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Cheek elaborates on school’s future Blair Kuykendall Editor-in-Chief Honors students curious to hear about the future of the Chancellor’s Honors Program gathered with UTK Chancellor Jimmy Cheek on Tuesday evening to open lines of communication.

Representatives from the Honors Council hosted a reception for CHP students to dialogue about Cheek’s vision for the program. After a short opportunity to mingle with the chancellor in the Baker Center rotunda, students retired to the auditorium to hear some of his remarks. Participants were interested in specifically learning about his vision for honors at UT. Cheek focused his address on the Top 25 initiative. He highlighted the importance of increasing retention rates and four-year graduation rates.

“Our goal is to maintain 90 percent of the freshmen that come,” Cheek said. “We are the furthest off from everyone in four-year graduation rates. This year ours is 63 percent. Our initial goal is 75 percent — the bottom of the rest of the top 25.”

The chancellor encouraged setting high goals for the university and its students.

“If we benchmark ourselves against the best, we will become better,” Cheek said. “You identify gaps, and you try to narrow those gaps ... we want to be the very best we can be.”

He elaborated on his plans for the university.

“We need to make our research and scholarship enterprise better,” Cheek said. “Two major things make a difference at a university: students that come, and the facul-

ty that work with them.”

The chancellor went on to address questions about honors housing, the growth of the honors program and the importance of private endowment. He remarked on the quality of UT’s student body.

“Our aspirations are to be greater than we are today, in two years, five years, 10 years,” Cheek said. “The first thing most universities have to do is improve their student body, but we don’t have to do that. We just need to maintain ours.”

Daniel Aycock, president of Honors Council, moderated the event for around 60 attendees. He posed various questions to the chancellor to facilitate discussion.

“We are called the Chancellor’s Honors Program,” Aycock said. “We need to know that we are a priority for the administration ... we are invested in our experience, and ready to be engaged stakeholders in this university.”

Students were curious to hear more about the development of the university’s new brand.

“Every major university has a branding campaign under way in some way or another,” Cheek said. “A lot of people in the nation and the state didn’t really know a lot about the university. The branding effort is much greater than the tagline. What I’m concerned with is that we identify ourselves as the University of Tennessee.”

Cheek reflected on the importance of honors courses and programs for UT’s future, calling for increased private endowment for honors initiatives. He spoke of the importance he places on faculty engagement with the student body.

“Students are the reason we’re in business, so invest your time with students,” Cheek said.

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Jimmy Cheek laughs while taking questions at the Student Leadership Dinner on Monday, Feb. 20. Cheek met with the Honors Council for another Q&A session to continue open communications between students and the UT administration.

Romney narrowly takes Charity boxing Ohio; Santorum battles on event fights The Associated Press WASHINGTON — Mitt Romney said Wednesday he’s “prepared to fight all the way” to become the Republican presidential nominee after boosting his delegate count on the biggest night of the primary season. Supporters of his chief rival, Rick Santorum, tried to elbow Newt Gingrich out of the race in an effort to give conservatives a clear alternative to the GOP front-runner.

Gingrich, who won only his home state of Georgia in Tuesday’s balloting across 10 states, said he’s pressing ahead and will “wait and see how the race goes.” He headed for Alabama and Mississippi, hoping to pick up more southern delegates next week.

Super Tuesday gave Romney a narrow victory in pivotal Ohio and wins in five other states, while Santorum laid claim to three states. Rep. Ron Paul won none.

The split decision refreshed questions

about Romney’s appeal to conservatives, and guaranteed more convulsion ahead as Republicans struggle to settle on a candidate to take on President Barack Obama.

Leaders of a super political action committee supporting Santorum said it’s time for Gingrich to step aside and let Santorum go head-to-head with Romney.

If Gingrich remains in the race “it’s only a hindrance to a conservative alternative to Romney,” said Stuart Roy, an adviser to the Red, White and Blue Fund.

“And Romney simply won't be the conservative alternative to Obama.”

The PAC has spent about $3 million on TV ads helping Santorum’s White House bid, and Roy predicted that Wednesday would be “a good day for fundraising.”

Santorum, who was campaigning Wednesday in Kansas and Mississippi, pointed to his wins in the West, the Midwest and the South as proof he can

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win across this country.

Romney, in an appearance on CNBC's “Squawk Box,” insisted he’s “getting the kind of support across the party that I need to become the nominee.”

“We’ve got the time and the resources and a plan to get all the delegates, and we think that will get done before the convention,” Romney said.

His campaign announced that Romney raised $11.5 million in February, the second-best month ever for the campaign. Still, that’s not substantially ahead of Santorum, who raised $9 million in February.

Gingrich, in a morning appearance on Bill Bennett’s “Morning in America” radio program, said there’s no evidence Santorum could defeat Romney even in a one-on-one competition.

“If I thought he was a slam dunk to George Richardson • The Daily Beacon beat Romney and to beat Obama, I would Bener Oguz of SAE battles Austin Burress of FIJI really consider getting out,” Gingrich against the ropes during the championship bout of the said. “I don’t.” featherweight division of the SAE Fraternity Boxing Tournament on Saturday, March 5, 2010. This year’s tournament runs Thursday through Saturday at the Knoxville Expo Center, moving up in size from the Ace Miller Golden Gloves Arena that hosted the event for a number of years.

Evan Winburne Staff Writer Highlighted by Sports Illustrated as one of the “102 More Things You Gotta Do Before You Graduate,” Sigma Alpha Epsilon’s Boxing Tournament has become one of the largest fraternity philanthropy events in the country.

This year’s tournament will follow the same format as previous tournaments with one big change — a new venue.

When it became apparent that Ace Miller Golden Gloves Arena was becoming too small to handle the event’s expanding crowds, Sigma Alpha Epsilon decided it was time to move the event to the larger Knoxville Expo Center.

“Ace Miller Arena can George Richardson • The Daily Beacon only hold so many individuStudents from TVC working on a new show, “The Buried Life: Student Edition,” work to check off an item on als, and we have had probtheir UT bucket list by appearing on the front page of The Daily Beacon on Wednesday. The show will cover a lems the past few years with number of activities that the students hope to accomplish before graduating from UT.

our increasing numbers,” Michael Shoptaw, tournament public relations director, said. “The Knoxville Expo center is conveniently located near campus and will allow for easier transportation to and from the event.”

Shoptaw said last year the tournament raised $80,000, and this year’s fundraising goal is $100,000. All the proceeds from ticket and merchandise sales go to Golden Gloves Charities.

“Golden Gloves provides a youth development program, as well as a forum for young men and women to interact and learn in someplace outside the home or classroom,” Shoptaw said.

Shoptaw traces the success of the 32-year-old event to its status as one of the only inter-fraternal competitions on campus. The tournament will feature 59 boxers representing 16 different fraternities.

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Kenneth White, a UT alumni who graduated in design, speaks with Katherine Qualls, sophomore in graphic design, on Tuesday, March 6. White visiting UT to speak as part of the 65th Annual Student Art Competition, White gave students insights from over 15 years of experience working the design field.

1669 — Mount Etna erupts On this day in 1669, Mount Etna, on the island of Sicily in modern-day Italy, begins rumbling. Multiple eruptions over the next few weeks killed more than 20,000 people and left thousands more homeless. Most of the victims could have saved themselves by fleeing, but stayed, in a vain attempt to save their city.

Mount Etna dominates the island of Sicily. Rising 11,000 feet above sea level in the northeast section of Sicily, it can be seen from just about every part of the 460-square-mile island.

The geologic history of Mount Etna demonstrates that it has been periodically spewing ash and lava for thousands of years; the first recorded eruption of the volcano was in 475 BCE. It is the most active volcano in Europe. In 1169, an earthquake just prior to an eruption killed 15,000 people on Sicily. Despite the dangers of living near an active volcano, the eruptions made the surrounding soil very fertile, so many small villages developed on the slopes of the mountain.

When Etna began to rumble and belch gas on March 8, the residents nearby ignored the warning signs of a larger eruption. Three days later, the volcano began spewing out noxious fumes in large quantities. Approximately 3,000 people living on the slopes of the mountain died from asphyxiation. Even worse, Etna was soon emitting tremendous amounts of ash and molten lava. The ash was sent out with such force that significant amounts came down in the southern part of mainland Italy, in some cases nearly 100 miles away. Lava also began pouring

down the south side of the mountain heading toward the city of Catania, 18 miles to the south along the sea.

At the time, the city of Catania had about 20,000 residents; most failed to flee the city immediately. Instead, Diego de Pappalardo, a resident of the city, led a team of 50 men to Mount Etna, where they attempted to divert the lava flow. Wearing cowhides soaked in water, the men bravely approached the lava with long iron rods, picks and shovels. They were able to hack open a hole in the hardened lava wall that had developed on the outside of the lava flow and much of the flow began to flow west out of the new hole. However, the residents of Paterno, a city lying southwest of Etna were monitoring these developments and quickly realized that this new flow direction could imperil their own city. They literally fought back the Catanians, while the lava breach hardened and filled again.

For several weeks, the lava pushed toward Catania and the sea. Still, the residents failed to evacuate the city. Apparently, they remained hopeful that the lava would stop or the city’s ancient defensive walls would protect them. Neither was the case — the walls were quickly swallowed by the extremely hot lava and nearly 17,000 people in Catania died. Most of the city was destroyed. Catania was not the only city affected — the eruption wiped out 14 towns and villages and left about 27,000 people homeless.

Following this disaster, it was decreed that interference with the natural flow of lava was prohibited in Italy, a regulation that remained in effect hundreds of years later.

1917 — February Revolutions 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.

The imperial government was forced to resign, and the Duma formed a provisional government that peacefully vied with the Petrograd Soviet for control of the revolution. On March 14, the Petrograd Soviet issued “Order No. 1,” which instructed Russian soldiers and sailors to obey only those orders that did not conflict with the directives of the Soviet. The next day, March 15, Czar Nicholas II abdicated the throne in favor of his brother Michael, whose refusal of the crown brought an end to the czarist autocracy.

The new provincial government, tolerated by the Petrograd Soviet, hoped to salvage the Russian war effort while ending the food shortage and many other domestic crises. It would prove a daunting task. Meanwhile, Vladimir Lenin, leader of the Bolshevik revolutionary party, left his exile in Switzerland and crossed German enemy lines to return home and take control of the Russian Revolution.

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

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BOXING continued from Page 1 “Though this is for a charity, it is also a competition,” Shoptaw said. “Men want to represent their fraternities well, and they put a lot of time and effort into their training.

The atmosphere of the tournament can only be described as exciting.”

The atmosphere of the tournament is not lost on the boxers.

“It’s an incredible atmosphere for us fighters,” Brad Butkowski, Lambda Chi Alpha member, said. “Words can’t describe the feeling I get when my fraternity chants ‘There’s only one Brad Butkowski’ while I’m in the ring. That’s what really gets me going during a fight.”

A look at this year’s bracket reveals many past champions.

Light heavyweight Butkowski will vie for his fourth straight title. Other champions looking to repeat: heavyweight Danny Pritchett of Pi Kappa Alpha, featherweight Bener Oguz of

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Sigma Alpha Epsilon and Middleweight Buck Sheesley of Phi Sigma Kappa. Sheesley, a two-time champion, would join the tournament’s hall of fame with another title. Twotime champion Daniel Kail of Lambda Chi Alpha will also fight in the welterweight division.

Pritchett believes remaining focused during the tournament is the key to success.

“I try to keep the same mindset every year; I try to change as little as possible,” Pritchett said. “I make a playlist of songs that get me hyped and listen to it on repeat throughout the weekend and I listen to the songs in the same order as I did the previous night. It keeps me concentrated and in the zone.”

The tournament runs Thursday through Saturday.

Three-night passes will be on sale from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on the Pedestrian Mall. The passes are $35 each. Single-night tickets will only be available at the doors of the Knoxville Expo Center for $15. Brackets and other tournament information can all be found at www.saeboxing.com.

Herons return to Memphis The Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Not far from the billboards and hurly-burly of traffic on Interstate 40, Martha Waldron stands shin-deep in water that’s as dark as mahogany, brushing away cockleburs as she keeps her gaze fixed skyward.

That’s when she sees it: a great blue heron, silent and elegant, swooping down from cypress trees toward a nest.

The bird is one of about 18 that have established a sizable nesting area in this seasonally flooded bottomland area south of the Wolf River.

Waldron, former curator of the Memphis chapter of the Tennessee Ornithological Society and one of the area’s leading birders, thinks she knows why they’ve come.

“The great blue herons will come in here and stand and fish ...,” says Waldron, pointing to the acres of swamp water rich with crustaceans and small fish.

“They’ve got everything they need right here.”

Right here, oddly enough, is within Memphis city limits — just inside the I-40 and I240 loop, actually — in the broad forested area between Jackson and Covington Pike.

Waldron and fellow birders Mac and Susan McWhirter say there are at least 13 nests at the site.

Although great blue herons have large rookeries in such places as the Shelby Forest area, this appears to be the first one within Memphis city limits, Waldron said.

It’s a sight indicating that while people continue to move out of the city, perhaps wildlife species are moving back in.

“This is a great deal for Memphis because it’s the first one we’ve ever had,” Waldron said.

Great blue herons are large wading birds distinguished by their blue-gray plumage and wing spans that can reach 61/2 feet. They are not

endangered, but their presence is an indicator of environmental health because of the large watery habitat needed.

Along with various types of eagles, pelicans and cormorants, herons have been flourishing in the decades since chemicals such as the pesticide DDT were banned, said Michael Bierly of Nashville, a bird-watcher since 1963. Previously, in the 19th and early 20th centuries, they and other birds had been hunted for their plumage, which was used to decorate women's hats.

In recent decades, the birds have further benefited from the creation of reservoirs and re-establishment of wetlands.

“They’re in great shape ...,” Bierly said. “I bet you there’s more great blue herons now than ever.”

Memphis already hosts numerous colonies of another wading bird, the yellowcrowned night heron.

The heronry near I-40, which Waldron believes is no more than a year old, was discovered only last month as she and Susan McWhirter were driving on the interstate after an outing to count eagle nests.

“We were driving by at 70 miles per hour and said, ‘Oh my gosh, the nests,’” McWhirter recalls.

“We’re used to looking for stuff like this.”

Waldron said it’s not known whether any eggs have been laid in the nests yet — that usually doesn’t happen until well into March.

Bierly said that people and their accoutrements generally don’t bother herons and rookeries. But he said the birds themselves may eventually create conditions limiting the duration of the her.

“What happens is, after the heronries are there several years, there is a lot of defecation, which kills vegetation,” Bierly said. “That makes them move.”

Michael Rivera • The Daily Beacon

Karen Shaw answers questions during an artist lecture on Tuesday. Shaw shared her wealth of knowledge about all aspects of the arts, drawing from her experiences with exhibitions ranging from the US, Europe and Central America.

Legislature fights over HOPE The Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Democratic leaders say a revised proposal that would make cutting some students’ lottery scholarships in half contingent on lottery revenues is unnecessary because the measure wouldn’t be effective for at least another three years.

The Republican-backed measure passed the Senate Education Committee 7-2 on Wednesday. The companion bill was to be heard in the House Education Committee later in the day.

The original legislation sought to reduce the award — called the HOPE scholarship — by 50 percent for students who do not meet both standardized testing and high school grade requirements. A special panel of lawmakers recommended the proposal in November.

Right now, students can get a scholarship worth $4,000 for each of four years if they either earn a 3.0 grade point average in high school or score a 21 on their ACT college entrance exam.

Last week, Tennessee Lottery officials told the Senate Education Committee that the lottery has set record gross sales every month since July. Lottery education proceeds have increased 4 percent since 2005, with about $10 million more coming in a year. About $14 million is projected for this year.

On Tuesday, lottery officials announced record sales of $130 million in February.

Under the new legislation, the lottery scholarship requirements won't change if lottery proceeds of at least $10 million are sustained through 2015. Lottery officials said they don’t expect it to drop.

Democrats say such figures and the fact that the proposal wouldn’t take effect until later are reason to table it all together.

“I think we’re passing something just to pass something,” said Sen. Andy Berke of Chattanooga, who voted against the proposal.

Senate Democratic Caucus Chairman Lowe Finney of Jackson said outside the committee meeting that he would be open to monitoring the lottery’s proceeds next year or the year after, but doesn’t see a need for the proposal.

“The appropriate response this year would be to pass nothing,” he said. “That’s been our position all along.”

Sen. Dolores Gresham, chairwoman of the Education Committee and the bill’s sponsor, said the legislation was initially proposed because the cost of the scholarship program was outpacing lottery revenues. To make up the difference in the short term, the state has dipped into the lottery reserves, which is more than $300 million.

“We were not going to put the lottery scholarship program in jeopardy,” she said. “We wanted to make sure the lottery scholarship program is viable in the long term and that we can serve as many Tennessee students as possible.”

Gresham said she decided to have the amendment drafted after hearing testimony from lottery officials.

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Somewhere... Hopefully Right to not vote remains sacred Preston Peeden Managing Editor The right to a secret and universal vote is a central aspect of the American system of democracy.

Starting with our Constitution — and built upon in the 14th and the 19th Amendments — all male and female American citizens over the age of 18, regardless of their economic status or religion, are able to participate in our system. This is something that I think is one of the greatest parts of America’s political system.

That said, I have a confession to make; I didn’t vote in the Republican primaries on Super Tuesday.

This statement is surely something that many will look poorly upon. Many will think what I did was un-American. To people like that, me not voting is a waste of the rights that this country affords me; however, this is not how I see it. Instead, I feel my choice is an extension of the right that voting affords me.

Before I get into defending my stance, I feel it is necessary to explain why I didn’t vote. I abstained from voting not because I was apathetic, but rather the opposite. When I look at the ridiculous spectacle that the lead-up to the presidential election pertains to, I don’t feel indifference; I feel indignation and anger. For me, I disagree with all four candidates running for the Republican nomination. The reason for this is that all of the candidates (in my mind) are so backward on social issues that it is barely even funny to me. With Romney, you have a man who outwardly supports civil unions only because they’re a more tolerable option to him than gay marriage. Gingrich is a man who espouses a warped ideal of traditional family values, which he doesn’t even try to keep in line with himself. Ron Paul is a man who through his borderline fanatical support of states’ rights, would have not signed through the Civil Rights Act of 1964, viewing it as an overstepping of the government’s powers. Finally with Santorum — the man who leads the pack in my view of social craziness — you have a man who, if he had his way, would outlaw birth control and repeal the Lawrence v. Texas decision. This

Supreme Court case allowed for people to be completely free to privacy in their own homes (for more information on that look up his interview in 2003 with AP where he said, “the right to privacy doesn’t exist in my opinion in the United States Constitution”). All four of these men espouse ideals that I can’t even reconcile in support of them.

I know this election cycle is not as based on social issues as the previous two, with attention being paid more on the economy, but that doesn’t mean that I can ignore what these men say. To me, if I voted for one of these four men, then I would be voting for what their views represent. It is kind of like what Will Rogers once quipped, “We only get to vote on some man; we never get to vote on what he is to do.” Ultimately, what my vote would have represented Tuesday would have been a complacent acceptance of those abhorrent stances these men take socially. The entire election system makes it almost impossible to find a candidate that you truly believe in, but rather it forces us to find the candidate we disagree with the least. When we vote (at least this is the feeling I have, but I have a weird collection of views), we search for the person who is the least objectionable, and that person, regardless of whether we believe in the whole package or not. He or she then becomes our candidate for election based on being the lesser of two, or in this case four, evils, and that is not a good situation.

By not voting, I feel I have expressed one of the central aspects of my right to vote. I hope to show that I am more than someone who votes simply on party lines or fancy slogans; instead, I vote and choose not to vote based on how I actually view the candidates and their policies. By choosing not to vote, but still remaining active in the political discussion, one can still hold up the sacrality of the right to vote.

When I didn’t vote in the primary Tuesday, I made a conscious decision. I didn’t throw my vote away or tarnish it by choosing a candidate I knew I disagreed with, but instead I kept that vote as pure and precious as it was when I was given it. I want to vote for someone I truly believe in and support, but I won’t vote until that person arises. And that person is not here in 2012.

— Preston Peeden is a junior in history. He can be reached at ppeeden@utk.edu.

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Parking services inconsiderate, unfair Urb an La n d sca p e by

Lindsay Lee This week I want to share something that happened to my roommate, Sasha.

Sasha is a graduate student here studying speechlanguage pathology, and, like me, she is a wheelchair user. Recently after months of wrestling with Tennessee Vocational Rehabilitation Services to get their support, she was able to get a van outfitted with all the necessary equipment for her to drive.

This includes hand controls, a ramp, space for her chair to maneuver to, and things of that sort.

This, as you can imagine, is a really big deal.

It’s exciting for anyone to get his or her first car, but it’s especially remarkable for the disabled because the requirements and the process are so much more complicated. Gaining this sort of independence in a world where the disabled are so often forced to depend on others means so much that it cannot be put into words.

That being said, the complicated part doesn’t end when the equipment is finally installed. These cars with ramps and lifts need a place to park where there is enough room to extend the ramp and get into the car. This is what handicap parking spaces are for. If there aren’t any handicap spaces or if someone parks in the “Do Not Park” space marked with white diagonal lines, people with these accessible vans are basically out of luck. They cannot reach their destinations because there is no room to get in or out of the car, and there is nothing they can do about it.

To have access to these spaces you have to get a permit, which takes the form of either a tag on the license plate or a placard that hangs from the rearview mirror. Sasha parked outside of a building to talk to a professor for half an hour, and when she returned to her car, she found a parking ticket.

The offense: an expired handicap placard. The price: $200 — the same price someone would pay for not having a permit at all.

Sasha tried to appeal the ticket and was denied.

She’s been back and forth from Parking Services in

the UC and to the offices out on Stephenson Drive trying to get ahold of the director. One person in the UC will tell her to go talk to someone on Stephenson Drive, and another person at Stephenson Drive will tell her she needs to go back to the UC. No one will call her back or listen to her case. To make things worse, the director of Parking Services has an office on the second floor in an inaccessible building.

This situation is indicative of two things. First is the never-ending bureaucracy of UT. It goes without saying that being tossed around back and forth and not contacted after promises of returned phone calls is not acceptable, in any situation.

People in these sorts of positions need to know exactly who to direct people to in order to get things done. It wastes the time and resources of everyone involved when no one knows how to help people.

Also, it’s just rude not to call people back. Always, plain and simple.

Secondly, this ridiculous parking ticket is a prime example of typical societal ignorance of what it means to be disabled. The disabled have fewer options, fewer routes, fewer opportunities — they have to do whatever they can to make the best of every unfortunate situation. In order to get to that building and go about her normal life, Sasha NEEDED to park in that space; she had no other choice, even if she had realized her placard was expired.

The maximum ticket price for an expired placard should be maybe around $20; that sounds pretty reasonable. But $200? The same price an ablebodied person would pay for being lazy and selfish and taking up the space without a permit?

It is ridiculous. It is not fair. The worst part is that the officer who gave her the ticket got close enough to read the expiration date on the placard, but didn’t seem to notice or care that there was no driver’s seat and that the van was full of equipment.

Parking Services, please, have a heart. How about giving $200 tickets to people who actually park in these spaces illegally? You will make plenty of your precious profit that way — I guarantee it — and you could be useful at the same time. Until then, Sasha will be using her student loan money to pay for your outrageous ticket. Keep up the good work.

— Lindsay Lee is a sophomore in math. She can be reached at llee26@utk.edu.

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Sometimes, it’s really hard to be critical.

Oh, sure, I could use this space to tell you about the “Super” Tuesday “drama” where we will either see a Republican Party give a lead either to someone they don’t like or someone nobody likes.

Heck, at this point, I am hoping for the almost too juicy to be true “brokered” convention, where some dude will hopefully come out of an actually smoky, actually back room and announce George Soros as the Republican candidate just to see if the world ends.

I could also use this space to complain about how the New Orleans Saints wanted to injure other players, and confuse the situation morally by saying, “Uh, well, as long as football isn’t intentionally violent it’s all good. I mean, having overlydeveloped, 300-pound men slam into each other is all reasonable fun, but if they actually want to damage, we have a problem.” Of course, there is a distinct difference between actually wanting to do damage and having incidental injuries, but there is also a difference between playing baseball at a local VFW field and playing it on I-40. If the NFL really wanted to reduce injuries, setting a weight limit might be a good step.

Of course, there are a million things on which I could rant and rave and you could read and say “whatever” — and believe you me, I will in no way impinge on your right to blow this off— but instead I am going to offer you a free piece of advice.

Next time you encounter a beautiful, sunshiny Tennessee day, skip your classes and take a nice leisurely walk to the library. There, check out a book — not a long book, not an academic book, not a book that your English professor had to go outside of a normal person’s vocabulary to describe (and I say this as a recovering English major) — but a relatively short book, one that you’ve read before. It could be that you warmly remember reading “Dandelion Wine,” or the first “Harry

Potter,” or “Voyage of the Dawn Treader” — just a book whose recollection will require you to access a part of your brain where your 12- or 13-year-old avatar is waiting patiently to discuss this book with you as you read it. Of course, don’t read this amid the hustle and bustle of the library — though there certainly is something to be said for that — but outside on the steps between the library and McClung and sprawl out on the grass. Don’t forget to take breaks to watch as people pretend that hammocks are comfortable, or walk while playing with their phones, or play a leisurely game of frisbee.

Of course, reading is surprisingly thirsty and hungry work; be sure to head down to the corner of Andy Holt and Melrose and grab a hot dog and a water. And don’t be afraid to stop reading — the secret of reading a book is knowing when to stop. Go find some corner of campus that you’ve never been to and just look around — try to find quite places to sit, or find a snack food place where you didn’t know to look, or even just discover where an unheard of department lives. Heck, even just look around at some of the beautiful old buildings on campus — Hodges Library is the coolest building on campus.

Of course, some of you will probably not think that you have time, or think that this sounds boring or overly ideal or that hot dogs sound gross. My answer is: get over yourself. You will have the rest of your life to pretend that you care about everything buzz worthy, or to worry about how much work you have, or even to focus on things that might be in a very real way more “fun” than the day I described above. I doubt very much that there are too many more things that are more restful than a day where you eschew your responsibilities and further this daring rebellion by being wonderfully frivolous. As a wizened grad student who stands on the very cusp of having these days disappear altogether, let me simply remind you all of this: sometimes, fun and exciting and interesting and even accomplishment isn’t all that it’s cracked up to be. And besides — all that is all the more fun once you’ve given your mind a rest.

— Gregory Bearringer is a graduate student in medieval studies. He can be reached at gbearrin@utk.edu.

Thursday, March 8, 2012

Guest Column Writer pleads against censorship Logan N.Murphy Guest Columnist

In 1951, author J.D. Salinger published what is certainly one of America’s greatest literary achievements, the novel “The Catcher in the Rye,” which spins the tale of young Holden Caulfield as he skips school, and in the process, matures into some semblance of adulthood. The novel features universal themes such as independence, the value of individuality, responsibility, and other dear American virtues. In many ways its message is seated at the core of democratic goals, in yet others the message transcends them. But where did Salinger go so wrong to earn his novel a spot on the most censored books of the early 60s, and as one of the most challenged and complainedabout books of more recent decades? For one, the novel’s protagonist often engages in vulgar language, but other causes cited frequently are that Holden Caulfield encourages errant behavior such as laziness, prostitution, excessive drinking, and other grave sins. Obviously, anyone who raises such complaints has probably never read “The Catcher in the Rye,” though the bit about vulgar language cannot be refuted.

Holden has quite a mouth.

And his mouth is what brought Holden through his trials and to the other side, where he experienced enlightenment in an almost religious connotation. I won’t go as far as comparing this paper or any other to Nazi book burnings, nor will I point out similarities with Orwell’s 1984, though I will offer one quote from the novelist Chuck Palahniuk, who said, “Imagine books and music and movies being filtered and homogenized. Certified. Approved for consumption. People will be happy to give up most of their culture for the assurance that the tiny bit that comes through is safe and clean.

White noise.” In essence, people are afraid of socially inappropriate words or behavior, and will go to great lengths to protect themselves from it. Imagine a motherly figure cupping her hands over a child’s ears during family movie night to protect his innocent naiveté. Imagine her hands on his eyes during a scandalous encounter.

Should it come as such a shock that the next logical imposition should be her hands over his mouth?

Surely I’m overreacting, though. Why fret over a synonym for fornication being sliced from my manuscript? Why should I care if I have to use “anus” instead of the colloquial equivalent? Is my story really that decimated by the omissions? The short answer is “no,” but if I were interested in easy answers, I wouldn’t be an English major. In my view, short answers are almost always incorrect answers. The world is

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too complicated to squeeze into a single syllable, no matter how hard the editors and the executives try to throw their weight behind it. Even now I’m being held back from fully expressing myself for fear that this letter would never reach the public eye in the first place. Coercion, in other words. Figurative hands around my figurative throat.

Holden Caulfield’s throat.

Great literature is not defined by the list of words it contains. I can’t simply open a copy of the OED, flip to every third page, choose the fourth word from the bottom margin, and arrange them in order to produce a “White Noise” or a “Blood Meridian.”

If we decided not to read something because there were a questionable action or an offensive phrase contained within its yellowed pages, we would be denied the likes of Shakespeare, Walt Whitman, Kurt Vonnegut, Sherman Alexie and too many others to mention in this rant. We are adults. We now know that crying an obscenity after a stubbed toe will not bring the fires of Satan up to engulf us. We also know that reading one will have a similarly absent effect. Great literature is about immersion in character, in landscape, and in milieu. We don’t want to read about Mr. Gray living in Graytown with his sanitized friends together at a dinner party eating bread and drinking water from plastic cups. We want texture and form, rage and love and death and greed. The things that give the world we actually live in its appeal, the reasons that we keep living in it at all. Great characters stand out for their strangeness, their refusal to bow to the machine of society, their ability and willingness to draw attention to themselves and dance partially naked with a bear in a saloon. Okay, that last one may be a bit more specific to a single literary character, but the point stands.

My plea is simple. Grow up. Join the rest of us at the adult table for Thanksgiving.

Get a tie for Christmas instead of a toy truck. Listen to Bach instead of Bieber. Read a book with (gasp) a swear word in it. You wouldn’t ask your friends to change their personalities for you, so don’t ask fictional characters to do so, either. In many ways, literature is more real than reality. In many ways, it allows us a unique glimpse into our own lives that we would never attain on our own. Perhaps if the story did not contain an obscenity the reader would still be moved, but why take that chance? Why dilute what is essentially another human frozen in time and ink? If they want to swear, let them. If they don’t want to, let them refuse. But let it be the author’s choice, not the editor’s, and not the publisher’s. Don’t treat your audience as so stupid that they can’t decide whether or not they are offended for themselves. Don’t insult your readers by thinking that they can’t make up their own minds about what is and is not their “kind of thing.” If you bottleneck creativity, then you’re really just alienating those who want nothing more than to offer a new perspective on an issue, and you’re irritating those who are too timid to speak for themselves.

I understand the adrenaline rush that power provides. I have to, or I wouldn’t be able to write it into my fiction. I understand that censorship of the written word is a powerful aphrodisiac for insecure leaders, but that does not excuse it. For a writer, silence is a type of mental death, and censorship is nothing more than the gradual enforcement of silence. First you’ll take away my obscenities, but what’s to stop you there?

— Logan Murphy is a senior in English. He can be reached at lmurph10@utk.edu.

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Thursday, March 8, 2012

Friday, March 9 What: Neon Indian with Promise Ring — SOLD OUT When: 10 p.m.

Where: The Square Room How much: $12 Our take: Denton, Texas, songwriter and artist Alan Palomo has ridden the blogospheric wave since his debut EP, “Psychic Chasms,” and last year’s “Era Extraña” ended up on many year-end lists. On the road Neon Indian has morphed into a quartet who add a raw edge to Palomo’s often dreamy, wistful compositions.

What: Bedroom Farce When: 8 p.m.

Where: Theatre Knoxville Downtown How much: $15 Our take: Alan Ayckbourn’s hit play documents the effect one couple’s marital strife has on those closest to them. A dramedy of domestic dysfunction.

Thursday, March 8 What: Black Pearl Sings!

When: 7:30 p.m.

Where: Clarence Brown Theatre How much: $5 — $25 What: Arpetrio with UV Hippo When: 9 p.m.

Where: The Ciderhouse How much: $ 8 advance / $10 door Our take: What do you call that awkward hand gesture ubiquitous to dancefloors worldwide, the one with your hand extended flat and then sort of just brought down rapidly, over and over, as if to crush an invisible fly for the duration of a song or a DJ’s set? Whatever that is, is the visual representation of the Arpetrio crowd — making a lot of movement with not a lot of significance behind it.

What: Chevelle with Middle Class Rut and Janus — SOLD OUT When: 8 p.m.

Where: The Valarium How much: $5 — $25 Our take: This is baffling, if not surprising.

Mix one part early 2000s angstalternarawkers with two parts younger, whinier whippersnappers and you get a sold out house. Music is dead.

Saturday, March 10 What: Natti Love Joys with Fat Penguin When: 9 p.m.

Where: The Ciderhouse How much: $8 door Our take: It’s a local reggae show. If that’s your bag, groove with it.

Otherwise, avoid like the plague.

What: Bad Dudes vs. Warband! with Comedy Set from Jeff Blank When: 10 p.m. Pilot Light Time Where: Pilot Light How much: $5 Our take: Knoxville’s answer to the Stones versus Sabbath. Expect a sea of sweat and body odor. Maybe leather pants, it’s hard to predict these things.

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What: A View from the Mountaintop: An Evening with Barbara Kingsolver & Kathy Mattea — SOLD OUT When: 5 p.m.

Where: Bijou Theatre How much: $25 — good luck finding a scalper.

Our take: A best-selling author and award-winning country musician team up to celebrate their Appalachian roots and to highlight the travesty of mountaintop removal which destroys both the mountains and the communities around them.

What: Bedroom Farce When: 3 p.m.

Where: Theatre Knoxville Downtown How much: $10 Our take: Alan Ayckbourn’s hit play documents the effect one couple’s marital strife has on those closest to them. A dramedy of domestic dysfunction.

What: Whitechapel with Miss May I and others When: 6 p.m..

Where: The Valarium How much: $17.50 advance / $20 door Our take: An odd reunion of venue and band, local deathcore boys and international stars Whitechapel got their start back in 2006 on the stage of the Electric Ballroom, now known as the Valarium. They headline an all-ages five band bill which resembles the scene metal days of yore, so expect 13-year-olds with jagged purple hair and gauges. It’s essentially a walking MySpace page.

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Manning forever tied to UT When Manning finished his college career in ‘97, the question around Rocky Top was how it UT going to replace him? The Vols did just fine, with Tee Martin leading UT to a 13-0 season and the first- ever BCS national championship. The Colts won’t be so lucky Sports Editor next year.

Peyton Who? On the other hand, Manning intends Somewhere in Knoxville and to play in 2012, and he’ll have the opporIndianapolis kids are asking their par- tunity to pick which Super Bowl-conents who is Peyton Manning, and why is tender to suit up for. If healthy -- still a he so important. big if – his future becomes a sure-fire For the rest of us, Manning is a playoff team, and one of the Super Bowl sports icon. Arguably the best quarter- favorites. back to ever play football.

Seeing Manning play without a blue But before he became the face of the horseshoe on his helmet will be differNFL as the 6-foot-5, 230-pound quarter- ent, but it was also an adjustment in back with a laser arm, Manning was a 1998 when he wasn’t wearing an orange Tennessee football too. legend. Of course, But that’s his success as a pro sports.

That’s has helped cement what money does. his legacy, but in Players and coachreality, waiting a es change; univeryear to enter the sities and teams NFL was enough for don’t. Sometimes Vols fans. the change is He was already a good, but most of UT all-time great the time it’s not. after his junior seaOne change son. Then, he passed that did work out up being the No. 1 in UT ’s favor pick if the 1997 NFL started in 1969 Draft to return for when the Vols his senior campaign. played at Ole Manning became Miss. That year forever endured to the Rebels had a the Big Orange quarterback UT Nation after making fans mocked all File Photo •The Volunteer Yearbook that announcement week leading up on March 6, 1997, Peyton Manning drops back in the to the game. The even if he had never pocket while looking for recievers Vols lost 38-0. beat Florida or had downfield during a game in 1995.

That Ole Miss the Heisman Trophy Manning was released by the quarterback was stolen away from Indianapolis Colts Wednesday after a later elected to 14-year career with the organization. him. the College Sure, Manning was already the best Football Hall of Fame and played 14 quarterback in Tennessee history, and years in the NFL. He also had three already one of the best to play in the sons, two of whom are quarterbacks in SEC. But choosing to stay at UT four the NFL. Two of the sons went followed years put him at the top of an elite group their father’s footsteps and attended Ole of UT football legends, which includes Miss. The other, the middle son, didn’t Condredge Holloway, Reggie White, and changed the futures of UT football, Gen. Robert Neyland, Johnny Majors the Indianapolis Colts and a team to be and Phillip Fulmer. determined forever.

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Manning, Colts part ways The Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS — Peyton Manning’s recordbreaking run as quarterback of the Indianapolis Colts ended Wednesday, when owner Jim Irsay announced the team would release its best player.

“We all know that nothing lasts forever,” Manning said. “Times change, circumstances change, and that’s the reality of playing in the NFL.” Manning and Irsay each paused frequently, fighting tears and their voices shaking, as they appeared together at a news conference at the Colts’ team complex. It was an unusual and awkward scene, two men whose NFL lives have been so closely intertwined, standing side-by-side in jackets and ties as they told the world they were splitting up.

“This has not been easy for Jim,” Manning said, “and this has certainly not been easy for me.”

The 35-year-old Manning will become a free agent, and is expected to generate interest from a half-dozen or so NFL clubs, provided he's healthy.

Manning is coming off a series of operations to his neck and missed all of last season when his team’s record, not coincidentally, plummeted to 2-14.

Indianapolis needed to cut him this week to avoid paying him a $28 million bonus, although both Irsay and Manning insisted the decision was not really about money. The Colts are widely expected to begin moving on by taking Stanford quarterback Andrew Luck with the No. 1 overall pick in April’s draft.

Irsay repeatedly used the word “rebuilding” and acknowledged: “We’re definitely a few years away.”

Manning won’t retire and hopes to be playing in the NFL at the start of next season.

Still, he said Wednesday: “I’ll always be a Colt. I always will be. That’ll never change.”

The announcement was made in a room at the Colts’ complex normally reserved for celebratory news conferences, such as the hiring of a new coach or general manager — two other major steps Irsay took recently. The room is lined with banners honoring some of the team’s greatest stars, including, of course, Manning himself, flanked by Pro Football Hall of Famer members Eric Dickerson and John Mackey.

Clearly, this was not an easy goodbye for Manning. He even got choked up while discussing all of the Colts employees he’ll no longer be around, pausing to collect himself while noting: “We’ve got the greatest equipment guys in the world.”

Manning forever will be thought of around these parts as No. 18, the quarterback who led the Colts to an NFL championship, barking out signals while waving his arms at the line of scrimmage to change a play after reading the defense — something he did as well as any QB. He’ll be remembered, too, for his record four MVP awards, his 50,000 yards passing and his 200 consecutive starts. Most of all, Manning will be the guy in the horseshoe helmet who turned around a franchise and transformed a basketball-loving city into a football hotbed that hosted the Super Bowl a month ago.

And during that Super Bowl week, the hottest topic of conversation was Peyton Manning, not his younger brother Eli, who wound up leading the New York Giants to the title.

Arizona, Miami, Tennessee, Washington and the New York Jets all have been rumored as possible destinations now; Manning’s former offensive coordinator in Indianapolis, Tom Moore, worked for the Jets as a consultant last season.

“There will be no other Peyton Manning,” Irsay said, adding that he hoped Wednesday’s joint appearance would serve to “honor incredible memories and incredible things that he’s done for the franchise, for the city, for the state.”

This marks the end of a remarkably successful marriage between a player and team.

After being a No. 1 draft pick himself, Manning started every meaningful game for 13 seasons in Indianapolis — 227 in a row, including the playoffs — and took the Colts from perennial also-ran to one of the NFL’s model franchises and the 2007 Super Bowl title.

In the two decades predating his arrival, the Colts won 116 games, one division title and made the playoffs three times. With Manning taking snaps, the Colts have won 150 games, eight division titles, two AFC championships and the franchise’s first league championship since moving from Baltimore in 1984.

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Thursday, March 8, 2012

Vols hot heading into SEC tourney

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Riley Blevins Staff Writer Following a rocky 10-12 start that included losses to Oakland, College of Charleston and Austin Peay, Tennessee (18-13, 10-6 SEC) has an opportunity to play its way into the 68-team field of the NCAA Tournament following a late charge that saw the Volunteers take eight of their last nine games as they head into the SEC Tournament.

Capped by their most recent win over Vanderbilt on Saturday, the Vols secured the No. 2 seed in the conference tournament, which tips off Thursday. The winner of the SEC Tournament is given an automatic bid to the Big Dance.

“Our guys did a good job closing out the regular season,” first-year coach Cuonzo Martin said. “They played some good basketball, winning eight out of the last nine games — that’s impressive in any league. To do it at the level our guys did it at, to get back in games when we were down — it’s a credit to our guys for really staying focused and finding ways to win games. I like our chances, we have a lot of momentum going right now.”

As the No. 2 seed, the Vols receive a firstround bye and await the winner of Ole Miss and Auburn, who play on Thursday.

“I think in this particular case with Auburn and Ole Miss being similar teams — physical, grind you out, rebound, tough, hard-nosed — so they’re similar in their approach,” Martin said. “It’s not like one team is the tough team and the other team runs the Princeton offense.

Both teams are similar, so it helps you.”

The Vols have seen both Auburn and Ole Miss earlier in the season, winning both contests by a considerable margin.

On Jan. 28 In front of a favorable home crowd, UT trumped the Tigers 64-49 in an impressive defensive showing that was headed by junior forward Jeronne Maymon’s sixth double-double of the season, which featured 15 points and 19 rebounds.

Coming off the Vols’ only loss of their season-ending nine-game stretch to Alabama, Tennessee defeated Ole Miss 73-60 on Feb. 22 where the Vols, helped by a surprising 10-point performance by sophomore forward Dwight Miller and a second half that saw just one UT turnover.

“There is a lot more work left to do so we can’t get too excited about (the SEC Tournament),” said UT senior guard Cameron Tatum. “We have to go to the SEC tourney with the same hunger and the same fight we

had when we played teams earlier in the year.

It is a beautiful thing when hard work does pay off; we’re not going to just settle.”

The Volunteers will see the winning opponent March 9 in New Orleans Arena, a neutral away site that could pose a problem for the Vols who boast a lackluster 2-10 record in games played away from Thompson-Boling Arena.

“Every game is one game at a time,” Martin said. “As you go into a tournament environment, that’s my focus. There’s no tomorrow.

You try to win every game you play; you don’t hold anything back and you don’t concentrate on the facts that we’re away from home. That shouldn’t matter. You make it to the next day.

You prepare to win that game the best way possible.”

However, some experts argue that a Vol win on Friday won’t guarantee them an at-large NCAA tournament bid. With that said, a Friday win would likely give the Vols another meeting with third-seeded Vanderbilt or sixthseeded Mississippi State, barring two upsets

by No. 11 seed Georgia.

“You have 10 wins in the SEC. When you say it from an NCAA standpoint as a body of work, we got out of the gates slow, but eight of the last nine — how many teams in the country, especially in at-large leagues, BCS leagues, how many are saying that?” Martin said.

“Obviously, we’re a better team, no question, like with the addition of (mid-year enrollee) Jarnell Stokes. The guys on the team before Stokes have gotten better. I like our chances.

You talk about 10 wins — 10-6 — that’s impressive.”

A team predicted to finish 11th in the SEC at the start of the season is hoping for a similar SEC Tournament outcome to last year’s.

Last season, the Vols, as a five-seed in the SEC Tournament, recorded only one win in tournament play and finished with 14 losses on the year. The Vols were one of five at-large teams with 14 losses to earn an NCAA Tournament bid.

A loss in this year’s SEC Tournament would put the Vols’ total at 14.

“I do my homework from a history standpoint,” Martin said. “I’m the coach in 2012.

For us, we’re doing everything in our power to win ballgames, do well in the (SEC) tournament and get a bid. We just do everything in our power to win ballgames and go from there.”

Tip off for the Vols’ first SEC tournament game is set for Friday at 6:30 p.m., and it will be aired on the SEC Network.

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