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Anthropologist details bizarre forensic cases Celebrated forensic anthropologist describes experiences with four most intriguing cases of a lack of evidence that he had killed the women.

Rob Davis “There has been more money Staff Writer spent on this case in the judicial system in Tennessee than any case in William Bass, renowned forensic anthropologist and the history of Tennessee, and they author of several fiction and non-fiction novels as well as the had a hung jury,” Bass said.

The second case involved an East founder of the “Body Farm,” recounted four of the most Tennessee State University student interesting cases throughout his career. who had been shot and later burned “There is nothing that after the murderers had tried people like to see more to hide the evidence. than death and destruc“The victim was shot tion,” Bass said. “Tonight through the back of the we’re going to talk a little head, coming out through about death and destructhe mandible,” Bass said. tion.”

For this specific case, it The first case depicted by was important for the Bass involved the murder of forensic anthropologists four prostitutes in Knoxville. to be able to piece togethDuring his discussion of er the bones in order to the case, Bass recounted the Tara Sripunvoraskul • The Daily Beacon identify the cause of death story of the suspect, Mr. Kimberly Hinchey, sign-language interpreter, shows Dr. Bill Bass how to sign “I to the victim.

Husky, beating up prostilove you” after his lecture on Tuesday, Feb. 8. Bass, author and founder of the Bass discussed the tutes instead of paying them.

Body Farm, recounted odd tales from his work in the field of forensic science. murder of a 15-year-old Throughout his recountAfrican-American boy for said. “To make a long story short, Colonel Shy was a 26-yearing of the story, Bass showed his third case. old white man who had been dead 113 years. I had only pictures of some of the susIn the case, the body decay was so bad that the missed it (by) 112 years.” pects who were found on the victim could not be identified by conventional Bass gave the speech to a packed Cox Auditorium and case while injecting some – Dr. Bill Bass on his work as a forensic antropologist methods. stuck around to sign books and take pictures after the humor.

“This is a 15-year-old, black high-school student speech.

“Any time you drive up to Students who attended the lecture seemed to enjoy it. a crime scene and find a condom stuck to your tire, you know from an indigent family, and he has never been to the dentist or the hospital, therefore he has no records of identification,” “I thought the speech was wonderful,” Maggie Weaver, this is going to be a good case,” he said.

Bass detailed the case by teaching the crowd how the bod- Bass said. “We have a picture of the skull and a picture of the freshman in electrical engineering, said. “It was a great opportunity to listen to a famous anthropologist speak and to ies were found by getting a group together and doing a line boy, and we can superimpose the two.”

The final case involved a historical case in Nashville. listen to his experiences.” search, how the identity of the bodies were found by fingerColonel William Shy’s cast-iron coffin was broken into, The speech was held Tuesday at Cox Auditorium in the printing the corpses, as well as how animals interact with the and the flesh was still present on the bones of the Colonel.

Alumni Memorial Building, and all the money raised from dead bodies.

“Looking at the body, I said, ‘What you have here is a 28- ticket sales went to support the Undergraduate Although the bodies were identified and the cause of death was determined, Husky could not be put in jail because year-old white male who has been dead for a year,’” Bass Anthropology Association on campus.

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Bank defends inaction in Madoff fraud

Associated Press NEW YORK — JPMorgan Chase, the bank where Bernard Madoff kept his clients’ money, said in a court filing Tuesday that it had no legal obligation to figure out that the Ponzi king’s investment scheme was a fraud.

The bank is defending itself against a $6.4 billion lawsuit filed this month by the courtappointed trustee trying to restore all of the money Madoff stole to its rightful owners. In the suit, trustee Irving Picard claimed the bank had suspected for years that something was amiss with Madoff’s operation. He cited internal e-mails and documents in which bank officials expressed concerns about the secretive nature of Madoff’s office, and an apparent disconnect between his stellar profit margins and the market’s performance.

Firing back, JPMorgan said in a lengthy court filing that Picard was effectively trying to get the courts to create new law holding banks to much tougher accountability standards.

“The trustee is entirely wrong in asserting that JPMorgan violated any federal statutes or regulations; quite simply, the trustee’s interpretation of federal banking law would impose broad investigative duties on banks that do not exist,” the bank’s lawyers wrote.

The bank also challenged Picard’s legal standing to bring the case. JPMorgan said that as the trustee for Madoff’s company, he had no authority to bring what amounted to “an enormous backdoor class action” on behalf of Madoff’s customers.

JPMorgan said the case should be tossed out of bankruptcy court and brought instead in a federal district court, where the two sides could fight it out before a jury.

“JPMorgan has a statutory right to litigate this case — in which it is falsely accused of complicity in the largest securities fraud in Andrea Stockard • The Daily Beacon U.S. history,” the court filing said.

Vic Gatto, partner of Solidus Capital, gives students a brief overview of his responThe request to move the case was pendsibilities at Vol Court on Tuesday, Feb. 1. Vol Court is a series of workshops aimed at ing before a judge and is not likely to be giving students a crash course in starting a business. It will meet every Tuesday until acted on immediately.

March 22 at 5:15 p.m. in Room 701 of Stokely Management Center.

Couple jailed for ill treatment of girl

Associated Press DAYTON, Ohio — An Ohio couple who kept a 9-year-old girl in a barricaded bathroom for years when she wasn’t in school are in jail after the girl told a school nurse about how she was being treated, police said Wednesday.

Dayton police Sgt. Larry Tolpin said Brian G. Hart, 50, and Rivae Hart, 49, were in the Montgomery County jail on kidnapping and child endangering charges under $50,000 bond. No attorney was listed for them.

The girl, Rivae Hart’s granddaughter, was kept in an area consisting of a halfbathroom and a small edge of a hallway blocked by two stacked dressers topped by a wooden mattress board, Tolpin said Wednesday. He said the girl slept on a cot with only a blanket.

“It was a deplorable situation,” Tolpin said.

The Harts have been the legal guardians of the girl and her 8-year-old brother since 2004.

The brother and the Harts’ 12-year-old and 14-year-old sons were not confined, Tolpin

said. All of the children are now in foster care.

Tolpin said the couple say they confined the girl because of behavioral problems.

“Apparently that was their assessment when at age 3 she hit her 2-year-old brother on the head with a plastic telephone,” Tolpin said.

The fourth-grader has had no problems at school, he said.

“She is articulate and very intelligent,” Tolpin said.

Police were contacted last month by Montgomery County Job and Family Services after the girl confided in a school nurse. The Harts were arrested Jan. 27 and indicted Feb. 4.

Agency spokeswoman Ann Stevens confirmed that the girl was singled out for the treatment, the Dayton Daily News newspaper reported.

The girl told police that meals were inconsistent and that the Harts allowed her out for school and when people visited the home — the last time apparently at Christmas 2007, Tolpin said.

“I assume that made her distrustful about disclosing anything to adults,” Tolpin said.

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Lauren Gregg, sophomore pre-communication major, disk jockeys at WUTK, UT’s own college radio, on Tuesday. WUTK has been chosen as a candidate for mtvU's Woodie Award for Top College Radio Station. Fans have until Feb. 15 to vote at http://radiowoodie.ratemyprofessor.com/. The mtvU Woodie Awards will air live on Mar. 16 at midnight.

Crime Log Feb. 8

with UT.

A UT staff member reported that someone had vandalized four locks on the main entrance gate of the Telephone Services storage area in the warehouse of the Kingston Pike Building, some time between 5 p.m. on March 28, 2008, and 7 a.m. on Feb. 8, 2011.

A student reported that someone had stolen parts from her gray 2009 Chevrolet Tahoe while it was parked in the C8 parking lot at McClung Museum between 9:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m.

A UT student reported that some items were stolen from his room in Reese Hall some time between 9 a.m. and 10 a.m. The value of the unspecified stolen items was $89.

At approximately 11:09 a.m., a student was hit by a car on Volunteer Boulevard at Melrose Avenue. The suspect is unaffiliated

Around 3:15 a.m., a UTPD officer reported to Hodges Library in response to a report of two suspicious male subjects on the first floor of the building. The officer found the suspects asleep in a common area on the first floor. The suspects, both unaffiliated with UT, were arrested for criminal trespassing and for outstanding warrants.

— Crime Log is compiled by Robbie Hargett

Compiled from a media log provided to the Daily Beacon by the Universty of Tennessee Police Department.

All persons arrested are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. People with names similar or identical to those listed may not be those identified in reports.

1996: Kasparov loses chess game to computer On this day in 1996, after three hours, world chess champion Gary Kasparov loses the first game of a six-game match against Deep Blue, an IBM computer capable of evaluating 200 million moves per second. Man was ultimately victorious over machine, however, as Kasparov bested Deep Blue in the match with three wins and two ties and took home the $400,000 prize. An estimated 6 million people worldwide followed the action on the Internet.

Kasparov had previously defeated Deep Thought, the prototype for Deep Blue developed by IBM researchers in 1989, but he and other chess grandmasters had, on occasion, lost to computers in games that lasted an hour or less. The February 1996 contest was significant in that it represented the first time a human and a computer had duked it out in a regulation, six-game match, in which each player had two hours to make 40 moves, two hours to finish the next 20 moves and then another 60 minutes to wrap up the game.

Kasparov, who was born in 1963 in Baku, Azerbaijan, became the Soviet Union’s junior chess champion at age 13 and in 1985, at age 22, the youngest world champ ever when he beat legendary Soviet player Anatoly Karpov. Considered by many to be the greatest chess player in the history of the game, Kasparov was known for his swashbuckling style of play and his ability to switch tactics mid-game.

In 1997, a rematch took place between Kasparov and an enhanced Deep Blue. Kasparov won the first game, the computer the second, with the next three games a draw. On May 11, 1997, Deep Blue came out on top with a surprising sixth game win — and the $700,000 match prize.

In 2003, Kasparov battled another computer program, “Deep Junior.” The match ended in a tie.

Kasparov retired from professional chess in 2005.

— This Day in History is courtesy of history.com

Thursday, February 10, 2011

UT historian receives grant to study role of small villages in Ancient Near East A UT archaeologist who excavates ancient villages in the Near East has received a grant to reshape the modern understanding of the region’s political, economic and social structure by studying its smallest rural settlements.

J.P. Dessel, a UT historian who specializes in Bronze and Iron Age villages of ancient Israel, has received a $50,000 award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) that will allow him to integrate his own research with other studies to show how rural villages affected the social landscape of ancient Israel, otherwise dominated by major cities like Jerusalem and Megiddo.

Dessel’s research award marks the 10th in a string of NEH grants to UT faculty since 2004, putting UT among the top seven institutions nationwide in the number of NEH grants during that period. Nationally only 7 percent of applicants received an NEH fellowship in 2010.

Dessel’s own excavations have focused on two tiny village sites near Nazareth — Tell el-Wawiat and Tell ’Ein Zippori — that were occupied between 1550 and 1000 B.C.E., but his yearlong study will include a review of other archaeological data from village sites.

His focus on a rural heartland will offer a contrast to urban-focused archaeology that emphasizes ancient texts and elite culture.

Dessel, who holds a Ph.D. from the University of

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Arizona, joined the UT faculty in 1999 as an assistant professor of Jewish and ancient Near Eastern history.

In 2005 he was named Steinfeld Associate Professor of ancient Near Eastern archaeology and history. He serves jointly in the history department and the Steinfeld Program in Judaic Studies.

The success of UTfaculty in winning NEH research fellowships is part of an ongoing initiative to make the university one of the top 25 public institutions in the nation in both scientific research and humanities scholarship. Only Notre Dame, Michigan, Ohio State, Princeton, Harvard and Texas have won more NEH fellowships in the past seven years. The University of California, Irvine, and Washington University share the seventh ranking with UT. UT teams up with WNBA star, former Lady Vol to help at-risk students WNBA star and former Lady Vol Tamika Catchings will be at UT Monday at 11:15 a.m. in the ThompsonBoling Arena media room to help announce a collaboration involving her Catch the Stars Foundation and UT ’s College of Education, Health and Human Sciences (CEHHS) and its Institute for Leadership, Ethics and Diversity (I-LEAD) program.

She will be joined by Lady Vols Coach Pat Summitt, CEHHS Dean Bob Rider, and Fritz Polite, I-LEAD founding director and clinical professor of sport management.

UT and Catchings are teaming up to help at-risk high school students in Knoxville.

Catchings began Catch the Stars Foundation in 2004 to empower youth to achieve their dreams by providing goal-setting programs that promote literacy, fitness and mentoring.

UT will help bring Catchings’ foundation to Knoxville to help at-risk students through mentoring, leadership development, goal-setting, character development and career exploration. I-LEAD Director Fritz G. Polite, Catch the Stars Foundation Executive Director Lori Satterfield and Bob Rider, dean of the college, will facilitate the program.

Catchings is a two-time NCAA Champion (1997 and 1998) and winner of the 2000 Naismith Award, an

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James Hitchcock, sophomore in physics and math, and Thomas Robacker, junior in physics and math, discuss horror movies in a lobby on the ground floor of Ayres Hall on Friday, Jan. 14.

Ayres Hall reopened this semester after two years of rennovations.

annual basketball award named in honor of James Naismith, who invented basketball in 1891. The award is given annually by the Atlanta Tipoff Club to the top men’s and women’s collegiate basketball players.

She recently was named one of the “Top 5 Most Positive Athletes in the World” by the United Nations NGO Voting Academy. Additionally, she is one of 10 finalists for the Jefferson Awards, known as the “Nobel Prize of community service,” that will be announced in March.

After her UT career, Catchings was drafted in the first round by the WNBA’s Indiana Fever. She was named WNBA Rookie of the Year (2002), has played in the WNBA All Star Game six times, has been part of the All WNBA team six times and was part of the WNBA All Decade Team. She was named WNBA Defensive Player of the Year (2005, 2006, 2009, 2010). In 2010, she won the Kim Perrot Sportsmanship Award, which exemplifies the ideals of sportsmanship on the court: ethical behavior, fair play and integrity.

Catchings is also a two-time Olympic Gold Medalist (2004 and 2008), a World Basketball Championships Bronze Medalist and a World Championships Gold Medalist (2010).

Aaron Beam, co -founder and former CFO of HealthSouth, to speak at UT Aaron Beam, co-founder and former CFO of HealthSouth will speak at UT on Wednesday from 5:15-6:15 p.m. in the UC Auditorium. A “meet-andgreet” reception will immediately follow the event in UC room 227.

Beam, the former millionaire-turned-yardman, will tell his tale of getting involved in corporate fraud and going to federal prison.

HealthSouth was one of the nation’s most successful health care companies, but when earnings fell short, Beam and others began to “cook the books.” By 2003, HealthSouth paid more money in taxes to the federal government than it legitimately earned the previous year. In August 2005, Beam was sentenced to jail for his role in the fraud.

The event is free and open to the public.

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LettersEditor

to the Alum proposes smoking privileges Dear Sean/Beacon,

I graduated from UT last year and still read the Beacon online from time to time. I have never been a smoker and, like you, I never enjoy walking through a tobacco cloud. Your claim that doing so is unhealthy, however, is unsubstantiated. While many studies have suggested that secondhand smoke is unhealthy, there has never been any statistically significant evidence to prove it. The relevant studies themselves mention that they have not found any statistically significant results, but newspaper reporters tend to leave those parts of the studies out of their articles.

For more information on the subject, visit http://www.nycclash.com/triplerisk.html.

Having disposed of the argument that secondhand smoke is a known health risk, I nevertheless find myself in moved agreement with your assessment of the campus smoking problem. While they do not pose a health risk to innocent bystanders, free-wheeling smokers do some harm to others. In a legal sense, a person cannot be said to have a “right” to do anything that directly injures another. As the famous adage states, “my right to swing my fist ends at another man’s nose.” In a public setting, the “right” to breathe smoke-free air is more compelling than the “right” to smoke.

Redress must be made available to the party injured by secondhand smoke. A ban on campus smoking, however expedient, is not the best solution. The ban will be difficult to enforce and addicts are unlikely to adhere to it. A better solution is to find a way for smokers to make restitution for the injury caused by secondhand smoke. For example, the school could sell smoking permits, requiring students (and other campus-goers) to purchase the privilege of smoking on campus grounds. If the added revenue from those permits is offset by lowering the Student Activities fee, students suffering from secondhand smoke will receive real financial compensation from the smokers themselves.

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Health care ruling example to conservatives Immut abl y Right by

Treston Wheat Although Congress passed the health care law last spring, the health care debate is far from over. A judge named Roger Vinson in Florida negated the entire bill.

He argued that because the “individual mandate” was unconstitutional and was the quintessence of the bill, he had to void the entire law. This whole situation is complicated, because two judges from Virginia and Michigan upheld the law, one judge from Virginia only overturned the individual mandate and now Vinson said that his ruling must go into effect immediately.

There are many implications to all of this. Judge Vinson did not enjoin the bill since he said he voided the whole thing, which means that states do not know whether they should follow it or not. Georgia said it will continue until the final ruling on the bill, but Florida has now cancelled the $1 million grant from the Department for Health and Human Services to create the bureaucracy the bill would need.

When making his decision, Vinson betrayed his bias as an Originalist in the same fold as Supreme Court justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas. His argument focuses on the Commerce Clause of the Constitution and the Federalist Papers, a collective written by James Madison, John Jay and Alexander Hamilton.

Judge Vinson was right in his ruling and for his reasoning, and it is a good thing that he overturned the act.

First, according to his argument, the individual mandate does not fall within the Commerce Clause, and it therefore cannot fall within the Necessary and Proper Clause. For reference, the Commerce Clause gives the government the power “(to) regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes.”

The government may only regulate commerce when it is in a state of activity. The activity upheld by the courts is either interstate commerce, instrumentalities of interstate commerce or activities that have a “substantial relation” to interstate commerce. Notice that actions are a prerequisite. People must already be engaging in

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business for Congress to have the power to regulate.

Even the most important case on this clause agrees with this. Gibbons v. Ogden states, “(c)ommerce, undoubtedly, is traffic, but it is something more: it is intercourse.” In Federalist 34, Hamilton even argues that commerce does not include manufacturing or agriculture.

The idea that Congress can pass an “individual mandate” was literally unprecedented under the Commerce Clause, at least as a federal action. Part of the issues in question is the limits of the federal government.

The 10th Amendment gives to the states all the powers not formally outlined in the Constitution. Federalism is an important part of our country, and it has helped determine our success.

The health care law tries to centralize authority in a way that is nigh tyrannical. It breaches the separation between federal and state powers, and it gives to the federal government more power than any framer of the Constitution could have foreseen, even Hamilton, who valued an energetic executive. It is ultimately unconstitutional, though, not because it is unprecedented, but because it tries to compel the inactive to be active.

One of my favorite quotes from Vinson’s ruling, though lengthy, rather exemplifies why the law is unconstitutional.

“It is difficult to imagine that a nation which began, at least in part, as the result of opposition to a British mandate giving the East India Company a monopoly and imposing a nominal tax on all tea sold in America would have set out to create a government with the power to force people to buy tea in the first place.” Obamacare definitely infringes on the individual’s right to be inactive, if he or she so chooses.

The essential nature of the debate is about the idea of what it means to be American. Admittedly, this idea has changed over time, but that does not mean we conservatives should not stand up for what we see as America. Conservatives do not believe in an America where the government infringes on our basic civil liberties. Conservatives do not believe in an America where the government dictates to the family what its options are. Conservatives do not believe in an America where the government centralizes control over people’s daily lives. I am glad that Judge Vinson had the good sense to overturn the entire law. I just hope that the Supreme Court will follow suit. The health care system has a plethora of problems; most people are well aware of that. However, passing an unconstitutional law does nothing to help.

—Treston Wheat is a senior in political science and history. He can be reached at twheat@utk.edu.

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Glance over the thousands of Facebook, Twitter and various other social networking pages of students, faculty and staff at this university, and I would dare say that they all have at least one thing in common: quotes. They are usually quotations from the noteworthy, be it in media, sports, academia or other avenues of life that lend themselves to acclaim. In any case, they are usually phrases that either provide amusement or some personal meaning for the owner of that particular page. My Facebook is no different, featuring the following quote from revered and recently deceased comedian George Carlin: “Scratch any cynic and you’ll find a disappointed idealist.”

Now, Carlin compiled some real zingers in the lengthy duration of his career, many of which resonate to me, but none strike a chord as much as that one. Though it has many applications, the phrase leapt into my mind Monday afternoon for reasons I will soon explain.

When I came to UT, I was, like so many young students, an idealist. This was especially true in my largely liberal political ideology, as everything was black and white, good or bad, and there was little to no room for question or deviation. As time progressed and I got farther and farther into the upper-division offerings of the political science department, I started to discover that things were not as simple as I once thought and that a rather sizable gray area exists between the two extremes. Such is now the case with my political mindset and such is the case with the unrest in Egypt.

And now, as Paul Harvey used to say, the rest of the story.

As I was heading for the library from the Humanities building Monday afternoon, I came upon the “demonstration” organized by UT students and faculty as a showing of support for those rising up against the established order in Egypt. With yellow posterboard decorated with all sorts of phrases, Granny Smith apples and a few tables offering tea to passersby, they proclaimed their support for the cause of the rebelling Egyptian citizens and their intolerance of the “tyrannical” rule of President Hosni Mubarak. After brushing aside a few offers of conversation about the

topic, I climbed the stairs to the Pedestrian Mall and turned to survey the group.

Now, do not get me wrong, their hearts were in the right place. Ideally, the U.S. and its citizens should do everything we possibly can to promote liberty and democracy around the world, free and fair elections, and all of that other star-spangled crap politicians and talking heads feed us on a daily basis. This idealistic, peace-loving lot was gathered to voice its opposition to Mubarak’s reign of more than 30 years, which has included some shady dealings with regards to his methods for retaining office. Furthermore, in a perfect world, their calls for the U.S. to focus on our problems at home and stay out of other nations’ affairs would be welcome.

Regardless of the intent of their rally, the situation is not as cut and dry as they and others who carry a similar message might assume.

It is true that unrest has been growing in Egypt for years. Mubarak has ruled since the assassination of Anwar El Sadat in 1981, and his administration and political party has been backed by the United States for the duration of his tenure. Over the course of 30 years, Egypt has, thanks to this unwaveringly moderate regime, experienced unheard-of profits from the extraction and exportation of oil and natural gas, has acted as a voice of moderation and stability between the Arab region and Israel, and has recently assisted in efforts against terror organizations.

These protests? However grass-roots they may seem, many believe that they are either supported or have actually been organized by the Muslim Brotherhood organization. This group, which, like Osama bin Laden, supports the establishment of an Islamic Caliphate in the Muslim world, has attempted to democratically seize power only to be stopped in its extremist tracks by the moderate Mubarak. Because of these protests, Mubarak’s regime has resigned from power, though he still remains (even after pressure from a newly unsympathetic U.S. President Barack Obama).

They may demand the U.S. mind its own business and stay out of the way, but what happens in Egypt has an impact here. Mubarak’s regime has helped keep the region stable and made sure oil and natural gas reserves and pipelines are secure. We have an interest in propping him up.

Carlin was right, but this “disappointed idealist” just understands that nothing is black and white.

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

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Local band exhibits comprehensive sound Madre to release first full-length album, compete in local Sound Off band competition Brittney Dougherty Staff Writer When Andrew Sayne was 17, his mother died. The word “madre” climbs his right forearm in tattoo form to commemorate her.

Two years later, Sayne and his then-coworker Stephen Osborne decided to form a band with mutual friends Alex Melin and Bryan Norris.

Naming the band was a difficult process, and many names were thrown around, like the “ The Red-Haired Sliders,” which is a type of turtle.

They all finally decided on Madre.

“I’d always kind of wanted to start a band called Madre just because I feel like it’s allencompassing,” Sayne, guitarist-vocalist of the group, said. “Music is sort of a metaphorical mother for us.”

Osborne, the lead vocalist and guitarist, agreed that Madre seemed like a good fit.

“Madre, to me, sounded like something that should be out there,” he said.

According to the band’s Myspace page, its influences range from The Flaming Lips to Radiohead. The music reflects a wide range of influences and interests.

“We don’t try to specifically make a signature sound,” Osborne said. “We just kind of write what feels natural. One thing I like about playing our songs is that I don’t feel like I’m playing the same song over and over again.”

Madre competed in the Square Room’s Sound Off competition both in 2010 and this year. The band won its competition on Feb. 2 and will compete again Wednesday, March 2, in the finals.

The competition pits two bands against each other, which must play two original songs as well as a cover.

While the band members were touring the Square Room in preparation for last year’s Sound Off competition, they ran into Marcy Playground, the band known best for its hit song “Sex and Candy.”

A guide showed the band members a room where they could spend the night, but the room was already occupied by Marcy Playground.

“The lead singer, in one arm, has a whole sleeve of white bread and in the other arm has a big bag of deli

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turkey,” Sayne said. “He’s standing there eating like a million little sandwiches and none of them ever said a word.”

After a few minutes, the tour guide realized the mistake and Madre was directed out of the room.

Madre will perform on Friday night at the Pilot Light. The show will also feature Plainclothes Tracy and Jake Winstrom, who was part of the band Tenderhooks before it broke up.

“That is our favorite local band of Knoxville that has ever existed,” Osborne said. “We were very sad when they decided to call it quits.”

The members said they were excited to play with Winstrom Friday night.

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“We’ve been trying to play gigs with him for years,” Osborne said.

In addition to his musical responsibilities, Sayne is in charge of booking events and public relations. He is trying to put together a short tour through the southeast in late April.

Madre has recorded two EPs and is currently working on its first full-length album. The EPs were recorded in the apartment of one of the band members, and the covers were handmade by the group as well.

The full-length, however, is different.

“This is the first time we’ve not gone D-I-Y (do it yourself),” Sayne said. The band is recording the untitled album at Eric Nowinski’s Rock Snob Records in the 4th and Gill neighborhood.

“We’ve all been in other bands and recorded professionally before, but this is Madre’s first time recording a complete album,” Osborne said. The album should be complete within a few months and will be available in stores and on iTunes.

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6 • The Daily Beacon

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Vols, Pearl searching for consistency Senior DeRocco ready to close strong bright. And it was his relationship with Trembley that brought him to UT. Staff Writer “I’m here because of that man right there,” Mike DeRocco said, pointing to Trembley. “J.T. DeRocco is an brought me in and gave me a chance. He introspective came from the same area as me, and that really helped.” person.

Since arriving in Knoxville, DeRocco has DeRocco, senior swim- made his presence known not only in the mer from pool, but out of the water as well.

“He has spizzerinctum,” Trembley said.

Niskayuna, N.Y., did not “That means the will to achieve. And when have an all- you have that, you commit an inordinate encompassing amount of time and energy to success. Mike answer to has that.”

Spizzerinctum is not a word known in define what many circles outside the swim team, but since Michael DeRocco his personality is. Instead, legendary coach Ray Bussard, this word has the words he used are a perfect example of his carried a special meaning for everyone in the program. journey in life.

“It’s a big part of the history of Tennessee “There’s not a simple answer,” DeRocco said. “It changes. … Sometimes, I’m just dif- swimming,” DeRocco said. “I think it is part of being a Vol swimmer.” ferent than before.”

When DeRocco is not channeling his drive DeRocco’s journey to his current standing for success into his hours in the pool, he likes as a captain of the to keep his life diverse UT swim team has and changing. been full of changes.

He has no favorite A decorated highband, citing Modest school swimmer Mouse and Radiohead as early in his career, only two examples. He DeRocco became likes to watch “The burned out following Ultimate Fighter” and his sophomore year “Jersey Shore” on TV, and took time off quickly adding that from the sport. He although he was Mike did not swim again “The Situation” for until his senior year.

Halloween, his favorite “There was a lot “Shore” cast members of stuff going on,” are Vinny and Pauly D. DeRocco said. “I got And when it comes into a bad social down to hobbies, scene and partied DeRocco likes to keep more than I should things “extreme.” have. I felt, especial“I like doing extreme ly on my club team, – Michael DeRocco things, you know, cliff that I just didn’t fit on his passion for swimming jumping and stuff,” in.

DeRocco said. “I used to “… But I missed it. skateboard, but lately I’ve I would always think stopped so that I could limit the risk of getabout the good times. The major thing that brought me back was the question of, ‘What ting hurt.”

DeRocco has come a long way from his if?’ That really drove me.”

DeRocco said he came back with very few sophomore sabbatical. With only the SEC and expectations for himself, but whatever rust he NCAA Championships left, he has only a couple more races in his college career to make had quickly went away.

In New York’s high-school state swim the same mark he did in high school.

“I want to give my all for every race,” meet, DeRocco came back in fine fashion, breaking a 35-year-old record in the 50-yard DeRocco said. “And whatever happens will free. Coincidentally, the previous record-hold- happen.”

While some might view this attitude in a er was none other than his current head bad light, this is exactly what Trembley wants coach, John Trembley.

“I was happy,” Trembley said. “As a coach, to see out of his swimmer.

“At this point in the year, Mike realizes you want to see the sport progress.”

Before returning from swimming, that the work is done,” he said. “And you got DeRocco said he did not have college as a to just relax your mind, and look forward to future plan. But after his performance during the fruits of their labors. He’s just got to let it his senior year, his swimming future became happen.”

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The major

thing that

brought me back

was the question of, ‘What if?’

That really drove me.

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Matt Dixon Sports Editor Is it time to hit the panic button on the Tennessee men’s basketball team following its double-digit loss to archrival Kentucky in Lexington on Tuesday?

Not just yet.

The Volunteers’ toughness left a lot to be desired. Senior guard Josh Bone said the team just got “punked” by the Wildcats.

However, they were fighting an uphill battle from the start.

Bruce Pearl returned to the coaching box for the first time in SEC play this season after serving his eight-game conference suspension imposed by commissioner Mike Slive.

While Pearl and associate head coach Tony Jones, who assumed the role of acting head coach during those eight games, have worked together for 10 seasons, the two have very contrasting coaching styles.

Pearl is much more animated, while Jones coaches with a more laid-back attitude.

The change in coaching styles can have an impact on the players during a game.

Take Jones’ first game as the Vols’ headman, a 68-65 loss on the road at Arkansas on Jan. 8.

UT looked out of sync early against the Razorbacks, before rallying in the second half and nearly escaping Fayetteville with a victory.

Pearl returned for one game on January 22, the matchup against Connecticut. The Vols lost that game, too 72-61. Then came

Tuesday night’s 73-61 loss to Kentucky, the first double-digit conference loss for Tennessee this season.

Luckily for the Vols, the coaching carousel ended Tuesday. Pearl will coach the Vols the rest of the way.

How far into March that way goes is still up in the air.

The Vols’ postseason aspirations begin with the ankles of its two best players, junior guard Scotty Hopson and freshman forward Tobias Harris.

Hopson returned to the starting lineup Tuesday after missing the previous two games with a left ankle sprain he suffered in practice on Jan. 31.

Hopson showed toughness against Kentucky and battled to score 11 points, while Harris had arguably his worst game as a Vol. Harris injured his right ankle in the Ole Miss game on Jan. 29.

On Monday, Pearl said it will take about three more weeks for Harris’ ankle to get back to 100 percent.

Unfortunately for Pearl, Hopson’s sprain was worse than Harris’. Putting two and two together, Hopson will basically need a month to return to full strength.

But the Vols don’t have that luxury.

A mid-December slide against less-talented teams, as well as conference home losses to Florida and Alabama, has put the Vols in position to miss the NCAA Tournament if they don’t regain the play that beat top-10 teams Villanova and Pittsburgh early in the year.

—Matt Dixon is a senior in journalism and electronic media. He can be reached at mdixon3@utk.edu and followed on twitter at twitter.com/mattdixon3.