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Issue 3, Volume 122

Friday, January 11, 2013

UT Twitter feeds provide education, amusement pus life.

Justin Joo Take Nicholas Geidner for Staff Writer example. Geidner, an assisIt’s not just in the class- tant professor, runs the offirooms that students can learn cial School of Journalism and from UT; they can also do it Electronic Media Twitter (@ on Twitter.

Nearly every facet of UT life now has a Twitter feed, with postings on every thing from department news, student and faculty accolades, and event information.

Student groups and organizations like the Lambda Student Union (@utlambda), Women’s Coordinating Council (@_WCC_), UT Film Committee (@ UTFilmCommittee) and the Tennessee Journalist (@tnjn), just to name a few, all have Twitters detailing upcoming events and information about their groups. (Full disclosure: The Daily Beacon can be found at @DailyBeacon).

But it’s not just students that are pushing their college UTJEM). Geidner came into work on the Internet, but fac- the job just recently over the ulty and the university itself winter break when the preas well. Professors often post vious operator resigned from links to articles and websites the post. dedicated to their area of “I think I can speak with study, while university depart- authority as ‘the School of ments do their best to keep Journalism and Electronic in touch with students about Media,’” explained Geidner. “I anything involved with cam- think it’s a good way to get out

Geidner does not get paid extra for operating the JEM Twitter, but he doesn’t mind.

He simply enjoys doing it and views it as an extension of his job.

“I think of my role as a professor is educating,” he explained, “and most of what I’m sending out here is education stuff. It’s very little PR except when I’m highlighting stuff our former or current students are doing. That’s probably the most PR function.”

He added, “And it’s just fun.

I try to keep it light and fun and encourage our students to be excited about journalism. It’s an exciting job and an exciting career.”

A scroll through a Twitter search reveals dozens of other UT affiliated Twitters, including ones for UT Student Life (@UTStudentLife), CCI Alum/Development (@utcci), the Bursar’s Office (@utkburJEM Twitter, posting not only sar) and UTK Panhellenic (@ events and news items from UTKPanhellenic).

The official Twitter of UT the JEM school, but also news about journalism and news is @UTKnoxville, which criticism, which primarily is operated by a team of come from his own readings about seven from the Office Communications & and suggestions from other of professors. He also uses it to Marketing. help with any student inquiSee TWITTER on Page 2 ries. information to the students, to the alumni, to the people interested in our program. That’s why I started to do it.”

Geidner tries to keep the tone light and personal on the

Locals get fit at Healthy Living Expo R.J. Vogt News Editor For most college students, health ranks near the bottom of their list of priorities, often forgotten amid the shuffle of school, work and a social life.

Starting today, however, an entire convention will offer advice and products to bump a healthy lifestyle into the forefront of Knoxvillian consciousness.

The Healthy Living Expo runs today from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. and tomorrow from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Knoxville Convention Center. Suzanne Fogleman, a saleswoman for the convention, explained the ins and outs of the weekend’s event.

“It’s a consumer healthy lifestyle show, and we focus on health, fitness, nutrition and living green,” Fogleman said.

“Hundreds of exhibitors are all going to be showing new innovative products. We will also have cooking demonstrations and fitness demonstrations.

Dance companies, a Zumba company … there’ll be stuff going on all day.

“It’s all about finding opportunities to become healthy,” she added.

The quest for those opportunities drives many students to the gym, especially during the weeks after New Year’s Eve and the subsequent resolutions.

But Linsey Radford, a senior in nutrition and employee at TRECS, cautioned against rushing into fitness.

“I think that a lot of times people just don’t quite know the facts behind what they do,” Radford said. “I’ve heard a lot of students in nutrition say certain things they’ve just heard ‘through the grapevine.’

They could definitely use some knowledge.”

The Healthy Living Expo hopes to provide that knowledge, featuring two special guest speakers. Today, Dr. Robert Overholt from the “Dr. Bob Show” will discuss health and wellness advice at 11 a.m.

Immediately after Dr. Bob, the Get Active Stage will feature Missy Kane, star of “Fit & Fun with Missy Kane.” After running middle distance cross country at UT, Kane went on to compete in the Olympics and later returned to coach her former team. The Knoxville Sports Hall of Famer will lead participants in a free fitness

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Radford, who admitted a lifelong interest in fitness, understands that for some people, health is not a priority.

“Some people definitely have that drive, I mean that’s why the gym is packed right now.

Some people though … I think sleep and other things occupy their time more than fitness,” she said.

For those who hit the gym regularly or those who only wish they did, the Healthy Living Expo will open its doors and wealth of knowledge.

Tickets are $10 at the door, but free tickets can be printed out from thehealthylivingexpo.com.

SocialSamantha networking Smoak site Google+ Copy has Editor 400 million members as of September 2012, according to Mashable. com. But only 100 million of those members are active on the site monthly.

This pales in comparison to social networking giant Facebook, which Mashable. com reports as having 955 million active users in July of 2012.

Nicholas Geidner, an assistant professor in the School of Journalism and Electronic Media, said that he mainly joined Google+ for the novelty of it. Geidner was pleased with what he discovered. “ … I liked it. I liked the idea of it,” he said. “I liked how it organized and segmented your network. Because I think that’s important, and I don’t think that’s well done on Facebook or LinkedIn and a number of the other social networks out there.”

Geidner also studies new media and social networking. He said that a possible reason that Google+ has not gained more popularity was a decision Google made at the beginning of the introduction of Google+ “ … At the beginning they really got excitement … (and) … news organizations started joining (Google+) ... and then Google said (they were) not ready for (corporate) accounts yet, and they closed all of those accounts,” Geidner said. “My stream went from being a decent amount of information ... to being just my 15 friends who were actually using Google+, and that’s when I stopped using (it) … It just didn’t give me enough content.”

Denae D’Arcy, a graduate student in journalism and electronic media, said there are not enough people she knows on the site to motivate her to use it.

“I don’t have any friends that use it (Google+), and I think if I had more friends that used Google+ then I would use it because social media is a way to connect,” said D’Arcy, who also is a graduate teaching associate in the School of Journalism and Electronic Media.

Although she does not use Google+ herself, D’Arcy said it could be a useful service for students.

“Any social media where students can … use the tool … to connect ... would help (them),” she said.

Brittany Shaffer, a sophomore in business administration and communications at Milligan College who advises individual companies about social media usage, believes that Google+ could be a useful tool for students, educations and business professionals.

“I think that it can be a useful tool when it is utilized by a group of people,” Shaffer said.

“Students who need to work together can form a hangout, which is a great way to visually and audibly communicate with multiple people at once when they are not all together in one location. … Educators can share links and resources on their page, which may be useful to their students. As for business professionals, Google+ is useful to connect and network with people and can be a useful channel for those who are not already on Facebook or another form of social media.

“Students can use Google+ to ‘hang out’ with other students, which is similar to Skype, but can be done with multiple people, instead of just two,” Shaffer cont. “This is useful for students working on a project for their classes when it is not possible for everyone to meet at a physical location somewhere.”

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In order to increase attendance, Fogleman said they are offering incentives.

“We have literally got dozens and dozens of prizes,” she said, listing everything from gym memberships to tote bags to exercise equipment.

Though only a few attendees will receive prizes, everyone will have a chance to take advantage of the free and reduced price services that many vendors will offer. Flu shots and vitamin B12 shots will be available for reduced prices, and general health checks like body mass index calculation and bone density checks will be provided

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CAMPUS NEWS TWITTER continued from Page 1 Rebekah Winkler, Media and Internal Relations Coordinator, is one of the main content writers for the Twitter, although she said that no one on the team has a specific job.

“We have a social media team. …

But on that team there aren’t really defined roles as far as ‘you have responsibilities A, B and C.’ Our jobs are to interact with our social media audience, both in responding to tweets, responding to Facebook messages as well as looking for other content to put out there.”

Like most UT Twitters, @ UTKnoxville posts news about UT; however, it is not limited to one department or one area of study, but rather covers all happenings at the university.

“Part of our job in representing the university is really to share what’s going on on campus. …”

Winkler said. “We really try to run the gamut of sharing the UT experience, what it is to be on campus.”

Of course, with all forms of social media, there can be concerns for inappropriate things getting published out to the ever public world of the Internet.

Winkler explained that, at times, various departments having come to her department asking for advice on how to handle social media outlets like Twitter. She said that while there are no official UT guidelines, her department does give out some tips.

Her colleague, Leigh Shoemaker, assistant director at Communications and Marketing, jokingly called them “best practices.” Shoemaker also said that she and her department aren’t too worried about UT Twitters.

“It’s not something that keeps me up at night,” Shoemaker joked. “We are not a central controlling office for university communications. We would hope that when people are tweeting from an official account … we would hope that they would bear in mind that they are representing the university.”

One such “best practice” is to be sure the person operating a department’s Twitter is someone that can be trusted in a professional manner, as they are representing the department, the school, the dean and the students. Winkler said that many departments utilize graduate students as their Twitter operators, which she said is fine as long as the department has full confidence in them.

But not all UT Twitters are necessarily viewed for information or are even at times official. Many of

the “famous” members of UT faculty and administration have Twitters that can be followed, such as UT Systems President Joe DiPietro (@ UTPresidentJoe), or The Beacon’s editor-in-chief Blair Kuykendall (@ BKblairing), who tweets links to Beacon stories and how she thinks charity bell ringing should only be done by the youth and elderly.

Those interested in UT sports also have a variety of options. All of the big names have Twitters, such as Head Coach Emeritus Pat Summitt (@patsummitt), new football head coach Butch Jones (@UTCoachJones), and basketball head coaches Holly Warlick (@ HollyWarlick) and Cuonzo Martin (@CuonzoMartin).

And while he may no longer be a part of the orange and white, Derek Dooley (@DerekDooley) offers great and humorous insight into his days as UT football’s former head coach. His verified Twitter features such gems as “4. Enjoying taking advantage of the postChristmas sales … not surprised to see orange pants on clearance for over a month,” and “Learning new things always a bonus of free time … just found out that Muscle Milk contains no milk. …”

But there are also unofficial and parody UT Twitters that are purely for amusement. A more recent but popular Twitter is @VolMakeout.

This Twitter is dedicated to posting pictures of liplocking and snogging UT students out on the town or in a frat house.

There is also the Jimmy Cheek parody Twitter (@ TheJimmyCheek), which has pseudo tweets from the fake-chancellor saying, “Why won’t these kids just leave me alone,” and “I heard that @volmakeout has a picture of me getting cozy with a 20; this never actually happened. 20s are for peasants. #franklinorbust.”

The parody sites are of some concern to the university. Generally, as long as the Twitter account makes it clear that it is a parody site and not an official UT channel, everything is OK. Only when the account tries to come off as a genuine UT property are there concerns.

“Twitter covers parody,” Shoemaker said. “Parody is fair game and that’s great. We love parody and we have a great sense of humor here.”

The Jimmy Cheek-parody Twitter was one that caused some concern, as there was one originally that was not clearly a parody and tried to pass off as a legitimate Twitter, which Shoemaker said had to be dealt with. The current one, @ TheJimmyCheek, is clearly labeled as a parody site.

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Lady Vols sail past Tigers, 84-39 Austin Bornheim Assistant Sports Editor

Patrick MacCoon Staff Writer In their third SEC match of the season, the No. 9 Lady Vols raced off to an early lead and never looked back against the Missouri Tigers as they remained undefeated in conference with an 84-39 victory.

Sophomore center Isabelle Harrison filled up the stat sheet with 12 points, 15 rebounds and four blocked shots, her sixth double-double of the season.

The Tigers shot under 20 percent on the night and attempted 36 3-point shots.

“Pleased with the win,” head coach Holly Warlick said. “Any time you get (a) win, especially at home, and Missouri only getting nine threes, that’s exciting for us

because we seem to give up threes. It was a great win for us, proud of our kids, but there are a lot of things we can get better at.”

Sophomore point guard Ariel Massengale jumpstarted the UT scoring offense, which came into the game ranked first in the SEC scoring 78.7 points per game.

Instead of passing the ball off to one of her teammates, Massengale went on to drain the open 3-pointer to give the Lady Vols (12-3, 3-0 SEC) an early 10-3 lead just two minutes into the game.

“I feel like we can play like that the entire game, it just has to be something that comes within us,” Lady Vols junior guard Meighan Simmons said about the fast start. “If we play like that for the rest of the time in the SEC we’re going to do some really good things, even coming up to the tour-

nament as well.”

Harrison highlighted a 22-5 run, lasting over seven minutes, in which she scored seven hard earned points and was a force on defense.

While the Tigers (12-5, 1-2 SEC) hit a conference record 18 3-pointers in their previous game against Auburn, their shots weren’t falling in the first half.

Missouri only scored two points in the paint the first half against the Lady Vols’ stingy defense.

“We knew they were going to shoot the 3-point shot, so we definitely wanted to stop that,” Harrison said. “I feel like once we really did that they tried to go down inside, but we’re such a presence in there we were able to affect their shot.”

In the first twenty minutes of play, the Tigers shot just 6-of-31, including 5-of14 from three point range

and trailed UT 48-21.

Harrison led the Lady Vols in first half scoring with nine points to go along with 11 rebounds.

Guard Morgan Eye led the scoring attack for the Tigers with nine of her 18 points, which tied Simmons for the game high.

The first half lead was too much for the Tigers to come back from on the road at Thompson-Boling Arena.

“I think no matter what outcome or what the score is, we have to play hard, especially on the defensive end,” Harrison said. “That’s something I feel that we could have done a little better in the second half. We just need to not let things like that get to us.”

UT will now gear up to face Florida (13-4, 2-1 SEC) in Gainesville, Fla. on Sunday at 11:30 a.m.

Destiny’s Child to make comeback

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After eight years, Destiny’s Child has reunited and is releasing their new single titled “Nuclear” on Jan. 29.

Victoria Wright Arts and Culture Editor Students, can you handle this? A la Destiny’s Child reference, it seemed appropriate to begin with paying homage to the group after the Internet was abuzz this morning with reports of a new album, “Love Songs,” from the R&B girl group.

Former group member Beyonce Knowles, who goes by mono-name Beyonce, will headline this year’s Super Bowl halftime show, so with new music in the works, it’s possible that fellow groupmates Kelly Rowland and Michelle Williams may make an appearance as well.

Though Beyonce ultrafans and Rihanna cheerleaders may be at odds over her presence in the media, I’m all for new music from the popular girl group and the benefits it could bring for Beyonce’s music. Since the success of her first solo album in 2003, “Dangerously In Love,” Beyonce’s musical style has undertaken a wave of change as it slowly crept

from the sound of R&B to pop. It’s not to say that it’s nessecarily a bad thing that Beyonce was slowly molded into a mainstream artist who could appeal to a mass audience. Her transformation, starting with her song “Sweet Dreams” from her third solo album, “I am Sasha Fierce,” had some believing it was R&B, but not everyone can be fooled. It was a pop anthem.

In a microwave society where the majority of music is generated by a computer, no artist is truly safe from a dubstep or dance remix (Sorry, Kendrick Lamar.

They got you too). The issue here is when the artist is controlled by the trends and watches on the sidelines as their identity is thrown around to varying musical genres.

Rowland, also a former group member, is a prime example of this. She was a talented woman who had a great voice, yet she never really managed to break through the glass ceiling of mega-stardom in the States. Even after her top-charting single with

Lil Wayne, “Motivation,” only garnered her so much attention in the public eye before she returned back into the unfortunate stagnation of a pop artist who never quite made it. Rowland is hitting 30 pretty soon, and to be honest, listeners just don’t want to hear about a woman in her late 20s having sexy enncounters in crowded clubs with strange people.

Yes, the single is a hit for a moment, but once the music stops and the lights turn on, people want to identify with an artist personally, and that musician needs to be genuine enough to reach listeners on the dance floor.

But Williams, on the other hand, is the old newbie of Destiny’s Child — she’s seemed to find a niche in the gospel music realm.

Though the singer’s distinct and raspy voice always carried the hooks in Destiny’s Child songs, she has found her niche in this genre. She’s even managed to garner success in Broadway, most notably for her performace in “Aida.” Is Williams destined for superstardom?

That’s a pretty subjective question depending on how you consider the hierarchy of entertainment realms. But when it comes to producing Billboard chart-topping singles, Williams doesn’t quite fit. She’s reached fame in gospel music and theatre, but many who never stray from listening to anything besides the mainstream would squint their eyes, crinkle their noses, and say “who?” at the mention of her name.

I’m sure many would agree that solo Beyonce is a go, but group dynamics can keep an artist’s aesthtic capabilities in check. Competition is one of the main driving forces behind this, especially after fresh new faces emerge to take over the charts. After marriage and a baby, the public is ready for a new, more nostalgic sound from Ms. Knowles, and what better way to accomplish that than getting together with a couple of old friends?

— Victoria Wright is a senior in journalism and electronic media. She can be reached at vwright6@utk. edu.

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UT introduces new members to coaching staff Patrick MacCoon Staff Writer Two assistant coaches and a support staff member were introduced Thursday morning.

Defensive line coach Steve Stripling, wide receivers coach Zach Azzanni and defensive quality control assistant Terry Fair are three members of the Volunteers’ new coaching staff, assembled by head football coach Butch Jones. The three additions come with high recommendations and look forward to working at UT. Stripling, who worked alongside Jones for three years at Cincinnati, coached a defensive line that had a winning record in the battle up front.

His philosophies were also a major reason why in the 2011 season the Bearcats led the NCAA in tackles for loss (8.62), finished second in sacks (3.46) and placed sixth in rushing defense (96.23 yards per game).

He looks to pound the same areas with his new unit as he did at his previous school.

“We talk to our young men about three things,” Stripling, who will also be the assistant head coach for UT, said. “One is accountability

and that first starts off the field and on the field and in the classroom. Technique is our second area. We’re going to be very technical in (the) placement of our hands and eyes and how we address blocks. The third thing is effort, playing hard.”

Stripling, who also coached defensive line at Indiana, Michigan, Michigan State and Louisville, will come in to a defensive line unit that will consist of five seniors.

“I think it helps in leadership,” he said. “The young men I’ve talked to have been outstanding.

They are all in. Now it’s just the process of working together and getting the job done.”

The last assistant coaching position to be filled for the Vols was the wide receiver coaching position, and the staff could not have been more pleased with the decision to hire Azzanni.

In his last three previous seasons he worked with Florida, Western Kentucky and Wisconsin’s wide receiver units, but looks forward to coaching the school that has been termed “Wide Receiver U.” With the loss of junior wide receivers Justin Hunter and Cordarrelle Patterson (who decided to forgo a senior season with the Vols and enter the NFL draft), Azzanni said he is looking for

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Zach Azzanni, wide receiver coach and recruiting coordinator, speaks to the media about his goals as a new Tennessee coach.

personality in the Vols’ receiving core next season.

“After 15 years of doing this I want personality,” Azzanni said. “I want guys that have different personalities and bring a little bit of a different edge to the field. I don’t need a 6-foot-5 guy or a 5-foot-8 guy. I need a mix of both. Guys that can play in a no huddle up-tempo offense.

“Personality is big these days,” he continued.

“If you bring in the right or wrong one it can change your program.”

Azzanni and the team have gotten to know each other since he arrived for the first time in Knoxville on Jan. 3 after Wisconsin’s Rose Bowl game.

“We’ve had a couple team meetings and it’s been great,” he said. “They’re juiced up and they love the vibe and energy that’s going on.

There’s a renewed life, which there should be with a change.”

Azzanni is also one of those coaches out on the road for the Vols right now, as they try to put together a Top 20 recruiting class by the Feb. 1

signing day.

He also looks forward to the Tennessee football traditions.

“I’m looking forward to the ‘Vol Walk,’” Azzanni said. “I’m a college football fan. I love the pageantry to it all and that’s why I don’t have any inspirations to go to the NFL.” Jones also added former Vol great, Fair, as one of his dozen support staff members.

While at UT from 1994-97, he started all four years at defensive back and went on to play six seasons in the NFL. “This is home for me being on this side,” Fair, who had 11 career interceptions playing for the Vols, said. “I’ve always envisioned myself being a coach and am very appreciative of Coach Jones for the opportunity. I’ve been blown away by (Jones’) approach and how he’s handled everything. He’s the ultimate player’s coach.”

Jones has assembled a staff that he believes is one of the best in the country and now it’s time for them to hit the ground running and get their players sold on the program they are running.

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College experience defined by education

Emily DeLanzo Managing Editor My first day of classes this semester was nothing out of the ordinary. Scurrying across campus from the Hill to the Ag campus.

Fighting with my umbrella. Listening to the same academic honesty code from four separate professors. Spending hours inside the Beacon office.

My notebooks were filled with emails, office hours, any words spoken in lecture that I thought might bear some sort of importance later in the semester.

The start of the semester symbolized the end of useless shenanigans, missing daylight for consecutive days, wearing the same yoga pants for almost a week straight. So much for winter break.

During my break, I realized this was the beginning of the end. This was the dawn of adulthood. In May, I will be moving out of Tennessee and onto my big adventure. I will pack all of my worldly belongings in my car and drive across the country in hopes for something bigger or grander or at the very minimum more interesting than the last three and a half years of my life.

I’m not the only one preparing.

Students across every discipline are preparing to graduate. After years of preplanned schedules with general education and core requirements, cafeteria food, lifestyles provided through generous parents’ paychecks.

What’s next?

A month or so worth of studying determines graduate school — or lack of graduate school.

The past three and a half years or however long has been defined by effort. My college experience may not have taught me the best financial responsibilities, but I did learn the difference

between a good decision and a bad decision.

Deciding between going out for the night and practicing Spanish flashcards made a difference in my final grade of the course whether I realized it or not. Probably not the first time. Maybe not even the second time.

But after countless decisions to disregard my obligations, it hurt.

Remorse was felt not in the form of dehydration from hangover pains nor my GPA. I realized that I had missed an opportunity to learn.

I convinced myself that I was learning valuable social skills and life lessons over the past three years. But what do I have to show for it? A few empty bottles, pictures and spotty memories are the things I remember most. I can’t recall readings from my poetry class or exact details of battles from any history class.

I got the gist of all of my classes and managed to scrape by with good grades, but where does that leave me?

I can continue to praise my mistakes like many other college students I know and claim that I got the better end of my undergraduate education. I have friends and the Beacon. But when it comes down to it, how much more do I know? What have I learned at UT? All of that responsibility falls on me. Here’s to the last semester, graduating and experiments in the kitchen.

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Cook for two minutes on each side or until golden brown.

— Emily DeLanzo is a senior in environmental studies. She can be reached at edelanzo@utk.edu.

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Every ending brings new beginnings Chaos Theory by

Sarah Russell Like many of you, I am graduating this upcoming May, which means that I started my final semester of college on Wednesday.

I remember finishing my freshman year and feeling quite sad when I realized that I only had three years left of college. Now that I’m in my last semester of college, I could not be more excited to leave.

Many people get the wrong impression when someone celebrates the end of a chapter in their life. They assume that they are desperate to leave a time in their life that was unpleasant or disappointing and are looking forward to a way to leave it behind.

Occasionally they think that we are eagerly awaiting the next chapter, that we have something so wonderfully exciting ahead that we cannot spend one moment more in the present.

I, along with others in my position, fit neither of these expectations. I had a wonderful time in college. It had its ups and downs, to be sure, but I could not have asked for more out of my collegiate experience: wonderful friends and relationships, excellent teachers and mentors, a top-rate education, and memories that I will cherish forever. Furthermore, I do not know where I will be in five months after I graduate. I do not know what job I will have, if I can even get a job; I do not know what part of the country I will be living in; and I do not know how close I will be to my family and friends. I know very little about what the future holds for me after college. No one can attribute my eagerness to graduate,

then, to a horrible college experience or to a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity awaiting me afterwards. The reason for my excitement is simple: I am leaving one chapter of my life in order to begin a new one.

We learn in grade school about the typical plot line of any story: the exposition explains the characters and their situations, the conflict and the rising action describes the issues these characters face, the climax occurs when the issues reach their highest points, the falling action describes the results of the climax, and the denouement ends the story. It is easy to expect our lives to work the same way — that the various phases of our lives will end with resolved conflicts, closure, and another clear exposition at the beginning of the next phase. Unfortunately, there are things that we will never resolve in our lives, and there are times that we will never know what lies ahead until the moment it arrives. Those who expect us to long for what we came from and to love where we are going see life as a simple plot line in a story, one that can be neatly diagrammed by a first grader. Life is full of regrets and uneasy beginnings which cannot be put on any kind of linear chart or explained by any kind of order or reason.

A chapter is called a chapter because it is one of many parts of a whole story, whether that story is told in the pages of a book or in the days of someone’s life. The bittersweet feeling of starting my last semester of college is always followed by one of joy, because graduating is the closure of one chapter, but not of the whole story. As Winston Churchill once said: “This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.”

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

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National reactions to tragedies like the ones that recently happened have always left me ambivalent. On the one hand, it seems natural and good that a nation should come together and offer its collective sympathy for such a violent anomaly. Not that one can ever truly empathize with such sudden loss without knowing it, or even the alarm of knowing that a group of children were slaughtered close by, but I can imagine the feeling that national attention is being directed at you, whether we like it or not — as if your loss is more important than anything happening in the world for a few days — is comforting and aids the healing process.

On the other hand, and while I have no idea if this is even accurate, but the media certainly paints the picture that people generally aren’t content with explaining the tragedy entirely as a violent anomaly caused by a deeply damaged human being. No, a number of correlations have to be made regarding blame, seemingly directly and indirectly at the same time, as if to wrest control of the helplessness that accompanies these kinds of things. I notice this is especially true when the assailant themselves is dead and the burden of blame cannot be personally assigned with enough directness to satisfy most people. When uncritical finger pointing has the most obvious object of blame in custody instead of hell as the source of extrapolating the source of the obvious societal imbalance, guns and video games are conveniently less in the spotlight.

Then the media assigns the various explanations and scapegoats for the public to choose which appeals to them most. Or maybe they already have that data, and have for awhile.

Or perhaps they deliberately cycle the contextsensitive controversies to keep our short interest. The point is they know us too well, and this time, guns and gun control are currently at the center of public and/or media scrutiny.

I personally thought that the psycho-analysis (emphasis on “psycho”) of the kid revealed

an awful lot about his motives more than the tools he had access to (two pistols and a semiautomatic carbine purchased legally and safely within the owner’s residence), but you can’t win ‘em all.

Why is this stupid, at least given the circumstances of the tragedy? For one, as hinted at above, there is no specific loophole, no glaring imbalance at the heart of why this guy had access to weapons. They were purchased legally and stored securely in a cabinet which he had access to because it was his mother’s home. See, the general assumption is that we’re not going to kill our family members — gun laws and most other laws are generally intended to protect strangers from strangers, protecting family member from family member in their own home from each other being kind of the exception — and in light of this the burden of blame really lies with his imbalance, not his access to weaponry. The fact that this gun controversy is being obtusely and uncritically applied nationwide is optimistically a jarred nation trying a bit rashly to prevent future violence. But pessimistically and realistically it’s the media squeezing this tragedy dry, which has predictably provoked our public servants into nobly acting, in very much the theatric sense of the word, like they are going to do something decisive about it. To be fair, it’s a combination of the two.

What’s really stupid is the uncritical, utterly daft controversy that’s re-ignited about the “assault weapon” the young man had access to. These are not the rapid-fire death spewers of their military counter-parts, but neutered, semi-automatic versions of them. A shotgun, in almost every conceivable urban situation with the right ammunition, is far more deadly than these plinkers. Longer, non-carbine semi-autos that do the same thing with more power and range get no mention, conspicuously because they lack association with the word “assault.”

It does the victims no good to expose uninformed, crowd-pleasing answers to tragedies when realistic solutions are ignored because of it.

—Wiley Robinson is senior in ecology and evolutionary biology. He can be reached at rrobin1@utk.edu.

Friday, January 11, 2013

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SPORTS

Sports Editor Lauren Kittrell

lkittre1@utk.edu

Assistant Sports Editor Austin Bornheim abornhei@utk.edu

Projected Starters Tennessee

Alabama

G Trae Golden G Josh Richardson G Jordan McRae F Kenny Hall F Jarnell Stokes

G Trevor Lacey G Trevor Releford G Rodney Cooper F Nick Jacobs F Devonta Pollard Why the Vols will win:

How They Match -up UT

After allowing over 85 points in the past two contests, expect the Volunteers to come out very focused on the defensive end. It is not head coach Cuonzo Martin’s style to give up that many points, and was a point of emphasis in the days between Ole Miss and Alabama.

Luckily for the Vols, the Crimson Tide is not as proficient as either Memphis or Ole Miss; in fact they are much more like Tennessee than either of the Vols’ previous two opponents.

Offensively, the Vols continue to struggle, with the exception of Jordan McRae, and will need to get production from Trae Golden, Skylar McBee and Jarnell Stokes in order to be successful.

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65.2

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22.8

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+1.4

Why Crimson Tide will win: Tennessee has struggled to contain outside shooters and that is what the Crimson Tide rely upon in order to stay in games. Trevor Lacey, Trevor Releford and Rodney Cooper are the team’s leading scorers and amass the most minutes for Alabama. The Tide also rely upon their defense, and with the Volunteers struggling to score, Alabama has a chance to grind out a tough win on their home court. Forward Levi Randolph, who recently lost his starting position, will be needed down low to help against the physical play of Tennessee’s post players along with Devonta Pollard.

Last Meeting:

Matthew DeMaria • The Daily Beacon

Junior guard Jordan McRae high fives his teammates down the aisle before the Ole Miss game at ThompsonBoling Arena on Tuesday.

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