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Student brings notable humanist to campus Diana Saqeb to speak, screen film dealing with women’s rights plight in Afghanistan Blair Kuykendall News Editor The UT community hosts renowned human rights activist and filmmaker, Diana Saqeb, in a series of events this week featuring her work.

Saqeb has been a powerful advocate for women’s rights in Afghanistan, initiating protests in 2009, when she was 28 years old. She detailed the experiences of women in the Afghan Parliament in her documentary, “25 Percent,” which has been screened internationally in venues like the Swedish Parliament and the International Security Assistance Force Camp in Mazar-e-Sharif.

“I like to screen my documentaries for people all around the world,” Saqeb said.

“It is important for me to show my films, because people generally associate war and terrorism with Afghanistan, but I try to show other parts of Afghan life to the people of the world.”

Saqeb mainly focuses her films on the plight of women within her country.

“A lot of artists make films trying to show something about Afghanistan, with a lot of films depicting poor or uneducated Afghan women,” Saqeb said. “I try to convey the other side of the story in my films.”

Anne Buckle, senior in music, is responsible for arranging Saqeb’s visit.

“I met Ms. Saqeb while I interned at the U.S. Embassy in Paris this past summer,” Buckle said in a statement. “She was visiting Paris with several other Afghan journalists on a U.S. government-sponsored program that aimed to help the group network with Western media organizations.”

Saqeb is eager to expose different parts of the world to her work.

“When I met Anne in Paris, she suggested that I screen my film here,” Saqeb said.

Members of the UT community say they are delighted to have the opportunity to host Saqeb.

“We have a whole week’s worth of events planned,” Leah Adinolfi, director of stu-

dent engagement for the Baker Center, said. The schedule should give students several different chances to take advantage of their opportunity to meet the activist.

Buckle sought to expose the Knoxville community to Saqeb’s unique perspective.

“My eyes were opened to the real situation for women in Afghanistan today through her film, and I was so moved by it that I wanted to help her spread the word about the fight for women’s rights in her country,” Buckle said. “She enthusiastically agreed to come, so when I returned to UT in the fall, I asked the Baker Center if we could possibly pull this off.

Thanks to Leah Adinolfi, we did.”

Saqeb is highly respected in the international community for her work.

“She is the leading women’s rights activist in Afghanistan, and she spreads her activism through her documentary films,” Buckle said. “She is incredibly well-spoken, fearless and intelligent, not to mention poised and gracious. I honestly think she should run for president of Afghanistan. In fact, President Karzai chose her to represent Afghanistan at President Obama’s Nobel Prize reception a few years ago. She has a passion for justice, freedom and equality, and she isn’t afraid to fight for what she believes in.”

The activist met with students on

Monday at the I-House for an informal meet-and-greet. Several students turned out to ask questions and interact with Saqeb. Her documentary, “25 percent,” was shown Tuesday at 7 p.m. in the Toyota Auditorium.

A “Diversitea” session will take place with Saqeb at 5 p.m. at the Tyson House Episcopal/Lutheran Center. Saqeb will also make appearances at various classes and events on campus during her stay.

Given the developments in the last several years between the U.S. and

Afghanistan, Saqeb’s experiences are highly relevant to discussions of U.S. foreign policy.

“Afghanistan is the hot topic in current affairs,” Buckle said. “From Western media sources, we constantly hear about American troops on the ground in Afghanistan, the Taliban, terrorist groups and corruption in the government. We hear about the opium trade and Afghanistan’s unstable economy. But how often do we hear about the civilian people in the country? How often do we hear the stories about women being killed for trying to become educated?

Ms. Saqeb offers a unique, real view of the current state of life for the ‘regular’ people in her country.”

Buckle said she hopes that students will take this opportunity to gain real perspectives on the nation and its people.

“Her films show an Afghanistan that has not been refracted through the lens of Western media channels,” Buckle said. “She brings the truth. Students in Knoxville, Tenn., have the opportunity to find out what’s really going on in that war-torn country, where so much of our tax dollars, media attention and political rhetoric have been spent in • Diana Saqeb recent years.”

Saqeb said she hopes that her work will introduce a different perspective on Afghanistan and its people.

“We can’t change everything overnight, but we are working to bring about change through art, films and paintings,” Saqeb said.

Student to reenact historic bus ride from the past, but its significance far exceeds that time period,” she said. “We have a chance to not only reflect on the struggle and sacrifice Staff Writer that has gotten our country to this point, but how we can continue to build upon that struggle Brandi Panter to enact change today.”

Managing Editor In Webster’s case, the event is more than just Jayanni Webster, junior in the College historical. It’s personal.

“The Freedom Ride to me means the opporScholars Program, has been chosen to participate in the 2011 Student Freedom Ride, which tunity to connect with the past, discuss changes will repeat the journey of the original 1961 and actions for the present and to help and Freedom Riders’ civil rights trip from shape the future in a way that promotes civil and human rights,” she said. “Personally, it Washington, D.C., to New Orleans.

The 2011 Student Freedom Ride is a re- means that I get to connect with a part of my enactment of the 1961 Freedom Rides in which mother’s, father’s and grandparents’ history. It young people (black and white) boarded buses means a chance to prove to our society that the to tour the South, spreading the message of civil youth of today are engaged, informed and do care about social change.” rights.

Webster specialized her studies at UT in “We will meet original Freedom Riders along post-conflict educathe way, as well as particition in Africa under pate in events and service the advisement of activities,” Webster said.

Rosalind Hackett, The riders will begin director of the UT the 10-day trip on May 6 in Department of Washington, D.C., and will Religious Studies. complete it in New Webster believed the Orleans. A mix of student Freedom Ride would Freedom Riders and memgreatly impact her bers of the original current education.

Freedom Ride will be on “My major focuses the ride. Stanley Nelson, on peace education director of the Freedom initiatives in northern Riders film documenting Uganda and the the story of the original Student Freedom event, will also accompany Riders, given its them. emphasis on civic “We have benefited in engagement, echo many ways from what the some of the same Freedom Riders did, riskthemes that I’ve found ing their lives to stand up looking at those initiafor what is right,” Webster – Jayanni Webster tives,” she said. said. “As students, we on reenacting Freedom Riders Kimberly Burley, a have many tools that were communications prenot available say five, 10 major sophomore, years ago to advocate for social change and to participate in civic engage- expressed a great deal of pride in her friend’s accomplishment. ment activities.”

“It’s a huge honor,” she said. “Jayanni is wonWebster, along with 39 other students, was selected from thousands of applicants to partic- derful, very humble. She’s very involved on camipate in this 50th-anniversary event as a part of pus.”

Burnett said she thinks that Webster’s American Experience on PBS. At first, Webster was not aware of the scale of her acceptance. involvement in the re-enactments are especially She didn’t know about the thousands of appli- important for getting a better understanding of how the Freedom Riders felt. cants until much later.

“It’s great that she’s doing this,” she said. “It’s “I was very surprised and humbled that I was among a select group of university students so hard to understand history if you didn’t live through it. It helps to put yourself in the shoes from around the U.S.,” Webster said.

Webster said the event will help those partic- of the past.”

The Freedom Riders film will air on PBS on ipating not only remember the past, but use it to May 16, coinciding with the group’s arrival in change the future.

“This is a historic event, because not only is New Orleans. Information about the event can it a very well-documented social change event be found at pbs.org/freedomriders.

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Students lounge outside the front of Ayres Hall on a sunny Tuesday, April 12.

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Cheyenne White, freshman in nursing, and Stephanie Combs, freshman in aerospace engineering, lay down a base coat to begin painting the Rock on Thursday, April 7.

1865: Lincoln is shot On this day in 1865, John Wilkes Booth, an actor and Confederate sympathizer, fatally shoots President Abraham Lincoln at a play at Ford’s Theater in Washington, D.C. The attack came only five days after Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered his massive army at Appomattox Court House, Virginia, effectively ending the American Civil War. Booth, a Maryland native born in 1838, who remained in the North during the war despite his Confederate sympathies, initially plotted to capture President Lincoln and take him to Richmond, the Confederate capital. However, on March 20, 1865, the day of the planned kidnapping, the president failed to appear at the spot where Booth and his six fellow conspirators lay in wait. Two weeks later, Richmond fell to Union forces.

In April, with Confederate armies near collapse across the South, Booth hatched a desperate plan to save the Confederacy. Learning that Lincoln was to attend a performance of “Our

American Cousin” at Ford’s Theater on April 14, Booth masterminded the simultaneous assassination of Lincoln, Vice President Andrew Johnson and Secretary of State William H. Seward. By murdering the president and two of his possible successors, Booth and his conspirators hoped to throw the U.S. government into disarray.

The president, mortally wounded, was carried to a lodging house opposite Ford’s Theater.

About 7:22 a.m. the next morning, Lincoln, age 56, died — the first U.S. president to be assassinated. Booth, pursued by the army and other secret forces, was finally cornered in a barn near Bowling Green, Virginia, and died from a possibly self-inflicted bullet wound as the barn was burned to the ground. Of the eight other people eventually charged with the conspiracy, four were hanged and four were jailed. Lincoln, the 16th U.S. president, was buried on May 4, 1865, in Springfield, Ill. — This Day in History is courtesy of history.com.

THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE’S ALPHA CHAPTER OF PHI KAPPA PHI CONGRATULATES OUR NEW INITIATES COLLEGE E OFF AGRICULTURAL L SCIENCES S & NATURAL L RESOURCES Tyler M. L. Brannon Steven M. Ensminger Cassi S. Jones Kelly A. Miller Kendall C. Payne Elizabeth E. Royal Cameron K. Spaulding Kathryn F. Williams

COLLEGE E OFF ARCHITECTURE A N D DESIGN Tiffany N. Gentry Amanda E. Gertsen Erin M. Monk-Tharp

COLLEG G E OFF ARTS S & SCIENCES Claire E. Campbell Olivia Ellis Caroline D. Fraser Rachel E. Fuqua Blake B. Giles Maggi C. Hume Yangseung Jeong Austin P. Judkins Jonathan S. Keeney Hannah E. Long Meghan E. Mercer Rachel Naramore Kristen B. Newcomer Hemali R. Patel Lindsay Pearce Kelsey C. Roy Sarah F. Russell Sam Sheddan Tharon Snuggs Stephen J. Soufleris Benjamin P. Spires Emmanuel J. Stokes

Courtney M. White Marcus G. Wild Amber R. Wimsatt Brittany N. Wiseman

COLLEGE E OFF BUSINESS S ADMINISTRATION Kelly E. De Moll Ellen H. McEwan Keely R. Moore Gustavo N. Revkolevsky Kelsey L. Solomon

COLLEGE E OFF COMMUNICATION N & INFORMATION Meredith K. Boehm Stanley G. Dowell Valerie T. Jopeck Ana L. Richters Amanda G. Shell

COLLEGE E OFF EDUCA A TION,, HEALTH,, & HUMAN N SCIENCES Robin L. Bell Anthony M. Brown Nicholas C. King Hollie M. Nawrocki Cedelle A. Niles Sarah L. Philpott

COLLEGE E OFF LAW Elizabeth C. Tramm Mary L. Walden COLLEGE E OFF NURSING Cecily W. Strang Shelia Swift

COLLEGE E OFF SOCIAL L WORK Kara Davenport Laurel Laiewski

COLLEGE E OFF VETERINARYY MEDICINE Kristina A. Cooney Jacqueline Devoto Haley A. Johnson Suzanne M. Khalafalla Lawrence E. McEnroe IV Maranda M. Mounce Jenny Payette Rachel J. Tulipan

OUTSTANDING G SOPHOMORES Ali Martin College of Agricultural Sciences & Natural Resources

FACULTYY INITIATES Dr. Hans DeSmidt College of Engineering

COLLEGE E OFF ENGINEERING Jeremy Brooksbank Kevin Spellman Qi Yuan

Dr. Margaret Knight College of Education, Health & Human Sciences

Dr. Carole Myers College of Nursing

Dr. Gary Ramsey College of Nursing

Dr. John Schwartz College of Engineering

UT is one of the founding chapters of the Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society. Over 100 years ago, UT joined with two other universities to recognize academic excellence in all departments and all colleges. Since then, hundreds of chapters across the country have joined us to celebrate the achievement of junior, senior, and graduate students. Phi Kappa Phi also recognizes an outstanding sophomore from each college during the spring semester, as well as initiating faculty members that were nominated for membership. These initiates have accepted membership into Phi Kappa Phi as of April 8, 2011. Congratulations!

The Initiation Ceremony will be held on Thursday, April 14, 2011, at 6:00 p.m. in the Hollingsworth Auditorium on the Ag Campus (Ellington Plant Sciences Building)

Crime Log April 11 A UT student damaged one of the benches in front of the HPER Building breezeway in a hit-and-run incident around 5:52 p.m.

An unaffiliated Sparta, Tenn., resident witnessed the accident and contacted UTPD. The suspect was then located and admitted to causing the damage to the bench.

A UT staff member reported that she had received an unsolicited, sexually explicit email on her office computer around 12:04 p.m. on April 9. The suspect is unknown.

A UT student reported that a GPS system had been stolen from her green 1997 Jeep Wrangler while it was parked on the fourth level of the G7 parking garage between 11:49 p.m. on April 11 and 12:04 a.m. on April 12.

A student reported that her wallet had been stolen from the seating area next to Subway in the UC some time between 12:45 p.m. and 1 p.m.

—Crime Log is compiled by Robbie Hargett.

April 12 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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UT professors win Navy award

Ready for the World Café celebrates healthy eating around the globe The Ready for the World Café at UT will celebrate Central and South America this week.

Heroes Day, a Costa Rican holiday was Monday and the Day of the Americas, a Honduran holiday today.

The menu will include roasted chayote and red pepper salad with tangerine dressing, Aztec chicken, grilled tilapia Vera Cruz with lemon and thyme, scented salsa, Yucatan style pork, meatless tamale pie, Ecuadorian potato cakes with peanut sauce, and green beans with coriander and garlic.

The café is an international buffet operated by students in the advanced food production and service management class, Hotel, Restaurant and Tourism (HRT) 445, at UT. The café is open from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. each Monday through Thursday in the Hermitage Room on the third floor of the University Center.

Diners pay $11 for the all-you-can-eat buffet or $9 for a plate of food to carry out. Aramark’s faculty/staff discount card can be used at the café.

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

International Festival to include celebration of civility and community This year’s International Festival at UT will feature booths selling tantalizing food and entertainment ranging from juggling to Chinese acrobatics to Egyptian belly dancing.

And, this year, the International Festival also will include a Celebration of Civility and Community, hosted by Chancellor Jimmy G. Cheek.

The twenty-sixth annual International Festival, hosted by the International House, will take place from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Friday on the UC Plaza. It is free and open to the public.

The civility initiative was launched last semester by the chancellor after several incidents of disrespect and discrimination occurred on campus. Cheek appointed a task force that recommended ways to promote civility on campus.

During the Celebration of Civility and Community, Student Success Center Director Anton Reece will introduce Cheek, who will talk about civility efforts on campus. Jessica Session, who performed a moving poem during the kickoff to the fiftieth anniversary of African American Achievement, will perform another original work.

Two UT professors have been honored with the Office of Naval Research (ONR) 2011 Young Investigator Program (YIP) awards, totaling more than $1 million over three years.

The professors join a select group of institutions including the University of Michigan and Yale, Johns Hopkins, Harvard and Princeton universities.

The Navy selected 21 proposals from more than 270 applications received last year. Only UT and Princeton had more than one professor receive an award.

UT’s winners are Xiaorui Wang, an assistant professor in electrical engineering and computer science, and Mingjun Zhang, associate professor in mechanical, aerospace and biomedical engineering. Wang and Zhang will each receive approximately $170,000 in annual research grants for three years.

The YIP award supports academic scientists and engineers who have obtained their doctorate (or equivalent degrees) and tenure-track positions within the past five years. They are awarded for compelling research with the potential to deliver game-changing naval science and technology.

Wang seeks to improve the connectivity and energy-efficiency of mission-critical wireless sensor networks (WSNs) such as disaster warning systems. His research will aim to solve common problems of communication delays and power failures by developing a framework that utilizes all available channel networks while balancing energy usage for maximized network lifetime.

Zhang turns to nature for creating energyefficient, unmanned underwater vehicles and robots for naval defense missions. He will analyze and model nature’s design principles of micro-organisms’ energy-efficient swimming and use the findings for inspiration of innovative designs for defense missions.

Both researchers credit the university’s resources, programs and staff for making their research possible.

Since its inception in 1985, the YIP award program has named 554 recipients representing 118 institutions of higher education.

Thomas Brantley • The Daily Beacon

Students perform an ensemble piece during a concert in the Alumni Memorial Building on Thursday, April 7. The works performed were original compositions by seniors Christopher Adams and Wendi Fleming

UTPD celebrates National Public Safety Telecommunications Week The UT Police Department is celebrating National Public Safety Telecommunications Week April 11-17.

Sponsored by the Association of PublicSafety Communications Officials International and celebrated annually, National Public Safety Telecommunications Week honors the thousands of men and women who respond to emergency calls, dispatch emergency professionals and equipment and render life-saving assistance.

The UT Police Department employs 12 dedicated communications officers and one supervisor to respond to all telephone calls, walk-in complaints and police radio communications for the entire department. This group covers communication duties 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

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Letters Editor to the

University unconcerned with budget woes It is no secret UT is facing a budget cut of about $56 million for the next fiscal year. There have already been numerous program cuts and there will be a round of layoffs that will occur in June before the beginning of the new fiscal year. Tuition has risen every year since I started in August 2006.

Fast forward to spring 2010 and I, along with many others, found out about the implementation of differential tuition. Depending on which of the “most employable” colleges one might attend, according to Chancellor Cheek, the rate was set between $45 and $90 per credit hour. UT also has a policy that locks students who plan on graduating at some point in their lives into attending the last 30 hours of their coursework at UT. This policy has left me and others going into our last year with no choice but to pay what amounts to extortion.

My in-demand and high-paying math skills have allowed me to figure out UT has taken me for just more $1,000.

This is the reason it infuriates me to see the university waste money in the ways it does. First, we were told part of the differential tuition for the College of Engineering would be used to buy stickers in order to let students know something was purchased with differential tuition. I’ve seen trophies and awards handed out to basically anyone that comes to campus and speaks for 10 minutes. We also can’t ignore the sham that is SGA, but that is a story for another day.

Finally, I noticed the appearance of Post-It notes all over campus with cheesy one-liners aimed at what I assume is an effort to increase civility. After all, printed on the bottom of each Post-It note is the web address civility.utk.edu. Plastering these notes all over campus is probably the most classless act I have witnessed during my time here. Within a day, I started to see them blowing around outside and stuck to street signs and people’s personal property. The last time I checked, littering in Tennessee is punishable by a $50 fine for small amounts of litter. I propose that whoever came up with this Post-It-note campaign be fined for each of the 100-plus notes I have seen on campus.

I simply ask the university to stop wasting money on junk and spending money they don’t have before they immediately resort to raising tuition and pre-taxing success with differential tuition. I know those Post-It notes were a theoretical drop in the bucket compared to the shortfalls the university faces, but it gives the impression that the school doesn’t care because they can always raise the rates.

Aaron Williamson senior in mechanical engineering awilli80@utk.edu Columnist incorrectly utilizes label In the April 5 issue of The Daily Beacon, Elliott Devore related how he had taken a wrong turn and stumbled upon a “low socio-economic area.”

“Low socio-economic area?” Don’t you mean poor? As in a “poor neighborhood.” Though, given the nature of Mr. Devore’s column, perhaps I should write a “p*** neighborhood.”

Like you, I don’t know if poor people like being called “economically disadvantaged” because, like you, I don’t get out of my car when I “stumble upon” a “low socio-economic area.” In fact, I tend to lock my doors and get out as quickly as possible.

Likewise, when I see a homeless man on the side of the highway, I don’t stop. I don’t give him money. I just think to myself, “how sad,” and then return to my well-heated, air-conditioned dormitory and write a column in which I decide that, by using false labels, I can somehow alleviate their suffering.

It’s really simple: Poor people are poor people. They are not “economically disadvantaged,” and although they may live in “low socio-economic areas,” in English, we say they’re poor people, living in bad neighborhoods.

Or rather, they’re p***. You know, let’s just aim for that, and reconvene later.

Travis Lee 2008 UT graduate in French TL1138@gmail.com SCRAMBLED EGGS • Alex Cline

THE GREAT MASHUP • Liz Newnam

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Students falling prey to federal ‘loan sharks’ Of the Deep End by

Derek Mullins What exactly are loan sharks supposed to look like?

Movies, television and other media usually depict them as being men of small stature with sleaze-ball grins, a wardrobe that should be incinerated for the good of the national sanity and oily, slicked-back hair that is so greasy you could use it to fry a list of foods.

They usually work with larger men, be they hired hands or other components of a criminal organization, and they always give you a deal that they know is so heavily bent in their favor that it makes every casino owner in Las Vegas blush. The only religion they know is their worship of the almighty dollar, and they never hesitate to take everything from you in order to get what they feel they are owed … plus a bit more for their trouble.

The truth? Loan sharks that exist in the real world are usually in no way as cartoonish as their counterparts in comic books or blockbuster movies. They can even be the exact opposite: well-dressed, well-spoken, extremely educated and even a part of the highest echelon of society.

They can be overzealous bankers or even sharp-dressed perpetrators of various white-collar crimes.

The biggest loan shark in the nation befits that profile.

In fact, he’s dressed in star-spangled red, white and blue threads, has a prominent white beard, and he absolutely loves to point and stare with an intense look in his eyes.

That’s right. The biggest loan shark in this country, at least where college students are concerned, is Uncle Sam himself.

The story goes back to the late ’60s. President Lyndon B. Johnson was doing his best to implement his Great Society strategy to help lift underprivileged individuals from poverty. Part of this was the Higher Education Act, a law that sought to create federally guaranteed loans and scholarships to enable millions of students who would not have otherwise gone to college to further their educations. It was an action that benefitted many.

Over the years, however, it occurred to subsequent administrations and sessions of Congress that there was an out for students who could not pay: bankruptcy.

Thanks to the spreading of mistruths, propaganda and outright lies about an overwhelming number of students discharging their debts as soon as they left college and leaving Uncle Sam to pick up the tab, several pieces of legislation were passed that made it progressively harder and harder for students who might have difficulty repaying their student loans for whatever reason to get out from under the weight of debt.

The light at the end of the proverbial debtor’s tunnel got progressively dimmer and dimmer until it completely faded to black in the late ’90s. In fact, lawmakers even went a step farther and extended these “no way out” stipulations to student loans provided by private institutions. Now, regardless of where you get your nonscholarship dough from outside sources to come to school, you’re going to be stuck with that debt like one of those cartoonishly large ball-and-chain apparatuses in Looney Tunes.

After the downfall of Sallie Mae, the leading subsidized lender for federally guaranteed student loans up until the bailout fiasco before the 2008 election, President Barack Obama streamlined the entire process. Now, instead of going through a third party, the federal government lends the money directly to you and, should you be unable to make your payments, will use everything at their disposal short of large, imposing men armed with crowbars like their fictitious loan-sharking counterparts utilize to make sure that you repay your loans.

Whether you’re attempting to get into law, medicine, business or underwater, upside-down basket weaving, the reality is the same if you’re utilizing student loans to pay for it. There’s a racket taking place in this country against those who are simply trying to better themselves and obtain an education to ensure their future, and Uncle Sam is the loan shark, the strong man and — most alarmingly — the one who will profit the most from your pain when all of that interest from your missed payments mounts.

In a time when the economy is shaky and unstable, unemployment is high and millions of college graduates are entering the job market, there need to be more consumer protection and relief for those who took the premise of the new-age American Dream to heart.

Education should be the gateway to a better life, not a dreary existence at the mercy of star-spangled debt collectors.

— Derek Mullins is a senior in political science and history. He can be reached at dmullin5@utk.edu.

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I find it very disturbing when leftists attack Christianity as antithetical to women’s rights. As a feminist Christian, I find this to be very disconcerting and highly inaccurate.

Christianity actually offers women worth, far more than the left’s alternative of atheism. Atheism means people have no value because people are merely reduced to nothing but material. If atheism is true, there is not a point of reference for worth. People are nothing but time plus matter plus chance, a cosmic accident. However, contrary to what many think, the Sacred Text actually elevated women even before modern society did.

Within the Old Testament, there are several women who are treated on par with men. I first think of Esther, Deborah and Judith. Each of these women saved the Jewish people, because either the men would not or could not save them.

The Book of Esther tells the story of a diaspora Jew in Persia after the Exile. King Ahasuerus (Xerxes) is tricked by his advisor Haman to kill all the Jews. In the end it is Esther, a woman, who saves the Jews from extinction.

The same is found in the story of Deborah, who was a judge of Israel. Deborah leads the Israelites to victory against the Canaanites when Jael, another woman, kills the leader of the opposing army by impaling him.

Then there is the story of Judith. Although the Book of Judith is a historical novel, it offers truth that women are equal with men. In the story, the general Holofernes attacks Judith’s city. The people cannot defend themselves, so Judith tricks her enemies and beheads the general, saving her people.

These stories show that the Bible actually affords women dignity and worth, unlike what liberals will claim.

Female worth and equality is even more explicit in the life of Jesus of Nazareth. It begins with his genealogy and birth. Not many people actually know, but the Gospel of St. Matthew lists four women in Jesus’ lineage: Tamar, Ruth, Rahab and Bathsheba.

Clearly the women in Jesus’ lineage are important.

Also, few have pointed this out, but there was no man involved in the birth of Jesus. There was God and the Virgin Mary but no man. It was a woman who brought the Savior into the world.

Besides looking at Jesus’ birth, one should also look at his life and how he viewed women. There are four particular stories that illustrate how Jesus thought women were equal.

The first is with the story of the adulteress. Some men caught this woman in the act of adultery, and they brought her before Jesus to see if he would have her stoned according to the Mosaic Law. Instead of condemning the woman like the other men did, he wrote something on the ground and told them that the person without sin should cast the first stone.

He put her on the same plane as the men who caught her.

Next is the story of the woman who anointed Christ with perfume. When the disciples mocked her and said that she wasted the balm, Jesus countered that her story will always be told. Her actions received praised even though others demeaned it.

Also, there is the story of Mary and Martha. Many reference this one when they think they are doing too much, but there is a more important part. Jesus allowed Mary to sit at his feet, implying she was equal with his male disciples.

Finally, looking at after Christ’s resurrection, to whom does he reveal himself first? Women. Not to Peter, on whom he would build his church, nor to John, the Beloved Disciple. It was to women. Through Christ’s life we can see that he valued women as equal to men.

The exploration of the Sacred Text concerning gender equality, value and worth is not just important for those on the left that claim the Bible is chauvinistic.

It is equally important for those conservative Christians who wish to deny women their rightful place in the world and in the Kingdom. I cannot fathom why some Christian leaders say women cannot rule a country when Esther saved an entire people. I also do not understand why these Christian leaders will say women cannot enter the clergy when Deborah was a prophetess and Phoebe was a deacon in the early church.

There is no doubt in my mind that the Bible is what offers a woman dignity and human worth, while those opposing ideologies try to reduce her to nothing.

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

Thursday, April 14, 2011

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TSA criticized for excessively screening youth Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. — A Kentucky couple said Wednesday that they want the Transportation Security Administration to change how it screens children after their 6-year-old daughter was frisked at the New Orleans airport.

Selena Drexel told ABC’s “Good Morning America” the family was returning home from a vacation earlier this month when their daughter Anna was selected for a pat-down.

The couple posted a video of the search on YouTube. It shows a TSA agent patting down the child and explaining the procedure to the girl and her parents. The screener says that she will use the back of her hands on sensitive areas and will “put my hand in the waistband.”

The girl’s father, Todd Drexel, says Anna was confused by the search and started crying afterward because she thought she'd done something wrong.

Government Reform Subcommittee on National Security, said in a statement Wednesday.

Jennifer Mitchell, a child safety advocate, said after viewing the YouTube video that the pat-down seemed “a little invasive.”

“This is a hard issue because we have national security on one hand... and children’s safety on the other,” said Mitchell, co-president of Child Lures Prevention, a Shelburne, Vt., organization that works to prevent crimes against children.

Mitchell said she knows families who have declined to fly because they don’t want their children frisked. She recommended that parents tell children before going to the airport that they may get a pat-down.

But children should be told “the only reason it would be allowed is the parents are right there, the clothes are not being removed, the parents are watching to make sure it’s done ok,” Mitchell said.

Martin Macpherson, the director of the London-based Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers, said he is not aware of instances when terrorists have used children as young as six in an attack.

Selena Drexel says such searches are inappropriate for children because they’re usually told not to let adults touch them in sensitive areas. She said she posted the video because she “had a very bad feeling that what happened was wrong.”

In a statement, the Transportation Security Administration says the officer followed proper procedure but that the agency is reviewing its screening policies for “low-risk populations, such as young passengers.” The statement says the agency is exploring ways to “move beyond a one-size fits all system.”

TSA screeners are instructed to use a “modified” pat down for children 12 and younger, according to the agency’s website.

A congressman whose subcommittee oversees national security issues said he was “personally outraged and disgusted” over the security pat-down.

“This conduct is in clear violation of TSA’s explicit policy not to conduct thorough pat-downs on children under the age of 13,” Rep. Jason Chaffetz, of Utah, chairman of the House Oversight and

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Thursday, April 14, 2011

SPORTS

Diamond Vols’ comeback attempt falls short UT gives up six runs early, fails to eliminate Appalachian State lead in late innings Orange with a one-out single before stealing both second and third easily. Norfork followed with a walk and stole second as well, Staff Reports before another free pass, this one to senior The Tennessee baseball team mounted a Matt Duffy, loaded the bases to set the table late comeback attempt against Appalachian for Liles.

Appalachian State responded with home State on Tuesday but couldn’t quite finish it runs in both the second and third stanzas to off, falling to the Mountaineers, 6-5, at take a four-run lead at 6-2, but that would be Lindsey Nelson Stadium. The loss was UT’s all they would get the rest of the way as the first in the 15 games in which it has out-hit its opponent this year, as it collected eight UT bullpen shut them down.

Junior T.J. Thornton posted his most hits to ASU’s seven.

“It was just another tough one,” UT coach impressive performance in a Tennessee uniTodd Raleigh said. “We out-hit our opponent form to date, twirling three near-perfect but just can’t get over that hump right now. innings of relief. He faced the minimum over Giving up six (runs) early was disappoint- his three innings of work, needing just 26 ing. If we had come out and gotten off to a pitches to retire nine Mountaineer hitters. good start on the mound, maybe we are able He did allow one hit, but immediately erased to settle in and get some runs. We did a good the runner from the basepaths by inducing a job in the first inning coming back but then double play.

Sophomore Zack Godley and freshmen gave up three more. After that we just kind Carter Watson and Nick Williams closed out of faded out for three innings before we the final three innings of the contest. They started having some good at-bats.”

Despite collecting just six hits all night, combined to yield just two hits while strikthe Mountaineers made the most of them ing out four.

While the bullpen with home runs was doing its job, the from three different Volunteer offense made players. They got a a few waves, scoring two-run shot by once in the fifth and Daniel Kassouf in twice more in the sevthe first, a three-run enth. In the fifth, Toles longball from Trey laced a one-out triple Holmes in the secto the gap in right-cenond and solo home ter before coming home run from Zack to score just seconds Briggs on the first later on a wild pitch. pitch of the third.

Now down by three, After falling the Big Orange moved behind by four within one in the sevthrough three enth thanks to frames, 6-2, the Norfork’s base knock.

Volunteers scored Freshman Ethan three unanswered Bennett drew a leadoff runs over the final walk and pinch-hitter – UT coach Todd Raleigh five innings but were senior Tyler Horne put on the Diamond Vols’ loss never able to get two on with nobody out that final tally to tie when he laced a 1-2 the score. fastball to right for a single. Junior Zach Freshman Andrew Toles led the way Osborne followed with a perfect bunt that offensively for the Orange and White, going 2-for-5 with a single, a triple, two runs the ASU pitcher had no play on and went for scored and a pair of stolen bases. The triple an infield single to load the bases.

Although the Mountaineers struck out the was his third, tying him for the most in a single season by a UT freshman with four play- next hitter, Norfork brought home two runs ers, including Todd Helton and Kentrail with a sharply hit single down the third-base Davis. His two stolen bases put his season line. While he was able to advance to second total at 16, tying him for the most by any on the throw home to the plate, Osborne was tagged out trying to move up 90 feet to freshman in the nation this year.

Seniors Josh Liles and Khayyan Norfork third. Appalachian State then ended the UT each knocked in a pair of runs for UT with threat by getting a pop-out in foul territory bases-loaded, two-RBI singles in the first down the right-field line.

The Vols now hit the road for their second and seventh innings, respectively. Norfork straight ESPNU Thursday Night SEC Game also stole his SEC-leading 21st base of the of the Week, which will be pit them against season.

After falling behind 2-0 in the top of the No. 24 Alabama at 7:30 p.m. on April 14 in first, the Volunteers immediately answered Tuscaloosa. The two teams will then battle it in the home half of the frame with Liles’ sin- out at 7:30 p.m. on Friday before the series gle. Toles got the ball rolling for the Big finale takes place at 6 p.m. on Saturday.

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Rob Catapano delivers a pitch during a warm up before a game against South Carolina on Thursday, April 7. Despite a standout performance from freshman Andrew Toles, the Vols were unable to top the Appalachian State Mountaineers on Tuesday, falling in a 6-5 loss.

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Titans’ top wide receiver arrested Associated Press BAYONNE, N.J. — Tennessee Titans wide receiver Kenny Britt was arrested in his hometown of Bayonne, N.J., on Tuesday after an officer reported seeing him speeding.

Britt, 22, faces charges of eluding the officer, hindering apprehension and obstructing governmental function, Bayonne Police Chief Robert Kubert said.

Britt was driving his blue Porsche at 71 mph in a 50-mph zone Tuesday afternoon, according to Kubert, who said Britt drove away from the officer and was eventually found on side street walking away from the car.

Kubert said Britt first denied being in the car, then denied driving and then finally admitted he was behind the wheel.

Police said a passenger in the vehicle with Britt also faces three criminal charges. Both men have been released on summons.

The agency that represents Britt said Tuesday it was not prepared to comment on his arrest.

Titans spokesman Robbie Bohren said only that the

team was aware of the reports.

Britt has an April 19 court appearance.

It’s not the first run-in with the law for the former Rutgers University standout, who became the first player from the university drafted in the first round when he was picked by the Titans in 2009.

Britt was arrested in January 2010 for three outstanding traffic warrants during a New Jersey traffic stop. He paid the $865 due and was released.

He’s also involved in civil litigation in New Jersey for allegedly not paying a bail bond he helped secure for a friend, according to Hudson County Prosecutor Edward DeFazio.

Nashville police stopped him in August during training camp, ticketing him for driving without a license because he obtained a photo ID after misplacing his license.

He also was accused of being involved in a bar fight Oct. 22 in Nashville, but authorities later decided not to charge him.

Titans Coach Jeff Fisher benched the receiver after repeated mistakes during a preseason game.

Thursday, April 14, 2011

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Vol Bennett keeps playing, even off diamond Freshman catcher spends free time focusing on passion for music, musical instruments Preston Peeden Staff Writer For Ethan Bennett, freshman catcher for the UT baseball team, records carry a significant meaning.

On the diamond, Bennett has been known for breaking records. As a high school senior at nearby Farragut, he broke the single-season state record for home runs with 27. On top of that, he set a national record for consecutive games with a home run, going yard in ten straight games, a feat that earned him a mention in “Sports Illustrated.”

But when Bennett is not carving his name on the top of baseball records, he can be found listening to records, as music stands as one of his greatest pastimes. “(After practice) my favorite thing to do is go back to my room and just listen to music,” Bennett said.

Bennett, who lists his favorite bands as the Lady Vols tennis falls to Alabama, Alda fifth all-time in doubles wins

Staff Reports The No. 16-ranked University of Tennessee Lady Vol tennis team lost its second straight Southeastern Conference match on Tuesday, falling 5-2 to No. 23 Alabama at the Alabama Tennis Stadium.

Today’s action was a continuation of a match that started on March 4 but was suspended due to rain.

At the time the match was initially halted, UT trailed, 10, after a loss at No. 4 singles.

Alabama had already claimed first sets at three other courts, so the Lady Vols faced an uphill climb.

At No. 1 singles, Alabama’s Mary Ann Macfarlane put the Crimson Tide up 2-0 by holding serve against Natalie Pluskota.

Macfarlane entered the day up 5-3 in the second set after winning the first, 6-2.

Taylor Lindsey also began the day serving for the match at No. 6 singles and was able to put UA up, 3-0.

Tennessee (16-6, 8-2) battled back but was unable to overcome the Tide’s advantage.

Freshman Millie Nichols notched her 25th victory of the year at No. 5 singles, 6-4, 7-5, over Antonio Foehse. Alabama was able to clinch the victory with a win at No. 3 singles in a hardfought match between Kata Szekely and Courtney McLane.

In doubles action, which was held after singles, UT posted an impressive sweep of one of the SEC’s best doubles lineups.

Rosalía Alda moved into sole possession of fifth place in school history with her 107th career doubles victory, teaming up with Maria Sorbello to earn an 8-3 win at No. 2 doubles. Jennifer Meredith and Kata Szekely were victorious for the 19th time in 20 tries this season, defeating the No. 80-ranked tandem of Antonia Foehse and Mary Anne Macfarlane, 8-5, to clinch the doubles point.

Avett Brothers and NeedToBreathe, not only spends his time listening to music, but also playing it. As a musician, he can play the guitar — both acoustic and electric — the banjo, the mandolin, the bass and the piano. But for Bennett, his passion for playing was not known until his older brother received a guitar.

“I think we were 7, and my big brother, you know I always looked up to him, and he got a guitar, so I wanted one too,” Bennett said. “From there, we just picked up a love of music, and it’s just been growing ever since.”

Bennett said when he is in one of his jam sessions, he loves to play almost anything, but lately, since he has been learning the banjo, his focus has shifted more to bluegrass music.

“I used to play a lot more rock when I played electric guitar,” Bennett said. “But now it’s

much more acoustic stuff, a lot of bluegrass.”

Despite his love for music, Bennett is careful not to let his devotion to music infringe on his performance in baseball.

“I’ve only seen him with his guitar once or twice,” senior teammate Matt Duffy said. “He probably doesn’t bring it to the field because he doesn’t want to distract himself from baseball.

But we’ve talked about it a couple times, and it’s clear that music and baseball are definitely his two passions.”

Bennett has a constant drive to get better, something he attributes to his father, the person he said he most looks up to.

• Ethan Bennett “He’s just a hard-working guy,” Bennett said. “He grew up not in the most well-off family, and he’s worked his way up through Blaine Construction. And he’s actually the president now, so it paid off.”

This hard-working mentality and maturity is

not lost on his teammates.

“He’s an extremely mature player,” Duffy said. “He’s worked a lot with the staff to get better. He’s a team guy who puts the team first, and he never brags about any of his unbelievable accomplishments.”

Going forward, Bennett’s ultimate goal is to be an MLB player. He tries to model himself after his favorite athlete: Minnesota Twins AllStar catcher Joe Mauer.

“That’s the dream, to play MLB ball,” Bennett said. “And I’m just hoping that the saying, ‘every dog has its day,’ is true.”

While the dream of professional sports seems farfetched for many, Bennett’s recordbreaking swing and leadership mentality have those around him believing in his chances. “(Ten years from now) hopefully, you’ll be seeing him in the big leagues,” Duffy said.

“He’s a hard worker, and until someone tells him he can’t play anymore, it’s my guess that he’s going to continue to play. But other than that, he’ll be successful in whatever he does; he’s got a great head on his shoulders.”

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Big expectations follow Poole, UT tailbacks Senior leading rusher Poole expected to excel this season, Neal to carry out back-up role Brett Parisi Staff Writer Consistency throughout a career has been hard to come by for Tennessee running backs.

Be it injuries, sophomore slumps, off-the-field incidents or a number of any other factors, not many Volunteer backs have been able to consistently produce over their careers on Rocky Top. There has only been one running back in UT history has been able to rush for more than 1,000 yards in back-to-back seasons, and it isn’t Jamal Lewis, Travis Henry, Cedric Houston or Arian Foster.

Johnnie Jones rushed for 1,116 yards in his junior season in 1983 and capped off his career in Knoxville with 1,290 yards the following season.

Tauren Poole has a chance to try to be just the second Volunteer to achieve the feat, after eclipsing the 1,000-yard mark in the Music City Bowl in his first season as a starter.

For Poole, this spring is only about one thing.

“Definitely just getting better,” the senior back said. “Being the best I can be every day.

Every day is my last day at UT, and I can’t take it for granted. I have to go out and attack it every day and show the coaches why I’m the running back.”

The biggest differences for Poole in his second year as a starter are expectations and leadership. He believes he has plenty of room for improvement.

“Expectations are higher,” Poole said. “I’m a senior. (Also) leadership, I’ve got to be a more vocal leader. In my actions, my words, every-

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thing I do, I have to get better. I love it, man, I love the pressure of getting better. That’s what I’m out here for, to get better. And I love that the coaches hold us to a better standard than we hold ourselves.”

After the departure of David Oku this offseason, sophomore Rajion Neal has emerged as the clear No. 2 back, and he’s making the most of his spring, running rampant on the primarily No. 2 defense in the team’s first scrimmage, racking up 152 yards and three touchdowns on 14 carries.

Neal has taken a proactive approach after being called out at the beginning of spring for not being physical enough. Now he’s started to change some minds with only one week of spring practice left.

“He’s been doing better,” the always even-keel Derek Dooley said about Neal’s running style.

“He’s still got a long way to go. That’s just not his natural way to run the football, but he’s showing improvement.”

“He was real physical today,” Poole said.

“That’s been the knock on him all spring. Coach Dooley has been on him to be more physical, and today he brought it. I’m sure he made coach Dooley proud. He made the running-back room proud. I’m happy for him.”

The unsung hero of the “running-back room” has been sophomore fullback Channing Fugate, who has continued to look and play like a veteran all spring. Dooley praised his ability to run the ball and will look to get him more touches as spring practice wraps up.

Sophomore Toney Williams provides the last bit of depth but is still looking to return to the form he had before suffering a serious knee injury during spring practice in 2009.

Highly touted recruits Marlin Lane and Tom Smith will arrive in the summer to join the rest of the backs to compete for reps. Local product Devrin Young was a running back at Knoxville’s Bearden high school and could see time in the backfield, as well as in the slot, though Young is expected to contribute immediately in the return game. “(Competing is what) we come out and do every day,” Poole said. “I remember when we first met, I told all the running backs that I was going to compete with them every day, and they would have to match my intensity. We continue to compete every day.”

Behind an offensive line that was predominantly freshmen a year ago, the run game was not always the most consistent product Tennessee put on the field.

This year, the Vols return a more experienced unit up front, and that may give Poole the edge to become the second tailback in Tennessee history to rush for back-to-back 1,000yard seasons.

And that would be a portrait of consistency.

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Tauren Poole carries the ball against Mississippi on Saturday, Nov. 13, 2010. Poole returns to the field this year looking to become just the second Vol to rush for 1,000 yards in back-to-back seasons.