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SGA Senate meeting sparks gun debate Kyle Turner Staff Writer

Social workers guilty of fraud in starvation case PHILADELPHIA — Four social workers have been convicted in a fraud case stemming from the starvation death of a disabled Philadelphia teenager.

A federal jury in Philadelphia returned the verdicts Wednesday afternoon in the trial involving now-defunct MultiEthnic Behavioral Health Inc. Prosecutors say the company defrauded the city of millions of dollars by not visiting needy families then covering it up with false paperwork.

Two company cofounders were found guilty of all charges, including wire and health care fraud.

Two employees were convicted on 17 of 20 counts.

Heated debate ensued at the latest SGA Senate meeting in response to resolution 04-10, expressing student opposition to weapons on campus.

The SGA resolution is in reply to a proposed resolution before the Tennessee legislature that would allow those with required permits the right to keep a secured firearm in their locked car on campus property.

UT administration is currently opposed to allowing guns on campus in any fashion, Ross Rowland, sophomore in exercise science and cosponsor of the resolution, said.

“We are not trying to strip away anyone’s rights but instead offer safety and piece of mind in a place of higher learning,” Rowland said.

Contention with the resolution was expressed by arguably the largest showing of students this year who are not serving as senators.

“The problem is not the law-abiding citizens,” Ceallach Scott, senior in political science, said.

“Disallowing me to legally have a gun on campus is unconscionable seeing that the university is doing nothing to actively stop those who currently do (carry guns).”

Scott expressed the notion that UT lacks safe-

guards such as metal detectors and classroom searches to eliminate those unlawfully possessing weapons while on campus.

Scott said being allowed to have a gun safely contained within her car on campus is seen as “a personal insult to myself and those who deemed me qualified.”

Motions were proposed regarding parliamentary procedures in an unsuccessful move to what some saw as silencing those in opposition.

SGA senator Derrik Smith, junior in physics, was commended for his motion to allow visitors to speak during debate. Otherwise visitors are not allowed to speak unless yielded time by a senator.

Some students expressed displeasure with the current policy, noting that not being able to keep a gun in their car on campus is not just an issue solely while at school.

Those who wish to carry a gun in their vehicle are forced to park in off-campus lots. If students park on campus, they have to sacrifice their peace of mind while traveling home and at any stops that may ensue.

“Not allowing qualified people to have a gun on campus will not equal less crime,” Kenneth Boone, junior in political science, said. “The least it will do is embolden criminals and hamper those who abide by the rules.”

Students in opposition felt unrepresented and

Former Vice President Gore to receive honorary doctorate

Israeli raid called off after Facebook slip

Robby O’Daniel Chief Copy Editor

JERUSALEM — Israel’s military has “unfriended” one of its own — after a combat soldier potentially updated Israel’s enemies on Facebook.

The military said Wednesday that a planned raid on a West Bank village was called off after the soldier disclosed its details online. The military said the soldier posted the time and location of the raid on his Facebook page, saying that troops were planning on “cleaning up” the village.

Fellow soldiers reported the leak to military authorities, who canceled the raid, fearing that the information may have reached hostile groups and put troops at risk.

Paterson faces ethics charge over Series tix ALBANY, N.Y. — New York Gov. David Paterson, trying to hold onto office in the face of one scandal, was accused Wednesday of violating state ethics laws when he sought and obtained free Yankees tickets for the 2009 World Series and then may have lied about his intention to pay for them, according to a state report.

He faces penalties of nearly $100,000, and the case was referred to the Albany County prosecutor’s office and the state attorney general for possible criminal investigation into whether Paterson or anyone else gave false answers to questions by the Public Integrity Commission or backdated a check to pay for the tickets.

The charge isn’t directly related to the scandal now plaguing Paterson over contact he and others in his administration had with a woman who accused a top Paterson aide of domestic violence.

attended the meeting to make their views known to a senate that some feel is out of touch with student opinion.

Todd Skelton, commuter senator and senior in the College Scholars Program, made it a point to reach out to his constituency.

“I had the chance to talk with several commuter students who had mixed feelings about the issue,” Skelton said. “I am all for Second Amendment rights but at the same time very concerned with campus safety.”

Skelton noted that many of his constituents were concerned with that delicate balance as well.

After spirited debate and what some say is a prime example of student engagement, the resolution was passed with 23 voting in the affirmative, eight against and nine abstentions.

Other business of the senate included the passage of the bicycle registration program proposed by senators Todd Skelton and Courtney Sharp.

Skelton said the bike program would be similar to “Operation ID” by allowing students to register their bicycle for greater convenience.

“The benefits include potentially deterring theft and also providing a way to claim your property,” Skelton said. “It is also promoting green campus initiatives and serves as a valuable resource for students who ride their bicycles.”

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Scotty Hopson throws down a dunk against Arkansas on Wednesday night. Hopson paced the Vols with 15 points in a win over the Razorbacks on UT’s Senior Night.

Proposed law would benefit gun manufacturer The Associated Press MURFREESBORO, Tenn.

— A Tennessee gun manufacturer who wants to build a factory access road that the state Department of Transportation won’t approve would get some help from a proposed law being pushed through the General Assembly.

The Daily News Journal in Murfreesboro reported that Barrett Firearms Manufacturing would benefit from a bill that would grant Rutherford County an ease-

ment allowing the construction of a road near the manufacturer’s property.

Company owner Ronnie Barrett sued the county and TDOT in December 2008 after the state refused to give up the right of way citing federal restrictions and possible loss of federal funds.

“I have been treated bad, and the 120-some people I have out here working for me are being treated bad,” Barrett told the newspaper Tuesday. “It’s a black eye. It’s going to get fixed, and we are all going to be happy over it.”

The bill is sponsored by state Sen. Doug Jackson, DDickson, and a House version is being sponsored by state Rep. Charles Michael Sargent, R-Franklin.

State Sen. Jim Tracy joined an unanimous vote in the Senate Transportation Committee in favor of the bill.

“It won’t cost the taxpayers any money,” said Tracy, a Shelbyville Republican who represents much of Rutherford County. “It will be paid for by Mr. (Ronnie) Barrett.”

The UT Board of Trustees voted at its Feb. 26 meeting to award former Vice President and Nobel Peace Prize winner Al Gore an honorary doctorate.

Gore, whose 2006 documentary “An Inconvenient Truth” won an Academy Award, joins just two others in receiving an honorary doctorate from UT-Knoxville. Former Sen. Howard Baker received one in 2005, and entertainer Dolly Parton was awarded one last year.

Gore will receive an honorary doctor of laws and humane letters in ecology and evolutionary biology degree at the College of Arts and Sciences graduation ceremonies on May 14.

“The decision to grant an honorary degree is not entered into lightly, and this is certainly no exception,” Chancellor Jimmy G. Cheek said. “Mr. Gore was nominated for the position by a member of the faculty, and this nomination was advanced by two separate committees of faculty and administrators before being approved by both the Academic Affairs and Student Success Committee and the full Board of Trustees.”

College Democrats President Paula Roush voiced her approval of the choice.

“I think he’s definitely a very worthy person to get the honorary doctorate, if you think about all he’s done for the country,” Roush said. “He was vice president. I think it’s a great honor.”

College Republicans President John DiChiara said students he’s talked to are buzzing about the choice, but feelings among them are mixed.

“I have spoken with students that are very excited about the speaker at graduation (Gore) and others that are very opposed to this year’s selection,” he said. “As a high-profile political figure and former vice president of our great country, I feel it is very important that we, as a university, put aside our political ideologies or personal opinions concerning climate change and show the utmost respect toward Al Gore as he makes plans to speak at our graduation ceremony and receive his honorary doctorate.”

Gore’s stance on the issue of climate change sparked a debate at the Board of Trustees meeting.

While insisting that he believed Gore was, indeed, worthy of the honor, Board of Trustees member Crawford Gallimore still questioned whether the university might be getting involved in “controversial advocacies” as it doles out honorary degrees.

Board of Trustees member Douglas Horne said every leader had opposition, including the members of the Board of Trustees.

Gallimore reminded the board to use “exceeding care” when deciding who gets honorary degrees, as he said it says in the university bylaws. But board member Karl Schledwitz said the board did use “exceeding care” in the process, and Gore’s accomplishments speak for themselves.

Board member Jim Murphy said the field in which Gore is an advocate is the same field in which the university and Oak Ridge National Laboratory have an expertise, which would help promote UT and ORNL. Murphy said he did not think the degree served as an endorsement of any political stance, and he warned against shying away from honorary degree candidates because of controversy.

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• 9:40 a.m. — Pat Brant of ExxonMobil speaks on “Polymer Separation Film for Lithium Batteries: Past, Present and Future” in room M311 of Walters Life Sciences Building.

This STAIR interdisciplinary lecture is free and open to the public.

• 2 p.m.untill 3 p.m. — The Women’s Leadership Programs, sponsored by Student Orientation and Leadership Development, present a fourpart series titled “Women at Work” in the Baker Center rooms 204-205. The first topic presentation is titled “Through the Labyrinth — Beyond the Glass Ceiling.” Presenters include Margaret Sallee and Nissa Dahlin-Brown.

• 3:40 p.m. — Joseph Bozell speaks on “Methodology for Production of Biobased Chemicals and Fuels from Renewable Carbon” in Buehler Hall room 415. This chemistry seminar is free and open to the public.

• 6:30 p.m. untill 8:30 p.m. — The International House screen “La Vie en Rose,” a 2007 French film directed by Olivier Dahan, as part of their film series. The film will screen in the practice presentation room of the South Commons on the second floor of Hodges Library. “La Vie en Rose” talks about the life of the legendary Edith Piaf, a French singer and cultural icon who became regarded as France’s greatest popular singer. The film is free and open to the public.

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The 7th annual All Access Outdoor Festival was held last weekend at HPER. It was a fundraiser for Access Fund, a non-profit organization that maintains public access to recreation areas.

THIS DAY IN HISTORY • 1933 — At the height of the Great Depression, Franklin Delano Roosevelt is inaugurated as the 32nd president of the United States. In his famous inaugural address, delivered outside the east wing of the U.S. Capitol, Roosevelt outlined his “New Deal” — an expansion of the federal government as an instrument of employment opportunity and welfare — and told Americans that “the only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” Although it was a rainy day in Washington and gusts of rain blew over Roosevelt as he spoke, he delivered a speech that radiated optimism and competence, and a broad majority of Americans united behind their new president and his radical economic proposals to lead the nation out of the Great Depression. Born into an upper-class family in Hyde Park, N.Y., in 1882, Roosevelt was the fifth cousin of Theodore Roosevelt, who served as the 26th U.S. president from 1901 to 1909. In 1905, Franklin Roosevelt, who was at the time a student at Columbia University Law School, married Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, the niece of Theodore Roosevelt. After three years as a lawyer, he decided to follow his cousin Theodore’s lead and sought public office, winning election to the New York State Senate in 1910 as a Democrat. He soon won a reputation as a charismatic politician dedicated to social and economic reform.

• 2005 — Billionaire mogul Martha Stewart is released from a federal prison near Alderson, W.Va., after serving five months for lying about her sale of ImClone stock in 2001. After her televised exit from the facility, Stewart flew on a chartered jet from nearby Greenbrier International Airport to New York, where she would serve out her remaining five-month home confinement on her 153-acre Bedford, N.Y., estate. On Dec. 21, 2001, Stewart sold about 4,000 shares of ImClone Systems, a company run by her friend Sam Waksal that develops cancer-therapy drugs. The next day, the company’s stock tanked after news broke that ImClone’s newest cancer drug, Erbitux, had been rejected by the FDA. Waksal, who also sold stock before the drug’s rejection was made public, was arrested on charges of insider trading and later sentenced to more than seven years in prison. When questioned about her sale of the stock in June 2002, Stewart denied any insider knowledge and said that the stock was sold based on a previously made agreement with her stock broker, Peter Bacanovic of Merrill Lynch. The next month, Bacanovic was suspended by Merrill Lynch when investigators were unable to confirm that such an agreement actually existed. In September 2002, the Department of Justice began to investigate Stewart’s stock sale and alleged insider trading. Less than a year later, she was indicted on charges of securities fraud and obstruction of justice and subsequently resigned as chairman and CEO of the company she founded, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, though she remained on the company’s board. Stewart’s trial began in February 2003.

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McWherter to use blind trust if elected governor NASHVILLE — Democrat Mike McWherter says he will place all of his investments in a blind trust if he is elected governor.

McWherter, son of former Gov. Ned McWherter, owns a beer distributorship in Jackson. His announcement Wednesday contrasts with Republican candidate Bill Haslam’s stated intent to keep his share of family-owned Pilot Corp. outside of a blind trust if he is elected.

Haslam has been criticized for being the only candidate to refuse to release his earnings from Pilot, a truck stop chain with annual revenues of $16 billion.

McWherter said releasing his earnings and pledging to place his holdings in a blind trust is “part of the pact you make with voters when you ask for their trust.”

Bill to OK businesses to authorize English only Phillip Fulmer Way bus stop closes for spring UT will close the university’s bus transfer facility and an additional portion of Phillip Fulmer Way on March 8, the first day of Spring Break, until the start of fall semester to accommodate the current phase of renovations to Neyland Stadium.

Knoxville Area Transit buses and campus shuttles running “The T” routes will be detoured to new pick-up and drop-off locations during the closure.

The new locations will be on the agriculture campus on Joe Johnson Drive in front of the Pendergrass Library near Service Drive and on Volunteer Boulevard just west of Circle Park Drive.

Areson, Van Horn garner academic honors Jackie Areson and Katie Van Horn, a pair of seniors who paced this year’s UT women’s cross country team to a runner-up SEC finish and qualified individually for the NCAA Championship meet, have been accorded “All-Academic” status by the United States Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association.

The USTFCCCA honors those student-athletes who have succeeded both academically and athletically. To be eligible for the award, a student-athlete must carry a minimum 3.25 grade point average and finish among the top 15 runners (or top 10 percent) at their respective NCAA Regional cross country meet.

Academically, Areson and Van Horn posted GPAs of 3.62 and 3.64, respectively, in ecology and evolutionary biology and statistics. It marked the third time that each of them had been selected by the USTFCCCA for this distinction.

NASHVILLE — Legislation that clarifies when small businesses in Tennessee can require their employees to speak English only in the workplace is advancing in the House.

The measure sponsored by Rep. Matthew Hill, a Jonesborough Republican, was unanimously passed on to the House Consumer and Employee Affairs Committee on Wednesday.

There are federal guidelines on the issue. But Hill said his measure would codify that language into state law and make it clear that English only can be required “if it is deemed as a business necessity or for workplace safety.”

The measure failed last year, but Hill says he’s optimistic about its chances this year because of the unanimous vote.

Bill to cut Tenn. prison meals likely dead NASHVILLE — A proposal that would require inmates in Tennessee to only be given two meals a day is likely dead this legislative session.

The measure sponsored by Sen. Doug Jackson, a Dickson Democrat, was withdrawn from consideration in the Senate State and Local Government Committee on Wednesday.

He says the state Department of Correction is concerned inmates may not get enough calories and wants to review the legislation.

Jackson says his intention is not to further punish inmates but save the state money. He says he may bring the measure back next year.

Family members and critics have said reducing meals for prisoners could make inmates irritable and food a valuable commodity, increasing the possibility of violence.

Last year, Tennessee cut back on milk portions for male inmates — from two servings a day to one — to save $600,000.

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GORE continued from Page 1 “I really think we need to be careful about pulling ourselves too far into a shell and saying, ‘We don’t want to award a degree to someone who might be controversial,’ because as a result, I think that more and more people would be disqualified,” he said.

With the university awarding two honorary degrees in back-to-back years to two

commencement speakers, Parton and Gore, trustee Andrea Loughry asked if the university would be increasing its rate of awarding honorary degrees.

“I know some universities do three or four a year,” Loughry said. “What principle are we changing here, in terms of our history?”

Cheek called the university an “outlier” in terms of awarding honorary degrees or recognizing distinguished alumni. He said the university has increased its recogni-

tion of distinguished alumni and needs to continue to increase its recognition of students, faculty, distinguished alumni, friends and the university itself.

Murphy said the attitudes about Gore receiving the honor now and the historical perspective in the future may differ.

“This probably will be the most controversial honorary degree we’ve awarded this far,” he said. “Might not be the most controversial one we’ll ever see.”

He also said that the bill would benefit the local economy by keeping jobs in Rutherford County. The bill goes on now to the Senate Finance Committee.

However, a fiscal review committee report questions costs associated with granting the county 50 feet of right of way.

The report said that TDOT found that a 90 percent share of this property was acquired with federal highway funds for $116,600.

“According to TDOT, the

Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) could withhold approval of future projects in Tennessee or request Tennessee repay the federal share of the value of the land granted through easement to Rutherford County,” the report said.

Barrett disputes the cost estimates from TDOT and said he estimated the cost for him to buy five-eighths of an acre should be in the $16,000 to $30,000 range.

TDOT Commissioner Gerald Nicely, in a statement released last fall in regards to news reports about the dispute, said TDOT never committed to building an access

road.

“The Federal Highway Administration, which would have to approve any such incursion on the (right of way), has consistently agreed with our position,” he stated.

“Barrett Firearms was offered two alternative access road alignments which would have moved the project forward.”

Barrett said his company, which makes .50-caliber rifles for the U.S. military, has had offers of incentives from other states to relocate. He also said he has never donated to the campaigns of the bill’s sponsors, but he has contributed to Tracy.

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OPINIONS

StaffColumn Nash Armstrong Editor-in-Chief

Print journalism must adapt to modern times future (n): a condition, especially of success or failure, to come On Tuesday, journalism and electronic media classes sat in on a lecture by Bill Baker, a man who has made his living in the media business.

The discussion covered “Journalism in America Today,” mostly focusing on the different ways audiences consume their media. In the lecture, Baker noted that it seems as if, because of a multitude of reasons, print journalism is on its way to a slow, and somewhat painful, death.

During the question-and-answer session, I prompted Baker with the question of whether or not journalism needs to re-invent itself in order to compete against the Internet.

Baker answered, “Yes,” but also added a scary thought from a conversation he had with New York Times Company president and chief executive officer Janet L. Robinson.

Print journalists know they must change but haven’t a clue how.

Baker did add that Robinson and The Times Company have a plan they will soon implement but are not positive whether or not it will work.

As someone who has worked for a newspaper in some respect since a week after he walked the high school graduation stage, I don’t believe it’s an exaggeration to say this statement scared the hell out of me. The idea that I could spend several years of my life trying to become the best print journalist possible and then have it all taken away from me because of a series of electromagnetic waves booming across the atmosphere is not an easy one.

After I settled down, however, I began to think about the entire subject logically. Scenario after scenario and debate after debate ran across my neurons, and what I finally came up with may not be a full solution, but I believe it is a starting point.

People like Baker and Robinson are noble in their pursuit of a solution, but, with all due respect, they cannot and will not come up with a solution.

This is not just a dilemma facing the newspaper business. With a stagnant economy, health care crisis and conflicts abroad, the world is begging for new solutions to old problems.

It is with this that I call my generation to arms.

There is a changing of the guard on the horizon. The days of the suburbs have ended. The American Dream has changed from one of “Leave It to Beaver,” in which the family is an entity unto itself, to one more along the lines of “Lost,” in which people from all cultures, backgrounds and experiences come together to form a large, but tight-knit, family of their own.

The older generation has obviously failed to recognize this change. We must now not only acknowledge it but embrace it.

We, as college students, have an obligation to lead this charge. When professors banter at us with doomsday scenarios, saying “you will be the ones who make us or break us,” they’re not kidding. The world is about to be in our hands, and we have a responsibility to be the change, not just we, but all want and need to have.

The world has gone through many transitional periods during our constant rotation in a sea of nothingness that is the universe. Now is the time for that change to come for us. We cannot sit idly by and wait for change to come from our cushy La-Z-Boys, expecting it all to improve without our effort.

If we don’t, then we’re all in trouble.

Because as Baker made me realize, those in charge right now just don’t know.

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Current generation immersed in tragedy Signs o f the Times by

Ali Griffin

Over the weekend, there was another devastating natural disaster: an earthquake in Chile. According to NBC, this earthquake was 500 times more powerful than the one that hit Haiti. It was so powerful that it actually threw the earth off its axis by as much as three inches, permanently causing the day to be as much as a millionth of a second shorter.

While the death toll isn’t as serious as the one in Haiti, this natural disaster is nothing to be taken lightly.

When watching the news after the earthquake, I was surprised to see that a lot of the coverage still focused on the Olympics or Tiger Woods losing his Gatorade endorsement. At first I found this frustrating, like when Kiffin overshadowed the earthquake in Haiti.

But after some careful consideration and after talking to other students, I have let this frustration go and have come to a different conclusion. People don’t necessarily not care about these tragedies; they have simply become jaded. I think this is especially true of our generation.

The first major tragedy I can remember is the shooting at Columbine. Even in elementary school, I felt threatened by the fact that someone who I went to class with could be capable of such a serious crime. The next big thing I can remember is 9/11. This tragedy is something that I will never forget and will never lose its impact on me. After 9/11, there was and still is the “The War on Terror.”

At first, the idea of America being at war was something that seemed unreal to me.

However, years later, we are still at war, but the idea is something not so foreign or hard to comprehend. Since the war isn’t happening here in America, it does not have such a strong impact on us, but it still hardly seems to be at the forefront of anyone’s mind.

“It’s something I think about but not really on a daily basis,” said Chantel DeVault, junior in marketing. “I have a friend whose boyfriend is in Iraq so I think that is the main reason I really think about it somewhat regularly.”

I think this reflects the feelings of a lot but not all of the people our age. This feeling can be related to a lack of being informed, but I really think it has a lot to do with the immense amount of tragedy we have all experienced. When we watch the news, whether local or national, there is always something terrible like a murder, a war or an earthquake in the headlines. We recognize how serious some of these issues are, but when they occur so regularly, we have a hard time really understanding their impact.

I’m not asking everyone to devote their entire day to mourning every loss in the news or spend every extra minute of their day raising money for Chile and Haiti, but I think it’s important to recognize how historical our generation’s events are. Our children will read about 9/11, Columbine, earthquakes and, of course, the war in their textbooks. They will ask us questions in the same way we asked some of our grandparents and parents about World War II, Vietnam, the civil rights movement and Watergate. Because of this, it is important for all of us to pay some attention and actively participate in the world’s current events, so that we can give the next generation first-hand accounts of some of our country’s and world’s biggest occurrences.

— Ali Griffin is a junior in journalism and electronic media. She can be reached at sgriff10@utk.edu.

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I reject the notion that America is a Christian nation, not because I have some ridiculous notion of leftist tolerance that makes me think all religions are equal, nor because I have an absolute devotion to the separation of church and state, though I do believe in it.

I do this out of practicality. If America is a Christian nation, then we should obey all Biblical teachings. Two specific ones come to mind: Christ’s commands on dealing with one’s enemies and how the early church lived.

In the Gospel of St. Matthew, Christ is discussing the old adage of a tooth for a tooth.

He responds, “I say to you not to resist evil; but if one strikes you on your right cheek, turn to him also the other.” I can only imagine how the American people would have responded if George Bush had acted as if this was a Christian nation after 9/11. There would have been no Operation Enduring Freedom to punish alQaida and the Taliban or to free the Afghani people. Instead Bush would have said that it was perfectly fine that terrorists had attacked us and that we should just let them do it again.

I want a president that has the fortitude to drop a nuclear weapon on a city in retaliation for an assault on us.

The other teaching that would have radical implications is in The Acts of the Apostles.

By modern standards, these people were actually socialists. They sold all their possessions, gave the money to the Apostles and shared everything equally. And people thought Obama wanted to redistribute wealth.

If America is a Christian nation, then we should all give our wealth to a centralized authority to redistribute so all of us are without want. Free-

market capitalism is the best path toward prosperity, and a collectivist country cannot create wealth. If America was really a Christian nation, we would look more similar to France than anyone here would want.

A final critique of saying America is a Christian nation is merely a logistical problem.

Which form of Christianity should America adopt? Catholics make up the largest percentage of any religious group in America, so should we become a Catholic Christian nation? Or should we be like our first president, Episcopalian. Then there was Adams, who didn’t believe in the Trinity, and Jefferson who was a deist and, at best, a nominal Christian.

The Baptists were persecuted in early America, yet they hold a substantial percentage of the population today. Which standard should be applied? This does not even detail all the many theological and structural differences Christians have. Because of the complexities concerning Christendom, it would be nigh impossible to elucidate how America is a Christian nation without saying which type of Christian they are. Our Founding Fathers were wise in this endeavor to erect the wall between church and state. We do not have to deal with these issues because people like Washington and Jefferson foresaw the problems of making this a Christian nation.

Now all of this does not mean that one cannot vote based on their faith. My faith influences my views on collectivism versus individualism, and I do vote based on that. This also does not chastise those whose social beliefs and subsequent voting is shaped by their faith.

This is perfectly acceptable in a democracy.

However, I am critical of the idea that America is inherently a Christian nation because we have a distinct Judeo-Christian, Protestant history.

I am proud of this history, but I do not want it to dictate how we do politics today.

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

Thursday, March 4, 2010

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Clarksville bomb disposal expert says ‘Hurt Locker’ based on him

Gallery features three MFA students

read (the Playboy article) and if you then go and view ‘The Hurt Locker,’ you will see — and there will be no question in your mind — that ‘Blaster One,’ Sgt. Sarver, is the character in ‘The Hurt Locker’ called Will James,” Fieger said. “The caveat in the movie that the movie is fictional and all the characters portrayed in the movie are fictional is a fictional statement in and of itself.”

The movie’s U.S. distributor, Summit Entertainment, issued a statement saying it hopes “for a quick resolution to the claims made by Master Sgt. Sarver.”

“The film is a story about heroes depicting a fictional account of what brave men and women do on the battlefield,” the company said. “We have no doubt that Master Sgt. Sarver served his country with honor and commitment risking his life for a greater good, but we distributed the film based on a fictional screenplay written by Mark Boal.”

Boal did not immediately respond to phone and e-mail messages seeking comment left with Creative Artists Agency, the Los Angeles company that represents him.

Fieger said he filed the lawsuit — which names as defendants Boal and Oscarnominated director Kathryn Bigelow, among others — after voting for the Academy Awards had concluded.

Fieger claims Boal was consulting with Bigelow while he was embedded.

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Chassidy Doane Staff Writer Since its opening in 1981, the Ewing Gallery has been a place for students, faculty and the general public to view exceptional work of many different artists.

The gallery is currently displaying their new exhibit, which runs until March 13, with a reception taking place Friday from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m.

The current exhibit, the Masters of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibitions, features the work of three artists: Jessica Kreutter, Briena Harmening and Rachel Clark. On display are works which the artists have made in their pursuit of their master’s degree. This group exhibit is landing each student one step closer to their dream of graduation with a master’s degree.

Kreutter is a graduate with her bachelor’s degree in ceramics, and it is obvious to viewers of the exhibit that she loves what she is doing. Kreutter worked in Portland, Ore., as an art teacher prior to coming to UT to obtain her MFA. “I have found discarded objects in abandoned houses, thrift and antique stores that show a trace of time and created ceramic forms that talk about this memory,” Kreutter said when asked about the objects she uses to make her work. “The ceramic forms are handbuilt out of porcelain and represent fragmented, imagined bodies.”

The other two artists exhibited in this presentation have a painting concentration, and both Harmening and Clark have shown exquisite performance in their studies. This exhibit will be especially interesting to see for those UT students who are not in the art program, so they can learn about what other students have been working on and witness some diversity from what they’re used to.

“I don’t know much about art, but it’s cool to see what other UT students are working on, and how much they’ve learned through the MFA program,” said Derek Davenport, junior in accounting. “There are some pretty talented students here.”

The MFA exhibit at the Ewing Gallery runs until March 13, which means students have opportunities to visit over Spring Break. The March 5 reception coincides with this month’s First Friday celebration, when all of the galleries downtown display their monthly exhibits.

After featuring the MFA presentation, the gallery has its 63rd Annual Student Art Competition on March 23 from 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m., which will be an awards ceremony for students in art.

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SOUTHFIELD, Mich. — An Army bomb disposal expert who served in the Iraq war is suing the makers of “The Hurt Locker,” claiming the Oscar-nominated film’s lead character is based on him and that they cheated him out of “financial participation” in the film.

Attorney Geoffrey Fieger said at a news conference at his Southfield office on Wednesday that he filed the multimillion-dollar lawsuit in New Jersey federal court on behalf of Master Sgt. Jeffrey Sarver.

Sarver, of Clarksville, Tenn., claims screenwriter Mark Boal was embedded in his three-person unit and that the information he gathered was used in the film, Fieger said. The film is nominated for nine Academy Awards, including best original screenplay.

Sarver says Will James, the film’s main character (portrayed by Oscar nominee Jeremy Renner), is based on him and that James’ call signal, “Blaster One,” was uniquely his during his tours of duty, Fieger said. Sarver also says he coined the phrase “The Hurt Locker.”

Fieger says Boal’s embedded reporting — over 30 days in 2004 — led to an article the following year in Playboy magazine about Sarver, and that the story later was adapted by Boal for “The Hurt Locker” screenplay.

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Jessica Kreutter, Briena Harmenin and Rachel Clark have their MFA Thesis Exhibition showing in the Ewing Gallery. It is on display now until March 13 in the Art and Architecture building.

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Thursday, March 4, 2010

ENTERTAINMENT

Songwriter moves on from ‘Badonkadonk’

• Photo courtesy of Randy Houser

Jake Lane Entertainment Editor In the six years and change since Johnny Cash donned his last black coat and boarded that evening train to the sky, some would argue that outlaw-lauding, hell-raising country music caught the caboose with him. But though the singular Man in Black and most of his road dog compañeros have left the building, singers and pickers like Randy Houser fight to keep their paths blazing.

Born and raised in Lake, Miss., Houser inherited music from his father, “Papa” Houser. Houser the senior played in and around Jackson, where Randy Houser was born, and also cut his teeth as a “first-call” studio sideman around the Delta. After a divorce when Houser was only seven, he spent summers learning the craft

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“I started writing songs right away, at 15 and 16 years old,” Houser stated in a press release.

“I was already starting because I hated playing the ‘covers’ of the hits.”

“I knew that if I was ever going to do anything in music, I was going to have to learn to express myself,” Houser stated.

“Otherwise, it was going to be the same-old, same-old.”

When he was just 21, Houser’s father passed away. The decision to keep him off artificial life support had already been made, but Houser regardless had to “pull the plug.” This heartbreaking experience lead him to write “I’ll Sleep.”

“It’s a piece of time from my life and one of those songs that still almost makes me weep when I hear it,” Houser said. “Can’t listen to it much. I have only played it a few times.”

Following his father’s death, Houser moved to Nashville to pursue his career in music. He says the decision came after an emotional encounter with Tammy Cochran’s hit “Life Happened.”

“I was sitting at home one day and thinking, ‘God, what am I doing?’” Houser said. “I’d been waiting around for so long and hadn’t gone and done what I always said I was going to do.

And then that song came on the radio, and I just started bawling.

And right then, I made the decision. I was gone.”

That was early 2003. From his earliest days in Nashville, Houser and some fellow newcomers found success in music publishing. Almost seven years later, Houser and frequent collaborator Jamey Johnson have moved past their early success with the Trace Adkins-sung “Honky Tonk Badonkadonk” and into careers

which allow them to sing their own songs for growing audiences. As his success grows, Houser claims he remains unfazed.

“I just want people to know that I’m not in this for pure fame or money,” Houser said. “I just absolutely love what I do, always have and will be playing music and writing songs as long as I’m breathing.”

Houser’s life and story form the base of his sound and lyrics and never seems far away from the surface. Recently a friend told him that “the most soulful singers in history all grew up poor.”

“This really rang true for me,” Houser said. “That’s part of the reason I sound the way that I do.”

Randy Houser will play Cotton Eyed Joe’s in west Knoxville Thursday at 10 p.m. The show is 18 and up, with admission at $10 in advance and $15 at the door.

Thursday, March 4, 2010

Vols overwhelm Hogs, 80-73 Kevin Huebschman Staff Writer What began as an emotional ceremony turned into an emotional game, as the Volunteer seniors took the floor for their final home game defeating the Arkansas Razorbacks (14-16, 7-8 SEC) 80-73. The game featured three Tennessee (22-7, 10-5) leads of at least 10 points, three technical fouls and a Scotty Hopson reverse dunk.

A little more than five minutes into the second half, head coach Bruce Pearl earned one of those technicals, which senior Bobby Maze said was able to bring the team together.

“Coach showed a lot of emotion, and we had his back out there,” said Maze, who was honored with Wayne Chism, J.P. Prince and Quinn Cannington before the game as departing seniors. “At that point, we all pulled it in together and said, ‘Hey our coach just got a technical foul for us and so we need to do what we have to do for him and for us, and that’s get the W.’” Arkansas closed the gap to 51-48 with a free throw after the technical, but Tennessee exploded with a 10-0 run.

Arkansas wouldn’t close within six for the rest of the game.

Maze also said the technical didn’t just motivate the team; it ignited the crowd.

“The crowd was more into it than I ever seen them into it,” he said. “I mean, every possession down, they was yelling and screaming.”

Pearl, on the other hand, didn’t think the technical should have been necessary.

“We may have picked up our energy, but that is not what should have happened from the beginning,” he said.

“We are trying to play well together, so I should not have to jump-start them like that.”

Though Pearl was disappointed in the team’s play, saying he had expected to

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build on Saturday’s victory over the then-No. 2 Kentucky Wildcats, he acknowledged the team’s gutsy win.

“This could’ve been a letdown. It wasn’t a letdown,” he said. “We were ready to play. But I expect more ... We didn’t play basketball like we need to play basketball in March.”

Prince said having fun on the seniors’ final night was also important.

“On Senior Night, you just want to have fun,” Prince said. “...We got the victory, and that’s really all that matters as far as the players. We know it wasn’t our best game, overall, as a team.”

Although it wasn’t their best game, the Vols did have five players in double digits for the first time since opening SEC play with an 81-55 victory over Auburn. Hopson led the team with 15, Chism added 14, and Cameron Tatum, Maze and Prince each added 12.

Although Tennessee shot 58 percent from the field to Arkansas’ 39 in the first half, the Vols only led 39-36. Pearl said turnovers and a lack of aggressiveness from his team part were part of the reason.

“I think turnovers stick out out,” he said. “And, against our willingness to compete, to take it to contact, to be the physical aggressor.”

At the half, UT had nine turnovers and 10 fouls to the Razorbacks’ seven and five.

“They’ve always been a competitive team,” Prince said of Arkansas. “Courtney (Fortson) is a good floor leader, Mike (Washington) is tough in the post. They’ve got a lot of shooters. They always play us a tough game.

In the second half, Fortson came alive, scoring 14 of his game-leading 21, while Arkansas continued to dominate off the glass, using their 37-33 rebound advantage to outdo the Vols 17-4 in secondchance points, but it wasn’t

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Wayne Chism pulls in a rebound against Arkansas. Chism tallied 14 points and six boards as one of four senior Vols playing their last game at Thompson-Boling Arena. enough. Following Pearl’s technical, the Vols outscored the Razorbacks 29-25.

Maze said it may not have been the team’s best game, but there were positives to take from it.

“I know we didn’t play as well as we wanted to or as he wanted us to, but a win is a win,” he said. “That was my first time in a long time, see-

ing guys with smiles on their faces, a couple of alley-oops, a couple of dunks. To me, I just wanted to get the W, and I’m happy we didn’t lose on Senior Night.”

Cannington registered his first playing time since February 6 blow-out win against South Carolina, although he shot 0-for-1, missing his first career 3-pointer.

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Friday, March 5 — Women’s Basketball SEC Tournament Duluth, Ga. 12 p.m.

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Matt Dixon Staff Writer The No. 4-ranked Tennessee Lady Vol basketball team will arrive in Duluth, Ga., for the 2010 Women’s SEC Tournament as the tournament’s top seed.

The SEC regular season champion Lady Vols boast a 15-1 conference record to go along with a 27-2 record overall.

Head coach Pat Summitt indicated that there was still plenty left to accomplish on the season.

“We’ve got the SEC Tournament then trying to get a No. 1 seed (for the NCAA Tournament),” Summitt said. “There’s still a lot of basketball left to play.”

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can feel it. It’s obvious.”

Sophomore forward Alyssia Brewer thinks the team has played well up to this point but believes last season’s disappointing season will serve the team well down the stretch.

“We’re definitely proud of what we’ve accomplished, but there have been games that we won and maybe shouldn’t have,” Brewer said. “We’ve definitely progressed from last year. We’ve got to correct our mistakes because it’s crunch time now.”

The top four seeds receive a first-round bye in the tournament, and for the Lady Vols, that means playing the winner of South Carolina and Ole Miss on Friday in the quarterfinals. The Lady Vols played each team twice during the regular season, winning all four contests.

Summitt knows her team can’t overlook the respective eight and nine seeds because her team only beat the two by a combined eight points on the road.

“If we have to play Ole Miss again, that’s a big challenge,” Summitt said. “South Carolina is playing well (too). Then there’s Vanderbilt or Arkansas and LSU.” A Lady Vols’ win on Friday would put them in the semifinals with the opponent likely being either the No. 4 seed LSU or the No. 5 seed Vanderbilt.

If the Lady Vols advance to the finals, No. 2 seed Kentucky or No. 3 seed Mississippi St. could be the opponent. No. 6 seed Georgia, the only SEC team to defeat Tennessee this year, also has the ability to pull an upset or two to reach the finals.

Sophomore forward Alicia Manning, the most competitive player on the team Summitt said, doesn’t think it matters who the Lady Vols play as long as the team plays their game.

“We’ve played most of these teams twice,” Manning said. “We know what they’re bringing and vice versa. A lot of it is just executing. We have to take advantage of our post game and play to our strengths. If we do the little things and make extra-effort plays, I think we’ll be fine.”

Sophomore Shekinna Stricklen added she believes the team needs to be focused and prepared as they begin postseason play.

“Right now we just have to let it go and just get ready for tournament time,” the second team All-SEC selection said. “ … and just go hard in every one of the games we play.”

Summitt is hopeful this year’s team learned from last season’s disappointing year, which ended with a first-round loss in the NCAA Tournament.

Entering postseason play, Summitt wants this team to play with the same emotion and intensity her previous championship teams played with.

“When this team is on a mission, you can see it,” she said.

“You can feel it. It’s obvious.”

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UT Lady Vol Alicia Manning shoots the ball in last week’s game against Kentucky. The Lady Vols travel to Duluth, Georgia Friday for the Women’s SEC Tournament.