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Housing market’s recovery appears at risk WASHINGTON — The recovery in the housing market is at risk of collapsing.

Home sales are sliding, prices are stalling and foreclosures are rising. And mortgage rates are likely to go up after next week, when the Federal Reserve ends a program that has driven them down.

The trend could threaten the broader economy, economists warn. People whose home equity is stagnant or shrinking are less likely to spend freely.

In a move that will help at least some homeowners avoid foreclosure, Bank of America unveiled a $3 billion plan Wednesday to help some of its most troubled borrowers. It said it will forgive up to 30 percent of their total mortgage balance.

About 45,000 borrowers are expected to qualify, the bank said.

Diva Opals crowned its first “Beauty Beyond Measure” queen in their scholarship pageant on Tuesday night.

Jessica Session, junior in psychology, was crowned “Miss Beauty Beyond Measure,” a pageant that represents plus-sized women at UT. Session said she wanted to give a special thanks to Diva Opals. She said this was an exciting experience.

“No matter what size you are, you can be yourself and have confidence,” she said.

Kristen Hallom, sophomore in hotel, restaurant and tourism management, said Session was welldressed, and she showed her personality well.

“It was clear that her goals was to exemplify the beauty and poise of a woman,” she said.

The other pageant contestants were, Ambrosia Franklin, junior in audiology and speech pathology; Biaunca King, sophomore in marketing; Natalie Perry, senior in psychology; Starlandria Starks, senior in social work; and ReShunda Suell, junior in history.

First runner-up was Starks, and Franklin won second runner-up.

Planning for the pageant started back in October.

Kewana Phennessee, sophomore in biology and member of Diva Opals, assisted in planning the pageant.

Phennessee said Diva Opals wanted to have a pageant to represent plus-sized women in order to promote self-esteem.

“We picked plus-size because we wanted to show that beauty is more than a size two,” she said.

Gamma Sigma Sigma sorority, Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity, Phi Beta Sigma fraternity, The Flower Shop and Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity helped Diva Opals sponsor the pageant.

Kevin Robinson, member of Kappa Alpha Psi and senior in marketing, said his fraternity helped contribute to make the event a success.

“This was a great show and was well put together,” he said. “We are proud to be one of the sponsors.”

Special performances were given by Touching Hearts and brothers Raphael and Prince Onwuzuruigbo.

Cassandra Neal, sophomore in psychology, was proud of the plans for the pageant.

“I’m proud of how well the planning went, and I am so proud of the contestants,” she said.

Thea McGhee, sophomore in biochemistry, cellular and molecular biology, was proud of the turnout.

“Everyone worked really hard, and I was so happy that a lot of people came out to support,” she said.

Both McGhee and Neal are members of Diva Opals.

Clarice Hawkins, junior in audiology and speech pathology, said she liked how each one of the contestants expressed themselves differently.

“All of them expressed themselves through their inner beauty, and each one showed their differences as a manifestation of true beauty,” she said.

Some of the contestants received auxiliary awards for their efforts at practices.

Phennessee said that the contestants had to audition to be a part of the pageant.

“The girls were serious when they needed to be, and they were a lot of fun to work with,” she said.

“They came out to practices and stayed devoted.”

Phennessee said the contestants had practice two nights each week.

Shannador Mclain, sophomore in social work and Diva Opals member, said “the pageant was a wonderful expression of what beauty is.”

“I cannot express how proud I am of these girls,” she said. “They defeated the stereotype and represent true beauty.”

Session was proud to be named queen.

“It’s not what people call you; it is what you answer to,” she said.

Meeting of Shiite rivals in Iraq may signal shift BAGHDAD — The Iraqi prime minister held talks with a radical Shiite group he once tried to destroy in bloody street battles, both sides said Wednesday, showing his willingness to put aside animosities with some of his fiercest enemies to ensure a second term in office after a divisive election.

Nouri al-Maliki’s outreach to a powerful faction within the Iranian-backed Iraqi National Alliance could also lead to the recreation of the wide-ranging Shiite alliance that dominated Iraq’s politics for a lengthy stretch after the ouster of Saddam Hussein in 2003.

Final results from the March 7 parliamentary election are expected to be released Friday, but no single group is likely to dominate the 325-member assembly, meaning a governing alliance will have to be forged.

Fugitive missing for 38 years found running chapel HELENA, Mont. — A hitchhiker originally sentenced to be executed for the 1951 killing of a Montana man who picked him up during a blizzard has been found running a wedding chapel under an assumed name in Arizona 38 years after he skipped out on parole.

Frank Dryman was found after the victim’s grandson hired an investigator who tracked the fugitive to his Arizona City notary and chapel business, where he was known as Victor Houston.

Now 78, Dryman was awaiting extradition proceedings Wednesday, a day after his arrest by the Pinal County sheriff’s office.

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UT trainers stretch out football players after a practice last week. The Vols’ Orange and White Game, which consists of the defense playing the offense, is on April 17.

Law professor calls for civil balance Kyle Turner Staff Writer Of Instapundit, Glenn Harland Reynolds, UT professor of law, lectured Tuesday on the role of blogs and media within the political process.

The Baker Center, in partnership with SGA’s Government Affairs Committee, hosted “Blogs, Social Media and Political In Civility,” detailing the everchanging political environment and the state of civility in modern-day politics.

Carl Pierce, Baker Center interim director, prefaced the lecture by echoing the sentiments of Howard Baker, noting the fact that he was a bipartisan politician deeply committed to the ideas of civility and civil discourse.

Reynolds explored in depth the role of the Internet and mass media and their role in dialogue regarding civility, not censorship.

As explained by Reynolds, Internet users are offered a vast degree of anonymity and have the ability to espouse

their view as uncivilly as they choose, having no ramifications.

“Social norms are more powerful than law to regulate people’s behavior,” Reynolds said.

People who engage in invective speech on the Internet were likened to those who make obscene gestures to others while driving, holding no social ties or responsibility to the recipient.

The Internet disinhibition effect offers anonymity in cyberspace, Reynolds said, and people in cyberspace behave as a result of structure.

Reynolds said if a structure of ramifications existed, obscene behavior might be curbed but would, no doubt, run the risk of hampering meaningful political discourse.

Reynolds noted that we need to find a balance of disagreement and argument while not crossing the line of pure nastiness, and until social norms are in place, people will not change.

“The periods of greatest political civility is when one party is on top,” he said.

Those in great power have the luxury of being civil, but Reynolds sees this as not always the healthiest of relationships.

In regards to the current political climate on television, Reynolds feels it many times comes down to a shouting match.

“The more shouting there is, the more shouting you have to do to be heard,” Reynolds said in response to the evolving, modern talking heads.

Though it is precisely the behavior that achieves high ratings, Reynolds feels that we shouldn’t reward their conduct if we don’t want more.

An introduction to the lecture was given by political science professor Mike Fitzgerald, who cited the change from an atmosphere of bipartisan civility to the modern-day incivility and hostility between those who disagree.

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Event purges campus of paper, aids in university competition versus UF Donesha Aldridge Staff Writer For the 10th and final week of RecycleMania, Facilities Services is coordinating the Paper Purge Party all over campus.

Pickups started on Monday and will last until Friday of this week.

The PPP is to help get rid of any unwanted papers in an environmentally friendly way.

“We’re doing a sweep of the entire campus,” Gordie Bennett, Facilities Services sustainability manager, said.

Students and staff should compile all unwanted papers in a pile on the day that a pickup is scheduled to come to them.

UT is competing against other universities.

“We are competing against the University of Florida and hundreds of other colleges and universities to see which school can recycling the most and ‘throw away’ the least trash,” Bennett said.

Bennett said the Paper Purge Party is a good way to end RecycleMania.

“The PPP represents one last push to boost our total recycling pounds per person, so that we can beat Florida and, more importantly, promote recycling and waste reduction among UTK faculty, staff and students,” she said.

Brittany Bowman, senior in legal studies, said this is a great opportunity for friendly competition.

“I think that it’s great that these universities are making it fun in order to encourage students to recycle to help the environment,” she said. “Everyone can be involved.”

Alexis Tidwell, senior in vocal music education, said the party should generate a lot of participation.

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Thursday, March 25 — • 9 a.m. until 7 p.m. — As part of Research Week, the Exhibition of Undergraduate Research and Creative Achievement (EUReCA), a collection of poster presentations of student research, is open for public viewing in the UC Ballroom.

• 3:35 p.m. until 4:25 p.m. — Jennifer Quinn, professor at the University of Washington, Tacoma, speaks on “Mathematics to DIE for: A Battle Between Counting and Matching” in the Haslam Business Building room 102.

• 7 p.m. — The SGA election system closes voting at this time.

Thursday marks the second day students may vote for SGA executive and senatorial candidates at http://votesga.utk.edu.

Friday, March 26 — • 12 p.m. until 1 p.m. — During this week’s Science Forum, Stephen Kania, associate professor of comparative medicine in the College of Veterinary Medicine, speaks on “Antibiotic-Resistant Staphylococci: Staying One Step Ahead” in dining rooms CD of the Thompson-Boling Arena.The presentation is free and open to the public.

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The Volunteer Channel’s spokeswoman Bridget Cleary and The Daily Beacon Editor-in-Chief Nash Armstrong interview the SGA candidates.The SGA election results will be announced Thursday night.

CORRECTION: In the Wednesday issue of the Beacon, the cutline for the photo on page two wrongly identifies the person on the right as Tommy Jervis.

The person on the right is actually Colton Griffin, vice presidential candidate for the Transform campaign. The Daily Beacon regrets the error.

THE CRIME Friday, March 19 • 3:34 p.m. — While en route to a service call, an officer noticed a yellow-and-white Caprice heading down the wrong direction while northbound on 21st Street. A traffic stop occurred, at which time the officer learned the man was driving on a suspended license for failing to satisfy an outstanding citation in September 2009. He was detained and questioned further. The man agreed to a routine search of the car and said there was nothing illegal inside. When his statement was confirmed, the man was given a citation for driving the wrong way up a one-way street

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Sunday, March 21 • 2:06 p.m. — Officer spoke with a brother of Alpha Tau Omega, regarding a theft from the fraternity’s local house.

The man said a 55-inch Hitachi television had been stolen in the last 24 hours. The last time anyone could remember seeing the television was during a party at 4:30 a.m. of the same day, but by 8 a.m., the television was missing. Its power cables, however, were still present.

THIS DAY IN HISTORY • 1911 — In one of the darkest moments of America’s industrial history, the Triangle Shirtwaist Company factory in New York City burns down, killing 145 workers. The tragedy led to the development of a series of laws and regulations that better protected the safety of factory workers.

The Triangle factory, owned by Max Blanck and Isaac Harris, was located in the top three floors of the 10-story Asch Building in downtown Manhattan. It was a sweatshop in every sense of the word: a cramped space lined with work stations and packed with poor immigrant workers, mostly teenaged women who did not speak English. At the time of the fire, there were four elevators with access to the factory floors, but only one was fully operational and it could hold only 12 people at a time. There were two stairways down to the street, but one was locked from the outside to prevent theft by the workers and the other opened inward only. The fire escape, as all would come to see, was shoddily constructed, and could not support the weight of more than a few women at a time.

• 1982 — Danica Patrick, the first woman to win an IndyCar Series race, America’s top level of open-wheel racing, is born in Beloit, Wis. Patrick became involved in racing as a young girl and as a teenager moved to England in pursuit of better training opportunities. In 2002, after returning to the United States, she began driving for the Rahal Letterman Racing team, owned by 1986 Indianapolis 500 champ Bobby Rahal and late-night talk show host David Letterman. In 2005, Patrick started competing in IndyCar events, which include the famed Indianapolis 500 race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Indiana.

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Thursday, March 25, 2010

State to layoff 853 employees The Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Tennessee will begin mailing out layoff notices this week to 853 state employees, Gov. Phil Bredesen said Wednesday.

The Democratic governor said another 317 layoff notices will be sent over the next six months as the state shuts down the Clover Bottom long-term care facility for the mentally disabled in Nashville.

Bredesen said the first round of layoffs are being made for “business reasons” amid budget pressures, mostly in the intellectual disabilities and children’s services fields.

“It’s unfortunate this has to happen, but I’m just trying so hard to guide the state through this very difficult economic time,” Bredesen said. “To do that we’ve got to keep our expenses matched to the revenues that come in.”

Workers will be given three months notice that their jobs are being eliminated. They will also be paid $3,200 in severance and be eligible for college tuition credits.

“So much of this stuff has been deferred because of things like the stimulus,” Bredesen said.

The layoff notices must be sent out now so the positions will be vacant by the time the state’s next budget year begins on July 1, he said.

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Tennessee employs about 45,000 full-time workers.

Phil Morson, president of the Tennessee State Employees Association, said in a statement the organization is “disappointed” that Bredesen is beginning the layoffs.

“While we realize these are difficult times and all of the jobs cannot be saved, we feel that through the judicial use of our rainy day funds — and alternate methods suggested by TSEA — some of the jobs can be preserved,” he said.

Bredesen has rejected proposals for furloughs and pay cuts to help preserve jobs.

House Democratic Caucus Chairman Mike Turner of Nashville said he will try over the next 90 days to avert some of the cuts but warned that opposition from Republicans to Bredesen’s revenue proposals could lead to even more layoffs.

Bredesen’s proposals would raise about $49 million and save about 200 jobs among prosecutors, public defenders, foresters and probation and parole officers.

The proposals include lifting sales tax exemptions on the first $15 of cable bills and eliminating a tax break on free hotel breakfasts.

Republicans, who hold majorities in both chambers of the General Assembly, have voiced opposition to the tax measures but have argued that the jobs can be preserved in other ways.

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Fitzgerald said civility, rightly understood, fosters discourse and dialogue that must exist for functioning self-governance.

“We are in this together no matter how much we disagree,” Fitzgerald said. “Civility is the notion that one has opponents, fierce opponents, but never enemies.”

Gina Sarli, junior in political science and chair of the Government Affairs Committee, helped bring Reynolds to speak to offer an inclusive and informative lecture on issues important to students in this modern political climate.

“The message brought by Glenn Reynolds gave great insight to how daily actions are related to the changing climate regarding civility and political discourse,” she said.

“It’s a good program to have to get people to recycle,” she said. “There are no excuses not to participate because they have made it so easy. All you have to do is leave papers in a bin outside of your door.”

Besides convenience, Tidwell said the competition should increase participation as well.

“I think that making it a competition makes it more effective,” she said. “People love to know they are better than others at something.”

Monday’s pickups included the Andy Holt Tower, McClung Museum and Tower, Presidential Court Building, the Student Health Center and the UC. Tuesday’s pickups were at the Black Cultural Center, Hodges Library, the Apartment Residence Hall and the TRECS. Pickups for Wednesday included Greve Hall, the Baker Center, Jessie Harris Building and at UTPD. Pick-ups for Thursday will be at Alumni Memorial Building, Claxton Education Complex, Dougherty and the Neilsen Physics Building.

Volunteers will also stop at Graphic Arts, the Middlebrook Building, and other places on Friday.

One can view a schedule for the pickups at http://environment.utk.edu.

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Chatroulette inspiring to human spirit It started when cavemen somewhere in the middle of what is now rural Kansas, a long time ago, started hitting each other in the head with clubs. It signified an ancient, yet beloved, custom of communication.

Then one of the cavemen — we’ll call him Frank — started using the charred remains of human skulls to carve out crude images in the walls of the caves.

After he accomplished this astounding feat — which was always overshadowed by the more-popular wheel invention — the cavemen were conducting business meetings in formal wear and talking about “synergy” within days. The new technology of skull images had changed all their lives for the better.

This brings me to the relatively new invention of the video chat Web site Chatroulette.

Again, like the images on the cave, Chatroulette has always been and will always be overshadowed by its more-popular cousin Russian Roulette. But more people should really talk about this amazing invention that has brought together so many over its short life span.

It’s been popular ever since, like, the late ‘80s to say that the Internet is bringing the world closer together. And in a way, this is true because the Internet allows for people who lack social skills to not cry themselves to sleep every night and instead, slowly but surely become functioning members of society that will vote Republican and go to church three days a week.

But Chatroulette goes so much farther than this. With its wondrous magic, it allows for users to spin the wheel and link up with anonymous — and always innocuous — random strangers. What on earth could one possibly do that could be more entertaining, informative or inspiring to the human spirit on a Friday night or a Saturday night than get on Chatroulette and chat with 50-year-old men, without their shirts on, for upwards of 10 hours?

It brings tears to one’s eyes to think that it’s not just “Dateline NBC” and Chris Hansen that can bring together groups of people and support them without judgment. It’s amazing that no one has taken advantage of the Chatroulette technology for their own personal or selfish pleasure. What great people everyone are!

While Chatroulette has a language barrier, with many people frequently saying words like “Englese?” and “Que?” it shows the triumph of the human spirit that we can work past this visually by communicating ideas over video. All these ideas, of course, are socially acceptable and never perverted Lifetime movie-of-the-week material.

And it’s encouraging when one occasionally sees a child on Chatroulette, knowing that parents are so, so committed to protecting their children from online predators that they will allow them to go on a service where every fifth connection is a shot of a person but not of their face, per se.

There are so many things right about Chatroulette that America and, yes, the entire globe is fully and 100 percent in support of the marvelous invention. Like the radio, the television and the eight-track player before it, Chatroulette is poised to not only change the way we communicate but also take over the globe. There is no possible way that Chatroulette will simply become a passing fad in the annuls of history, with its own segment on VH1’s “I Love the ‘10s” in 2020. Chatroulette has so much more depth and importance than that.

Please, if you have any hope for this future or any possible alternate futures that involve Batman being the bad guy and The Joker being a crime-fighting vigilante, go onto Chatroulette and participate in what is sweeping the nation, a force of love and peace that will usher in the next generation of worthwhile individuals. God bless Chatroulette

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Republicans must rally after health-care vote Immut abl y Right by

Treston Wheat On Sunday night I actually believed America was dead with the vote on the health care bill. Nothing good can come from it, and I would not be surprised if it was the beginning of the downfall for our country.

Massive spending and tax increases will mean more debt and higher unemployment.

America’s position in the world will slowly decline, and India, China and others will rule the world instead. Somehow I feel like this was the ultimate goal of the leftists in Congress.

They do not love America like conservatives do. Instead they seek her destruction and eventually want her to be erased from history.

This is a dark time in America, and our country will be facing some tough choices. Do we continue on this deleterious path and end up in the graveyard of empires? Will, in the next few years, people around the world be speaking about the former United States as if we had gone the way of the Romans, Byzantines, Abbasids and the British? Have Americans seen the last of their country’s primacy?

I say, “No!” In American history we have not fallen to our knees and begged for mercy from some ignorant party that wanted the abrogation of it. When George III tried to impose tyranny on the colonies, our Founding Fathers stood up and fought against the British. They sacrificed their money, their reputations and all they had to give liberty to the colonists. When Lincoln saw the Union being torn apart from the inside by Democrats, he forged an army that brought down the Confederacy. When imperial Japan attacked America at Pearl Harbor, FDR did not cry and beg for them to stop. He pledged to defeat the Axis powers; Truman even used nuclear weapons to end the threat to America. And

when Jimmy Carter had accepted that America was declining in influence, Ronald Reagan stood up and brought economic freedom to the country while winning the Cold War. American history is full of stories like these. I have hope that true patriots will stand up this coming election and vote out the liberal Democrats who are trying to destroy America. The patriotic attorney generals in different states are already doing this by trying to use the courts to bring down this legislation on Constitutional grounds. With patriots holding the majority on the Supreme Court, this just might work as well.

However, my main point is that Americans have faced trying times before today. If liberals want to stand on the precipice and jump, that is their prerogative. This is not what patriots will do. Instead, when the Republicans retake Congress in 2010 and the presidency in 2012, we will dismantle this terrible legislation. We will revive the economy and move the country forward, unlike what Obama, Reid and Pelosi are doing. We must promote policies that will bring business back to the U.S., that will promote liberty here and abroad and that will defend democracy. The agenda of the Democrats does none of these. They are statist, collectivist and autocratic.

Thomas Paine said, “These are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country, but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.” I have written previously about the need for conservatives to stand up and voice their opinion, well that is now truer than ever. If this great country is to have her best days ahead of her, I urge every patriot out there to fight this leftist assault on our country. Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness are not just words, they are perspectives. And if they are to survive, if we are to survive, it is time for the end of the Democrats and their reign of terror.

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

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It seems like every time I turn on the television, there is something being said about our economy. Of course the news covers the latest bank closure or the latest major company to declare bankruptcy, but I was surprised to see the effects of the economy on shows like “Desperate Housewives” or even reality shows like “The Real Housewives of Orange County.”

Even more surprising to me is the fact that the fictional shows were the ones that were more realistic, and the reality shows were the ones that should be considered night-time fictional dramas.

Seeing as “Desperate Housewives” is a fictional TV series and “The Real Housewives” is a reality show, I automatically assumed I would see the effects of the economy hitting the “reality” show first. After just minutes of watching each show, I realized Bravo’s “reality” show did not even come close to showing how the economy really affects people. These women are still living in their multi-milliondollar homes, shopping as a hobby and spending thousands of dollars on plastic surgery.

On the other end of the spectrum, the fictional “Desperate Housewives” have husbands who are losing jobs and houses on the verge of foreclosure. Sadly this show actually portrays what many Americans are going through during these tough economic times.

These housewife shows are not the only programs portraying two different depictions of American households. Reality shows like “The Hills” and “The City” portray girls not much older than college students buying $1,000 purses, living in million-dollar Manhattan apartments and having dinner at expensive restaurants on a regular basis. While these girls are very lucky in that they have somehow

scored their dream jobs months after going to “college” at L.A. fashion schools, this hardly demonstrates reality.

Plastic surgeons, like Dr. Christian Troy and Dr. Sean McNamara on the fictional show “Nip/Tuck” are even showing signs of financial trouble. However, they are still buying milliondollar yachts and living in million-dollar homes, but buying expensive gifts for their girlfriends is becoming a bit of a financial strain.

Obviously these are all just television shows, and even if they are supposed to be “reality” shows, they rarely depict real life. We watch television for entertainment, but do we want these shows to demonstrate what is really going on in our country, or do we want them to distract us from our own troubles?

Personally I want television to entertain me and not remind me that I make half the tips I used to at my part-time restaurant job because of our poor economy. I understand that times are tough, and television may feel torn about how to put the country’s financial status in primetime TV, but shows that are supposed to be fictional should be just that. If anything, these “reality” shows should be the only nighttime programming with economic recessions.

What may be even more troubling is the fact that the upper-class economy is the one profiting off their earnings. Instead of having reality shows about the rich and famous, maybe the reality shows should be about what is actually reality. I know this may not be as glamorous as “The Real Housewives of Orange County” or “The Hills,” but at least it would give reality television a little more credibility. If I’m going to watch glamour or wealth, I would rather watch a fictional show. When watching “Nip/Tuck” or “Desperate Housewives,” I want to see something that is purely for entertainment and is not a perfectly accurate reflection of what is really going on in the world. All in all, fictional dramas should stick to just that, and maybe reality should just stick to reality.

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

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Band goes on songwriting challenge Jake Lane Entertainment Editor Dreams are a complicated matter.

They are complex fantasies taken from daytime visions and the deepest desires of the mind. But they are also the goals many follow and raise on high in hopes of attainment.

For L.A.’s the Good Listeners, though, dreams are what they hope will pay the bills.

In their recent documentary “Don’t Quit Your Daydream,” Clark Stiles and Nathan Khyber show viewers that no matter how the odds are stacked against success, the best can always be made of the situation.

The premise: hit 12 towns on a 24-day tour of the United States, meeting a different collaborator in each town, with whom they write a song in one day and move on.

For Stiles, the spontaneity of these sessions embodied the trip.

“I’ve heard a lot of great songwriters say that if you claim credit for writing your song, you’re sort of a plagiarist,” Stiles said. “It’s all about letting life happen, and you have to allow randomness.”

Over the course of the film, the viewer is treated to a menagerie of crooks and characters as the Good Listeners roll east in their RV. In Madrid, N.M., one of their contributors sort of materializes with a beer in each hand and a head full of songs. Shortly after the sessions, the man ran his car into a sign and went to jail, showing that the moments in the film, while recorded forever, are as transient as rolling film.

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When this is discussed in the film, correlated to the experience of one of their collaborators, the film hits a point where one can identify with the subject and feel sympathy but never dragged through an emotional quagmire.

“It was kind of great to have a day with a theme,” Stiles said. “Any narrative has an arc, and I guess ours does, but it never really falls. It’s great to have that moment in there as a bottom.”

While the trip only lasted about three weeks, the amount of material shot ended up being superfluous. Stiles said that much of the footage eventually cut from the film for the sake of a linear narrative adds to the emotional level of the film.

One example is, in • Photo courtesy of The Good Listeners one day, the band learns of a terrible crash on the covery,” Stiles said. “We winged a lot, highway in an area they passed and later and basically we knew that we needed to encounters a young boy poking a dead be in New York in 21 days to meet our cat with a stick in the street. Such production deadline. We had about a moments also remind the viewer that month of planning and a few collabora- there is always the potential for failure, tors lined up, and we found the rest on which may explain why they were cut. the fly.”

The band did not fail.

Over the course of the trip, the film Following the film’s completion, the explores the relationship Stiles and production team raced to submit it to Khyber have shared in bands over the Sundance and many other festivals, but last two decades, starting with their ‘90s thus far has only made it to one, the alternative rock band Absinthe. Nashville Film Festival. The film is Following the band’s dissolution in 1998, scheduled to run April 21. the pair had little contact for about seven While the film has not seen a hard years, when a tragedy brought them copy release yet, it can be bought along together and set the wheels in motion for with the corresponding album on iTunes.

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On the sporadic nature of collaboration of the film, Stiles said the idea was to have a plan to spring forth from, with three or four of the collaborators lined up and the others to be found on the road.

“We wanted it to be a trip about dis-

Staff Writer Sidesplitters Comedy Club will welcome actor/comedian Brian Dunkleman from Thursday until Sunday.

Dunkleman was born in a small town named Ellicottville, N.Y. He started doing comedy when he was 20 years old in 1992. Ever since then, Dunkleman has been involved in a variety of different forms of entertainment from stand-up comedy to cameos on television shows. He has also been seen in shows such as “Friends,” “3rd Rock from the Sun,” “Las Vegas,” and “Celebrity Fit Club.”

Dunkleman is most famous for co-hosting the first season of “American Idol,” along with Ryan Seacrest. He was focusing more on acting at the time that the show was being filmed and not so much hosting, which is why he decided to leave and pursue other ventures.

He correlated his “Idol” experience to late 19th century literature.

“It was the best of times; it was the worst of times,” Dunkleman said.

Sidesplitters anticipates a big, wide-ranging turnout this weekend for the “Dunkenator.”

Bridgette O'Dell, co-owner of Sidesplitters Comedy Club, said Dunkleman typically draws a larger crowd with all kinds of people from young to

old and everything in between.

“We are excited about the ‘Dunkenator,’” O'Dell said.

“We expect to see a pretty great crowd. People are coming out of their hibernation from winter and thawing out, so we expect a big crowd.”

Dunkleman's humor is one that a lot of people can appreciate because he has a little something for everyone, and he has done so many different projects in his short career thus far.

“I do a lot of different things and not enough of one,” Dunkleman said about his various jobs from hosting shows to voiceover work.

Even with everything he has already accomplished, Dunkleman still would love to venture out even further and do some animation in the future.

Though he is a busy man, Dunkleman still loves doing his stand-up comedy routine just as much as he loves acting.

“I'm excited to come to Knoxville because I've never been,” Dunkleman said.” I'm getting to see two of my college roommates who I haven't seen in 10 to 12 years when I get there, so that's exciting.”

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ENTERTAINMENT

Thursday, March 25, 2010

New CBT play explores sex scandal Chassidy Doane Staff Writer “Speech and Debate” premieres this weekend at the Clarance Brown Theatre, with a student preview night on Thursday at 7:30 p.m.

Stephen Karam’s “Speech and Debate” is set in a high school where a shocking sex scandal breaks out, and the whole school is thrown into chaos. Not only is the sex scandal a huge part of the story, the teenagers are wrestling with life questions and dealing with important issues that many col-

lege students are facing today, making this relevent to UT students.

“Speech and Debate” is comparable to “Spring Awakening,” the Broadway play set in the 1800s about teenagers who live sheltered lives and have to draw conclusions about the world through difficult situations to get through mistakes.

“Speech and Debate” is very popular among teenagers and young adults because it talks about situations that are interesting to them at this point in their lives.

Students will be in the CBT Lab Theatre. Tyler Padgett,

Amy Hubbard, Tara Wells, Kevin Bohleber, along with others, make up this cast, and many are excited to see what they do with the characters.

“I’m excited for this play,” Taylor Cochran, senior in psychology, said. “I’ve only been to the Clarance Brown Theatre once, so it should be interesting. It’s definitely going to draw a good crowd to UT’s campus.”

“Speech and Debate” promises to be appealing with bright colors and quirky one-liners.

“For me, the play is about secrets — coming of age and coming out,” guest director Mace Archer said. “It’s about

what people know they are hiding. It’s about young people wrestling with their own identities and the difficulties they encounter in the search for self.”

Much of the cast said that, with a full day of classes and a play, time management plays a key role in their day-to-day lives.

Robin Conklin, marketing director for the Clarance Brown Theatre, is optimistic about the play’s turnout.

“I think students are going to love this show,” Conklin said.

Opening night of “Speech and Debate” is Friday. Tickets are $10 for non-UT students and adults and $3 for all UT students with a valid UT ID. For student preview night, usually students can obtain free admission, but since the play is in the CBT Lab Theatre, tickets will be regularly priced.

Tickets are available at the box office.

• Photo courtesy of the Clarence Brown Theatre

Thursday, March 25, 2010

SPORTS

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Tennis team cruises to eighth shutout Lauren Kittrell Staff Writer With its first five-match winning streak to start out SEC play since 1990, the No. 2 Tennessee men’s tennis team defeated LSU 7-0 and recorded its eighth shutout of the year on Sunday.

After playing on the outdoor UT Varsity Courts for the first time this season, head coach Sam Winterbotham noted the score didn’t indicate the difficulty of the match.

“There are no easy matches, and I think today wasn’t an easy match,” Winterbotham said. “LSU competed very well, but I think, in the end, it looked like an easy match because of the way our guys stuck to it.”

The Vols have gone 10-0 at home this season and are now preparing for their match against Louisville Friday.

“We’re proud of what these guys are doing on a daily basis, but we haven’t won anything yet,” Winterbotham said. “We’re going to try to take it one match at a time.”

Defeating Roger Anderson and Neal Skupski 8-2 at No. 1 doubles, senior Davey Sandgren and junior John-Patrick Smith won their 26th match of the season. After rising to the No. 1 national ranking earlier in the week, Smith recorded his 98th career win as a Tennessee Vol, taking out No. 48 Neal Skupski 6-1, 6-3.

Junior Boris Conkic and freshman Rhyne Williams followed, finishing their doubles match 8-2 for their 14th consecutive win. Junior Matteo Fago and freshman Edward Jones ended

with an 8-4 win. “(To begin with) I didn’t know much about LSU as a whole,” Williams said. “(Now) I think they’re a really good team, regardless of what the score looked like. I felt like we came out really well in the doubles and … that helps because the doubles point is a big deal in college tennis.”

After the threatening skies finally produced rain, freshman Tennys Sandgren had to finish his 6-5 lead in his second set indoors at the Goodfriend Tennis Center. Already at match point and with the serve, Sandgren pleased the crowd by winning the point on his first serve, winning 6-2, 7-5 against Mark Bowtell at position No. 4.

“That is about as unusual as it’s been,” Winterbotham said, regarding the move to the center with just one point left to play.

As the team prepares for its next match, improvement is still a priority.

“We did a great job in doubles, and we’re getting the first point of the match there, but when we went into singles, we were up a break and down a break,” Winterbotham said. “We’ve got to continue to be brave and continue to keep playing and pushing, and if you can get the break you need to take it, and I think that’s what we saw.”

After saying that he was just thankful to be able to help one of the country’s best collegiate tennis teams and coaching Tia Patron • The Daily Beacon staffs, Williams was pleased with his play.

“Overall, I feel like we performed really well, and we just The Men’s tennis team came out victorious Sunday need to keep getting better and better each match,” Williams against LSU. The Vols play Louisville Friday night in said.

Knoxville.

Swimming seniors cap off careers Terrence Boone Staff Writer Over the course of the threeday NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships at Purdue University’s Boilermaker Aquatic Center, the Tennessee Lady Vols’ swim team notched some impressive results for a 13th-place finish in the national championships.

The Lady Vols’ best finish at the NCAAs was in the 200yard medley relay, where seniors Michele King and Alex Barsanti, along with sophomore Jenny Connolly and freshman Kelsey Floyd, combined to come in second place behind the event champion Arizona Wildcats.

The second-place finish was the best in Lady Vol history.

Head coach Matt Kredich noted how much that relay meant to Tennessee’s success in the meet.

“That was a blast,” he said.

“It represents a whole year of that group having the goal of competing for a national championship. That was our best race by far. Michele had one of

the fastest splits ever. Kelsey represents the future of this program. Jenny started us off and gave us confidence. That was big for Alex, too — she’s given a ton to our team.”

In addition to the relay effort, King capped off an outstanding four years at Tennessee with five more AllAmerican performances, giving her a total of 21 for her career. Despite missing out on a chance to go to the finals in the 50-yard freestyle, King bounced back and came in eighth in the 100-yard freestyle to go along with four relays.

Juniors Aleksa Akerfelds and Morgan Farrell also added to their trophy collection, with Akerfelds garnering AllAmerica honors in the 1,650yard freestyle, while Farrell took part in the 200-yard and 400-yard freestyle relays in which she finished 14th and 15th, respectively.

Connolly, a sophomore competing in her hometown of West Lafayette, Ind., finished seventh in the 100-yard backstroke while teaming up with King to also earn four relay AllAmerica honors. With so much

young talent on the team, Kredich talked about its abilities as a team moving forward after losing only four seniors.

“This team is really hungry and really receptive to getting better,” he said. “There were six teams with a chance to win coming into today. All you have to do is perform here. You don’t have to be ranked No. 1 all year, and you don’t have to have a ton of star power — you just have to perform. This team will figure out how to do that, and we’ll keep getting better.”

Closing out her last NCAA meet for the Big Orange was Barsanti, who finished eighth in the 100-yard breaststroke and was part of the 10th-place 400-yard medley relay. Fellow senior Jamie Saffer finished out her career in the prelims of both the 100-yard and 200-yard breaststrokes and will walk away as one of the best breaststrokers to come through UT, with four All-American honors in her career. As part of the Lady Vols’ group of seniors, King acknowledged what this year’s class has accomplished in its time on Rocky Top.

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Thursday, March 25, 2010

THESPORTSPAGE

Prince propels UT to brink of history Brad Merritt Sports Editor March is quickly evaporating into April, and in the college basketball world, that means one thing: A new NCAA champion will soon be crowned.

Many of the 16 teams remaining in the NCAA tournament, such as Syracuse, Kentucky and Ohio State, were expected to be in this position. While others, such as Northern Iowa and Saint Mary’s, were not. Still, there is a third group of teams, including Tennessee, which national prognosticators cannot quite get a grip on.

Outside of Knoxville, the Vols are a bit of a mystery. In the preseason the Vols were on the short list of potential NCAA champions, but after the overly publicized events of New Year’s Eve that left the Vols without Tyler Smith for the remainder of the season, few national pundits thought the Vols would make it to the Sweet 16.

Lucky for the Vols, they have a trio of seniors, J.P. Prince, Bobby Maze and Wayne Chism, who refused to listen to their doubters. Senior leadership is crucial this time of year when everyone must elevate their game, and that is exactly what this trio has done.

Leading the postseason charge for the Vols is Prince. Not to say he was a slouch in the regular season, when he averaged 9.3 points per game to go along with 52 total steals, but Prince is playing like a man possessed in the NCAA tournament. If Chism was the team’s regular season MVP, Prince is easily the MVP of the NCAA tournament to this point. In the Vols’ two tournament games thus far, he is leading the team in scoring with 16.5 points per game in addition to five rebounds per conHayley DeBusk • The Daily Beacon test.

Furthermore, he has been the catalyst for his teammates in Senior J.P. Prince dunks the basketball in the SEC every facet of the game. When the team needs a bucket, Prince Tournament. The Vols play Ohio State in the NCAA slashes to the basket; when the team needs to regain momenTournament Friday night in St. Louis. tum, Prince is likely to produce a breakaway dunk in short

order, and when the team is desperate for a turnover, Prince uses his extraordinary reach to pry the ball loose from the opposition and create fast-break opportunities for his teammates.

Beyond that, Prince, along with Chism, have separated themselves as the leaders of the team. While their on-court arguments may sometimes be construed as dysfunctional, it is simply a pair of teammates demanding and receiving the best each other has to offer, and as a result, they have elevated the play of everyone around them.

Prince has not only elevated his team into a potential date with history against Ohio State on Friday but also his draft stock. If he can show an improved jumper during pre-draft workouts, he has likely elevated his game to the level of a firstround draft pick.

But right now, that is likely the furthest thing from the mind of Prince or anyone else on the Vols’ roster. If they beat Ohio State on Friday, they can lay claim to something no other Tennessee team can: a trip to the Elite Eight. While that may be hard to believe considering their long residency in the NCAA, the Vols are 0-6 in Sweet 16 games and the thought of a Final Four or National Championship before the arrival of Bruce Pearl was, well, laughable.

Thanks to Pearl, the Vols are no longer a laughing matter, and they now have a gold opportunity to clear the arch-sized Sweet 16 hurdle that awaits them in St. Louis. With Northern Iowa’s upset of Kansas, a victory over Ohio State would not only propel the Vols to their first-ever Elite Eight but also give the Vols a matchup with the winner of the game between Northern Iowa and Michigan State (minus the Spartans’ best player, Kalin Lucas), with a trip to Indianapolis and the Final Four on the line.

And if Prince keeps playing the way he has to this point, this Vols’ team won’t be done rewriting the Tennessee basketball history books anytime soon.

UT Knoxville Hosts First Ever

The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, is hosting its first weeklong celebration of undergraduate research.

Research Week will take place March 21-26 and spotlight undergraduate researchers, scholars, artists and performers with a concert, an art competition and a student paper competition.

Schedule of Events March 21

The School of Music has also scheduled the University of Tennessee Symphony Orchestra Ensemble Concert for Sunday, March 21, 4:00 James R. Cox Auditorium, Alumni Memorial Building.

March 22

Research Week Keynote Address U.S. Senator Lamar Alexander 8:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m, Toyota Auditorium. Reception to follow.

Howard H. Baker, Jr. Center for Public Policy.

Honors Symposium 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Featuring Panel Presentations by Undergraduate Honors Students Howard H. Baker, Jr. Center for Public Policy.

Light Luncheon 11:00 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. Baker Center’s Rotunda Honors Symposium Keynote Address and Book Signing, Richard Rodriguez (author/journalist)12:20 p.m. - 1:25 p.m, Toyota Auditorium, Howard H. Baker, Jr. Center for Public Policy.

March 23

Sigma Xi Graduate Student Research Paper Competition at the University Center in rooms 225, 226, & 227.

The School of Art has scheduled its Annual Student Competition in the Ewing Gallery for the Week of March 22nd, with its opening on the evening of the 23rd.

Sigma Theta Tau Research Day and Mary T. Boyton Lecture – Transcultural Nursing in Education and Practice at the University Conference Center, 600 Henley Street, 7:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.

March 24 & March 25

The 14th Annual Exhibition of Undergraduate Research & Creative Achievement will be held on March 24 and 25, 2010 in the University Center Ballroom.

On March 25th, the event is open to the public from 9:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. An awards ceremony will be held in the University Center’s Tennessee Auditorium on March 25th at 6:00 p.m.

For more information on this week’s activities, please visit http://research.utk.edu/rw

Thursday, March 25, 2010

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Seven Vols are competing in the NCAA Men’s Swimming and Diving Championships this weekend. The championships will take place in Columbus, Ohio.

Lauren Kittrell Staff Writer With the NCAA Men’s Swimming and Diving Championships coming around the corner, the 12th-ranked Tennessee Volunteers are preparing for a challenge. The team ended its regular season on January 29 with a loss to Florida and finished with a 4-3 record.

Coming in ninth in the 2008 NCAA championships and eighth in the 2009 championships, the Vols finished this season ranked fourth in the SEC with a 3-2 conference record. One of the most successful coaches in the SEC, John Trembley, who has served as head coach of the University of Tennessee men’s swimming and diving program for more than two decades, congratulated Auburn on its win in this year’s SEC Championships.

“We are fourth this year in the SEC, but we do not intend to stay here,” Trembley said after SECs. “After this meet, our team has a better understanding of what our future could look like.”

Qualifying for the championship are juniors Brad Craig and Michael DeRocco, sophomores Ryan Harrison, Ricky Henahan, and Anders Storvik, and freshmen Giles Smith and Ed Walsh. High on the list is Craig, who just recently won the SEC 200 breaststroke title during the SEC Swimming and Diving

Championships in Athens, Ga. “I was thinking that if I swam my race right … I could have a chance to win,” Craig said.

After winning the title, Craig described how he felt, mentioning that he hadn’t been aware of what was going on at first.

“I could hear everybody cheering and then it slowly started to dawn on me that I won,” he said. “It just shows that our training really works.”

Craig won with a season-best of 1:55.53 Bcut mark, beating out defending NCAA champion Adam Klein of Auburn.

“Brad Craig’s great victory over the defending NCAA champion was the highlight of our meet,” Trembley said after the SECs. “Brad is really a warrior, and he proved that with a nearly flawless race.”

While placing in the NCAA championships are difficult, the Vols have risen to the occasion and achieved several of their goals.

“We are taking a big sigh of relief right now,” diving coach Dave Parrington said of Harrison after he qualified with a sixth-place finish on the one-meter springboard at the Zone B Diving Championships.

“I am really excited for Ryan, and now we can begin for what comes next,” he said.

The NCAA Championships, which kick off Thursday afternoon, will be hosted by Ohio State in the McCorkle Aquatic Pavilion in Columbus, Ohio.

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