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Ballet brings laughter to stage UT-Martin alumJustin Joo Staff Writer The moment the announcer told the patrons that flash photography was forbidden because the flashing lights might remind the ladies of the Bolshevik gunfire, the audience knew they weren’t in for an ordinary ballet.

Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo is a ballet performance unlike any other. The troupe (nicknamed the Trocks) consists entirely of men playing both the male and female roles. The Trocks take on some of ballet’s most classic and challenging pieces to create a show that is both parody and art.

Students and non-students alike attended the ballet Thursday evening at the Clarence Brown Theatre.

The University of Tennessee’s Cultural Attractions Committee sponsored the event.

“We voted to bring it because we thought it sounded really interesting,” Sarah Houston, senior in English and vice chair of the Cultural Attractions Committee, said. “We thought it would reach a wide range with the college community and the Knoxville community at large.”

The show began with Act II of Tchaikovsky’s “Swan Lake.” The scene opened like any other performance of the classic ballet with the villain Rothbart spinning and leaping through the air. However, the majestic dance soon devolved into Rothbart running in circles until finally pausing to catch his breath, while Tchaikovsky’s score played

on with the audience laughing in accompaniment.

The first act of the show continued in that fashion: a mixture of fantastic and unbelievable dancing mixed with intentional blunders and goofs for humor.

Sometimes dancers would be out of place and have to rush across the stage to get in formation.

Dancers acknowledged the crowd and demanded a louder applause. A Trock would be on the stage for a solo performance, when suddenly, another Trock would jump his cue and come out too soon, only to quickly run backstage.

After a brief intermission, the Trocks

returned for their second act with “Patterns in Space,” which they describe as a “post modern dance movement essay … with choreography after Merce Cunningham.” This time, the humor lay mostly in a mock, live musical performance. While three Trocks danced around the stage, two others “played” music using such instruments as ripped paper bags, bubble wrap, xylophones and kazoos.

While humor was still present in the second act, the focus began to shift to the technical prowess of the Trocks. There were fewer instances of dancers intentionally falling down and more cases of difficult kicks and pirouettes.

By the conclusion of the third act, each of the Trocks had a moment of solo performance. While no longer making jokes about the rigid constraint in ballet performance, each of the Trocks took a moment to perform spectacularly across the center stage, weaving and spinning while the rest of the cast performed equally well in the background.

But not wanting to end the show on too serious of a note, the Trocks took a bow and then gave one last gag. With a disco ball floating in the air, the Trocks performed a final dance number to the big band song “Sing, Sing, Sing” by Benny Goodman.

The audience laughed and applauded throughout the entire show, giving the Trocks a standing ovation at the finale.

“I thought it was wonderful,” Jessica Hill, sophomore in theater, said. “I (liked) that it was a performance. There wasn’t just dancing.”

nus joins educational committee Wesley Mills Staff Writer It was around 8:50 a.m. on Monday, Aug. 22. Group 45 of the Pep Group gathered together to meet as school was about to start. It was the first day of class. It was the first day of Greg Frye’s journey.

“I got the position!” Frye said.

From the 17,000-person town of Dyersburg, Tenn., Greg Frye had arrived.

The Tennessee Higher Education Commission (THEC) offered Greg Frye the chance to be on its committee, and, without hesitation, he accepted.

Frye did not need to say anything as he walked back into the room of 15 or so friends who were assuming the probable; his smile told the story.

“I was just grinning from earto-ear,” he said. “My face was just exploding with sunshine.”

But Frye is not your traditional committee member. He did not go on luxurious vacations as a child, drive a Cadillac or have daily room service. In fact, he rode tractors on a dairy

farm, milking cows and grinding feed all through high school.

Between school and farming duties, that doesn’t leave much room for free time. However, when Frye could, he would harness his inner musician and before long he became good enough that he wanted to travel cross-country doing independent work.

“I started traveling and playing music at age 15,” he said. “I went touring as an independent musician after 18 and played shows with the likes of Johnny Cash and Jerry Lee Lewis.”

Throughout high school and after high school, the aspiration of college would continually linger in Frye’s mind.

“I always hoped to do other things,” Frye said. “I always wanted to go to college and law school, but I did do the traditional farm thing.”

In 2008, the decision came.

Frye was going to attend UTMartin.

“I told my family that I was going to focus all my time on being a student,” he said. “I wanted to make a good go of this.”

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Memphis police devise new plan to combat gang crimes, violence The Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Reinforcements may be on the way for Memphis police officers on the front lines in the fight against gang violence.

Local, state and federal law enforcement and prosecutors are teaming to create a multijurisdictional gang task force, according to The Commercial Appeal.

The effort comes amid a recent string of violent crimes by teen and adult gang members.

An official announcement about the united effort hasn’t yet been made, but the Appeal reported that U.S. Attorney Ed Stanton, Shelby County District Attorney Amy Weirich and Memphis police have confirmed they are planning the task force.

“We want to roll this out as soon as possible, but we want to be successful the first time,” Stanton said. “Egos have been checked at the door. We all want something that is going to be meaningful, effective and efficient.”

Also agreeing to participate are federal agents with the FBI, U.S. Marshals Service and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the newspaper reported.

Members of the Memphis Police Department’s

Gang Unit say they’re eager for reinforcements.

“With us just having a 12-man unit, we’re spread thin,” said unit supervisor Lt. Anthony Carter.

Several recent shootings and killings have been linked to gangs, police and court officials confirmed.

Suspected Gangster Disciples members, ages 16 and 17, are charged with shooting a mother of three in the head in front of her 4-year-old son as a group sat in lawn chairs outside a friend’s North Memphis home in July. The woman wasn’t the intended target — that man survived a bullet to the back — but prosecutors say the older teen bragged about her death.

On Jan. 9, officials say, a 17-year-old Crips member teamed with two adult gang members to shoot a rival.

Two days earlier, a dispute between rival gangs led to the shooting death of a 22-year-old in South Memphis.

The gang problem in Memphis, decades in the making, is difficult to quantify. Police rarely disclose gang links to crimes to the media.

However, University of Memphis criminologist George Richardson • The Daily Beacon Richard Janikowski said more than 28 percent of Charles Stewart, senior in aerospace engineering, flies an RC helicopter in the Memphis’ 119 murders last year involved a susHumanities Amphitheater on Wednesday, Jan. 25. pect or victim who was in a gang.

Italian cruise ship may affect tourist season The Associated Press GIGLIO, Italy — The cruise ship that capsized off Italy’s coast will take up to 10 months to remove, officials said Sunday, as rough seas off the Tuscan coast forced the suspension of recovery operations.

Officials called off both the start of operations to remove of 500,000 gallons of fuel and the search for people still missing after determining the Costa Concordia had moved four centimeters (an inch and a half) over six hours, coupled with waves of more than one meter (three feet).

A 17th body, identified as Peruvian crew mem-

ber Erika Soria Molina, was found Saturday.

Sixteen crew and passengers remain listed as missing, with one body recovered from the ship not yet identified.

Officials have virtually ruled out finding anyone alive more than two weeks after the Costa Concordia hit a reef, but were reluctant to give a final death toll for the Jan. 13 disaster. The crash happened when the captain deviated from his planned route, creating a huge gash that capsized the ship. More than 4,200 people were on board.

“Our first goal was to find people alive,” Franco Gabrielli, the national civil protection official in charge of the operation, told a daily briefing.

“Now we have a single, big goal, and that is that this does not translate into an environmental disaster.”

University of Florence professor Riccardo Fanti said the ship’s movements could either be caused by the ship settling on its own weight, slipping deeper into the seabed, or both. He also could not rule out the ship’s sliding along the seabed.

Gabrielli noted that the body of a man recovered from the ship remains unidentified, despite efforts to obtain DNA samples from all of the missing, meaning that officials cannot preclude that the deceased is someone unknown to authorities. Costa has said that it runs strict procedures

that would preclude the presence of any unregistered passengers.

Experts have said it would take 28 days to remove fuel from 15 tanks accounting for more than 80 percent of all fuel on board the ship. The next job would be to target the engine room, which contains nearly 350 cubic meters of diesel, fuel and other lubricants, Gabrielli said.

Only once the fuel is removed can work begin on removing the ship, either floating it in one piece or cutting it up and towing it away as a wreck. Costa has begun the process for taking bids for the recovery operation, a process that will take two months.

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Letters to the Editor UT’s green initiative raises questions I’d like to express my concern about UT’s policy of being “green.”

I casually flipped through the print edition of the Beacon a couple of days ago, reading about the grand opening of the student health center, which I’m honestly pretty excited about.

More waiting rooms and better facilities and services? Great! Then I got to the section about being certified as a “green” facility, in which “recycling bins” were “placed throughout the entire building.”

Wait, what? Recycling bins in every room make a building green? By that calculation, the house I live in could be certified green!

First, The Daily Beacon could have explained what makes a facility “green,” besides having recycling bins everywhere. I had to do a search through the UTK website to find the MAKE ORANGE GREEN site, where I again had to search until I found the U.S. department’s LEED certification document to download and read. There’s so much more to

being “green” and I think it’s awesome that UT is making its new buildings meet these standards for energy use and water efficiency, among other things.

Second, it’s hard to swallow all this self-congratulating and back-patting when I walk down Lake Loudoun Blvd. past all the trees that have been hacked down to make the sidewalk bigger.

The trees along the fence line up towards the Kingston Pike building have been cut down, too.

So what does that mean, UT, that you’re willing to build a new facility to certifiable standards, but not work with the “green” earth and trees that we already have around us? You’ll take the easy way out, as long as you look good doing it? I guess those new recycling bins went to the wrong spot. Might as well have them placed along Lake Loudoun Blvd.

— Gretchen Bundy is a graduate student in art. She can be reached at gbundy@utk.edu.

Corrections The Daily Beacon staff would like to correct an inaccuracy in the “Architecture professor honored” story that ran on Jan. 27, 2012. Professor Ambroziak’s mentor is Michael Graves, not Michael Grace.

The Daily Beacon staff would like to correct several inaccuracies in the story, “Dorms successful with urging students to conserve energy” that ran Jan. 27, 2012. POWER stands for Programs on Water, Energy and Recycling. The Apartment Residence Hall’s compost and garden project still awaits approval, and has not begun. Also, the POWER Challenge is sponsored George Richardson• The Daily Beacon by the Office of Sustainability, not the United Residence Hall Council. The amount of water saved could flood the field at Neyland Stadium (which is technically called the Shields-Watkins Andrew Pankratz, junior in management, Hannah Mroz, senior in accounting, and Shaun McClardy, sophomore in marketing, work on Alpha Kappa Psi fraternity rush Field) by six feet, not six inches. materials in the Haslam Business Building on Wednesday, Jan. 25.

1835 — Shots fired in the House of Representatives In the House chamber of the U.S. Capitol, President Andrew Jackson, the seventh president of the United States, survives the first attempt against the life of a U.S. president.

During a funeral service honoring the late Representative Warren R. Davis of South Carolina, a man identified as Richard Lawrence discharged two separate pistols in the direction of President Jackson.

Both weapons misfired, and Lawrence was promptly subdued and arrested. During the subsequent criminal investigation, the suspect was found to be insane and was sent to a mental prison. Three decades later, President Abraham Lincoln would become the first president to be assassinated.

1948 — Ghandi assassinated Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, the political and spiritual leader of the Indian independence movement, is assassinated in New Delhi by a Hindu fanatic.

Born the son of an Indian official in 1869, Gandhi’s Vaishnava mother was deeply religious and early on exposed her son to Jainism, a morally rigorous Indian religion that advocated nonviolence. Gandhi was an unremarkable student but in 1888 was given an opportunity to study law in England. In 1891,

he returned to India, but failing to find regular legal work he accepted in 1893 a one-year contract in South Africa.

Settling in Natal, he was subjected to racism and South African laws that restricted the rights of Indian laborers. Gandhi later recalled one such incident, in which he was removed from a first-class railway compartment and thrown off a train, as his moment of truth. From thereon, he decided to fight injustice and defend his rights as an Indian and a man. When his contract expired, he spontaneously decided to remain in South Africa and launched a campaign against legislation that would deprive Indians of the right to vote. He formed the Natal Indian Congress and drew international attention to the plight of Indians in South Africa. In 1906, the Transvaal government sought to further restrict the rights of Indians, and Gandhi organized his first campaign of satyagraha, or mass civil disobedience.

After seven years of protest, he negotiated a compromise agreement with the South African government.

In 1914, Gandhi returned to India and lived a life of abstinence and spirituality on the periphery of Indian politics. He supported Britain in the First World War but in 1919 launched a new satyagraha in protest of Britain’s mandatory military draft of Indians. Hundreds of thousands answered his call to protest, and by 1920 he was leader of the Indian movement for independence. He reorganized the Indian National Congress as a political force and launched a massive boycott of British goods, services, and institutions in India. Then, in 1922, he abruptly called off the satyagraha when violence erupted. One month later, he was arrested by the British authorities for sedition, found guilty, and imprisoned.

After his release in 1924, he led an extended fast in protest of Hindu-Muslim violence. In 1928, he returned to national politics when he demanded dominion status for India and in 1930 launched a mass protest against the British salt tax, which hurt India’s poor. In his most famous campaign of civil disobedience, Gandhi and his followers marched to the Arabian Sea, where they made their own salt by evaporating sea water. The march, which resulted in the arrest of Gandhi and 60,000 others, earned new international respect and support for the leader and his movement.

In 1931, Gandhi was released to attend the Round Table Conference on India in London as the sole representative of the Indian National Congress. The meeting was a great disappointment, and after his return to India he was again imprisoned. While in jail, he led another fast in protest of the British government's treatment of the “untouchables” — the impoverished and degraded Indians who occupied the lowest tiers of the caste system. In 1934, he left the Indian Congress Party to work for the economic development of India’s many poor. His protege, Jawaharlal Nehru, was named leader of the party in his place.

With the outbreak of World War II, Gandhi returned to politics and called for Indian cooperation with the British war effort in exchange for independence. Britain refused and sought to divide India by supporting conservative Hindu and Muslim groups. In response, Gandhi launched the “Quit India” movement it 1942, which called for a total British withdrawal. Gandhi and other nationalist leaders were imprisoned until 1944.

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

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FRYE continued from Page 1 Three weeks into school, he was in a fraternity. And a year later, doors opened up and he became senator of Student Government Association and founder and president of Non-Traditionalist Student Association.

The doors still kept flinging open. At 42, Frye was nominated and elected to THEC. Frye said the organization as a whole oversees certain legislation regarding education to approve or make amends before it is passed on to the governor.

With all the other achievements that Frye has accomplished throughout his life — the father of eight and a grandfather, a soldier in the military and a cancer survivor of malignant melanoma — he ranks this near the top.

“On a business and personal side, I would put it in the same ranking as my father and grandfather,” he said. “This ranks right there with it.”

Dr. Mike McCullough first met Frye three years ago and was

NEWS immediately impressed with his poise and presence.

“He’s articulate and he has a style to him and he has long hair and he’s cool,” he said. “I think once you say that long hair guy, everybody on campus knows who he is.”

Some would compare him to musician Robert Plant because of his hair, but the long locks only tell a brief story of the education-loving man.

“He’s learned the value of education,” McCullough said. “He’s on fire for the idea of other people getting on fire with the idea of improving through education.”

Frye is proud of his accomplishments, but he won’t boast of them.

He’s just a country boy from Dyer County, Tenn., hoping to change lives through educational means.

“When you meet someone, you always have the suspicion they’re not quite as good as they seem cause most people aren’t,” McCullough said. “But when you’re around him, you realize that’s exactly who he is and he is a precious commodity on our campus.

“Greg wanted this and he’s worked hard for it.”

Now, he’s got it.

Syrian revolution nears capital The Associated Press BEIRUT — In dozens of tanks and armored vehicles, Syrian troops stormed rebellious areas near the capital Sunday, shelling neighborhoods that have fallen under the control of army dissidents and clashing with fighters. At least 62 people were killed in violence nationwide, activists and residents said.

The widescale offensive near the capital suggested the regime is worried that military defectors could close in on Damascus, which has remained relatively quiet while most other Syrian cities descended into chaos after the uprising began in March.

The rising bloodshed added urgency to Arab and Western diplomatic efforts to end the 10-month conflict.

The violence has gradually approached the capital. In the past two weeks, army dissidents have become more visible, seizing several suburbs on the eastern edge of Damascus and setting up checkpoints where masked men wearing military attire and wielding assault rifles stop motorists and protect anti-regime protests.

Their presence so close to the capital is astonishing in tightly controlled Syria and suggests the Assad regime may either be losing control or setting up a trap for the fighters before going on the offensive.

Residents of Damascus reported hearing clashes in the nearby suburbs, particularly at night, shattering the city’s calm.

“The current battles taking place in and around Damascus may not yet lead to the unraveling of the regime, but the illusion of normalcy that the Assads have sought hard to maintain in the capital since the beginning of the revolution has surely unraveled,” said Ammar Abdulhamid, a U.S.-based Syrian dissident.

“Once illusions unravel, reality soon follows,” he wrote in his blog Sunday.

Soldiers riding some 50 tanks and dozens of armored vehicles stormed a belt of suburbs and villages on the eastern outskirts of Damascus known as al-Ghouta Sunday, a predominantly Sunni Muslim agricultural area where large anti-regime protests have been held.

Some of the fighting on Sunday was less than three miles (four kilometers) from Damascus, in Ein Tarma, making it the closest yet to the capital.

“There are heavy clashes going on in all of the Damascus suburbs,” said Rami Abdul-Rahman, director of the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, who relies on a network of activists on the ground. “Troops were able to enter some areas but are still facing stiff resistance in others.”

The fighting using mortars and machine guns sent entire families fleeing, some of them on foot carrying bags of belongings, to the capital.

“The shelling and bullets have not stopped since yesterday,” said a man who left his home in Ein Tarma with his family Sunday. “It’s terrifying, there’s no electricity or water, it’s a real war,” he said by telephone on condition of anonymity, for fear of reprisals.

The uprising against Assad, which began with largely peaceful demonstrations, has grown increasingly militarized recently as more frustrated protesters and army defectors have taken up arms.

In a bid to stamp out resistance in the capital’s outskirts, the military has responded with a withering assault on a string of suburbs, leading to a spike in violence that has killed at least 150 people since Thursday.

Rebecca Vaughan • The Daily Beacon

Erika Eckert, currently the associate professor of viola at the University of Colorado-Boulder, performs during a guest artist recital in the Alumni Memorial Building on Tuesday, Jan. 24.

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Government initiative lends hope to Gulf The Associated Press TIVOLI, Texas — For decades, farmers and fishermen along the Gulf of Mexico watched as their sensitive ecosystem’s waters slowly got dirtier and islands eroded, all while the country largely ignored the destruction.

It took BP PLC’s well blowing out in the Gulf — and the resulting environmental catastrophe when millions of gallons of oil spewed into the ocean and washed ashore — for the nation to turn its attention to the slow, methodical ruin of an ecosystem vital to the U.S. economy. Last month, more than a year and a half after the spill began, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced a three-year, $50 million initiative designed to improve water quality along the coast.

“I’m not going to say that it’s the silver lining,” Will Blackwell, a district conservationist with the USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Services, said of the oil spill. Blackwell is one of many regional officials who have long worked with farmers and ranchers to fence cattle, reseed native grasses and take on other seemingly inane projects that go a long way toward preventing pollution and coastal erosion.

“I’m going to say that it will help get recognition down here that we have this vital ecosystem that needs to be taken care of,” he said. “This will keep it at the forefront.”

NRCS administrators struggled for years to divide a few million dollars among farmers and ranchers in the five Gulf states. Now, they are getting an eleven-fold increase in funding, money that will allow

them to build on low-profile programs that already have had modest success in cleaning crucial waterways by working with farmers and ranchers to improve land use practices.

The nation’s focus turned sharply to the Gulf when the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig blew up in April 2010. Images of oil-coated birds and wetlands were splashed across newspapers and cable news networks. Coastal wetlands that are habitat to all sorts of wildlife were soiled and oyster beds were wiped out, underscoring the Gulf’s ecological and economic importance.

The project is called the Gulf of Mexico Initiative, the first concrete step from a year’s worth of meetings, studies and talking by the Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Task Force, a committee formed by President Barack Obama in the spill’s wake.

Sometimes, the money is spent on simple projects, such as building fences and installing troughs to keep cattle away from rivers and creeks that flow into the Gulf. The minerals in cow manure can pollute those upstream waters and then flow into the ocean.

Those minerals can deplete oxygen in the Gulf, creating “dead zones” where wildlife can’t thrive.

Other times, the program pays for expensive farming equipment that turns soil more effectively and creates straighter rows. That helps keep fertilizers on the farm — where it helps crops — and out of the Gulf, where the nutrients choke oxygen from the water. This equipment also decreases erosion, which has eaten up hundreds of miles of Gulf Coast habitat in the past century.

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StaffColumn State needs to implement sex-ed Emily DeLanzo Design Editor I attended kindergarten through 12th grade in the Cocke County School System where recess doubles as a smoke break for teachers and the teenage pregnancy rate often rivals the graduation rate.

The first time I was exposed to pregnancy was in eighth grade. At the ripe age of 13, two girls in my homeroom were expecting.

I was completely oblivious. My parents always sheltered me. I knew the stork thing was not true, but I didn’t know the first thing about how to make a baby. By the end of that school year, another classmate was pregnant. My father had joked about the water being contaminated, and I honestly believed him.

Three out of 30 girls in the eighth grade at Parrottsville Elementary School experienced labor pains alongside average teenage angst, all before the start of high school.

I didn’t know about boy parts or lady parts. I was still learning the difference between sexual and asexual reproduction while girls younger than me were already contributing back to the gene pool.

In the meantime, I avoided drinking out of water fountains.

My sex education teachers were the Yin Yang Twins with “Wait (The Whisper Song).” What they left unanswered, dial-up Internet filled in the rest. My elementary school and high school never offered a sex education class.

Abstinence education was the only option for students.

Just Wait, an abstinence-only education program, visited our high-risk area annually for eighth and ninth graders. The state of Tennessee originally helped fund Just Wait for Knox County and 12 other neighboring counties.

Abstinence is the only surefire way to prevent pregnancy and the spread of sexually transmitted diseases, but many young people in my area did not align themselves with a lifestyle that requires patience.

A national study recently tracked the effectiveness of Just Wait and similar programs.

The study neither proved nor disproved the effectiveness of abstinence education. The abstinence-only education did not prevent young people from exploring their sexuality. In fact, the teenage pregnancy rate stayed roughly the same, despite increasing efforts to teach morality.

Don’t get me wrong. I think it’s sad we live in a society where losing your iPhone is more cause for alarm than losing your virginity.

The generation gap is closing in Cocke County and many other areas of Tennessee. I know 30year-old grandmothers and high school seniors who drop their own children off at kindergarten on their way to school.

Teenage pregnancy is strongly discouraged in the school system, but little effort is made to educate.

Cocke County High School (CCHS) never offered a single health class. The closest thing to sex education a student received was general biology. My freshman orientation class gave us reasons to wait until we found true love and a marriage license.

Despite lacking a health class, CCHS did have a childcare class for the impatient students.

Teenage pregnancy is steadily rising across the United States. I am not criticizing teenage mothers’ parenting techniques. All of the teenage babies I know are provided for with everything they need and more.

To me, it isn’t a matter of unfit, unwed mothers.

The problem lies with the state of Tennessee. A consistent sex education program needs to be implemented statewide.

For the moment, I escaped. I live in Knoxville during the school year and wear a park ranger hat in the summer.

On my 20th birthday, I celebrated surviving teenage pregnancy by taking my birth control pill.

Growing up in Cocke County, I was often labeled a lesbian because I did not have my first kiss until I was 16 while girls my age were busy working on their second child.

I’ve learned several valuable lessons from growing up in Cocke County. For example, a girl can’t get pregnant from oral, the Quotus Interruptus method is ineffective, and Facebook doubles as a scrapbook for your newborn.

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

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No chance for amicable election year Off the Deep End by

Derek Mullins It was the finger point heard round the world. From a highly secured tarmac in Arizona, a feisty, apparently bi-polar Republican governor stuck her highly manicured digit in the face of the most powerful man in the world and, in the process, created a firestorm that overtook American political discussion for a week.

What? You didn’t hear about this astounding, unprecedented breakdown in American political discourse? How is that possible?! I ask this not so much out of a sense of surprise that you may be apathetic towards the daily demonstrations of lunacy both parties put us through, but because I just cannot understand how it could have been avoided. The now infamous picture and the story that accompanied it was on every major television news program and network, splattered all over various high-profile websites, and the subject of discussion for millions on social media.

If you seriously are unaware of the story, here’s a quick rundown. Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer visited the White House in 2010 to meet with Obama to discuss — among other things — various aspects of this country’s immigration policy. She came out of that meeting, spoke to the press and told reporters that everything had gone great and that she was pleased to be treated so well by Obama. A few months ago, Brewer somehow got a book published. Contained in that book was a totally different account of that meeting in which she claimed that he belittled and scolded her. Obama took the initiative to ask the governor about her accusations while they had a private, yet highly photogenic moment last week. Her response? Go full diva on the commander in chief. In the picture that was snapped, she can be seen shoving her index finger right in front of President Obama’s face.

In the days that have followed the release of this story, media personalities and even more regular citizens have taken various modes of communication to either express their disgust with the display of disrespect and lack of deference shown to the president or their delight that someone had the gumption to stand up to that guy who

wants to take our assault weapons and tax us all into oblivion. I didn’t fall into either of those categories.

I think the thing we all need to understand about the state of our nation’s political climate is that it has become this contentious. Whether it is a good thing or a bad thing is certainly up for debate, but the undeniable fact is that this is not the way it used to be. Whether it is because of heightened political fervor, insane amounts of distrust or perhaps a desire to absolutely destroy one’s perceived political adversary(s), a significant portion of this country’s population has turned to slinging mud and, yes, pointing fingers on an unprecedented scale.

That includes both private citizens and public figures.

Sure, Thomas Jefferson may have called John Adams a hermaphrodite, but he never called him a closet Islamofascist who hated America and was determined to transform this country into Karl Marx’s wet dream.

Perhaps the most ironic thing about this event is that it comes during the same week that Obama pleaded in his State of the Union for both sides to tone it down, step back, take a breath and act like civilized human beings. Sorry, Mr. President, but I’ve got news for you: You ain’t seen nothin’ yet.

As I’m sure Obama has certainly realized, he’s probably going to be squaring off against Mitt Romney this fall.

Behind Romney will not only be a veritable army of discontented Conservatives, but also the entire force of the Mormon Church.

What difference will that make to a time of debates and discussion? Ask gay marriage advocates in California how fair the Mormons are when framing political causes.

The Mormons threw their sizable financial weight behind Proposition 8 to make sure that their religious view was codified into the state’s law books. They financed a litany of advertisements, robo-calls and door-to-door initiatives to assure the passage of that initiative. Imagine what they can do in this post-Citizens United political climate.

If I had a message for President Obama, it would be this: Get ready. The fight he has in front of him is daunting.

The attacks from Hillary Clinton and John McCain he stoically stared down in 2008 will pale in comparison to what the Mormons and well-funded Super-PACs will throw at him. He may want a civilized discussion, but he’s going to get a veritable Jerry Springer episode.

— Derek Mullins is a senior in political science. He can be reached at dmullin5@utk.edu.

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Apple Inc. recently released a new version of iBooks featuring support for textbooks. These interactive textbooks for the iPad signal the beginning of a new era in textbooks that is nothing if not promising.

Just think about it, instead of lugging around a backpack full of 50 lbs. of books, one could lighten their load with a 1.35 lb. iPad. Your back will forever appreciate your decision, especially when scaling The Hill or the sidewalk going up 17th St. north into Fort Sanders.

Speaking of giving thanks, your back won’t be the only thing thanking you for the change. Your wallet may be even more grateful for the change. As any current or former college or high school student knows, textbooks are anything but cheap. Dropping hundreds of dollars a year for books that will only be used for nine months at most is disheartening for many.

If you are a member of the aforementioned throng of the dejected, fear not! Apple is here to save the day, offering textbooks priced at $14.99 or less. This is not a typo — I repeat again $14.99 or less. That number must impress even the staunchest PC supporter.

While digital textbooks are by no means a new and innovative idea at this point, they are by no means flawless. Books are expensive, but paying the same price for a series of letters and numbers is even worse.

However, if you don’t already own an iPad, the $499 retail price of the iPad 2 calls for some serious deliberation. In the short run, the difference in price between buying physical copies of the texts and purchasing an iPad with the interactive textbooks from iBooks causes one to think carefully before switching away from traditional books.

One thing that comes to mind during this deliberation is that when buying the bound version of a book is resale. The current format of texts on the web is a 180-day rental that can cost as much as $100.

For an incoming freshman, the long run money saved from buying books for $14.99 or less through Apple could sway parents minds when sending their

children off to college.

There’s also the difference in reading a printed book against a screen. There is little doubt that the strain on your eyes would be higher when spending hours reading for class on an iPad. Furthermore, the ability to highlight and annotate your reading is an important aspect of fully engaging yourself in your studies. While the interactive nature of the iPad allows a user to do some of these things, it’s possible that a significant amount of the cognitive learning process is lost along the way.

Nonetheless, the convenience factor can’t be discounted. The ability to buy literary books and textbooks in the same place in the comfort of your home is nice. Howaever, a physical book can’t suddenly stop working. If your tablet ran out of battery at the library and you’re there without your charger, the iPad might not seem as convenient.

The first textbooks to be added will be for introductory high school courses, which brings up an interesting aspect of this change: high schools.

Will schools struggling with funding be able to stomach the upfront cost of a mass order of $499 iPads? The long run savings are beneficial, but the benefits can’t be enjoyed if a school doesn’t have the funding to make the leap to the interactive age of textbooks.

On top of that, in an age with increasingly shorter attention spans, it may be difficult for some students to reel in the desire to make a quick switch from a statistics or philosophy book to the much more appealing Words with Friends or Angry Birds.

Students playing games on cell phones during class has already been a notable issue that high schools have dealt with, and an iPad makes taking down those evil pigs with your avian army just that much more enjoyable.

On the business side, this is a seemingly impeccable move by Apple. During a quarter that saw the loss of one of the most imaginative minds of our generation, Apple more than doubled their profits.

With this move, it appears that Apple might be able to continue this momentum in 2012. The change could substantially increase iPad sales and make up for an impending decline in iPhone sales as customers await the release of the iPhone 5, which is rumored to be this summer. As of now, this change seems to be a win for both the student and Apple investors.

— Ashton Smith is a sophomore in communications. He can be reached at ssmit192@utk.edu.

Monday, January 30, 2012

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Fiction: Identical, Part One Action games focus on details

by Olivia Cooper Look, if your mom was given a voodoo blessing, your father survived radiation tests, the hospital was at the foot of an inactive volcano and you were born during a solar eclipse, you would have powers too.

However, Craig Samson was the only baby born on May 5 at 5:55 a.m., while his twin, John, arrived at 5:57 a.m. While John struggled in boy scouts to get a fire going, Craig just used his laser vision. John made one successful punt out of five, while Craig controlled the football with his mind, insisting he was just that good.

It would be unfair to say that John’s wife, Marla, married him due to the striking resemblance he once had to Craig, but visits to his brother’s home were often suggested by her. Suffice to say, John had grown jealous of Craig.

There had been nothing that Craig couldn’t do. People would come far and wide to ask him to scan them, using his X-ray vision, for abnormalities, to grant them a final wish of flying with him, and to talk to their relatives after they had passed away. John would help his parents field phone calls and letters for years until he moved to the other side of town away from the family. He maintained average grades throughout school and graduated from the university with a degree in finance. He did not once care to think of his brother after that.

It was an unusually cold September, the kind where you walk out in shorts, then make a hasty retreat back inside. John sat at his kitchen table and watched the news on a small television set.

Marla was still in bed, eight months pregnant and practicing to be a stay-at-home mother already. They lived in a one-story house with gray carpet and cracks in the bathroom tile.

Their car was bought used, so that they could save for the baby. Craig offered the couple money plenty of times and even sent payment without warning. John was sure to intercept these checks and shred them. Marla has deposited only three that John knows of.

The news broadcast went to commercial and, right on schedule, John’s breakfast emerged from the toaster. With surgical precision, he extracted the unfrosted Pop-Tarts, cut them into squares and buttered each individual piece.

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he leaves no crumbs. He poured another cup of coffee and returned to the table. A knock on the back door interrupted his meal.

“Wrong Samson twin,” John yelled at the door. “Craig lives on the lake.”

“It is Craig,” his brother replied.

The clock said 7:15 a.m., work started in 30 minutes. John sighed, unlocked the door and returned to his meal. Craig closed the door behind him and locked it. He was the kind of guy who lit up the room. He wasn’t really emanating a light, but his presence just made the room feel brighter. He had thick brown hair, neatly cut, muscles all over and stood about six feet tall. John was his twin except he had a mustache, gray hairs, a paunch, some wrinkles and a cloud of jealousy that rained over him. Even though the two were once remarkably identical, you would have a hard time believing it now. Craig scanned the back window, then drew the curtains.

“Just you and Marla, right?” he asked and investigated the backyard again through another window before drawing the curtains on it too. John sighed and turned off the television.

“What is it now?”

John asked, eating the last bit of breakfast.

Craig shut the door to the dining room and locked it. He held his hand out to his brother.

John frowned and pointed to the clock on the stove.

“I don’t have time to go to the Plane of Secrecy. I have work,” John said, but his brother was not fazed. Craig gave a frustrated sigh and placed his hand on the floor. The room gave a slight quake and everything slid three inches to the side, which caused a glass pitcher to fall out of the cabinet and shatter on the floor.

“There, I stopped time,” Craig said. He offered his hand once more. “I need you to come with me.”

“We got that pitcher on our wedding day,” John said, sighing.

Craig’s brows furrowed, and he grabbed both of John’s hands and placed them on his shoulders. The two disappeared without so much as a sound or dust cloud.

— Olivia Cooper is a senior in creative writing. She can be reached at ocooper@utk.edu.

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This week for the holiday recap I played through two games wildly different in tone, but with the same basic strength. The over-the-top action setpieces of “Saints Row: The Third” and “Uncharted 3” define the experience for each game, and include some of the most memorable moments of the year.

“Saints Row” feels like what Rockstar would have been if they had turned left, instead of right, when creating a follow-up to “Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.” “Grand Theft Auto IV” eliminated the silliness prevalent in “San Andreas” in order to craft a serious crime drama. Removing elements like skydiving and piloting a jet pack served the new tone of “GTA IV,” but took away from the overall fun of the game.

“GTA IV” abandoned features found in “San Andreas” like character customization and RPG upgrade mechanics, in favor of a more cohesive narrative. “Saints Row” fleshes those features out to an absurd degree and makes no attempt at a cohesive narrative. Everything the game does is in service of creating fun; it doesn’t bother with making sense. The overall arc of the story is somewhat bland, but the events within it are captivating in their lunacy. One mission sends your character into cyberspace, Matrix-style, to take on a hacker gang leader. The mission features new environments, weapons and enemies created just for that 20minute chunk of the game. The boss even simulates Internet lag as you fight him. This level of dedication is shown throughout the game which never does anything halfway. That dedication can even be found in smaller moments like when two characters sing along to Sublime’s “What I Got” while driving to a mission. If you drive around the block a few times before getting to the mission, the characters will actually sing along to the entire song while reminiscing about the good ol’ days.

The arsenal of weapons found in “Saints Row” lives up to the insanity of its surroundings. The truck-mounted human launcher and shark firing shotgun don’t seem out of place in the game’s universe. More standard firearms are also available, which can be upgraded into cartoonishly powerful killing machines. Even the standard pistol will blast enemies across a room when fully upgraded. Your character’s appearance can be fully customized at any point, including gender, and the hundreds of clothing options offer plenty of ridiculous options.

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Calling a video game ‘cinematic’ has become a bit of a cliché in the gaming press this console generation. High production values and pre-rendered cut-scenes are often enough to earn the label.

“Uncharted 2” was the first game I ever encountered that actually succeeded in creating a genuinely cinematic interactive experience. “Uncharted 3” is not the paradigm shift its predecessor was, but expecting developer Naughty Dog to once again alter our notions of what video games can be, would be unreasonable. The game could be accused of being more of the same, but “Uncharted 2” was so unique among action games that playing through this very similar sequel never felt stale.

By far the strongest feature in “Uncharted 3” is its excellence in all areas of presentation. Famously gorgeous graphics are captured by what often seems to be a Hollywood film crew. The camera system is a major reason I found the game authentically cinematic. Early in the adventure a chase scene has Drake sprinting through narrow hallways with 90-degree turns. The camera seems barely able to keep up with Drake and slams into walls while rounding the sharp turns. Small touches in how characters animate go a long way toward making them appear human. Drake raises his hands to cushion himself for impact if you navigate him into a wall. In one scene when a young boy sprints up a set of stairs, he bounds up using hands and feet like I always did as a kid, and sometimes still do as an adult. These details in seemingly unimportant animations are things few developers would concern themselves with, and give “Uncharted 3” an air of superior craftsmanship.

The orchestral score does a commendable job of matching the intensity of the action, while reinforcing the PG-13 action adventure movie vibe. The tracks would not sound at all out of place on the soundtrack to “Indiana Jones.” Video game voice acting is at its best when you play through a game without ever thinking about it. If I think about a game’s voice acting while playing it, it is because it’s distracting enough to grab my attention. There are no bad apples in the game’s crop of voice actors, and Nolan North is as charming as ever as the voice of Nathan Drake.

The narrative of “Uncharted 3” is a well-executed, though unambitious, adventure romp in the style of “Indiana Jones.” Characters are largely established action movie archetypes, and there are some instances of extraordinary coincidence and luck to further the plot. While it may elicit a few eye rolls, the story is never boring and provides plenty of excuses for the outrageous action scenes that made “Uncharted” one of this generation’s most popular new franchises.

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Lady Vols get first win over Florida onds.

Pitman and Simmons nowrank ninth and 10th on the Lady Vol The 10th-ranked University of Tennessee Lady Vol swimming & performers list. Florida’s Sarah Bateman won the event in 22.13 secdiving team notched the program's first win over Florida on onds.

In the 100-yard free, Pitman achieved her second B-cut time, Saturday afternoon, downing the second-ranked Gators in dominating fashion, 178-120, on Senior Day at the Allan Jones touching in at 50.12 seconds in the 100-yard free to place second.

Alton just missed achieving a B cut by .03 seconds in a third-place Intercollegiate Aquatic Center. effort of 50.22 seconds.

Before the meet, the Lady Vols (6-1, 3On the 1-meter boards,Orange and White divers 1) honored its nine seniors, then went on took spots one through three. Senior Gabrielle to put on a memorable show, winning 12 Trudeau won the event with score of 314.40, which of the 16 events, breaking five pool was a career-best and ranks as the fifth-best dive in records, one Tennessee record and setUT history. ting numerous season-best and NCAA B“I’m really excited with Gaby's performance,” UT cut times. head diving coach Dave Parrington said. “One“I could talk all day about the way we meter was her career best score and that's always performed,” Lady Vol head coach Matt exciting, especially on Senior Day. For her to step up Kredich said. “This is a really emphatic and really compete when she had to in the competistatement that the team made in who tion was fantastic.” they have become and the way we are Redshirt sophomore Tori Lamp earned second going to continue. I thought our seniors with a score of 287.93, while redshirt junior Jodie were magnificent in the way they raced.”

McGroarty was one spot behind in third after accu“In talking about this meet, our senmulating a six-round total of 282.98. All three of the iors kept saying don’t do it for us. We scores were zone qualifiers. want to swim well, perform well for the McGroarty made it a sweep for the Big Orange team. They didn’t say we have to beat on the boards, winning the 3-meter event with a Florida for the first time. They didn’t say Matthew DeMaria • The Daily Beacon score of 326.70. Trudeau came in third with a tally do it for us. They said, lets perform. The times, the records were all a result of exe- Kate McNeilis swims in the of 307.80 and Lamp finished fourth after a score of cuting some really good race plans and 100-yard backstroke during a 298.88.

“Tori was struggling a little bit today, so for her bringing a lot of confidence and team dual meet against Florida on to be able to scrap and fight for every point was pride to the meet.”

Florida (7-2, 3-2) had won the previ- Saturday, Jan. 28. The Lady exciting to see,” Parrington said. “Jodie was consisous 25 meetings before Saturday, but the Vols honored their nine seniors tent on the 3-meter but we have some things we Big Orange broke that streak to give the prior to stomping the Gators in need to fix. As we get closer to the championship seniors a memory they won't soon forget. the water, delivering a decisive meet, some of the training that we will be doing will be geared towards sharpness and we’ll have some “It is hard to put something like that 178-120 win on Senior Day. competitive style practices. I like where we are at.” (beating UF for the first time) in perspecIn the day’ s final event, the 400-yard free relay, Tennessee put the tive,” Kredich said. “You don’t want to put 25 years of history on one particular team. The team knows they had never beaten them finishing touches on a huge win as Connolly, Simmons, Gendron and Floyd combined for the event victory with a B-cut time of before and maybe there is some mystique about it.”

Tennessee was victorious in the first six events of the day, as the 3:21.43. The quartet of Alton, Frasier, senior Maddie Garrett and 200-yard medley relay squad consisting of senior Jenny Connolly, Pitman also recorded a B-cut mark of 3:24.08 to notch third.

Floyd and Pitman combined for second- and third-place finishes juniors Kelsey Floyd and Caroline Simmons and freshman Molly in the 200y IM. Floyd touched in at 2:01.32, which is a B cut, while Hannis got UT off on the right foot.

The quartet won the event in 1:38.72, which is the ninth-fastest Pitman finished in 2:03.51.

The Gators took the top two spots in the 200-yard back, but mark in Lady Vol history, an NCAA "B" cut and a pool record.

Senior Kirstyn Colonias, junior Abbie Alton and sophomores Kate McNeilis claimed a B cut in the event aftertouching in at 1:59.04.

Tennessee will return to action at the SEC Championships, held McNeilis and Lauren Solernou placed third in the event with a BFeb. 15-18 at the AJIAC. It will be the first time since 2006 that the cut clocking of 1:42.07.

Sophomore Lindsay Gendron grabbed the top spots in the next conference championships will be held in Knoxville. two events, the 1000-yard free and 200-yard free. Her 1000-yard clocking was a Tennessee record; bettering the previous-best readout of 9:40.65 set by Aleksa Akerfelds at last season's Southeastern Conference Championships. The time also ranks second in the country.

In the 200-yard free, the Bloomington, Ill., product earned another B-cut time after touching in at 1:46.45. Sophomore Alexandria Frasier just missed obtaining a B cut by .04 seconds, finishing fifth in 1:48.33.

Gendron won her third individual event on the day in the 500yard free after touching in at 4:45.37.

Four Lady Vols achieved B-cut marks in the 100-yard back, highlighted by Connolly setting a pool record in the event with a seasonbest and B-cut time of 52.83 seconds. Solernou finished runner-up with a mark of 54.14 seconds and McNeilis placed fourth after a readout of 54.94 seconds. Erin Gaeckle swam the event as an exhibition, finishing with the B-cut mark of 55.15 seconds, which ranks her 11th all-time on the UT performers list.

Later in the day Connolly broke another pool record, this time in the 100-yard fly. The West Lafayette, Ind., native claimed first with a time of 52.33 seconds that ranks as the fourth fastest NCAA time.

Connolly’s mark topped Claire Donahue of Western Kentucky, who held the record of 52.83 seconds.

McNeilis claimed third in the event with a time of 55.87 seconds.

Having already owned the pool record in the 200-yard fly, Floyd shattered her AJIAC best mark in the event after a first-place, season-best and B-cut time of 1:55.27. The clocking is the sixth fastest in the nation, and betters her previous top time in Knoxville of 1:55.55, which came against Georgia a year ago.

Hannis became the fourth fastest Lady Vol to swim the 100-yard breast after her first-place and B-cut time of 1:01.15. Colonias also competed in the event and claimed third after a clocking of 1:03.07.

A native of Santa Rosa, Calif., Hannis also grabbed the top spot in the 200-yard breast by making a late surge in the final 25 yards to finish with a time of 2:14.35. Hannis was one of three UT swimmers to earn a B-cut time in event, as Samara Gelb claimed fourth (2:14.88) and Colonias notched fifth (2:15.71).

Three Big Orange swimmers notched B-cut times in the 50-yard free, led by redshirt sophomore Sloane Pitman, who grabbed second after a time of 22.85 seconds. Simmons and Alton claimed third and fourth respectively, touching in at 22.93 seconds and 22.99 sec-

Staff Reports

Monday, January 30, 2012

THESPORTSPAGE

Defense, rebounds send Vols over Auburn Matt Dixon Sports Editor The 1,500th win in Tennessee men’s basketball history wasn’t a pretty one, especially on the offensive end of the court, but five Volunteers scored in double figures in UT’s 64-49 victory over the Auburn Tigers Saturday night in Thompson-Boling Arena.

Behind junior forward Jeronne Maymon’s 15-point, 19-rebound effort, his sixth double-double of the year, the Vols (10-11, 2-4 SEC) were able to control the paint and hold Auburn (12-9, 2-5) to 30.4 percent shooting from the field, including just 6-of-25 in the first half.

“Fifty-three rebounds, seasonhigh for us,” UT coach Cuonzo Martin said. “That’s a lot of rebounds, and Jeronne did a great job of being aggressive around the basket. Forty-nine points given up total on the defensive side of the ball, I thought we did a good job of being assertive and being aggressive.”

Maymon’s 19 rebounds were the second most in his career. His career-high is 20 against Memphis in the Maui Invitational earlier this season.

“When me and (freshman forward Jarnell Stokes) are in, they can’t send two guys to block me out,” Maymon said. “So it’s better when I can go one-on-one to get the rebound.”

Sophomore guard Trae Golden scored 13, junior guard Skylar McBee added 12 and Stokes and sophomore guard Jordan McRae each had 11 points. The only other Vol to score was freshman center Yemi Makanjuola, who had a bucket in the first half.

“We’ve had really good inside play,” McBee said. “As the guards, we have to step up and we have

make shots. We didn’t shoot very well tonight, but I think we’ll keep our heads up and keep working.”

The balanced scoring effort for UT came on 34.5 percent shooting (20-of-58), including 4-of-20 beyond the arc. Martin noted that Auburn’s zone defense gave UT a different look and affected the team’s play offensively, but he was pleased with the defensive effort.

“We want to be good on both ends, but like I told the guys, we shot under 40 percent from the field and won the game because we rebounded and defended,” Martin said. “That’s what you hang your hat on, the defensive side of the ball.”

In addition to his third doublefigure scoring output in his five games as a Vol, Stokes had six rebounds, four steals, two blocks and two assists.

Golden, UT’s leading scorer on the year averaging 13.1 points per game, had an off night shooting, despite scoring his average. He was 2-of-9 from the field (1-of-3 from 3-point range), but was a perfect 8-of-8 from the free-throw line.

“It’s a long season, our offense comes and goes,” Golden said.

“As long as we win, everything else doesn’t matter, man. Us missing shots or not, we just have to continue to take the open shots and just be ready to make them.”

Up next for UT is a trip to Rupp Arena in Lexington, Ky., to take on No. 1 Kentucky on Tuesday.

The Wildcats rallied late for a 6562 victory over the Vols in Knoxville on Jan. 14.

“Whenever a team wins in Rupp Arena, it doesn’t matter if it’s us or Duke or anybody, it’s a big win,” Golden said. “That’s a game we’re going to look forward to winning, and I think we have a great chance.”