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Bridge closing changes downtown traffic flow Construction inconveniences students, South Knoxville commuters most Rob Davis Staff Writer Construction of the Henley Street Bridge began in early January and is projected to finish around June 30, 2013.

This is not the first time the bridge has experienced closure due to construction.

“In 2004, urgent repairs were necessary to the deteriorated riding surface and decking,” Mark Nagi, community relations officer for region one of the Tennessee Department of Transportation, said. “The deterioration was allowing water seepage, causing chipping and cracking to some of the concrete support beams and columns.”

In addition to the 2004 construction, in 1987 the bridge saw a $2 million renovation on expansion joints, concrete railings and support columns, and a new lighting system was installed in 1991.

The cost of the current project was bid at $24,696,969.47.

The closure of the bridge has caused lane changes, as well as various road closures around the bridge.

“Currently Neyland Drive approaching the overhead Henley Bridge is reduced to one lane in each direction,” Nagi said. “Looking ahead, all Neyland Drive traffic closures will cease by Aug.19, 2011, and all four lanes will be open again at that time.”

Along with the lane closures on Neyland Drive, the greenway that runs along the Tennessee River is also closed.

Students who usually commute to campus via the Henley Street Bridge are the most inconvenienced.

“The construction has made it somewhat more difficult to get to campus each day,” Chris Thomas, senior in journalism and electronic media, said. “Normally, I would use Gay Street as a way to avoid traffic on Henley, but now there is no easy or quicker way to dodge traffic if I am running late. Having said that, if I make sure that I am up early and on time, then the commute has been a relatively easy adjustment.”

Instead of simply crossing the bridge, students must take a detour and cross over the Gay Street Bridge.

Two construction workers have died while working on the bridge.

The first, John David Womac, 33, foreman of Britton Bridge, LLC, died while on the job on Jan. 25.

The second, Solin EstradaJimenez, 47, was a native of Mexico and died due to an accident on May 24.

“A safety review for all Britton Bridge projects and their affiliates is currently ongoing,” Nagi said.

“Those reviews are scheduled to be completed in the next few days.”

Currently no memorial for the two workers has been planned but may be considered in the future.

Thomas said the opening of the bridge will be greatly welcomed and that currently, the commute is a hassle but will likely be worse during football season.

“I will be happy when the bridge is finished,” Thomas said. “I think the absolute worst experience I have had was during football season.

Trying to get to work when a game is over is nearly impossible, and the bridge wasn’t even under construction then. It will be much harder this year.”

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Workers sweep debris from the exposed supports of the Henley Street Bridge on Monday, June 6. The major vein for traffic flow between downtown and South Knoxville closed at the beginning of the year and is scheduled to reopen by the end of June, 2013.

New book studies anti-war veterans war veterans.”

He found that many of the stigmas attached to the Vietnam War are false. He News and Student Life Editor discovered three such common errors.

Firstly, Harmon said it is assumed that the Mark Harmon, associate professor in journalism and electronic media, started an off- people who led the opposition against the and-on, three-decade-long work after reading Vietnam War were upper-class elites.

Looking at the public opinion polling, a Hunter S. Thompson book.

In Thompson’s “Fear and Loathing on the Harmon discovered it was actually the lower Campaign Trail ’72,” Harmon read about the class who were leading the charge against Vietnam Veterans Against the War, and he the war.

“When you look at it, that makes sense,” became fascinated by the group. Why didn’t this get news coverage, he thought to him- he said. “Those were the people that had sons dying.” self.

Secondly, Harmon also pointed out that, What resulted was “Found, Featured, then Forgotten: U.S. Network TV News and the while people assume the press led the way in Vietnam Veterans Against the War,” a new anti-Vietnam coverage, the opposite is true.

“The press got to anti-war stories rather multimedia book published by UT Libraries’ late in the game and, really, almost had to be Newfound Press. dragged to the story of “Dr. Harmon’s anti-war veterans,” he book is the said.

Newfound Press’ Finally, Harmon said first true multithe outcome of the war media work,” UT is often blamed on the Libraries comprotests at home. munications “It was lost because it coordinator was a badly chosen war, Martha Rudolph fought on poor reasonsaid. “Since the ing,” he said. press is a peerTo access Harmon’s reviewed online new book, visit imprint, readers http://www.newfoundget both an press.utk.edu/pubs/harauthoritative mon/. work and the Harmon thinks the added interest of multimedia format is interactive fea– Mark Harmon where books of this type tures, such as are going. on Vietnam Veterans Against the War news broadcasts “I think this is going from the to become an increasing Vietnam era and part of what books are, interviews with veterans who protested the and I think that’s good,” he said. “It’s not war. It’s an exciting new work.”

The Vietnam Veterans Against the War right for every topic, but it certainly worked stood out to Harmon because there were so for this one. I am very pleased that Newfound Press is here and is publishing many involved in the group.

“Certainly there were other wars where these works.”

The book features audio clips, video clips, there was some opposition, but this was a Internet links, photographs and more. phenomenon,” Harmon said.

“In terms of a range of source work, it defAnd there was opposition to this opposiinitely has that, everything from books to tion, as well.

“What made Vietnam Veterans Against the interviews to magazine articles to newspaWar important also was they were politically pers to items of databases and archives to targeted,” he said. “There were government audio and video clips,” he said.

Besides correcting common errors about prosecutors that were attempting to break up anti-war veterans. The Nixon Administration the Vietnam War, Harmon’s joy in creating the book came from the “forgotten” aspect of was obsessed with the group.”

George Richardson • The Daily Beacon Harmon was specific in his aim for this its title.

Blake Gonyea, junior in astrophysics, and Sean Bailey, junior in history, toss a frisbee work.

“Telling the story of an underappreciated outside Humanities. Temperatures remained in the 90s over the weekend and are “Others have done a great job of telling the group, that, I think, was the whole motivaexpected to stay high throughout the week in what is shaping up to be the hottest story of anti-war veterans,” he said. “I want- tion of it,” he said. “Here’s a part of history ed to tell the story of news coverage of anti- that we’re not telling.” summer in recent memory.

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Robert Churchill, junior in chemical and biomolecular engineering, hunts for textbooks for his classes. Students can reserve textbooks for the upcoming Fall 2011 semester at the UT Bookstore or online at UTBookstore.org.

1886 - Thirteen years after American settlers founded the city named for him, Chief Seattle dies in a nearby village of his people.

Born sometime around 1790, Seattle (Seathl) was a chief of the Duwamish and Suquamish tribes who lived around the Pacific Coast bay that is today called Puget Sound. He was the son of a Suquamish father and a Duwamish mother, a lineage that allowed him to gain influence in both tribes.

By the early 1850s, small bands of Euro-Americans had begun establishing villages along the banks of Puget Sound. Chief Seattle apparently welcomed his new neighbors and seems to have treated them with kindness. In 1853, several settlers moved to a site on Elliott Bay to establish a permanent town--since Chief Seattle had proved so friendly and welcoming, the settlers named their tiny new settlement in his honor.

The Euro-American settlers picked the site because of the luxuriant forest on the bluff behind the new village. The Gold Rush in California had created a booming market for timber, and soon most of the villagers were at work cutting the trees and "skidding" them down a long chute to a newly constructed sawmill. The chute became known as "skid road," and in time, it became the main street in Seattle, though it kept its original name. When the Seattle business district later moved north, the area became a haven for drunks and derelicts. Consequently, "skid road" or "skid row" became lingo for the dilapidated area of any town.

Not all the Puget Sound Indians, however, were as friendly toward the white settlers as Chief Seattle.

War broke out in 1855, and Indians from the White River Valley south of Seattle attacked the village.

Although he believed the whites would eventually drive his people to extinction, Chief Seattle argued that resistance would merely anger the settlers and hasten the Indians' demise. By 1856, many of the hostile Indians had concluded that Chief Seattle was right and made peace.

Rather than fight, Seattle tried to learn white ways. Jesuit missionaries introduced him to Catholicism, and he became a devout believer. He observed morning and evening prayers throughout the rest of his

life. The people of the new city of Seattle also paid some respect to the chief's traditional religion. The Suquamish believed the mention of a dead man's name disturbs his eternal rest. To provide Chief Seattle with a pre-payment for the difficulties he would face in the afterlife, the people of Seattle levied a small tax on themselves to use the chief's name. He died in 1866 at the approximate age of 77.

1913 - Hudson Stuck, an Alaskan missionary, leads the first successful ascent of Mt. McKinley, the highest point on the American continent at 20,320 feet.

Stuck, an accomplished amateur mountaineer, was born in London in 1863. After moving to the United States, in 1905 he became archdeacon of the Episcopal Church in Yukon, Alaska, where he was an admirer of Native Indian culture and traveled Alaska's difficult terrain to preach to villagers and establish schools.

In March 1913, the adventure-seeking Stuck set out from Fairbanks for Mt. McKinley with three companions, Harry Karstens, co-leader of the expedition, Walter Harper, whose mother was a Native Indian, and Robert Tatum, a theology student. Their arduous journey was made more challenging by difficult weather and a fire at one of their camps, which destroyed food and supplies. However, the group persevered and on June 7, Harper, followed by the rest of the party, was the first person to set foot on McKinley's south peak, considered the mountain's true summit. (In 1910, a group of climbers had reached the lower north peak.)

Stuck referred to the mountain by its Athabascan Indian name, Denali, meaning "The High One." In 1889, the mountain, over half of which is covered with permanent snowfields, was dubbed Densmores Peak, after a prospector named Frank Densmore. In 1896, it was renamed in honor of Senator William McKinley, who became president that year.

Mount McKinley National Park was established as a wildlife refuge in 1917. Harry Karstens served as the park's first superintendent. In 1980, the park was expanded and renamed Denali National Park and Preserve. Encompassing 6 million acres, the park is larger than Massachusetts.

Hudson Stuck died in Alaska on October 10, 1920. Today, over 1,000 hopeful climbers attempt to scale Mt. McKinley each year, with about half of them successfully reaching their goal.

Tuesday, June 7, 2011

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Perry’s comments stir professors Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas — When barbecue research is second-guessed in Texas, the turmoil in higher education must be getting serious.

Responding to soaring tuitions and sagging graduation rates, a conservative policy foundation and Republican Gov. Rick Perry have stirred a tempest on Texas campuses by questioning whether college professors are making good use of their state money and suggesting an assortment of efficiencies. The foundation, for example, is asking whether there’s a need for more critiques of Shakespeare and other esoteric research that doesn’t generate money.

Academics and politicians don’t get along in the best of times. But with tuition increasing and budgets tight, the so - called “Seven Breakthrough Solutions,” created by the right-leaning Texas Public Policy Foundation, has opened a new debate over the balance between academic freedom and reasonable cost-benefit analysis.

The backlash peaked last week at Texas A&M University — Perry’s alma mater — when more than 800 faculty members signed an online petition asking university regents to explain where they stand on the proposals and one professor’s withering rebuke to regents made him a small YouTube star. National education institutions have begun to take notice.

“Texas has a prominent place in higher education,” said John Curtis, public policy director of the American Association of University Professors.

“But the question popping up is that political perspectives and ideology are encroaching on individual autonomy.

Some of the proposals are pretty radical.”

The “solutions” haven’t been implemented on any campus, or even formally proposed. Yet professors see those proposals as undermining academic research, a perception the Texas Public Policy Foundation strenuously rejects.

But foundation spokesman David Guenthner added, “You can talk about the double helix on one end of the spectrum, but on the other end of the spectrum you have the professor who does the study on Texas barbecue.”

Perry, who has donated proceeds from his Washington-bashing book “Fed Up!” to the think tank, dismissed the controversy as overblown. In an editorial last month, he called university research the “lifeblood of our state’s innovation” and trumpeted the hundreds of millions of dollars the state has put toward technology and cancer research. But he said universities should be more efficient with resources, noting that fewer than three in 10 students graduate in four years.

Meanwhile, the average semester cost for students has climbed 72 percent since 2003.

Perry broadly endorsed the “seven solutions” at a meeting of state university leaders in 2008, and while he has not publicly pushed for specific measures, Perry has called for more accountability.

“These efforts to protect taxpayers and get more results from our schools are not universally welcomed in academia,” he said. “The attitude of some in the university world is that students and taxpayers should send more and more money, and then just butt out.”

Among the foundation’s “solutions” are rewarding professors with bonuses based on student feedback. Another recommends compiling data to calculate

professors’ efficiency. Splitting teaching and research budgets, to make clearer how money is spent, also was suggested.

Professors grumble it’s the Seven Deadly Sins.

At the University of Texas at Austin, one of the nation’s largest campuses with 50,000-plus students, in-state tuition averaged $8,000 last year. The national average at four-year public universities was $7,605, according to the nonprofit College Board. Perry has called on universities to come up with a way to offer $10,000 bachelor’s degree programs.

For anyone who thinks research on Texas barbecue isn’t worth taxpayer dollars, UT professor Elizabeth Engelhardt begs to differ. She wrote “Republic of Barbecue: Stories Beyond the Brisket,” a history that started as a graduate student project. She said her book, which has sold 2,100 copies, views the state’s famous dish through an academic lens, weaving in histories of railroads and refrigeration.

The university said Engelhardt’s research cost her department less than $750. Engelhardt maintains Texas taxpayers benefit by better understanding their culture.

Jaime Grunlan, a mechanical engineering professor at Texas A&M University, quantifies the value of his research another way: $1.3 million, which he said is how much his work in nanotechnology has generated for the university in the past two years. Grunlan is the face of faculty opposition — and it’s not one of a bookish, gray-haired professor. Square -jawed and 6-foot-8, Grunlan is a former college defensive tackle who delivered a defiant, stop-meddling demand to Texas A&M regents last week. The clip drew more than 4,300 views on YouTube in four days, which is practically a ratings grab for a low-quality feed from a dry board meeting.

“If guys like me leave Texas, it will be very bad for Texas,” Grunlan said. “It’s lost jobs, it’s lost technology. It’s companies that won’t be coming to Texas.”

Although no proposals were on the agenda, faculty members suspected that regents had been discussing the “solutions” behind the scenes. A&M regents chairman Richard Box tried to quell the Tia Patron • The Daily Beacon concern, saying the proposals were sim- Lindsey Pickett, senior in history and education, studies outside Humanities. ply meant to stimulate ideas. Yet A&M Students are taking advantage of the nice weather, be it in study or at the pool. vice chairman Phil Adams, who’s also a Texas Public Policy Foundation board member, said the university can’t sit still.

“In 1975, they said Sears was the best company in America. In 1975 they probably were, but they couldn’t see down the road,” Adams said. “And their board of regents wasn’t strong enough to put policies and management in place to take care of what was coming.”

Adams then cupped his hands around his mouth, as though he was making a megaphone.

“The best company in 1975 was what by 1990?” Adams said. “Not. Even.

Relevant.”

At the University of Texas at San Antonio, president Ricardo Romo knows the pressure of trying to keep college affordable and accessible. His enrollment of 30,000 students has swollen by more than 50 percent over the past decade, and his professor-to-student ratio of 25 to 1 is among the highest in the state.

He concedes that many families see the $8,000 tuition as a burden, but he still considers it a bargain. As for $10,000 degrees, Romo said, “I have no idea how they would do it. But if they have some ideas, we’d be certainly willing to listen.”

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Editor’s Note Reserve time to unwind in summer Blair Kuykendall Editor-in-Chief Those ‘lazy, hazy, crazy’ days of summer are long gone. College professors and advisors today emphasize the importance of student productivity in the summer months, most often in the interest of enhancing student resumes for graduate school.

While this tactic is generating an increasingly competitive applicant pool, busy summers further enhance the already high stress levels experienced by undergraduates.

Summer used to be a student’s long-awaited solace between chaotic school years full of hard work and a multitude of extra-curriculars. In the past students have traditionally limited themselves to a day-job over the summer, using the evenings and weekends to blow off steam with their friends.

In today’s academic environment, however, this is often not an option. Students are encouraged to use their time studying abroad, engaging in research, working an internship, or taking college classes.

While these are all valuable pursuits, the constant activity can wear on students.

Take studying abroad. Traveling to another country is an amazing opportunity, and one that can be truly enriching to a student. I am certainly not discouraging students from foreign study, as I do believe this to be a highly beneficial, if not integral component of the college experience. I do believe, however, that students should be able to enter study abroad in the correct frame of mind. Some students may be more than capable of finishing off a hectic school year and hopping a plane to Venezuela, returning three months later excited to begin the next school year. For some students, though, this may be overly taxing.

Research is also an important part of the educational experience. It can provide hands-on experience for students, allowing them to work more closely with faculty members as well. In the university’s quest for the Top 25, both undergraduate and graduate research has been funded by a number of summer research grants and internships. These

experiences can be invaluable to students looking to advance innovative ideas and gain traction in their fields. As these activities are increasingly taking place in the summer, students are now required to keep up their academic production year-round. This can add strain to a student’s already hectic schedule.

Internships provide wonderful practical experience for students as well, but come with their own unique set of challenges. Often internships are not necessarily located in a student’s hometown, requiring them to fund living expenses in another city. Since most internships are unpaid, this can necessitate assistance from family members or another part-time job. This further complicates a student’s summer, leaving little time to unwind.

The stress associated with carrying a load of classwork over the summer is more self-explanatory.

Students who decide to rack up needed credit hours over the summer can indeed do a great deal in moving closer to their intended majors. While adding hours over the summer may ease the difficulty of the regular school year, these classes keep students from resting their minds over the summer vacation. Without any type of break from coursework, students may more easily experience burn-out.

The purpose of this piece is not to condemn students who decide to use their summers productively. If it were, that would make me entirely a hypocrite. Rather, I would like to take this opportunity to encourage students to carve out some time for themselves during the summer months.

With graduate school entrance becoming increasingly challenging, it is important that students show they have achieved something over the summer. I am merely suggesting that students find some type of middle ground.

It is indeed critical for students’ mental sanity to take some time for themselves during the summer months. Whether it’s studying abroad during the mini-term, taking only a one-month internship, or simply taking three credit hours during the summer, students should do what’s necessary to incorporate some degree of fun and relaxation into their summer vacations. This will guarantee a more enjoyable summer, and the added sanity should lead to a much more productive school year.

—Blair Kuykendall is a sophomore in College Scholars. She can be reached at bkuykend@utk.edu.

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Effects of bill potentially devastating T he Social N etwo r k by

Elliott DeVore Many of you may be aware of the "Don't Say Gay" bill (SB0049) that local congressman Stacey Campfield has been trying to push through Tennessee legislature for quite some time. Most recently, it passed through the Senate Education Committee and will be entering the Senate floor.

If this bill is enacted, it will prevent the discussion of any aspect of sexuality, other than heterosexuality, before ninth grade. Campfield's bill states that children before ninth grade should not be exposed to homosexuality, because human sexuality is a complex subject and is best reserved for discussion in the home.

What I don't understand is how homosexuality is more complex than heterosexuality? I wonder if the boys in my sixth-grade class thought heterosexuality was too complex when they smuggled Playboys to school?

What devastates me most is that this bill will prevent teachers from discussing the bullying that lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered (LGBT) students experience. Being gay, I have personally endured a lot of bullying as a child. Children can be relentlessly cruel to each other, and being attacked for being LGBT is one of the most painful and ostracizing things to experience.

I can't even put into words how insecure and lonely I felt at times when I was in middle school. The way I walked and the way I talked were popular targets for taunting — because my peers thought I was gay. I cried alone, too ashamed to tell anyone, even my mother.

Approaching my teachers about this bullying was never an option, because being bullied for being "a sissy" or gay wasn't valid in many of their eyes. I was just supposed to toughen up and deal with it ... or "act like a boy."

A survey by GLSEN (Gay Lesbian Straight Education Network) of more than 6,000 LGBT students found that 64.3 percent of students have felt unsafe in school because of their sexual orientation. This was compared to 18.1 percent who felt unsafe because of their religion and 8.9 percent because of their race or ethnicity.

The study also found that 86.2 percent of students have been verbally harassed with terms like "faggot" or "dyke." Likewise, 28.9 percent of the students had

felt so unsafe in school that they have skipped a class or the entire day in the past month.

A reported 37.8 percent of students reported being physically harassed (pushed or shoved) because of their actual or perceived sexual orientation, and 17.6 percent were physically assaulted (punched, kicked or injured with a weapon) because of the perceived or actual sexual orientation, with 11.8 percent assaulted as a result of their gender expression. With these figures it comes as no surprise that LGBT youth are five times more likely to commit suicide. I wonder if Campfield read any of these reports?

This bill will also prevent schools from having Gay Straight Alliances (GSAs). It has been shown that LGBT youth who have supportive social environments and GSAs are less likely to experience depression or be suicidal. Eleven-year-old Carl Joseph Walker-Hoover committed suicide in April 2009 because of daily torments for being gay, despite constant pleas from his mother to the school for help. Lawrence King, an eighth grader in California, was murdered in February 2008 at his school for being gay.

This is clearly an issue we must address. Society must acknowledge that people are coming out as LGBT at much younger ages these days. Preventing schools in Tennessee from addressing the needs of LGBT students through anti-bullying policies, classes or GSAs is stripping our young students of their right to human dignity and emotional soundness.

Is it not the duty of educators to provide students with the healthiest environment in which they can flourish in every aspect of their lives? It enrages me to the depths of my being that Campfield and other conservatives try to politicize this as asserting "the gay agenda." This is not an issue of politics; it is one of human dignity, respect and human lives — children's lives to be precise.

Passing this bill will allow the emotional degradation of children across the state. This bill will prevent our educators from addressing the bullying of LGBT students, from serving as a beacon of hope for those students who feel alone, depressed or even suicidal.

Shame on you, Sen. Campfield. Your lack of integrity is appalling, and if this bill passes, your selfish political agenda will have a devastating impact on the lives of LGBT students across the state. Repercussions from this bill will be truly unforgivable.

— Elliott DeVore is a senior in psychology. He can be reached at edevore@utk.edu. This column originally ran April 26.

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Everyone has noticed the heat wave recently and the wacky storms that have been coming through the South. If anyone has been paying attention even minutely to the national weather patterns, one is certain to see the devastation across the West and Midwest.

Tornadoes have ravaged Kansas, Missouri, Alabama and parts of other states. I know we are fortunate here in East Tennessee to have gotten very little of these effects. Yes, some of us have hail damage to our vehicles or homes. Even my car is still popmarked and my windshield is cracked. Auto glass makers will be busy for months to come. I have heard talks about wait-lists from now until September! I have not even gotten on the list yet. The phones are still busy at most body shops and with filled appointment books through September, what is the point in calling now?

The main reason for writing this is not to harp about our issues here but to say that we got off easy compared to Joplin, Mo. or places that have been evacuated due to the floodwaters from the rivers.

While we are enjoying our summer heat wave, most Midwest states have a new threat. It is spring for them. Their snow is melting into already flooded or nearly flooded plains. Just this morning, I heard that a town in Montana had to be vacated due to the levies breaking.

Was anyone on campus during the week that Destination Imagination was in town? I work at a hotel that hosted some of the children for DI. One of the parents from Missouri told me that a group from Joplin was supposed to come from there but had to cancel at the last minute because two of the team members were injured in the tornadoes.

So, while you are walking around in the sweltering heat and drinking bottle after bottle of cold, refreshing water, think about the people in the Midwest and the western states who either have no homes or have no family left.

On a different note, Destination Imagination is a program that allows children from all over the world to show off their talents by singing, dancing, making posters, making skits and competing in challenge bowls. Each group must compete in its hometown and then there are state competitions. UT hosts the World Competitions. People came this year from China, India, Japan and all across the U.S. just to name a few of the many countries represented.

While this is a great opportunity for our next generation to become global citizens and show off their brainpower, is this how UT is spending the hard earned money we pay them for our education instead of lessening the price of books and ensuring we have excellent teachers? Not necessarily. Do not get me wrong; I have no issues with UT hosting the World Competitions. I know there is a partnership between Destination Imagination and the University of Tennessee. I also know it brings in much revenue for many businesses all over Knoxville. The groups have to drive and fly their way into Knoxville.

Transportation is provided by the buses for the kids, which is another business partnership. From a student’s point-of-view, without knowing anything about DI, one could assume UT is doing all the work.

Regardless of how UT spends our money, for they will do with it what they will, most colleges and universities start by price gouging. Yes, I said price gouging. The price of books comes to mind first and most often followed by either parking passes or cost of living on campus. With the recent changes to the Hope Scholarship, many students will be out of luck when it comes to their senior years. Some seniors are already finding it difficult to get the financial aid needed for that last year of school.

Because of this, most seniors will either find themselves in greater debt from personal school loans or working more hours that they would ordinarily devote to studying. As a result, the seniors will be doubly stressed and may even have to pick up more than one extra job just to make ends meet. I personally have held three jobs on top of full-time school so I have some idea of what I speak. How some can manage to pull multiple jobs and still make straight A’s is beyond me. I am not that smart or talented.

-- Sandra Wineinger is a senior in Latin. She can be reached at swineing@utk.edu.

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‘Rockabilly Queen’ lights up Bijou Jake Lane Managing Editor Progenitors of the lynchpin genre “rock ‘n’ roll” are few and far between these days. One would be hard-pressed to name more than a handful of performers and songwriters who can remember first-hand when “Rumble” caused riots with no words and an impaled speaker cone, or when Elvis’ hips were perceived as the potential downfall of Western civilization.

Fortunately, rockabilly queen Wanda Jackson is still blazing a trail from stage to stage with a momentum that shows no signs of flagging anytime soon.

Jackson, whose 1960 recording of “Let’s Have a Party” has been an early rock staple since it debuted, began her career more than half a century ago as a high school student. Since then she has been instrumental in keeping the spirit of rock ‘n’ roll alive, traversing country and gospel before returning to rockabilly on her Jack White-produced LP, “The Party Ain’t Over,” earlier this year. If anyone needed convincing that Jackson still has a few tricks up the sleeve of her white fringe jacket, her May 27 performance at the Bijou erased all doubt.

On being seated at 7 p.m., prospects seemed grim for a full house. A few seats were occupied towards the front, with a median age of 50 or so. Though Jackson’s most recent album has exposed her music to a younger audience via White’s pop appeal, I figured the Detroit Darling’s absence likely severed the attention span of the U25 crowd.

I was proven pleasantly wrong.

As Holly Golightly and Lawyer Dave, billed as the Brokeoffs, strummed through their set of buzzed roots music,

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guitar chops, with Dave alternating on slide and lead guitar with a husky tenor to compliment Golightly’s girlish falsetto and sultry growl.

Prior to Jackson’s taking the stage, her band of hired guns took on rock ‘n’ roll classics such as “Roadrunner” and “Rumble” before calling out the Rockabilly Queen for an evening of house-shaking rock thunder and reminisces of a half-century on the stage.

One of Jackson’s strongest suits and most distinctive features has been heavy grit Oklahoma croon, undiminished by decades of performing. Hits like “Funnel of Love” and “Fujiyama Mama” sounded as crisp in May 2011 as in 1961.

While a certain portion of the evening’s set was devoted to “Party” selections, Jackson’s repertoire revolved around stories from her career and life, from dating Elvis at 17 to her 1971 Christian rebirth.

On the latter matter, Jackson reminded the audience members that they may not share her views, but she felt it important to give a little time each night to praise and thanks.

After much of her story was told, Jackson and crew blazed through a collection of rock classics such as “Riot in Cell Block #9” • Photo courtesy of Eric Smith and the often-covered “Whole Lotta Shakin’ Going On.” Though she most recent project, The Brokeoffs, excelled at songs made famous by othbegan as a quartet, but has shrunk to a ers, Jackson shone with a white lightduo with Dave playing a foot-rig drum ning rendition of her own “Hard kit and guitar to compensate. The Headed Woman,” which at this point sound has suffered no shrinkage, howev- isn’t so much a statement about women as a burden, but rather Jackson’s own er.

Between tales of escalator massacres refusal to be put to pasture.

At 73, it would be easy to count and trash-burning neighbors, Golightly and Dave projected a warm camaraderie Wanda Jackson out of the running in the and confidence which could just have rock ‘n’ roll game. But if experience easily been observed in a living room or proves anything, youth fads come and a stadium. Both showed their vocal and go, but the legends beat on forever. the Bijou began to swell with a crowd of generationally transcendent patrons.

Golightly, another one-time collaborator with White, has built a genre-hopping career not dissimilar to Jackson’s.

Building on Brill Building girl groups and 60s garage rock, Golightly formed the Thee Headcoatees in 1991 before embarking on a solo career in 1995. Her

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Foreshadowing mires “First Class” of mankind.

The cast also features a surprisingly devious performance from Kevin Bacon as villain Sebastian Shaw, as well as Jennifer Lawrence, fresh from the critically acclaimed “Winter’s Bone,” playing a young Mystique.

But really, the person who steals the show out of the entire cast is Michael Fassbender as Magneto. The role demanded a complex performance from Fassbender, and he provided it.

The movie first introduces the character of Magneto in a captivating first scene of Magneto as a child, demanded to show the Nazis his power.

The scene evokes the conversational banter and palpable energy of the first scenes of Quentin Tarantino’s “Inglourious Basterds.”

It’s like seeing an emotional stage play on the screen, raw emotion on display. Even after seeing all the superhero fights and fanboy moments, it is telling that this is the scene that sticks out.

When the audience first sees Fassbender, he is hunting down people for revenge after what the Nazis put him through as a child. He pursues this with moral abandon, and it is hard not to get caught up, cheering him on in the endeavor.

Later in the movie, of course, Magneto is caught up in the moral quandry between exacting cold revenge and rebuilding society with mutants on top, with Xavier’s more modest goals of creating a school and home for misunderstood mutants.

“First Class” wins the title of best X-Men movie, despite the excellent efforts of the 2000 “XMen” film and its 2003 sequel, “X2: X-Men United.” But the movie is not without its one prevailing flaw.

Too often, the movie gets wrapped up in glaring foreshadowing and rushing the franchise back to the status quo. It’s ironic because a sequel to “First Class” might not be nearly as fun or enjoyable because the movie wrecked the gimmicky premise it began with.

Robby O’Daniel News and Student Life Editor Many disturbing parallels exist between the concepts behind “X-Men: First Class” and that horrid take on the franchise, 2009’s “X-Men Origins: Wolverine.”

Both movies essentially rely on fans accepting yet another XMen movie, “First Class” making the fifth one since 2000, based on the idea that this will be a different viewpoint of the classic characters.

With “Wolverine,” it was supposed to serve as the beginning of a new franchise of solo adventures. But after viewing it, it’s much easier to classify it as just “X-Men 4,” serving as a good chance to include some characters that were not in the original trilogy, like Gambit.

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Outside of a brief, funny cameo, Hugh Jackman and the Wolverine character are nowhere to be found. And thank God for that because, too often, both X-Men comics and movies become “Wolverine, also featuring the X-Men.” “First Class” does not have that problem.

The movie’s biggest strength is its superb cast. James McAvoy leads the way as a notyet-professor Charles Xavier, providing, yes, a fresh take on the character. He is turned from older, bald mentor into younger, carousing ladies’ man in this movie.

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Lady Vols join World Championship Team Freshmen Burdick, Massengale join three-time FIBA gold medalists next few weeks about what I can do with this group of kids to make sure we are as Following five days of training camp at prepared as we can be heading down to Walt Disney World Resorts in Florida, Chile and try to win a gold medal.”

Also named to the 2011 USA U19 World which culminated with a 49-37 exhibition victory over the Brazil U19 National Team, Championship Team were: Jordan Adams the 2011 USA Basketball Women’s U19 (Mater Dei H.S. / Irvine, Calif.); Diamond World Championship Team was finalized DeShields (Norcross H.S. / Norcross, Ga.); Stefanie Dolson (Connecticut / Port Jervis, on Sunday afternoon.

Earning roster spots on the team were N.Y.); Bria Hartley (Connecticut / North incoming Lady Vol freshmen Cierra Babylon, N.Y.); Alexis Jones (Irving Burdick (Butler H.S. / Matthews, N.C.) and MacArthur H.S. / Irving, Texas); Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis Ariel Massengale (Mater Dei H.S. / (Bolingbrook H.S. Anaheim, Calif.); / Bolingbrook, Imani Stafford Ill.). Rising UT (Winward H.S. / sophomore guard Los Angeles, Meighan Simmons Calif.); Breanna (Cibolo, Texas) Stewart (Cicerowas in the final North Syracuse group of 15 but just H.S. / North missed making the Syracuse, N.Y.); team.

Morgan Tuck All 12 members (Bolingbrook H.S. / of the USA U19 Bolingbrook, Ill.); squad have prior and Elizabeth international expeWilliams (Princess rience playing for Anne H.S. / USA Basketball, Virginia Beach, including four who Va.). were on the 2010 The USA U19 USA U18 National W o r l d Team that qualified – Jennifer Rizzotti, USA U19 World Championship Championship the U.S. for the Team and University of Hartford head coach, Team will reassemU19 Worlds. on the selection process for the the 2011 USA ble for training Three-time Basketball Women’s U19 World Championship camp July 11-15 at defending champiTeam the U.S. Olympic ons at the FIBA Training Center U19 World Championship, the U.S. will look to defend (USOTC) in Colorado Springs, Colo., its gold medal at this year’s U19 World before the team travels to Chile for its final Championship, scheduled for July 21-31 in preparations.

The USA has been drawn into Group B Puerto Montt and Puerto Varas, Chile.

“This was very difficult and that’s a for preliminary round play. Tipping-off credit to the girls, how hard they worked against Japan on July 21 at 12:30 p.m. (all and how committed they were in their times EDT), the USA will face Russia on desire to want to be on the team,” said July 22 at 12:30 p.m. and close the first Jennifer Rizzotti, USA U19 World round against Argentina on July 23 at 3:30 Championship Team and University of p.m. The second round will be played July Hartford head coach. “It makes this 25-27; quarterfinals are slated for July 29; process really hard. I’m excited about final- semifinals will be held on July 30 and the ly being down to 12 and thinking over the finals are scheduled for July 31.

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Meighan Simmons rushes past a defender during a game against Mississippi State.

Simmons narrowly missed the cut to make the 2011 USA Basketball Women’s U19 World Championship Team, of which two incoming UT Freshman, Cierra Burdick and Ariel Massengale, were selected as members.

Dooley to Ohio State just a ‘dream’ Matt Dixon Sports Editor Derek Dooley leaving Tennessee for Ohio State?

Before UT fans begin jumping off the Gay Street Bridge in orange masses, rest assured, the secondyear Vols coach was just mentioned as a possible replacement for Jim Tressel on an internet blog.

The blog, The Junkyard with Roger Brown, appears on SportsTime Ohio’s website.

Brown makes a case for Ohio State to hire Dooley following the upcoming season. (Ohio State has named an interim coach for the 2011 season and won’t hire a coach until after the year.)

Citing Dooley’s law degree, his experience as Louisiana Tech’s athletic director and characterizing him as “sharp” and “personable,” the blog ranks Dooley

second on its list of coaches it wants for Ohio State in 2012. Iowa’s Kirk Ferentz tops the list, while Boise State’s Chris Petersen, LSU’s Les Miles, Oklahoma’s Bob Stoops and interim Buckeyes’ coach Luke Fickell round out the “wish list.”

Pretty good company for Dooley.

Miles and Stoops have won BCS National Championships, while Ferentz and Petersen are considered among the top coaches in college football.

While having any UT coach’s name even being whispered as a possible replacement is the last thing the Vol Nation wants to hear right now, it should be seen in positive light that Dooley’s name would come up regarding the Ohio State

job, even if it’s only on a blog.

Given its rich tradition, facilities and resources, Tennessee is one of the best jobs in college football.

Sports Illustrated’s Andy Staples recently ranked the UT head coaching job as the 16th-best in the country — Ohio State ranked No. 2.

Staples contends that the lack of high school talent instate is the main reason why UT isn’t higher on the list because it forces UT to recruit further away from Knoxville, often in schools like Georgia and South Carolina’s “backyards.”

With this, the possibility is there for coaches to see the UT job as more of a stepping stone towards one of the few “better” jobs, as opposed to a “dream job.”

Former coach Phillip Fulmer certainly saw it as his dream job, but he also played for the Vols as an offensive lineman from 1969-71 and served as an assistant coach and offensive coordinator before becoming the head coach.

Lane Kiffin didn’t see UT

as his dream job and jumped at the first chance to return to the West Coast and USC, which came after just one season on Rocky Top. Obviously, no one expected him to leave after one year, but many felt he wasn’t going to be at UT for the long haul.

Does Dooley see this as his dream job?

Based on a year and a half’s worth of interactions with him in media opportunities, Dooley does have a much greater appreciation for UT and its head coaching job than, say, his predecessor did.

Whether Dooley is at UT in five or 10 years is anybody’s guess.

The idea of him leaving for Columbus, Ohio after this year seems farfetched.

But just in case, doesn’t Jon Gruden own land in East Tennessee?

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