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Pearl out at Tennessee 10 press conference, where Pearl acknowledged he provided “false and misleading” information to the NCAA regarding a barbecue at his home with three then-junior high school prospects, all of whom were verbally comZac Ellis mitted to Pearl at the time.

Editor-in-Chief Hamilton and Cheek each expressed their desire at the September press conference for Pearl to remain the program's head coach moving forward. The university The Bruce Pearl era is over at Tennessee. self-imposed salary reductions and recruiting restricPearl was fired by UT Monday after six seasons tions on Pearl and his assistant coaches. Pearl coached as the men's head basketball coach. UT released without a contract this season after his previous one was statements by both athletics director Mike Hamilton voided because of the admitted violations. and Chancellor Jimmy Cheek on Monday night conIn November, SEC Commissioner Mike Slive susfirming Pearl’s firing. pended Pearl for the first eight conference games of the “Today, we are announcing that we have reached season. an agreement with Bruce Pearl that will result in him Tennessee received a Notice of Allegations from the and his immediate staff being relieved of their duties NCAA in February, charging Pearl with several major with the University of Tennessee men’s basketball violations, including an unethical conduct charge. program,” Hamilton said in the statement.

The notice also charged Pearl and Jones with illegal Hamilton said the search process for a new bascontact with a high school junior on Sept. 14, four days ketball coach will begin immediately, with current after the initial press conference, where an emotional assistant coach Houston Fancher assuming the role Pearl expressed his regret for his actions. of interim head coach.

Pearl guided the Vols to the NCAA Tournament in Terms of the university’s agreement with Pearl each of his six years as coach, a school record. The Vols include the former head coach being paid his current reached the Sweet 16 three times (2006, ’07, ’08) and the salary through June 30, 2011. Beginning July 1, Elite Eight in 2010 for the first time in school history.

Pearl will receive $50,000 per month for 12 months Pearl finishes his UT tenure with a career record of along with health insurance benefits for a total 145-61, including 65-21 in SEC games. Under Pearl, UT cumulative amount of $948,728. The remaining won the SEC regular-season title in 2008, and claimed coaching staff will receive their current salary three SEC Eastern Division titles. through July 31.

UT's season ended last Friday with a 75-45 loss to The statement by Hamilton touched on the past George Richardson• The Daily Beacon Michigan in the second round of the NCAA year’s NCAA investigation into Pearl and his basketball staff, including violations committed on Sept. Bruce Pearl awaits questioning at a press conference regarding his NCAA Tournament.

Senior point guard Melvin Goins acknowledged the 14, 2010 and a previously unmentioned violation allegations on Friday, Sep. 10, 2010. Pearl was fired by UT on Monday after six seasons at the helm of Tennessee’s basketball program. Pearl NCAA investigation, as well as Pearl's future job status, committed in March 2011.

“The cumulative effect of the evolution of the took UT to six NCAA Tournaments, including the school’s first Elite Eight could've been a factor in the Vols' recent disappointing 19-15 season, the only season UT failed to win 20 games investigation combined with a number of more appearance in 2010. under Pearl. recent non-NCAA-related incidents have led to a Pearl informed fans via his Facebook page on Monday after“It was wearing on us from day one,” Goins said outside belief that this staff cannot be viable at Tennessee in the future,” noon that he had been fired.

Hamilton said.

“I will preface this by saying that I love the University of Thompson-Boling Arena Monday afternoon. “Just to have your Cheek echoed Hamilton’s statement.

Tennessee and the Volunteer pride,” Pearl said on his Facebook coach going through that and knowing that he's given us his all “From the University’s perspective, this decision is an institu- page Monday afternoon. “That said, I have disappointed not only going to work every day and going through a tough situation like tional decision, with counsel and input from many who know and myself, but you as fans, in my actions involving violations of that. It says a lot about his character. Just says a lot about what love this university,” Cheek said in the statement.

NCAA rules. I am forever grateful to the fans to let me coach their kind of guy he his, man. I'm a big supporter of coach Pearl. “... Coach is a great guy. He game me an opportunity that most Hamilton apologized to fans for comments made regarding team. I will be a Volunteer for life!"

Pearl’s job security prior to UT’s NCAA first-round game against Associate head coach Tony Jones, assistant coaches Jason coaches in the nation wouldn't have gave me. It's been a great Michigan last week.

Shay and Steve Forbes, Ken Johnson, director of basketball oper- time to play under him.”

Before coming to Knoxville, Pearl was the head coach at “Lastly, I want to apologize to our fans for my untimely com- ations, and Mark Pancratz, assistant to the head coach, were seen ments prior to last week’s NCAA appearance,” Hamilton said. entering the Stokley Athletic Center to meet with UT officials Southern Indiana (1992-2001), where he won the Division II “While my comments were never intended for harm, they became around 4:00 p.m. Monday and exited the building a short time national championship in 1995, and Wisconsin-Milwaukee (200105), where he guided the Panthers to the Sweet 16 in his final an unneeded distraction to what has already been a year of dis- later, declining to comment. tractions.”

Pearl's future with the university began unraveling at a Sept. year.

Matt Dixon

Sports Editor

Late free throws lift UT past Marquette 50 percent from the floor, thanks largely to 13 points off second-chance opportunities. But slow starts from Stricklen and Angie Bjorklund left much for Editor-in-Chief Summitt to discuss at halftime.

“I don’t know what we’d do if we didn’t have halfFresh off a 65-point drubbing of 16-seed Stetson in Saturday’s NCAA Tournament first round, time,” Summitt said.

But Marquette refused to go away in the second Tennessee fans might have expected another blowout in Monday’s second round of action against half, despite Tennessee’s adjustments at intermission. An Angel Robinson 3-pointer with 6:15 remainMarquette.

Instead, what the Lady Vols found was a hard- ing brought the Golden Eagles’ margin to its closest point, 63-62, since the first-half tie. fought battle.

“We left everything out there,” Robinson said. “We “It wasn’t easy,” Tennessee coach Pat Summitt played until the buzzer.” said.

Solid defense and free-throw shooting in the final Top-seeded Lady Vols (33-2) maintained the lead throughout a tight contest to hold off persistent 8- four minutes of the contest helped UT avoid an early tournament exit. seed Marquette 79-70 in the Tennessee shot 10-of-14 second round of the NCAA from the charity stripe Tournament on Monday. in the second half.

Tennessee will face 4-seed The Lady Vols took Ohio State in Dayton, Ohio, advantage of turnovers, in the women’s Sweet 16 on scoring 16 points off Saturday.

Marquette miscues on “Very, very impressed the evening. But it was a with this team,” Summitt lack of defense and said. “Not at all surprised rebounding that left that Marquette played as Summitt beside herself, well as they did.” despite the Lady Vols Meighan Simmons led winning the rebounding Tennessee with 18 points. battle 40-34. Marquette Shekinna Stricklen shook off snagged 14 offensive a scoreless first half to record boards to Tennessee’s a double-double with 10 11. points and 10 rebounds.

“Our defense and Angel Robinson led board play has got to be Marquette (24-9) with 19 a lot better if we want to points.

George Richardson • The Daily Beacon be a championship “Tennessee is every bit of the No. 1 seed that they are,” Shekinna Stricklen celebrates during team,” Summitt said. “I think this team will Marquette coach Terri Tennessee’s second-round NCAA hear that every day at Mitchell said.

Tennessee and Marquette Tournament matchup with eighth- practice from here on played similar basketball in seeded Marquette on Monday, March out.”

Glory Johnson said the first period. After an 21. Stricklen, who went scoreless in the Angie Bjorklund 3-pointer first half, finished with a double-dou- rebounding is an aspect of Tennessee’s game in capped an 8-0 UT run to ble of 10 points and 10 rebounds. need of constant start the game, the Golden improvement.

Eagles stormed back to “I think we’re realizing we’re struggling on the within three points, 10-7, on a Jasmine Collins layup boards,” Johnson said. “We’ve just got to have four at 15:25.

With 3:53 left in the half, Marquette’s Courtney (players) to the boards, five to the boards sometimes.

Weibel drained a 3-pointer to mark the only tie of the Should happen every time, but it didn’t.”

Summitt said with the Sweet 16 to look forgame, 30-30. But the Lady Vols held onto the lead with an Alicia Manning layup with 24 seconds before ward to this weekend, this game will provide Wade Rackley • The Daily Beacon halftime. plenty of practice material.

Chris Pierce is congratulated by the rest of the UT baseball team as he heads to “Unfortunately, we didn’t get out of the game as “This is probably a good wake-up call,” home plate during a game against New Orleans on Tuesday, March 8. The Vols look fast as we should have,” Summitt said. “I’m a little dis- Summitt said. “Tomorrow when they come to end a five-game road trip on a high note against Lipscomb on Wednesday, March appointed with that.” back, we’ve got plenty of tape. They’re going to Tennessee led 39-35 at the break, shooting an even 23. watch it, and we’re going to learn from it.”

Zac Ellis

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Tuesday, March 22, 2011

InSHORT

1765: Stamp Act imposed on American colonies In an effort to raise funds to pay off debts and defend the vast new American territories won from the French in the Seven Years’ War (1756-1763), the British government passes the Stamp Act on this day in 1765. The legislation levied a direct tax on all materials printed for commercial and legal use in the colonies, from newspapers and pamphlets to playing cards and dice.

Though the Stamp Act employed a strategy that was a common fundraising vehicle in England, it stirred a storm of protest in the colonies. The colonists had recently been hit with three major taxes: the Sugar Act (1764), which levied new duties on imports of textiles, wines, coffee and sugar; the Currency Act (1764), which caused a major decline in the value of the paper money used by colonists; and the Quartering Act (1765), which

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required colonists to provide food and lodging to British troops.

With the passing of the Stamp Act, the colonists’ grumbling finally became an articulated response to what they saw as the mother country’s attempt to undermine their economic strength and independence. They raised the issue of taxation without representation, and formed societies throughout the colonies to rally against the British government and nobles who sought to exploit the colonies as a source of revenue and raw materials. By October of that year, nine of the 13 colonies sent representatives to the Stamp Act Congress, at which the colonists drafted the “Declaration of Rights and Grievances,” a document that railed against the autocratic policies of the mercantilist British empire.

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

Crime Log

At approximately 12:33 a.m., a UTPD officer observed a silver 1998 Toyota SR5 disregard a red light while turning from Andy Holt Avenue onto Volunteer Boulevard. After stopping the vehicle, the officer observed a baggie of a green, leafy substance lying in plain view on the rear passenger floorboard. The driver of the vehicle, a male UT student, was issued a misdemeanor citation for simple possession of marijuana and city of Knoxville ordinance citations for disregarding the red light and for failing to provide proof of financial responsibility.

were issued criminal trespass warnings.

March 18 At approximately 3 a.m., two officers observed two males walking northbound on 16th Street, striking parking meters with a chair. The officers made contact with the individuals on White Avenue. The report stated that both individuals were extremely intoxicated. The officers arrested both subjects, one of whom is a UT student and one of whom is unaffiliated with UT, for vandalism and public intoxication.

March 20

At approximately 8:30 p.m., an officer observed a black 2005 Ford Mustang without a UT parking hangtag exit the G11 parking garage. The report stated that, upon making contact with the driver, the officer smelled marijuana in the vehicle. The driver then surrendered a marijuana “blunt.” The officer issued the driver a misdemeanor citation for simple possession of marijuana and an ordinance citation for a tinted license plate cover. The driver and the four passengers, all of whom are unaffiliated with UT,

A UT staff member reported that a black patio set had been stolen from the president’s house on Cherokee Boulevard some time between 11 a.m. on March 16 and 8:51 a.m. on March 20. The staff member, who serves as the grounds foreman for the president’s house, reported that the value of the stolen patio set was $1,000.

— Crime Log is compiled by Robbie Hargett.

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

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

Correction

Gabi Caballero • The Daily Beacon

Students play bass clarinets during the China: Clarinet Choir Send-Off Concert on Monday, March 7.

In a March 21 article in The Daily Beacon entitled “Uncertainty surrounds Pearl’s future,” Knoxville native Parker Williams was cited as the creator of the Facebook fan page, “Keep Bruce Pearl,” a group meant to discourage the firing of UT’s head basketball coach. Brooke McDonald, junior in journalism and electronic media, in fact created the group on March 18.

Williams only used the group to help organize Sunday’s rally in support of Pearl.

The Daily Beacon regrets this error.

Tuesday, March 22, 2011

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planning agencies and economic development districts.

UT professor to receive Romanian journalism education award

University mourns loss of Mary T. Stephens Mary T. Stephens, wife of Otis Stephens in the UT College of Law, died early Monday morning after a long struggle with congestive heart failure.

She and her husband were responsible for the creation of the Otis H. Stephens and Mary T. Stephens Library Endowment in order to make library resources more adaptable to the needs of students with visual and other physical disabilities.

As members of the blind community, both Stephens and her husband were personally eager to give UT students equal access to informational resources. They believed technologies like reading machines and low-vision aids were essential to achieving this goal.

Stephens graduated with a degree in Spanish from the University of Rochester in New York.

She also completed postgraduate studies in Spanish Literature at the University of Mardrid.

Stephens later served as editor of The Braille Forum, the American Council of the Blind’s publication. She was also a member of the Board of Directors of the Rochester Association for the Blind.

Otis Stephens has been a member of the UT faculty since 1967. He recieved his Ph. D. in political science from Johns Hopkins University, as well as his J.D. from the UT College of Law. He has served as a doctoral fellow at Harvard Law School.

The UT community joins Otis Stephens in mourning the loss of the accomplished and alturistic Mary T. Stephens.

UT center analyzes census numbers; state population trending toward cities Tennessee’s population is trending with the nation by shifting from rural areas toward urban areas. Twenty-five counties in Tennessee exceeded the state’s 11.5 percent growth rate from 2000 to 2010, while 70 counties grew at a slower pace according to 2010 census data released today.

Census results released in December showed there were 6,346,105 people in Tennessee.

Nine of the 10 fastest-growing counties, by percentage, are adjacent to the four largest counties in the state: Shelby, Davidson, Knox and Hamilton. The lone exception is Montgomery County, home to a burgeoning military population.

Eight generally rural Tennessee counties actually lost population since the last Census. Six of those eight were in West Tennessee.

Municipalities losing population are scattered all across the state, with 117 out of 347 showing declines in population.

Hispanics are the fastest growing minority group in the state with 4.6 percent of the total population. The group’s population increased from 123,838 in 2000 to 290,059 in 2010.

Davidson County has the largest Hispanic population at 61,127, while Bedford County has the highest percentage of Hispanics at 11.3 percent.

In 2000, Bedford County led the state with 7.5 percent of its population claiming Hispanic origin.

The Tennessee State Data Center, which is housed in the UT’s Center for Business and Economic Research, will continue to analyze the results of the 2010 census over the coming weeks and months. Maps and other demographic and economic information are available at the Tennessee State Data Center website at http://cber.bus.utk.edu/tnsdc/sdcmain.htm.

The Tennessee State Data Center was formed in 1980 with its lead agency based at UT. There are now 20 affiliated data centers statewide based in universities, public libraries, regional

Peter Gross, professor and director of the School of Journalism and Electronic Media at UT will be presented with the “Order of Merit in Education” award at a ceremony on Wednesday at the Romanian Embassy in Washington, D.C. Gross, a native of Timisoara, Romania, will receive the award from Romanian Ambassador to the U.S. Adrian Vierita. The award is granted to institutions and individuals who have made important contributions to the development of education in that country and elsewhere in the world.

The award comes with an official rank of “commander,” which Gross said is the secondhighest rank associated with the award.

Gross left Romania for the United States in 1963 because of political repression. He earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism at Northern Illinois University and master's and doctoral degrees in mass communication from the University of Iowa.

Prior to coming to UT in 2006, Gross held the Gaylord Family Endowed Chair in International Communication and was the director of the Institute for Research and Training and the head of the journalism area in the Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Oklahoma.

Gross wrote the first Romanian textbooks on journalism and public relations used after the 1989 revolution that deposed the communist regime of Nicolae Ceausescu, as well as the first scholarly books on the evolution of Romanian media and journalism. Gross was instrumental in establishing a journalism program at the University of Timisoara West, and also was among the group of academics that developed the first post-communist-era journalism program at the University of Bucharest.

Ready for the World Café returns from spring break with flavor With spring break now behind us and finals just over a month away, it’s time to buckle down and … eat!

And the Ready for the World Café at UT is there to help.

The menu for the week of March 21-24 includes foods from Mexico, Italy, the Middle East and the U.S. The buffet will feature chipotle braised chicken; cioppino-style roasted crab; porchetta-style roast pork; spinach salad with almonds; braised bacon Carolina rice; steamed asparagus with cardamom butter; and couscous with fresh cilantro and lemon juice.

The café is an international buffet operated by students in the advanced food production and service management class, Hotel, Restaurant and Tourism (HRT) 445, at UT. The café is open from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. each Monday through Thursday in the Hermitage Room on the third floor of the UC. Diners pay $11 for the all-you-can-eat buffet or $9 for a plate of food to carry out. Aramark’s faculty/staff discount card can be used at the café.

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

This week’s café managers are Stuart Chandler and Meagan Cupp.

Chandler, of Knoxville, is a senior in history with an HRT minor, born in Nashville. He wants to manage hotels or restaurants someday.

Cupp, of Knoxville, is a senior in HRT. She has worked as a host and server at Calhoun’s.

Her career aspirations include being part of an event-coordinating team or catering service and eventually becoming “an educator of some sort, George Richardson • The Daily Beacon focusing on traveling and exploring the world Towers work to attach a disabled KAT bus to their tow truck in front of Neyland with children and families.”

Stadium on Monday, March 21.

OPINIONS

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Tuesday, March 22, 2011

StaffColumn Focus on Rose’s words better spent elsewhere

Kevin Huebschman Chief Copy Editor On Sunday, March 13, ESPN aired its newest documentary, “The Fab Five.” The point was to focus attention on the revolution Michigan’s 1991 recruiting class brought to basketball, and it succeeded … only not the way ESPN was hoping.

“The Fab Five” brought plenty of attention to the group, but much of that was focused on a single player and a single line that was uttered in the production.

“I hated Duke, and I hated everything Duke stood for,” Jalen Rose, point guard on that Wolverines squad, ESPN personality and executive producer for the documentary, said during the film.

“Schools like Duke didn’t recruit players like me.

I felt like they only recruited black players that were Uncle Toms.”

I’ll be honest; I’d never heard the phrase “Uncle Tom” before and had to look it up to make sure I understood what it meant. (It’s a term for an African-American individual who is considered to be acting subservient to whites).

For the next several days, Rose was barraged with criticism over the term, so much so that he appeared on “1st and 10,” a segment on ESPN’s “First Take,” as well as participated in multiple other interviews, in order to defend himself. Grant Hill, who played for the Duke Blue Devils at the time Rose played for the Wolverines, even wrote a long, impassioned letter, published in the New York Times, chastising Rose for his choice of words.

And my question to those who participated in the Jalen Rose public persecution is: Is this really necessary?

The point of the documentary was to take us into the lives and minds of the Fab Five and walk us through their years at Michigan. And it did exactly that and did it excellently.

Rose never once came out and called a specific player an Uncle Tom, nor did he say that was what he still believes. He put us into his mindset as an 18-, 19-year-old kid who was trying to justify why one of the nation’s basketball powerhouses would

snub him, one of the nation’s best recruits.

I’m not black, and I didn’t come from a poor family or neighborhood where the next meal wasn’t a guarantee, so I can’t pretend to know the mentality Rose had when he arrived at Michigan.

I can, however, look at the facts: Rose and Hill were from the same city. They played each other competitively from the time both were 13, on through college and the NBA. Hill was recruited by Duke, a school with a very high academic, as well as basketball, reputation, while Rose, who was an honor-roll student in high school, was ignored and left to seek other options.

It’s hard to imagine someone in Rose’s position who wouldn’t take offense to the way the situation played out and try to justify it in his own mind, yet controversy never rose at the time about Rose’s feelings. It’s only now, 20 years later, when he admitted how he felt, that much of the public feels the need to chastise him.

And that’s just ridiculous.

Although Rose could have — and should have — chosen his words more carefully, he has clearly stated since then that those feelings are not what he believes today, that they were what he felt 20 years ago. That alone should have been enough for the criticism to die down — after all, since when are we not allowed to change our opinions?

Last week, Adrian Peterson — running back in the NFL — said that NFL players are modernday slaves, which completely dilutes the horrors of slavery, but it’s Rose’s comments that, according to Hill, tarnish the struggles of blacks in America?

I’m not buying it.

Our nation has come a long way since the days of slavery, but race is by no means an extinct issue here or in the rest of the world today. So why are we wasting time trying to chastise an individual for essentially admitting that he was uneducated 20 years ago?

Spend that energy worrying about those who still believe the term “Uncle Tom” has a place in this world. Or better yet, focus your attention on teaching people like Peterson, who clearly don’t grasp just how atrocious the term “slavery” is.

Do whatever you can to focus on the issue now, just stop wasting that energy to worry about what a kid thought. Twenty years ago.

— Kevin Huebschman is a senior in journalism and electronic media. He can be reached at khuebsch@utk.edu.

Scrambled Eggs • Alex Cline

The Great Mash Up • Liz Newnam

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Passed bill about politics, not funding T he Social N etwo r k by

Elliott DeVore This past week was spring break, and many of you are returning to class tanned and full of memories (or the lack thereof). But while you were having fun and making good life choices, something monumental happened in Washington, D.C. H.R. 1076, introduced by Rep. Doug Lamborn, R-Colo., passed through the House. H.R. 1076, if successful, will, in part, defund National Public Radio (NPR) by removing federal funds created by taxes. NPR brings us programs like “All Things Considered,” “Car Talk” and my personal favorite, “Prairie Home Companion.” Not only does NPR provide the public with educational and culturally enriching programs like these, it also provides the most well-balanced news across the nation.

With a vote of 228-192, it passed with only seven Republicans along with every Democratic representative voting against the bill. Lamborn said, “... as a country we no longer have this luxury,” in reference to spending taxpayer dollars on public radio and public television. It is his belief that NPR can still thrive without this portion of funding.

With Lamborn’s emphasis on calling the funding a “luxury,” I sought out what dollar amount equals a “luxury.” In 2010, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the parent organization for NPR, received only $5 million to distribute to more than 600 local stations to help them purchase NPR programming including the news. It is important to note that the money goes to local stations that provide news and programming to the most rural parts of America, and if it was not for these local NPR stations, people would be without crucial news or weather updates.

Since the $5 million that sustain local NPR stations is such a devastating fiscal luxury, maybe we should rein back on other areas, as well. What instantly comes to mind are the 110 tomahawk missiles the U.S. just fired, each of these missiles costing $569,000 … the combined cost of which is more than five years of NPR federal funding.

Looking at figures like this, the GOP’s thinly veiled

goals behind the bill become even more apparent.

This bill is not about federal dollars; it is about conservative politics. Many conservatives paint NPR as a liberally biased news source: Rep. Eric Cantor, R-Va., said, “Why should we allow taxpayer dollars to be used to advocate one ideology?” Less than 10 percent of NPR’s funding comes from federal funding and only 24.7 percent of NPR’s funding comes from a conglomeration of corporate sponsorship, compared to FOX News, of which 29 percent is owned by one individual, Rupert Murdoch. Which seems to have more political and corporate bias/interest to you?

After further research on opencongress.org, I discovered which organizations support H.R. 1076: Americans for Tax Reform, Accuracy in Media, Center for Fiscal Accountability, Traditional Values Coalition and Eagle Forum (its slogan is “Leading the pro-family movement since 1972”). The Eagle Forum is anti-feminist and very homophobic. Here’s a quote from the Eagle Forum’s mission statement: “We oppose and deplore the dumbing down of the academic curriculum through fads such as outcome-based education and courses in selfesteem, diversity and multiculturalism.”

The ignorance of some conservatives never ceases to amaze me. My response to Cantor is that this bill only represents the ideology of the fascist, conservative, Christian movement. How can you tout that this bill represents the best interest for everyone when organizations like the Eagle Forum are the largest supporters? The influence behind this bill is easy to find when we follow the money trail: Some representatives that voted for this bill, like Addison Wilson, R-S.C, received upwards of $200,000 from the interest groups supporting H.R. 1076.

I believe President Lyndon B. Johnson knew what he was doing when he signed the bill that helped create NPR: He knew that Americans needed a reliable, unbiased news and media source.

If you value what NPR provides to the American public, please write your senators and let them know journalistic integrity, accurate news and cultural programming are more important than biased political agendas, driven by money from interest groups. Stay informed, be proactive, and you can make a difference.

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

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What would we do without breaks? The nitty gritty of our daily routines nearly kills us with its jam-packed schedules and overly busy agendas.

We’ve gone from kicking and screaming at nap time to being near tears begging for one. Someone, somewhere, got the yellow Post-it note that vacations were necessary for mental survival.

Sometimes, it’s absolutely essential to vacation alone to gather your thoughts. Other times, it’s pertinent to vacation in good company. Whether it be friends, family or both, you need time to reassess what’s important to you.

The first day, always anticipated to be a grueling 13-hour drive accompanied by “I have to use the restroom” and “Are we there yet?” was instead a comfortable ride filled with sporadic naps, good music, occasional podcasts of stand-up comedy and casual conversation. (Could that sound any more like a scene from a cheesy movie?) It was decided that everyone would drive at least once, which is now highly recommended. The monotony of sitting in one place for too long was broken up with an extended version of Chinese Fire Drill.

With that being said, it’s still difficult to get your to-do list out of your head … especially when you’re in the car for that many hours thinking about how productive you could be elsewhere. So arriving at the hotel is usually the best part of a trip that far away. Arriving at a hotel and being told your room was upgraded at no charge to you is an even better feeling. Maybe we’re just a lucky group of people, but we also managed to get 12 people onto the cruise ship with no problems.

It wasn’t until lying in a hammock in the Bahamas that relaxation came at its finest. “Don’t you worry about a thing, ’cause every little thing, is gonna be all right,” started playing as the wind swayed the hammock back and forth. It felt so appropriate that the band be playing Bob Marley and more appropriate to stop worrying about what

was going on back home. “You are where you are,” I thought. How simple. It is so terribly simple that we never really catch the profoundness of it. I was lying in a hammock in the Bahamas (what a blessing and break), and whatever was going on back home would just have to take care of itself.

Okay, so the truth is that things rarely take care of themselves. But what good was it doing anyone or anything to worry about it so far away? It’s hard to forget about financial responsibilities, projects, committees, applications and homework. At the same time, it does less good to worry about these things when you’re supposed to be worrying about nothing during one of the few times a year that “worry” isn’t even supposed to be a word in your vocabulary.

It takes time to understand the dynamics of life, let alone your own life and the relationships within it. It takes even more time to appreciate the things that were once thought of as grueling tasks, the conversations that develop in such a long car ride and the understanding, patience and deep relationships that form so quickly in a time that seemed so tedious and unending.

I appreciate friends more than ever. I’m grateful for the life choices I’ve made, the friends I was strong enough to rid myself of and the painstaking time it took to do so. I’ve realized that everyone brings something to the table in your relationships, and if someone isn’t bringing anything to the table, then you guys probably aren’t even sitting at the same table. We need jam-packed days, bad friends, overbooked to-do lists and sleep deprivation to appreciate the latter of it all. We need busy schedules to appreciate lying in hammocks, and we need to not be allowed nap time to appreciate it.

When the pot boils down, I guess the point is that we need the things we hate, if only for a short while. Still, “you are where you are.” And if where you are is on a boat in the middle of the ocean and you can’t find the guys … they’re probably in the room ordering March Madness on their TV. For the love … that has to let you know that every little thing is gonna be all right.

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

Tuesday, March 22, 2011

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Humor in ‘Paul’ panders to sci-fi audience Chris Shamblin Staff Writer All the trailers for the sci-fi comedy “Paul” seemed uninspired, so expectations for most viewers may be low going in. The movie, however, is a pleasant surprise for its audiences and they’re sure to leave the theater with a smile.

The film follows nerdy best friends Simon Pegg and Nick Frost (“Shaun of the Dead,” “Hot Fuzz”) as they travel across the Midwest after having attended Comic-Con. During a stop at the site of a famous UFO sighting, the pair encounters an alien named Paul (voiced by Seth Rogen). The duo learns that Paul is on the run from a shadowy government organization, and they decide to help him elude capture and eventually return home. Needless to say, hijinks ensue.

The film gets off to a rocky start, and the laughs are few and far between for the first 20 minutes. Once Paul gets introduced, though, the film slowly stars to crank up the comedy and gets progressively funnier all the way through.

A great deal of the film’s humor stems from the nonchalant and “human” behavior of its titular character, voiced perfectly by Rogen. The character’s animation may not be the best CGI ever done, but it more than gets the job done.

While the back-and-forth antics

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Jason Bateman also adds a welcomed element of cheesiness as a stone-faced and intentionally overdramatic government agent.

Sci-fi pop culture references provide some of the film’s smartest jokes, but the overflow in this regard is also one of its biggest weaknesses. Unless viewers are well-versed in science fiction movies, they will likely miss many of the film’s more clever jokes. There were several times throughout the movie where only a few members of the audience laughed; almost everyone else was unaware that a joke had even been made.

All in all, “Paul” is a funny, if not quite hilarious, film that serves as a good warm up for upcoming summer comedies. Fans of science fiction films will definitely find something to enjoy here, as will fans of Simon Pegg and Nick Frost. For everyone else, see it with a friend who can explain the missed jokes.

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THESPORTSPAGE

Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Busch wins fifth straight at Bristol UT sets new standard with Pearl firing Associated Press BRISTOL, Tenn. — Kyle Busch saw Carl Edwards closing in on his rear bumper and waited for the move that might have knocked him out of the lead.

It never came.

Edwards passed on his best chance to take the win away from Busch on Sunday, and Busch sailed off to his fifth consecutive win at Bristol Motor Speedway. Busch won both the Sprint Cup and Nationwide Series races this weekend, and has won the past five NASCAR events at Bristol dating back to a three-race sweep last August.

Had Edwards given Busch his best shot, it might have ended differently.

"When he got to me that one time, I'm like 'Oh, man. That was your shot. Nice try. You didn't get it done,' " Busch smiled.

Busch then focused on pulling far enough away to ensure Edwards didn't get a second chance.

Edwards, who is still seeking payback from an incident last month at Phoenix that he believed cost him a race-winning car, regretted playing it so safe.

"I thought I'd be able to race with him harder for those last 15 to 20 laps, but he took off and I just couldn't get back to him to race," Edwards said. "If I would have known that was the only shot I was going to have, I might have raced a little harder."

Busch took over the lead by beating Edwards and defending race winner Jimmie Johnson off pit

road following the final pit stops. The racing at the start of each restart was intense, but Busch consistently pulled away from Edwards to prevent any real challenge for the win.

Told after that Edwards is still seeking revenge, Busch seemed mystified that Edwards could be holding any sort of grudge against him.

"I have no idea what I'm owed from, you'd have to ask Carl," Busch said, later adding when asked specifically about Phoenix, "Carl says what Carl says. I don't know. And when and where it comes, I do not know."

Had it come Sunday, Busch might have finally been denied another trip to Bristol's Victory Lane.

Instead, he celebrated his 11th win spanning all three NASCAR national series, and his fifth Cup victory, which ties him with older brother Kurt in NASCAR's elite division.

Busch, who drives a Toyota for Joe Gibbs Racing, dedicated the win to the manufacturer and its employees in Japan still trying to recover from the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.

Edwards settled for second and lamented not pushing Busch harder after the final restart with 37 laps remaining. Busch, Edwards and Johnson pulled away from the field, and Edwards had several opportunities to move Busch's No. 18 Toyota out of the way.

But Edwards, in a Ford for Roush Fenway Racing, figured he'd have plenty of chances closer to the finish, so he tried for a clean pass as he and Busch raced side-by-side for several laps. Busch eventually pulled away, and Edwards never had another shot.

George Richardson • The Daily Beacon

UT football coach Derek Dooley speaks with the media during a press conference on Monday, March 21. Dooley spoke optimistically about the football team, despite its young roster, a day before the start of spring practice.

point, UT’s decision to let Pearl go on Monday was the correct choice. The coach had stained both his reputation and his school by lying about violations that, in truth, would have resulted in very little harm to either him or the program had they been correctly reported.

But the point is, Pearl lied. He lied when he didn’t have to. Pearl held one of the top jobs in the Editor-in-Chief SEC, a job that Pearl personally pushed to national The last six years have represented the most suc- prominence. Why take such an unnecessary risk?

The reasons behind Pearl’s choices don’t matter cessful stretch of basketball in Tennessee history. anymore.

What’s done is done, and Pearl is no On Monday, that all ended.

With the firing of UT coach Bruce Pearl after six longer UT’s basketball coach. Two questions will be seasons at the helm of Tennessee’s basketball pro- floating around UT’s campus for the foreseeable gram, athletics director Mike Hamilton and chan- future: Was firing Pearl the right choice, and who cellor Jimmy Cheek made what had to be one of replaces him?

Pearl’s on-court success speaks for itself. Six the toughest decisions of their respective careers.

They fired the man responsible for a basketball NCAA Tournament bids in six seasons, the prorenaissance in Knoxville, an influx of passionate gram’s first Elite Eight berth and Tennessee’s first fandom and tournament victories otherwise absent and only ascension to a No. 1 ranking.

For the majority of his tenure at UT, Pearl’s in a hoops program usually billed as a cellarteams filled Thompsondwelling roster in the SEC. Boling Arena with squads Want to win big? Don’t proficient in knocking go to Tennessee. That’s down treys and forcing what recruits heard, at least turnovers. Simply put, it until Pearl arrived in was fun basketball perKnoxville. formed by a historically On Monday, amid all the dull program. impending NCAA sanctions But much to the dismay waiting to strike Pearl and of typical Vol fans, Pearl’s the UT program, win-loss record and tourTennessee’s administration nament appearances were made the choice that, in irrelevant in deciding the reality, can be largely coach’s fate. There is no described as damage condebating Pearl’s effect on trol.

UT basketball, but in this Pearl’s transgressions situation, the writing was involving the NCAA — that on the wall. The lies overis, providing false and misshadowed the wins; leading information during Pearl’s decisions came an investigation — painted back to bite him. an orange program with a This much can be said black stroke. The coach who for UT’s decision to let had committed what some Pearl go: Tennessee has called “coaching suicide” set the standard. Lying to years before by reporting Matthew DeMaria • The Daily Beacon the NCAA, to your unsavory recruiting tactics by opposing schools had, in Bruce Pearl reacts to a call during a school and to your fans essence, become just as game against Michigan on Friday, won’t be tolerated on unsavory himself.

March 18. Pearl was fired Monday Rocky Top. Tennessee Despite self-inflicting after serving six seasons as the fired the most successful recruiting restrictions and coach of Tennessee’s basketball basketball coach in school history. The ethisalary deductions on Pearl team. cal decision prevailed. earlier this season, UT had Unfortunately for UT, every reason to believe that the Tennessee program will, at least in the short further consequences were on the horizon from the NCAA, some as serious as suspending Pearl from term, suffer for this decision. Pearl’s personality and marketing genius made the program bigger off coaching for one or two seasons.

Furthermore, after Pearl’s teary-eyed press con- the court than it often was on the court. People ference in September in which the coach declared believed in Tennessee basketball much like people his loyalty to both UT and the NCAA rule book, he believe in Tennessee football.

Fans will have a tough time swallowing the committed another violation only days later all but latest epic chapter of Tennessee athletics, and the erasing whatever dignity he maintained.

If Pearl’s original mistakes weren’t enough, the next chapter might not be as pretty. But at some post-presser violation made the coach look sleazier point down the road, UT fans will look back and recognize that not only was the right decision than he already did.

Now add all this up. From a consequential stand- made, but a standard was set.

Zac Ellis