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Issue 25, Volume 122

Wednesday, February 13, 2013

Students take full advantage of spring job fair Justin Joo

Staff Writer With a chance to jump-start their careers, students flooded ThompsonBoling Arena for the 2013 Spring Job and Internship Fair.

Lasting from 2 to 6 p.m. Tuesday, students mingled with potential employers, each with the hope of landing an interview and maybe even a job or internship. More than 190 tables were set up on the arena floor, each having representatives for companies such as GEICO, Aldi, Inc., Dollywood, Hertz Corporation and Frito Lay/PepsiCo. One of those representatives was Lisa Orient, a UT alumna who worked the table for Youth Villages, an organization that helps with foster care and adoption. Orient said there were certain characteristics that she and the other employers were looking for with the students of UT. “Preparedness is a big thing,” Orient said. “Are they dressed like they’re looking for a job? Do they have a résumé with them? Can they articulate what they’re looking for?”

She added, “I get about half-andhalf that come up and say, ‘what does Youth Villages do?’ but some come and say, ‘oh you’re Youth Villages,

I’ve been looking for you!’ ... Those are the ones that I’ll make a note of.”

Career Services organized the job fair. Stephanie Kit, associate director for career planning with Career Services, helped get the employers to their designated spot in the arena.

She said that organizing the fair is a major undertaking for Career Services.

“There’s a lot of details involved because you’re coordinating with a large number of employers,” Kit explained. “You have to invite the employers, you have to publicize and deal with all the details of the arrangement and logistics of it.”

Elizabeth Pallardy, the college consultant for Career Services, also helped with the incoming employers. Both Pallardy and Kit had been working at the job fair since 10:30 a.m. and would likely be there until around 7 p.m. to help clean up. She agreed with Kit that it could be a tough job but it was worth doing it.

“They’re long days, but we’re not tired yet,” Pallardy said with a laugh.

“It’s fun to interact with the employers and the students. The people have a lot of energy, so it’s a lot of fun.”

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Representatives give prospective students more information about job opportunities at the 2013 Spring Job and Internship Fair at Thompson-Boling Arena on Tuesday.

Thomas Lynch hosts poetry reading in Hodges Claire Dodson

Staff Writer Sonnets, embalming, Irish funeral traditions, Methodist pastors and the Pope.

These were just a few of the wide range of subjects covered by poet, essayist and fiction writer Thomas Lynch Monday night at a reading for “Writers in the Library.” The program is a monthly event held in Hodges Library that brings a variety of writers to UT to speak.

With a vaguely Irish accent, though having been born in Michigan, Lynch read from his

novella “Apparitions and Late Fictions,” as well as from an assortment of poetry.

Marilyn Kallet, director of creative writing, emphasized Lynch’s storytelling ability and the way he communicates to the audience.

“He’s a multi-talented writer, an entertainer,” Kallet said.

“He knows the music of language, even as he uses more traditional forms of writing.”

Lynch is known for his day job as a funeral director, where a lot of his inspiration comes from. However, he brings in other aspects of his life in his

writing as well.

“Initially, I thought (the reading) would be only about death and undertaking,” Shiloh Jines, senior in English, said. “But he brought in a lot of other experiences. It was cool.”

The variety in Lynch’s writing seems to be due largely to the variety of people and situations in his life. He writes of his time spent in Ireland, his Catholic roots and his argumentative grandmothers.

“Readings like this are like going to the shrink and not getting a bill,” Lynch joked.

This sense of humor is evi-

dent in most of his writings, even as he covers difficult topics like religion, fear and death.

One of the most poignant examples of this was his reading from “Apparitions.”

In the story he read, a Methodist minister named Adrian Littlefield gets divorced and has to deal with the aftermath. He receives help from a Catholic friend that includes giving him large amounts of alcohol, leaving him hungover for the Sunday service he leads the next day.

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Tiara Holt • The Daily Beacon

Thomas Lynch reads from his ‘Apparition and Late Fictions’ novel to students during the ‘Writers in the Library’ event in Hodges Auditorium on Monday.

Experts offer tips to strengthen relationships Staff Reports As Valentine’s Day is just around the corner, romantic relationships are on the minds of many. Experts at UT are offering tips to ensure relationships stay healthy and strong.

“Couples find over time the romance can fade and even the best relationships can struggle a bit,” said Kristina Gordon, professor of psychology and director of RelationshipRx, a project seeking to make it easier for couples to take good care of their relationship health.

According to those at RelationshipRx, there are some easy steps people can take to build more intimacy and strengthen their relationships on a daily basis.

1. Take a Trip Down Memory Lane: Reminisce on how you first got together.

“With all the different stressors and issues couples face, it is easy to forget what brought you together in the first place,” said Gordon. “What attracted you to your partner? What were your first impressions of each other?”

Gordon says remembering these times can easily rekindle those initial loving feelings.

2. Learn to Listen: According Gordon, it is important to listen to your partner completely and non-judgmentally.

“Many people get caught up in trying to think of their response rather than listening,” she said. “Make sure to avoid that trap. Couples who are skilled at providing each other with social support have been shown to be healthier and happier than less skilled couples.”

3. Draw Love Maps: Couples research shows partners can feel closer and more intimate by taking as little as five extra

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minutes a day to create something called “love maps,” said Gordon.

“At the beginning of the day, share what your day will be like,” said Gordon. “This way, during the day, you can think about your partner and appreciate what his or her day must be like.”

At the end of the day, partners should share and listen closely to how each other’s day went.

4. Show Support: Identify two small things that each of you can do to provide support when the other is having a difficult day, such as doing the dishes or allowing your partner to vent.

“Research has shown that partners who can support each other around shared challenges can actually experience increased intimacy in their relationship,” said Audrey Kasting, a counselor and psychology graduate student.

5. Play to Your Strengths.

The experts say every couple is good at something.

“Find your strengths and use them to your advantage to help you deal with stress and other issues easier,” said Gordon.

Common strengths include: Friendships: Couples research has found that the quality of a couple’s friendship is one of the strongest predictors of relationship well-being.

Acceptance: The healthiest couples have found ways to cope well with each other’s quirks and to accept each other for the “natural flaws in the fabric.”

Commitment: Couples research has consistently found a strong association between shared commitment and relationship health and stability.

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Around Rocky Top

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Ezra Markowitz, a visiting postdoctoral at Princeton University, answers students’ questions during a lecture about communicating climate change to people through sociology for Darwin Day in Dabney Hall on Tuesday.

THIS DAY IN HISTORY

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Cheerleaders line up with Smokey to sing ‘Rocky Top’ at the end of the Lady Vols game against Ole Miss on Feb. 10.

1633 — Galileo in Rome for Inquisition On this day in 1633, Italian philosopher, astronomer and mathematician Galileo Galilei arrives in Rome to face charges of heresy for advocating Copernican theory, which holds that the Earth revolves around the Sun. Galileo officially faced the Roman Inquisition in April of that same year and agreed to plead guilty in exchange for a lighter sentence. Put under house arrest indefinitely by Pope Urban VIII, Galileo spent the rest of his days at his villa in Arcetri, near Florence, before dying on January 8, 1642.

Galileo, the son of a musician, was born February 15,

1564, in Pisa, Italy. He entered the University of Pisa planning to study medicine, but shifted his focus to philosophy and mathematics. In 1589, he became a professor at Pisa for several years, during which time he demonstrated that the speed of a falling object is not proportional to its weight, as Aristotle had believed.

According to some reports, Galileo conducted his research by dropping objects of different weights from the Leaning Tower of Pisa. From 1592 to 1630, Galileo was a math professor at the University of Padua, where he developed a telescope that enabled him to observe lunar mountains and craters, the four largest satel-

lites of Jupiter and the phases of Jupiter. He also discovered that the Milky Way was made up of stars. Following the publication of his research in 1610, Galileo gained acclaim and was appointed court mathematician at Florence.

Galileo’s research led him to become an advocate of the work of the Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1573). However, the Copernican theory of a suncentered solar system conflicted with the teachings of the powerful Roman Catholic Church, which essentially ruled Italy at the time. Church teachings contended that Earth, not the sun, was at the center of the universe.

In 1633, Galileo was brought before the Roman Inquisition, a judicial system established by the papacy in 1542 to regulate church doctrine.

This included the banning of books that conflicted with church teachings. The Roman Inquisition had its roots in the Inquisition of the Middle Ages, the purpose of which was to seek out and prosecute heretics, considered enemies of the state.

Today, Galileo is recognized for making important contributions to the study of motion and astronomy. His work influenced later scientists such as the English mathematician and physicist Sir Isaac Newton, who developed the law of universal gravitation.

In 1992, the Vatican formally acknowledged its mistake in condemning Galileo.

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CAMPUS NEWS LIBRARY continued from Page 1 Lynch describes, complete with his own off-key rendition, how Adrian begins to lead the congregation in an enthusiastic version of The Beatles’ “Let it Be,” stunning the conservative churchgoers.

In the end Littlefield recounts this experience and says, “For the first time I looked out over that sea of faces and saw them as fellow pilgrims.

Not fellow United Methodists or fellow Christians or fellow sinners. I just saw them all as people like me. Humans in search of the way home.”

Lynch uses humor to bring a new perspective and convey his version of truth. His undertaking experience enables him

to write from the point of view of someone who has dealt with death and who can peel away the mask of fear people project onto it in order to produce art.

Margaret Lazarus Dean, an assistant professor of English, introduced the speaker and discussed the importance of Lynch’s writings in the way they open up hard topics.

“The only cure for cognitive dissonance is art,” Dean said. “People who can tell us what it’s like to do something or be something we might not understand. Showing us glimpses of what it’s like to be a funeral director is not the only purpose of Lynch’s smart, funny and moving writing, or even the main one. But it’s an important one.

“And maybe even a culturechanging one.”

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Obama announces troop withdrawal from Afghanistan The Associated Press President Barack Obama’s decision to bring home within a year about half of the 66,000 U.S. troops now in Afghanistan will shrink the force to the size he found it when he entered the White House vowing to reinvigorate a stalemated war.

Still to be decided: how many troops will remain beyond 2014, when the U.S. led combat mission is scheduled to end. The stated goal is to prepare Afghanistan’s army and police to handle the Taliban insurgency largely on their own by then.

Obama determined that his war goals could be achieved by bringing 34,000 U.S. troops home by this time next year, officials said, leaving somewhere between 32,000 and 34,000 to support and train Afghan forces.

That is about the number in Afghanistan when he took office in January 2009; in a

CAREER FAIR continued from Page 1

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Thomas Lynch, a writer and funeral director in Michigan, speaks about his poetry on Feb. 10.

In the past, there had been two separate fairs in the spring. Kit said that the Spring Job Fair and the Summer Internship Fair were combined into one primarily for logistical reasons. With several construction projects occurring on campus, parking had become a considerable concern. The other issue was that having two events so close together had become a burden.

“They were offered really close together in a way that was a strain on our resources,” Kit said.

Mariah Toler, a junior in retail and consumer science, was one of the students look-

State Senate passes gun bill The Associated Press The state Senate on Monday passed a bill to give people with handgun carry permits the right to store their loaded firearms in their vehicles wherever they are parked, brushing aside concerns raised by businesses and higher education administrators in Tennessee.

The chamber voted 28-5 to approve the bill sponsored

by Republican Speaker Ron Ramsey of Blountville after rejecting Democratic efforts to add potential exclusions for businesses if they were approved by the state Department of Safety.

“If you allow people to come onto your parking lot then they have the right to have that firearm in the car,” Ramsey told reporters before the vote.

Ramsey has been pushing for the quick adoption of the bill to avoid a repeat of a drawn out fight last year between gun advocates and the business lobby.

The failure of last year’s bill ended up costing

House Republican Caucus Chairwoman Debra Maggart her legislative seat when the National Rifle Association and other gun advocates later bankrolled her primary opponent.

Sen. Charlotte Burks of Monterey, one of the five Democrats to vote against the measure after a 24-minute debate on Monday, asked whether supporters had persuaded large employers such as automaker Volkswagen AG to drop their objection to giving up the right to ban firearms from their parking lots.

“Some are comfortable some are not,” responded Sen. Jack Johnson, R-Franklin and a co-sponsor of the measure. “There are some in the business community ... who maybe wanted to go a slightly different direction.”

Ramsey and other supporters have noted that state law that already allows nonstudent adults to have guns stored in vehicles parked in

school or college parking lots.

The bill approved Monday would extend that right any handgun carry permit holder.

The companion bill is scheduled to be heard in a House subcommittee on Wednesday, where the property rights arguments and campus concerns are expected to get a more extensive hearing.

House Civil Justice Subcommittee Chairman Jim Coley of Bartlett drew the ire of some fellow Republicans in 2011 for a legislative maneuver that effectively killed that year’s proposal allow faculty and staff to carry guns on the campuses of public colleges and universities.

He would only say Monday that the current measure will get a full hearing on his panel later this week.

“I always allow people to talk on the bills,” he said.

“Whoever has any questions about the bill, they’ll have an opportunity to speak on the bill.”

series of moves designed to reverse the Taliban’s battlefield momentum, he tripled the total American force before starting to scale it back in the summer of 2011.

Obama’s new move coincides with a major shake-up in his war command. Gen. Joseph Dunford took over Sunday for Gen. John Allen as the commander of all allied forces in Afghanistan, and Defense Secretary Leon Panetta is planning to retire as soon as his replacement is confirmed. Obama has nominated former Sen. Chuck Hagel to take the Pentagon post, and the Senate Armed Services Committee voted 14-11 Tuesday to advance the nomination to the full Senate for a vote possibly later this week.

Obama’s decision also reflects Obama’s determination to wind down a war that is the longest in America’s history. He has many other security problems to consid-

er around the globe — from North Korea’s development of nuclear weapons to civil war in Syria to the worrisome spread of al-Qaida affiliated terrorist groups in the Middle East and North Africa.

In advance of Obama’s announcement in his State of the Union speech, the White House said the president made his decision about 2013 troop reductions based on recommendations by the military and his national security advisers, as well as consultations with allies such as Britain and Germany and talks with Afghan President Hamid Karzai.

A Pentagon statement said Panetta fully supports Obama’s troop reductions.

In farewell remarks to Pentagon employees, Panetta said Tuesday he is confident that the war strategy is on track.

“We will be able to transition over these next two years to a point where the Afghans

themselves can govern and secure themselves,” he said.

The White House did not spell out the pace at which the 34,000 troops will be withdrawn over the coming year.

Defense officials said it’s likely that the bulk of them will be kept through summer. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because details of the withdrawal had not been announced.

Private analysts are divided on the wisdom of accelerating the withdrawal of American forces. Michael O’Hanlon of the Brookings Institution wrote that he believes the current U.S. troop level should remain until autumn, when a seasonal lull in Taliban activity usually begins. “The president should now be patient with what happens over the next eight months,” O’Hanlon wrote in an opinion piece for Politico, adding that Dunford needs time to consolidate progress in eastern Afghanistan.

ing specifically for an internship. The job fair was the first one that Toler had been to, but she went in prepared to talk to specific companies, including Macy’s, Kohl’s and Chico’s.

“Both of the companies, their representatives, were really nice,” Toler said. “They were very informative about the internships they had and ... wanting to help you further your career and your degree.”

For Daniel Rose, sophomore in public horticulture, it was also a first time journey to a UT job fair. He wasn’t sure what to expect, but he had found the fair beneficial.

“It’s been interesting,” Rose said. “I’ve talked to a few groups so far and they were

really helpful actually.”

Prior to coming to the fair, Rose researched the companies that would be coming to the fair and planned to talk to specific ones that he believed he would want to work with in the future. As a sophomore, Rose wasn’t planning on landing a job from the fair, but rather wanted to get to know some of the companies he had an interest in.

“I’m not really looking for anything at the moment,” Rose explained. “I just really wanted to scope things out. I wanted to meet with the few companies I might like to work for in the future.”

Ashley Smith, junior in biosystems, also researched

particular companies, but her approach was a little different.

“I look into the companies a couple days in advance, and then I quit thinking about it,” Smith joked. “It’s too stressful to think about all the time. But I definitely research the companies that I want to talk to.”

Smith mainly focused on manufacturing companies, such as Johnson & Johnson and Rubbermaid.

This was not the first job fair that Smith had been to.

She said that she always goes to both the diversity fair and the engineering fair. Perhaps because of her frequent visits to job fairs, Smith said that she did not find Tuesday’s fair too stressful.

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Editor’sNote China pivotal in North Korea situation

Blair Kuykendall Editor-in-Chief The world’s attention turned to North Korea’s Punggye-ri testing site on Tuesday as seismic activity projected outwards from the dark peninsula.

South Korean officials estimated the blast’s strength between 6,000 and 7,000 tons of TNT, far larger than any detonation previously recorded from its northern neighbor.

This blast was particularly disconcerting due to suspicions that the North Korean government is attempting to design a nuclear warhead that could be supported by its Unha-3 rocket. Such a warhead could potentially reach the United States.

KCNA, the North Korean equivalent of CNN (albeit, a version tightly controlled by dictatorship) reported that the government was testing new weapons in response to American hostility. The Economist has reported that China warned North Korea to cancel the test. Wise words, considering that North Korea’s negotiating positioned with the world’s leading nations has taken a hard hit.

John Kerry, our new secretary of state, has already agreed with the South Korean prime minister to respond with “swift and unified” action should there be another nuclear test. In the world of international affairs, it’s a game of chicken, and North Korea just dared the U.S. to blink. Our new secretary of state responded with a threat, but Uncle Sam’s eyes are getting increasingly watery.

The last thing in the world our country needs right now is an armed conflict with North Korea, and North Korea knows it. The free world has veritably drowned North Korea in sanctions, but to no avail.

Kim Jong-un has been groomed to lord over his repressed people, and a critical component of that is nuclear supremacy.

The leaders in Pyongyang have a considerably longer leash than they would have had, say, back in the early ‘90s.

Right now, America’s economy, military, and political capital are at a definite low point in recent history. If the tyrannical regime in North Korea ever had a shot, this is their opening for a bit of mischief. It will take the collective efforts of the United Nations Security Council to restrain the battered dictatorship.

The Chinese government is poised to play the central role in this effort. Long the lone supporter of what has become the UN’s redheaded stepchild, China could hold the key to weigh-laying North Korea’s nuclear ambitions. Beijing has the power to kick the economic crutch right out from under Pyongyang.

The role reversal between China and the United States is a new sign of a very different era in the world’s history. The U.S. can have a variety of different thoughts on the situation in North Korea, but given our seeming unwillingness to enter world conflict, China’s opinion will be the one everyone’s interested in. They seem to be in a better position to effect change.

The U.S. may well have some harsh words for Kim Jong-un. We’re just not the country the world’s waiting to hear from anymore.

— Blair Kuykendall is a senior in College Scholars and economics. She can be reached at bkuykend@utk.edu.

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Valentine’s Day exciting for everyone The Maple Kind by

Hunter Tipton With Valentine’s Day coming up, there are a lot of feelings in the air. Many people hate Valentine’s Day, or as some call it, Singles Awareness Day. Others look forward to it as the next big holiday after Christmas, and enjoy all the cheesiness and commercialization that goes along with the season. Thinking about what my own Valentine’s Day is going to be like this year, I became curious as to what the true origin of the holiday is, and how it made the transition from a saint’s holiday to the somewhat tacky celebration it is today.

Dating back to about 270 A.D. during the Roman Empire, St. Valentine, whom the holiday is named after, was a Christian martyr.

According to the historical legend, he helped minister to early Christians at a time when the church was under much persecution. He also conducted marriage ceremonies for soldiers who were forbidden to have them. Because of these acts that he committed, St. Valentine was imprisoned by the Roman emperor at the time, tortured and eventually put to death.

The term “valentine” that we use to refer to the heart shaped cards that we send to one another on Valentine’s Day is supposed to have come from St. Valentine writing a card to the daughter of his jailer, Asterius, whom he had healed during his imprisonment. It is said the card was written the night before his appointed day of execution, and was signed “from your Valentine.” After his death, Julia is said to have planted a pink almond tree by his grave, as a symbol of love and friendship. As time went on over the following several centuries, the day was just a celebration of another saint’s life among the rest of the honored saints in the church.

In the Middle Ages, Geoffrey Chaucer is

attributed with having written the very first poem that dealt with Valentine’s Day. At that time, in the high royal court of the day, courtly love, along with courtly music and literature about love, was very popular. It is assumed that this tradition helped the holiday evolve into the celebration of love that it is today.

Lovers in this medieval time also wrote and sent valentines to one another, along with different delicious confections. This continued throughout the following years.

In Shakespeare’s “Hamlet,” Ophelia mentions Valentine’s Day, saying how she wishes to be Hamlet’s valentine. Even the oft quoted poem which we all wrote silly versions of in elementary school, “roses are red, violets are blue,” has a medieval connection. In Edmund Spenser’s medieval epic poem, “The Faerie Queene,” Spenser writes of the fairy queen that “bath’d with roses red, and violets blew, And all the sweetest flowres, that in the forrest grew.” And so the practice of sending valentines to one another grew to the modern holiday greeting cards that we see in stores today.

No matter what your feelings on Valentine’s Day may be, at least appreciate the history behind the day and that St. Valentine was a real person who performed many good acts.

Realize that although Valentine’s Day is based on commercial and consumerism, it does represent a day steeped with history.

Shameless Plug of the Week: A lot of people decry it as a silly made-up holiday, but there’s nothing wrong with celebrating your love for someone else. For those singles out there, declare your love for the other people in your life. Call your parents and tell them how much you love them, sing into the phone to your pet at home, or even just get together with other friends to watch a movie. If you don’t want to make any of those things happen, you can always love on yourself, and eat some candy yourself. That way, no sharing. Happy Valentine’s day, y’all.

— Hunter Tipton is a senior in microbiology. He can be reached at jtipto10@utk.edu.

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Imagine how knowing one detail can change your entire perspective. Have you ever planned to make a decision, then after obtaining one additional piece of information changed your mind entirely? Decisions are made on information, influence and intuition. We constantly weigh the costs and benefits based on what we know, or think we know. The influence of our culture and the people around us determine how we view and make decisions. Finally, we follow our gut feeling or intuition. All of these things come together helping us make a decision on the future, which for many of us is the ultimate goal whether we know it or not.

For most of us, the future is that big scary thing that is affected by the hundreds of decisions we make in a day. It sounds like a gross actualization that just about every decision we make, even the most basic, affects our future. We criticize the decisions others make, only to make the same decisions when put in the same situation. We criticize our own past decisions, judging them as not having been good enough. Decisions are hard, and knowing that they affect our future only makes each one scarier.

Imagine if you knew your entire future, who you would marry, what job you would have, where you would live, what mistakes you would make. Most people wouldn’t simply stand by and do

nothing to try and affect those details.

Nobody has the ability to construct their own perfect life, but they also don’t have the ability to resist trying.

There are no perfect lives or perfect people; everybody has cracks. Watch any time travel movie and observe as they try to change the future. It never works. If it doesn’t work in the movies, then it definitely can’t work in real life.

These cracks in people and situations are the unknown pieces of information that affect our decisions. Like I’ve said before, making bad decisions helps us grow. More importantly though, we make our decisions based on who we are presently. Maybe years from now, we will all look back and judge others or ourselves for the choices we made.

So what do we do now when we are making decisions? I guess the only thing that we can do right now is stand back. Stand back and look at everything around us, considering the information we have and the things that are important to us. Then take a step forward and make a decision. Of course, almost every decision we make has the potential to hurt someone, but we also can’t build our lives avoiding hurting anyone.

There is always collateral damage, and that collateral damage is part of the consequences and future. Just like we can never truly know what the future holds, we will never know about all the people we hurt or all the damage we cause.

Humans aren’t all-knowing, and nobody expects us to be.

— Samantha Warchol is a sophomore in psychology. She can be reached at swarchol@utk.edu.

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R, played by Nicholas Hoult, is a zombie in a future world where he feels he has to protect his new friend, Julie, from other ferocious zombies.

‘Warm Bodies’ gives new twist to teen romance genre Emily Delanzo Managing Editor

Breaking out of Nicholas Sparks and the “Twilight� saga, romance takes on a new face — a dead one. “Warm Bodies� unites the romantic comedy and zombie genres, making one hilarious “zom-romcom.� Young director and screenwriter Jonathan Levine twists a classic love story into a slow-tostart but heartwarming tale of zombie love.

Levine successfully makes the viewer feel compassion for zombies and shows there is more to them than eating brains and slowly stumbling from place to place.

Nicholas Hoult plays the role of R, the equivalent of a zombie Romeo.

In the beginning, R spends his time wandering the halls of an abandoned air-

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R proves to be capable of thought and decides to venture into the city with a pack of his dead brethren to find food.

On his hunt, R manages to eat the brain of a young man. While eating his brain, R experiences all of the young man’s memories including some with his girlfriend, Julie, thought to be Juliet.

R finally notices the horrified girlfriend and instantly feels connected.

Instead of being a responsible, thoughtless zombie and eating her too, R decides to bring her home back to the airport.

By eating her boyfriend’s brains, R lives vicariously through the ex dead lover to see Julie before and during the zombie apocalypse. In the end, as he eats the remaining brain, R sees his victim’s last memory. R can see himself for what he truly is.

A heartless, brain-eating zombie. But is he?

Every previous zombie movie has portrayed zombies as thoughtless and heartless. The defining characteristic that separates humans from corpses lies in the ability to dream. Zombies are unable to dream, but as R falls more and more in love with Julie while she’s trapped in his airplane, he begins dreaming and feeling compassion.

Julie’s father, unlike her, refuses to acknowledge that corpses are capable of compassion. He has accepted the fate of humanity and created the fort in which all survivors of the city reside.

A few one-sided conversations, lucid dreams and an empty gas tank later, Julie returns home. It’s up to her and R to convince surviving members of humanity that zombies can change.

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Mexican fare isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t usually a cuisine that sits on the ranks of the elite or expensive taste palate, but with the low price usually comes the sacrifice of fresh ingredients and a good flavor.

Oscarâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Taco Shop, located at 2121 Cumberland Ave., may be new to the Strip, but the restaurant has been a Tennessee favorite for quite some time.

The restaurant was started by brothers Oscar and Rico Rumiz, who migrated from San Diego to Franklin, Tenn., in 2007 and opened their first location. Word quickly spread, and soon nine other locations were opened in Middle Tennessee, including locations in Murfreesboro and Nashville.

The restaurant totes itself on serving authentic Southern California-Mexican fare, and while Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve never traveled to the west side of the U.S., friends who have traveled to the area say itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pretty close to home. The menu is large with plenty of options.

Popular items include the tacos, which patrons can choose from a long list of proteins or opt for a vegetarian version.

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6 • THE DAILY BEACON

Wednesday, February 13, 2013 Sports Editor Lauren Kittrell

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Assistant Sports Editor Austin Bornheim abornhei@utk.edu

Around Rocky Top

Vols look to sweep ’Dores

Parker Eidson • The Daily Beacon

Armani Moore talks with head coach Cuonzo Martin before being substituted in against Georgia in Thompson-Boling Arena on Feb. 6.

Austin Bornheim

Assistant Sports Editor After capturing their first true road win of the season Sunday afternoon at South Carolina, the Volunteers will try and duplicate the outcome Wednesday night at Vanderbilt.

Head coach Cuonzo Martin noted his team’s ability to make plays in the final minutes of the game in Columbia, S.C., as the reason why they were ability to break through away from Tara Sripunvoraskul • The Daily Beacon Thompson-Boling Arena.

Students and faculty stop by the UT Student Health Center Pharmacy during the “It comes down to which open house on Feb. 5. The pharmacy sells medication and first aid kits to students. team makes the most plays,” Martin said. “Which team makes their free throws, and which team does not turn the ball over. We did that.”

On Wednesday night the Vols (12-10, 4-6 SEC) will look to sweep in-state rival Vanderbilt for the season and capture the third-straight win over Kevin Stallings’ team.

Tennessee narrowly escaped the Commodores on Jan. 29 in Knoxville, 58-57. Vandy had three chances at the gamewinning basket in the final 10 seconds but were unable to get a shot to fall.

“The ball just went our way tonight,” Martin said following the teams’ first meeting.

Stopping Vanderbilt’s leading scorer, Kedren Johnson (14.2 points per game), is key to hav-

Tennessee looks to build off road win

Vincent Walker • The Daily Beacon

Jarnell Stokes drives into the paint against Georgia in Thompson-Boling Arena on Feb. 6.

Troy Provost-Heron Staff Writer

The Volunteers (12-10, 4-6 SEC) will be looking for their second straight road win tonight when they play the Vanderbilt Commodores (9-13, 3-7).

The Vols, who started this season losing their first six road games, got their first road win against the South Carolina Gamecocks on Sunday, 66-61.

The game marked the first game back for junior guard Trae Golden since straining his right hamstring against the Commodores on Jan. 29.

He scored 16 points on 4-of-8 shooting.

“It felt really good,” Golden said. “To be able to get the victory first and foremost, and just getting out there. I hadn’t played at that pace in awhile so just to be able to get out there felt really good.”

The Vols will look to sweep the season series against Vandy after they won their previous matchup 58-57. The biggest problem the Vols faced in that game was stopping sophomore guard Kedren Johnson in the second half, as he scored all 14 of his points in the half.

“We just watched film on him this morning,” head coach Cuonzo Martin said. “I do not think we did a good job of keeping him in front of us in the second half (of the last game). He did a good job of using his big guys coming off those screens but I thought we gave him angles too much to get to the rim, as opposed to fighting through that ball screen and going shoulder to shoulder with him and keeping him in front of you and forcing him to shoot over you.”

For this game, the Vols will have to travel to Memorial Gymnasium in Nashville to

play in one of the most hostile and unique environments in all of college basketball.

“It is one of those deals where you obviously have to be good to win in that environment,” Martin said. “It is a different environment so your players have to adjust, especially in the first half going away from the bench on offense. I think in those environments you obviously have to have talent, but I think you have to have a good point guard. The reason I say that is because those guys need to be able to direct traffic for you. When you are away from your bench and your coach is not right in your ear you have to be able to direct traffic, call the plays, run the offense and get you where you need to be offensively in order for you to have success on the offensive side of the ball.”

With sophomore forward Jarnell Stokes, who is averaging 17.6 points and 12 rebounds per game in the last five contests, and Trae Golden seeming to be at their best, the Vols will be looking to hit their stride with a chance to make the NCAA Tournament.

“There’s yet to be a game where Trae was going, I was going and Jordan (McRae) was going,” Stokes said. “We haven’t had a game like that yet, but I think if Trae keeps playing like that and I keep playing like that it will definitely be hard to beat us.”

“We’re pretty confident right now,” sophomore guard Josh Richardson said. “Seeing both of those guys (Golden and Stokes) play very well the other day is a big confidence booster for us. We’re pretty optimistic going into this week.”

ing a successful trip to Middle Tennessee on Wednesday.

“He will have opportunities to penetrate, because of the Princeton-style offense they run they have shooters out there.

The key is that he has to shoot jump shots over you,” Martin said. “If Josh (Richardson) and Jordan (McRae) and those guys defend him than opposed to him having angles to laying the ball up and putting our big guys in potential foul situations.”

Johnson tallied 14 points in the previous contest.

The Tennessee players recognize that stopping Johnson is first priority on the defensive end.

“It’s a huge deal,” Trae Golden said. “He’s a great player so we’re going to have to make sure (they) do stay in front of him. That’s something we’re definitely going to have to be ready for.”

As in every visit to Memorial Gym, the players and coaches will have to adjust to the unusual layout of the court. Having a point guard who can direct the team from the opposite side of the floor will be important for the Volunteers and their ability to run the offense.

“When you are away from your bench and your coach is not right in your ear you have to be able to direct traffic, call the plays, run the offense and

get you where you need to be offensively in order for you to have success on the offensive side of the ball,” Martin said.

“I think from that standpoint, being in a unique situation which you have not seen as a basketball player you have to have leadership on the floor to get you over the hump in that first half, or at least the first ten to fifteen minutes.”

In the last meeting Jarnell Stokes led all scorers with 19 points, and it was the second of his current five-game doubledouble streak.

“I think he’s really demanding the ball,” Golden said. “He’s taking advantage of all of his opportunities and I think that’s the biggest thing.”

Tennessee will lean on Stokes to assert his presence against the Commodores, who lack a dominant post presence of their own.

Golden, who injured his right hamstring against the Commodores, is coming off a 16-point performance, his largest output since Dec. 18 against Presbyterian College — and is starting to return to his pre-injury form.

“I’m still hurt,” Golden said.

“It will probably hurt for the remainder of the season but I’m OK to play with it.”

Tip off is set for 8 p.m., and the game will be aired on the SEC Network.