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Professor focuses on equality, thoughtful material Brandi Panter Managing and Chief Copy Editor For the majority of UT students, survey courses are an inevitable fate, with most scrambling to avoid the classes altogether or coasting through them hoping to expound minimal effort and absorb minimal knowledge. One professor, though, is working to change that mindset.

Lynn Sacco, assistant professor in history, sees survey classes as a creative opportunity to encourage students to expland their way of thinking and view topics from a different perspective.

“I like the challenge of teaching a survery,” said Sacco. “I see (General Education requirements) as an opportunity for courses you may have never heard of before, but it is still just as important to teach them with though. It’s why I center so much around feedback and interaction-I want to make the class more inviting.”

Sacco acknowledges her approach comes from personal experience. “I was a terrible student,” she said.

She is aware that regurgitating facts, dates and numbers to students is not the best approach for fetching a response, and instead gears her courses around social history.

“I conceptualize my classes,” Sacco said. “I center my surveyy of American history class around the ‘Idea of America’.

“These famous people in American historyGeorge Washington, Abraham Lincoln, FDR-why do we follow them? How did they become leaders? Also, people like Martin Luther King Jr.-why did people respond the way that they did?”

Sacco acknowledges that it is a very difficult time to be a college student in America, with

the majority of college students working towards a degree that guarantees financial security over passion, and the majority of students entering college due to expectation rather than desire.

“Regardless of major, everyone enters college for the same reasons, “ said Sacco.

“Number one being better jobs and better skill sets, the ability to think critically, etc.”

She also reasons that students would work harder if they could see the end result of the labors in college, and that jobs should not be the end result of an education. She instead believes that college should be about developing the skills and tools to become successful citizens of the world, and people driven more by passion and less by the dotted line at the end of the paycheck.

Sacco is also the incoming chair of the Chancellor’s Commission for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered people, a project that is very close to her heart. The commission, which was started two years ago, works to promote the visibility and vitality of LGBT persons on campus.

“It isn’t a box you can check on your application,” Sacco said.

Based out of Melrose, the OUTreach program, an organization of LGBT students as well as friends and supporters, works to provide a secure physical and psychological space for those seeking support.

The center, which received a high-profile opening earlier this year with John D’Emilio, is open all summer, and sponsors movie nights, discussions and the OUT To Lunch program-a brown-bag lunch held on Thursdays from 12-1 P.M. The lunches, along with other programs sponsored by the OUTreach program, work to promote thoughtful discussion.

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Lynn Sacco, associate professor of history, poses for a photograph in her office. Sacco is the incoming chair of the Chancellor’s Commission for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered people.

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Federal grant to increase poll workers Chris Barber Staff Writer

Kevin Letsinger News and Student Life Editor The University of Tennessee will play an essential role in the Knox County area in supplying poll workers in the Nov. 2 federal elections thanks to a federal grant of $61,000 from the United States Election Assistance Commission (EAC).

In an effort to engage more college-aged students in the political process, as many as 200 students will be employed throughout the area.

“The average age of a worker is 72 which suggests that we are not getting younger individuals involved in the process that is so important in elections,” said Amy Gibson, director of communications and public programming at the Baker Center.

Gibson continued that they want to fully engage students in the process and engage them in a life long dedication to the election process.

“If you are a poll worker, you are more passionate and you are more likely to vote yourself and remain political active,” said Gibson.

The Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy will manage the money and is one of only 15 institutions to receive money from the EAC. The money is received as part of the EAC’s “Help America Vote College Program.”

Congress established the EAC in 2002 to provide assistance to states administering federal elections. Aside from UT students, the program

will also target area students from South College, Knoxville College and Pellissippi State Technical Community College.

to states and developing guidance to meet HAVA requirements, adopting voluntary voting system guidelines, and accrediting voting system test

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The Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy is one of 15 recipients to receive funding to train students to become poll workers for the November 2nd federal election in Knox County.

The EAC is an independent commission created by the Help America Vote Act (HAVA). EAC acts as a national clearinghouse and resource of information regarding election administration.

The commission is charged with administering payments

laboratories and certifying voting equipment.

It is also charged with developing and maintaining a national voter mail registration form.

“The grant allows us to create accessible opportunities for students to participate in the election process,” said

Carl Pierce, interim director of the Baker Center according to a Tennessee Today press release. “Most importantly, we can help to develop a new generation of young voters who will be engaged in the electoral process over their lifetime, which is central to the Baker Center mission.”

The grant allows the pilot program to train Knox County poll workers for the upcoming election and in order to be a poll worker, one must be a registered voter of the county in which they are employed to work.

“The training material is applicable to the rest of the state, but we are trying to exclusively recruit for Knox County,” Gibson said. “As the program is successful, we do plan to expand it to other places. And as time continues, hopefully the program will become a example for the nation to follow.”

The Baker Center is partnering with the Knox Election Commission and Pyxl Inc. to pioneer a recruiting program. The project includes a training program and awareness campaigns, as well as a website and training videos.

These videos will be posted on Youtube and will permit students and other prospective poll workers to train online rather than commuting to a classroom setting. The grant will pay the salaries of the approximately 200 workers hired, which will save the commission further expenses associated with training.

The website is scheduled to launch August 1 and with students arriving to campus shortly thereafter, the program will be ready to hit the ground running.

Recycling program recognizes local businesses for green efforts Jordan Lawson

Staff Writer Five Knoxville businesses have earned the highest ranking in Knox County’s new recycling program.

Bush Brothers & Co., Earth Fare, Sustainable Future, Thermocopy and Three Rivers Market attainted the platinum ranking in the Recycle Champions program.

The Knox County Solid Waste department created Recycle Champions to promote better recycling and waste reduction business practices and to recognize local businesses that have excellent practices throughout the Knox County area.

The platinum rating is the highest an organization can receive, with gold and silver ratings awarded as well. Carpe Librum Booksellers was rewarded as a gold champion, while Dark Star Transportation and Quality Lumber were silver champions.

Since Knox County Solid Waste supports Knox County residents in waste disposal, they wanted a program for businesses.

“We really wanted to create a program that would recognize those businesses in our community that have already made waste reduction an important part of how they do business,” Jennifer Linginfelter, recycling coordinator of Knox County Solid Waste, said.

Participants must be located in Knox County, go through a waste audit, post their certification in their establishment and carry out at least six optional requirements.

These requirements range from recycling cardboard to buying items in bulk. The number of requirements completed determines the platinum, gold or silver ranking each business receives.

Linginfelter said that the businesses are given a decal to show they are part of recycling and waste reduction efforts and are also posted on the Recycling Champions website.

“We hope that citizens who visit our website, and those who notice the decal or certificate in a business, will use this recognition as a way of making purchasing decisions that benefit waste conscious businesses,” Linginfelter said.

She said that businesses that gain or maintain certification will realize that recycling and reducing waste saves them money. She added that there had been a positive reaction to the program, even though it’s just starting out.

“There are a number of businesses in Knox County who have contacted our office regarding the program,” she said.

“We hope businesses in the community see the importance of what we’re promoting through Recycle Champions; we’d love to see every business in the Knox Area commit to waste reduction and recycling efforts.”

Crista Cuccaro, education services manager at Three Rivers Market, said the program has helped Three Rivers gain recognition for environmental practices they’ve had for a long time.

“Three Rivers Market was the first place to recycle household recyclables in Knoxville,” Cuccaro said. “And as Knoxville’s oldest green business, we want to help provide a model for other businesses that wish to incorporate environmental sustainability into their daily operations.”

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At the International House they present a Coffe House program every Tuesday. Last week they sponsored a Korean Cooking Demonstration. Chelin, the main instructor, demonstrates how to make Dduckbokki for the participants.

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Sacco adds that the OUTreach program also helps students network and engage in a manner that may not otherwise be possible on campus.

“It is a safe way to meet people and make friends. It’s much less risky than going to a bar or trying to approach people in the University Center or the cafeteria,” she adds.

As students prepare for classes and careers, hopefully professors such as Lynn Sacco will make them reconsider their class schedules and attitudes towards their education and lives.

Many waste reduction practices Recycling Champions suggested were already being followed by Three Rivers Market, including selling items in bulk, recycling all materials possible and donating unsalable food to the Second Harvest Food Bank. Even though Three Rivers Market earned a platinum rating in the initial Recycling Champions audit, Cuccaro said that they are continuously looking for ways to reduce their environment impact.

“Most recently, we have been contacting our vendors and suppliers to request that they replace Styrofoam packaging with biodegradable packaging,” Cuccaro said.

Tara Sripunvoraskul The Daily Beacon

The Three Rivers Market on North Broadway attained the highest ranking in Knox County’s Recycle Champions program. The program was created to encourage, assist and recognize local businesses that have outstanding waste-reduction and recycling practices.

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Bonnaroo Friday heats up under June sun Tenacious D proves a pleasant surprise, The Flaming Lips rock it out Jake Lane Entertainment Editor It’s been said that with a full night’s sleep one can accomplish just about anything the next day. No one said that those accomplishments had to be good deeds, though.

As previously mentioned, this year’s Bonnaroo seemed to be the year where everything went wrong. Now, that is not to slander the “near-perfect” logistics so often flaunted in other news articles, nor to say that even the majority of festival goers experienced some sort of existential trauma while in Manchester, but without a doubt this writer saw and felt a bevy of events that negate almost every postive vibration the festival instilled during previous incarnations.

Friday is usually when one learns the heat can simply be too much. Sleeping in what amounts to a mylar sack without ventilation in the middle of field during the Tennessee summer equates to sleeping in a pressure cooker over a roaring fire. Friday morning begins the prevalent trend of sleep deprivation, which at times can make the festival a sheer joy, and at others a total nightmare.

My companions woke me around eight in the morning and asked for beer. Their cooler was left in my trunk from the night before and they needed a carbohydrate-rich breakfast.

After obliging their request and quenching my own thirst, we decided to beat the heat and head to the Cinema Tent for a showing of the blaxploitation classic “Superfly.” Claming any kind of pride for the film is a bit erroneous, being a Caucasian, but regardless the hustlers-always-prosper story and Curtis Mayfield soundtrack make the film a must-see and perfect for the party atmosphere concocted by Bonnaroo.

Like a good rollercoaster, the ride had to end all too soon.

One of the weekend’s more ridiculous rackets involved packing the Comedy Tent to capacity and then giving out tickets to the Cinema Tent to watch Conan O’Brien’s mid-day performances at 1 p.m. Friday and Saturday. What this meant for early-bird Cinema Tent attendees seeking refuge from the 100-plus degree heat was a royal boot to the rear at 12:30 and a trek over to the new Lunar Stage to watch Conan without a hint of shade.

For a lesser comic, the sacrifice would have been in vain and grumbler about for the rest of the weekend. Chris Rock’s notoriously awful warm up for Metallica in the rain at Bonnaroo 2008 was one example of braving inclement weather only to be slapped in the face with the stale fish of mediocrity. O’Brien, however, has gained a new level of bravado and affable comic-guy swagger during his recent “Legally Prohibited From Being Funny on Television” road tour.

Though his voice sometimes barely coasted above a rasp, O’Brien’s physicality during such tried-and-true bits as his Kennedy Brother/Mayor Quimby impersonation showed no sign of duress. One of his notable additions to the road show is a rhythm and blues band complete with two soulful back up singers, running through songs about his life and a hilarious

update of Willie Nelson’s “On the Road Again” to “On a Show Again.” With a taped speech from Robert Smigel’s immortal Triumph and some hilarious live commercials from Andy Richter, the performance seemed like watching the old Conan late night show, before he bowdlerized himself for primetime and was ousted by Leno’s chin a few months ago.

After O’Brien’s routine we made a detour back to camp to eat and rest for the long night ahead. On the way into the Ghostbusters-themed camping pod we saw police officials apprehend a man for selling drugs only to let him go after finding no money on his person. This event illustrated an important change from past experiences from the festival.

While the has never been any inkling of making drugs legal at the festival, anyone who has ever attended can attest to clouds of pot smoke and observing fellow concert-goers geeked out of their minds on any number of assorted substances. In previous years undercover officers from Manchester’s finest have also participated in stings, arresting and citing hundreds of patrons for possession and usage of all sorts of drugs, but seeing them handle such a situation for the first time struck a major blow to the illusion of a completely free festival where responsible parties can do their bidding without fear.

Now, I would not advocate drug usage, and especially not the trade of illegal substances, under the auspices of a college newspaper. However, as a person who has attended the festival thrice and seen illegal activity of all sorts, watching people being arrested or fined while enjoying a weekend away from society completely destroyed my feelings of goodwill for the festival and the hope that such a model of existence, where responsibility reigned over fear, could carry over to the real world.

After reflecting on these thoughts and attempting a nap, we returned to Centeroo for the evening’s festivities.

Friday night: Salvation comes from the mothership Though preconceived notions of a transcendent festival experience had been quashed, we were determined to make the best of the evening. With the sun’s bite somewhat neutralized, it seemed safe to venture back into the musical arena.

After a few snatches of Damien Marley and Nas, we decided to check out She and Him. Putting all fanboy admiration for Zooey Deschanel aside, the duo’s breezy 60s pop sound provided a much-needed palette cleanser. Though the band perhaps garnered too much hype during their early outings, their dynamic holds its own live and as long as the listener doesn’t expect any earth-shattering revelations, they would love She and Him. Next came OK Go. The first thing that can be said for them is that if they brought their fantastic treadmills on stage they would be radically more interesting to watch. However, their upbeat rawk groove made little impression, even near the foot of the stage. Props are due for getting their crowd wild and dancing, but it was not a second too soon when we left for

Tenacious D. “That Panda will be the death of the D” I have never liked Tenacious D. More to the point I rarely think of Jack Black as anything less than obnoxious in most of his feature roles since his rise to fame. However, in a live setting the antics of Black and comedic life partner Kyle Gass transform into a Megazord of funny the likes of which were wholly unexpected.

With an introduction from Conan O’Brien, the duo took the stage with brow-flexed intensity and blew through fan favorites like “Kielbasa Sausage” and “Kickapoo.” At various times they relived old sketches with slightly updated plot lines, like “Kyle Quit the Band,” while bringing out both the Devil and the Metal for rock-and-dance offs. By the time the duo left the stage, the sky was growing dark and the time drew nearer for the greatest moment of the weekend, that time when a man in a bubble would roll out on a crowd of acid freaks and animal-costumed fanatics to preach a gospel of peace and weed.

“Dark Side” comes alive with the Flaming Lips To a casual music fan, skipping the now-overblown Kings of Leon for the Flaming Lips might seem an unnecessary and asinine sacrifice.

As a devout disciple of music and the Flaming Lips, I can honestly say that it was the best decision I have ever made.

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OPINIONS

Editor’s Note Robby O’Daniel Editor-in-Chief

Losing lecturers would make graduating hard It’s strange to hear university students and administration talk about the possibility of climbing the ranks of the top public universities in the nation when so much right now is going against that mission.

It’s always said that all the university need do is improve those dastardly graduation rates. Back in October, at the President’s Campus Tour at the Baker Center, UT Interim President Jan Simek estimated UT as being about 20 percent lower in graduate rates of students than the University of Florida or the University of Georgia. He also said Tennessee as a state is one of the lowest ranking in terms of proportion to population that earns a college degree.

Florida was ranked No. 15 and Georgia was ranked No. 21 in the 2009 U.S. News and World Report ranking of the best colleges among public, national universities. Tennessee was ranked all the way down at No. 52, below other SEC schools like Auburn University (No. 39) and the University of Alabama (No. 43). Tennessee was in the top 40 as recently as 2007.

And now there’s even more incentive to improve graduation rates, considering the Complete College Tennessee Act of 2010. According to the Tennessee state website, the act “funds higher education based in part on success and outcomes, including higher rates of degree completion.”

Despite the thoughts of improving overall quality of graduates, the emphasis remains on number of graduates and improving throughput to get students out of here in four years (instead of five or six).

The only problem with all this idealism is that everything that is happening at UT, in the wake of severe budget cuts, is going against the ease of graduating. This is because of the reality that lecturers have been getting paid with stimulus money, which runs out in June 2011.

According to the Knoxville News Sentinel, 316 UT employees, including 162 lecturers, were notified in April that their income from the university is coming from these funds. It makes that July 1, 2011, cliff for the university also the prospective July 1, 2011, cliff for some of these lecturers.

Out of everything involving budget cuts, the potential loss of a portion of these lecturers is the most sobering of them all. When one considers that 162 lecturers are getting paid with stimulus funds, it’s sad to think that there’s a probability that someone who has helped you greatly along your path toward higher education could lose his or her spot at the university.

It brings home the truth that cuts cannot just come magically from thin air. Cuts cannot just come from erasing imaginary vice-president positions (which so many have illusory grudges against). As Simek and so many others have already said, this cannot be the same university on its most fundamental level — education.

Even though it’s a loss, what changes at the university level will not even be just the ability to choose, explore and experiment. This will be lost, of course, but it’s just the tip of the iceberg. Not only will freshmen have to start deciding what they want to major in immediately if they pray to have any hope of graduating in four years, it may be difficult even then.

Losing some of these lecturers would mean fewer course sections. It’s already hard to get into some bottleneck classes. This is one of university students’ biggest concerns and most frequent complaints. And now losing some of these lecturers would make it even harder, an almost unfathomable consequence.

Even with some colleges and departments asking tenured professors to take on more sections and classes, that surely will go against the intimacy of the professor-student relationship. With larger class sizes and professors having to juggle even more students, that potential relationship might get obliterated in some circumstances. Forget professors knowing you enough to give you recommendations. You’ll be lucky enough if they remember your name!

Suffice it to say, course selections will also take a major hit in one’s desired discipline. In the journalism and electronic media major, for example, opinion writing has not been offered in recent years. This may or may not be an example of courses being axed because of lack of educators, but examples like that specialized course will no doubt become extinct.

This is a university that has been in the throws of a very public financial crisis for awhile now. It desperately seeks to maintain the value university education and experience that UT students have become accustomed to. However, improving the stock of the university in the wake of all this is just not reasonable. Programs like the Life of the Mind and the Student Success Center might have helped improve graduation rates, but I would argue that the impending impact that losing some lecturers may have on class sizes, offerings and sections would probably offset that.

— Robby O’Daniel is a graduate student in communication and information. He can be reached at rodaniel@utk.edu.

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Slawless Wishbones plate worth visit Chicken F i n ge r F r i d ay s by

Cody Swallows

Wishbones is good.

As somewhat of a chicken connoisseur, I was surprised to hear of a restaurant I had never visited that offered the fabled plate — Texas toast and all. I had to try this out.

Located down Kingston Pike off Papermill Drive and across from Sawyer’s, Wishbones offers a classic plate experience: no frills, no hassle, just chicken. After placing my order, grabbing a pint of Luzianne sweet tea and sitting back with some “Sportscenter,” I knew I would like this place from the start. After retrieving my freshly prepared plate, I salted my fries and dug in.

Wishbones’ fingers ain’t fancy, but they are a tad different. Most finger joints nowadays opt for a thick layer of breading to disguise the mediocre taste of the chicken itself. Wishbones, however, cooks up their fingers with a thin layer of lightly peppered breading to a light goldenbrown hue, allowing the consumer to savor the chicken without first having to crunch through several millimeters of the stuff.

And the sides? Well things get a little tricky here. Die-hard chicken finger nuts will notice a peculiar absence when ordering their plates. No frills means no frills: Wishbones offers no slaw option.

Despite Wishbones’ failure to obey chicken finger orthodoxy, this didn’t initially faze me. I assumed this would simply yield a larger fry portion, which I always prefer to slaw. However, this was not the case. While the Texas toast was large and well-buttered, the fry portion was quite small, leaving my stomach a wee bit lonely after finishing off my plate.

Of course, this is not an attack on Wishbones’

fries, per se. The fries were actually quite tasty, although I would have much preferred the addition of some tasty seasoning salt to add some zest to the meal. For those that desire some dipping sauce with their plate, Wishbones also has many options including ranch, BBQ, thousand island and classic Wishbones sauce.

So the food was tasty. What about the price?

Coming in at $7.64 with a sweet tea, Wishbones squeaks into the acceptable price zone for a plate. One can’t help but protest, though. With the relatively small portions and lack of a slaw option, is $7.64 a truly good price for a plate?

This customer thinks not, although the experience is worth the price if you’ve never tried Wishbones before.

In addition, I cannot help but discuss some of Wishbones’ side offerings. Lacking some of the zanier options like Zaxby’s array of salads but offering more than the plate, Wishbones lies somewhere in the middle on the overall options continuum. While options beyond the plate often fail to impress, I had to take notice of a few.

I immediately noticed, for example, the size of Wishbones’ cole slaw portions. A “side” of cole slaw is half a pint in Wishbones’ world. If, God forbid, this isn’t enough, they offer up a whole pint of cole slaw for a little extra. Perhaps the slaw portion size prevents Wishbones from offering a slaw option with their plate? It’s just speculation, but it’s a possibility.

One should also note the bucket of fries.

Going beyond mere novelty, this $3.99 bucket will satisfy all your potato-munching needs, and I’m sure I’ll revisit Wishbones for a stab at this monster.

The verdict? If you haven’t already, give Wishbones a shot. While it may not offer many surprises it’ll definitely satisfy your chickenfinger hankering and give you some fun things to try in the future.

— Cody Swallows is a senior in the College Scholars Program. He can be reached at cswallow@utk.edu.

America should compromise, vote Clay 54-40 or Fight! by

Gabe Johnson

America is on the verge of collapse. Years of policies championed and enacted by the Democrats have effectively run this great nation into the ground. They have preyed on minority groups, destroyed the nation’s financial system and granted more power to the federal government then Thomas Jefferson ever could have imagined.

Their biggest act of treason, however, was persuading the masses to overwhelmingly elect a man president who was completely unqualified for the office. By portraying him as a “messiah” or even sometimes “the people’s champion,” the Democrats effectively conned the American public.

After almost two decades of tyrannical rule by the Democrats, the nation can take no more.

The country is more divided than ever. In fact we will be lucky not to witness a civil war in our lifetime. This has come about due in part to divisive politics, but mostly it is a result of the Democrats’ reckless, immoral and unconstitutional policies. We must put an end to this madness and right the Democrats’ wrongs by speaking out in the next election.

The nation somehow survived eight years under “Ole Hickory.” We braved another four under “The Dutchman.” We then rejoiced when the great silent majority spoke out a mere four years ago and elected good old “Tippecanoe” (and Tyler too) to the highest office in the land.

Unfortunately our potential savior died months upon taking the oath of office, and his vice president (and closeted Democrat) took over.

And now the Democrats nominate a man who expects us to fight over the frozen tundra in Canada and the desert wastelands in Mexico, which is all just a manifestation of our rightly destiny? America can ill afford a war with our neighbors, and after almost two decades of tyrannical rule by the Democrats, the nation can ill afford four more years.

So today, America, I give you an alternative.

Here, making his way to the ring, is a three-time member of the House of Representative, a twotime speaker of the House, a one-time U.S. secretary of state, a four-time, and current, U.S.

senator. He is a founding member of the “Great Triumvirate” and one of the “Immortal Trio.” He is “The Western Star,” “The Great Compromiser,” Henry “of the West” Clay!

Henry Clay is truly a man of accomplishments. He has a special knack for abandoning his political convictions in order to broker the perfect compromise. In 1820 Clay single-handedly prevented the nation from being catapulted into a war over slavery by coming up with the so-called Missouri Compromise. This not only expanded the Union by two states, but it also banned slavery north of 36º 30’. In effect, Clay has done more to prevent the spread of slavery (thus insuring its destruction) than any other man in history.

This might have been enough for a merely decent compromiser, but not for “The Great Compromiser.” During the 1824 election, Clay struck a famous (and often times referred to as “corrupt”) bargain with John Quincy Adams.

This not only gave the nation our last great president, but it effectively prevented us from having to endure Jackson’s reign of terror four years earlier.

Right now you might think, “Wow, this guy is really good at compromising,” but you do not know the half of it. When South Carolina threatened to secede from the Union over the Tariff of 1828, then-President Jackson threatened military force. Rejecting the notion of using our military against us, Clay once again used his compromising skills to put an end to the crisis. He brokered a deal which would lower the tariff over time and in effect once again saved the Union from war.

This is likely not the end of Clay’s compromising career. After all who knows what the year 1850 holds?

One thing we can all be sure of, however, is that the Democrats must be stopped this election. If James K. Polk is elected, he will surely throw us needlessly into a war with Canada and Mexico. By contrast, Clay has built his career around avoiding war at all costs.

We no longer live in the America of our parents. If we are not careful, we will leave our children with a nation divided. I am afraid, and you should be too, of the direction the country is headed in. These are bad times for America, and it is all the Democrats’ fault. So if you love your country, if you love your children, and if you are an upstanding Christian, vote Clay/Frelinghuysen ‘48.

— Gabe Johnson is a senior in history. He can be reached at gjohns13@utk.edu.

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BONNAROO continued from Page 3 After watching the Kings of Leon from the What Stage in 2007, I knew they would never be as exciting and raw as they had been on their “Aha Shake Heartbreak” tour at the Tennessee Theatre in 2005.

They remained humble then, and still delivered the energy of their earlier material, but the complacency of “Because of the Times” had already set in. With “Only By the Night” the band progressed into full-on pop stardom, but due to Caleb Followill’s pain-killer-addled lyric writing and an influx of cash, the fire carried by the band’s first two albums has yet to be rekindled.

While waiting for two and a half hours for the midnight extravaganza to appear, many of the preshow rituals that accompany the Lips came right on time. Half an hour in came the sloppy, off-time crowd-wide rendition of “Bohemian Rhapsody,” complete with hummed guitar solos. Then slowly the beach balls and animal floats were inflated and began to soar above the thickening crowd. And as the minutes ticked away, the hands-on band and their stalwart stage crew toiled to erect their enormous video screen and set the stage for the birthing sequence that would occur as the clock struck 12.

When the moment finally came, and blue-and-orange version of frontman Wayne Coyne’s wife and muse Michelle appeared on screen, fully-nude and gyrating as the her true form watched from the wings, snapping photos of the crowd. The dancing figure eventually sat in birthing pose as a pulsating light emerged from her groin, growing to the size of a door. As a the band

poured out and assumed their positions, the backstage crew pushed Coyne in his deflated bubble outwards.

One the bubble gained its rigid form, the crew pushed Coyne out into the hands of his waiting fans, sailing and fans, finger and thin air. While crowd surfing has become sort of passe, hand soared up to propel the bubble in every which direction, a tradition that has long since been a highlight of the band’s gigs. Once back on stage, Coyne quickly briefed the crowd on live procedure for newer songs off of last year’s dark double -LP “Embryonic” and launched into “Silver Trembling Hands.” While the crowd shreiked out their appropriate parts Coyne played his custom role of crazed conductor. Through their first set the band tore through their breakthrough hits “She Don’t Use Jelly” and “Do You Realize???” while using “The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song ” and a “Taps” precluded “The Will Always Negates Defeat (W.A.N.D.)” to inspire hope and responsibility in the crowd. New tracks “I Can Be a Frog ” and “See the Leaves” made the transition gracefully, the former with its Karen O animal chants faithfully reproduced by drummer Kilph Spurlock and the latter a beacon of hope, as told by Coyne. An unexpected treat came in the form of the “At War With the Mystics” deep cut “Pompeii AM Gotterdamerung,” lead by guitarist Steven Drozd.

After the last bells and acoustic strums faded from “Do You Realize???” the band furiously added the gear for Stardeath and White Dwarves to their own, amounting a teetering yellow wall of sound. Ten minutes later

the heartbeats of “Breathe” and a tape recorded Henry Rollins reciting the classic opening lines “I’ve been mad for f*cking years” brought deafening cheers as Michael Ivins throbbing bass pulled the groove into place.

Through “Breathe” and “On the Run” the combined noise orchestra howled and grooved through innumerable guitars, megaphones and a caucophony of bass.

Before “Time” Coiyne rhetorically asked the crowd if they knew what time it was, before delivering a prolegalization speech that elicited an uproar from the impaired audience. After the “Breathe (Reprise)” Drozd and Stardeath leader Dennid Coyne Howled through “Great Gig in the Sky” with surprising precision, a feat not to be taken lightly. With “Money” came a series of balloons that Coyne loaded with his own pocket cash, and then the only mostly faithful rendition of a Floyd track in the form of “Us and Them.” “Any Colour You Like” took on legs of its own, morphing from an instrumental transition to a legitimate raver before the closing “Brain Damage/Eclipse” suite, during which both Coynes and Drozd traded lines in the latters immortal list of things which “under the sun are in tune,” and as the smoke machines and rainbow strobes slowly became still the audience raved for more.

A full night had been planned, with LCD Soundsystem at the top of the list, but after the incredible spectacle of the Flaming Lips, I went back to camp and sat on my car, staring at the clear night sky and wondering.

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6 • The Daily Beacon

Friday, June 18, 2010

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Wright takes home scholar athlete award Jordan Lawson Staff Writer For one Lady Vol track & field and cross country standout, a year of excellence on and off the track was rewarded when she received the SEC Scholar-Athlete of the Year award.

Phoebe Wright, a Signal Mountain, Tenn., native, accepted the 2009-10 H. Boyd McWhorter Southeastern Conference Scholar-Athlete of the Year Award at the spring SEC Awards Banquet on June 4. Wright will receive a $15,000 post-graduate scholarship.

This is the second consecutive year a Lady Vol received the McWhorter Award. The 2009 women’s winner was swimmer Christine Magnuson. The male winner for this year was swimmer Jordan Anderson from Auburn University.

Wright said she was just honored to be nominated by UT and was “pumped” when she found out she had won.

“You really don’t think you have a chance to win something like that,” she said.

J.J. Clark, UT director of track & field, said it takes great academic skills and the ability to balance a hectic schedule to win this award.

“Very few people have won this award,” he said. “I’m very proud.”

Clark said that Wright winning the award shows that she is very goal-oriented, focused, driven and “passionate about what she does.”

Wright is a senior with a double major in biochemistry and cellular and molecular biology and ecology and evolutionary biology. She has a 3.96 grade point average, has been on the SEC Academic Honor Roll three times and has been on the UT Athletics Honor Roll each of her semesters at UT. She was also recently chosen as the 2010 SEC Track & Field Scholar-Athlete of the Year. From 2007 to 2009, Wright made the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association All-Academic Team.

Her success extends to the track as well. She joined the team as a freshman walk-on. Now, she’s a three-time NCAA distance medley relay champion. She also won the women’s 800 meters at the NCAA Indoors in 2010 and was runner-up in the same event in 2009. Wright holds the world record in the indoor distance medley relay and outdoor 4x1500 meters.

The seven-time SEC champion was named the 2010 SEC Indoor Runner of the Year and joins only two other women in SEC history to win four consecutive 800-meter conference titles. She also has helped score for the Lady Vols 14 times in SEC Championship events.

Wright finished an undefeated season in the 800 meters by

winning the event at the NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships last Friday. She became the fifth woman in NCAA history to win the 800 meter indoor and outdoor national titles in the same season.

Wright also takes time to help in the community. She visits hospitalized children, speaks to youth groups, volunteers at track and field meets and participates in “Teams for Toys,” where she purchases, wraps and gives gifts to Knoxville children in need.

Wright also helps at home in Signal Mountain. She organized an event, the Red Bank High School Fun Run, at her old high school, which raised more than $1,000 for the school’s track and field and cross country teams; she also helps with the Chattanooga River Rescue cleanups.

Wright said she balances everything by taking it one day at a time, though her crazy schedule has a hand in her good grades.

“I really think because I run track, I’m obligated to be on an extreme schedule, so it makes me a better student,” she said.

Wright will graduate summa cum laude this fall and said she hopes to have a sponsor to run professionally. She will also enroll in the graduate biochemistry department at UT in the fall of 2011.

Final Neyland staff member dies Staff Reports

Andy Westbrook• The Daily Beacon

For the second year in a row, Caitlin Whoriskey was selected to the 2010 USTA Summer Collegiate Team. Last summer she made Lady Vol history by being the first member to make the summer team.

Ike Peel, who was a multi-sport player and coach at Tennessee during the middle of the previous century and was the last living member of Gen. Robert Neyland’s final football coaching staff of 1952, died Sunday in Dyersburg. He was 91.

Peel first played for Neyland on two of the legendary coach’s finest teams — the 1939 squad that was undefeated and unscored on in the regular season and the 1940 unit that captured the national championship. Both teams were SEC champions and compiled perfect regular season marks of 10-0.

After playing his final season under head coach John Barnhill, the Dyersburg native began his coaching career as UT’s assistant freshman coach in 1942. He served as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army Infantry from 1943-1945 and was part of the first wave ashore at France on D-Day. After the war, Peel returned to his beloved Vols as backfield coach from 1945-1948 and then again from 1952-1953.

Neyland’s final season of his 21 years as head coach was 1952. The oldest living member of any Neyland coaching staff is Murray Warmath, who is 97 and lives in the Minneapolis area. Warmath coached at Tennessee from 1935-1948.

Peel, from 1949-1951, expertly coached the freshman football team and scouted opponents. It was during this memorable period in Big Orange history that the 1950 Vols beat heavily favored Texas 20-14 in the Cotton Bowl, and the 1951 Vols won the national championship. A very versatile athlete and coach, Peel also played baseball for three years in college, was head baseball coach in 1947 among his five years on the diamond staff, and was wrestling coach at the school when his team went undefeated in 1943.

Peel was a 1935, 1936 and 1937 “Gold Football” recipient at Dyersburg High School and played on the prestigious West Tennessee All-Star team after his senior season.

In 1953, Peel returned to Dyersburg and was very active in many community activities, serving with distinction as president of the High School Boosters Club, president of the Finley Lions Club, a member of the County Planning Commission and as a member of the Dyersburg Country Club, Moose Lodge and American Legion. The retired farmer enjoyed playing golf four or five times per week and served as president of the Senior Golf Association of West Tennessee.

Peel was inducted in 1992 to the Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame.

Services in Dyersburg are Monday at 10 a.m. central time in the Chapel of Curry Funeral Home. Interment will follow in Fairview Cemetery. Curry Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. The Peel family will receive visitors Sunday from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the funeral home.

Honorary pallbearers include former Vols player and head coach Johnny Majors.

“Ike Peel was a very special man who affected all the lives of the 1953 freshman team,” said Majors, a member of that class. “Invariably when we get together as teammates, we bring up Ike Peel stories with fond remembrances.