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Top-seed Tennessee routs Stetson, 99-34 Lady Vols dominate NCAA Tournament opening round game, face Marquette today while shooting 58 percent from the field. Tennessee held the Hatters to only 14 points in the second half and 18Zac Ellis percent shooting for the game. Stetson’s 12 field goals Editor-in-Chief tied for a Tennessee all-time opponent low for NCAA Tennessee’s first-round NCAA Tournament games.

Tournament matchup with Stetson Johnson’s double-double was provided an opportunity for the the junior’s first career NCAA Lady Vols to exhibit their size.

Tournament double-double.

Just ask Stetson coach Lynn Bria.

Alyssia Brewer, who has been lim“They’re just big, and they ited this season because of injury, power you,” Bria said. “It’s hard scored a season-best 10 points when you can’t match pound-forand grabbed nine rebounds. pound when you’re playing someAngie Bjorklund continued her one else. It’s hard to sustain that hot shooting from the perimeter. for 40 minutes.”

Bjorklund nailed 4-of-5 treys on Top-seeded Tennessee used the afternoon, scoring 13 points. that size to outrebound Stetson The senior has connected on 20 63-31 and hit 57 percent of its of her last 23 3-pointers. shots en route to a dominating 99“I would say that she really 34 victory over the 16-seeded wants to see this team win a Hatters (20-13) Saturday at championship,” Summitt said of Thompson-Boling Arena. The Bjorklund. “She has worked so Lady Vols (32-2) will face eighthhard, as we all know, getting in seeded Marquette at 7 p.m. on extra shots, working on her pullMonday in the second round of up game and trying to do a better the NCAA Tournament. job of getting paint points.”

“I think we learned a lot in the Johnson said the knowledge SEC Tournament,” Tennessee that every opponent will be a coach Pat Summitt said. “I knew lower seed has the Lady Vols that when we shot the ball as well striving to maintain their level of as we shot it, they would come focus. back and think they could ride. We George Richardson • The Daily Beacon “We just forget about the Tia Patron • The Daily Beacon made sure that didn’t happen.”

Four Lady Vols scored in dou- Glory Johnson goes up for a shot against ETSU Angie Bjorklund drives up court against score, who we’re playing and ble figures, with Shekinna on Wednesday, Dec. 22, 2010. Johnson had 14 Vanderbilt on Saturday, Jan. 15. Bjorklund, who is focus on our game and making Stricklen pacing UT with 15 points and hauled in 10 rebounds in the Lady 20-of-23 from 3-point range, contributed 13 sure that we’re doing things right points on 6-of-8 shooting. Glory Vols’ rout over Stetson, 99-34, in the opening points in the Lady Vols’ 99-34 victory over open- on the floor,” Johnson said.

The win marked UT’s 23rd ing-round opponent Stetson.

Johnson notched a double-double round of the Women’s NCAA Tournament. straight victory dating back to its with 14 points and 10 rebounds. loss at Baylor on Dec. 14, which All 13 Lady Vols scored in the stands as the third-longest winning streak in Tennessee Summitt said.

“We worked through some things that game for the first time this season. history.

Summitt said the team’s tournament mentality is weren’t exactly where we wanted them.

Going inside-out For the first five minutes of the contest, Stetson held in full swing with Marquette looming on Monday night. is really the statement that we are holding onto over its own on the offensive end. A Tierra Brown 3-pointer at “Move on, survive and advance,” Summitt said.

15:13 kept the score close, 10-9, but Tennessee staged a time.”

The Lady Vols reached halftime boasting a 55-20 lead, 23-0 run, spanning 4:23, to break open the contest.

After Brown’s trey, the Hatters failed to convert a field goal for more than 11 minutes in the first half.

“Our team came out really inspired and ready to play,”

‘Alive After Five’ features French pianist LeJeune said. “I could not imagine such music could be played Grace Van Dyke on a piano. I gave up European Staff Writer classical music.”

LeJeune has been to the Attendees of “Alive After United States to perform many Five” enjoyed French pianist Philippe LeJeune at what is times. His first trip was in 1999.

Spectators listened and called “Knoxville’s unique live danced to music without the music experience,” Friday at the Museum of Art at World’s price of the Tennesseanor Bijou theatres. Dinner was provided Fair Park.

“There is nothing else like by a local restaurant, Viet Gril, this in Knoxville,” Michael Gill, and a masseuse was available at coordinator of the “Alive After a rate of $1 per minute. A full bar was provided for the 21Five” series, said.

He explained that there was and-up crowd.

Gill said that for many, this is a huge variety of people in the crowd each Friday night, from the first stop of the weekend.

“Alive After Five” is a good older marplace to ried couples begin to high relaxing school stuat the dents. end of “Families t h e come here,” week, he said. get a “Quite a few bite and people have kick off g o t t e n a Friday engaged night, he here or met said. somebody T h e here. It’s a venue is great place in high to take a date demand if you want w i t h to be a little beautiful – Philippe LeJeune, French pianist classy.” views, on his childhood experience at a “Alive an open Memphis Slip concert After Five” atmosbrings 200 to phere 300 music enthusiasts Friday from 6 p.m. to 8:30. College stu- and plenty of room to dance dents enjoy a significant dis- and socialize.

For just $20, anyone can count at just $5 per person. become a member of the Others are admitted for $9, and Knoxville Museum of Art. those 17 and under are free.

“I started learning piano Members may attend “Alive when I was 7 years old,” After Five” for free, as well as LeJeune said after his perform- visit some other museums in ance. “I started with classical surrounding areas and states for free. music.”

“This is a four-seasonal “When I was 14, I had a chance to attend a concert by series,” Gill said. The Spring George Richardson • The Daily Beacon one of the greatest American Series will begin in April, and Parker Williams, Knoxville native, cheers along with Bruce Pearl supporters during a rally for the UT men’s bas- pianists living in France — the first musical group will be ketball coach on Sunday, March 20. The event served to rally support for Pearl, who has been under investiga- Memphis Slip — and when I the Streamliners, a 17-piece tion by the NCAA for alleged recruiting violations. heard that, it was like a shock,” swing band.

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The Rock, painted by alumni Jim McDaniel, Billy Smith and Sharon Smith, shows support for Bruce Pearl on Sunday, March 20. The painting of The Rock was part of a series of events rallying support for Pearl.

1871: Stanley begins search for Livingstone On this day in 1871, journalist Henry Morton Stanley begins his famous search through Africa for the missing British explorer Dr. David Livingstone.

In the late 19th century, Europeans and Americans were deeply fascinated by the “Dark Continent” of Africa and its many mysteries. Few did more to increase Africa’s fame than Livingstone, one of England’s most intrepid explorers. In August 1865, he set out on a planned two-year expedition to find the source of the Nile River.

Livingstone also wanted to help bring about the abolition of the slave trade, which was devastating Africa’s population.

Almost six years after his expedition began, little had been heard from Livingstone.

James Gordon Bennett, Jr., editor of the New York Herald, decided to capitalize on the public’s craze for news of their hero. He sent Stanley to lead an expedition into the African wilderness to find Livingstone or bring back proof of his death. At age 28, Stanley had his own fascinating past. As a young orphan in Wales, he crossed the Atlantic on the crew of a merchant ship. He jumped ship in New Orleans and later served in the Civil War as both a Confederate and a Union soldier before beginning a career in journalism.

After setting out from Zanzibar in March 1871, Stanley led his caravan of nearly

2,000 men into the interior of Africa. Nearly eight months passed — during which Stanley contracted dysentery, cerebral malaria and smallpox — before the expedition approached the village of Ujiji, on the shore of Lake Tanganyika. Sick and povertystricken, Livingstone had come to Ujiji that July after living for some time at the mercy of Arab slave traders. When Stanley’s caravan entered the village on October 27, flying the American flag, villagers crowded toward the new arrivals. Spotting a white man with a gray beard in the crowd, Stanley stepped toward him and stretched out his hand: “Dr. Livingstone, I presume?”

These words — and Livingstone’s grateful response — soon became famous across Europe and the United States. Though Stanley urged Livingstone to return with him to London, the explorer vowed to continue his original mission. Livingstone died 18 months later in today’s Zambia; his body was embalmed and returned to Britain, where he was buried in Westminster Abbey. As for Stanley, he returned to Africa to fulfill a promise he had made to Livingstone to find the source of the Nile. He later damaged his reputation by accepting money from King Leopold II of Belgium to help create the Belgian-ruled Congo Free State and promote the slave trade. When he left Africa, Stanley resumed his British citizenship and even served in Parliament, but when he died he was refused burial in Westminster Abbey because of his actions in the Congo Free State.

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

Monday, March 21, 2011

UT commences work to refocus, re-energize Baker Center Work has started to revitalize the Baker Center to make it more focused on critical issues, link it more directly to the campus’s academic community and ensure it remains financially viable into the future.

Last fall, Chancellor Jimmy G. Cheek established a task force to review the performance of the Baker Center and make recommendations with regard to its mission, strategic priorities, governance, structure and funding. The task force plan is now complete. Cheek has concurred with it, and the executive committee of the Baker Center board and Sen. Baker have reviewed and endorsed the plan.

Cheek has asked Baker Center Director Carl Pierce to begin implementing the group’s recommendations as soon as possible.

The task force said the goal is “a more focused mission,” that is closely aligned with the university’s teaching, research and service mission. Recommendations being phased in will help the Baker Center integrate into UT’s academic life, contribute to its teaching mission and build an active research program that generates external funding.

Although the task force said the Baker Center’s work shouldn’t be limited to a single area of focus, it suggested the center is uniquely positioned to have a significant impact in the areas of global security, energy and the environment.

“We envision the Baker Center as a hub for educational and scholarly activity in these policy fields,” the report states. “By bringing together faculty from across campus and from other institutions, as well as researchers and administrators from ORNL, Y-12 and TVA, the Baker Center can come to be seen as a national leader in global security, energy and the environment.”

The Baker Center also should become more of a teaching and research center.

Specifically, the task force suggests the Baker Center partner with the Department of Political Science to deliver the Master of Public Policy and Administration program and, possibly, a doctoral concentration in public policy.

“The building should be made to come alive by getting more faculty and students into the building on a regular basis,” the report states.

The Baker Center can utilize faculty members as fellows to seek external funding for research that is published in peerreviewed journals.

The task force said the Baker Center must be “more selective and more focused” with programming, seeking out “high-profile, high-quality events that serve to enhance the Baker Center brand.” Specific suggestions include creating a distinguished subscription lecture series that showcases nationally or internationally renowned speakers twice a year and an emerging issues forum to address topics of interest to Tennessee citizens.

Calling the Baker Center Museum “underutilized space,” the task force recommends reducing the physical size of the museum to an area that highlights the career of Sen. Baker. Items now in the museum should be displayed throughout the building “to provide more warmth, a better means to tie together the various spaces and floors of

NEWS the building and to highlight particular topics of interest that may be related to ongoing issue platforms or emerging issues.”

The task force also recommended placing the Baker Center Archives under the auspices of the University Libraries. The archives currently include the political and personal papers of more than 30 people, including U.S. congressmen and senators, judges, Tennessee governors and others.

To accomplish these goals, the Baker Center staff will be streamlined to include a director and an associate director, an office manager and a full-time development director.

“Funding the Baker Center is the most critical and difficult issue,” the task force said, noting that when the center’s federal grant expires in about two years, the center must be in a position to supplement limited university funding with its endowment, grants and contracts, as well as other sources of external funding.

The Baker Center Task Force included Bill Fox, economics professor and director of UT’s Center for Business and Economic Research; Tom Griscom, former Chattanooga Times Free Press editor and publisher who once worked as press secretary to Sen. Baker and as White House communications director for President Ronald Reagan; Fred Marcum, Sen. Howard Baker’s senior adviser; Margie Nichols, UT vice chancellor for communications; John Scheb, head of UT’s Department of Political Science; and John Siegenthaler, journalist, writer, political figure and founder of the Freedom Forum First Amendment Center at Vanderbilt University.

Three UT graduate programs ranked in nation’s top 10 Three of the UT’s graduate and professional programs in business, engineering and law rank in the top 10 nationally, according to the 2012 U.S. News and World Report rankings released today.

The College of Business Administration’s supply chain logistics graduate program is 10th in the country, rising two spots from last year. The program is now fifth among public universities. The college’s overall graduate program ranked 60th nationally and 30th among public universities.

UT’s nuclear engineering graduate program is ninth nationally and eighth among all public universities for a second year in a row. The College of Engineering's overall graduate program climbed several slots to 70th in the nation and 41st among all public universities.

The College of Law’s clinical training program ranked 12th in the country and sixth among public universities, jumping six spots. The College of Law accelerated to 27th on the list of all public universities and 56th nationally. The college was recognized for its legal writing, ranking 22nd nationally and eighth among public universities. For the first time, the College of Law also was recognized for its diverse student body, ranking 21st among all public law programs.

U.S. News and World Report ranks graduate programs each spring in a variety of academic disciplines from more than 1,200 public and private colleges and universities.

Rankings are based on expert opinions about program quality and statistical indicators

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Also this year, UT’s College of Education, Health and Human Sciences’ overall graduate program ranked 58th in the nation and 41st among public institutions. CEHHS’ rehabilitation counseling program ranked 56th nationally. UT’s nursing graduate program ranked 79th nationally and 51st among public universities. U.S. News and World Report ranks health disciplines every five years.

For the second time in the College of Engineering’s history, specialties in all departments were ranked nationally. The college’s aerospace engineering ranked 44th; computer engineering ranked 54th; industrial engineering ranked 54th; materials science engineering ranked 55th; civil engineering ranked 58th; electrical engineering ranked 66th; mechanical engineering ranked 67th; and chemical engineering ranked 68th.

UT Knoxville ranked 47th among all public research universities for its undergraduate programs in the magazine’s 2011 report. The 2012 graduate rankings are now online at http://www.usnews.com/grad. U.S. News also will feature the material in its annual America’s Best Graduate Schools guidebook.

UT increasing minimum starting pay rate to $8.50 per hour UT will increase its minimum starting pay rate to $8.50 an hour, effective July 1, 2011.

The increase in the minimum starting pay rate was a recommendation from UT’s Compensation Advisory Board and is a first step in a long-term and strategic plan to address compensation at the University.

The pay rate increase was prompted by input from University employees statewide to the UT Board of Trustees’ Effectiveness and Efficiency for the Future Committee, UTalk and various employee representative groups regarding concern for the pay of co-workers in UT’s first three pay grades.

When it takes effect July 1, the increase in the minimum starting pay rate will impact approximately 270 current regular fulland part-time employees working on UT campuses across the state. The University’s minimum pay rate is currently $7.50 an hour. After July 1, all regular UT employees will be paid no less than $8.50 an hour.

The Compensation and Advisory Board was formed in March 2010 and is guided by Chief Human Resources Officer Linda Hendricks. The group is working to create UT’s first-ever strategic compensation plan and will be advancing more recommendations in the coming months and years.

Additional communication and training efforts are in process to support effective implementation of the minimum pay rate increase.

For more information about this initiative and the Compensation and Advisory Board, visit http://humanresources.tennessee.edu/cab/.

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Monday, March 21, 2011

OPINIONS

LetterEditor to the

SGA success depends on student input This is a response to Derek Mullins’ March 3 column regarding the Student Government Association.

Your challenge, Derek, was to name three recent SGA accomplishments: 1. SGA’s diligent and constant lobbying to extend the HOPE Scholarship to summers has made the issue one of Gov. Bill Haslam’s top priorities in higher education.

2. The CIE Study Abroad Scholarship advocated by SGA has since helped hundreds of students study abroad.

3. SGA leadership has directly influenced the ticketing systems and policies for both football and basketball. ... And just for good measure, the SGA has worked with the provost to re-open Hodges Library until 3 a.m. and keep the Commons open 24 hours, while the new recreation fields project that broke ground in September 2010 is a result of numerous past SGA presidents.

To us, making the summer coverage issue one of the governor’s top priorities is a success. UT students also coordinated a letter-writing campaign to state legislators. And, most importantly, there are three pending bills in the state legislature regarding the lottery scholarship (HB 0170/SB 0774, HB 0796/SB 1877 and HB 1696/ SB 1477). The first of those is scheduled for the Senate Education Committee on March 9.

Next, studying abroad is an important part of many students’ academic and cultural experience. In fact, some UT programs require study abroad. Next, the new ticketing systems and re-extended library hours have received widespread support from students. Finally, UT’s outdoor recreation field space ranks among the lowest of SEC schools. The planned fields will allow even more students to pursue fitness and intramural activities.

Getting involved in the political process is important, regardless of what the constituency might be.

It ensures that your voice and ideas are heard. You have representatives for a reason, from the university level to the federal level.

SGA’s power comes from the support of students. SGA is the body that can advocate for students.

While SGA may not be able to independently change the budget or a UT policy, it can voice the concerns of students to administrators. Administrators give student leaders many opportunities to share concerns and ideas. Therefore, it is vital not only for SGA to reach out and stay in touch with students, but also for students to approach SGA about issues.

Campaign Week events and materials allow candidates to share their policy goals with students and lead many potential voters to look at a party’s website or ask questions. Is this not what you mean, Derek, by “informed voters?” Your assessment of “Greek-backed ‘parties’” is baseless and unnecessarily malicious.

Campaigns have overwhelmingly diverse support from all across campus. That is a good thing and is a step towards making sure everyone has a great experience at UT. SGA is the student body’s advocate, but elected representatives need your input. That is our challenge to you, Derek.

Tommy Jervis senior in logistics and marketing Student Body President sga1@utk.edu Carey Smith senior in political science Board of Trustees Representative studenttrustee@tennessee.edu Jason Nixon senior in logistics SGA Election Commissioner jnixon5@utk.edu SCRAMBLED EGGS • Alex Cline

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People considered more than just ideas Pol itics o f Tr u t h by

Justin Crisp Bodies matter.

I’d like you to think about your university experience so far — all the classes you’ve taken (or haven’t), the books you’ve read (or haven’t), the friends you’ve made (or haven’t). What have you studied? What fields have you left unexamined? How are you making decisions about classes to take next semester? What groups of people have you chosen to associate yourself with? From which do you feel it necessary to distance yourself?

Now, how much of your university experience has been concerned with ideas (and the history thereof), and how much of it with bodies?

Thinking through this concern (or the lack thereof) is an important part of the critical questioning I’ve tried to encourage in this column since January. As much as we’ve dealt with things that seem abstract — from capitalism to utopia to hell to religion to Barbie dolls to politics — these are also things that are embodied, have implications on real people in the real world. Class, ideology, ritual, gender and politics are inscribed on bodies; they inform the way we interpret bodies, include some and exclude others. I should be clear that this is not a superficial demand to exalt what people look like over what they believe. It’s a challenge to pay attention to how what you believe affects how and what you see in other people.

It’s also a challenge to make your education practical.

We can talk all day about ideas. But the point of education is not the accumulation of knowledge; the point is to do something with the knowledge you’ve accumulated.

You’ve got to embody this knowledge, give it a voice and put it into action. But more than this, you must recognize that some people aren’t permitted to embody knowledge, some people’s voices get ignored and some people’s bodies prohibit them from putting knowledge and conviction into action.

Or, more accurately, our social structures prohibit certain bodies from embodying certain knowledges.

We collectively proclaim the profound impossibility of

thinking “that.” We refuse to let certain racial, gendered, sexed and classed bodies speak. We exclude their voices, declaring them unintelligible or irrational.

If you haven’t noticed, this is already getting awfully abstract — which seems to be the very thing I said I was trying to avoid. See, the odd thing about talking about bodies is just how quickly this effort to “get to the concrete, the exact” turns into vague abstraction. What in the world is a gendered or a sexed or a classed body?

What does it look like? What does that sentence even mean?

Bodies are problematic. It’s hard to talk about them because they make us so uncomfortable. They get sick, they make strange noises, they smell, they die and they rot.

I’m always challenged by the words of Cornel West, which I’ll paraphrase here for our purposes: We have too much talk about death; not enough talk about corpses.

The corpse of Martin Luther King, Jr. The corpse of Oscar Romero. The corpse of Mary Wollstonecraft.

The corpse of Matthew Shepard. The corpses of Susan B. Anthony and Gandhi, of victims of AIDS and the targets of slavery, of the hungry and the impoverished.

The corpses of Egyptians, Libyans, Iraqis, Palestinians, Israelis, Japanese, Ugandans and South Africans. I’m not listing martyrs (they are not all considered as such).

I’m listing bodies that, at one point or another, have been declared unintelligible. We can’t handle them or handle what we’ve thought about them or handle what’s been done to them by ourselves or others or natural disasters.

They short-circuit our categories.

Psychoanalysis talks of something called “abjection,” a process by which we bracket things off, or put things in the category of, “I can’t think about this because I’ll go crazy.” We abject corpses: the rotting, stinking signifiers of something that once was life but is no longer.

The trick here is to recognize lives which are still life but that we have abjected nonetheless: the living corpses in our midst. We just can’t think about them, because they’re not safe or sane.

And that’s where we must go. To invoke queer theorist Judith Butler, these are bodies that matter. We must declare them as such, because we’re not just in the business of studying ideas; we’re in the business of changing the world.

— Justin Crisp is a senior in English and religious studies. He can be reached at jcrisp1@utk.edu.

Finding escape necessary for mental health App al achian O u t lo o k by

Eric Dixon

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As I wrote this, I sat atop Mount Cammerer (known to the locals as White Rock), a noteworthy summit miles from civilization in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. I stood at an elevation of 5,000 feet in an old fire tower constructed by the Civilian Conservation Corps many years ago.

Though two friends and fellow backpackers accompanied me, I was isolated from society. Yet I was closer to the world than many Americans have been or ever will be.

As we began our four-day trek into the wild, one of my fellow backpackers said something that really struck me: “You know you are in an advanced society when survival is a hobby.” He was referring to the fact that we were delving into a state of bare survival by nothing more than our own will.

According to modern minds, it seems absurd to place oneself in such a situation. It’s certainly not a normal way to spend a college spring break. We mused over this notion for much of our first day in the woods. I began to wonder about my experience hiking — is it nothing more than a hobby? It seems to fit all the criteria of a college hobby: I do it in my spare time; it’s not something that I particularly want to do for a career, and it allows me to escape the monotony that my school life can induce. But is it that simple?

There is something markedly different about being outside contemporary civilization — isolated in the wild. I was cut off from flushing toilets, running water, cell phone service, e-mail and television. I carried 35 pounds of necessities on my back across 40 miles of mountain ridges and valleys. Most importantly, though, I shed the colossal weight of modern society.

I enjoy the company of others just as much as anyone. I would probably consider myself an extrovert, and I certainly see the value of society — especially the power of community. It certainly takes a village to raise a child. There are many things (in reality, probably most things) about modern society that I see as beneficial: the division of labor,

the accessibility of information, the ease of communication, as well as others.

Nonetheless, there are certain costs for taking up a life in modern society. As a member of American society, I can’t help but feel as though I’m bearing the weight of all too many superficial worries. Often I find myself distracted from things with actual substance, focused on surface tasks and overwhelmed with unnecessary stress.

Too many of us come home from a day of alienated labor only to plop down on the couch and flip on the television, thinking this is the extent of content — that life is only as deep as the surface of things. We turn on the television and are instantly bombarded with products we should buy, people we should look like, candidates for which we should vote, lifestyles we should adopt and individuals we should idolize.

The moment I step into the wild, I escape these things. Nature presents the purest beauties possible and allows me to rid my day of distractions. Instead of being lost in the incomprehensible and overwhelming flow of information in contemporary civilization, I am able to find a clear and open mind.

I am able to find myself.

Though the worries of those surviving in nature may seem daunting relative to the worries of society, I can say from experience that they pale in comparison. On the trail it’s just your thoughts, nature and a few friends. You are able to experience the beauty of sharing experiences and happiness with others. Yet you are free from the pressure that society seems to generate. On the trail, your purpose is clear: Hike and survive. You need not worry about anything else.

You have goals and accomplishments. You have successes and failures. You experience bliss and discomfort. But the only thing you have to wrestle with is yourself.

To address my original point, I think survival has become more than a hobby. Bare survival is a two-fold necessity. It is both physical and mental.

The more I make my way into the wild, the more I realize just how much I need it to live well. Living in modern society, it’s nearly impossible to find inner peace. Hiking and survival allow me to keep myself mentally healthy.

After discussing this topic last month with Eric Schlosser, author of “Fast Food Nation,” he gave me some advice that I think sums up my point: “Keep heading to the hills to remain sane.”

— Eric Dixon is a sophomore in philosophy. He can be reached at edixon4@utk.edu.

Monday, March 21, 2011

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ENTERTAINMENT

Theatre Knoxville aims ambitious Brittney Dougherty Staff Writer Theatre Knoxville Downtown is currently showing “The Dining Room,” a series of 19 one-scene plays.

The show is made up of a string of vignettes that each tell a different story. The same six actors play about 10 different characters, each in a variety of situations. Daniel Barrett, director, said this makes it a difficult show for everyone involved.

“When I was doing auditions, there were people that came to audition, I thought, I could see them in this part and this part but in these others, they don’t fit,” Barrett said.

Bonny Pendleton, president of the board at Theatre Knoxville Downtown, said the show was chosen partly because of its social message about the disappearing upper-middle class and partly because of its difficulty.

“We try to present, every season, shows that are unique in some way and that challenge the audiences and the actors in some way,” Pendleton said.

Barrett said he has been an actor his entire life. He is currently a company member with The WordPlayers, a non-profit company comprised of Christian artists. He was in an off period with them when Theatre Knoxville Downtown called him in to direct.

Barrett admitted he had never read the play before but had read one of A. R. Gurney’s other famous works, “Love Letters.”

“I thought if he writes as well as he did for ‘Love Letters,’ for ‘The Dining Room,’ then I’ll probably like it,” Barrett said.

Barrett said he was surprised by the show’s odd design when he read the script but thought it would be fun. Even though the play had 19 different stories, he said they still fit together.

“Each of those scenes is kind of a square on a quilt,” he said, “so you can see each individual square separately, but then when you step back after the play is over, you can see the whole quilt.”

Barrett’s life is full of theater, whether he is watching, acting or directing. He said he loves it all.

“I really like to direct, and you get a certain satisfaction out of that,” he said, “but after a while it’s like, ‘I need to act; I need to be on stage.’”

Pendleton said it is common for people involved in Theatre Knoxville Downtown to fill various roles.

“Everyone on the board acts, directs, builds sets, paints and even scrubs the floor,” Pendleton said.

Theatre Knoxville Downtown is currently in its sixth season. Bonny said it is the longest-running non-profit, non-university group in Knoxville.

Almost everyone at the theater is a volunteer; the only paid employee is the stage manager. To volunteer for Theatre Knoxville Downtown, people can write their names on a list when they attend a show or they can visit the website, theatreknoxville.com, and click Tara Sripunvoraskul • The Daily Beacon “volunteer.”

Theatre Knoxville Downtown performed Patricia Tinajero, assistant professor in art, shows a paper to Mike Bonanno over “The Dining Room” Thursday through Skype as Andy Bichlbaum looks on. Bonanno and Bichlbaum make up Yes Men, a Saturday at 7 p.m., and at 3 p.m. on Sunday. prank duo designed to point out the social issues created by various corporations.

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Monday, March 21, 2011

UT ‘one-and-done’ in tournament Uncertainty surrounds Pearl’s future Tennessee suffers 30-point defeat as Michigan dominates second half low four points.

Freshman All-American forward Tobias Harris Sports Editor dominated in the paint early, scoring UT’s first eight points. He finished the first half with 19 A 30-point loss in the NCAA Tournament is points, but Michigan’s zone defense held Harris bad enough. scoreless in the second half.

But for Tennessee (19-15), the 75-45 loss to “First half, I was getting the ball in my positions Michigan (21-13) Friday afternoon in Charlotte, and just making plays,” Harris said. “The second N.C., in the second round of the NCAA half they just doubled down in the post.”

Tournament was even worse given the uncertain Michigan closed out the first half on a 16-6 run future of coach Bruce Pearl. to take a 33-29 lead into the locker room.

The game came on the heels of comments UT “They made a few energy plays — they got a men’s athletic director Mike Hamilton made earli- few 50-50 balls, they got a couple of offensive er in the week to Knoxville radio station WMNL rebounds, they took a couple of balls away from us regarding Pearl’s future with the school. Hamilton — and we could’ve extended that lead, I thought,” said Pearl’s fate would be evaluated after the sea- Pearl said. “They came down and knocked a couson, creating a ple of shots controversy down they the Vols said had missed didn’t affect earlier. the team’s per“And then formance. of course in “I don’t the second think it had half, they just anything to do drilled us.” with us on the Michigan court, but of shot 64.3 percourse it was a cent (18-ofdistraction off 28) from the the court and field in the secwhatnot,” senond half, ior point guard including Melvin Goins going 6-of-11 said. “But us from threeplayers, we point range. have to step up “We just and take the didn’t play responsibility with any heart on the court, out there,” and we didn’t Harris said. come to play “Michigan today.” came out and “This was a made shots, very difficult and we just loss,” Pearl did a terrible said.

“Give job of trying to Michigan credcover them. it, they played On the offenexceptionally, sive end, we particularly in rushed too the second many shots half, and we and basically obviously just quit.” unraveled.”

The The margin Wo l v e r i n e s of victory was outscored the Matthew DeMaria • The Daily Beacon the largest ever Vols 42-16 in in an 8-9 game, Scotty Hopson attempts a shot while heavily guarded the second and the by Michigan defenders on Friday, March 18. Despite half, holding Wo l v e r i n e s keeping up with the Wolverines in the first half, the UT to just six became the Vols couldn’t keep pace, falling in their first game of field goals first team to the NCAA Tournament 75-45. over the final win an NCAA 20 minutes.

Tournament game without making a free throw.

“Specifically in the game today, it was hard to “This game today was not indicative of our sea- score in the second half, and we could never get son, in the sense that even when we were strug- ourselves in any kind of a flow,” Pearl said. gling down the stretch, we were right there in virThe loss ends a difficult season for the Vols, on tually every game,” Pearl said. and off the court. For the first time in his tenure at The Vols were in the game in the first half, lead- UT, Pearl’s squad failed to win 20 games. ing 23-17 at the 7:14 mark after a Scotty Hopson “Man, it was tough,” Goins said. “A tough seafree throw. The junior guard didn’t score for the son, up and downs, a lot of adversity we had to remainder of the game and finished with a season- face. Just tough man. It was a real tough season.”

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Bruce Pearl, Jimmy Cheek and Mike Hamilton speak at a press conference Friday, Sept. 10, 2010. Hamilton, UT men’s athletic director, said in an interview that, “the jury is out on what’s going to happen,” with regard to Bruce Pearl’s future with UT athletics.

Matt Dixon Sports Editor Tennessee’s season ended on Friday with a 75-45 loss to Michigan in the second round of the NCAA Tournament.

But the biggest story coming from Charlotte, N.C., following the Vols’ loss was the future of coach Bruce Pearl.

UT men’s athletic director Mike Hamilton said in an interview that aired last Wednesday on Knoxville radio station WMNL that a decision hadn’t been made concerning whether Pearl would be the Vols’ coach after this season.

“We don’t know the answer today,” Hamilton said. “We’ve done a lot of soulsearching about the direction of our program, and we’ll continue to do that, and we’ll decide after we’re out of the NCAA Tournament what direction it is that we’re going to go next ... That’ll be a decision we make in the short term, or we’ll wait and make it a little bit farther down the road.

“But the jury is out on what’s going to happen with that at this point.”

In the post-game press conference following the Michigan loss, Pearl knows the program’s success under his watch will be one of his selling points.

“We’re going to go and be evaluated, just like Mike Hamilton said,” Pearl said. “I’m going to be able to go there and say we went to the NCAA Tournament six times — three Sweet 16s and one Elite Eight.”

UT fans have shown overwhelming support for the sixth-year coach. On UT message boards, thread after thread mentions fans e-mailing and calling Hamilton, UTK Chancellor Jimmy Cheek and even UT board of trustees members.

A Facebook-led rally was held at the top of the G-10 parking garage, next to Thompson-Boling Arena. Parker Williams, a Knoxville native, started a page, “Keep Bruce Pearl,” Saturday night and had more than 5,000 “likes” as of 6 p.m. Sunday.

“We’re just here today to show Bruce that we still love him,” Williams said to the 150 or so in attendance. “I don’t know if there’s more people coming. I don’t know if this is everyone, but it’s still better than nothing,

and we’re all here to show how much we love Bruce and how much UT athletics, and UT in general, means to the Knoxville community.”

Hamilton echoes the fans’ feelings of Pearl, but he knows Pearl lying to the NCAA over hosting high school juniors at his house for a barbecue could lead to severe sanctions for Pearl and the men’s basketball program.

“I love Bruce Pearl,” Hamilton told WMNL. “I think he’s done tremendous things for our basketball program, tremendous things for the Knoxville community, tremendous things for our university. But we’re also in a very unique situation right now, with what we’ve gone through over the last nine months, our notice of allegations, other things we’re looking at with the program.”

Implications will almost certainly follow, regardless of whether Pearl is kept or let go

by UT. One of the implications if Pearl is not retained could be the loss of current players on the team. Freshman AllAmerican forward Tobias Harris, a projected mid-first-round pick in the upcoming NBA draft, could decide to leave school after just one season if Pearl isn’t his coach.

“It’s definitely that I’m going to have to consider and go from there and see how it plays out,” Harris said. “I can’t really control what’s going on right now. I wasn’t really thinking about none of that stuff throughout this whole season. But when we end like that — now the season’s done with — it’s definitely a question for me now.”

In the press conference on Friday, Pearl wanted to make note of all the good he has helped establish with the program.

“I feel there are so many positives,” Pearl said. “We were fifth in the nation in attendance at Tennessee. The kids have been very well received in the community. I think our program is in very solid footing. We’ve got to go before the (NCAA) Committee of Infractions in June, and it’s going to be difficult. We’ve made mistakes. We’re going to try to be accountable for those mistakes.

“But my goal, my desire, is to be the basketball coach at Tennessee next year and for a long time.”