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VolWalk encourages planning for future Coney Island to get new rides this year NEW YORK — After years of hand-wringing over the future of Coney Island, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg is promising 19 new amusement park rides this summer.

At a news conference Tuesday, Bloomberg said the new Luna Park will open on Memorial Day weekend. Among the new rides will be the Air Race, which sends riders soaring around a control tower. It will be the ride’s global debut.

The mayor also outlined plans to turn the run-down neighborhood into a yearround entertainment district with restaurants, retail stores and hotels.

The renewal of the neighborhood by the Brooklyn boardwalk is moving forward after the city purchased land owned by a developer for $95.6 million in November.

Spain to take 5 from Guantanamo MADRID — Spain said Monday it is willing to take in five inmates from the U.S. prison in Guantanamo Bay, not just the two it had announced last month.

Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos told reporters that the inmates will not pose a security threat.

The transfers, he said, “will be done with all the legal guarantees so as to defend the security situation that our country requires.”

He said the nationalities of the former prisoners would be announced when they arrive in Spain.

Officials said previously that Spain had agreed to accept one Yemeni and one Palestinian inmate.

Dog ‘hitches ride’ in N.M., meets owner in Louisiana NEW ORLEANS — The dogs in New Orleans’ Carnival pet parade included a pooch that hitched a ride 1,200 miles from Taos, New Mexico, to the city where his 26-year-old master had hitchhiked weeks earlier. Stephan Soleas came to New Orleans for a few weeks of visits and music. He said his 6-yearold Labrador mix, Charlie, went missing days after he left.

Charlie was found by a couple vacationing in Taos.

The couple saw a collarless dog and tried to find its owner, but the veterinarian didn’t have a microchip scanner.

The couple gave up their airline tickets, rented a car and made the 3-day drive back to New Orleans with the dog. Incidentally, they also named the dog Charlie.

— The Associated Press

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VolWalk of Life, located in the UC Ballroom on Tuesday, was an event to show students the great opportunities that UT has to offer. Petro’s Chili and Chips supplied lunch and students were able to win Jostens college rings, a Kaplan test prep course, and signed UT memorabilia.

Kyle Turner Staff Writer The VolWalk of LIFE turned out more than 700 students Tuesday. The event offered information on aspects of college life from financial aid to study abroad opportunities, bringing crucial campus organizers together in one place.

Organizers of the event felt student attendance went well above expectations, but they were nonetheless pleased that so many students were able to take part in the VolWalk of LIFE. “In the beginning, the Academic Affairs Committee worked to shape a vision for the event, but what has taken place today has gone above and beyond our expectations and really is the product of hard work and dedication,” Andrew Rice, sophomore in enterprise business, said.

The VolWalk of LIFE was made possible by many sponsors and organizations that devoted their time and resources to create an event focused on helping students, Drew Webb, Academic Affairs Committee director, said.

Students were treated to appearances by coaches Pat Summitt and Bruce Pearl, both of whom gave speeches reaffirming the importance of student success at UT. Mary Alex Rochester, junior in accounting, found the event well worth attending.

“I found it very helpful,” Rochester said. “There was a ton of information that you really need to know to be a successful student all in one place, and I highly recommend others going if the VolWalk happens again.”

Rochester said she had all of her questions regarding studying abroad answered while at the event and found useful information at every station she visited.

“The students who have come through thus far have been very enthusiastic. We have been able to reach a large range of students, leaving them with the message of ‘Go Global,’” Anne Hulse, coordinator with the Programs Abroad Office, said.

Students had a large pool of resources located in one central place to offer as

much information as possible on a wide array of subjects.

Other organizations present had pertinent information to offer students.

Joy DeSensi and Ernest Brothers represented the University of Tennessee Graduate School and answered questions from students of all ages.

“Freshmen have come to us today, and many thought it might be too soon to start thinking about graduate school,” Brothers said. “We have been able show them the advantages and opportunities of the graduate program and educated them that freshman year is not too soon to begin looking into graduate school.”

One organization at the event went a step further, not only answering questions but also asking questions to the students themselves.

Helen Sellers with the Office of Financial Aid and Scholarships asked questions, such as if each student knew his or her financial aid counselor, where the office is located and how to apply for scholarships.

“A lot of students have approached us today and were unsure of exactly what to

ask,” Sellers said. “We decided to ask them the questions, which have proved extremely helpful. We have been showing students who their financial aid counselors are and hopefully been giving them valuable information.”

Other resources offering students insight and knowledge included UT’s DARS system.

“The event today has been a really cool concept, following the path of LIFE, and it has been extremely helpful to me as a freshman,” Megan Larsen, undecided freshman, said. “I learned about the DARS system, and it has been able to answer questions that I would have had to call my adviser for otherwise.”

After completing the VolWalk, students were treated to Petro’s Chili and Chips and allowed to place their names in specific raffle prize boxes.

The more popular items included athletic memorabilia signed by UT coaches Pearl, Summitt and Derek Dooley.

As the event wound down, organizers said they knew they were able to equip students with information to help them continue to excel at UT.

WUOT joins radio evolution Jake Lane Entertainment Editor Apple Inc.’s iRevolution has taken much of the civilized world by storm. Steve Jobs has promised to save print media with his upcoming, dubiously-titled iPad; the iTunes Store is counting up to their 10 billionth music download; and since the advent of the iPhone and iPod Touch two-and-a-half years ago, the field of user applications, or Apps, has exploded and aggrandized exponentially.

One such application that was recently released features content from WUOT, the university’s public radio station and local National Public Radio affiliate. After observing a rising trend in streaming broadcasts from radio companies nationwide, WUOT decided to jump into the field with both of their current broadcast-

ing schedules. “(We) like to let things go on a bit and see how they work out,” WUOT community relations director Cindy Hassel said. “We noticed the app trend, and our engineer said we should get on this.”

As technology continues to evolve, radio, the oldest live broadcasting format, continues to evolve as well.

“We have to stay up-todate,” Hassel said. “We investigated what other stations had done and worked with Jacobs Media, who have worked with a number of other stations, to develop this app.”

Recently WUOT branched out and launched a second, simultaneous broadcasting schedule, called WUOT-2. The idea was to offer syndicated shows from NPR that were not previously available in this market.

If, perhaps, one were awake at midnight and wanted to

listen to BBC World News instead of “Classical 24,” WUOT-2 gives them that option.

“Our main signal is 91.9, and any (local) radio you tune to 91.9 will be WUOT,” director Regina Dean said.

“But if you have an HD radio, you can pick up WUOT-2, but unfortunately most people don’t.”

Dean said that as time goes on and the technology becomes more dominant, WUOT-2 will become more widely available, instead of just through web-streaming and HD. One of the perks of the application is the availability of both WUOT and WUOT-2, thus having access to two completely different programming formats.

While some shows are shared, they never run simultaneously on both stations.

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Feb. 17 - Feb. 18, 2010 Wednesday, Feb. 17 — • 5 p.m. — “Voices of the Mountains,” a mountaintop removal discussion, takes place in the Baker Center’s Toyota Auditorium. The discussion is free and open to the public and is sponsored by the Sociology Graduate Student Association, The Center for the Study of Social Justice and the Department of Sociology.

• 7 p.m. — The CPC Film Committee screens the film “Friday” in the UC Auditorium. Tickets are $1 with a UT ID and $2 without.

• 8 p.m. until — • Zingrin Shishak performs in a graduate student piano recital in the UT School of Music’s Music Hall.

Thursday, Feb. 18 — • 5 p.m. — Bill Landry, host of “The Heartland Series,” a WBIR-TV show that ran from 1984 until 2009 featuring people, places and stories of Appalachia, speaks in the Baker Center.

• 7:30 p.m. — Jenny Schmid, printmaker and assistant professor of art at the University of Minnesota, presents a public lecture about her work in Room 109 of the Art and Architecture Building. The lecture is free and open to the public and is sponsored by the UT Print Club.“

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Tennessee basketball coaches Bruce Pearl and Pat Summitt visit with students at the VolWalk of Life put on by the Academic Affairs Committee Tuesday. The event was designed to offer assistance to students based on where they are in their stages of campus life.

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Wednesday, Feb. 10 • 3:39 a.m. — KPD requested assistance in handling a theft in the Fort Sanders emergency room. KPD had a male subject in custody on suspicion of auto burglary in the Newland Professional Building garage on Clinch and 20th. The subject was identified and found to not be affiliated with the university, but he had in his possession a VolCard, a debit card and university keys belonging to a student. The owner of the property was brought down from her dorm and claimed her possessions. She claimed to have left them in a jacket pocket during a function at New Amsterdam and later found them missing. The subject pickpocketed the jacket and was later captured while attempting to break into a vehicle.

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Wednesday, February 17, 2010

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2 children killed in Chattanooga fire identified

All-You-Can-Eat-Cupcakes event raises awareness for Parkinson’s research The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research is hosting “Cupcakes for the Cure” on Feb. 18. The event will include live entertainment, a raffle and allyou-can-eat cupcakes and dessert. The event is tentatively scheduled for 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at the Black Cultural Center. A donation for the cause is suggested at $10 but is not required.

Sportswriter of the Year speaks before Kentucky game UT-Knoxville alumnus and 2009 Tennessee Sportswriter of the Year Brent Hubbs will speak to Vols basketball fans before the Feb. 27 game against Kentucky.

Hubbs runs the UT sports Web site Volquest.com, a part of the Rivals.com network. The site focuses on UT football and basketball news and recruiting. Hubbs is also a contributing reporter for WBIR-

WUOT continued from Page 1 “It sounds a bit silly to say, but there are only 24 hours in a day, and that’s just not enough time,” Dean commented. “With WUOT-2, a whole separate format is available. It’s like having twice the real estate.”

As opposed to a podcast,

TV, the Vol Network and other media outlets.

He will talk about the Vols’ recent football recruiting class, the new football coaching staff or any other UT sports topic the audience would like to discuss.

The discussion will take place from 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. at the McClung Museum. Registration is required, and the program is sponsored by the UT Knoxville Alumni Affairs Accomplished Alumni Program. The discussion costs $5 per person and includes coffee and doughnuts. To register, visit the UT Alumni Association Web site.

Online forum celebrates UT faculty Students can post letters to their favorite teachers for Faculty Appreciation Week, Feb. 17-23. To leave a “shout out,” visit http://www.utk.edu/faculty/appreciation/shout-out/ to post thoughts and read what others have written about UT faculty members who have been special to them.

which several NPR shows already offer, the WUOT app streams content in real time. While this doesn’t offer much user choice in programming, the application gives any user with an iPhone (or an iPod Touch) and an Internet connection both formats, which can be switched by the click of a button.

As with any public radio

station, funding goes directly to programming and relies on listener support. On the app interface, users are encouraged to donate.

“We are trying to operate our program in the most fiscally responsible way,” Hassel said. “If people enjoy the programming and feel encouraged to donate, they should do so.”

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CHATTANOOGA — Two children killed in a Chattanooga duplex fire on Monday have been identified as 7-monthold Olivia Bennett and her 3-year-old brother, Michael White.

Firefighters at the scene found the children’s mother, Alfredda Bennett, 24, outside the burning duplex at 6215 Bonny Oaks Drive.

A spokeswoman for the fire department said the woman left the children alone in the duplex with their 9-year-old brother. He escaped from the house without injury and ran to neighbors for help.

Fire officials are not identifying him.

The fire started in the downstairs of the duplex around 2:40 p.m. Rescuers found the children in an upstairs bedroom but could do nothing to save them.

Olivia was dead on the scene. Her brother, who suffered severe burns, was pronounced dead at T.C. Thompson Children’s Hospital.

TVA officials assure safety of coal ash cleanup NASHVILLE — Tennessee Valley Authority officials assured state lawmakers on Tuesday that the cleanup of coal ash spilled into the Emory River in East

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Tennessee is not a health risk.

In December 2008, about 5.4 million cubic yards of coal ash laced with arsenic and potentially toxic substances spilled out of a holding pond at the Kingston TVA plant.

Steve McCracken, TVA’s general manager of the cleanup, told the Joint Conservation and Environment Committee that about 2.5 million cubic yards of coal ash have been removed from the river, nearly 70 percent of the ash spilled into the water.

Bredesen rejects furloughs for Tenn. state workers NASHVILLE — Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen said Tuesday that he considered — but ultimately rejected — shutting the doors of state government once every other week as an alternative to laying off more than 1,000 state employees.

The Democratic governor said after a speech to the Tennessee State Employees Association that the furlough option would have idled government operations on 24 Fridays a year and would have made up the equivalent of a 10 percent pay cut for all of state employees.

Bredesen said he would rather “ask 1,000 people to find other jobs than to hit all 45,000 state employees with a salary cut of that kind of magnitude.”

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LetterEditor to the

Regulations to combat obesity suppress personal freedom Editor’s note: The opinions expressed here are those of the author and not necessarily those of the UT Graduate School of Medicine.

I am writing to take issue with points raised by Ali Griffin in her Feb. 11 column on the impact of cafeteria changes in the fight against childhood obesity. She makes several erroneous statements, the most important of which is to equate mortality from obesity to mortality from tobacco use. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention promoted flawed data in the past, claiming 400,000 excess deaths were due to obesity annually. The data from a later, higher quality study from the CDC and the National Institute of Health suggested fewer than 26,000 deaths annually. More recent literature suggests that only the extremely obese, with body mass index greater than 35 percent, have elevated mortality risk. This group represents less than 10 percent of the U.S. population.

The moderately overweight appear to have improved survival in some recent studies. It should be noted that the current “obesity epidemic” is a largely manufactured notion. In 2004, simply by changing the definition, the CDC changed the prevalence of overweight and obesity from less than 40 percent to 60 percent, all without data to suggest deleterious effects to survival for those so redefined. Even the fixes proposed, such as banning artificially sweetened beverages in schools, lack scientific data to back up their claims of preventing obesity.

The adverse health outcomes of severely obese individuals are without question, and efforts to target this population are warranted. Population-wide controls affecting the 90 percent of the population not in this group, however, should be viewed with skepticism. Restrictions on personal freedom seem to always start with an appeal to “save the children.” Soon to follow will be restrictions on adult freedoms, such as taxes on sugar and fat content in foods.

Politicians relish such crusades, as they benefit from a bounty of politically correct taxation. These “sin” taxes disproportionately impact the poor. Look no further than the current tobacco tax situation, where taxes on mostly lower income individuals subsidize health care insurance for the middle class. The government then becomes dependent on the hated behavior; imagine the impact on the state’s budget if everyone were to quit smoking tomorrow.

Which behavior is next? Unregulated sexual behavior generates nearly 50,000 cases of HIV infection and over one million unwanted pregnancies per year.

Perhaps we need the government in the bedroom as well as the kitchen. We are living in an era of ever-diminishing personal freedom in the name of the “public good.” It is somewhat reminiscent of German newsreels from the 1920s showing how proper government control could produce a more fit race of men.

That did not end so well.

Dr. Mark Rasnake Internal Medicine Program Director UT Graduate School of Medicine THE DAILY BACON • Blake Treadway

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Current marijuana policy hinders progress C ommon S e n se by

Kel Thompson I consider myself to be a fairly taboo columnist most of the time, but I’m not really sure whether or not the subject I am about to cover is actually taboo anymore. It’s kind of hard to tell where the majority lies on this issue. Some are extremely passionate about it; most — it seems — really don’t care that much. It’s highly illegal but seemingly everywhere. I’m talking, of course, about marijuana.

It seems like more and more people are becoming tolerant of marijuana use for both medical and recreational purposes; even the president openly admits to using the drug in his youth. Even so, however, federal drug laws remain pretty much the same as they were in Nixon’s era. In 2008 (the latest figure I can find), there were roughly 750,000 marijuana possession arrests, compared to almost 595,000 total violent crime arrests that same year.

To me, this is a sickening fact. Our government is spending over $40 billion of taxpayer money every year to throw those same taxpayers in jail. Imagine how many killers, rapists and thieves those cops could have nabbed if they weren’t spending so much time chasing those conniving potheads.

They’re not going to run: You can trap them with Cheetos. They’ll probably offer you the joint. Are they really so dangerous that we need to arrest them? Probably not.

Yes, marijuana is a drug, and it can be used irresponsibly, but so can pretty much anything. Eating McDonald’s every day for a year would be a quick path to a heart attack.

Careless driving (something most people are guilty of, intoxicated or not) endangers not

only the careless driver but everyone else on the road. But even with all the irresponsible uses of things like cars, guns, alcohol and toilet paper, we still trust people of the appropriate ages to purchase and use these items responsibly.

So why not pursue a similar policy with marijuana? Why don’t we stop spending billions of dollars a year on an unwinnable war against a catch-all word (“drugs”) whose only outcome is to perpetuate the black market and the violence associated with it? Why don’t we use that money instead to build roads, fund schools or feed the hungry? Maybe we could use that money to put more murderers in jail.

Maybe we could stop releasing sexual offenders from prison years early in order to make room for marijuana offenders with mandatory minimum sentences. Maybe we could create hundreds of thousands of new jobs — if only a plant, which millions of Americans use anyway, were made legal.

Cannabis will grow almost anywhere in the world, under almost any conditions (it is a weed, after all), and you can make just about anything from it. Hemp is a source of paper, rope, cloth, insulation and food, among other things. Hemp oil was, until the early 1900s, the most used oil in the world; I’d like to see if we could make gas out of it. An acre of hemp can make as much paper as two to four acres of trees. It’s renewable once or twice per year and doesn’t require the use of chemicals.

The legality of marijuana is a human rights issue. In this day and age, we’re trying to fix the economy, become healthier and stop screwing up our planet. Regardless of how one feels about it morally, the legalization of marijuana goes a long way toward solving these problems and should therefore be a priority for all Americans, whether they consume the plant or not.

— Kel Thompson is a junior in creative writing. He can be reached at kthomp28@utk.edu.

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Our minds — the extent and function of our reason — are obviously limited by the capacity of our brains. In other words, our ability to understand the universe is limited by the evolutionary function of our physical brains. It seems then that our brains are equipped to reason out social complexities and the physics of hunting, for example, but less so (or possibly not at all) to understand the nature of the universe outside of our atmosphere, solar system, galaxy or whatever extent applicable.

Luckily, it is apparent that exercise can extend the physical limitations of the body, and thus the mental limitations dependent on the physical (theoretically, all of it) may also be extended through exercise. Homo sapiens did not evolve to live in the water, after all, but in some Pacific cultures, humans have demonstrated the ability to dive deeply and for periods of time that can quadruple that of the untrained human.

In parallel, the mind can also be trained to surpass previous limitations. But there are obvious differences between training yourself to hold your breath and training yourself to understand the shape of the universe. Training the body is more equivalent to training the mind to perform memory tricks rather than to grasp abstract physics.

The reverse of the comparison is that long jumpers cannot build a foundation on the activities of history in the same way that a scientist can. Modern children can understand the nature of pathogens very early in life, not because the human brain has improved in quality since the era of the Black Plague when disease was blamed on sin and southerly winds, but because culture — through education as well as through meaning encoded in common behavior, myth and ritual — acts as a foundation for new knowledge. It’s a kind of platform we couldn’t fall beneath unless culture were to fail in some way. In other words, we are practically born knowing that germs are carried in saliva because covering the mouth when one coughs and refusing to share drinking straws is a fixture in our culture.

Thus, our current model of the universe is more well-informed than those of the past. To our credit, we guessed what the moon was made of before we brought back samples, showing that terrestrial knowledge can extend beyond Earth.

But when speaking about pathogens and lunar material, we are still only speaking of a logic that makes sense in a very limited time and space.

We are talking about the rules of physics and logic, determined by experimentation and observation, that are evolutionarily necessary for survival here on earth. Our brains are physically constructed to deal in one form of logic — it is our single currency.

So why would our brains be adapted to understand the macro phenomena of great fields of the universe? Perhaps the entire universe functions with one set of physics, but Einstein helped show that a set of rules (in this case, Newton’s laws) that works for one realm may not explain the physics of another.

And even if we do find one day that we’ve answered all the questions we care to know, is it not possible that we have only succeeded in labeling the universe in our language, that we have done nothing more than find a way to fit our image of the universe into terrestrial logic rather than to use terrestrial logic to discover the “true” nature of everything?

I’m not saying that we can “never know anything” or that we will “never know the whole truth.” Those statements, however true, are practically worthless. I’m trying to get to something more complex that might be better understood in terms of a metaphorical image.

Imagine a light bulb in infinite space, glowing brighter and brighter and illuminating more and more area, but does not have a chance of total enlightenment of the infinite. This is a widely accepted model of human progress. But I wonder whether or not we are really capable of glowing brighter, i.e., increasing the quality of our minds to comprehend physics beyond us, or if we really are limited — absolutely — by the physical, evolutionary nature of our intellect.

Can we really defy evolutionary function and continue, unlimited, in our progressive understanding of the eternity and infinitude of space and matter light-years away and more?

Will we ever understand the “beginning” of the universe, or are we just dancing?

There’s nothing wrong with dancing, you know.

— Amien Essif is a junior in English literature. He can be reached at aessif@utk.edu.

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Band to visit Knoxville on first major tour Cage the Elephant to perform at the Valarium with As Tall As Lions to promote new album Amanda Wulforst Staff Writer The rock band Cage the Elephant will come to the Valarium Thursday after making it halfway through their first major tour with As Tall As Lions. Matt Shultz, Brad Shultz, Daniel Tichenor, Lincoln Parish and Jared Champion will introduce their debut album to Knoxville with a vibrant performance of intricate melodies and lyrics.

Cage the Elephant worked with Sony and Grammy-winning producer Jay Joyce in order to create their self-titled album. All songs from the album will be performed throughout the tour, including “Ain’t No

Rest for the Wicked,” which sparked Cage the Elephant’s rise into chart-topping success. Yet every song on the album has its own blend of ecstatic energy, creative instrumentals and soul-chilling lyrics that will awe the audience, as can be heard in “In One Ear,” “James Brown,” “Tiny Little Robots,” “Lotus,” “Back Against the Wall” and “Drones in the Valley.” But expect more than the songs from Cage the Elephant’s debut album to be performed at their show.

“The new album isn’t recorded, but we’re mixing and matching some of the new songs into the show,” guitarist Lincoln Parish said.

“We’re trying to push the first album and make people more familiar with our songs,

but it’s fun to play the new ones too.”

Cage the Elephant has toured from the West coast to the East coast. Knoxville is their second trip to Tennessee, and this band is only halfway through their tour dates. But with the band’s exhilarating emotion in each song on the album, and since their epic success with their first single, it is no surprise this band is in high demand for tour dates.

“The band is constantly touring to promote their new album,” manager Daniella Cabral said. “They started touring when their first album released last June and have only taken one month off since then.”

Also, for the band’s stop at Knoxville’s Valarium, As Tall As Lions will make an

appearance, performing songs from their newly released album, “You Can’t Take it With You.” This band is known for their terrific live performances, and combining As Tall As Lions with Cage the Elephant should make for an interesting night.

“This is a fun show for people to come out and have fun at,” Parish said. “People will have a good time. There’s a good line up for different music with a good instrumental environment. And…we like crunchy peanut butter, not smooth.”

Tickets are available online and at the door for two dollars more. Those under 21 will have to pay three more dollars at the door. The show begins at 8:00 p.m.

‘Frankie & Johnny’ showcases romance, comedy Chassidy Doane Staff Writer A small but quaint theatre that seats about 30 people is what one sees when entering Theatre Knoxille Downtown. Located just footsteps away from Regas, this theatre is tiny but easily noticeable from the outside. Stepping inside, one is greeted by warm and friendly faces and is reassured that an interesting evening awaits.

Right now, TKD is running “Frankie & Johnny in the Clair de Lune,” a play about spontaneity, romance and a little bit of craziness all wrapped into one. The two main characters, Frankie (Bonnie Lotesto) and Johnny (Vania Smrkovski), work together to give a performance that is not easily forgotten.

From the beginning, the audience knows the play is going to be a little less than traditional. The play opens with the lights completely out and Frankie and Johnny moaning in a

sad, happy, frustrated and amused at times.

Theatre Knoxville Downtown itself is something people should go and explore. The intimacy of this theatre helps viewers feel as though they are a part of the story. That and the actors’ strong performances make for a pleasing experience.

Smrkovski steps into the shoes of Johnny amazingly. He makes the audience hate him and think he is disgusting at times but then at others has them feeling sorry for him. Lotesto plays a great counterpart to Smrkovski and helps balance out his “love sickness” with ambivalent feelings about their relationship.

The audience is sure to feel at home and entertained from the second they walk in the door until the moment they leave.

“Frankie & Johnny” will run at TKD until March 7. Tickets are $10 on Thursdays and Sundays and $15 on Friday and Saturday nights.

way that makes it obvious they are engaging in sexual activity.

This goes on long enough to make the audience pass the stage of awkwardness and enter a more humorous state of mind. But the humor doesn’t stop there. This play is full of irony and witty one-liners that lighten up the otherwise somber mood.

“Frankie & Johnny,” although mostly comical, has a dark undercurrent. The play is set in New York City in the 1980s. In the play, two people are desperately trying to find love, so much so that Johnny spends the whole night trying to convince Frankie that they are, in fact, made for each other. However, Frankie is very hesitant of the thought of love and weary of Johnny’s presence for most of the production.

Can people really convince themselves they are in love when they don’t know what love is? That seems to be the central question in this play, and the characters try to wrestle through their differences throughout the performance. The audience really goes through all the emotions the characters are feeling:

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Staff Writer After advancing to its first-ever ITA National Team Indoor Championship, the Tennessee men’s tennis team fell to twotime defending national champion and No. 2-ranked Virginia on Monday 4-1.

The No. 5-ranked Vols defeated No. 12ranked Illinois (4-0), No. 3-ranked UCLA (4-2) and No. 8-ranked Texas (4-1) to reach the finals of the event, hosted by the University of Virginia at the Boar’s Head Sports Club in Charlottesville, Va. The Vols began the day by sweeping the doubles portion of the event against the Cavaliers. The 2009 Campbell/ITA National Doubles Team of the Year of JohnPatrick Smith and Davey Sandgren defeated the team of Michael Shabaz and Drew Courtney 8-1, and the No. 12-ranked tandem of Rhyne Williams and Boris Conkic won its match against Jarmere Jenkins and Houston Barrick, 8-2.

“I thought we played great doubles against Virginia, but we just couldn’t carry the momentum into singles,” Conkic said.

“We lost a lot of first sets (in the singles), and that really hurt us.”

In singles play, the Vols faced a Cavalier team that had all six of its players ranked among the top 60 in the nation. Virginia jumped on top of the Vols early by winning the first set in five of the six singles matches. UT head coach Sam Winterbotham believed that was the turning point in the championship.

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Lauren Kittrell In an attempt to represent the Southeastern Conference, the University of Tennessee men’s and women’s track and field teams helped the SEC finish second in the Texas A&M Challenge on Saturday against the Big 12 and Conference USA. The Big 12 took first with 309.5 points due to host Texas A&M’s finish in the Challenge. The SEC followed with a score of 143.5, while CUSA finished at 116. The Lady Vols helped the SEC finish slightly behind the Aggies (290) with a score of 163.

The men’s and women’s track and field squads looked at this last meet as a good opportunity to prepare for future meets.

“This meet provided us our last big opportunity to sharpen up before the SEC meet in two weeks, and we accomplished that,” J.J. Clark, UT director of track and field, said.

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“We had a small window of opportunity in singles to really take the crowd out of the match, and we did not seize that opportunity.”

– UT men’s tennis coach Sam Winterbotham on the Vols’ loss to Virginia in the final match of the ITA National Team Indoor Championship on Monday

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“We had a small window of opportunity in singles to really take the crowd out of the match, and we did not seize that opportunity,” Winterbotham said. “We really needed to play well to do that, and to Virginia’s credit, they played like their backs were against the wall. They knew the (first set) would be critical to them.”

Virginia got its first point of the match when No. 58-ranked Barrick defeated UT’s Matteo Fago in two sets 6-2, 6-4. Sandgren then fell in two sets to No. 28-ranked Singer 2-6, 5-7.

No. 3 Shabaz defeated No. 2 Smith, 6-4, 6-4 to avenge the loss he suffered to the 2009 ITA/D’Novo All-American Singles and Doubles Champion in the fall. It was Smith’s first loss of the season, ending his 13-match winning streak dating back to last season.

Virginia secured their third straight national championship when No. 31-ranked Courtney defeated Tennys Sandgren in three sets 6-3, 3-6, 6-3.

“We needed to win more first sets,” Winterbotham said. “After we did lose the first set, we just went down too quickly in the second sets on a couple of courts. That kills your chances to really give people like Boris (Conkic) time to turn the match around on their courts.”

The tennis team will return to the courts on Sunday when they face Wake Forest in Winston-Salem, N.C. The Vols won’t have a home match until March 12 when they host SEC rival Vanderbilt.

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The UT tennis team lost its first match of the season on Monday, falling to the Virginia Cavaliers in the finals of the ITA National Team Indoor Championship. The Vols return to action Sunday against Wake Forest in Winston-Salem, N.C.

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The teams have had some good wins, many personal records and, Clark said, accomplished their goals for Saturday.

“While we certainly would have liked for the SEC to have a better showing today, we accomplished our goals from a team standpoint,” Clark said.

From the men’s meet, seniors Kyle Stevenson and Evander Wells had standout performances in the 60-meter dash, as well as junior Peter Sigilai in the 800 meter and Michael Spooner in the 3000 meters. Desmond Brown, sophomore, took part in the long jump. The Vols finished with 73.5 of the Southeastern Conference’s 143.5 points.

The Big Orange distance corps gained 15 points in the

3000 meters.

Michael Spooner, Chris Bodary, Chris Rapp, Leoule Degfae and Chris Kane all recorded career-best times. Desmond Brown stretched the tape to 24-4 1⁄2 in the long jump and finished second.

The women’s team, ranked sixth, won the mile and the 800 meters. Sophomore Brittany Sheffey won the mile, while the 800 meters was won by senior Phoebe Wright.

“Phoebe looked very good,” Clark said of Wright.

“Obviously, she is showing that she’s at a higher level than she was last season. I’m very proud of what she’s done and look forward to what’s in store.”

Wright liked what she saw from her team over the week-

end.

“The team has a great spirit, and we are coming together well,” Wright said. “We are a supportive group, and we hope to continue to give good showings at these meets. As we enter the championship season, we are gaining momentum and have high aspirations for the season.”

Thanks in part to the performances of Chanelle Price, Ellen Wortham and Laquoya Kelly, the Lady Vols came in with 46 points to add to the overall SEC score. Sheffey and Price finished with per-

sonal bests and NCAA-provisional times.

Clark said the Vols did well and are pleased with their performance.

“Our guys had quite a few personal bests today,” Clark said. “Peter Sigilai continues to come along and had one in the 800, and we had several in the 3K. “I always stress the importance of personal bests because those are signs of progress. You keep doing that consistently and eventually you are going to get where you want to be.”