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Programs yield easier job search, survey says Computer engineering and human resources fields will have more jobs than available workers Robby O’Daniel News and Student Life Editor

So the organizations decided to engineer the study using career pathways and career clusters.

CBER Associate Director Matt Murray calls a career pathway “the root that one takes to secure a particular degree.”

“So, for example, a student that was interested in a graduate degree in nursing, that student may choose an associate’s degree first, then a bachelor’s degree and then

According to a recent study, UT students in computer engineering and human resource management may have an easier time finding employment after graduation than others.

Research done by the Tennessee Higher Education Commission and the UT Center for Business and Economic Research projects that, during the years 2008 to 2018, there will be more job openings in those fields than new graduates to fill those jobs.

For example, in computer programming and information systems, there is an estimated shortage of almost 400 graduates annually during 2008 to 2018.

David L. Wright, THEC chief policy officer, said THEC supplied 10 years of historical data on college graduates by program or degree level to CBER. CBER then paired that data with data the Tennessee Department of Labor provided on growth in occupations.

“We tried to pair up degree programs with occupations,” Wright said.

– David L. Wright, THEC chief policy officers, But some comparisons between degrees on degrees in relation to occupations earned and occupations work better than others. Programs like nursing and physical therapy are more straight-forward, but pursue graduate study,” Murray said. “So that particular degrees in history or political science can lead to a wide student may not actually use the associate’s degree as a variety of jobs. free-standing degree and work accordingly.”

Wright said history majors can become historians, Meanwhile, career clusters are “a grouping of careers museum curators, politicians or any number of profesthat have considerable similarities in terms of skills and sions, making direct comparisons hard to come by. training and the occupations the individual might pur“There are people who prepared for law by majoring sue,” Murray said. in English or majoring in political science or majoring in According to the study, the largest under-supplied history,” Wright said. “Some colleges may actually offer a career pathways are programming and software developpre-law curriculum, but someone can become a lawyer ment, construction, environmental service systems, with any number of pre-graduate curriculum programs.” accounting, business financial management, human

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resources and marketing.

The most over-supplied career pathways are journalism, administrative and information support, science and mathematics, therapeutic services, management and teaching, the study said.

“There is not a one-to-one relationship between a particular degree and an occupation,” Murray said.

But Wright said that, due to clustering careers and grouping degree programs, high-need professions like nursing and teaching were downplayed in the study.

With nursing, the study had to count certified nursing assistants, which requires a certificate and not a bachelor’s degree, in the classification of nursing jobs, skewing the number of openings in nursing as a profession. But taking that variable out for a profession like nursing proves the opposite is true, he said.

“We do, in fact, have a nursing shortage,” he said.

Other studies cited within this one, Wright said, affirm this claim.

With teaching, it’s all in the perspective.

Wright said the study was done from a statewide view, simply stating that teachers, statewide, were needed.

But that does not mean that any new graduate, looking to get a job in teaching, can get one anywhere in Tennessee. There could be a low demand in some cities in the state and a high demand in others, he said.

Murray called the study important because it helps guide where the university should put its resources.

“Where do we need to focus our resources, our funding, our faculty, in order to meet the degree demands of college students in systems of higher education?” Murray said.

Wright called it especially important in light of declining funding.

“Given the fact that we don’t have enough money to do everything we want to do,” Wright said, “how can we work smarter?”

There are people who prepared for law by majoring in English or majoring in

political science or majoring in history.Some

colleges may actually offer a pre-law curriculum, but someone can become a lawyer with any

number of pre-graduate curriculum programs.

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University initiates Bridge program Anthony Elias Staff Writer

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Workers drive utility pipes into the ground at the future site of the UT Sorority Village on Thursday, June 2. The Sorority Village, which will have residential facilities for 13 of UT’s 17 sororities, is expected to be open to it’s first residents for the Fall 2012 semester.

The Henley Street Bridge may still be long from finished, but another bridge will fully operate by this fall.

UT Chancellor Jimmy G. Cheek and Pellissippi State Technical Community College President Allen Edwards signed a formal agreement this past week to begin a bridge program between the institutions.

The UT-Pellissippi Bridge Program will allow students to be enrolled at both UT and Pellissippi.

Similar to Clemson University’s program but with a “newer idea,” said UT Vice Provost Sally McMillan, those students who are among the top wait-listed at UT will get sent invitational letters to start this upcoming fall semester.

Advisers from both campuses will be “paired up” with those listed in the initial bridge class, depending on the major, and provide assistance for choosing credit courses for the second summer semester on UT campus before continuing classes at Pellissippi in the fall.

One of the courses will be a general education class, while the second class will focus on the transitional process from Pellissippi to UT, aimed to make the switch from community college to university life an easier adjustment before continuing classes at Pellissippi for the fall and spring semesters.

Pellissippi Assistant Vice President Leigh Anne Touzeau said the other classes are going to be “basically what students would take in their freshman year at UT.” About 80 students have confirmed their participation with the UT-Pellissippi program, Touzeau said. All the students

are required to earn at least 24 to 30 credit hours and a 2.5 gradepoint average by the end of their spring semester, making them eligible for the definite transfer to UT. “It’s a good program,” Touzeau said. “It’s going to give students a good head start at UT.” The recently established bridge between the institutions comes as a demonstration of how UT and Pellissippi are abiding by the Complete College Tennessee Act of 2010, passed in January of that year, changing the state funding formula from enrollment to six-year graduation rates.

The 2010 act establishes not just dual-admission but also dualenrollment policies at two- and four-year institutions, while enrollment policies are also recognized.

McMillan said the UTPellissippi bridge program “seemed like the program to meet the legislative agreement” of the 2010 act. She added, “this is a part of a possibility” for UT to become a top 25 school.

McMillan said bridge students would still have the same access to financial aid assistance from each institution, but she said the Hope Scholarship will not be available in the summer semester.

While attending Pellissippi classes, students would seek financial aid from the community college, then would receive assistance from UT after the transfer.

Though the bridge agreement is still relatively new to staff from both institutions, the educational route has already stirred up excitement.

“This is the first time we’ve done this,” Pellissippi Financial Aid Supervisor Arlene Newcomb said. “We’re truly excited.

Anytime we can help a student in the transition process from one college to another, we’re glad to help.”

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Students pass by spring blooms outside of the Humanities Building on Thursday, April 7. Record heat swept through Knoxville this week, hitting as high as 95 degrees on Wednesday.

1935 - Babe Ruth, one of the greatest players in the history of baseball, ends his Major League playing career after 22 seasons, 10 World Series and 714 home runs. The following year, Ruth, a larger-than-life figure whose name became synonymous with baseball, was one of the first five players inducted into the sport's hall of fame.

George Herman Ruth was born February 6, 1895, into a poor family in Baltimore. As a child, he was sent to St. Mary's Industrial School for Boys, a school run by Roman Catholic brothers, where he learned to play baseball and was a standout athlete. At 19, Ruth was signed by the Baltimore Orioles, then a Boston Red Sox minor league team. Ruth's fellow teammates and the media began referring to him as team owner Jack Dunn's newest "babe," a nickname that stuck. Ruth would later acquire other nicknames, including "The Sultan of Swat" and "The Bambino."

Ruth made his Major League debut as a left-handed pitcher with the Red Sox in July 1914 and pitched 89 winning games for the team before 1920, when he was traded to the New York Yankees. After Ruth left Boston, in what became known as "the curse of the Bambino," the Red Sox didn't win another World Series until 2004. In New York, Ruth's primary position changed to outfielder and he led the Yankees to seven American League pennants and four World Series victories. Ruth was a huge star in New York and attracted so many fans that the team was able to open a new stadium in 1923, Yankee Stadium, dubbed "The House That Ruth Built."

The southpaw slugger's final season, in 1935, was with the Boston Braves. He had joined the Braves with the hope that he'd become the team's manager the next season. However, this

dream never came to pass for a disappointed Ruth, who had a reputation for excessive drinking, gambling and womanizing.

Many of the records Ruth set remained in place for decades. His career homerun record stood until 1974, when it was broken by Hank Aaron. Ruth's record of 60 homeruns in a single season (1927) of 154 games wasn't bested until 1961, when Roger Maris knocked out 61 homers in an extended season of 162 games. The Sultan of Swat's career slugging percentage of .690 remains the highest in Major League history.

Ruth died of throat cancer at age 53 on August 16, 1948, in New York City. His body lay in state at Yankee Stadium for two days and was visited by over 100,000 fans.

1962 - Ray Charles was one of the founding fathers of soul music—a style he helped create and popularize with a string of early 1950s hits on Atlantic Records like "I Got A Woman" and "What'd I Say." This fact is well known to almost anyone who has ever heard of the man they called "the Genius," but what is less well known—to younger fans especially—is the pivotal role that Charles played in shaping the course of a seemingly very different genre of popular music. In the words of his good friend and sometime collaborator, Willie Nelson, speaking before Charles' death in 2004, Ray Charles the R&B legend "did more for country music than any other living human being." The landmark album that earned Ray Charles that praise was Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music, which gave him his third #1 hit in "I Can't Stop Loving You," which topped the U.S. pop charts on this day in 1962 Executives at ABC Records—the label that wooed Ray Charles from Atlantic with one of the richest deals of the era—were adamantly opposed to the idea that Charles brought to them in 1962: to re-record some of the best country songs of the previous 20 years in new arrangements that suited his style. As Charles told Rolling Stone magazine a decade later, ABC executives said, "You can't do no country-western things....You're gonna lose all your fans!" But Charles recognized the quality of songs like "I Can't Stop Loving You" by Don Gibson and "You Don't Know Me," by Eddy Arnold and Cindy Walker, and the fact that his version of both of those country songs landed in the Top 5 on both the pop and R&B charts was vindication of Charles's long-held belief that "There's only two kinds of music as far as I'm concerned: good and bad."

This all-embracing attitude toward music was one that Ray Charles developed during a childhood immersed in the sounds of jazz, blues, gospel and country. To him, the boundaries between those styles of music were made to be crossed, and he made a career out of doing just that. Released over the initial objections of his record label and its distributors, Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music went on to be the biggest-selling album of 1962, occupying the top spot on the Billboard album chart for 14 weeks. "I Can't Stop Loving You," held the #1 spot on the singles chart for five weeks beginning on this day in 1962, eventually becoming the biggest pop hit of Ray Charles's monumental career.

1977 - Raymond Carver quits drinking after being hospitalized four times in 1976.

Carver, the son of an Oregon sawmill worker and a waitress, had recently established his reputation as a powerful short story writer with his story collection Will You Please Be Quiet Please? (1976). Born in 1938, Carver grew up in Yakima, Washington. He married a year after high school graduation and worked menial jobs to support himself and his family. A creative writing class inspired him, and he went to study writing at Humboldt State College in Arcata, California. He later studied at the prestigious Iowa Writer's Workshop. In 1967, his first short story was published, and his first collection, Put Yourself in My Shoes, was published in 1974.

Carver and his wife divorced in 1982, and Carver began a relationship with poet Tess Gallagher that lasted until his death. He won a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1979 and two grants from the National Endowment for the Arts. He taught writing at the University of California at Santa Cruz, the Iowa Writer's Workshop, the University of Texas, and elsewhere until 1983, when he won an award granting him a $35,000-a-year salary for five years. He continued to win honors and awards for his short story collections, including What We Talk About When We Talk About Love (1981) and Where I'm Calling From (1988). He died of cancer on August 2, 1988.

--- This Day In History is courtesy of history.com

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Singer James leads band on ‘spiritual quest’ Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Jim James is on a spiritual quest of sorts, and you're invited to listen in.

The My Morning Jacket frontman sat in the prayer room of a church in a quiet neighborhood of his hometown last month, talking about old records, religion, philosophy and his perpetual yearning for understanding.

These things color the Kentucky quintet's much-anticipated new album, "Circuital," and James says the record reflects a search he's been on for some time.

"I just want to be peaceful," James said. "I just want to find peace. I don't want to be questioning anymore.

I don't want to be searching anymore."

Don't get James wrong. He understands he's living the life millions dream of as the head of an increasingly important and influential rock band. That part of his life is great. James is looking for solace in other places as well, however. He jokingly calls himself a recovering Catholic and says he's given up on organized religion.

He's now seeking comfort from other sources.

"There's so much stuff that you just don't need in your brain that they hammered there so young and you're trying to deal with it," James said. "I don't consider myself any faith. I just try to listen to all faiths and all ideas and sift out what I believe and what I don't."

Increasingly James is finding answers in music.

Long a rock 'n' roll fan, he started to grow uninterested and turned to different forms of music to feed his need for new sounds. His discovery of soul music has influenced his own music over the last five years. More important, it's opened his mind about the possibilities of life.

"I'll never forget hearing (Marvin Gaye's) 'What's Going On' for the first time and being like, 'Oh, my god,'" James said. "All this rock music is beautiful and serves a purpose, but so much of it is about pain and darkness. And when I hear 'What's Going On' or when I hear some of Sam Cooke's religious work, I hear all the mystery and passion that I loved about my rock music, but I also hear hope and praise and all this glory that I feel like I don't hear in all this sad stuff growing up, listening to Nirvana. When I put on Nirvana now, it's like nails shooting into my ears."

Like Gaye, Pastor T.L. Barrett also blew his mind, and helped set the stage for the recording of "Circuital," My Morning Jacket's first album since 2008's "Evil Urges," comes out Tuesday. Barrett's little-known "Like a Ship ...

(Without a Sail)" was a gospel funk masterpiece that all but disappeared after a small pressing decades ago.

Boutique label Numero Group reissued the album, which Barrett recorded with his Chicago church's youth choir.

soaring chapel and various gathering spaces into something useful.

"There was an element of do-it-yourself with this one ... because we just walked into a space that isn't a studio and had to make it sound good," Hallahan said. "We built a tent around my drum kit to reign in the cymbals because it's such a big, wide room. We had to dampen the whole floor with acoustic absorb material. It was just like a big project that never ended."

Hallahan describes the group as "five compassionate and curious souls" and James' bandmates get where he's coming from when he's translating his spiritual questions into artistic expression. Each has had his own journey over the last half decade as My Morning Jacket toured relentlessly, earning the combination of critical adoration and experimentation-indulging fan bases of top rock acts like Radiohead and Wilco.

So James' ruminations resonated with his bandmates as they laid down the tribal vibe of opening track "Victory Dance" or matched the beauty of James' soaring tenor on "Wonderful (The Way I Feel)." They nailed the title track, which builds over a long crescendo to some of the album's most heroic guitar work and interesting sonic moments, on just the second take.

Todd Haynes picked up on that connection on the record when he first heard it. The "Far From Heaven" director is helming a live webcast of My Morning Jacket's Tuesday concert at The Louisville Palace Theater. Haynes met James when the singer stole a scene in his Bob Dylan film "I'm Not There" and has followed the band for some time.

He called "Circuital" a "powerful" album and noted how different it is from My Morning Jacket's previous sound, which has evolved from lush alt-country to Neil Young-style rock to something fairly unpredictable.

"When I really listened to 'Circuital' through the first time, I really noticed it as a through-line lyrically in this record — this sense of a new beginning, of a new life, of • Photo courtesy of Autumn DeWilde sort of turning the page on the past and having a kind of confidence. It's very optimistic," he said.

And why shouldn't they be? With one of the year's wanted this album to showcase just us being a band, all playing together and hopefully achieving that moment of most anticipated albums and tours, they've attained a kind of long-term stability that's rare in the music world. good tape together," he said.

After a rather confined experience recording "Evil It seems natural that should be reflected in their music.

Now the question is, will it help James find some of Urges" in a New York City studio, the "Circuital" sessions were freewheeling and loose for the band, which also that peace he's looking for?

"There's things that I'm trying to figure out that I includes bassist Tom "Two-Tone Tommy" Blankenship, drummer Patrick Hallahan and multi-instrumentalists haven't figured out," James said. "I'm getting clues and Carl Broemel and Bo Koster. James brought the lyrics and stuff but I don't know why it's built into my brain that skeletons for songs and the band worked each over for a way. My brain is just not satisfied. It has to question few days, at most, before recording them. They skipped something infinitely. And usually it questions something the usual step of rehearsing and making rough demos for so much that it eventually kills it, and then I go someeach song and went right to the tape recorder, keeping it where else, and then it questions that. So I'm trying find loose as they tried to turn the sprawling church's gym, a way to stop that."

James decided he wanted to recreate the uncommon energy and communal spirit of that album and other lost gospel records, and rented the church (the band asked its name and exact location be withheld for privacy reasons).

The church's large, echoing gymnasium was the perfect space for the band to gather after a year-long hiatus.

There was room for everyone to set up and face each other, and they were able to strip away all the artificial separation you find in a traditional studio.

"We're in a band. We play music live all the time, so I

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Rising — Quality of Lady Gaga albums Yes, that’s right: Lady Gaga’s new album, “Born This Way,” released May 23, is her best album to date.

Amazingly the worst song on the album is also its third single, “The Edge of Glory.” It is a phoned-in power ballad, immensely forgettable and lyrically empty.

But nearly every other song has that single-quality, especially the apathetic dance track, “Heavy Metal Lover.” Also “Bloody Mary” essentially just sounds like Depeche Mode with Lady Gaga on vocals, and that is awesome.

Rising — Reverence for our role model, “Macho Man” Randy Savage “Macho Man” Randy Savage, former world champion in both WWF and WCW, passed away on May 20.

Savage, known for his bombastic interviews and exciting flights of fancy in the ring, was perhaps most known among wrestling fans for his bout with Ricky “The Dragon” Steamboat at WrestleMania III in 1987. Savage lost the encounter with Steamboat, but it was a match that launched several wrestling careers.

Though all the attention was on Hulk Hogan’s legendary encounter with Andre the Giant in the main event, Savage and Steamboat ended up stealing the show.

What made Savage stand out most was his overthe-top interview style that managed to maintain a small shred of believability while also being incredibly fun to watch. Savage oozed energy and made fans want to watch his upcoming matches.

For non-fans, Savage was, perhaps, most famous for serving as the spokesman of Slim Jim. His catchphrase, “Snap into a Slim Jim! Ohh yeah!!” became synonymous with the brand, as he praised the virtues of the tasty beef jerky snack.

For this college generation, in particular, Savage might also be known for guest turns on Cartoon Network animated programs in the late 1990s. He appeared in the “Dial M for Monkey” segment of “Dexter’s Laboratory” and also played Space Ghost’s grandfather on “Space Ghost Coast to Coast.”

He even toyed with a rap career, releasing an album

called “Be a Man” in the early 2000s. The titular song was clearly aimed at Hulk Hogan, during one of their real-life feuds.

Even in death, Savage has managed to do the impossible. World Wrestling Entertainment produced a Savage tribute video, with a Coldplay song as the main soundtrack. And due to it being an extremely moving tribute about an amazing wrestler, we now like a Coldplay song.

That’s amazing. But then again, Savage could do just about anything. Will he be missed? Oh, yeah.

Rising — DC Comics’ promotional tricks It was announced this week that DC Comics is taking a few radical approaches to winning the comics war with Marvel.

Firstly, DC has decided to start releasing its comics the same day digitally as in print, beginning Aug. 31.

The idea is fundamentally a good one, considering the move the world is making from print to digital.

But any self-respecting comics fan would rather have a dusty, old print copy. A digital version would have to be significantly cheap, like, say, 99 cents an issue for titles that are normally $2.99, to even merit consideration. This is clearly a move aimed more toward casual comics fans, ones that perhaps might be made from the plethora of comics movies coming out this summer.

More stupidly, DC has decided to relaunch all of their titles — that’s right, every single one — with a new No. 1 issue. Why? Because apparently people will just assume that every comic has a new jumpingon point now that the numbering is new.

If followed through within the long-term, this is a dumb idea. It stupidly throws away institutions like the numbering of classic Superman and Batman comics “Action Comics” and “Detective Comics.”

These titles have been going with their original numbering since the 1930s. Why would you throw that away on a stunt?

But it probably will not even be followed through.

Comics are constantly renumbered in the industry.

People should start making bets as to how long it lasts, and anyone betting on longer than two years has a lot of faith in DC Comics’ long-term editorial decision making.

SCRAMBLED EGGS • Alex Cline

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Campfield’s rhetoric self-serving T he Hermit S p e a ke t h by

Jake Lane To begin, I’d like to welcome everyone to what hopefully will be a great Summer term. This plastic optimism will be the emotional high-point of this column, as everything else will likely be condemnatory or derogatory, so I can at least say this started on a good note.

While I generally try to keep my political opinions to myself and those who share them, some of the recent legislation which has been endorsed through our State House has given me reason to pause and consider the logical value of my silence.

At the end of Fall semester I wrote what was intended to be my farewell statement for this newspaper, in which I tried to convey that to be a truly viable publication, we must cling to objectivity and veer away from punditry and slanted reporting. I still believe that, but I feel it’s time to call out the bad apples in legislature who waste our tax money on frivolous legal issues.

On the state level, your national ties to political parties or modes of ethical practice are somewhat meaningless.

That is to say a state Republican does not reflect a national one, though certainly he may in views and pet issues. With the media circus which has followed the seeming demise of the national GOP in the last three years, however, any foul-up only adds to the infamy of that particular group.

Our state senator and Knoxville representative, Stacey Campfield, exemplifies this phenomenon by pushing through bills which target groups without provocation and support his individual worldview, instead of those of his constituents. In doing so, Campfield not only disgraces himself and his party, but also the state of Tennessee (to which he moved from New York), which we certainly don’t need at this point.

Let’s take a look at some of Campfield’s warped morality-based bill issues for which he has shown great support.

The easiest to point out and the issue which has garnered the greatest national attention is SB49, or the “Don’t Say Gay” bill. Essentially Campfield believes

that any type of familial plan that does not focus on heterosexual union should be off limits in schools from kindergarten to the eighth grade. His argument has been that sexual morality and ethics should be subjects taught by parents to their children, a paternalistic view which strikes me as odd coming from a man who is unmarried and childless. The rub therein is that this view countermines any kind of autonomy on the part of a legal minor, which teenagers have struggled to gain since hair grease and motorcycle jackets were all the rage. It also has the implication that ethics are passed on from generation to generation without change, and that the ultimate moral authority to a child is their parent or caregiver, which is simply not true.

What Campfield does on paper by introducing a moratorium on a way of life he does not share is attempt to make that lifestyle invisible, and in doing so keeping children ignorant of a situation. His nuclear minded reasoning precludes that the children of Tennessee have never been exposed to, or even might be living in, a homosexual or single parent domicile. As a child of divorce this was always my reality, and I take extreme offense in any legislation which demeans a life which doesn’t fit one single person’s worldview as unmentionable. My parents would have probably killed each other had they stayed married, and ultimately my life was happier with them apart.

Now for something completely different. There is a longtime practice when giving a prenatal ultrasound to display messages to the parents like “Hi Mommy! Hi Daddy!” and the like. One of Campfield’s old battle axe issues has been to give death certificates in the case of an abortion, further pushing the “life begins at conception” agenda and the Christian nuclear family plan. And for those lucky few for whom that lifestyle actually works, salute. Otherwise, Campfield is barking up a tree at people who offer no threat to him in any proportion greater than the rest of the populace.

These are two issues, and I have ranted about and failed to truly explicate why they are so ignorant. Perhaps I cannot touch the reason why Campfield’s rhetoric is so toxic because it is inherently flawed. That is a soft bit of logic, but I stand behind it as a disenfranchised constituent who must live with Campfield’s laws, and ultimately as someone who will live in Tennessee much longer than Senator Campfield.

—Jake Lane is a senior in creative writing. He can be reached at jlane23@utk.edu.

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On May 30, 2011, the PBS website was hacked by a group named LulzSec. They posted a false news story reporting that Tupac Shakur was still alive and living in New Zealand. This came as a response to a Frontline news story that had aired recently about WikiLeaks, Bradley Manning, and Julian Assange. The group felt that Frontline had given not only a negative portrayal of the parties involved, but also a biased interpretation of the events.

A response such as the one enacted by LulzSec is not rare. With WikiLeaks continuing to release previously classified cables and videos wile garnering negative attention for the acts, many hacker groups have come to the defense of the Aussie and his website. Last December, Visa and Mastercard websites were both hacked due to their anti-WikiLeaks stance. Members of both cards had information stolen and published, while both websites suffered server crashes.

WikiLeaks, Manning, Assange, and various hacker groups are a fascinating counter culture to the world in which we currently live.

All participants have not only shown the ease with which online security can be breached (even at the highest level of the U.S. military), but also are showing the world the new means of fighting back.

On WikiLeaks main page, a request to donate by Assange dominates the headline: “Keep us strong.

Help WikiLeaks keep governments open.”

The quote raises serious questions about the ramifications of the acts carried out by the groups. Has Bradley Manning really helped to make the public more aware of the secretive nature of the U.S. government, or has he just helped the U.S. government realize its cyber security weaknesses so that it can be fixed? Are the hacker groups forcing companies to realize the value of WikiLeaks and their agenda, or are they just further isolating major players in the world economy?

If there is one thing that is certain, it is that all the actions keep media and public attention focused on the cause. This cyber-counter culture is trading lives of anonymity for mass scrutiny and publicity. While many hackers are known only by their group, these had previously only worked on the fringes of society. WikiLeaks has given these groups a flag to rally behind and men to support.

Assange makes it a point to never criticize or support the groups actions, but isn't this the same as the world's response to the current uprisings in the Middle East? To take a side is to condemn oneself. Assange is a master of publicity. WikiLeaks is using all the media to its favor.

I have spent hours upon hours researching the website, Assange, Bradley Manning, and the various hacker groups involved.

At times, I find myself vehemently standing beside them and desiring the same outcomes that they desire. These people are the new freedom fighters.

At one time in history, people could turn their heads to the lies and deception carried out by governments. Even up to this point, it was easy to push aside these theories as conspiracies. Using media outsources, this specific counter culture will not stand for it. Assange is merely a man to rally behind; those behind the scenes will provide the support and work. Assange will publicly push the media to realize the truths WikiLeaks publishes and realize the problems and lies pushing society forward.

WikiLeaks does not ruin hope for government and for the people. Rather, it should inspire hope. It should drive not only the desire to know, but the desire for a more open future. The cables and videos found on the website should push humanity for a more open dialogue between those electing the people in charge, and those in charge.

Isn't that the purpose of a democracy? The people representing us should be responsible for their actions and not allowed to hide behind a mask of secrecy. The irony of the situation will always be that those who hide in their rooms, unlocking codes and spending hours in front of their computers tearing away at finding a truth will remain anonymous, but now, over their dead bodies, will the truth be hidden away as they are.

— Brittany Vasquez is a senior in anthropology.

She can be reached at bvasque1@utk.edu.

Friday, June 3, 2011

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SEC addresses recruiting violations New coach could revitalize Vols going to a junior college and then have a chance to come play for us.

"It almost always plays out right. Most of DESTIN, Fla. — The hottest topic at the Southeastern Conference's annual meetings the time, it's a situation where, prior to school has nothing to do with national championships in the fall, I've been able to put one or two walk-ons on scholarship." or NCAA violations.

Alabama coach Nick Saban blamed the It has to do with what league Commissioner Mike Slive calls "fundamental fairness" to media for the proposed change, hinting that reporters gave too much attention to two LSU recruits. recruits who were denied admission last fall.

His coaches agree.

Two years after the trendsetting conference Offensive lineman Elliott Porter transferred to limited its schools to signing 28 high school Kentucky, but is now back in Baton Rouge as a prospects, the league is considering dropping walk-on.

"What's your problem with 28?" Saban said the number to 25. All 12 coaches voted against in a testy interview session Wednesday. "Y'all the proposal Wednesday, saying it could hinare creating a bad problem for everybody der their ability to fill rosters with talent.

"I'm very comfortable with where it is at because you're going to mess up the kids getright now," Auburn coach Gene Chizik said. ting opportunities by doing what you're doing.

"For us to turn around a year later and want to You think you're helping them, but you're realchange again. ... I have my doubts about us ly going to hurt them.

"You took one case where somebody didn't having given it enough time to figure out if it's get the right opportunity, but you need to take broke or not. I'm comfortable with where it's the other at." hundred cases that Oversigning somebody has become a got an controversial opportuniissue in the ty because SEC. Critics of it to be say it has led fair." schools to Miles "grayshirt" defended s o m e the overprospects, signing making them process, delay their saying e n ro l l m e n t they help until January combat because typical there is no attrition room on the ro s t e r.

George Richardson • The Daily Beacon stemming University of A line of players prepare for sprints during the first day of from lastF l o r i d a spring practice on Tuesday, March 22. SEC Media Day, this m i n u t e P r e s i d e n t week, had journalists and coaches of various programs d e f e c B e r n i e discussing issues of the conference, centering mainly on tions, ineligible M a c h e n the issue of “oversigning.” players, called the health tactic "morally reprehensible."

Slive has taken a softer tone, saying he issues, academic casualties and behavior probwants a more equitable relationship for both lems.

"All these things have to be managed with schools and recruits. some variances, some ability for the coach to "We'll make some changes," he said.

The proposed legislation could be passed fit guys into spots and timeframes," Miles said. "I have a difficult time defending the later this week.

"When you read what the commissioner has immorality of you're going to be able to go to said, there probably will be a change," school for free, you're just going to have to Arkansas coach Bobby Petrino said. "The peo- wait three months to do it.

"I have four children. Give me a grayshirt ple that criticize oversigning, I'm not sure they understand why you do it and what it's all for any of the four, I'll take it right now and be about and how you manage your roster and the happiest guy going."

Mississippi coach Houston Nutt has been how you get to (the scholarship limit of) 85."

Even though Petrino expects the proposal oversigning classes for years, even when he to pass, he doesn't believe it will be totally wel- was at Arkansas. He signed 37 recruits at Ole Miss in 2009, a move that raised eyebrows comed.

"I don't know if there will be acceptance to around the conference and the country.

He said the proposal would make coaches it," Petrino said. "It's all how you manage your roster. I've always been one that oversigns, less likely to take chances on prospects who knowing that out of these six guys, three of have borderline grades and test scores and them are going to get eligible and three are may not gain entrance to a university.

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The baseball team hasn't come close to competing for any kind of championship since Raleigh's arrival, leading to his termination.

The search for Raleigh's replacement is currently ongoing.

With the NCAA Tournament beginning this weekend, some potential candidates are still coaching their respective teams.

It's been widely reported that the top two names on UT's wish list are Cal State Fullerton coach Dave Serrano and South Carolina associate head coach Chad Holbrook.

Serrano was an assistant coach at UT from 1995-96, and the head coach for three seasons at UC Irvine. He is currently in his fourth season as skipper of the Titans, who will host a regional this weekend in the NCAA Tournament.

Holbrook is in his third season with the Gamecocks, and also serves as the team's recruiting coordinator. He previously spent 15 years with North Carolina's baseball program before heading south to Columbia, S.C. in 2008. He has no experience as a head coach, but is regarded as one of the top assistants in college baseball.

A wildcard candidate is former Vol Chris Burke. Burke is the best player in UT baseball history not named Todd Helton. A middle infielder from 99-01, he was a three-time AllAmerican before being the 10th overall selection in the 2001 MLB Draft by the Houston Astros.

He spent parts of six seasons in the Major Leagues. Burke has little coaching experience, but has been campaigning for the job recently.

He spent the past season working with Louisville’s baseball program as a graduate assistant.

Hiring Serrano or Holbrook would be a safe move, and either would most likely rebuild the program into one that makes the SEC and NCAA tournaments more years than not.

But hiring Burke-though extremely riskywould seemingly interject life into a program seemingly on life support.

Given baseball is, at best, the fourth sport at UT, in terms of importance and popularitybehind football and men's and women's basketball-taking a chance on a “UT guy” might be worth it. (Can the program get any worse?)

Regardless of whom is the next baseball coach, the challenge he'll face in rebuilding the program is the same: get UT back to Hoover-and possibly Omaha-consistently.

But that starts by beating the likes of Milwaukee, Presbyterian and Appalachian State.

Matt Dixon Sports Editor Home losses to Milwaukee, Presbyterian and Appalachian State gives you an idea how disappointing Tennessee's 2011 baseball season was.

The Diamond Vols closed out the year with a dramatic, walk-off win over Auburn on May 21 to finish 25-29 (7-23 SEC).

But as the record indicates, that season-ending 4-3 victory was one of just a few highlights on the year.

The low point might have been the threegame sweep at the hands of in-state rival Vanderbilt. The Commodores defeated UT by a combined score of 39-5 in the weekend series from April 29 through May 1.

The result?

Coach Todd Raleigh was fired on May 23.

The unsurprising move came after four lackluster seasons for the program under Raleigh, who was hired in 2007 to replace longtime coach Rod Delmonico.

During his tenure, Raleigh's Vols had an overall record of 108-113, including 42-78 in SEC play.

UT never made it to Hoover, Ala., the site of the SEC Tournament, under Raleigh, which features the league's top eight teams each year.

The lack of success under Raleigh begs the question: What caused the program-which reached Omaha, Neb. and the College World Series, the pinnacle in college baseball-just six years ago in 2005 under Delmonico, to fall to one that has finished among the bottom four teams in its league in each of the past four seasons?

Raleigh took over a program facing scholarship reductions due to scores in previous years below 925 in the NCAA's Academic Progress Rate (APR), which measures student-athletes’ progress towards graduation.

Not having the full allotment of scholarships was a hindrance, especially in a sport like baseball where scholarships are often divided among players.

But, nevertheless, the program under Raleigh hit rock bottom.

Given recent upgrades to Lindsey Nelson Stadium-which include a new team locker room and a plaza along the right field line-the Vols play in a top-of-the-line college stadium.

The resources UT provides the baseball program-and all sports on campus for that mattershould allow the school's athletic teams to com-

-Matt Dixon is a senior in journalism and electronic media. He can be reached at mdixon3@utk.edu and followed on Twitter at @MattDixon3.

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Friday, June 3, 2011

Ford to reorganize competition records Staff Reports Former Tennessee head coach Johnny Majors once said of Bud Ford, “He never has an opinion. He won’t get to the point.”

Of course, Majors burst out laughing after uttering those words because they couldn’t have been further from the truth when describing Ford, the longtime UT Media Relations Director who announced his retirement this week effective at the end of December.

A Knoxville native and 45-year veteran of his profession, Ford always let it be known that he stood for integrity, passion and tradition when it came to his beloved University of Tennessee. And he displayed those traits every day to head coaches, student assistants, media representatives and fans alike.

“Bud Ford loves Tennessee with a passion that shows through in the way he does his job,” UT legend Phillip Fulmer said. “He was always helpful to me as a player, assistant, and especially as the head coach. Whatever the situation, you could be sure he always was protective of the integrity, tradition and image that makes Tennessee football special.”

Ford, 66, is moving into the position of Athletics Department Historian beginning Jan. 1, 2012, and plans to keep serving as a mentor to those in the UT family.

“The history of Tennessee athletics has always intrigued me.” Ford said. “During my whole career, I have constantly gathered historical facts and figures to preserve this ongoing picture in my mind of what UT athletics was. I’ve certainly enjoyed the opportunity to work with a lot of great athletes, student workers and employees through these many years.”

Included in that group is quarterback Peyton Manning, who from 1994-97 became an iconic figure in the Volunteer State.

“Bud is simply the best in the business,” said Manning, who leaned on Ford for advice during his celebrated UT career. “I will always be indebted to Bud Ford, and I am honored to call him my friend.”

Six Football Coaches Ford, who was hired straight out of college in June 1966 by athletics director Bob

Woodruff, also worked under Doug Dickey and Mike Hamilton. He advised and supported six UT football head coaches -- Dickey, Bill Battle, Majors, Fulmer, Lane Kiffin and Derek Dooley.

Majors leaned on the combination of Ford and Haywood Harris for 17 years, and the Tennessee bond was strong between coach and his sports information directors from the start.

“Bud Ford is one of the most valuable people to an athletics department I have ever known,” Majors said.

“I’ve worked with some mighty good people, and Bud Ford is as good as they come. You just can’t beat him.

“He is honest and loyal to the highest degree and has great integrity. He is extremely efficient and knowledgeable about his profession, and has been invaluable to me and to anyone else who worked with him at the University of Tennessee. He also was invaluable to the many sportscasters, writers and media around the country.”

Majors appreciated Ford’s frankness when it mattered most, but wasn’t afraid to joke around with his publicity man after the crisis had passed.

“Bud is one of the most straightforward people I have ever known, and I’ve often kidded him by saying, ‘Bud, why don’t you ever get to the point? Why don’t you just say it like it is?’ He will give you the answer he believes in and he will shoot straight from the hip as much as anybody I’ve ever known.

“You never had to read between the lines of what he said because he was very plain-spoken.”

Ford was promoted to his current position of Associate Athletics Director for Media Relations in April 2000. Before that, Ford served as primary men’s basketball contact from 1966-85, during the Ray Mears and Don DeVoe eras. He spent 13 years as UT’s Sports Information Director, and then was promoted

to Assistant AD for Sports Information.

Those positions were just rewards for the work Ford began when he was named the school’s first full-time Assistant SID under CoSIDA Hall of Fame member Harris.

Combined 61 Years “I was privileged to work under one of the most respected men in the sports information field,” Ford said of Harris, who died last June at the age of 80 and with whom Ford teamed for 35 years. “I also was part of a time in collegiate sports history that will most likely never occur again.

“Since 1950, the job of the sports information director promoting men’s sports has been held by a graduate of the University of Tennessee. Lindsey Nelson, 1950; Gus Manning, 195160; and Haywood Harris, 1961-2000 -- if you add in • Bud Ford the 11 years I have been privileged to serve in that position, that is a total of 61 years at one school by alumni who totally dedicated themselves to their university in every way,” Ford said.

Ford himself was inducted into the CoSIDA Hall of Fame in 2001 and later received the prestigious Arch Ward Award in 2006 for outstanding contributions to the field of sports information.

“For more than four decades, Bud Ford as much as anyone has embodied the spirit of the Tennessee Vols -- loyal student and staff member, man of integrity, gracious host, and sports information professional whose daily decisions were always based on what he believed was in the best interest of his alma mater,” said Georgia’s Claude Felton, Ford’s longtime associate and friend in the SEC media relations field.

Ford and women’s media relations director Debby Jennings, who in 2002 became UT’s third member of the CoSIDA Hall of Fame, helped build the Tennessee brand and worked with an expanded staff of full-time and student employees.

“Just like the Orange and White checkerboard in Neyland Stadium, Bud Ford has been woven into the fabric of the University of Tennessee athletics department his entire life,” Jennings said. “For more than 40 years, he has had an amazing lifelong impact on UT athletics in ways that can never be quantified.

“Bud is a Tennessee man through and through and a walking encyclopedia of UT sports. During his career in sports information, he will tell you he always put the success of the Vol student-athlete first and foremost.”

Also a member of the Tennessee Sports Writers Association Hall of Fame and Knoxville Sports Hall of Fame, Ford in 2005 was made an honorary member of the UT Lettermen’s T-Club for his faithful service to the athletics department.

“Derek Dooley may have coined the term Vol for Life, but Bud Ford exemplifies it,” said Hamilton, who took over as UT men’s AD in 2003. “No one has been more loyal to their alma mater or fought harder for it than Bud Ford. His wealth of knowledge and institutional culture have been invaluable, and we look forward to him continuing to lead us in that area in his new role as historian.”

Reorganizing All Records Ford’s primary duty will be to reorganize all existing records of athletics competition in all sports in preparation for moving them into the archive storage area of the media relations office in the new Football Training Center. He also hopes to compile, edit and produce an alltime sports records book for the UT athletics department.

“For the last 45 years, I have seen it as my duty to make sure history was chronicled and properly catalogued in a way that it can be useful for many years,” he said.

In addition, Ford will serve as the contact for historical questions regarding teams, coaches and student-athletes, and be available to answer inquiries and correspondence received by the athletics department.

“The job is ever-changing, and that presents new challenges,” Ford said. “Even though I have grown older with each passing sports season, the athletes I work with still remain the same age, 18-21. They keep you on your toes and forever young in your thinking.”