The Daily Beacon

Issue 58, Volume 122

Tuesday, April 9, 2013

‘I Heart UT Week’ promotes Volunteer spirit R.J. Vogt News Editor UT hosts many themed weeks throughout the year: “Sex Week,” “Human Rights Week,” “National Public Health Week,” “Research Week,” and so on.

From April 20 to April 26, UT will finally host a week for itself: “I Heart UT Week.”

Sponsored by a collaborative effort from Student Alumni Associates, UT Alumni Foundation, the newly created UT Impact, CPC and other organizations, “I Heart UT Week” will promote school spirit and philanthropic efforts through various activities and events.

Lance Taylor, the director of annual giving for UTK Alumni Affairs, said the week is intended to celebrate UT and fortify a stronger campus community.

“We’re hopefully going to create an event that counteracts some of the negative that’s out there,” Taylor said. “It’s at the end of the semester; everyone’s running on fumes, so hopefully we can provide some fun activities to unwind right before finals.”

Several national stories have broken on campus this year, including the “butt-chugging” scandal in the fall and the ongoing controversy of “Sex Week.”

Taylor pointed to “I Heart UT Week” as an opportunity to focus more on the positive side of the Volunteer Tradition.

See UT WEEK on Page 3

Tara Sripunvoraskul • The Daily Beacon

Students wait for the stage change during Volapalooza last year. This year, Volapalooza is the finale for ‘I Heart UT Week.’

Around Rocky Top

UT student recognized as Udall Scholar David Cobb Assistant News Editor

Emily DeLanzo Managing Editor

Matthew DeMaria • The Daily Beacon

Parker Wormsley prepares to catch a fly-ball against South Carolina on April 7.

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Uniting his passion with purpose, one UT senior has been awarded the Udall Scholarship for his research in helping solve the energy needs of lowerincome households through weatherization.

The Udall Scholarship is awarded to 50 students across the nation recognized for research and their future careers relating to the environment, tribal policy or Native American healthcare.

Brian Conlon, a senior in honors environmental studies and German with minors in material science and engineering and economics, won the scholarship through his research in the Weatherization Assistance Program (WAP) with the Department of Energy at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

Weatherization makes buildings more energy efficient by protecting them and their interiors from outside elements. WAP evaluates low-income homes through an energy audit and moves forward with improving the home for energy efficiency.

Conlon’s research specifically focuses on the quality of life benefits of the weatherization project.

“My task right now is calculating the benefits or avoided damages of installing carbon monoxide detectors,” Conlon said. “A really large share of these households has combustion heat sources — like oil, gas, propane, any of that stuff — so with that comes a risk of carbon

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monoxide.

“But not many of the households have carbon monoxide detectors so I’m trying to figure out the number of avoided damages, like death and avoided hospitalizations, that are from that.”

One of the most rewarding aspects of WAP and his research, Conlon said, is the immediate effects seen by the participants of the program. “(The participants) are subject to lots and lots of bad things due to poverty,” Conlon said. “(Due to the project), there are a lot of examples of, ‘Oh, now I can feed my children properly’ because of decreased energy costs and ‘Now my child doesn’t have asthma attacks once a week’ because of the increased air quality.”

The weatherization program is a national program that began in the 1970s. It weatherizes close to 100,000 homes each year. As of 2009, over 6.2 mil-

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lion families had been positively affected by WAP. To pursue the Udall Scholarship, students must analyze a written work from Stewart Udall, former Secretary of the Interior under President Kennedy, or his brother Morris Udall and connect it to current issues.

Conlon drew inspiration from Stewart Udall’s “Energy Balloon” on getting away from foreign oil and pursuing energy independence.

“The conflict in Stewart’s ‘Energy Balloon’ is very similar to right now,” Conlon said. “…

We need to embrace conservation and reflect on what we really need. At a most basic level, just realize the impact of actions.”

Udall discovered his passion for energy efficiency through his love for a language.

“Basically, every German class will have a unit on World War II,

a unit on the Cold War and then a unit on environmentalism,” Conlon said. “Obviously, people associate Germany with Nazis and the Berlin Wall, but environmentalism is a completely new and positive asset for their country.”

Starting off as a political science major at UT, Conlon realized everything he cared about pertained to the environment in some way or another.

Because of his love for the German language, Conlon studied abroad and discovered his equal passion for sustainability.

“When I went to Germany, I was basically in heaven,” Conlon said. “Everyone was recycling and there was a ton of public transportation.

“That experience solidified my interest in (sustainability).

I just jumped right into it when I got back.”

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Tuesday, April 9, 2013 Associate Editor Preston Peeden

IN SHORT

Crime

Log

March 30 8:00 a.m. A complainant reported the theft of two Dell monitors, a Kodak slide projector, seven slide trays, a Dell device, three zip drives, a modem and several other camera-oriented devices.

The items had been left in a locked office in McClung Tower.

7:00 p.m. A victim reported the theft of her UT ID from Volunteer Hall where she claimed to have left it on a table in her room.

March 31 9:00 a.m. A victim reported the theft of a camera from a secure room at the Hodges Library studio.

1:39 p.m. A complainant reported the theft of a computer at the studio help desk in Hodges Library. It was classified as a theft of over $500.

April 1 1:13 a.m. An officer observed a Chevy Tahoe drive westbound on White Avenue, which is an eastbound only street. A check through dispatch showed that the driver had no license.

The driver was issued a citation for driving the wrong way and a misdemeanor for driving without a license.

11:41 p.m. An officer observed a vehicle with only one functioning headlamp traveling southbound on 17th Street. During the subsequent traffic stop, the driver was found to be operating the vehicle while his driving privileges were revoked. Criminal trespassing warnings for UT property were issued to the driver and passenger.

April 2 3:03 p.m. A complainant came to UTPD to report that his parking permit had been

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Around Rocky Top

stolen six weeks prior from the GF9 lot near the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity house.

April 3 10:20 a.m. While towing a vehicle from a crosswalk at the intersection of Volunteer Blvd and Lake Loudon, an officer observed drugs and drug paraphernalia in plain view within the car.

4:02 p.m. A complainant reported the theft of his bicycle from the Min Kao Engineering Building on March 18.

April 4 12:00 p.m. A victim reported the theft of her wallet and contents. The victim believed she left her wallet unattended when she left her work area at Andy Holt Tower.

12:20 p.m. An officer was dispatched to Stokely Management Center for a report of theft. Upon arrival, the officer spoke with the victim who stated that her purse that contained many items had been stolen. The victim was given a UTPD case card.

April 5 1:59 p.m. A student reported the theft of his UT ID from the TRECS field. He said that he left it unattended while he played a softball game two nights prior.

3:00 p.m. An officer was informed by an individual that he left his wallet unattended in the weight room of Volunteer Hall for approximately 18 hours. The individual stated that his wallet was turned into lost and found at the front desk of Volunteer Hall; however, a total of $46.00 had been taken from his wallet by an unknown person.

4:30 p.m. A victim reportTia Patron • The Daily Beacon ed the theft of his bicycle More bikes grace the outside of buildings as the spring temperatures reached into the 70s on Monday. from Hess Hall.

THIS DAY IN

HISTORY

1881 — Billy the Kid convicted of After three years on the run and sevmurder eral other murders, Pat Garrett finally arrested Billy in early 1881. Garrett, a After a one-day trial, Billy the Kid is one-time friend, was the new sheriff of found guilty of murdering the Lincoln Lincoln County. On this day in 1881, County, New Mexico, sheriff and is a court took only one day to convict sentenced to hang.

Billy of the murder of Sheriff Brady.

There is no doubt that Billy the Kid Sentenced to hang, Billy was imprisdid indeed shoot the sheriff, though oned in Lincoln’s county jail while he had done so in the context of the Sheriff Garrett gathered the technical bloody Lincoln County War, a battle information and supplies needed to between two powerful groups of ranch- build an effective gallows. ers and businessmen fighting for economic control of Lincoln County. When 1865 — Robert E. Lee surrenders his boss, rancher John Tunstall, was murdered before his eyes in February At Appomattox, Virginia, Confederate 1878, the hotheaded young Billy swore General Robert E. Lee surrenders vengeance. Unfortunately, the leader of his 28,000 troops to Union General the men who murdered Tunstall was Ulysses S. Grant, effectively ending the the sheriff of Lincoln County, William American Civil War. Forced to abandon Brady. When Billy and his partners the Confederate capital of Richmond, murdered the sheriff several months blocked from joining the surviving l a t e r , Confederate force in North Carolina, t h e y and harassed constantly by Union cavbecame alry, Lee had no other option. o u t In retreating from the Union army’s l a w s , Appomattox Campaign, the Army of regard- Northern Virginia had stumbled through less of the Virginia countryside stripped of h o w food and supplies. At one point, Union corrupt cavalry forces under General Philip B r a d y Sheridan had actually outrun Lee’s m a y army, blocking their retreat and takh a v e ing 6,000 prisoners at Sayler’s Creek.

Desertions were mounting daily, and been.

by April 8 the Confederates were surrounded with no possibility of escape.

On April 9, Lee sent a message to Grant announcing his willingness to surrender. The two generals met in the parlor of the Wilmer McLean home at one o’clock in the afternoon.

Lee and Grant, both holding the highest rank in their respective armies, had known each other slightly during the Mexican War and exchanged awkward personal inquiries. Characteristically, Grant arrived in his muddy field uniform while Lee had turned out in full dress attire, complete with sash and sword. Lee asked for the terms, and Grant hurriedly wrote them out. All officers and men were to be pardoned, and they would be sent home with their private property--most important, the horses, which could be used for a late spring planting. Officers would keep their side arms, and Lee’s starving men would be given Union rations.

Shushing a band that had begun to play in celebration, General Grant told his officers, “The war is over. The Rebels are our countrymen again.”

Although scattered resistance continued for several weeks, for all practical purposes the Civil War had come to an end.

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

Tuesday, April 9, 2013

THE DAILY BEACON • 3 News Editor RJ Vogt

CAMPUS NEWS UT WEEK continued from Page 1 “Anything that comes up that students get frustrated with, or alumni get frustrated with or upset with … we’re looking to counteract that,” he said.

“Everything is aimed at helping the campus community and UT, so that’s kind of our main focus: making sure that we’re helping out our own community and the university.”

The events feature service projects like a campus clean-up before the Orange and White game on Saturday, April 20, and a canned food drive on Thursday, April 25 that will provide free tank tops to the first 250 students who donate three cans.

Scattered throughout the week’s calendar are prize giveaways, movie nights, a dance party on the Hill and an ice cream social, all culminating in Volapalooza on Friday, April 26.

“In the future, I hope that this grows into … a huge festival and fun atmosphere on campus for a week,” Taylor said.

The idea was born last August when SAA representatives attended a conference hosted by their umbrella program, the Council for Advancement and

UDALL continued from Page 1 Jumping in might be an understatement. In addition to switching majors and a new course load, Conlon eventually earned the position of co-president of Students Promoting Environmental Action in Knoxville (SPEAK), attained an initial internship at ORNL with Climate Change Science Institute and was appointed to the Campus Committee for the Environment.

Through all of his classes and research, Conlon believes the most important thing he has learned has been on the environmental impacts caused by human behavior.

Support of Education.

Students from the University of California, Los Angeles and Drake University presented their versions of campus love weeks. Grant Minchew, a senior in political science and member of SAA, attended the convention and is excited to see some of the love week ideas brought back to Knoxville.

“It’s been really cool for them to see how it’s become a huge part of their campus tradition, just one celebration, altogether, ‘we finished the year, we did it,’” Minchew said.

He added that the week is also intended to honor alumni generosity. “Thank UT Day,” on Wednesday, April 24, will give students a chance to write postcards to giving alumni.

“We have a lot of awesome opportunities that come from just being a student at UT, whether that’s just the degree and the job that comes after or a community that’s built from friends that you meet from being involved,” Minchew said.

“Instead of focusing on silly little things that have happened because of people’s mistakes, let’s come together as a large group and celebrate that unity.”

More information can be found online at facebook.com/ IHeartUT. “Everything you do has some sort of impact on the environment,” Conlon said.

“You may not know exactly what it is, but if you can locate a general idea or know the impact, you should reflect your behavior accordingly.”

Conlon’s impact has extended beyond his work with ORNL and onto the UT campus where his work with SPEAK has entailed the planning of events like this fall’s “Sustainability Week” and the upcoming “Earth Day Week.”

“He’s helped us do those kinds of things and he’s just heavily involved,” SPEAK co-president Eric McAnly, a senior in chemistry, said.

“I’m really glad that he won the award.”

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UT’s SunShot Initiative to sponsor Solar Summit Staff Reports A UT group is partnering with the U.S. Department of Energy and statewide leaders to explore the growing field of solar energy.

UT’s SunShot Initiative Rooftop Solar Challenge is sponsoring the Tennessee Solar Summit in Chattanooga on Wednesday and Thursday, April 10 and 11. The conference will be held at the Sheraton Read House.

The goal of the conference is to educate attendees about the past and future of solar energy in Tennessee.

It will include several speakers and breakout sessions. Breakout sessions will include historic zoning and land issues, impact of solar energy on property appraisals, largescale solar installations and unique case studies.

“Attendees will meet the diverse group of solar stakeholders we have in Tennessee and form new partnerships to keep the momentum going in moving solar power forward in our state,” Bruce Tonn, principal investigator for UT’s Rooftop Solar Challenge grant at the Howard

Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy, said.

Karl Dean, mayor of metro Nashville and Davidson County, will discuss the future of solar power on the second day of the conference.

Other speakers include Ted Wampler Jr., president and chief operating officer of Wampler’s Sausage Farm Company; Matt Brown, program manager of Renewable Energy Programs for the Tennessee Valley Authority; Jean Peretz, former director of operations for the Tennessee Solar Institute; and Eric Ogle, Baker Center research associate. Also, city officials from Knoxville, Franklin and Nashville will present what they have accomplished with solar power in their cities.

The SunShot Initiative seeks to help Americans switch to solar power by streamlining the permit process, updating codes, improving connection standards, and increasing access to financing. It was started by the DOE Solar Energy Technologies Office. UT’s Rooftop Solar Challenge team was one of twenty-two nationwide that received funding from the DOE.

Tia Patron • The Daily Beacon

An electric bike-sharing station on the Ag Campus is one way UT is using solar energy on campus.

Kentucky preacher challenges city noise ordinance The Associated Press A Kentucky Christian evangelist will challenge a Tennessee city’s noise ordinance in court.

John McGlone was ticketed for using a microphone and amplifier to spread his message at last spring’s Franklin Main Street Festival.

“I obey the government as long as the government doesn’t go against what God tells me to do,” said McGlone, 52, who preaches with PinPoint Evangelism, based in the southern Kentucky community of Breeding in Adair County.

The Tennessean reported the city revised its noise regulations in 2011. The rules allow sound amplification at special events, but only by the event organizer — in this case, the Heritage Foundation of Franklin and Williamson County.

McGlone was cited, with the fine being $10 and court costs.

His appeal is scheduled for June 6 in Williamson County Circuit Court.

McGlone has challenged rules in the past.

The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati ruled

in his favor when McGlone challenged a Tennessee Tech University campus speech policy. The court ruled the university had abridged McGlone’s First Amendment right of free speech.

The appellate court took up McGlone’s challenge of University of Tennessee speech policy in January. No decision has yet been rendered.

In the Franklin case, McGlone said he was patient with the city.

“They could have dropped the whole thing,” he said. “But they didn’t.”

Records indicate an unidentified vendor at the festival told police McGlone’s sermons — boosted by a 16-watt amplifier — were disrupting her business.

City Administrator and Police Chief David Rahinsky asked McGlone to move outside the festival area or risk being cited. He continued to preach and drew the citation, but eventually left the festival.

“They can’t discriminate against me to be there as a Christian doing what a Christian is supposed to do,” McGlone said.

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Tuesday, April 9, 2013 Editor-in-Chief Blair Kuykendall

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Injury reminds of vulnerability As spectators of March Madness recovered from witnessing one of the most horrific sports injuries in recent years, Kevin Ware was recuperating in a hospital bed in Indianapolis. The general population was left nursing their fragile psyches and fighting the confusing urge to watch the play one more time; peeking through their fingers at the computer screen, reliving the disturbing incident.

The irony is so blunt that it is impossible to ignore. A division-one athlete leaps to defend a shot attempt, something that he does a hundred times a day. And upon returning to the ground, literally out of nowhere, snaps his leg clean in half no more than an arm’s length from his own team’s bench. Players and fans shielded their eyes, while Kevin lay on the floor with six inches of bone protruding from his dangling leg. As the air was sucked from the gym, several Louisville players were able to catch their breath just in time to vomit behind the bench. Even Rick Pitino, the Cardinal’s head coach, shed tears as Kevin was removed from the floor on a stretcher.

It wasn’t a bone-crushing hit, or even an accidental collision; he just jumped. He hit the ground, and everyone gasped inexplicably.

The notion is so ridiculous and out of the blue that in hindsight it really is almost comical (in the theoretical sense). But it bears an eerie resemblance to a sick practical joke played by some higher power on us, the witnesses. It comes at the expense of an individual whose physical fitness plays a pivotal role in crafting the irony of the aforementioned theoretically humorous scenario. Now the aftermath creates a fertile environment to lick our psychological wounds, which, admittedly, were minor at most. Kevin is recovering quite nicely. In fact, he has already begun to walk around on crutches and is expected to make a

full recovery, nothing but good news.

And yet, the common man is left to wonder, “When will it happen to me?” It can be easy to forget sometimes how vulnerable we really are. We go to great lengths to manage our lives, to maintain control. We wish to exist in a false reality where we, the maestro, conduct a compliant orchestra, rather than the more realistic image of Mickey Mouse trying to pick up the pieces after getting in way over his head with the mops. We allow the idea of our vulnerability to fade, until “some things, that should not be forgotten, are lost.” These instances remind us briefly of the reality that we have very little control over our lives. No one is inherently okay with this idea. We desperately search for an explanation to this horrible fate that has befallen the poor man writhing on the floor. But we are all left grasping at straws as we are whisked downstream toward the inevitable, and disconcerting conclusion that we are completely at the mercy of this jokester who apparently has a dark sense of humor.

It is, however, an important realization, the realization that we are vulnerable. Vulnerable like a pitiful, pink, baby bird. We can close our eyes, but the reality still exists. And so the sick joke starts to resemble a gracious warning, an imperative reminder that, in case we have forgotten, it is time to consider and confront the fact that we do not control our own fate. A truth that can either be ignored or accepted, but cannot be refuted. It is an idea that we must embrace. The reminder is free, placed in front of us in a dramatic fashion on national television for our consideration.

— Jacob Price is a sophomore in mechanical engineering. He can be reached at jprice49@ utk.edu.

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Alternatives exist to competitive learning Lost in Communication by

Jan Urbano Many of us have goals we want to accomplish. These can span from the short-term to the long-term, and be of a trivial nature or significantly important. Getting into a good university, for example, is a long-term and very substantial objective. It requires copious amounts of dedication, work and pre-planning.

That being said, the reason we are here today is because we competed with others and managed to prove that we were better, in some form.

It is frequently stated that competition helps to motivate people to work harder, serving as a sort of push to force a person to put more effort into what they are doing. However, rarely do people talk about the consequences of competition. We say that competition is a great way to inspire people to work harder and achieve new heights, but such a statement does not always prove to be true a majority of the time.

Although we are exposed to the concept of competition in multiple forms, we are most familiar with the contest that is school. This competition usually involves the academic or athletic side, although it is not unusual for people to immerse themselves in both.

Whether you accept it or not, you are always competing against others in most activities you do, with the ramifications also being similar in effect. Take for example, BCMB 311 or BCMB 401: most students in these classes are aspiring to become involved in some type of chemical-biological profession, encompassing future doctors, pharmacists and dentists. As such, they are all competing for limited spaces for their future schools of study; not all of them will be accepted.

Only those who prove themselves to be “the best of the best” will successfully enter, while the others settle for the leftovers and scramble over each other for them. There’s no doubt that all of these students, and those in other majors, have felt significant amounts of stress as they try to do their best to get high marks

on exams that seem to punish their every mistake with unforgiving red streaks. However, for those whose grades are lower, such stress can be heavily amplified.

We know what the effects of stress can do, but there are other factors besides this involved in competition. How would you react if you were forced to compete against others who are extremely intelligent and hardworking? Would you keep working even if you could never reach their level of performance?

I say this because such a context can have a powerful effect on how well you do, whether it is in the classroom or on the field.

Suppose that you are preparing for an exam, and there are only so many As that can be assigned to students. You know that there are other students who continually get these slots, but you are not sure if you should put forth the anguish and wasted effort into studying for what would encompass an A. You try your best, but it seems that you just can’t make the cut for the grades. Would you study just enough for a B? It seems strange to do this – just study for the A, most people would say. Sadly, since we are not all such talented human beings, only a few people would get the A in the again, while the others would settle for the lower grades. In a sense, if the odds were more even, you would have a greater chance of being on top relative to the amount of work you put in.

However, if you know the odds are heavily stacked against you, there is a higher chance that you will be discouraged, and as a result your abilities will be reduced. This is, fortunately or unfortunately, the basis of our successes and our failures. Although competition is a popular way to help people become more focused and augment their abilities, it also has its downsides. There are other methods to help people become successful, and competition is only one of many. Instead of telling people to fight and compete with each other as they learn, we could change the learning style to “group-learning,” with people teaching others who are struggling so that they too can help increase group knowledge and togetherness, with an additional emphasis of their membership in a global community.

— Jan Urbano is a junior in biological sciences. He can be reached at jurbano@utk.edu.

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As graduation quickly approaches (one month!), I’ve found myself thinking increasingly more about the value of my education, rather than focusing on more productive and immediate matters such as finishing a pesky thesis or beginning to work on any one of the numerous assignments I must finish before reaching the sweet liberty that is graduation.

A running joke between me and my friends is the “marketability” of my English degree, and often I will simply respond that I plan on being the most articulate and well-read waiter on the job market for the next several years. I don’t really know why I decided to become an English major in the first place.

It was always my favorite subject in grade school and I had always done well in my English classes, and those were all the reasons I needed to change from history to English during my sophomore year. I didn’t realize it at the time, but switching to English has proven to be one of the best decisions I’ve made at UT. One of the best feelings you can have at university is waking up genuinely excited and interested for your classes, or not having a single class in the semester you dread taking or is something you have to take for some requirement — some of my best semesters at UT have been ones where I was excited for all my classes. I have found that elusive feeling in my English studies, and it is something that adds a whole different level of reward to my undergraduate experience.

An English degree, and for that matter many other arts and sciences degrees, is one that at first glance does not offer the greatest employment opportunities or earning

potential – and at a shallow examination, it seems an appropriate analysis. As much as I may appreciate the beauty of the novels of Hemmingway or Fitzgerald, or marvel at the fact that the works of Shakespeare are still relevant over 400 years after their creation, knowing every detail and theme of these works is not exactly the most relevant information for any job in the corporate or nonprofit world. I am consistently asked about how I plan to find a job once I graduate, or if I plan on going to law school or if I plan to become a professor and perpetuate the cycle of the English undergraduate circle.

I wasn’t worried about any of those details, however, as I worked my way through the English curriculum. I was preoccupied with the seemingly never-ending stream of papers, novels and essays that are the backbone of any English class, or getting lost in reading “The Great Gatsby” for the first time, or struggling (and failing) to work through a William Faulkner stream of conscience novel. Now, as I am approaching the end of my undergraduate career and realizing that I will more than likely not go to graduate school for English and become a professor with thick rimmed glasses and a blazer with elbow patches, I have found something else of value in my English, and my arts and sciences education in general, that goes far beyond the walls of HSS. Through my English studies, I have learned how to think critically, to interact with the words and actions of others, and perhaps, most importantly, to be flexible in a world that is changing at ever increasing speeds.

Though an arts and sciences education may not have lined me up for a career immediately after graduation, I am confident that the flexibility given to me by an arts and sciences education will serve me just fine.

— Ron Walters is a senior in English literature, French and global studies. He can be reached at rwalter5@utk.edu

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THE DAILY BEACON • 5 Arts & Culture Editor Victoria Wright

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‘Spring Breakers’ leaves lasting impression ‘Zombie’ finds missing Christy Cleger Staff Writer Booze, boobs and ... Selena Gomez? There is no question that director Harmony Korine is mocking the hedonistic idea of an American Spring Break with his latest film, “Spring Breakers.�

The reverberating thrums of Skrillex open the film and set the tone as a slew of drunk, naked girls on the beach suggestively suck on popsicles, with guys cheering them on between the alternation of guzzling alcohol and pouring it all over the girls’ bare chests. One could practically hear Korine’s mockery of Spring Break as the camera pans in to a close-up of one girl’s freely bouncing breasts.

The film lacks any moral underpinning as it follows four friends, Faith (Selena Gomez), Candy (Vanessa Hudgens), Brit (Ashley Benson) and Cotty (Rachel Korine), who are desperate to escape reality and travel to Florida. There’s only one problem: they’re broke. Candy, Brit and Cotty steal a professor’s El Camino, rob a local fast-food restaurant with squirt guns then burn the car. “Just pretend it’s a ... video game,� Candy encourages them. This is the first big role Hudgens has had since the sensation of “High School Musical.�

It is evident she’s trying to break out of the child star role, but her

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performance was awkward in its delivery.

Faith, who seems to be the only character with morals in the film, highly disapproves of the means in which the money was received but quickly forgives her friends. The foursome begins the journey from the safe haven of their Christian university to the deep, sinful waters of what seems to be a fun Florida Spring Break.

light the girls, Franco steals the thunder and proves his seamless talent by immersing himself in his character Alien. Tattooed, gold-grilled and cornrowed, he is a drug-dealing hustler with a southern drawl that is borderline incomprehensible. Alien seems to be a joke but proves to be a true gangster once he crosses paths with his ex-best friend, Archie (Gucci Mane).

Upon discovering what type

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At first, everything seems to be going great. The girls take part in the hype of a typical college Spring Break: funneling beer, dancing wildly on balconies, kissing boys and attending the beach concert of wannabe rapper, Alien (James Franco).

But after a hotel party gone bad, the girls end up in jail.

Upon their court hearing, Alien is in attendance and decides to bail the four girls out and take them under his wing.

Although the film tries to high-

of person Alien truly is and experiencing his lifestyle and surroundings, Faith is uncomfortable, pushed past her brink and decides to head home early.

Out goes the only character who would possibly have given the film any type of positive outcome.

Three remain: Cotty, Candy and Brit. The girls get caught up in Alien’s mess and continue the madness, crashing everyone’s parties in pink ski masks with real guns, stealing money,

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threatening lives, and doing and dealing drugs as they go. One thing is for sure: “Everytime�

by Britney Spears will never be heard the same way again.

Archie, now Alien’s enemy, threatens him to stop dealing drugs in his part of the neighborhood, as it is his business Alien is stealing. Alien fails to comply and puts the girls’ lives at risk, resulting in Cotty getting shot in the arm and departing “paradise,� leaving just Candy and Brit.

With only the two girls left, Alien sets out to kill Archie in revenge. Once the three get to Archie’s mansion, locked and loaded, Alien is instantly shot and killed, but Candy and Brit continue killing without hesitation. What started as a ploy with squirt guns turned into something that leaves real blood on the hands of two girls who initially wanted nothing more than to escape reality during Spring Break.

It’s hard to tell what Korine was trying to do exactly, but what the film leaves viewers with is a deeply unsettling and highly unforgettable experience about how the desire for excess easily leads to destruction at the expense of one’s soul. Korine is notorious for exposing and exploiting the shortfalls of society, but “Spring Breakers� is by far the one film that will undoubtedly leave a lasting impression on the viewer’s psyche.

The Associated Press It took a zombie to find Disaster at the Crossroads of the World.

Two years after he disappeared from his Long Island home, Disaster the cat was found this week in the heart of Manhattan — by a Times Square haunted house promoter dressed up as a zombie.

Jeremy Zelkowitz, who sells tickets for the Times Scare haunted house, spotted Disaster early Saturday morning crossing 42nd Street. He snatched up Disaster, a black and white cat who appeared to be well-kept and neat, and brought him to a nearby animal hospital. “I’m a big animal lover but I have a dog so I couldn’t take him,� Zelkowitz, 22, said Thursday. “The whole situation is very, very bizarre.�

Staff at the BluePearl Veterinary Partners animal hospital scanned Disaster who had been implanted with a microchip, revealing his last known owner: New York City police Officer Jimmy Helliesen.

Helliesen, 51, received a call Saturday morning from the hospital, informing him that his long-lost feline friend had been found. “I was shocked,� said Helliesen. “How did he get to

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and

Manhattan? That’s quite an adventure.�

For years Helliesen has adopted stray cats he finds hanging around his Brooklyn precinct. Two years ago he adopted Disaster after he strayed from the precinct and ended up getting captured by local Animal Care and Control.

That’s when Helliesen got him fixed and implanted with the chip.

But six months after living in his Long Island home, Disaster escaped one day through an open window and never returned.

Helliesen never thought he’d get the cat back — and has since taken in eight more cats he’s found around the precinct who need homes. “Disaster makes it nine,� he said. “My wife has been very understanding.�

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6 • THE DAILY BEACON

Tuesday, April 9, 2013 Sports Editor Lauren Kittrell

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lkittre1@utk.edu

Assistant Sports Editor Austin Bornheim abornhei@utk.edu

Around Rocky Top

Matthew DeMaria • The Daily Beacon

The sun sets on the Lady Vols at Goodfriend Tennis Center on April 5.

Vols look to break losing streak, overcome ETSU Cristina Hodge Staff Writer It was a rough weekend for the Tennessee Volunteers baseball team as their 19-2 defeat at the hands of the South Carolina Gamecocks on Sunday completed a sweep of the weekend series that saw the Vols get outscored 36-14.

The Vols entered the series against the Gamecocks looking to end their five-game losing streak but were disappointed as the weekend added to their unfavorable streak.

“It’s not a good feeling at all,” catcher Ethan Bennett said after Sunday’s loss.

While the series defeat will

be a hard one to stomach, Bennett said the team isn’t going to let the losses from this weekend tear them down.

“Once you put your head down, you’re only going to get pushed down in the dirt even more,” Bennett said. “We just got to keep our chests out and be big about it.”

Now the Vols (13-17, 3-9 SEC) will focus on the road ahead and travel to Johnson City on Tuesday to play against ETSU, where they hope to end their current eight-game losing skid.

“You got to remember (the weekend), but still come out and get a win,” Bennett said.

“We know ETSU is going to be after us, and they’re going to be wanting to beat us. So I think we can turn that around, and use that fire and get after them.”

The team is looking to rebound and get to work on fixing their mistakes so they can learn from them and be fully prepared to take on ETSU. “We have to move on,” head coach Dave Serrano said. “It’s about us playing good baseball, and that’s what I want to see ... I want to see us play good baseball, and it’d be nice to get out of this funk because it’s not going to get any easier.”

The remaining opponents that the Vols will face from here on out are all challenging foes, so they’re trying to figure out a way to take these losses and turn them into an incentive to work harder and

become stronger in order to pull out some much needed wins.

“I’m a big believer in the baseball gods,” Serrano said.

“I think the baseball gods are really testing us right now to

see how much we can endure until we finally step up and become tougher, and start finding a way to get things done.”

First pitch from Johnson City is scheduled for 7:05 p.m.

Matthew DeMaria • The Daily Beacon

The Tennessee Volunteers shake hands with the South Carolina Gamecocks after their game on Sunday. The Vols play against ETSU on Tuesday.

Spring fever arrives on UT campus Lauren Kittrell Sports Editor As I’ve puttered my way through the last semester of my senior year, I’ve found that every distraction has heightened and my motivation is lacking.

There’s the occasional burst of energy, sparking a few hours of study and administrative genius, but it’s generally caffeine related and shortlived. Nearly everything this year has seemed monotonous and really just a means to an end, but as winter turns into spring and the weather hits high sixties and seventies, I’ve suddenly felt my blood pumping.

Each year when everyone gets excited for fall and football, I begin to cringe, knowing that football and autumn leaves are just the calm before

the storm. Football always ends, leading to a generally disappointing basketball season and inexplicably cold, wet and generally dreary winter days.

Only when the skies clear and the sun beams down on the amphitheater do I begin to feel the buildup of winter stress melting off my shoulders. I feel the call of the outdoors, and what better way to enjoy them than by enjoying the many sports that accompany the season?

As sports editor, I find it unbelievable that I get paid to do something I love. When weather.com reads 65 degrees in Knoxville, planting in me an instant craving for softball, tennis, baseball and even the occasional rowing or golf outing, I don’t stop to think. I drop by the Beacon, pick up my credentials and head to the nearest athletic event. It’s a win-win situation.

Sitting in Lindsey Nelson Stadium, Sherri Parker Lee Stadium or Barksdale Stadium and taking in a day of sports couldn’t be more refreshing. The games, the fans, the competition, the athletes and the venues could

not create a more refreshing environment. There are days when my soul just screams for the outdoors, to just get away from the books and the computer and the office and enjoy a break, some time to get away and enjoy the simple things.

Thankfully, I have an outlet for these cravings.

But these activities aren’t limited to me.

Pull out your VolCard and take a break. There’s plenty for all of us and there’s no denying we need a break. Just walk through Hodges Library.

Students sitting at desks, craning their necks, building tension and working to crank out whatever paper, project or speech they have to have in by Friday.

Imagine the beauty of taking the night off, eating some Cracker Jacks and enjoying some of America’s favorite pastimes. Who knows, it might even help clear your mind to figure out that last math assignment.

— Lauren Kittrell is a senior in journalism and electronic media. She can be reached at lkittre1@utk.edu.