatum was an Episcopalian priest who lived in Knoxville during his later years, but as a young man he worked at a mission in Nenana, Ala. He is best known for being a part of the first successful climbing expedition to ascend Mount McKinley. The collection that the library possesses includes a diary that Tatum kept during the ascent, and because the 100th anniversary of the ascent is coming up in 2013, the diary is of great importance to researchers of the event. Although Wikipedia has a fairly informative section about the ascent of Mount McKinley, the personal experiences of one of the participants in the expedition provides far more enlightening information than dates and statistics. Tatum’s diary yields unrivalled information about the actual experience of climbing Mount McKinley and gives the event a human perspective instead of simply an event that occurred on a particular date. His descriptions of the landscape, the coldness, the strain of the ascent and the relationships between the expedition members provide invaluable insight into the actual experience of the first ascent of the tallest mountain in the United States.

It is true that sometimes items like personal diaries and letters are digitized and available online, and there is significant benefit to the fast access of this information. But feeling the weight of the diary in your hands and seeing the way the ink flowed across the page makes history come alive, and no Internet database can replace that kind of research.

— Sarah Russell is a junior in history. She can be reached at srusse22@utk.edu.

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Building progress inspires New Yorkers

Columnist asserts that altruism proves its timelessness

NEW YORK — Rebuilding the World Trade Center is more than a job for Brian Lyons.

It’s a way to pay homage to his younger brother Michael, a firefighter killed in the Sept. 11 attacks — and a way for Lyons to heal from his loss.

Lyons has spent 10 years at the site. He rushed there with his brother’s firefighting gear to look for him after the attacks; he stayed to help in the rescue and recovery; and then to work on the rebuilding.

Lyons has been a key player nearly everywhere on the site and is now a project manager for Tishman Construction, overseeing the $3.4 billion transportation hub that will link the PATH train, the subway and nearby buildings.

Workers are rushing to prepare the site for the ceremony marking the 10th anniversary of the attacks. Lyons and his family will be among those seeing their loved ones’ names on the memorial for the first time.

“Everything’s coming out of the ground now,” he said as workers busily readied the site.

“There’s no more pit. I try to actually call this the World Trade Center now. We don’t refer to it as ground zero anymore.”

The site’s signature skyscraper — formerly called the Freedom Tower and now called 1 World Trade Center — is visible for miles around. It will rise to 1,776 feet, making it the tallest building in the U.S. Tower 4 is rising quickly and the foundations for two other office buildings are almost at street level. The transportation hub, designed by architect Santiago Calatrava, is taking shape.

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Jake Lane Arts & Culture Editor “I’m going to go medieval on you!”

As specific a threat as one might hurl, it also inspires many images which may or may not function to build your fearsome manner or make you look like a Luddite.

What is the first thing to come to mind when looking at the Middle Ages?

As university students, maybe the first conclusion is the lack of mass education. While monastic orders and some nobles were literate, most people still read symbols and followed religion and politics based solely on faith, a terrifying proposition in modern eyes.

Along the lines of ignorance, you also cannot discount chivalry and genocide. While the two are not readily comparable, the subjugation of women via their distressed pedestals and the mindless slaughter of infidels on business from the Pope essentially are rooted in the same idea: to be white, male and Christian was, at the time, the be-all, end-all goal. Which pretty much excluded 80 or so percent of the world from relevance or power.

A recent obsession with the Crusades in myth and reality has broadened my scope of reference in more modern conflicts, and while it is established fact that the modern conflicts in the Middle East are continuations of the longrunning ideological blood-feud, it also is important to keep in perspective the idea that Europeans started the thing in the first place.

Ten years on, Americans look back at 9/11 as a linchpin moment in our national consciousness, something tenuous which has endless meaning for every different person. Now imagine 1,000 years of such hostility, and attempt to put yourself in the shoes of a person who experiences cultural disorientation for an entire lifetime as one in a succession of endless strife and aggression with absent motives.

This in mind, now what do you think of when you get the idea of “going medieval?”

It’s not my intention to compare the modern Middle East with the Middle Ages, nor am I attempting to make blanket generalizations about entire groups of people.

However, the foreign policy which we have pursued in the last decade has established the American president as a successor to the Pope of the Middle Ages through the fall

of the Holy Roman Empire. His decisions do not stop at our borders and international satellite states. In this regard, 9/11 as a motivator for world policing is not so different from the attacks on Constantinople, and Saladin’s recapture of Jerusalem that spurred the First and Third Crusades also bears an eerie resemblance.

In all fairness, the president’s is not an enviable position in making such decisions. Most of us can remember the recriminations and thoughts of vengeance, both organized and vigilante, which seemed so prevalent in news, political discourse and Top 40 country songs. To that degree, former President Bush acted on a lot of peoples’ stated positions, and momentarily the War on Terror had momentum and popularity.

The legacy on his administration and the beating our national reputation has taken since, on the other hand, bears the same visage as Johnson’s and Nixon’s after Vietnam, only now with the added caveat of massive national debt largely incurred in these military operations. Again, a mirror image of post-Crusades Europe.

To tell a person you will “go Medieval” on them, then, is a strangely redundant phrase. While we have grown leaps and bounds in appearance, from healthcare and education to ubiquitous technological growth, motivations and beliefs have not strayed far from the medieval mode.

We are given in this country a guaranteed free education for 13 years, yet many people fail to finish their schooling and resort to “education” by luminaries on television news groups from both sides of the aisle and similarly-qualified, invisible mentors on the Internet. While I won’t argue people’s faith still bears the mark of abject ignorance, the ways in which religion is utilized by the fringe, both in positive and negative light, is indubitably like that of those following the line paraphrased in “Kingdom of Heaven” — “to kill an infidel is not a sin, it is the path to heaven.”

I could make abstract comparisons all day, but the point is this: The attitude of resorting to less civilized tactics as a threat seems idle as we are still in a sort of suspended animation which we have had since the dawn of human consciousness.

Altruism and selfishness have their times of relevance, but the former should be superior when making decisions affecting anyone besides oneself. We still make a point, however, to say “me and mine first” and use it as an excuse for any number of atrocities. If that’s not going medieval, I don’t know what is.

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

now,” said Lyons, whose experience was chronicled in the documentary “Rebirth” that followed five people whose lives were transformed by the attacks.

The rebuilding was complicated and emotionally loaded.

The site is huge, with parcels controlled by many different stakeholders. Train service continues through parts of it.

Security concerns led to radical changes in the design, all while New Yorkers watched anxiously to see what would take shape.

The 800,000-square-foot transportation hub will resemble no other structure in New York, or perhaps the world.

Calatrava has designed a distinctive glass and steel structure that evokes a bird’s wings.

Planners expect 250,000 people will pass through daily. Lyons said it will be “grander than Grand Central.”

“It gives you a sense of dignity on your way to work,” he said of the design.

It also includes ample retail space. Construction has picked up over the last year and is scheduled to be completed in 2014.

This Sunday, the relatives of those lost will join with President Barack Obama and other dignitaries at the memorial opening. For families of victims whose remains were never recovered, like Michael Lyons’, having their names permanently inscribed on the memorial can bring a sense of closure.

After years of a long commute from Lake Carmel, N.Y., and time apart from his wife and two teenage daughters, Lyons is looking forward to showing them the progress they’ve made.

“Now that 10 years is here, we’re trying to move forward,” Lyons said.

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National Mall seeks renovation The Associated Press WASHINGTON — A nonprofit group that raises money for the National Mall is looking for ideas to overhaul three parts of “America’s front yard” that have been overused and neglected for years.

The Trust for the National Mall on Thursday started seeking proposals from architects and designers who will compete to make the mall one of the world’s best parks.

Competitors must follow the National Park Service’s plan for the mall developed over four years and signed in November by Interior Secretary Ken Salazar. At the time, he gave the mall a “C” grade for its dead grass, stagnant water and sinking seawalls along its waterways.

Such competitions have been integral with the mall’s evolution, from Robert Mills’ white obelisk design for the Washington Monument to Maya Lin’s concept for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

Bob Vogel, the mall’s new superintendent, said organizers were looking to the “transformational changes” made by the Central Park Conservancy in New York, among other models.

“This is one of the earliest public spaces in our nation,” he said. “There are facilities, some of them dating back to the 1800s, that really exceeded their life expectancy.”

In May, Laura Bush joined the major effort to raise $350 million from corporations and donors to restore the mall. About $9 million has been raised so far.

Caroline Cunningham, president of the nonprofit National Mall group, said the $875,000 design competition would allow her to raise private funds for specific improvement projects.

“It’s an exciting crossroads ... designing and creating for the next 100 years is very humbling and exciting for us,” Cunningham said. “We plan to do it in a phased way so we’re not raising $350 million tomorrow but over a period of time. I think it’s very realistic.”

The design competition will focus on three specific areas: — For Union Square, at the foot of the Capitol, designers will be asked to create a new civic square in place of the Capitol Reflecting Pool to address the wear and tear caused by millions of visitors at protests, rallies, festivals and inaugurations. A specific space for crowds to gather could ease strain on nearby trees and grass, planners have said.

— On the Washington Monument grounds, designers will devise a new space to host performances, a food facility, restrooms and other visitor services.

— Farther toward the Lincoln Memorial at Constitution Gardens, planners hope to create a “pastoral setting” with reengineered, cleaner pools and perhaps a restaurant. Earlier plans for the mall imagined a restaurant there. But no eatery was built, and its pools often have green, smelly water.

Concepts from the finalists in the competition are slated to go on public view in April 2012, and the winners will be announced in May. Donald Stastny, an architect hired to oversee the competition who also has managed design selections for the Oklahoma City and Flight 93 national memorials, said the mall presents complex design problems.

“We’re looking for innovation. We’re looking for sustainability,” he said. “We’re looking at setting the palette for the next 100 years of the mall.”

The mall is a significant challenge, he said, because it’s a civic space that must be flexible and handle 25 million visits a year, as well as provide enhanced security and infrastructure.

“But more importantly,” he said, “how can we make these things beautiful?”

Tia Patron • The Daily Beacon

Andrea Boyer, junior in biomedical engineering, enters in a drawing to win Boyz II Men concert tickets while Joey Hanna, junior in aerospace and mechanical engineering, talks with a represenative from WUTK 90.3 The Rock, UT’s own radio station, on Sept. 8 outside Hodges.

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Manning’s year in doubt after surgery Conference expansions to end NCAA The Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS — Another neck surgery has put Peyton Manning back in rehab and left his status for the 2011 season in jeopardy.

Manning underwent surgery for the third time in 19 months Thursday, a procedure that is likely to keep the four-time MVP out significantly longer than just Sunday’s season opener at Houston — the first game he will miss in 14 NFL seasons.

Team officials called Thursday’s surgery “uneventful.”

“The procedure is performed regularly throughout the county on persons of all walks of life, including professional football players,” the team said in a statement. “Rehabilitation from such surgery is typically an involved process. Therefore, there will be no estimation of a return date at this

time. We will keep Peyton on the active roster until we have a clear picture of his recovery process.”

The Colts statement came just hours after team owner Jim Irsay wrote on Twitter that Manning would be out “awhile” and coach Jim Caldwell promised to provide more clarity soon. They could have put Manning on injured reserve to open up a roster spot, but that would have meant he would not play at all in a season that will end with in February with the Super Bowl played at Lucas Oil Stadium in downtown Indianapolis.

Shortly after ESPN first reported the surgery, team officials confirmed that Manning had an anterior fusion procedure to treat the nerve problem that was continuing to give him trouble.

“Peyton will immediately begin the rehabilitation regimen mapped out by the surgeon,” the team said.

He already has dealt with a 4 1/2-month lockout that prevented him from working out with team trainers after his May 23 surgery to repair a nerve.

He started training camp on the physically unable to perform list, which prevented him from working out with teammates until Aug. 29.

After one week of practice, left Manning with a sore back. And now surgery just one day after the Colts ruled him out of Sunday’s game, ending a streak of 227 consecutive starts including the playoffs that was second only to Brett Favre among NFL quarterbacks.

The 35-year-old Manning, who signed a five-year, $90 million contract in July, also had neck surgery in February 2010.

The biggest question is when he will be back.

The Colts thought Manning would return within 6-8 weeks after surgery, but the rehab has taken far longer than anyone expected. On Monday, the team issued a statement saying his progression slowed last week, too.

Clay Seal Assistant Sports Editor Take a picture, because you’re seeing the end of the NCAA, or at least as we know it.

With the SEC’s conditional acceptance of Texas A&M, the world of college sports is once again in tilt.

It’s looking like, with just A&M’s departure, Texas, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State and Texas Tech are headed to the recently-expanded Pac-12 Conference. The SEC will snap up at least one more team, possibly three, to get to an even 14 or 16 members. The Big East and ACC will have to duel as they scavenge the defunct Big 12 for Kansas, Kansas State and Missouri, while also fighting off raids from the SEC. With the legitimate fear of being on the outside looking in, the University of Baylor is threatening to sue the SEC if it takes Texas A&M and leaves the Big 12 buried in the Dust Bowl.

Yes, an institute of higher learning is trying to sue an amateur athletic conference. Say it out loud, it sounds even more ridiculous. But that’s the sports world we live in, and like I said, that world is in tilt.

It’s seeming like the winners of this expansion mayhem will be the Pac-12, SEC, the very quiet Big Ten, and either the ACC or Big East. The losers will be everyone else.

You see what I’m getting at here?

Bottom line is the idea of four 16-team superconferences that control college football, and in turn all collegiate sports, is coming to fruition quickly. Even if it doesn’t happen in this storm, it will eventually.

And you better bet your bottom dollar these conferences will band together and leave the NCAA, leaving it as a desolate collection of noncompetitive, mid-major schools lingering across the country.

Ridiculous, right? Wrong.

Heard of the Amateur Athletics Union? That’s right, AAU. They were pretty big for a while too.

Older than the NCAA, AAU used to be a driving force in preparing athletes to compete in the Olympics, as well as having a part in college sports at the turn of the 20th century.

Now, they run summer basketball leagues.

And why would these superconferences want anything to do with the NCAA? All it does is take money, keep programs from making more money, punish coaches for making too many phone calls, limit practice hours during the semester, and take away past wins and national titles for some, but not for others.

Like the United States, the NCAA only has power based on the power its members give to it.

So, if the members with power leave, the NCAA won’t have any more power. And by power, I mean a product. And by a product, I mean money.

Plus, with the NCAA out of the way, these superconferences can finally shed the monkey known as Amateurism off their backs. The players can finally get in on the billion-dollar business, and the athletic departments can stop lying through their teeth when they act like any of their concerns have to do with academics and preparing young adults to enter the world.

With this expansion comes exposure. With exposure comes influence. With influence comes control. With the willingness to throw century-old rivalries out the window, these conferences want to control bigger and bigger chunks of the country to use as bigger and bigger fan bases.

It’s not about competition. It’s not about regional rivalries. It’s about dollars. The Boise States of college football will surely be left out of whatever post-season these superconferences agree to if they can’t finagle their way in.

The NFL makes billions of dollars a year with its national reach. I wouldn’t be surprised if college football is doing the same thing by the time our kids are in college.

None of this means the NCAA will disappear.

At least they’ll still have the Memphises, Montanas and the Utah States.

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Lady Vols climb up to No. 14 in soccer polls Staff Reports With the Tennessee soccer team off to one of the best starts in its program history at 5-1, the pollsters have taken notice as the Lady Vols’ national resurgence continues with rankings in three major soccer polls for the week of Sept. 5-11.

UT rose four positions to No. 19 in the latest National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA)/Continental Tire poll, has sky-rocketed to No. 14 in the SoccerTimes.com listing and has now entered the Soccer America rankings for the first time since September 2008 by rating in a tie at No. 25.

Tennessee soccer is fresh off an unbeaten weekend that included 2-0 victories at home versus Middle Tennessee (9/2) and at UNC Greensboro (9/4). The Orange & White have now pitched three consecutive shutouts for the first time since Sept. 916, 2007, and have held its opposition scoreless over a stretch of 275:38 dating back to a Bruin goal at 84:22 during UT's 2-1 loss to then-#8 UCLA. Lady Vol senior forward Emily Dowd wreaked

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Caroline Brown runs past a Texas A&M player on Aug 28. Brown has a season total of 10 points in 6 games.

havoc throughout last weekend’s action from her position up top. The Gainesville, Fla., native scored two goals during the victory over Middle Tennessee and earned her third penalty kick call of the season with her footwork inside the 18-yard box in the triumph at UNCG. Sophomore forward Caroline Brown delivered a pair of assists on Dowd’s scores to improve her team-best point total to 10 (four goals, two helpers) through UT’s opening six matches. Junior midfielder Kylie Bono registered a three-point effort (goal & assist) on Sunday that included the game-winning tally against the Spartans, junior forward Alexis Owens recorded her first goal of the season and rookie forward Iyana Moore picked up the second assist of her brief career in the Orange & White.

Between the pipes freshman net minder Julie Eckel continued her impressive work with the backto-back blankings and has now stopped the opposition’s last 19 shots on frame while lowering her goals-against-average to 0.66.

Tennessee begins a season-long, four-match home stand on Fri., Sept. 9, with a 7 p.m. contest against Charlotte at the Regal Soccer Stadium.

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Vols prepare for Cincy’s offense Clay Seal Assistant Sports Editor With one win down, Tennessee moves on to its last non-conference game before SEC play begins, hosting Cincinnati Saturday at Neyland Stadium.

But UT coach Derek Dooley and the Volunteers know this isn’t another warmup game.

“This team, I mean, 33 wins in three years (before last year) and two BCS (bowl game appearances). What else do we need to say, we’re playing a heck of an opponent? It blows me away,” Dooley said of the Bearcats. “Everybody back, an all-conference quarterback — this team’s good. We get caught up in names too much.”

With two high-powered offenses colliding, it is fair to say this game will likely turn into a shootout.

The Vols’ air attack, led by sophomore quarterback Tyler Bray, led them to a 42-16 win over Montana last week.

Bray was 17-of-24 with 293 yards and three touchdowns in less than four quarters of work. Receivers Justin Hunter and Da’Rick Rogers each had single-game careerhighs with 146 and 100 yards, respectively.

The Vols were able to hit quick, but also keep possession when needed. Bray’s first two passes of the game were good for scores, but the offense also had three drives that were over 10 plays. “(Bray) did a great job for us,” Dooley said. “Statistically he was good, but he also managed the offense really well.”

Running the ball was an issue, though.

Tauren Poole rushed for 98 yards on 24 carries, and much of the Vols’ 128 ground yards came late when the game was all but decided.

“We obviously have to get more production out of the run game; we’re going to need to,” Dooley said.

The Bearcats (1-0) scored the most points in the nation in Week One with a 7210 beatdown against Austin Peay of the Ohio Valley Conference. Their 387 yards on the ground was the third most in the country. Their first-string offense, however, played only in the first half.

Just like Montana, Cincinnati has a lot of upperclassmen and experience, 18 returning starters to be specific, and it utilizes a quick, spread offense led by All-Big East, dualthreat quarterback Zach Collaros and 1,000yard rusher in 2010, Isaiah Pead.

Senior linebacker Austin Johnson echoed his coach: Tennessee cannot overlook the Bearcats.

“We look at Cincinnati as Cincinnati,” Johnson said. “We’ve got to scheme them up how they play. They have different athletes, and I know they’re an older team, so we just have to make sure we’re ready for that.”

Dooley said that holes in UT’s defense might have been glaring when the Bearcats watched film.

“Their offense is one of those nightmare offenses, because they’ve got a great quarterback who was all-conference, they spread the field and generate numbers by doing so, and they have a fabulous running back who had over 1,000 yards and has a lot of speed,” Dooley said. “We’re going to have to do a great job of tackling in space and we’re going to have to do a great job with assignment football.”

For two schools that are receiving votes in national top 25 polls, but are not in that upper echelon, this is a significant game before heading into conference play.

“This is a very good football team coming in,” Dooley said, “and we’ll see where our team is.”

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Sophomore quarterback Tyler Bray warm ups before Tennessee played Montana on Saturday, Sept. 3. Bray was 17-of-24 for 293 yards and three touchdowns against the Grizzlies in the Volunteers’ season-opener.

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Playing UT ‘great opportunity’ for Bearcats Patrick MacCoon Staff Writer This fall, Cincinnati Bearcats second-year coach Butch Jones stressed the importance of his team having a good tempo, especially if it wanted to improve from its 4-8 overall record and 2-5 mark in the Big East last year.

The experienced Bearcats, who return 18 starters, seemed to waste no time finding that tempo on both sides of the ball last Saturday in their season opener against Austin Peay.

Behind a dominant offensive attack led by AllBig East quarterback Zach Collaros, the Bearcats dismantled the Governors 72-10.

“Obviously it is a great way to start the season, getting off on the winning side of things,” Jones said. “It was very beneficial in the amount of reps our second team was able to get on the offense and defense.”

Seniors Collaros and tailback Isaiah Pead put together strong performances in their two quarters of action. The Cincy signal caller completed 12-of-19 through the air for 134 yards and four touchdowns while Pead rushed for 87 yards on seven carries and two scores.

Senior D.J. Woods led all wide outs with four receptions for 59 yards and a touchdown.

Woods was named all-conference as well entering the season after hauling in 57 passes for 898 yards and eight scores in his junior year.

The Bearcats finished with 561 total yards of offense (387 rushing) in the game.

“He (Collaros) was very efficient,” Jones said. “We worked very hard on the scramble drill. He was able to create some plays when they broke down on his legs.”

For Collaros, this was the type of start to the season expected, as he picked up right on cue from his 2010 campaign in which he threw for 2,902 yards and 26 touchdowns.

However, the Steubenville, Ohio, native will have his workload cut out for him when the Bearcats travel to Neyland Stadium for a matchup with the Tennessee Volunteers (1-0) this Saturday.

“We’re going into an SEC environment, we’re just not at Austin Peay, we’re playing Tennessee,” Collaros said. “We’re not going to be afraid, obviously. It’s a great opportunity for us and our team and our program.”

Cincinnati’s offense, which averaged 27 points per game last season, will not be as much of a concern on Saturday as the defense will be against the Vols. The Bearcats on average allowed 28 points per game last year and gave up 30 or more points in seven games.

Despite playing against an Ohio Valley Conference team, the Bearcats put up a satisfying effort on defense, limiting the Governors to 277 yards of total offense and forcing five turnovers.

Senior middle linebacker J.K. Schaffer and backup junior defensive back Aaron Roberson each recorded interceptions against the Govs, while true freshman defensive back Adrian Witty led the team in tackles with five and forced two fumbles.

“They have taken great strides but again I still think we need to stop the run a little more consistently,” Jones said.

This Saturday the Bearcats’ defense will try to limit the Vols’ sophomore quarterback Tyler Bray from picking apart the secondary, as well as preventing running lanes from opening up for running backs Tauren Poole and Marlin Lane.

“It’s the most important game because it’s the next game,” Jones said.

For the Bearcats and Vols this will be their sixth all-time meeting, the first since 1992.

Tennessee leads the all-time series 4-1.

Kickoff is scheduled for 3:30 p.m. ET Saturday. Coverage will be on ESPN2.

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the college football scene rushing for 1,197 yards and scoring 20 touchdowns as a freshman, helping the Vols win 10 games.

Matt Dixon His 1,721 all-purpose yards that year is still a UT single-season Sports Editor record.

“It’s hard to get on top, but it’s harder to stay on top,” Cobb Soon after being named coach of the Tennessee Volunteers, said. “I think that’s the thing people don’t realize. Probably for Derek Dooley created the multi-faceted “Vol for Life” pro- me, I kind of snuck up on a lot of people as a freshman. Then, gram, led by former UT defensive back Andre Lott, that focus- as a sophomore, I became a marked man. It’s a different role. es on four areas of personal growth for players: character edu- You have to be able to accept that role and be able to accept that challenge when people are gunning for you as opposed to cation, life skills, career development and spiritual growth.

“When we put in that tag-phrase ‘Vol for Life,’ it’s some- you sneaking up on people.”

After an injury-plauged 1988 thing that’s not a creation, it’s year, Cobb and Webb were nearly real,” Dooley told The Daily impossible to stop through the Beacon. “These guys, when they first five games of the ’89 season. leave here, they consider themBut Cobb was dismissed from selves Vols. It’s the whole ‘Once a the team after a failed drug test Vol, always a Vol.’” the week of the Alabama game, So what does the term “Vol for the Vols’ only loss of the season.

Life” truly mean?

Cobb’s UT career ended with “I think it’s one: recognizing 2,360 rushing yards, currently the and appreciating the three-to-four 10th-most in school history. year experience (players) had at He was a second-round draft Tennessee, and all that Tennessee pick (30th overall) of the Tampa gave to them,” Dooley said. “Then, Bay Buccaneers in the 1990 NFL when they leave, there’s a continuDraft. al bond that the player has with Cobb played four seasons with the program and that the program the Bucs. His best year was in has with the player. It’s so impor1992 when he ran for 1,171 yards tant not to ever feel a disconnect and scored nine touchdowns. He between program and former playalso spent a season each with the ers because they are the ones that Green Bay Packers, Jacksonville made this program the special proJaguars and New York Jets before gram that it is and I’ll always File Photo • The Daily Beacon retiring following the 1996 searemember that.”

Reggie Cobb, a UT running back from 1987- son.

“It was O.K.,” Cobb said of his He was part of the famed 1989, escapes from an LSU player in this “Cobb-Webb” rushing duo in 1989 undated photo. Cobb scored 20 touchdowns pro career. “I don’t want to sound his freshman year. He also holds a UT single- like I wasn’t happy and all that, along with Chuck Webb. but I only played on one winning Now, Reggie Cobb is still in season record of 1,721 all-purpose yards. team in seven years and losing football, working as a scout for the kind of takes its toll on you. I enjoyed it. I was very fortunate NFL’s San Francisco 49ers.

“I wanted to be around football, but I didn’t want to coach. to get seven years in, which is a long time for a running back.

I didn’t really know if I’d be able to make that happen either,” To be able to play and be able to gain 1,000 yards in the NFL Cobb said. “I kind of got into scouting and I liked it. It’s still a was one of my dreams growing up. It was truly an honor.”

Before joining the 49ers, Cobb was a scout for the way to be around the game without having to put all the coaching in ’cause we grind as scouts, but coaching is a lot different. Washington Redskins and Tampa Bay. It was as a scout he met It’s a lot of travel, a lot of paperwork, but it’s a lot of fun too.” now UT football coach Derek Dooley.

“I’ve know Reggie since my LSU days,” Dooley said.

Despite a seven-year career in the NFL, which saw him play for three different teams, the Knoxville native is still fond of “Another great player on the field, representing the right way off the field. Stayed in the game for his love of football and is UT. “It’s special to be able to go play football at the University making an impact.”

But one of the biggest impacts for Cobb was his time as a of Tennessee and being able to go to school there,” he said.

“To be in Knoxville on Saturdays in the fall, there’s not a bet- Vol. “Some of my fondest memories of my life have probably ter place to be.”

And in 1987, Cobb was the talk of the town. He burst onto been from my years at Tennessee,” he said.