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UT anniversary illuminates student creativity African Studies class prompts poet to explore history through work, “I am Alive” Christopher Thomas Staff Writer Jessica Session, junior in psychology, received a standing ovation from more than 100 students and visitors during UT’s 50th-anniversary celebration of acceptance of the first African-American citizens to the university.

Session’s poem was one of the highlights of the day’s event, presented just before the keynote speech of the anniversary day.

Session originally entered the auditorium and found a seat in the audience, close enough to stage so she could enter and exit quickly after she read her piece. However, an assistant who found her said she had a place on the main floor with the individuals and families.

“That’s what brought most of the jitters upon me,” Simmons said.

She said that she was honored to just share the stage with the people regarded as innovators and pioneers of the university.

“When they called my name, I just thought, ‘This is it,’” she said. “And that was my inspiration. I just wanted to tell them how brave they were.”

“It is still segregated, not by law, but you can see it,” Session had little time to prepare. She was notified only a week before that she was chosen from several indi- Session said. “And I don’t think it should be that way.

Some in the audience said they were amazed by viduals to read her poem at the milestone event. The iniSession’s poem. tial shock was that her poetry “I was blown away by the poem,” would be heard by the people who Bertin Louis, assistant professor of gave her this opportunity. anthropology and Africana studies, The original poem was written said. “While I stood up with the rest of for her African Studies class, and the room to give Jessica a standing the class gave her the drive to write ovation, I remarked to one of my colsomething about African-American leagues, ‘That was Africana Studies history, her history.

201 and 202 in a nutshell.’”

In the days before her presentaLouis said her poem made him tion, Session spent several hours proud to be at UT. every day reciting the poem and even “I feel the poem captured how the had help from her sister in critiquing past shapes the present — one of the her work. themes that students learn in my “As many times as you say it, there courses,” he said. “I also found the is nothing like the heat you feel on – Jessica Session poem inspiring, and it made me feel that last run-through before you go on on preparing her poem proud to be of African descent and to stage,” Session said. be a part of the UTK community. I also “I am Alive” is the title of the poem, and Sessions wanted people to know that nothing was very proud of Jessica and was touched that my class can kill a dream, no matter what struggle you are going could inspire her to write and perform something so brilliant, thought-provoking and inspiriational.” through in life.

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Rep. senator to step down in 2012 Associated Press

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Gerrit Seebeck, journalism major, takes a German dish out of the oven at the I-House Cooking Demonstration during German Week.

PHOENIX — Arizona Republican Jon Kyl said Thursday he won’t seek re-election to a fourth term in the U.S. Senate in 2012, creating another open seat as Republicans try to take back control.

Kyl, the second-ranking Republican in the Senate, said at a news conference that it was time to give someone else a shot at the seat he’s held since 1994.

“There is no other reason than the fact it is time,” Kyl said of his decision to retire after 2012.

“It is time for me to do something else and time to give someone else a chance.”

Kyl, 68, whose father was a congressman from Iowa, served 10 years in the U.S. House before being elected to the Senate. He was re-elected twice, most recently in 2006 when he beat developer Jim Pederson, a former state Democratic Party chairman.

“I think it’s a big loss for the country,” Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell said of his No. 2 at the Conservative Political Action Conference, an annual gathering of party activists. “The good news is that he’ll be here for the next two years.”

Kyl said he’ll spend those years forming a coalition with other senators who have announced their retirements to work without political pressures on tough issues like immigration reform.

He said he does not know what he will do after he leaves office, but it won’t involve elected office.

“Some people stay too long, and there are other things to do in life,” Kyl said.

“I never expected to be in office for 26 years.”

Kyl is the fifth senator to announce plans to retire, with Jim Webb, D-Va., Kent Conrad, D-N.D., Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, and Joseph Lieberman, I-Conn., all leaving after 2012.

The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee said Kyl’s decision made the seat “a prime pickup opportunity.

Democrats have won several statewide races in the past decade, but Republicans still lead in voter registration and were hugely successful in the midterm elections.

“This is the Republican Party’s seat to lose,” said Doug Cole, a Republican political consultant who is an adviser and former campaign aide to

Republican Gov. Jan Brewer.

“We have a deep bench of potential candidates whereas the other party’s bench is lacking.”

Rep. Gabrielle Giffords had been mentioned as a strong Democratic candidate for the seat before she was shot in the head at a political event one month ago.

Giffords is undergoing therapy at a Houston rehabilitation center, and her status as a potential candidate for re-election to the House or the Senate seat is unknown.

Kyl has a reputation as a hardworking conservative who toiled on home-state and national issues, particularly ones involving national defense and judiciary topics, while being overshadowed for years by the state’s senior senator, fellow Republican John McCain.

Kyl most recently made headlines for his opposition to a U.S.Russia nuclear treaty that was a top foreign policy priority of President Barack Obama.

He entered the Senate by winning a seat held by Democrat Dennnis DeConcini, who did not run for a fourth term. He defeated Democrat Sam Coppersmith, a one-term U.S. representative, by a nearly 3-2 margin.

In 2000, Kyl cruised to re-election when Democrats didn’t even both putting up a candidate. Kyl crushed two minor party candidates and an independent. Six years later, Kyl had a roughly 150,000-vote edge over Pederson, out of roughly 1.5 million votes cast.

Pederson, a shopping center developer, sunk $10 million of his own money into the race.

Republicans mentioned as possible candidates for the seat include U.S. Rep. Jeff Flake, former U.S. Rep. John Shadegg and former state Treasurer Dean Martin. Besides Giffords and Pederson, another Democrat whose names figure in speculation is former Gov. Janet Napolitano, currently the U.S. Homeland Security secretary.

“The strongest (Democratic) candidate would be Napolitano,” said Arizona State University political science professor Patrick Kenney, citing her three statewide election wins and probable strong fundraising ability.

But Kenney also said Napolitano would face attacks from Republicans for having quit in the middle of her second term as governor to go to Washington at the beginning of a state budget crisis.

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Students at the men’s basketball game against Southern California hold up copies of the Daily Beacon during the line-up annoucements before the Dec. 21 game. It is tradition for students to use papers, shred them into confetti and throw them in the air after the first Volunteer basketball swooshes through the nylon net.

1990: Nelson Mandela released from prison Nelson Mandela, leader of the movement to end South African apartheid, is released from prison after 27 years on Feb. 11, 1990.

In 1944, Mandela, a lawyer, joined the African National Congress (ANC), the oldest black political organization in South Africa, where he became a leader of Johannesburg’s youth

wing of the ANC. In 1952, he became deputy national president of the ANC, advocating nonviolent resistance to apartheid—South Africa’s institutionalized system of white supremacy and racial segregation. However, after the massacre of peaceful black demonstrators at Sharpeville in 1960, Nelson helped organize a paramilitary branch of the ANC to engage in guerrilla warfare against the white minority government.

In 1961, he was arrested for treason, and although acquitted he was arrested again in 1962 for illegally leaving the country. Convicted and sentenced to five years at Robben Island Prison, he was put on trial again in 1964 on charges of sabotage. In June 1964, he was convicted along with several other ANC leaders and sentenced to life in prison.

Mandela spent the first 18 of his 27 years in jail at the brutal Robben Island Prison.

Confined to a small cell without a bed or plumbing, he was forced to do hard labor in a quarry. He could write and receive a letter once every six months, and once a year he was allowed to meet with a visitor for 30 minutes. However, Mandela’s resolve remained unbroken, and while remaining the symbolic leader of the anti-apartheid movement, he led a movement of civil disobedience at the prison that coerced South African officials into drastically improving conditions on Robben Island. He was later moved to another location, where he lived under house arrest.

In 1989, F.W. de Klerk became South African president and set about dismantling apartheid. De Klerk lifted the ban on the ANC, suspended executions, and in February 1990 ordered the release of Nelson Mandela.

Mandela subsequently led the ANC in its negotiations with the minority government for an end to apartheid and the establishment of a multiracial government. In 1993, Mandela and de Klerk were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. One year later, the ANC won an electoral majority in the country’s first free elections, and Mandela was elected South Africa’s president.

—This Day in History is courtesy of history.com

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NEWS Tennessee, which includes Bradley, Polk, Monroe and McMinn counties.

Douglas A. Blaze, dean of the UT College of Law, said the gift will make a major impact on the lives of the students who benefit from it.

UT Law School receives $1 million scholarship donation from alumnus Attending law school is a huge financial undertaking. Thanks to a $1 million gift, the UT College of Law can now provide more help to students with demonstrated financial need.

Tennessee native Carl Colloms, a 1966 UT law graduate, donated the $1 million. It will benefit an existing law scholarship that bears his name, the Judge Carl E. Colloms scholarship endowment.

While the donation is an estate gift, Colloms expects to contribute toward it annually.

Colloms has practiced law, either privately or publicly, since graduating from UT. He has held the positions of county judge, city judge and county attorney in Charleston, Tenn., and Bradley County, in addition to working in private practice during his legal career.

He currently manages several real-estate ventures and serves as the child support magistrate for the 10th Judicial District of

UT professor finds forgiveness can hurt marriages Forgiving your spouse could hurt your marriage.

New research by James McNulty, associate psychology professor at UT, finds that men and women who forgive their partners often end up facing more offenses from those partners.

His findings can be found in a recent article, “Forgiveness Increases the Likelihood of Subsequent Partner Transgressions in Marriage,” published in the Journal of Family Psychology.

McNulty got the idea for the study in 2008 after conducting a two-year study on recently married couples and noticed that more-forgiving spouses became less satisfied over time when they were married to partners who frequently behaved negatively in the marriage.

To test his theory that forgiveness allows negative behavior to continue, McNulty recruited 135 newlywed couples and asked them to fill out a questionnaire every night for

seven nights. The questionnaire asked, “Did your partner do something negative today?” If the answer was “yes,” the spouse was asked if he or she had forgiven the partner.

Of the negative behaviors reported by the husbands, 22 percent involved being argumentative; 22 percent involved being moody; 13 percent involved nagging; 5 percent involved snapping, yelling or being sarcastic. Of the negative behaviors reported by the wives, 26 percent involved neglect or otherwise being inconsiderate, and 13 percent involved criticism.

Compared to days after they had not been forgiven, partners who had been forgiven for a negative behavior the previous day were approximately six times more likely to transgress again the next day.

McNulty’s findings have serious implications for interpersonal theories and interventions designed to treat and prevent relationship distress.

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research paper for his major; he has written, produced, directed and soon will be starring in a musical in the form of an independent project centered on a disease he and his sister suffer from: Type I diabetes.

Called “Andy and the Beats,” the musical aims to entertain and inform its audiences about the disease.

Showtimes are 7 p.m. on Feb. 18 and 19 and 2 and 5 p.m. on Feb. 20 at Clarence Brown’s Lab Theatre. Donations to the nonprofit Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) are suggested.

Cynthia Peterson, professor and head of the department of biochemical, cellular and molecular biology, said Rogers’ project is the first of its kind for her department.

The musical follows young Andy on his journey from discovering he has the disease to studying to learn everything he can about it to developing an unsuccessful homemade cure to ultimately finding comfort in other children UT student writes, directs, stars in musi- who also have juvenile diabetes. cal about juvenile diabetes To view a video of an interview with Rogers and a sneak peak of musical, visit A senior in the College of Arts and Sciences http://www.utk.edu/tntoday/2011/02/09/stuat UT is integrating the two disciplines and dent-musical-juvenile-diabetes/. bringing them to life in his senior project.

A JDRF representative will be present at Andy Rogers, who is majoring in biochem- each showing to discuss what the organization istry and molecular biology and minoring in does and how people can help. To learn more theater, went beyond writing the required about JDRF, visit http://www.jdrf.org/.

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The Hot Spot Hypertension brings major health concerns At the risk of sounding like an absolute creep, there are few things more amusing in this world than being on the Strip sometime between midnight Friday and 3 a.m. Saturday morning. It’s just an absolute riot, both as spectator and participant. As the bars empty and piles of drunken people fill the fast-food restaurants in search of the ever-important “fourth meal,” things tend to get quite salty, literally. That isn’t Managing Editor exactly a good thing.

The amount of sodium in most fast foods is enough to make your eye twitch. Out of curiosity, I demanded everyone around me (myself included in this experiment) look up the nutritional facts for their favorite fast food meal. My meal of choice contained nearly 1,750 milligrams of sodium. When you consider that the American Heart Association recommends that the average adult consume no more than 2,300 milligrams of sodium as an absolute max per day (meaning biggest possible extreme, and you can get by on much less), it is enough to make you drop that French fry immediately.

I can think of no better way to lead into this week’s column topic, hypertension, than to make the comparison between a garden hose and pumping water. The more water you are pumping through the hose, the tighter the hose becomes and the greater the pressure exerted. It’s pretty much the same situation with your heart.

The ideal blood pressure is 120/80, and blood pressure around 130/85-95 is considered high normal, or pre-hypertensive. For those of you who don’t know what these two numbers mean, the top number indicates the maximum pressure in your arteries when your heart pumps (systolic pressure), and the bottom number indicates the minimum pressure in your arteries as your heart rests (diastolic pressure).

Based on current estimates, one of every three Americans suffers from hypertension, which is roughly 73 million people. Also, around 41 percent of African-Americans suffer from hypertension, which is a very large percentage of a population that only makes up around 12.3 percent of the American population, based on the 2000 census. How do these statistics possibly make sense? Well, the same census that reported how many African-Americans currently live in the U.S. also reported that around 54.8 percent live in the South. When you think about Southern cooking, and the fact that the South currently holds the crown for the three most obese cities in the country (Memphis, Birmingham and San Antonio), it kind of comes together in a really tragic way.

The side effects of hypertension range from frightening to absolutely terrifying. High blood pressure not only automatically ups your risk for heart attack, heart failure and stroke, but also kidney disease and blindness. These complications are made even more likely if you throw in a dash of smoking (yet another reason among the 50 or so regarding why I quit), obesity and lack of exercise — absolutely vital to your health — along with family history and pre-existing conditions.

Obviously, that isn’t what anyone wants. So, the question is, how do you counter high blood pressure?

The first place to begin is your refrigerator, the cafeteria or, more aptly, the drive-thru window. According to the DASH dietary plan, which two different studies have shown to help in reducing blood pressure (it emphasizes the importance of vegetables, fruits and whole grains), making simple switches, like an apple for cookies or lo-fat yogurt for ice cream, you can lower your caloric intake (good for losing weight!) and also reduce your blood pressure. Losing around 10 percent of your body weight can lower your risks and also boost your health. Also, substituting water for sodas (yes, even my beloved Diet Coke) is another step towards lowering blood pressure. Sodas, even the diets, contain large quantities of sodium (usually around 20 mg per 8-ounce serving).

No matter what steps you take towards being more heart-healthy, it is important to be proactive in your own health. Reading nutrition labels on those “diet” foods (usually pre-packaged with a ton of sodium to preserve), especially when you are really trying to get in shape for Spring Break, making sure you are getting enough exercise and sleep, drinking plenty of water and eating plenty of fresh, healthy foods is entirely up to you. Be proactive in your own health.

Brandi Panter

—Brandi Panter is a junior in history and English literature. She can be reached at bpanter1@utk.edu.

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Brittany Vasquez Valentine’s Day is just around the corner, and people everywhere will be convinced to go out and buy their loved one some fantastic present, share dinner and watch a nice romantic comedy. These are Those Movies — they make every guy cringe when he thinks about them; they are the movies that my roommates continually beg me to watch, because they think I would enjoy the optimism of unrealistic love stories (as if I am not already an optimist). These are those movies that ruin perfectly good relationships and mess up generations with false expectations. I hate romcoms.

I used to be one of those girls who loves having a guy play a song for her and tell her that this is “our song.” I used to love imagining my own life story in terms of a road of love that would so conveniently follow the path that Disney’s princess Belle had traveled. I was one of those girls who was so happy when everything would turn out exactly as it does at the end of movies and the protagonist’s love life would be a fairy tale, by definition, a rom-com. So what changed in me?

Around this time last year, I read, “Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto,” by Chuck Klosterman. The very first chapter of the book is about how the author continually finds himself in relationships where false expectations have crept in because of pop culture putting its hand of pressure on the two involved. If his girlfriend wasn’t wishing for him to sing her songs by Coldplay, she was comparing him to Woody Allen and then comparing their love life to a Woody Allen movie. If she wasn’t begging him to follow her to the latest rom-com, she was asking for things in the relationship that he could not provide.

I realized then and there: I was that girl. I had been saturated with ideas of love and conceptions of what real relationships were like since I was young.

From Disney princess movies to high-school love

stories and now to romantic comedies, I was taught as a young child that a fulfilling love life would be the ultimate goal and a realistic possibility. Not only would it be the ultimate goal in life, but all of this would come from a guy who could recite the balcony scene of Romeo and Juliet to me or a guy who would write songs about me and then play them to me. If he couldn’t be that romantic, at least he would chase me and tell me of his undying love for me as I closed the door and walked away — a classic scene in any romantic movie.

By not having the ability to dream up my own love story and set it within realistic bounds, I was setting myself up with false expectations. The lack of creativity that so many people struggle through on a daily basis is exacerbated by rom-coms and love songs. So many guys and girls feel incapable of dreaming up a good way to relate to another, so they use someone else’s ideas. To be able to break out of culture’s push towards an overly romanticized reality is crucial. To be able to tell your significant other how you feel with your own words, rather than Lloyd Dobler’s or Chris Martin’s, is to be creative and be yourself in a relationship.

Giving up the idealistic views of romance is not what I am suggesting will fulfill your relationships and goals thereof. Rather, by expecting what is deemed “romantic” in every relationship you have with a significant other, you will find yourself time and time again wondering what went wrong. Be creative. Make up your own story. Don’t use Reese Witherspoon’s latest movie as how you think your life will be. Don’t expect your partner to always be undoubtedly cheesy with romance; expect sincerity from the person’s own feelings and words spoken from within.

When I finished the book, I immediately called my significant other and told him that we were going to stop using love songs to express our emotions and not expect our life to mirror a romantic comedy. I recall saying, “If I can’t express my feelings better than some person who doesn’t even know me, then I don't need to be in a relationship with anyone.” I still believe this wholeheartedly.

I will always hate rom-coms. Until the day I die.

—Brittany Vasquez is a junior in anthropology. She can be reached at bvasque1@utk.edu.

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Although I hadn’t listened to it in years, the song “I’ve Got the World on a String” has been playing through my head recently. Not the whole song, of course, because usually only a few seconds of something decides to take up residence in your head.

But the title phrase, those seven short words, had been jangling around inside my skull.

And, to be honest, I’d not been thinking about love at all when I picture the world on a string. Instead, the phrase conjures up images of just about everything but love; at least, not love directly. My mind drifted into what you might call a lapse of free association.

Forgive me the indulgence, but this is how it happened: String is, as utilitarian objects go, really quite useful and versatile. You can tie things up with string, you can paint with string, you can knot string a million different ways … and knotted string makes me think of strands of pearls. Any of you that have ever held a necklace or bracelet made of pearls know that in between each ivory droplet is a strong but tiny knot.

While I was in China last summer, I had the opportunity to have pearls strung for me, right in front of me, in the span of only a few minutes. Watching the woman work, I was astounded by the flash of hands, the deftness of her movements as her fingers moved in and out of the surely tangled string until she finished with a practiced flourish. When I left the market, I felt I’d less bought a piece of jewelry than a master performance viewing. And now, since I’ve come back to the Western Hemisphere, I look at my necklace as a little piece of the other side of the world.

Putting the world on a string would seem to be a pretty tall order. But what if the Earth was very tiny?

I remember being in my elementary school science class, learning about the order and relative size of the planets. The Earth is, all things considered, really pretty small. However, the world is especially small when put into a diorama, and that’s just what our teacher asked us to do. So for two weeks prior to the due date I promptly forgot about the assignment and proceeded to do other, more interesting things.

Then, the night before my diorama was due, I remembered I had been asked to Create The Solar System … Fortunately my mother had a pretty keen sense of humor in those days, and she helped me paint little spheres of clay into reasonable facsimiles of the nine planets. (There were nine in those days.) What I took to school the next day was a shoebox filled with wobbly celestial orbs, dangling precariously from offwhite strings. It was hailed by all as a success.

But that’s all in the past. What about today? As we breathe now, most of the world is living on what you might reasonably call a “shoestring budget,” subsisting on whatever meager resources they can claim for themselves. Many people don’t even have enough money to create a “budget” in order to plan out their living. A large percentage of the world is extremely poor in terms of economic wealth, living well below our standards of poverty in the U.S. For them, the “world on a string” could never resonate the way it has for me. Traveling to another country?

Purchasing luxury items? These are the trivialities of the rich and the accustomed. An art project, even a simple education? These are privileges we take for granted.

And so, though I began this repose thinking of my own happiness, I slowly began to dwell on the existence of others, the unhappiness I imagined they must face. War, disease, famine — these horsemen who only usher in waves of suffering, they appeared before my mind’s eye as looming and gigantic figures.

But suddenly the darkness broke, and I could hear Frank singing as if from far away.

Why lie stagnant in a pool of self-pity, a mass of despairing for the unprivileged and the destitute and the oppressed when there are actions to be taken?

Perhaps one day they, too, will be able to imagine the world happily bouncing on a string, a yo-yo swung with abandon in a 360-degree arc. Because the great universal quality of humanity, no matter where you go, is the ability to love. It manifests itself in many different ways, and is often surprising in its scope and power. It can be public or it can be secret, but the love that radiates from a person is indicative of a burning hope. This hope is not to be taken lightly. So though you may laugh at my attempt to explain it, my hope is that one day everyone can hold the string.

—Anna-Lise Burnette is a junior in global and Asian studies. She can be reached at kburnet7@utk.edu.

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Musical talent to perform at Cox Auditorium World-renowned artist brings multi-instrument talent from around world to Knoxville simply decided I wanted to do. It was just always a part of my package.”

Instead of choosing to teach strictly at UT, Class travels often and holds visiting-professor positions at multiple universities. Recently, Class has traveled most often to Asia.

Staff Writer His wife, Bernadette Lo, is from Taiwan. The two were visiting Taiwan when Class was asked to give some master classes at different schools, but it turned into an annual Kevin Class has made a name for himself as a professor with the ability to create occurrence. strong music programs and successful musicians.

“After a couple years, I was invited to travel to Seoul (South Korea) for several weeks Class is the director of collaborative piano, as well as the music director of the opera to give a series of master classes at a couple very prestigious universities,” he said. Class theater. He is a visiting professor at Southwest University in Chongqing, China. He also even started the first major young artist serves as the music director for the opera program in Asia.

Seoul International Opera Program.

Class has moved around a lot in the At 3 years old, he began to learn U.S. as well. He has held positions at varpiano, and since then, musical opportuious universities, and his desire to nities continue to present themselves. improve music programs is part of why “It was something that I was always he does this. doing and was at the center of my activ“I have always more been attracted to ities,” he said. opportunities to build programs or raise Class was born in Belgium, but standards than simply maintaining moved to the U.S. when he was 7 years them,” he said. old. At a very early age, he was exposed In addition to his responsibilities to multiple instruments and came into around the world as a professor, Class contact with distinguished musicians. also performs regularly.

“At that time, there were many His next recitals will celebrate the Russian and Polish musicians there bicentennial of Franz Liszt’s birthday. since they had left Eastern Europe for Liszt was one of the most famous musipolitical reasons,” he said. “As a result, cians in 19th-century Europe.

I spent most of my evenings surrounded Class will perform the two of Liszt’s by very accomplished conductors and volumes, titled “Switzerland” and “Italy.” orchestra musicians.”

The volumes tell part of a story in Liszt’s He said that most U.S. children have life, Class said. not been exposed to the music he was Liszt went on a 15-month tour of while growing up. Class played violin Europe with the Countess Marie until he was 18, as well as working with d’Agoult, who had left her husband and piano and composition. He also started children in Paris to run away with Liszt. studying orchestra conducting at 14, Class said that while they were together, and his instructor, Zdzislaw Kopac, Liszt composed pieces for the piano allowed him to conduct orchestras while about their travels. The works were made he was still a teenager. into a three-volume Pilgrimage set.

Class’ wide range of expertise is The performance has been done many somewhat irregular in the music times, but Class will use a different forworld. Professor of voice and adminismat. Instead of performing alone, associtrator for the Knoxville Opera ate professor of voice Lorraine DiSimone Studio, Andrew Wentzel, described the will narrate with letters and poetry that difficulties musicians have mastering • Courtesy of Kevin Class Liszt wrote. multiple instruments.

Kevin Class is currently the Director of Collaborative Piano and Music Director of Opera “This format has been entitled a dis“We are all specialists,” he said, Theatre at UT. Class gives several master classes around the world.

He will perform the covery program, since the use of narra“what is required to master an instrufirst part of a recital at 4 p.m. in Cox Auditorium. tion can bring an audience closer to the ment is generally unique to that instruemotional purpose of the music,” Class ment and requires years and years.” said.

Wentzel saluted music education students. He said tahey should “be counted among Sunday, Class will perform the first part of his recital in the Cox Auditorium at 4 p.m. our heroes” because of their abilities to learn multiple instruments and their desire to The second part will take place Thursday at 6 p.m. in the Cox Auditorium. teach in public schools.

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Class started his teaching career as a teenager.

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Friday, February 11, 2011

Bray, experienced offense to lead Vols in 2011 Matt Dixon Sports Editor OFFENSE Quarterback: Projected starter: sophomore Tyler Bray.

The rest: senior Matt Simms, freshman Justin Worley, freshman Nash Nance and sophomore Doak Raulston.

Looking ahead: What a difference a year makes. This time last year, the quarterback position was one of the biggest question marks.

But Bray’s play down the stretch last season gave UT fans hope for the next couple of seasons. Having a veteran like Simms, who has quality SEC experience, as a back-up can go a long way. Worley was the high school Gatorade National Player of the Year last year and could challenge Simms for the No. 2 spot.

Running back: Projected starter: senior Tauren Poole.

The rest: sophomore Rajion Neal, sophomore Toney Williams, freshman Marlin Lane and freshman Tom Smith.

Looking ahead: The Vols should have quality depth in its backfield, despite the transfer of David Oku. Poole ran for more than 1,000 yards last season, an impressive feat in the SEC. Neal finished the season as the team’s No. 2 back, but Williams could challenge for that spot if he gets back to running the way he did two spring practices ago, before tearing his ACL. Lane, an incoming freshman, will also be two years removed from a knee injury that kept him from being rated among the nation’s elite high-school tailbacks. Smith is a powerful, bruising back who could be called upon to get tough yards.

Fullback: Projected starter: sophomore Channing Fugate.

The rest: N/A Looking ahead: Coach Derek Dooley and offensive coordinator Jim Chaney’s offensive philosophy leans toward tight ends over fullbacks, but Fugate impressed coaches enough for them to put him on the field. Fugate started the final five games last season and could line up in the backfield at fullback, H-back or as a tight end in some sets.

Wide receiver: Projected starter: sophomore Justin Hunter, sophomore Da’Rick Rogers, junior Zach Rogers.

The rest: freshman Vincent Dallas, freshman DeAnthony Arnett, junior DeMario Williams, sophomore Matt Milton.

Looking ahead: Hunter and Da’Rick Rogers burst onto the scene in fall camp last season with their talents. Hunter adjusted to the college game a little bit faster and caught a school freshman-record seven touchdown passes. The duo have the potential to be as good as any in “Wide Receiver U” history. Still, combined they caught just 27 passes, a far cry from the 102 receptions for 1,577 yards and 13 touchdowns departed seniors Gerald Jones and Denarius Moore had. UT fans are hoping Hunter and Da’Rick Rogers’ potential can match the production of Jones and Moore. Zach Rogers has been buried on the depth chart for his first two seasons in Knoxville but filled in nicely in the slot last year while Jones was out with a broken hand.

Tight end: Projected starter: senior Mychal Rivera.

The rest: freshman Cameron Clear, freshman Brendan Downs, junior Ben Bartholomew.

Looking ahead: Replacing Luke Stocker, a projected early round pick in April’s NFL Draft, won’t be easy. Stocker wasn’t the flashiest, but he may have been the best all-around tight end in the country last season. Rivera was a junior-college transfer last year and had 11 catches for 112 yards. Downs enrolled in school in January and will participate in spring practice, a big help. Clear was regarded as one of the state’s top prospects and will begin his UT career at tight end but may eventually grow into a tackle.

Tackles: Projected starter: junior Dallas Thomas (LT), sophomore Ja’Wuan

James (RT).

The rest: freshman Antonio Richardson, freshman Marques Pair, sophomore Daniel Hood, freshman Alan Posey.

Looking ahead: Thomas and James took their fair share of lumps last season as starters for the first time. Thomas played the all-important left tackle position, protecting the quarterback’s blind side.

James was an early enrollee a year ago and started from day one.

Both should be improved this upcoming season, but if Antonio “Tiny” Richardson (6-6, 310) is as good as advertised, he could see the field sooner rather than later.

Guards: Projected starter: sophomore JerQuari Schofield (LG), sophomore Zach Fulton (RG).

The rest: freshman Marcus Jackson, sophomore Alex Bullard, freshman Kyler Kerbyson, junior Carson Anderson.

Looking ahead: While Dallas Thomas and Ja’Wuan James each started all 13 games at tackle last season, Schofield and Fulton started 12 games. Schofield never fully recovered from a broken foot he suffered midway through the year, while Fulton started the team’s final four games. Jackson and Kerbyson should provide depth in the two-deep, and Notre Dame transfer Alex Bullard will eventually, but must have a waiver approved by the NCAA to be eligible this fall.

Center: Projected starter: sophomore James Stone.

The rest: freshman Mack Crowder, junior Darin Gooch.

Looking ahead: Stone was moved to center for the first time in his playing career midway through last season. Stone’s intelligence allowed him to slide inside and make the line calls a center is required to do. However, he is left-handed and had an unorthidox snap, causing coaches to caution starting him before the Memphis game.

Crowder, another early enrollee, played center in high school and is a natural at the postion. Gooch started six games last season and will also help provide depth.

—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

Lady Vols handle Florida at home, 61-39 Johnson’s strong second half helps UT pull away from Florida, maintain perfect SEC record to close within 4.

The Lady Vols went into the locker room Matthew McMurray at the half, leading 27-18.

Staff Writer Stricklen led the offense, scoring 12 in the first half, hitting on 6-of-8 shots. Junior The Tennessee Lady Vols grabbed their Glory Johnson entered the locker room 300th all-time win in the SEC while staying without taking a shot and played only seven undefeated in the conference, defeating the minutes.

Florida Gators 61-39 in the Thompson-Boling “(Johnson) had no energy; I could sprint Arena on Thursday night. faster than she did that first half,” Summitt The game remained close for a little more said. “I told her that I wouldn’t accept that. than a minute, as Lady Vols freshman Great habbits are hard to break, and bad Meighan Simmons was the only UT player to habits are hard to break. I told her, ‘You are score, scoring the team’s first four points. going to have to bring it every game if you “You are looking at a team that is very, want to stay in the lineup.’” very good,” UT coach Pat Summitt said. “I Johnson did just that, hitting a layup and don’t know that we came out and respected a free throw 14 seconds into the second this team early. That disappoints me, because half.

I think we have to commit to that all the The Lady Vols continued to score, scortime.” ing 12 unanswered points to bring the score Florida couldn’t keep up with the Lady to 39-18. Johnson scored 16 points in the Vols much longer, though, as UT scored 14 second half and came away with five unanswered points against the Gators to go rebounds. ahead 18-7. ““Tennessee is the team to beat in our Florida junior Jordan Jones ended the league,” Florida coach Amanda Butler said. streak, hitting both of her free throws after a “I don’t think we started the second half foul by UT’s Kamiko Williams. Florida rallied prepared to win the ball game, and I think around Jones’ free throws and put together its that showed itself. One of the things that own drive, scoring seven unanswered points makes Tennessee so hard to beat is that you take a really talented player out of the line up and there is not really a huge dropThe Distinguished Lecture Series in Musicology proudly presents off if there is a drop off at all.”

The Lady Vols controlled the game from that point, never allowing the Gators to get within 12 points, holding onto a 20point lead for the last four minutes of the game.

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University Center, Shiloh Room Music & Censorship in Afghanistan Tuesday Feb 15, 3:30 to 5:00 p.m.

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An expert in music of Afghanistan, Dr. Baily has completed fieldwork in Herat and Kabul, and studied aspects of the Afghan diaspora in Pakistan, Iran, USA, Europe and Australia. On behalf of the Aga Khan Music Initiative for Central Asia, he established in Kabul a program for teaching Kabuli art music. Having published a book, numerous articles, CDs and DVDs, Dr. Baily explores music and migration, ethnomusicological film, performance as a research technique, and the biology of music making. He is writing a monograph titled War, exile and the music of Afghanistan: The ethnographer’s tale.

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