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Junior forward Jarnell Stokes has his shot blocked by Florida’s Chris Walker, left, and Will Yeguete, right, in the Vols’ 67-58 loss to the Gators at ThompsonBoling Arena on Tuesday.

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“I need to report an armed robbery.”

Whether it is a break in or petty theft, this is the most common emergency call the Knoxville Police Department receives from UT students. But for many students, the protocol for reporting an emergency is a mystery, despite blue light systems and two different outlets for dispatching police units.

Shelby Neal, sophomore in deaf and hard of hearing education, has dealt with this dilemma directly.

“When I worked a shift at Volunteer Hall’s front desk, we had a call come in about an assault between a man and a woman in the hall,” Neal said. “I immediately told the residence advisor, simply because I don’t normally work there.

I assumed she would call UTPD, but KPD was called. I’m actually not quite sure who you are supposed to call for what.”

Holding complete jurisdiction over the university and its campus, students should call UTPD when something directly related to UT or UT property occurs.

KPD intervenes when a crime happens off-campus or when the crime moves beyond UTPD’s responsibilities, such as in cases of armed robbery or acts of violence.

While they represent most common forms of crime at UT, KPD Petty Officer 2nd Class James Williams said he believes armed robberies are typically easily resolved.

“Armed robberies will immediately dispatch two vehicles, depending on staff,” Williams said. “That being said, one unit will go directly to the scene to question the victim and to file a police report, while the other will begin scanning the perimeter.”

Although students are encouraged to use discretion in contacting police authorities, Williams stressed the importance of immediacy in calling the police department for assistance. An immediate threat, however, is best reported via 911.

Tennessee needed to hit its shots and feed off its raucous crowd to have a chance at revenge against the thirdranked team in the country.

It did.

The Vols also needed the breaks to go their way come crunch time. They did not.

The No. 3 Florida Gators outlasted the Tennessee Volunteers, 67-58, on Tuesday night inside Thompson-Boling Arena, staying unbeaten in SEC play and snatching what would have been a season-changing win from the desperate Vols.

Jarnell Stokes led the Vols with 20 points and 11 rebounds on 7-for-11 shooting, and Jordan McRae added 17 points. But that wasn’t enough to sway a back-andforth contest in the home team’s favor.

“It’s very, very frustrating,” Stokes said after the loss.

“We felt like we were right there. We made plays on the defensive end but came up

short on the offensive end.”

The Vols held the Gators to 36 percent (21-for-58) shooting on the night, much lower than UT’s 46 percent clip (22-for-48) against the SEC’s top defense.

But Cuonzo Martin’s Vols could not hold onto the ball in opportune moments, turning it over 15 times — which Florida turned into 19 points — and eventually sealing UT’s fate.

“We felt like we were ready to win the game,” Martin said. “We did everything to win the game, but you have to take care of the basketball.

Against a good team, you can’t make those types of mistakes.”

The Gators took control of a seesawing game quickly after the break and maintained it for virtually the entire second half as the Vols’ early shooting success went awry. But UT still mounted its comeback, going on an 8-2 run to make it 55-54 Florida with just five minutes left.

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Joshua Bennett performs poetry as part of the Striver’s Row poetry slam on Monday in the University Center Auditorium.

Hannah Moulton Contributor Jazz music flooded the UC Auditorium Monday night as students prepared for an evening of emotionally fueled poetry.

The poetry slam, sponsored by the Black Cultural Programming Committee, showcased the talents of the Striver’s Row poets. The event was not exclusive to spoken word, with Strange Fruit Dance Company opening the poetry slam with a choreographed routine to “Wade in the Water.”

Joshua Bennett, Alysia Harris, Miles Hodges, Jasmine Mans and Carvens Lissaint comprise the group, which was founded in 2010. The poets had previously known each other as individual performers before forming a group.

Since 2010, the poets have performed for a number of well-known events, such as the Sundance Film Festival, NAACP Image Awards and Obama’s Evening of Music and Poetry at the White House.

The performances at the poetry slam spoke of life, love and faith, among other topics. In recognition of Black History Month, the poetry touched upon the topic of racial discrimination. Harris spoke of what it was like to be a female of mixed heritage.

In a preface to her poem, Harris dedicated her reading to the women of her family, as well as anyone with a “complex ancestry.”

“I think a lot of times we’re sort of skipped over or ignored,” Harris said.

“But we know that black history happens in our homes, our kitchens, in our cars.”

In a preface to one of his poems, Hodges spoke on the topic of sexism.

“We have a responsibility as men to do our part if we are going to call ourselves artists to do our part to project women, to cultivate their image, in a positive manner,” Hodges said about the unjust portrayal of “non-white women in the media.”

Tales of love and heartbreak were also included in the poetry. Harris spoke of a lost love, and how “everybody should get to fall in love in Paris.” Mans performed a poem from the perspective of someone finding love for the first time.

The Striver’s Row poets said they hope their audience takes at least one thing from their performances.

During a Q&A session at the end of the program, an attendee asked what the poets wanted to convey with their emotional, and sometimes controversial, readings.

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SGA pushes petition in response to Campfield’s activity fees legislation Hayley Brundige Asst. Photo Editor

Hanna Lustig News Editor A campus without the TRECS, student health, the UC, guest speakers or Volapalooza – this is the future students face should Sen. Stacey Campfield’s most recent bills pass through the Tennessee legislature.

Senate Bill 2493 would prohibit the use of institutional revenue, which includes student activity fees, to pay for visiting or guest speakers at public institutions in Tennessee.

This motion comes on the heels of Campfield’s Jan. 15 Senate Bill 1608, which proposed the distribution of student fees in proportion to an organization’s membership.

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Don Bruce, left, Ph.D., and Scott Gilpatric, Ph.D., speak to students about the growing national debt in Haslam Business Building on Feb. 4. during the National Debt Panel Discussion put on by Up To Us.

Econ Club brings federal budget simulator to campus Victoria Brown Staff Writer The Howard H. Baker Jr. Center will host a federal budget simulator in partnership with the Economics Club, UT Law and the Concord Coalition next week.

Set for 5:15 p.m. on Feb. 19, the event, titled “Principles and Priorities,” consists of an interactive exercise allowing participants to try their hand maintaining and balancing a federal budget.

The program was originally developed by the Concord Coalition, an organization that works to educate the public about federal budget deficits and explore methods Americans can use to move toward a stronger economy for future generations.

Small groups will each handle an individual budget and

navigate situations the government typically deals with, including tax reforms and budget cuts from educational or social programs. Attendees will then move through different segments of the federal budget and discuss each group’s outcome.

The event is part of the Economics Club’s involvement with the national “Up to Us” competition.

“Participants will have the opportunity to ‘set’ the federal budget and see first-hand how it could be done and what challenges come about,” said Jessica TenBroeck, senior in economics and president of the Economics Club. “It should be a very interesting, eye-opening experience.”

Nissa Dahlin-Brown, associate director of the Howard H. Baker Jr. Center, agreed, saying the exercise will put government difficulties in per-

spective.

“If you make a cut here, it’ll make a cut there,” DahlinBrown said. “It’s to kind of walk through it yourself and see how difficult it is to deal with budget problems.”

Kayla McMurry, senior in economics and events manager for the Economics Club, stressed the importance of student economic awareness. She said that since the growing deficit will affect Americans in the future, it is especially important that students understand the federal budget.

“Once everyone better understands what goes into it,” McMurry said, “students will be better able to assess what cuts would be necessary in creating a more balanced budget.”

For more information, visit http://www.utk.edu/events/ index.php?eID=55197.

CAMPFIELD continued from Page 1 Averaging $300 per semester, student activity fees are used to fund TRECS, the Student Health Center, counseling and other campus services, including The Daily Beacon. About 5 percent of student fees are allocated for programming and distributed by the University Programs and Services Fee funding board. The board is chaired by the Student Government president and comprised of students appointed by the president.

Claiming a heavy bias toward liberal programming, Campfield asserted the necessity of “equality” in allocating funding. Every student, he believes, should directly control the share of student fees they pay. These fees should only go toward organizations and services they wish to support or access.

“People shouldn’t be forced to pay for speakers they find offensive, be it left or rightleaning,” Campfield said in a phone interview with the Beacon on Tuesday. “And we should leave it up to the individual to decide how they want to spend that money.”

For Grant Davis, senior and SGA Student Services Director, “equality based upon percentage is not equality.”

With regard to SB 2493, Davis finds Campfield’s proposal even more objectionable, seemingly an extension of

KPD continued from Page 1 “Students often have the mindset they don’t need to file a police report or they can wait a little while to do so,” Williams said. “However, calling the police in any sort of emergency, whether it is an

Campfield’s criticism of Sex Week last year.

“He is focusing his attention on one event in particular that he feels leans a little too far off the spectrum,” Davis said.

“Even if you do not like something that’s being said, you do not have the right to take away someone else’s right to say what they want to say.”

In response, SGA launched two petitions on Feb. 9 rejecting both SB 1608 and SB 2493: one limited to registered students and faculty in Tennessee public schools, and one open to the public via Change.org.

At time of print, 888 students had signed the student petition. Both petitions will be sent to Tennessee legislators.

The bills, in fact, may pose constitutional violations.

“Most speakers are brought as co-curricular enrichment, and even speakers who don’t provide an expert lecture can still enhance the student experience by sharing their experiences,” said Jacob Clark, senior in College Scholars and Sex Week co-founder. “But it would seem that Stacey Campfield has, along with other legislators lately, made it a habit to propose legislation that they know to be ineffective and potentially unconstitutional.”

Lisa Dicker, SGA senator and president of Central Programming Committee, admitted she fears that allowing the state legislature to censor one student organization may lead to more restrictions.

“Once you take the right of the students to dictate where

the funding goes away from the students,” Dicker said, “you have people 300 miles away making those decisions for them, which shouldn’t be the way that it is done.”

Davis shares Dicker’s fear.

“If the state legislature wants to restrict student fees because of one event, what’re they going to restrict next?”

Davis said. “What’s that next step? What else will we have to face that will inhibit the way students go about their lives on campus?”

Still not calendared for committee review, the bills remain subject to modification. In the meantime, SGA hopes to educate students about the use of their mandatory fees. One demonstration currently under consideration would close all student-fee funded services for a day, proving their ubiquity.

Davis likened student fees to taxes. Whether a student exercises in TRECS or attends a concert, those fees are being tapped.

“No matter what,” Davis said, “a student is using almost every dime of their student fee money in some capacity.”

Calling students the sole “stakeholders” in the future of student fees, Dicker emphasized the importance of maintaining complete jurisdiction.

“If we want to be able to keep our voice in where our $300 per semester goes,” Dicker said, “then we need to sign this petition, become actively involved and educate ourselves on how the process works.”

immediate threat to life or not, is always highly encouraged by our department. We can’t help the students unless they call us.”

Non-emergency calls can be made to both UTPD and KPD. The call will still connect to a dispatcher but won’t receive the priority of a 911 call.

“We want students to be safe,” Williams said. “The big-

gest advice we can give to UT students is to make sure that they don’t leave valuables in plain site when they park their car, whether it be on campus or in the fort. This is the easiest way for a robbery to occur.

It’s also important to always walk in well lit areas and with at least one other person if it is after dark.”

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Professor emeritus tells tales of life growing up in Mississippi Delta Chelsea Faulkner Contributor “Sometimes, it’s hard to be a black man.”

These were just a few of the captivating words spoken by Monday night’s Writers in the Library featured author, John O. Hodges.

Hodges, an associate professor emeritus in the Department of Religious Studies, eloquently read selected excerpts from his new book, “Delta Fragments: The Recollections of a Sharecropper’s Son,” to a riveted audience.

In his book, Hodges shares the poignant and thought-provoking experience of growing up as a sharecropper’s stepson in the Mississippi Delta of the 1950s and ‘60s. “‘Delta Fragments’ tells the amazing, circuitous journey that brought John to where he is now,” said Charles Reynolds, professor emeritus in religious studies, during his introduction of Hodges.

Hodges explained that he and his family were very poor, often having to borrow money against the following year’s estimated crop yield in order to survive the winter months.

“Life was seldom bor-

ing, yet often inconvenient,” Hodges said. “We always seemed to come out in the hole, no matter how hard we worked.”

A major theme of the book is Hodges’ quest for a quality education. He said that 7- and 8-year-old children were expected to work in the fields, but his stepfather told the owner of the plantation Hodges should stay in school because he was only getting in the way at work.

“His marvelous sacrifice has, in fact, made all the difference in my life,” Hodges said.

After graduating as valedictorian of the segregated Broad Street High School in Greenwood, Miss., Hodges won a full-tuition scholarship to Morehouse College in Atlanta. From there, he earned his master’s in English from Atlanta University, followed by a Ph.D. in religion and literature from the University of Chicago Divinity School.

“Where there was an opportunity to go to school, I thought I would never stop,” Hodges said. “Why not be at the library? It’s such a wonderful place to be.”

“Delta Fragments” also calls attention to the poverty, educational, and

crime-related issues still faced by the Delta region, urging citizens to cooperate in eradicating them.

“I want this book to show that, if given the opportunity, black individuals can achieve in life,” Hodges said. “I also want to encourage all individuals, black and white, to undertake a serious racial dialogue that has yet to be touched on.”

During his tenure at the University of Tennessee, Hodges educated and inspired a multitude of students and colleagues.

“I am very grateful to have had the privilege to learn from Dr. Hodges,” said Nora Wilson, a 1994 UT graduate in religious studies. “I had the opportunity to study under some of the best religious studies professors in the world.”

John O. Hodges is the recipient of the Lorayne W. Lester Award for distinguished service to the university and has been acknowledged by the UT Alumni Association as an outstanding teacher.

“Delta Fragments: The Recollection of a Sharecropper’s Son” can be found in the UT library archives or for sale in the UT Bookstore.

Alysia Harris delivers a poem about fighting stereotypes, attempting to fit into society and showing dominance over males on Tuesday.

POETRY continued from Page 1 “At a certain point (I realized) my poetry was my contribution to the world,” Bennett said. “I realized I wanted to make people feel better. I wanted people to laugh and think differently about their life.”

A universal answer from the poets was that each wrote to help themselves understand their emotions. Many said they needed an outlet to freely express all the emotional baggage they accumulated throughout their lives.

“If I’m sharing it, then maybe other people want to share it as well,” Harris said.

“And if we can share together, we can actually hold more volume.”

Students such as Amirah Anderson, junior in microbiology, were touched by the raw display of emotion, calling the performances “authentic.”

“You could just feel the emotion,” Anderson said. “It was beautiful.”

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Top: Flappy Bird is no more Recently known as both a popular and infuriating game among the younger generation, Flappy Bird is no longer available as an App on smart devices. App retailers are no longer offering the game to new users, though those who have already installed the game can still play. The developer of Flappy Bird, Dong Nguyen, said he came to the decision of removing the game because of its “addictive” quality. Since its release, players have expressed extreme frustration with the difficulty of the game, but continue dedicating their time to its mastery.

Bottom: New York Fashion Week is over Every February and September, Mercedes Benz hosts New York Fashion Week at Lincoln Center in Manhattan. The Feb. 6-13 event brings together designers, stylists, magazine editors and celebrities to witness the newest American designs for the upcoming fall/winter 2014 season. This evening, designers Ralph Lauren and Calvin Klein, arguably the most famous American designers, will close Fashion Week. Following New York Fashion Week are its counterparts in London, Milan and Paris.

Top: Winter continues with more snow This week, parts of Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia are expected to get 1-3 inches of snow just two weeks after most of the South was hit hard with an unexpected snow storm. Citizens in Atlanta experienced major weather that had many people spending nights in supermarkets and leaving cars stranded on highways covered with ice and snow. This week’s snow is expected to hit Knoxville early today and stay throughout Thursday. Cities are more prepared this time around, already distributing salt to streets.

Bottom: Shirley Temple dies The little girl who charmed millions on the silver screen died Monday at the age of 85. Shirley Temple Black was a child actress who contributed to 23 films between 1935-1939. Her blonde ringlets and undeniable talent brought her fame, and even an Academy Award at age 6, but the starlet stopped acting when she turned 22. As an adult she became a successful Republican fundraiser, supporting and serving various presidential candidates including Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford and George H.W. Bush.

Top: United States wins slopestyle in Olympics As of Tuesday afternoon, the United States’ only two gold Olympic medals are in both men’s and women’s slopestyle, a skiing competition. The two competitors who earned America gold are Sage Kotsenburg, a 20-year-old first-time Olympian from Park City, Utah, and Jamie Anderson, a 23-year-old from South Lake Tahoe, Calif. America stands fifth in total Olympic medal count, following Norway, Canada, the Netherlands and Germany.

Bottom: Olympics anchor Bob Costas steps down NBC journalist Bob Costas has abdicated his position anchoring the Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. His eye infection, which has been a comedic opportunity for many Twitter users, has worsened since the start of the games last Friday and has required him to step down. His NBC counterpart, Matt Lauer, known for his work on The Today Show, will take his place in the time being. Costas has taken to comedic relief on-air about his situation, saying his eye infection is like Superman’s kryptonite. Costas has hosted NBC’s primetime Olympic coverage for the past 36 years.

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Take time to see history, purpose behind Tibetan sand mandalas In Rare Forum by

Julie Mrozinski A Tibetan sand mandala has come to UT. If I hadn’t taken Hinduism as one of my upper-level non-US distribution classes, I would be unaware of the significance and rare opportunity that this event offers.

So I must begin by thanking UT for two things: making me take an upper level, nonUS history distribution class, and bringing a Tibetan mandala to UT. You may have unknowingly passed the simple white posters with “mandala” in yellow writing, like all the other posters that splatter the campus with color and ALL CAPS attention-getters. It caught my attention though, and thank goodness it did.

For those of you who know nothing of a mandala, my hope is to persuade you to go view it either today or Thursday before it is ritualistically destroyed.

(If you are a Eastern guru and know about the mandala, forgive me for my brief and shallow overview.)

Mandala is a Sanskrit word, loosely translating to “circle.” At the focal point of the mandala, there is a circle; like our spirit, the circle has no beginning or end. It is a spiritual and ritualistic microcosm of the

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Other times, they are just devoted to one deity or a special occasion.

Encompassing many metaphorical meanings, the mandala shows the organization of life: the planets, our sun, and our circle of friends all connected to animals, plants, and minerals. Carl Young called it “yhe archetype for wholeness.”

To me, the mandala is the expression of a deep longing for a visual map that integrates an image of the self with one of the rest of the world. Its purpose can vary from use as a spiritual teaching tool to use as a sacred space in which we meditate, reflect, and induce trances. Visiting one could have powerful effects, including realizing and communicating with the spiritual force.

Finally, the mandala is ritually destroyed to express the instability of visual forms.

Its destruction is of equal importance to its creation; the monks take great care to obliterate it with order.

The sand is then collected, wrapped in silk and sent down a stream to be released back to nature.

If for nothing else, visit the event – you probably won’t have another chance to see a sand mandala, and you certainly won’t have a chance to experience its creation and destruction.

Don’t miss this opportunity to view a spiritual artwork live and die in Knoxville.

Julie Mrozinski is a junior in English.

She can be reached at jmrozins@utk.edu.

Q&A with Bryan Borland, famed LGBTQ poetry publisher The Jeremiad by

Jeremy Brunger Bryan Borland of Sibling Rivalry Press has made a name for himself publishing LGBTQ poetry. I caught up with him for an interview.

J.B.: What sort of writers does your press cater to?

B.B.: As publisher, I’m interested in writers who have something to say that hasn’t been said yet, or something to say that needs to be said again, only louder, and on the platform I can provide. I’m also interested in writers whose writing challenges the status quo or attempts to dismantle barriers, such as Paul Mariah, whose body of work we’ve just acquired permission to reprint. Paul was an advocate for both the gay and the incarcerated, and I couldn’t be more excited to have access to his poetry.

J.B.: What do you think of the theme of “misery?”

B.B.: I’ve written poems when I’ve been miserable, and I’ve written poems when I’ve been happy. Misery, I think, produces quality work more easily. On the other hand, it’s damn hard to write a good love poem.

J.B.: Is your press open to submissions from all?

B.B.: Absolutely. While we’ve attained some degree of success and validation

through publishing LGBT-identified authors, we don’t vet our authors on their sexual identities. If a poet or writer thinks he or she belongs in one of our journals, that’s good enough for us, and at that point, the quality of the work is what becomes important. As for full-length collections, our Spring 2014 lineup, due in March, includes two lesbians, a heterosexual woman, and a heterosexual man. It wasn’t those labels that influenced our selection of their work; it was their poetry.

J.B.: Poetry is admittedly a marginal endeavor. What made you go into it?

B.B.: Poetry saved my life. Ginsberg, who died the year I discovered him. And Gavin Dillard, who is still very much alive and annoying the establishment. His anthology “A Day for a Lay: A Century of Gay Poetry” reached into rural Arkansas and provided a lifeline. I used to steal poetry books from our small-town university library before I graduated high school. It’s a voice. And lots of times, it’s our voice, whoever we are. James Baldwin said, “You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me the most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.” That’s what poetry did for me. And so that’s what I wanted to do for other people.

J.B.: What best advice would you give to a struggling gay student?

B.B.: I won’t quote poetry for this

response. I’ll quote a country song. “Have no fear; these are nowhere near the best years of your life” (“Letter to Me,” Mr. Brad Paisley). Seriously. Hang on. You have no idea what’s around the corner. The whole world is waiting on you.

J.B.: Short and simple sentence on politics?

B.B.: I’ll quote a line from a new poem I wrote called “Adrienne Responds”: “Listen, the personal is always political.”

J.B.: What of the Southern man?

B.B.: I love the South. I’m reading for the first time – though I’ve seen the movie a dozen or so times – “Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil.” And it makes me miss my maternal grandmother, a wonderful Southern woman who was full of life and humor and laughter. So what of the Southern man? I’ll just say he should never forget the lessons taught by the best of our Southern women.

J.B.: Opinions on Foucault and other high-brow scholars?

B.B.: They’re a voice. But so is the slam poet who performs every Saturday night, or the vet who’s done three tours in Afghanistan, or the guy who wanted to be a writer and so he started a publishing company rather than wait on someone else to validate him. And it takes all kinds of voices. Have the courage to let your voice be heard, and the world will be a better place.

Jeremy Brunger is a senior in English.

He can be reached at jbrunger@utk.edu.

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universe, attempting to conclusively reflect the oneness of life through balance.

The geometric outline is meticulously predetermined, especially in sand mandalas.

The Monks use complex measurements, checking and rechecking the design to assure perfect use of symmetry and empty space.

Sand mandalas are made from naturally dyed sand and transferred to the mandala through small tubes, funnels, and scrapers.

White, yellow, red, blue, green, and pink are among the most common sand mandala colors. Sometimes corn meal or flower pollen are used as a substitute for sand.

A group of monks typically work on the mandala together, and the project can take weeks to complete due to the immense amount of intricate details and controlled precision used to make one. The monks usually create from the middle outwards.

The geometric interior outline is called a Yantra, a square with “gate” entrances on each side. The Yantra represents the organization or machine like quality within every contextual structure. In the case of a sand mandala, it attempts to represent a three dimensional projection in a two dimensional space.

This structure is thought to bring insight to reality by elaborating on things that provide a space of liberation.

And the mandala includes more than just the Yantra. It can hold different themes, at times containing hundreds of deities inside.

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That darn Hitler was a real rascal. Not only was he a genocidal maniac, but he also aspired to be the most prolific art thief in history.

Inspired by the novel from Robert M. Edsel, “The Monuments Men� is based on the true story of an unlikely group of American GI’s whose mission was not only to recover as much of that art as possible, but also to prevent the destruction of revered artifices by allied forces whenever possible.

During World War II, Hitler ordered his Nazi henchmen to steal every great piece of art in Europe that they could get their anti-semitic hands on in order to stock a planned museum to be built in his honor. An Allied squad consisting of museum directors, curators, art historians, and an architect are sent into Europe towards the end of the war tasked with recovering the art and returning it to the rightful owners.

George Clooney has a line in the film where he states that he’s “not just a pretty face.� Proving that statement, Clooney not only stars in the movie but also directs, co-writes and co-produces.

The project was a labor of love for Clooney which comes across in the sentimental nature of the film.

The movie soars when the narrative is aided by a lighthearted score by Alexandre Desplat that is reminiscent of yesteryear war movies such as “The

Great Escape� and “Kelly’s Heroes.� Desplat sets the mood and cues the audience as to how to receive each scene to come.

Clooney and Matt Damon are their usual charming selves, displaying

Monuments Men Cast: George Clooney, Matt Damon, Bill Murray Director: George Clooney Genre: Action, Biography Rating: PG-13

particularly fun in their scenes together, with the two characters riffing off of each other’s strengths and weaknesses. Goodman displays his comedic skills, particularly when amazed at the realistic tactics used in basic training.

Blanchett carries the theme of the film as her character, a French woman, assists resistance efforts to save precious art.

However, the film lacks in its character development.

With the exception of Blanchett’s Claire Simone, none of the other characters are given enough back story to allow the audience to build a relationship with them. This hurts the movie when the fun is set aside and drama takes over.

Clooney tugs the heartstrings showing the horrors of war in several effective scenes. But when the characters run into trouble, there just isn’t enough of a connection with the audience for there to be the dramatic effect Clooney is shooting for.

Surprisingly, Bill Murray does the best job of creating a dramatic moment when he listens to a message from home, facilitated by Balaban.

The movie is entertaining, but not quite the great movie it could have been.

Perhaps expectations are a little too high given the cast and publicity, but if those factors are put aside it can be worth the price of a ticket. • Photo Courtesy of IMDb

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the chemistry that made the “Ocean’s 11� movies so much fun to watch. They are joined by other veterans including Bill Murray, John Goodman, Bob Balaban and Cate Blanchett, each of whom brings something entertaining to the mix.

Murray and Balaban are

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‘Elixir of Love’ offers enticing Valentine’s date night of opera R.J. Vogt

there, the show takes off in a whirlwind of dramatic irony.

Salesky said the romantic timing of the show has had the intended effect, reporting ticket sales are “better for this than many of the previous operas.� Those who attend will also see more than one love story unfold – a Knoxville couple is getting married on stage dur-

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With Valentine’s Day falling on Friday, many UT students may be planning to celebrate with romantic dinner dates and bouquets of flowers.

Though the tried-and-true routes won’t likely disappoint, other students have chosen a different celebration entirely.

After all, there’s an opera in town.

The Knoxville Opera is performing Donizetti’s “Elixir of Love� Friday, Feb. 14, at 8 p.m. in the Tennessee Theatre.

Brian Salesky, general director and conductor of the Knoxville Opera, said performance dates rarely coincide with the actual night of Valentine’s Day; the chance to perform a holidayrelated show was one the executive board did not want to miss. “We thought we should do an opera that’s a lighthearted celebration of love,� Salesky said. “’The Elixir of Love’ is that perfect opera for that.�

The romantic comedy is the 13th most performed opera in the world, according to operabase.com. It centers on the story of Nemorino, a country bumpkin who falls in love with another villager named Adina. Inspired by the story of Tristan and Isolde, Nemorino becomes convinced that a magic potion might help him earn Adina’s love and buys a “cure-all� from a traveling doctor. From

ELIXIR OF LOVE

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WHEN: Feb. 14, 8 p.m. Feb. 16, 2:30 p.m.

WHERE: Tennessee Theatre COST: $10-$95

ing intermission, and Knox County Mayor Tim Burchett is officiating the wedding.

Amanda Prevost, junior in accounting, got a ticket through the Chancellor’s Honors Program, which has a partnership with Knoxville Opera. “It’s a fantastic, free opportunity to experience the Knoxville arts scene we seldom get away from our books and campus lives enough to enjoy,� she said.

The show features Stefania Dovhan, a Ukrainian-born

soprano, as the feisty Adina.

Salesky also brought in Sean Anderson as Belcore, Nemorino’s competition for Adina, and UT graduate student Emily Hagens as Giannetta, Adina’s friend and gossip queen of the village.

The typical open call audition process takes Salesky to New York City three times a year to hear singers and cast a show. But the well-known opera director revealed a little secret about Joshua Kohl, the tenor who plays Nemorino. “I hired Joshua Kohl from YouTube,� he said, adding that he was sold on the Pennsylvania native by a clip of Kohl performing the same role for a different company. “I’m a huge fan of YouTube and I listen to singers all the time.�

Brian Deedrick, former artistic director of Edmonton Opera, will direct the show, returning to Knoxville after putting on Strauss’ “Die Fledermaus,� at the Tennessee Theatre last year. “He’s about as great a director as you can find in the world of opera,� Salesky said.

Eight current UT graduate students and four alumni will perform in the chorus.

Tickets are available at knoxvilleopera.com and range from $10-$95. A second showing will be held Sunday, Feb. 16, at 2:30 p.m. “It’s a perfect introductory opera if you’ve never been to one,� Salesky said. “It’s easy on the ears and it’s such a light-hearted subject.�

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MEN’S TENNIS

No. 14 Vols prep for contested weekend tourney Brian Canevar Contributor This weekend, the No. 14 UT men’s tennis team will travel to Houston, Texas, to compete in the ITA National Team Indoor Championship.

The event is the first of the national team competitions for college tennis and is contested by the top 16 programs in the nation every year.

Under head coach Sam Winterbotham, who is leading UT to its sixth consecutive tournament appearance, competing isn’t the only goal, however. The expectation, as always, is to win.

“My goal never changes,” Winterbotham said after Tuesday’s practice. “We play every tournament to win it.”

“We started off the season sixth in the country and we know we are a good team. We just have to play the matches to find out who will take it.”

The Volunteers (9-1) quali-

fied for the tournament by defeating Michigan State and then Virginia Commonwealth University in a mini-tournament from Jan. 24-25.

Outside of defending National Indoor and NCAA champions Virginia, frequent title-contenders UCLA, Southern California and Ohio State will also be in Houston.

SEC rivals Georgia, Florida, Mississippi State and Texas A&M round out the decorated pool of competitors that should provide a formidable challenge for UT newcomers Andrew Dromsky, Markus Kerner and Bartosz Sawicki.

But Winterbotham said he believes his team is prepared for the challenge after a difficult road trip that saw the Vols lose their only match of the spring two weeks ago.

They rebounded to claim a vital victory off the racket of Brandon Fickey at Tulsa two days later, 4-3.

“The new players experienced the deer in the headlights moment (at Oklahoma State),” Winterbotham said, “so they don’t need to get worked up that way and they can learn from that.

“We’re big on being efficient and we have enough experience in this team that we know we just have to go out there, prepare ourselves well, and have the right mentality on the court to win.”

In 2010 and 2011, UT lost consecutive National Indoor finals to Virginia. Since then, the team has been rebuilt around Mikelis Libietis and Hunter Reese, the No. 1 ranked doubles team in the country, who are ranked No. 45 and No. 17 in singles.

The only veteran of the 2011 team is current senior Jarryd Chaplin, who won his first National Indoors match in that year’s semifinal against Duke.

“I didn’t know what to

expect,” Chaplin said. “I had heard a lot about college tennis. And that match (against Duke) really was the first time I felt like this was incredible. It was a really special moment.”

With that experience and two other tournaments behind him, the Australian serve-and-volley expert admitted he feels like there is a simple formula for success.

“The best (preparation) is to have everyone mentally ready,” he said. “It’s really tough to make it through three, four days. But, I feel like our tennis across the board has come a long way and physically we are (in a good place).”

UT will open the tournament against No. 3 USC on Friday afternoon. National Indoors last through Monday and then the Vols will return to Knoxville for a few weeks off before opening SEC play against Georgia on March 2.

MEN’S BASKETBALL

Wilbekin’s 3-pointer delivers knockout punch to UT Dargan Southard Copy Editor As the game turned: With 10:30 remaining and Florida boasting its largest lead of the second half, UT juniors Jarnell Stokes and Josh Richardson took it upon themselves to end the Gator momentum.

The tandem scored UT’s next eight points and positioned the Volunteers for a late game surge as Stokes’ and-one conversion trimmed the Florida lead to just one with 4:32 to go.

But the Gator 3-point attack soon awoke as Michael Frazier and Scottie Wilbekin drained back-to-back treys in just more than a minute.

Wilbekin had been 0-of-5 from behind the arc before his final make, but UT head coach Cuonzo Martin still wasn’t surprised to see the Florida senior sink the monumental dagger.

“That’s what (Wilbekin) does late in the shot clock,” Martin said. “If he can get

to the rim all the way to the right, he’ll get right. If not he’ll probe the defense, probe them and shot that pull up 3-point shot.”

The Gators continued to lean heavily on Wilbekin down the stretch. He scored eight of Florida’s last nine points and went 5-of-6 from the line in the final minute.

“That is the kind of player that he is,” senior Jordan McRae said. “He is a leader for their team. He hits big shots when they need it the most.”

Spotlight: Despite coming off the bench for the fifth consecutive game, senior Antonio Barton took over the majority of the point guard duties Tuesday night as Martin opted for the veteran over freshman Darius Thompson.

Barton played 23 minutes — his most in nearly three weeks — and scored six points on 3-of-6 shooting.

“I thought Antonio did a good job attacking the ball screen,” Martin said. “For

him to score attacking that ball screen, I thought he did a good job reading that defense and making plays against that ball screen.”

Thompson, who replaced Barton in the starting lineup on Jan. 29, was bothered by the Gators’ stout defense all evening. The UT freshman missed his only two shots and failed to score for the second time in three games.

Hot topic: Tuesday night’s loss was certainly a prime opportunity for a resume-stuffing win as the UT bubble talks would have surely quieted with a victory over the No. 3 team in the nation.

But with no more ranked teams currently on the Vols’ schedule and many seemingly-winnable contests ahead, UT players admitted they know they can’t afford any type of unnecessary slip-up.

“We’re definitely well aware that we have to win some games,” Stokes said, “because our goal is to make it to the tournament and see

what happens from there.”

Added Richardson: “Every game we should approach with a sense of urgency.”

The other guys: Wilbekin’s 21 points were a game-high as Florida extended its winning streak to 16.

Outside the box score: UT shot 52.9 percent from the free throw line (9-of-17), its worst charity stripe outing since the Vols’ win over Morehead State on Dec. 23 (52.2 percent).

Say something: Stokes on the pressure leading up to high-profile games: “I can’t sleep at night before games like this.”

By the numbers 2: UT had only two bench points in the second half.

29.2: The Vols shot 29.2 percent from the field in the final period.

18: Florida doubled-up UT on offensive rebounds, 18-9.

Up next: The Vols’ important week continues as they travel to Missouri on Saturday. Tipoff is slated for 4 p.m.

BASKETBALL continued from Page 1 After forcing another stop on defense and getting the ball with a chance to take back the lead, UT senior forward Jeronne Maymon notched his eighth and final turnover, giving it right back to Florida.

Florida’s Scottie Wilbekin (21 points) and Michael Frazier III (11 points) then canned 3-pointers on consecutive possessions to begin the mass exodus of Vol fans.

Maymon’s eight turnovers turned into a major liability that played a part in UT’s loss, but Martin wasn’t regretful over leaving his senior leader in the game despite his struggles.

“I didn’t think about taking him out because he was playing hard,” Martin said.

“He did a tremendous job of battling and competing.

It was unfortunate, but he played extremely hard.”

Thompson-Boling Arena’s crowd was in rare form Tuesday night, roaring at every big Vol basket and helping UT to survive an early 10-2 Florida lead as the Gators came out chomping.

But after that, the Vols went on a 30-16 run led by suffocating defense and a first-half hot shooting streak that put UT up 34-33 at

halftime while shooting 63 percent from the field.

A different shooting team came out in the second half.

McRae missed nine of his last 11 attempts to finish 6-of-16, and the Vols shot 29.2 percent as a team in the second half, which made Florida’s shooting struggles irrelevant.

Gators head coach Billy Donovan, who improved to 18-18 all time against Tennessee, admitted his team adjusted to slow down McRae, but also that he simply didn’t make as many tough shots.

“I thought a lot of shots they made in the first half, those didn’t go down in the second half,” Donovan said.

“We made it a lot more difficult for McRae. Some of the shots he hit in the first half just didn’t go down.”

In an up-and-down season such as Tennessee’s, any loss is tough to swallow. But after going toe-to-toe with the nation’s third-ranked team and nearly coming out winners, Stokes and company couldn’t help but look back.

“We came out and played with fire,” Stokes said.

“They hit shots down the stretch and they rebounded down the stretch.

“As far as being up and down, you know, losses like this are hard because we were right there.”

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