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Faculty Senate votes against gun legislation Amended resolution expresses disapproval of proposed change to campus firearm policy current campus policy. The bills, which are sponsored by state Sen. Stacey Campfield, R-Knoxville, in the Senate and Rep. Andy Holt, R-Dresden, in the House, have not reached committees, but the Faculty Senate’s resolution aims to convince The UT faculty is doing its part to keep guns off the legislators to stop the bills before they become law.

Knoxville campus.

Myers said an important aspect of the resolution worth notIn reaction to proposed state House and Senate bills that ing is that it is not seeking change; the House and Senate bills would potentially allow licensed faculty and staff to bring are taking that route. The firearms onto campus, the Faculty Senate resolution is UT Faculty Senate voted only meant to continue curunanimously on Monday rent campus policy, which is night in favor of an amended in accordance with state resolution to support UT’s law. current policy of prohibiting “I think the other imporfirearms on campus. tant point is that our curThe resolution, proposed rent policy on campus

by Faculty Senate past-presirelates to state policy,” dent Toby Boulet, associate Myers said. professor of engineering, Even if the House and and Carole Myers, assistant Senate bills were to pass professor of nursing, repreinto law, students would not sents the faculty’s opposition be allowed to carry guns on to the House and Senate campus. Nichols said there bills. It encompasses the are provisions in UT’s curentirety of the UT-Knoxville rent policy which allow stucampus and the UT Institute dents to possess guns on of Agriculture. campus, but only in specific Two amendments pertaincases. ing to the wording of the res“We do have provisions olution were implemented for students who hunt and during Monday night’s meetwho need places to store ing. their guns,” Nichols said.

The 2010-2011 edition of Faculty members com“Hilltopics,” the UT student piled a list of information handbook, states that cursupporting the current ban rent university policy proof firearms on campus. The hibits “the possession or carGeorge Richardson • The Daily Beacon rying of any weapon on uni- Joan Heminway, professor of law and Faculty Senate President, and Joan Cronan, Women’s Athletic Director, chat list included well-documentsupport regarding versity property.” The pro- with other faculty after a UT Faculty Senate meeting on Monday, Feb. 7. The Faculty Senate voted today on a res- ed posed House and Senate bills olution to oppose a bill currently under review that would allow licensed faculty and staff members to carry increased risk of areas where firearms are permitwould alter such policy and firearms on campus. ted and lack of public supwould allow permit-carrying, port for permitted confull-time faculty and staff to possess firearms on campus. Eight hours of training would be of this whole resolution,” Myers said, “so we wanted to make cealed weapons. The report even cited the need for university another statement about it. It may not be an essential state- educators to enjoy a feeling of freedom on campus without required by those who opt to carry firearms on campus.

Currently, only law enforcement officials, both local and ment, but we were trying to reinforce a point about safety and fear of punishment for addressing controversial issues.

“Academic institutions need to be able to make indepedent federal, may carry guns on UT’s campus. Margie Nichols, vice the fact that this is a priority.”

Boulet and Myers sponsored the Faculty Senate’s resolution decisions about a wide range of issues that impact the educachancellor for communications, was on hand for the meeting and said UT police chief Gloria Graham supported the Faculty to represent the UT administration’s preferred adherence to tional enterprise,” the report stated.

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Senate’s resolution.

“The UT police chief supports this issue,” Nichols said.

“She supports having no guns on campus.”

Myers said campus attacks around the country, such as those at Virginia Tech in 2007, have UT faculty dead set on maintaining safety.

“The idea was that we thought safety was the underpinning

SGA addresses efficacy in new charter John Bussa Staff Writer The new Student Government Association constitution is in the final stages of adoption and will likely receive final approval from the senate by the end of the current session.

The new constitution features changes affecting all branches of the SGA. Efficiency, effectiveness and accountability are the main reasons behind the changes.

SGA Webmaster and Apartment Residence Hall Senator B.T. Peake supports the changes and thinks they will help make SGA members more active.

“Senators have more requirements they must fulfill in the semester, and we have cut SGA Executive Board positions that are unnecessary,” Peake said. “We hope that by updating the constitution it will make members of SGA more aware of their internal responsibilities.”

The senate chair, SGA historian and commissioner of safety are among the SGA Executive Board positions removed or reorganized under the changes. The SGA vice president will also receive more responsibilities, as the position has been underutilized in recent years.

Other changes focus on the allocation of senate seats to academic and residential districts. Academic districts will start with a two-seat base and will have an additional seat for every thousand students in the college. The College of Social Work is the exception with only one seat. Under the plan first presented to the senate, each residential district had two seats except Gibbs Hall, which had one.

Amendments approved in the senate increased the number of seats of Apartment Residence Hall, Volunteer Hall and Hess Hall to three seats. Lowering the total number of senate seats was a goal of the new constitution.

College of Engineering senator Michael George Richardson • The Daily Beacon Bright supports that goal.

“If we had fewer senate seats, the peoChuck Mullican, sophomore in jazz performance, practices saxophone in a small room in Melrose Hall on Monday, March 7. Students from the School of Music have ple there would take it more seriously,” relocated temporarily while construction begins on a brand new music facility Bright said.

One problem this semester in the stuscheduled to be completed by 2013.

dent senate has been the difficulty in reaching or maintaining quorum for senate meetings. The approval process has been extended as a result. With the senate meeting for Tuesday cancelled for the UT Day on the Hill event in Nashville Wednesday, there are only two more meetings for final approval by the Senate. If more amendments are approved or quorum cannot be met, the proposed constitution will move to the next session as a new item.

However, quorum concerns have not deterred SGA President Tommy Jervis’s enthusiasm.

“I’m extremely excited about passing it next meeting,” Jervis said.

The process has taken several months and will take at least a few more weeks for completion.

“It took all last semester with a 13-person committee, chaired by (SGA Election Commissioner) Jason Nixon, each working on a separate part, to make the new changes,” Jervis said.

Bright thinks the longer process is worth it.

“It took a little bit of time, but that’s a good thing,” he said. “Make sure you do it right the first time.”

Other changes in the new constitution include making the Student Services Director officially an executive position, increasing the ties between the branches of the SGA and adding more responsibilities to Student Services Committees.

Peake reiterated the efficiency and effectiveness found in the new constitution.

“One of the main focuses on the new constitution was to make it realistic … there were several things written into the old constitution that were not being followed, such as commuter senators holding ‘office hours’ in parking garages on campus,” he said. “As a committee, we thought this was unrealistic and not an efficient way of finding out the needs of constituents.”

Jervis is equally pleased with the new changes.

“This new constitution represents where SGA is currently at now and will be a guiding force in the future,” Jervis said.

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InSHORT

George Richardson • The Daily Beacon

Students walk over one of UT’s most recognizable landmarks on campus, the pedestrian bridge over Cumberland Avenue, on Monday, March 7.

1917: February Revolution begins In Russia, the February Revolution (known as such because of Russia’s use of the Julian calendar) begins when riots and strikes over the scarcity of food erupt in Petrograd. One week later, centuries of czarist rule in Russia ended with the abdication of Nicholas II, and Russia took a dramatic step closer toward communist revolution.

By 1917, most Russians had lost faith in the leadership ability of the czarist regime.

Government corruption was rampant, the Russian economy remained backward, and Nicholas repeatedly dissolved the Duma, the Russian parliament established after the Revolution of 1905, when it opposed his will.

However, the immediate cause of the February Revolution — the first phase of the Russian Revolution of 1917 — was Russia’s disastrous involvement in World War I. Militarily, imperial Russia was no match for industrialized Germany, and Russian casualties were greater than those sustained by any nation in any previous war.

Meanwhile, the economy was hopelessly disrupted by the costly war effort, and moderates joined Russian radical elements in calling for the overthrow of the czar.

On March 8, 1917, demonstrators clamoring for bread took to the streets in the Russian capital of Petrograd (now known as St. Petersburg).

Supported by 90,000 men and women on strike, the protesters clashed with police but refused to leave the streets. On March 10, the strike spread among all of Petrograd’s workers, and irate mobs of workers destroyed police stations. Several factories elected deputies to the Petrograd Soviet, or “council,” of workers’ committees, following the model devised during the Revolution of 1905.

On March 11, the troops of the Petrograd army garrison were called out to quell the uprising. In some encounters, regiments opened fire, killing demonstrators, but the protesters kept to the streets, and the troops began to waver. That day, Nicholas again dissolved the Duma. On March 12, the revolution triumphed when regiment after regiment of the Petrograd garrison defected to the cause of the demonstrators. The soldiers, some 150,000 men, subsequently formed committees that elected deputies to the Petrograd Soviet.

— This Day in History is courtesy of history.com.

Crime Log

March 5 At approximately 1:04 a.m., the reporting officer of the previous entry observed a golf cart that had been pushed down the stairs of the lower N8 parking lot from Caledonia Avenue, east of the Presidential Court loading dock. The golf cart was resting against the driver’s side front quarter panel of a black 1995 BMW sedan. The vehicle belongs to a male student.

At approximately 3:54 a.m., an officer was dispatched to the IHOP in Presidential Court in response to a report of a fight in progress. The officer observed a male subject matching the description of one of the fight’s instigators attempting to leave Presidential Court. The subject, unaffiliated with UT, was placed under arrest for public intoxication and underage consumption.

Around 4 a.m., an officer was dispatched to Reese Hall in response to a report of an intoxicated male. The officer found the subject on the fifth floor

near the elevator, lying down, naked. The subject was arrested for public intoxication.

March 6 Around 12:43 a.m., an officer observed a male subject attempting to break into a green Jeep Wrangler parked on 22nd Street just north of Clinch Avenue by unzipping the canopy near the rear passenger side plastic window. The subject attempted to evade the officer on foot as the officer pursued him in his patrol vehicle. The subject briefly escaped into brush between two houses on 22nd Street, but the officer observed the subject walking north on 23rd Street near Highland Avenue about two minutes later. The subject was arrested for attempted auto burglary, evading arrest and public intoxication. While at the Knox County Sheriff’s Office Detention Facility, the officer confiscated four round, orange pills and four orange and white capsules from the subject.

— Crime Log is compiled by Robbie Hargett

Compiled from a media log provided to the Daily Beacon by the Universty of Tennessee Police Department.

All persons arrested are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. People with names similar or identical to those listed may not be those identified in reports.

Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Buon Appetito! UT’s Ready for the World Café menu has Italian influence Italian influences add some zest to the Ready for the World Café menu this week.

The buffet will include pesto chicken Florentine; roasted asparagus salad with goat cheese and bread crumbs; cola chops; apple, pecan, cranberry and avocado spinach salad with balsamic dressing; baked tilapia with tomato and basil; threegrain pilaf; and lasagna rolls.

The café is an international buffet operated by students in the advanced food production and service management class, Hotel, Restaurant and Tourism (HRT) 445.

The café is open from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. each Monday through Thursday in the Hermitage Room on the third floor of the University Center. The café will be closed Wednesday, March 9, for a private function.

Diners pay $11 for the all-you-can-eat buffet or $9 for a plate of food to carry out. Aramark’s faculty/staff discount card can be used at the café.

Students in HRT 445 take turns planning the menus, marketing the café and working in the café. ARAMARK, UT’s provider of dining services, prepares the food.

This week’s café managers are Kristen Hallom and Stephen Taylor.

Hallom, of Memphis, is a junior in HRT with a minor in business. She wants to be an event planner.

Taylor, of Portland, Tenn., is a senior in HRT. He has worked at Chick-fil-A, Olive Garden and Homewood Suites by Hilton.

Registration under way for UT State Economic Development Course The University of Tennessee Institute for Public Service (IPS) is once again sponsoring the Tennessee Basic Economic Development Course (TBEDC) for regional, state and federal community leaders and stakeholders.

The fifth annual course is set for May 2-6 in Nashville at the AT&T Economic Development Center and the Downtown Courtyard by Marriott. TBEDC is designed for those who participate in economic development at local, state and federal levels, and focuses on the fundamental concepts, tools and practices needed to succeed in a complex economic environment. The 40-hour course is accredited by the International Economic Development Council.

Attendees will learn best practices in

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economic and community development, new methods and programs to promote job growth and investment, discuss emerging trends and factors that shape local and regional economics and develop a network of fellow economic development professionals.

Course fee is $525 for those who register by April 1 ($595 after April 4), and class size is limited to 45 people. The registration fee covers course materials, instruction, selected meals and refreshment breaks. It does not cover hotel and other travel expenses. Participants can register at www.ips.tennessee.edu/tbedc or contact TBEDC Course Director Dr. Andre Temple at andre.temple@tennessee.edu or (731) 425-4740.

The Courtyard by Marriott Nashville Downtown is offering a special conference rate of $110 (plus tax) nightly. Make reservations by April 11 to receive the discounted rate. Call (800) 321-2211 and mention TBEDC when making the reservation (limited rooms available).

UT’s Executive MBA program again nationally ranked The Executive MBA for Strategic Leadership program at UT, is one of the 50 best executive MBA programs in North America, according to the Poets & Quants for Executives ranking. This composite ranking measures the overall reputation of executive MBA programs by considering the latest ratings from Business Week, The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times and U.S. News & World Report.

UT Knoxville’s Executive MBA for Strategic Leadership program ranked 45th among all public and private universities in North America and 20th among all public universities. UT’s full-time MBA program recently was ranked by Poets & Quants as 71st among all public and private universities in the United States and 34th among all public U.S. universities.

According to the Poets and Quants website, the ranked executive MBA programs “tend to be among the most innovative of all the MBA programs, a fertile place for imaginative partnerships among business schools and for novel experimentation.”

The complete executive MBA rankings are available at http://poetsandquantsforexecs.com/2011/02/16/our-new-rankGeorge Richardson• The Daily Beacon ing- of-the -best- executive -mba-proA hungry squirrel takes a dip into a trash can for a quick meal outside Vol Hall on grams/2/.

Monday, March 7. Having become accustomed to students on campus, squirrels The UT Executive MBA program is not don’t shy away from the easy food. alone in garnering impressive rankings for the college. The College of Business Administration's executive-level MBA programs, full-time MBA program, undergraduate business curriculum and supply chain/logistics curriculum are also ranked by organizations and in publications such as U.S. News & World Report, Financial Times, The Princeton Review, Modern Healthcare, EdUniversal, The Journal of Business Logistics, AMR Research, Supply Chain Management Review and Forbes.

For more information about the UT College of Business Administration, visit http://bus.utk.edu.

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StaffColumn Meaning stretches beyond written word Brandi Panter Managing Editor For those of you who don’t have the misfortune of dealing with me outside these 600 words or so of newsprint, you’ve never been subjected to my most preferred torture device: opera.

I have, for all intents and purposes of explaining myself to those around me who do not appreciate the virtues of playing “The Flower Duet” from “Lakme” as much as I do, traced my simplistic and rudimentary love of opera back to a simpler obsession that I have with Europe, and more specifically language. I enjoy opera, I suspect, because it sounds pretty and it is primarily sung in Italian, French and my personal favorite, German. I enjoy these languages because I identify them as being “pretty” languages: languages I will never speak fluently, but long to do so because I think they sound beautiful, especially German.

As an English literature major, I spend the majority of my free time sitting around looking at the written works of other people and analyzing them. I get an odd thrill in my heart whenever I see a particularly good interpretation of Lady Macbeth’s nightmare, and I’ve found that I sleep especially well after watching Laurence Olivier’s version of Richard III. When I was choosing a second major, I chose English simply because it makes me happy. I chose to concentrate in English literature, more specifically, because not only am I especially terrible at writing (as you can see), but also I get a sort of mental enjoyment imagining the words of others off the page and inside my mind. I get that amount of fulfillment from Shakespeare more so than any other author in the history of the written English language.

Lady Macbeth’s monologue, for example, manages to take the simple nightmare of a woman who is very guilty of aiding in a murder (if I somehow ruined that for you, you really need to

work on your cultural exposure) and make it one of the most haunting and horrifying scenes in all of the theatrical tradition. Why is it so scary, though? It’s just a woman walking around with a candle, mumbling about her hands being clean, right?

Watching those words come to life is an entirely different beast. If you get the chance to watch Dame Judi Dench, for example, in her version of Lady Macbeth (YouTube it — it’s worth the five minutes) you get to see a woman howling, sobbing, screaming and furiously rubbing her hands together in anguish as she is tortured by her subconscious guilt and anxiety. The words haven’t changed at all from what Shakespeare himself wrote, not one syllable is different. It is, however, the power of seeing those words spring to life, seeing the same words you saw on paper in front of you howling and sobbing in the dark while she is having the same nightmare over and over again night after night, that really gives you just a rudimentary understanding of what power language holds, specifically in the English case here.

The power of language lies not in how words are written, but how they spring to life off the page.

The mind of the individual reader means more than the actual intent and voice of the author: How words are read and heard make all the difference in interpretation and understanding.

This is why I listen to opera. Listening to words in a language other than my own, specifically one that I don’t understand at all, makes me wonder about how what I don’t understand sounds to those who do. What does a mixed metaphor sound like in French? How does the annunciation of Italian sound when someone says “goodbye” but really means “I wish you’d never go!” It is the subtleties of language, what is really tucked in what we hear and what we read, that really make all the difference when you actually see it in front of you.

What you never heard and never saw before makes all the difference when you see it on the other side.

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

Scrambled Eggs • Alex Cline

The Great Mash Up • Liz Newnam

Columns of The Daily Beacon are reflections of the individual columnist, and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Beacon or its editorial staff.

Fight for racial equality still incomplete T he Social N etwo r k by

Elliott DeVore Some of you may have read the article that was released by CNN.com this past Friday titled, “Are Whites Racially Oppressed?” I came across it after several of my peers tweeted it. I’m incredibly passionate about issues surrounding social justice and societal inequities, and yet, I have never considered this issue.

Upon reading the first two paragraphs, I was taken aback by some of the quotes from people who were blind to the inherent privileges white Americans have by virtue of skin color. These people are so afraid that white people are being oppressed and becoming the minority that the white population is losing power. White fear!

This CNN article is not the first to address this arising conversation. Jon Stewart of “The Daily Show” had a segment about the white minority in August of 2009. So many people believe that whites are becoming more and more oppressed, and that racism against blacks, Latinos and other people of color doesn’t exist because we have antidiscrimination laws and a mixed-race president.

What this article seems to completely miss is the systemic racism that exists in America.

With the U.S. Census Bureau predicting whites to be a minority by 2050, concern has arisen for those who feel secure within their white racial dominancy. Many of those same people criticize affirmative action programs and scholarship programs that provide opportunities to woman and minorities, touting that they provide institutions with agency to practice reverse racism against the white man. Personally, I am an advocate for such programs, as they have served as a tool in creating some level of equity that has historically been absent in American society. Think about it: this year, UT is celebrating 50 years of African-American achievement, which should actually be 57 years if UT had integrated when Brown v. Board of Education passed. How long have white men been able to attend UT? Since 1794. That is centuries of educational and economic privilege from which white men have benefited, and those centuries of

advantage far surmount any advantage given to women and minorities through such scholarships and practices.

When we are able to analyze the underlying systemic issues of racism in America and what those looks like, the idea of white oppression becomes laughable. The Children’s Defense Fund released a 244-page report titled “America’s Cradle to the Prison Pipeline.” Within this extensive report you can find nightmarish facts about racial disparities of children born into poverty. Things such as: “Black children are more than three times as likely as White children to be born into poverty and to be poor, and are more than four times as likely to live in extreme poverty. One in three Latino babies and two in four black babies are born into poverty; one in four Latino children and one in three black children are poor. Between 2000–2006, poor Latino children increased by more than 500,000 (to 4.1 million) and poor Black children increased 132,000 (to 3.8 million).”

“Only 14 percent of black, 17 percent of Latino and 42 percent of white fourth graders are reading at grade level; and only 11 percent of black, 15 percent of Latino, and 41 percent of white eighth graders perform at grade level in math.”

With the amount of minorities born into high levels of poverty being vastly higher than whites, it is obvious that race compounded with poverty creates nearly insurmountable barriers for many Americans. I think it is despicable when political commentators like Rush Limbaugh say things like, “White Republicans are an oppressed minority and are in need of their own Civil Rights movement.”

White people should not feel oppressed; we should strive to be more racially aware. The tables are turning; now is the time when we need to become more aware of our own racial identities like our peers of color are on a daily basis. Many who share my beliefs are on this same page. For all the white people reading this, do not feel racially oppressed, but maybe try to become racially self-aware. What does it mean to be white? (I bet many of you have never asked that question.) The passing of a law or the election of an official will not be the catalyst of a racial paradigm shift; it will be a unified effort to deconstruct systemic issues.

This conversation must continue as we move forward fighting to achieve racial and economic equality within America. Actively engage and immerse yourself to serve as a conduit of change.

— Elliott DeVore is a senior in psychology. He can be reached at edevore@utk.edu.

Small victories need not be ignored For the Love. . . by

Ashleigh Disler

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Where are the points that lead you, in life, to where you want to go? Wouldn’t it be so wonderful if the same announcer in Mario Kart that says, “Check Point!” voiced his check point opinions in our daily lives? Graduate high school? Check point!

Get into college? Check point! Graduate college?

Check point! Get into graduate school? Check point!

But life doesn’t give the same roads for everyone, does it? Some of us get detours, some of us just get yield signs and some of us are thrown completely off course by the coconuts that come flying out of nowhere in DK Jungle Parkway. Some of us have cheat codes, too, and some just like to play by the real rules.

If we don’t hit these check points like everyone else does, though, we tend to be frustrated.

Sometimes, it’s for the right reason. Say you have a child and they’re not hitting all the necessary check points like walking or talking in time … that’s a problem. Certainly that’s an instance when everyone should have those things mastered within a certain amount of time. But what about things like graduating? What about becoming financially independent from your parents? What about having a serious relationship with someone? What about finding a big kid job? When has it really been too late to “do it all?”

These days, everyone has a Facebook. In my newsfeed one day was the status of a mother who admitted that she was beginning to be distraught over the thought that some of her “dreams” may never come true. My heart cried and smiled for her all at the same time. I thought, “She’s a successful woman, a mother of three and is still married to her high school sweetheart. That’s a dream come true for so many.”

Still, we tend to forget our dreams once they’ve come true. When we’re younger, we make these crazy, elaborate lists of all the things we want to do

when we grow up and all the things we want to be.

We think, “I’ll be happy if this happens. I’ll be set if I get this.” I think we become these surreal, beautiful people and we don’t even realize it.

These check points are guidelines, the things we’re “supposed” to do to become “successful members of our community.” Some of us don’t have the same goals, though. Some don’t have any goals at all. Some have too many unobtainable goals, and some are just living to achieve the goals … and are forgetting to live. I know it may only take a second to remind a lot of us of the things we have in fact achieved, but I think it’s important to be able to remind ourselves, too. Otherwise, how are we supposed to remember when no one else is around?

We couldn’t.

Of course, everyone also knows that if we don’t believe something ourselves, then we certainly aren’t going to listen just because our friends and family are telling us. It’s critical that we remember how wonderful we’ve all turned out to be. And if you don’t think you’ve turned out to be an absolutely astounding human being … then make yourself astounding. Chances are, if you haven’t done anything selfless for other people, then you don’t feel like you’ve made that great of an impact. So do something selfless. Do something astounding and wonderful and helpful and completely out of the ordinary. Change the life of one person around you and tell me you don’t feel like your dreams have come true.

The reality of life is that our check points really are all different. Our goals are all unique and not any two of us want the exact same thing. We have to work at our friendships and relationships for this exact reason, and when we cross a bridge without burning it, I think that’s a check point in itself. When we make it through our days smiling, that’s a check point. When we get knocked off course by the coconuts, and we think our nights couldn’t get any worse, and we wake up the next morning and try it all over again … that’s a check point. That’s a dream come true. Change your check points. You’re alive another day, and for the love … that’s a dream come true.

— Ashleigh Disler is a junior in journalism and electronic media. She can be reached at adisler@utk.edu.

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Actors save ‘Adjustment’ despite plot holes Will Abrams Arts and Entertainment Editor At the heart of most great American films, there is an element of romance. From “Casablanca” to “Forrest Gump,” the belief in true love is both well documented and often explored.

“The Adjustment Bureau” is one of the latest Hollywood films to expand on this concept through the adaptation of a short story written by sci-fi author Philip K. Dick entitled “Adjustment Team.”

Although the film is based on the author’s idea of a secret organization that controls the world through hidden influences, the similarities basically stop after that.

The story’s film counterpart focuses on U.S. Senate-hopeful David Norris (Matt Damon) on the eve of his election when he meets dancer Elise (Emily Blunt). Although the two have initial chemistry, Norris quickly learns that it is not part of fate’s plan for the two to ever see each other again.

After meeting members of the secret organization like Richardson (John Slattery) and Harry Mitchell (Anthony Mackie), Norris is forced to choose between political aspirations and the possibility of a life with Elise.

Whenever a film is dealing with a complex plot that proposes the existence of something unnatural, it can be a little hard to cover all the bases. Since the film doesn’t have days to fully explain the intricacies of the “adjustment bureau,” there are several plot holes to uncover if given a moment to think.

Fortunately, director George Nolfi keeps the film at a good pace where the audience doesn’t really have time to question certain

aspects of the film. After leaving the theater, though, all bets are off.

The film’s main theme has to do with the struggle between free will and fate. Are people in control of their choices in life or is their concept of control just an illusion forced from a higher power? The idea isn’t exactly new, but it’s used infrequently enough in film for it to come off as refreshing.

Due to the story’s loose writing, the chemistry between Damon and Blunt has to be top-notch in order for the audience to really care about what is going on. From start to finish, both actors excel in developing their individual characters as well as building chemistry. Each scene together is delivered authentically, showing that good actors can work well no matter the quality of the script.

The performances are really what make the film. Without the efforts of the leads and a solid supporting cast, the film would come close to falling apart in the third act. One of the smaller but more important performances in the film is Terence Stamp as Thompson, a member of the bureau. This role could have easily been filled by a scenery-chewing loudmouth, but Stamp issues each line with subtle authority and confidence.

“The Adjustment Bureau” is far from a perfect film. There are plot holes here and there, a rushed ending and a few other mistakes that this reviewer will skip over in an effort to not spoil the film, but the film works as a romantic thriller with a sci-fi edge. While other wasted projects like “Beastly” and “Just Go With It” plague the theater, “The Adjustment Bureau” offers what may be the first good film of 2011.

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6 • The Daily Beacon

Tuesday, March 8, 2011

THESPORTSPAGE

Inning spoils perfect weekend for Vols this season. Raleigh said that, although he was disappointed with a few things this weekend, the team played very well and Lauren Kittrell made some amazing plays.

Staff Writer “Take away the ninth inning and I thought we played a pretty good game,” Raleigh said. “We are doing some unbelievable The Tennessee Volunteer baseball team lost its four-game things so far this year. Stolen base-wise has been really good, winning streak on Saturday against Indiana, but finished the and we are not striking out much.” weekend strong by braving the cold and ending the weekend 2After the loss on Saturday, the team returned on Sunday and 1 with a win against went eight innings with a Morehead State on strong lead. Unfortunately, Sunday. and much to the dismay of The Vols won 7-3 over several of the players and Bradley and 10-8 against Raleigh, the team lost a Morehead State. Even seven-run lead and finished with their loss against the game 10-8.

Indiana, the team is look“I was disappointed ing at a solid beginning to about the ninth inning,” the 2011 season. Senior Raleigh said. third baseman Matt Duffy Ethan Bennett, freshman said the team is already catcher from Farragut High looking ahead.

School in Knoxville, played “It’s exciting. Everyone his first collegiate game on wants to do well,” Duffy Sunday against Morehead said. “I just want to do State. Raleigh said he anything I can to help the played a great game and Vol team and be a leader. fans will see him catch more Hopefully we can start a in the future. winning streak right “(Bennett) caught a realTara Sripunvorskul • The Daily Beacon here.” ly good game,” Raleigh said.

Teammates congratulate Matt Duffy at the conclusion of a Even head coach Todd game against Morehead State on Sunday, March 6. Duffy “I was really pleased with Raleigh is impressed with helped spark the offense with a three-run home run as the how he caught. It was tough the team’s performance Volunteers went on to a 10-8 win over the Eagles. today with it being cold, but he did a good job. He’s awesome. He’s an unbelievable student. He’s an unbelievable kid.

He is just phenomenal.”

Raleigh is optimistic about Bennett’s future.

“I think what hurt him a little bit was he got hurt and couldn’t play the first weekend,” Raleigh said. “He is going to catch more as the season wears on.”

Bennett said the game began a bit nerve-racking, but quickly became something that comes natural to him: baseball. Now that he’s gotten his feet wet, the freshman is looking forward to continuing to compete with old friends and teammates and seeing what the team can accomplish as a whole.

“We’ve got to work as a team and just get to Omaha, whatever it takes,” Bennett said. “I think Georgia will be fun. We have a couple guys from my high school there, so it will be cool to see them again and play against them.”

The 2-1 weekend that broke their four-game winning streak was a bittersweet moment for the Vols, but Duffy said there’s always a positive, and the team can learn from some adversity.

Duffy said the team was capable of coming out with a 3-0 weekend record, and it’s something you have to put in the past and move on.

“We definitely would have liked to have been 3-0,” Duffy said. “We probably should have been. That kind of got away from us yesterday. We played down to their level. They’re a good team, but we’re better.”

Smith breaks record in UT win as Vols tennis outlasts Auburn Staff Reports Senior John-Patrick Smith's bid to become the career doubles leader at Tennessee came at a critical time for the Vols on Sunday.

Smith and fellow senior Boris Conkic delivered the doubles point with a deciding win at the top of the Vols' lineup, putting Tennessee on track for a 5-2 victory over Auburn at the Goodfriend Tennis Center.

After Tennessee (12-1, 2-0 SEC) and Auburn (7-4, 0-2) split wins on courts 2 and 3, the Vols' hope for the doubles point came down to Smith and Conkic. The Vols' top duo did not disappoint, breaking at 3-3 against 43rd-ranked Tim Puetz and Daniel Cochrane and holding the rest of the match.

Fittingly, Smith served out the 8-6 win to give the Vols the 1-0 lead.

The record-setting doubles victory was No. 132 in Smith's career, surpassing Byron Talbot's 23-year-old record of 131 wins, as the Vols started their bid for a consecutive Southeastern Conference title with a 2-0 opening weekend.

“Those numbers don't lie,” associate head coach Chris Woodruff said. “He's made a lot of players who were really good at doubles into really really good doubles players. He makes everyone better around him.”

Conkic and Smith, who rose to No. 1 in the ITA national rankings last week, extended their winning streak to 11 matches and improved to 15-1 this season. Sophomore Rhyne Williams and Tennys Sandgren, ranked 55th, won 84 on court 2 to improve to 9-1 in dual matches.

“I just really hope that we can continue to get better,” Smith said. “Tennessee doubles has traditionally been so strong, looking back over the years. Hopefully we can keep

that tradition going and bring a championship here.”

In singles, Smith was first off the court with a 6-3, 6-2 win over 23rd-ranked Puetz on court 1. A few minutes later, sophomore Edward Jones improved to 10-2 in his first season in the singles lineup, beating Lucas Lopasso 6-2, 7-6 on court 6 to put the Vols ahead 3-0.

Sandgren clinched the match for Tennessee by earning a 6-3, 6-3 win over No. 104 Alex Stamchev on court 3.

Sandgren, ranked a career-best No. 35, improved his winning streak to nine matches and ran his career SEC record to 12-0.

After the match was in Tennessee's hands, Williams also added a straight-set win over Tim Hewitt on court 2.

Auburn picked up a pair of victories on the singles courts.

Conkic had his 13-match winning streak snapped in singles with a 7-6, 7-6 loss to Andreas Mies on court 5. Senior Matteo Fago lost his second SEC match this weekend, falling 6-3, 6-4 to Cochrane.

“I can't say that we performed our best,” Woodruff said. “Auburn's a good team, but we'll be looking for Tuesday to come back practice hard on some things we have to firm up, especially in doubles.

We need to be more aggressive through the middle of the court. In singles, we need to slow down a little bit and play with a clearer plan out there.”

The Vols hit the road this weekend for a three-match road trip spanning three states in five days when they play Kentucky, Vanderbilt and Baylor. Tennessee squares off against Kentucky on Friday at 3 p.m.

“This biggest thing is taking it one match at a time and getting in a good week of practice,” Smith said. “You don't want to look ahead. We've got three good teams all on the road, so it's going to be tough.”