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Students’ Walk to promote higher education National Society of Black Engineers, Friends of Literacy collaborate to host annual event Elizabeth Ross Staff Writer On Saturday, the Students’ Walk for Education will take place in the east Knoxville community.

Led by Kim Burley, communications premajor sophomore, Jessica Gossett, senior in anthropology, Ashley McCray, sophomore in Spanish, Erika Smith, sophomore in political science, and Miriam Walker, sophomore in biological sciences, the Walk’s main objective is to extend an invitation of higher learning opportunities to the neighborhood.

Based on the official event, “A Walk for Education,” annually hosted by the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE), the Students’ Walk for Education was created three years ago to reach out to east Knoxville residents.

The committee’s ultimate goal is to build and strengthen a bond with the community by reaching out to the people of the community through open dialogue, regarding educational opportunities for underrepresented prospective students.

“This event addresses the communication gap between UT and the predominantly African-American community in Knoxville,” Brodrick Stigall, senior in computer science, said.

Serving as a medium to establish a relationship between UT and the east Knoxville community, the event is made up of two parts.

The first and most important part of the Walk is the door-to-door introductions and offering of resources, while the second is a cookout that allows the new contacts to gain better acquaintance.

During the cookout, campus and community organizations, like Friends of Literacy, will present themselves and the programs they sponsor, which focus on community outreach.

“We want to inform people who don’t see college as neither an option nor feasible,” Burley said. “Higher education is for everyone.

Residents will have direct access to everyday life resources and educational opportunities at the university and surrounding colleges.

Burley wanted to ensure the program took place this year.

“The person that was doing it before couldn’t do it anymore, and I felt like it had too big of influence to let die,” Burley said.

She and Stigall both feel that members of the community should be aware that students and local organizations are available to help.

“Residents have expressed a concern that UT does not care about them and their specific issues,” Stigall said.

For those looking to resolve these concerns, student volunteers, campus and community organizations are encouraged to participate.

Committee members said they felt the more students and university organizations that got involved, the more residents will see that the students do care about the community and their obstacles.

In recent years, the response of the Walk is said to be positive and suggestive.

“It’s amazing that many of the people offer ideas about improving the event and how to reach out to more of the community,” Gossett said.

The event is set to begin at 11 a.m. at the Five Point Shopping center and will follow a route through the neighborhood.

At 2 p.m. the walk will end at the Malibu 7 Restaurant and Dance Club and the cookout will begin, where organizations will have information about themselves, brochures about educational programs in Knoxville and voters’ registration forms.

All volunteers are asked to meet at the Black Cultural Center at 10 a.m. Saturday morning.

Wade Rackley • The Daily Beacon

A student studies in the Black Cultural Center on Aug. 23, 2010. The BCC will be welcoming volunteers for the Walk for Education Saturday morning at 10 a.m. The Walk reaches out to East Knoxville residents and helps encourage higher learning opportunities.

Maternal mortality rates rising US maternal health lagging, despite top technology and budget Haley Hall Staff Writer Amnesty International at UT hosted Ahsen R. Chaudhry to speak about maternal health Wednesday night at Hodges Library Auditorium as part of its Human Rights Week.

According to Ashley Charest, sophomore in biological sciences and a member of Amnesty, the group focuses on human rights, and maternal health is key to this subject.

“In this period of human history, in which we not only have the knowledge but the means to provide a better quality of life to all individuals, one unnecessary death is too many,” Charest said.

Chaudhry focused on maternal mortality rates, complications caused by pregnancy and the reasons for death rates among women associated with these issues.

“There are risks with every pregnancy,” Chaudhry said.

A key tenet of his speech stemmed from the fact that the U.S. has a higher maternal mortality rate than 40 other nations throughout the world, despite spending $86 billion per year on maternity and pregnancy health care and maintaining some of the best technological capabilities in the world.

Perhaps the most troubling factor of this situation is “instead of getting better, we are getting worse,” Chaudhry said.

In fact, maternal mortality rates were nearTia Patron • The Daily Beacon ly three times higher than goals set in 2000 by Students Jake Mashburn, junior in aerospace engineering, and Joseph O’Neill, jun- the United Nations when statistics came in ior in mathematics, relax on their hammocks in Circle Park on Thursday, April 7. The from 2006. In 2008, nearly 13 of every ideal weather won’t last, though, as rain is forecasted to arrive in Knoxville today 100,000 mothers died from pregnancy-related and remain through most of the weekend. causes. Most of these deaths were preventa-

ble.

Members of Amnesty at UT wore buttons that said, “Every 90 seconds a woman dies during childbirth, and we can change that.”

The fact that so many deaths occur in the U.S., and not just in developing nations, was eye opening for many audience members.

“We just don’t think about it,” Greg Meinweiser, freshman in nuclear engineering, said. “I (had) heard of children who died from childbirth complications, but never the mother. Seeing it from the perspective of other countries, where rates are one out of seven or one out of eight, makes you think.”

In nations with the highest maternal mortality rates, lack of professional training, supplies and technological know-how undoubtedly contributed to the problem.

Chaudry joins with other physicians to perform mission trips to some of these areas to help women who might not otherwise have access to the care that could prevent thousands of maternal deaths each year.

“Developing countries are where we were prior to 1935 in terms of emergency obstetric care,” he said.

Meinweiser cited Chaudhry’s passion to go on mission trips as a reason he found the speaker’s message so moving.

“Everyone’s so focused on their own lives,” he said, “it’s kind of like out of sight, out of mind.”

Charest and Chaudhry both stated that the importance of this message rests largely in getting information out about the problem so that there might be changes made.

“We shouldn’t just throw it under the rug just because it doesn’t affect you,” Charest said. “It affects other people, and we are all human beings.”

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Tia Patron • The Daily Beacon

Glenda Jordan, junior in studio art, browses items at the Really Really Free Market in the HSS Amphitheater on April 7. In this event students collect free items to give away to other students.

April 8, 1974: Aaron sets new home run record On this day in 1974, Hank Aaron of the Atlanta Braves hits his 715th career home run, breaking Babe Ruth’s legendary record of 714 homers. A crowd of 53,775 people, the largest in the history of Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium, was with Aaron that night to cheer when he hit a 4th inning pitch off the Los Angeles Dodgers’ Al Downing. However, as Aaron was an African American who had received death threats and racist hate mail during his pursuit of one of baseball’s most distinguished records, the achievement was bittersweet.

Henry Louis Aaron Jr., born in Mobile, Ala., on Feb. 5, 1934, made his Major League debut in 1954 with the Milwaukee Braves, just eight years after Jackie Robinson broke baseball’s color barrier and became the first African American to play in the majors. Aaron, known as hard working and quiet, was the last Negro league player to also compete in the Major Leagues. In 1957, with characteristically little

fanfare, Aaron, who primarily played right field, was named the National League’s Most Valuable Player as the Milwaukee Braves won the pennant. A few weeks later, his three home runs in the World Series helped his team triumph over the heavily favored New York Yankees. Although “Hammerin’ Hank” specialized in home runs, he was also an extremely dependable batter, and by the end of his career he held baseball’s career record for most runs batted in: 2,297.

Aaron’s playing career spanned three teams and 23 years. He was with the Milwaukee Braves from 1954 to 1965, the Atlanta Braves from 1966 to 1974 and the Milwaukee Brewers from 1975 to 1976. He hung up his cleats in 1976 with 755 career home runs and went on to become one of baseball’s first AfricanAmerican executives, with the Atlanta Braves, and a leading spokesperson for minority hiring.

Hank Aaron was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1982.

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

Crime Log April 6 A UT student reported that her wallet had been stolen from the main lobby of the Nursing Building around 3:30 p.m.

A student reported that his wallet was stolen from his room in Reese Hall some time between 11:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. The report stated that the wallet contained the student’s driver’s license, Suntrust debit card, VolCard and Reese Hall room key.

At approximately 10:05 p.m., a UTPD officer was doing a property check near the Pedestrian Mall when he noticed a large group of individuals. When the officer walked

over to talk to the group, he saw a female individual with a bag and an open container of alcohol and a male individual with a backpack.

The male subject with the backpack also admitted to drinking alcohol. Both individuals were underage students. The officer searched the backpack and found drug paraphernalia — a glass pipe — containing marijuana-like residue. The female individual’s bag contained a small Ziploc bag of a green, leafy substance and another glass pipe containing marijuanalike residue. Both subjects were charged with unlawful drug paraphernalia, and the female subject was charged with simple possession of marijuana.

—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.

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Junior selected to participate in PBS’ Student Freedom Ride Jayanni Webster, a junior at UT will be part of the 2011 Student Freedom Ride, which will retrace the 1961 civil rights bus rides.

Webster, of Memphis, is a graduate of Wooddale High School.

PBS’ “American Experience” today announced that Webster and 39 other college students from around the U.S. have been selected for the ride. Nearly 1,000 students nationwide applied; the 40 selected were chosen based, in part, on their social media and civic engagement involvement.

The Student Freedom Ride will mark the 50th anniversary of the May 1961 Freedom Rides and will coincide with the airing of “Freedom Riders,” a film directed by Stanley Nelson, that premieres on “American Experience” at 9 p.m. on May 16.

The original Freedom Riders — some 430 black and white men and women, mostly students — rode interstate buses in the South to challenge local laws or customs that enforced segregation. The Freedom Rides raised the credibility of the American Civil Rights Movement and focused national attention on the violent disregard for anti-segregation laws in the South. Riders were arrested for trespassing, unlawful assembly and violating state and local Jim Crow laws, along with other alleged offenses.

The Riders met the violence they encountered with their own nonviolent tactics, which eventually spurred the Kennedy administration to take action.

Webster and the Student Freedom Riders will begin their 10-day bus trip on May 6 in Washington, D.C., and

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NEWS visit historically significant locations around the South, ending in New Orleans on May 16. They will be accompanied by some of the original Freedom Riders.

Webster has crafted her own major through the College Scholars program. Her interests include education and society, particularly education policy and school-based programs focusing on issues like violence prevention, peace, leadership, and cultural education. Her specialization is in post-conflict education in Africa.

Webster became particularly interested in African education after she got involved in UT’s Jazz for Justice, a group started by religious studies professor Rosalind Hackett in 2006 to raise awareness about the war and subsequent cease-fire in northern Uganda.

During the spring and summer of 2010, Webster conducted research in northern Uganda.

She plans to apply for a Fulbright Fellowship and an Inside Collaborative Peace Fellowship, both of which would take her to Africa to do research and work with non-governmental organizations in peace-building, development and education.

Webster also is considering going to graduate school or working for a refugee resettlement agency in the United States.

OIT’s technology outage scheduled The Office of Information Technology will be making infrastructure improvements this weekend starting at 10 p.m on Saturday.

The upgrade should be complete by Sunday at 6 a.m.

The upgrade will impact the wired, wireless, and DSL network access in many campus buildings, including university housing, for the duration of the maintenance window. A complete list of buildings affected is available online at http://oit.utk.edu/helpdesk/kb/entry/1847/.

During the upgrade, network connectivity (wired and wireless) will be intermittent campus-wide, including access to the Internet, Internet2, and the Kraken supercomputer in Oak Ridge. In addition to the network outage, OIT services may also experience an outage during this event.

Those who have specific questions or concerns about the planned outage and how it may impact services, please contact the OIT HelpDesk at (865) 974-9900 or online at http://help.utk.edu.

Tara Sripunvoraskul • The Daily Beacon

Jonathan Dailey, senior in political science, stands up in the water after being dunked for charity on April 6.

The Lambda Theta Alpha and Kappa Alpha Psi fraternities donated the money raised from their booth to St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital.

Strong aftershock shakes Japan Associated Press TOKYO — Japan was rattled by a magnitude-7.4 aftershock and tsunami warning Thursday night nearly a month after a devastating earthquake and tsunami flattened the northeastern coast.

Announcers on Japan’s public broadcaster NHK told residents along the northeastern shore to run to move ground and away from the shore. An hour after the quake, there were no reports of a tsunami hitting the shore.

The Japan meteorological agency issued a tsunami warning for a wave of up to 6 feet (two meters) for a coastal area already torn apart by last month’s tsunami, which is believed to have killed some 25,000 people and has sparked an ongoing crisis at a nuclear power plant.

Officials at the tsunami-ravaged Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant said there was no immediate sign of new problems caused by the aftershock. Japan’s nuclear safety agency says workers there have retreated to a quake-resistant shelter in the complex. No one there was injured. Plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. said it evacuated two workers there and seven at a sister plant to the south that was not badly damaged.

Officials say Thursday’s aftershock hit 30 miles (50 kilometers) under the water and off the coast of Miyagi prefecture. The quake that preceded last month’s

tsunami was a 9.0-magnitude.

The U.S. Geological Survey in Golden, Colo., later downgraded Thursday’s quake to 7.1.

Buildings as far away as Tokyo shook for about a minute.

In Ichinoseki, inland from Japan’s eastern coast, buildings shook violently, knocking items from shelves and toppling furniture, but there was no heavy damage to the buildings themselves. Immediately after the quake, all power was cut. The city went dark, but cars drove around normally and people assembled in the streets despite the late hour.

The quake struck at 11:32 p.m. local time. Japanese TV flashed a warning about an impending quake moments before it struck. In Tokyo’s western suburbs, loudspeakers warned residents.

Paul Caruso, a geophysicist at USGS, said Thursday’s quake struck at about the same location and depth as the March 11 quake. It’s the strongest of the more than 1,000 aftershocks that have been felt since, except for a 7.9 aftershock that day.

The USGS said the aftershock struck off the eastern coast 40 miles (65 kilometers) from Sendai and 70 miles (115 kilometers) from Fukushima. It was about 205 miles (330 kilometers) from Tokyo.

A Pacific Tsunami Warning Center evaluation of the quake said an oceanwide tsunami was not expected. However, it noted quakes of that strength can cause waves that are destructive locally.

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Friday, April 8, 2011

TheHot Spot Reality of HIV mixed with misinformation

Brandi Panter Managing Editor I first remember hearing it discussed whenever I was around 7 years old, in the first grade. For all of you youngsters out there, it was 1996, and the cheaply produced video we were watching in my class was definitely held over from the late ’80s.

I remember the video scaring me very much. All I seem to recall seeing in the video was that it would kill me.

I heard about it when “Sesame Street,” the concrete foundation for the majority of my personal philosophies, introduced a character named Kami.

I heard about in 2005, when the gay couple that lived a few houses down from mine had their house vandalized and my parents were discussing some of the slurs painted on their house.

I’ve always heard about it. It’s been a part of American cultures my entire life, but it’s something that I never quite understood: What is HIV? Well, for starters, it isn’t the scary death sentence the delightful video from my first-grade class made it out to be: HIV is what is considered a “treatable” disease in the medical community — as in, it has no cure and the disease is a viral infection, but the symptoms can be treated to improve the quality of life of the person infected.

It also isn’t the “gay” disease, as it was splashed upon my neighbor’s house, although homosexual intercourse does account for the majority percentage of new infections each year (more of that can be found below). HIV can be spread through one of four means: breast milk, blood, semen/pre-ejaculate fluids or vaginal fluids.

HIV doesn’t actually kill you, either. Instead, HIV attacks your primary vital immune cells, which is what allows opportunistic infections because of the body’s increased inability to fight off illnesses.

HIV has multiple stages of infection, and the symptoms vary with time: acute, latency and

AIDS. Acute last for several weeks and has symptoms similar to those of the flu (fever, sore muscles, swollen glands, sore throats, sores in the mouth, etc.). Latency stage can last anywhere from two weeks to more than 20 years and may have few or no symptoms. AIDS is an entirely different disease.

HIV symptoms are treated with antiretrovirals, a combination of pills that are commonly referred to as “the cocktail.” There are currently more than 20 approved antiretrovirals approved to treat HIV. Why are there so many different varieties of medications to treat HIV? If one medicine was taken alone to treat HIV, the virus would quickly become resistant to treatment. The combination of two or three different pills helps to keep the virus at bay.

The CDC currently estimates that there are more than 1 million people currently living with HIV in the U.S. and that roughly 21 percent of them have no idea they are infected. While the total number of people living with HIV has grown, the new transmission rate has stabilized. Gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men (MSM, as described by the CDC), account for 53 percent of new transmissions each year, as well as 48 total percent of people living with HIV. African-Americans represent the largest category of infected ethnic groups, with around 46 percent of African-Americans accounting for persons living with HIV and being the source for 45 percent of yearly reported new transmissions. When you consider that African-Americans make up only 12 percent of the total U.S. population, this means around 56,300 African-Americans are infected each year.

HIV testing is conducted through oral swabs to the mouth (no blood or needles involved) and it remains entirely anonymous if you have been tested for HIV. If you are tested positive, your information does enter a public health databank (used for the protection and safety of yourself and others).

—Brandi Panter is a junior in history and English literature. She can be reached at bpanter1@utk.edu. You can also follow on Twitter at @brandimpanter.

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Minor differences set SGA campaigns apart Ac orns and Other Seeds by

Anna-Lise Burnette This week, while walking through Presidential Courtyard, I was reminded once again that it is the season of SGA elections. Every year, small bands of idealists come together under goofy, completely nondescriptive team names to campaign for the undergraduate vote.

This year’s competitors were operating under the monikers “SPARK” and “Reach,” but I wish that, for everyone’s sake, we could have just called them Team Red and Team Blue.

Though I have often been able to note the obvious differences between campaigns (quality of web design, for instance), what has remained unclear to me is the politics of it all. Because, as far as I can tell, there is little real difference in platform from year to year and from competitor to competitor. Maybe I just haven’t been reading those little flyers carefully enough, but they usually seem to be plugging equally helpful reforms.

So just in case you’re wondering how I managed to figure out who to vote for, I made a list of the important questions I had to ask myself before sending in my online ballot: 1.

Which campaign had the best color scheme?

There’s plenty of research out there that proves that color and mood are intricately linked, so it makes sense that candidates would spend some time carefully choosing just the right shade of green to symbolically represent their platform or their goals. But future campaigners beware: Choose a color that’s too bright and you run the risk of seeming fad-ish; picking a color that’s too muted gives the impression that you’ve become prematurely jaded and have lost your exuberance. Peripheral colors are also important — don’t make the mistake of assuming that canary yellow on its own can carry the day.

2.

Who gave out the best free stuff?

Anyone running for election knows that the amount

of money you put in positively correlates to the number of votes you will receive. This is a principal that may seem rudimentary, but many a vote has been lost because of poor selling tactics. Since the target demographic happens to be college students, it is important to appeal to them through the loftiest of all concepts: FREE. In my experience, popular giveaways include food, candy, beer, items that resemble food, T-shirts and, somewhat inexplicably, writing instruments. A suggestion for next year? Free gasoline.

3.

Which team played the kind of music I have on my iPod? In order to ascertain just what quality of people makes up election campaigns, it is important to carefully listen to the lyrics of the songs they play. On Wednesday, I happened to hear the pleading strains of “Don’t Stop Believin’” as I walked across campus, and I couldn’t help but wonder what the message was really supposed to be. Did they want me to naively hope that a new SGA regime would culminate in a watershed era of unprecedented student happiness and fulfillment, despite being mired in the realities of a world where there will always be “shadows searching in the night?” Clever, guys, but not a chance. Next time, try playing “Danger Zone.”

4.

Did either campaign actively try to solicit my vote?

Something I sadistically look forward to every spring is the onslaught of smiling faces and cheerful voices that ask every passerby, “Have you voted for ________ yet?” Invariably I say something like, “No, not yet,” which leaves most people in a state of slight confusion. “Was that a vote for us or not?” they wonder. But unfortunately, I had not a single person approach me this year. Apparently neither Team A nor Team B found my vote to be of any value to them, so as I walked past their little booths, I was met with the most poignant of silences. I was able to breathe a sigh of relief only after I heard some of the campaigners talking to other students walking by.

Aggressively seeking votes is a tactic that I hope never goes out of style.

But truly, all of this is to say congratulations to Campaign A. You really socked it to those other guys.

— Anna-Lise Burnette is a junior in global and Asian studies. She can be reached at kburnet7@utk.edu.

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This week, I have been saturated in death. Not that I am actually feeling deathly, or that I have been exceedingly involved with many dead people, but I have just been overwhelmingly surrounded in death.

This Sunday, AMC debuted its new show, “The Killing.” First off, it should be noted that I am not an avid fan of the crime-drama television genre. In fact, I refuse to watch it. Regardless of this essential point of my character, I decided to tune in to the brand-new series.

On Tuesday, I spoke to a friend who traveled back to his hometown this weekend to arrange his friend’s funeral. We discussed all of the sad details of realizing a close friend is gone. During the week, I have read a countless number of articles on human decomposition, working feverishly to prepare for my senior thesis project. Last Saturday, I had an extended conversation with a friend about the work that I do at the world-renowned Body Farm and the psychological impacts it has on me.

This month, I read “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies,” which I will attest brought me joy and delight, two feelings I am sure that regular “Pride and Prejudice” would not have been close to stirring in my cold heart.

All week, I feel like my life has centered around one daunting topic: death. What about this topic makes it such an interesting part of life, excluding the fact that everyone will die? If I had a dime for every question I had been asked regarding the Body Farm and death, I would have loads of dimes. It is hard to dispute the fact that people love CSI or NCIS or whatever crime drama is cool that week or year (or, more likely, that hour). Funerals are common occurrences throughout the world on a daily basis. While one may not be attending them every week or even every year, they do still occur.

Death is all around us. It is an unchanging, immovable force, staring at all of us. The distance we have until we reach that point is unknown.

Recalling the scary, unknown nature of death makes

it so popular. What could be better than colliding together real-life mystery and the mystery of death in popular television? What could be greater than answering a bit of the unknown by assuring a return to this world as a zombie? What could be more interesting than learning about what happens to the body after it has lost the person that once inhabited the carcass?

Some of the greatest wisdom regarding death comes from a children’s series. Harry Potter’s mentor, Dumbledore, in all of his infinite wisdom, warns not only Harry but also the reader about the destruction that can occur when one is afraid of death.

The destruction death has on the soul and body is epitomized in Voldemort. It is the mystery of death that is his greatest fear and sparks his desire to live forever. In fact, the topic of death is what propels most of the series. The last book focuses on the quest between Deathly Hallows versus Horcruxes, two methods of avoiding death. Hallows allow one to become master of death, and Horcruxes are a means by which one can cheat death.

Death is what ultimately ends the series, but J.K. Rowling maintained the philosophy she created for Dumbledore to espouse. Instead of ending the series focused on death, she ended it on a high note, not leaving questions regarding death as the final word. Dumbledore’s lessons continue to ring true to the very end.

For a culture that desires to know and schedule every minute of every day, death is exemplified as an ultimate fear. Coupled together, fear and mystery make death seem interesting or intriguing. In fact, it makes death a point of culture. This is how my week became saturated with death. The simple desire to know the before and after, the beginning and end, and to find answers made my week this week.

One should approach death peacefully and fearlessly. It is the people who learn this that leave this world at peace with themselves and their life’s work. It is people like this who litter crime drama and add to the intensity and interest of the shows.

It is Dumbledore’s final wish of Harry. It is how one accepts the horror that comes with turning into a zombie. A fearless outlook on death is how one can find peace when a friend dies.

— Brittany Vasquez is a junior in anthropology.

She can be reached at bvasque1@utk.edu.

Friday, April 8, 2011

Associated Press US library to save famous baseball, country tunes WASHINGTON — The 1908 tune, “Take Me Out to the Ballgame,” that became the anthem for America’s favorite pastime, will be preserved at the Library of Congress, along with 24 other recordings chosen for their cultural significance, the library announced Wednesday.

This year’s selections for the National Recording Registry include Tammy Wynette’s 1968 country song that divided American women with the message, “Stand By Your Man.” A more unusual selection traces political history from the past 25 years through instructional tapes from the conservative political group GOPAC that laid out a strategy and message for Republican candidates between 1986 and 1994.

The tapes — which include the voices of former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, Republican pollster Frank Luntz and others — drew attention among curators particularly since Ohio Rep. John Boehner’s rise to House speaker, said Matthew Barton, curator of recorded sound.

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EMPLOYMENT ADVERTISING MEDIA SALES The Daily Beacon Now accepting applications from UT students for our Advertising Sales Representative positions that will begin either summer or fall semester and continue through spring term. We are looking for goal-driven students who are seeking sales experience in advertising, marketing or general business disciplines. *Sell retail print and online ads to local and regional accounts *Create campaigns and media plans *Build customer service skills 20 hours/week, base plus commission.

APPLICATION DEADLINE: April 8, 2011 Applications are availalbe in our office, 11 Communications Bldg. Please call 865-974-5206 for more information.

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“Boehner is part of that generation of Republicans deeply influenced by those tapes,” Barton said. “Especially in the election year of 1994, you find that they really distill a lot of their main talking points and beliefs and their approach to politics and to government.”

Other selections include the first recording of contemporary stand-up comedy. It was an unauthorized recording of comedian Mort Sahl in 1955. There are also notable performances by Al Green, Henry Mancini and Nat King Cole.

The library also is inducting the first-ever recorded sounds from as early as 1853, called “phonautograms,” that researchers worked for years to play back for the first time in 2008.

In announcing the additions, Librarian of Congress James Billington said the recordings document history, entertainment and artistic expressions, though they won't survive forever on tape or other outdated media.

“Songs, words and the natural sounds of the world that we live in have been captured on one of the most perishable of all of our art media,” he said.

The library works to digitize recorded sound and video in formats for long-term preservation. Congress created the recording registry in 2000 to ensure significant audio recordings aren’t lost.

They must be at least 10 years old and be “culturally, historically or aesthetically significant.”

La. Rapper arrested in Tenn.

NASHVILLE — Tennessee Highway Patrol officers arrested Louisiana rapper Webster Gradney Jr., who goes by “Webbie,” for drug possession and tampering with evidence after returning from a show in Louisville, Ky. The police agency said Wednesday that the 25-year-old Gradney was a passenger in a rental car that was stopped Monday on Interstate 65 south of Nashville in Marshall County. Gradney, of Baton Rouge, was found with $13,000 and 2 ounces of marijuana.

Gradney was taken to jail and made bail on a $21,000 bond.

There was no attorney listed for Gradney at the Marshall County Jail on Wednesday.

Another passenger, 22-year-old Michael Abbott, also of Baton Rouge, was charged with intent of going armed and the driver, 34year-old Derric Watson, of Zachary, La., was charged with driving on a suspended license.

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Friday, April 8, 2011

• Photo courtesy of Caitlin Lindstrom

• Photo courtesy of George Richardson

Twenty students in Professor Rob Heller’s advanced photojournalism class traveled to LaFollette, Tenn this weekend as part of the Eyes on LaFollette project. The project, which is in its 14th edition since 1993, has students document the everyday lives and events of the people of the small town. These images are a sampling of the more than 7,000 images shot by those students for the project, which is run as a special edition in the local paper, The LaFollette Press.

• Photo courtesy of Scott Murphy • Photo courtesy of Holly Kane

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• Photo courtesy of Katie McReynolds

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Friday, April 8, 2011

SPORTS

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Ainge details drug, alcohol addiction demons Former UT quarterback recounts fighting substance abuse, dealing with injuries, disorder Associated Press Erik Ainge glances at his wrists whenever he needs a quick pick-me-up during recovery from his painful past.

Tattooed in black ink on the inside of the New York Jets backup quarterback’s left wrist are a series of comforting letters: O.D.A.T., T.T.S.P. and J.F.T. “The first is ‘One Day At A Time,’” Ainge explained while sticking out his left hand. “The others are ‘This Too Shall Pass’ and ‘Just For Today.’”

Ainge then showed his right wrist, which has “Romans 3:23” on it — “For all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God” — along with the date 4-1-2009, the first time Ainge tried to beat the addictions that nearly killed him.

“They’re all true,” he said of the tattoos, “and they help me.”

Ainge has been on a tumultuous journey — marked by years of drug and alcohol abuse — that has taken him from high school star in Oregon to big man on campus at the University of Tennessee and all the way to the NFL as a fifth-round draft pick.

But now, he’s here: A recovering drug addict with bipolar disorder and a surgically repaired foot, trying to rebuild his once-shattered life under the roof of his famous uncle, Danny Ainge.

“I’m learning how to be a new person,” said Ainge, who recently met with The Associated Press for a day-long interview in the Boston area. “People who only knew me as the old Erik would be like, ‘Who is this person?’”

The 24-year-old Ainge told the world exactly who he is in a candid first-person account last week for ESPNNewYork.com, opening the nearly 2,000word piece with the sentence: “I’m a drug addict.”

Ainge spent last season on the Jets’ reserve/did not report list while rehabbing his foot. That came two years after being suspended four games by the NFL for violating the league’s policy on steroids and related substances. In his piece, Ainge detailed his struggle with drugs and alcohol since he was 12. He said he overdosed “several” times and abused prescription medications, cocaine, heroin, marijuana and alcohol. He also revealed he’s dealing with rapid cycling bipolar disorder.

“The first reason I did it was for me,” said Ainge, who has been sober for nearly nine months. “It was like a weight lifted off my shoulders to get everything out there. I also wanted to help people.”

Ainge gets up at 6:15 each morning, jumps into his burgundy 1999 Yukon Denali — the one he’s had since college with nearly 139,000 miles on it — and picks up his sponsor for their 7 a.m.

Alcoholics Anonymous meetings.

Every day, without fail.

“He’s just displayed a willingness to do what it takes to change the person he was, which is huge,” said Ainge’s sponsor, Jay Punch, a 33-year-old resident of Natick. “It doesn’t matter who you are. This disease wants you dead.

“The first part I thought I’d have to work with him on was sort of letting go of his prior life and coming to grips with what happened, but that hasn’t been a problem at all.”

There are no visible traces of Ainge’s playing days at Tennessee or with the Jets in the guest bedroom at Danny Ainge’s home, which is nestled in the quiet town of Wellesley.

The room looks like that of most 24-year-old single guys — with some clothes scattered among DVDs and CDs — except for the soothing pictures of pink roses hung on the wall.

He ended up there after starting his recovery last summer at McLean Hospital in Belmont, and then going to a halfway house in the same part of town. Eager to stay in the area because of the progress he was making with his therapists, he spent two weeks mustering up the courage to ask his Hall of Fame uncle if he could stay with them.

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Danny Ainge, the general manager of the Boston Celtics, his wife, Michelle, and their teenage sons Cooper and Crew welcomed him six months ago with open arms.

“I’m a literally crazy, tatted-up drug addict,” said Erik Ainge, who hasn’t trimmed his hair since rehab; his once close-shaved head covered by neck-length locks. “I’m a nice guy, charismatic, polite, but if you just wrote down on paper what’s wrong with me, I could see someone not wanting me to live in their house.

They had no hesitation.”

Ainge feels happy these days, something he can’t remember experiencing during the last several years. The drug abuse was a big reason for his despondency, but so was the bipolar disorder, which was recently diagnosed and is treated with mood stabilizers.

“I just felt like a crazy person,” he said. “I wasn’t educated enough to know that I was bipolar, but I just felt different. When I’d look in the mirror, I felt ashamed. I felt like there was something wrong with me.”

The hour-long therapy sessions with his psychiatrist three days a week have helped. So have the Narcotics Anonymous

meetings, three nights a week.

“The way I was living, I’d have been dead at 26,” he said. “Do you know how freeing that is to be sitting here saying that? It’s like I’m living a new life, literally. I can say that. I’ve overdosed.

I’ve looked at death.”

That’s why he gets a kick out of simply jumping in his truck and cranking some of his favorite bands — Soundgarden, Audioslave, Stone Temple Pilots, Rage Against The Machine, to name a few — and cruising around town.

“I love that, man,” he said. “It just makes me feel good everytime.”

Kind of the way his one-hour physical therapy sessions do.

Ainge had a stress fracture in his right foot since high school that never properly healed. He had surgery to put two screws in his navicular bone in January and hobbles around in a bulky, black walking boot — something he’ll have to wear for at least a few more weeks.

Ainge goes to therapy three times a week in Waltham, Mass., where his therapist, Sean Rollo, vigorously rubs the foot, ankle and calf and uses ice and heat treatments.

“I literally dream about this massage,” Ainge said while sprawled on a table a few feet away from a poster that features the 1980s Celtics with Ainge’s uncle, Larry Bird, Kevin McHale, Robert Parish and Dennis Johnson.

While Danny Ainge might not be able to walk anywhere in the Boston area without being recognized, Erik zips around town in relative anonymity. His 6-foot-5 frame stands out, but he gets more second glances because of his appearance last year in the movie “Jackass 3D” than for his football accomplishments.

“I’ve gotten about 10 of those in the last month,” he said, laughing. “I love it.”

Then, there are those who simply know him as one of the neighborhood regulars, like the guys at Deluxe Pizza in Wellesley.

“Hello, my friend,” one shouted to Ainge as he walked in.

“Good to see you.”

Starbucks coffee. Pastrami sandwiches. Hard rock. Celtics games. These are the little things Ainge enjoys now.

He’s still under contract with the Jets for another year, but has no idea whether he’ll play again — and that’s of no concern to him right now. The Jets wouldn’t speculate on Ainge’s future with the team, and couldn’t comment on his drug and alcohol abuse, citing the confidentiality of the league’s steroid and substance-abuse policy.

“If football started tomorrow, I really don’t know if I’d be able to show up,” said Ainge, who will consider himself a Jet until the team tells him otherwise. “If it started in six months or a year, maybe I would. I don’t know.”

Truth is, Ainge isn’t focused on who he used to be, but rather on who he hopes to become.

“With all the things I accomplished, think of how amazing I could’ve been if I would’ve kept on the straight and narrow path and done things right,” he said. “I don’t lose sleep over that and I don’t have regrets. Life’s about what you do with what happens and I’m making those decisions now.

“I am a drug addict, went to rehab and am living in Boston.

Now, what am I going to do about it? I’m living that right now, and so far, so good.”

8 • The Daily Beacon

THESPORTSPAGE

Friday, April 8, 2011

Dooley, UT focused on ‘game week’ UT softball doubles up Georgia the things he’s not getting better at, I think we’re OK. As long as we’re seeing a path of Jason Hall climbing and growing and we don’t get too Staff Writer caught up in the results — that’s what we have to do. You have to trust it a little bit.”

On Saturday, the football Vols completed A major concern for UT fans is the injury their first scrimmage since the start of spring to junior defensive back Prentiss Waggner. practice. Coach Derek Dooley used the scrimWaggner injured his left hand on Saturday; mage to judge where his team currently stood. however, he participated in Tuesday’s practice “This is always a good time to re-evaluate in Neyland Stadium wearing a red non-conwhere you are,” Dooley said. “We have a lot of tact jersey. work ahead of us. Now, we’re going in and The severity of Waggner’s injury is treating this week as if it’s game week. unknown, though Dooley remains optimistic.

T u e s d a y , “I wouldWe d n e s d a y, n’t call it sigThursday and a nificant Saturday scrimbecause he’s mage so we can out there,” see what kind of Dooley said. improvement “I told him we’ve made from he didn’t hit scrimmage to anybody scrimmage.” anyway, so The defense really he’s shined in the still live. scrimmage, interWe’re just cepting four passactually es, including two blowing the from starting whistle quarterback Tyler when he gets Bray. On the near the runoffensive side, ner. Most of sophomore runhis work that ning back Rajion he needs is Neal had 152 patternyards and three match, covtouchdowns. ering, and he “Once I get out can still do there in that secall of that.” ondary and I see UT’s new what’s going on, strength I’m pretty much Ian Harmon • The Daily Beacon coach, Ron going to try to McKeefery, get to that end Junior defensive back Prentiss Waggner returns an continues to interception for a touchdown against UT-Martin on zone,” Neal draw praise said. “I most Sept. 4, 2010. Waggner suffered a left hand injury on from his likely will get Saturday. He practiced this week in a red non-conp l a y e r s. there the major- tact jersey.

J u n i o r ity of the time.” defensive Dooley also end Willie Bohannnon praised McKeefery, as noted how the scrimmages were a good way he said he has personally seen a difference to judge the progression of their quarterbacks. through his workouts.

“Sometimes it’s hard to see the growth, “I’ve gotten the whole nine yards of bigger, because the results aren’t always what you stronger and faster,” Bohannon said. “All the want when you’re throwing a lot at them and players have. You can’t do anything but give you don’t have a nice, tight game plan that credit to the strength coach, it’s what’s written they can home in on,” Dooley said. “It’s like in his resume. What else can you do except most players, if we just get a little bit better at say it’s because of him?” something every day and you don’t sweat over

Staff Reports The No. 9/8 Tennessee Lady Vol softball team improved to 31-6 overall and 9-4 in SEC play by sweeping a doubleheader at No. 2 Georgia, 5-1 and 9-4, in front of 1,627 fans at Jack Turner Stadium on Wed., April 6.

UT's victory in the opening game snapped UGA's 37-game home winning streak that started with a win over Arkansas back on April 3, 2010.

"We played a great team tonight in Georgia that's certainly deserving of their lofty ranking," Lady Vol Co-Head Coach Ralph Weekly said. "...

Karen (co-head coach Weekly) and I are really, really proud of our team."

Sophomore second baseman Lauren Gibson and freshman designated player Melissa Davin led the Big Orange offense by hitting .667 (4-for-6) at the plate during the doubleheader.

In the circle sophomore Ivy Renfroe picked up the victory in the opener, moving to 10-3 on the year by allowing just one run and scattering nine hits over 5.2 innings of work.

Freshman Ellen Renfroe improved to 18-2 overall in the finale by tossing a complete game.

front, 2-1.

The Big Orange added to its advantage in the top of the sixth as Gibson crushed a solo HR for a 3-1 advantage. Following a Burchell walk, Davin stepped to the dish with two retired and added a two-run shot to push the gap out to 5-1.

With one final chance to rally Georgia tried its best as Goler launched a shot to deep center.

Grieve raced back and leapt to rob a potential home run on an incredible "web gem" play. Ellen Renfroe caught Hesson looking at strike three before Razey popped up to Shipman at short to end the UT triumph.

Game Two Georgia jumped in front in the bottom of first inning of game two as a one-out single through the right side by Goler was cashed in on a tworun homer to right center by Hesson.

An RBI single by Davin and a sacrifice fly off the bat of Andrews brought home a pair to tie the count at 2-2, though.

Sandberg gave the Bulldogs back the lead in the bottom of the second with a solo HR to left.

Following a two-out single off the wall by Game One Schlopy, Goler The Lady Vols just missed a Wade Rackley• The Daily Beacon wasted no time jumping in front Sophomore Ivy Renfroe takes the mound against pitch, flying out very high on the scoreboard ETSU on Feb. 15. Renfroe’s win against Georgia on to Dotson in against UGA April 6 improved her record to 10-3 on the season. right to confreshman pitcher clude the M o r g a n Montemayor, putting up a run in the top of the inning.

The decisive inning proved to be Tennessee's first on two hits.

The advantage lasted exactly one batter into half of the fourth as UT tallied four runs on three the bottom of the first as UGA lead-off hitter hits while benefiting from a pair of UGA miscues.

One of the major stories of the day proved to Taylor Schlopy drove a solo HR to center, deadbe Tennessee's defense. Gibson made a great play locking the count at 1-1.

The Big Orange missed a big scoring chance while roaming to her right on a sharp bouncer up in the top of the third. Dotson blasted a promis- the middle by Pauly in the bottom of the fourth. ing shot deep to the outfield that was caught on With two outs in Georgia's half of the fifth, a the warning track as junior Ashley Andrews was Wiggins single scored a run to make it 6-4 but a perfect relay from Grieve to Shipman to Andrews left stranded 60 feet from paydirt.

The Bulldogs got the lead-off runner on in the cut down Razey trying to score all the way from bottom of the third as Wiggins drew a four-pitch first to conclude a big UGA scoring chance.

The Big Orange added a tally to make it 7-4 walk.

As happens so often a player follows a great on an RBI ground ball by Gibson in the top of the defensive play with one at the plate as Spigner sixth.

In the top of the seventh, Davin tripled to comripped a double into the gap opening the top of the fourth. After a wild pitch by Montemayor plete her game's effort just a HR short of the advanced sophomore pinch runner Whitney cycle. A two-bagger by Andrews and a single Hammond to third, Gibson blasted a double to from Grieve each plated single runs as the advanthe wall for an RBI as Tennessee moved back in tage grew to 9-4.