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Students take issue with parking costs Wesley Mills News Editor Parking at UT continues to be a conversationsparker around the lunch table.

During the summer, students are still responsible for obtaining a summer permit if they wish to park on campus. The cost of the permit is $50 if they are a commuter and their class is before 3 p.m., and $11 if it’s after 3 p.m. Some students say they are willing to take the gamble against UT Parking and Transit Services when commuting.

Savannah McDaniel, senior in nursing, said she was willing to take the risk of getting a tick-

et by not buying a parking pass.

“I did not buy a parking pass because my class is only one month long,” she said. “I didn’t like the idea of paying $50 if I didn’t have to.”

However, halfway through the semester, McDaniel found out that since she had a class later than 3 p.m., she could have bought one for $11.

McDaniel said she sometimes tries to skirt the system by either having people bring her to class or parking in a meter spot.

“I think $50 is too much for a summer pass if you are only taking one class and it is only one month long,” she said. “I think that $50 is reasonable if you are taking full-time summer classes.”

Johnson City helps homeless The Associated Press JOHNSON CITY, Tenn.

— Helen Lane was sleeping in the Walmart parking lot.

This had become a pattern for her. She always had a job, and when she got paid, an apartment was the next step.

When she got everything set up in her apartment, things would go downhill.

She would fall in with the wrong crowd and lose everything. This happened off and on for five or six years.

Lane was homeless. She never got to the point where she was physically living on the street, but she also didn't have a home to go to.

One day, she got sick and walked through the doors at the Johnson City Day Center.

Her life changed that day.

“You need encouragement,” Lane said. “You need people behind you that are not going to pull you down.

You need people that are going to build you up, build your self-esteem and your confidence up. That’s what this place does.”

The Day Center’s basic function is a place for the homeless population of Johnson City to go during the day. It provides shelter when the weather outside is hot or cold. The Day Center staff also offers services such as a medical clinic on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and additionally provides a mental health provider on Tuesdays.

The center was started in fall 2000 as an offshoot of the Johnson City Downtown Clinic. The center and clinic were started by East Tennessee State University's College of Nursing. The center is located at 202 W. Fairview Ave. The downtown clinic is located at 207 E. Myrtle Ave. The clinic will be moving to a new location on State of Franklin Road in October.

The center also offers laundry services, showers and hygiene kits, a clothes closet and helps people find employment.

“They can use our address as theirs,” said day center coordinator Jennifer Whitehead. “They can use our phone number as theirs,

for job applications and stuff like that. They can also get their mail here.”

The day center staff would like to expand to offer more services. Staff plan to open a computer lab to help teach basic computer skills. There are eventual plans to offer a GED program.

The center also helps with job placement. That has become harder recently because more and more jobs are technology-based, Whitehead said.

“That’s the hard thing, is trying to find jobs that are appropriate for this clientele,” she said. “Since they (often) do have such severe mental health issues, it’s hard for them to work with the public and in large crowds. They need more jobs where they can do their job and nobody really bothers them, and that is few and far between.”

Whitehead estimates about 70 percent of her clients have some form of mental illness. The most common illness she sees is bipolar disorder, a disorder that causes quick mood swings.

The jobs that the center staff typically finds for people are landscaping, dishwashing, construction or labor. Whitehead estimates she has placed 150-200 people in jobs that suit them.

Lane would like for employers to not look past people because of their appearance.

“If you have a job opening, don’t look at the clothes and don't look at the hair, look at the abilities that they have,” she said. “Kind of just keep an open mind.”

The center also helps people find housing. Staff looks at Section 8 housing and helps people fill out the applications. Sometimes it gets hard to place people, especially if they have a criminal history.

“The hardest challenge is finding somewhere for them to go,” Whitehead said. “I would say 50 percent (have a criminal history). Most of them aren’t felonies, most of them are small misdemeanors. ... Just being homeless, most likely, you are going to get a criminal trespass charge.”

Unlike McDaniel, Keslee Faulkner, also a senior in nursing, did buy a parking pass for the summer.

Faulkner paid $11 for her pass since her class doesn’t start until 3:30 p.m., because it makes things easier for her.

“I bought a parking pass because I have one class this summer on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and it is easier to just buy a pass and get parked than it is to drive around looking for a parallel parking spot,” she said.

Faulkner and McDaniel both agree that the current system is a little pricy for what students are paying for.

“I think since most people only go to summer school one session or the other it should be $25

per session or $50 for the whole summer,” Faulkner said.

Summer passes aren’t the only item some students think are pricy. According to a statement released by Vice Chancellor of Finance and Administration Chris Cimino earlier this month, starting on July 1 residents, faculty and staff will all pay more for their respective permits than they did last year.

Resident students will pay $285 for parking during the academic year, an increase of $32; and commuter students will pay $182 for the academic year, an increase of $20, according to the statement.

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Researchers take steps towards nuclear fusion Staff Reports Imagine a world without manmade climate change, energy crunches, or reliance on foreign oil. It may sound like a dream world, but University of Tennessee-Knoxville engineers have made a giant step toward making this scenario a reality.

UT researchers have successfully developed a key technology in developing an experimental reactor that can demonstrate the feasibility of fusion energy for the power grid.

Nuclear fusion promises to supply more energy than the nuclear fission used today but with far fewer risks.

Mechanical, aerospace, and biomedical engineering professors David Irick, Madhu Madhukar, and Masood

Parang are engaged in a project involving the United States, five other nations, and the European Union, known as ITER. UT researchers completed a critical step this week for the project by successfully testing their technology this week that will insulate and stabilize the central solenoid—the reactor’s backbone.

ITER is building a fusion reactor that aims to produce ten times the amount of energy that it uses. The facility is now under construction near Cadarache, France, and will begin operations in 2020.

“The goal of ITER is to help bring fusion power to the commercial market,” Madhukar said. “Fusion power is safer and more efficient than nuclear fission power. There is no

danger of runaway reactions like what happened in nuclear fission reactions in Japan and Chernobyl, and there is little radioactive waste.”

Unlike today’s nuclear fission reactors, fusion uses a similar process as that which powers the sun.

Since 2008, UT engineering professors and about fifteen students have worked inside UT’s Magnet Development Laboratory (MDL) located off of Pellissippi Parkway to develop technology that serves to insulate and provide structural integrity to the more than 1,000 ton central solenoid.

Researchers and staff at UT's Magnet Development Laboratory prepare the central solenoid mockup for the vacuum pressure impregnation process.

Hannah Cather • The Daily Beacon

Workers reinforce the corners of McClung Tower. In the spring semester, one of the slabs of concrete separated from the building.

Tiny town’s future threatened The Associated Press PHILADELPHIA, Tenn. — The fate of Philadelphia is in the hands of a small group of citizen volunteers battling financial burdens that threaten the tiny Loudon County town’s very existence.

The town was almost counted out four years ago when it couldn't find anyone to run for mayor or other offices. Volunteers stepped up to lead the town, but as another election looms, future leadership remains uncertain.

At a county commission budget committee meeting earlier this month, the

Philadelphia fire department was criticized for poor response to mutual aid calls. Committee members also said they were concerned about the financial health of the community.

The committee recommended that the county no longer provide $23,000 in funding for the fire department.

With one convenience store, one motel, a couple of used car dealerships and the flagship Sweetwater Farms Dairy, the 1.6square-mile town doesn’t have much of a tax base, admits Mayor Paul Stallings.

“We’re like a lot of small towns without a source of revenue,” he said.

Stallings said he only learned this week about the recommendation to withhold funding for the fire department. Loss of the county funding would be a big blow to the town, he said.

The fire department provides an important community service to the 500 or so residents in the town and many more in the surrounding county, Stallings said.

The town has applied for grants to build a new firehouse that would be available for use by the EMS units stationed in that part of the county, he said.

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Dominic Di Loreto, graduate student in psychology, measures a participant’s head for an EEG cap in the Neurofeedback Lab in Walters Life Sciences building.

1867— Emperor of Mexico executed Austrian Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, installed as emperor of Mexico by French Emperor Napoleon III in 1864, is executed on the orders of Benito Juarez, the president of the Mexican Republic.

In 1861, the liberal Mexican Benito Juarez became president of a country in financial ruin, and he was forced to default on his debts to European governments. In response, France, Britain, and Spain sent naval forces to Veracruz to demand reimbursement. Britain and Spain negotiated with Mexico and withdrew, but France, ruled by Napoleon III, decided to use the opportunity to carve a dependent empire out of Mexican territory. Late in 1861, a well-armed French fleet stormed Veracruz, landing a large French force and driving President Juarez and his government into retreat.

Certain that French victory would come swiftly in Mexico, 6,000 French troops under General Charles Latrille de Lorencez set out to attack Puebla de Los Angeles, a small town in east-central Mexico. From his new headquarters in the north, Juarez rounded up a rag-tag force of loyal men and sent them to Puebla. Led by Texas-born General Ignacio Zaragoza, the 2,000 Mexicans fortified the town and prepared for the French assault. On May 5, 1862, Lorencez drew his army, well-provisioned and supported by heavy artillery, before the city of Puebla and began his assault from the north. The battle lasted from daybreak to early evening, and when the French finally retreated they had lost nearly 500 soldiers to the fewer than 100 Mexicans killed.

Although not a major strategic victory in the overall war against the French, Zaragoza’s victory at Puebla represented a great moral victory for the Mexican government and symbolized the country’s ability to defend its sovereignty against threat by a powerful foreign nation.

1953 — Rosenbergs executed On this day in 1953, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, who were convicted of conspiring to pass U.S.

atomic secrets to the Soviets, are executed at Sing Sing Prison in Ossining, New York. Both refused to admit any wrongdoing and proclaimed their innocence right up to the time of their deaths, by the electric chair. The Rosenbergs were the first U.S. citizens to be convicted and executed for espionage during peacetime and their case remains controversial to this day.

Julius Rosenberg was an engineer for the U.S. Army Signal Corps who was born in New York on May 12, 1918. His wife, born Ethel Greenglass, also in New York, on September 28, 1915, worked as a secretary. The couple met as members of the Young Communist League, married in 1939 and had two sons. Julius Rosenberg was arrested on suspicion of espionage on June 17, 1950, and accused of heading a spy ring that passed top-secret information concerning the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union.

Ethel was arrested two months later. The Rosenbergs were implicated by David Greenglass, Ethel’s younger brother and a former army sergeant and machinist at Los Alamos, the secret atomic bomb lab in New Mexico. Greenglass, who himself had confessed to providing nuclear secrets to the Soviets through an intermediary, testified against his sister and brother-in-law in court. He later served 10 years in prison.

The Rosenbergs vigorously protested their innocence, but after a brief trial that began on March 6, 1951, and attracted much media attention, the couple was convicted. On April 5, 1951, a judge sentenced them to death and the pair was taken to Sing Sing to await execution.

During the next two years, the couple became the subject of both national and international debate.

Some people believed that the Rosenbergs were the victims of a surge of hysterical anti-communist feeling in the United States, and protested that the death sentence handed down was cruel and unusual punishment. Many Americans, however, believed that the Rosenbergs had been dealt with justly. They agreed with President Dwight D. Eisenhower when he issued a statement declining to invoke executive clemency for the pair. He stated, “I can only say that, by immeasurably increasing the chances of atomic war, the Rosenbergs may have condemned to death tens of millions of innocent people all over the world. The execution of two human beings is a grave matter. But even graver is the thought of the millions of dead whose deaths may be directly attributable to what these spies have done.”

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

Tuesday, June 19, 2012

UT PARKING continued from Page 1 Both students believe that UT charges that much money for the simple fact that they are able to.

“I believe UT charges that much because they can,” McDaniel said.

“Students don’t have any options. It’s really frustrating because I don’t think the money is going to parking services.

Instead it’s going to needless construction on campus that I will never reap the benefits for.”

In his statement, Cimino said that the increase in prices will go to fund campus growth

NEWS and improvements.

Faulkner shares similar sentiments as McDaniel.

“I think they charge that much because it’s easy money,” Faulkner said. “Most people are going to fork out the cash and pay for it.”

For fear of getting a ticket and not making it to class on time, or at all, Faulkner said most students will pay it in the end.

“In my opinion, there really isn’t a convenient way to get around buying a pass,” Faulkner said. “I do not have enough time to spend driving around the streets of UT’s campus hoping to maybe get lucky and find a free spot.”

PHILADELPHIA continued from Page 1 Commissioner Sharon Yarborough said she made her decision to not recommend funding of Philadelphia’s fire department because of her overall concern for the stability of the town.

“We decided not to fund them until we felt more comfortable with the direction they are headed,” she said.

County Commission Chairman Roy Bledsoe, who represents Philadelphia, also was the town’s first mayor after it incorporated in 1967.

“I don’t think it’s fair to single out just one community,” he said about the recommendation against funding the fire department.

The recommendations of the budget committee will be presented to the entire commission, along with the county budget.

Bledsoe said he hopes to know more by the time the budget comes up for a vote.

Stallings said he, his wife and a dedicated group of local volunteers have worked hard to keep the town from fading away during the last four years.

In 2008, when an election deadline

Hannah Cather • The Daily Beacon

Graffiti marks the side entrance of Art and Architecture. Spray painted images can be found throughout the building.

approached and there were no candidates for mayor, there was speculation that the only recourse was to abandon the town charter.

Stallings said he volunteered to run unopposed for mayor in the last election because he didn’t want to see the town disappear. If the town is going survive, it will be because other concerned citizens step up, he said.

“We’ve been trying to get more citizens involved in helping us keep the town running,” he said.

The town has hosted several events including a fall festival, concerts and a chili cook-off to try raise money, boost town spirit and to encourage community involvement.

Stallings, who works a fulltime day job, said he has not yet made up his mind whether he will run again.

Whoever takes over will have to contend with the same financial issues that have

dogged the town for years.

According to the 2011 state audit, the town's expenses of $107,600 exceeded revenue of $95,575. Philadelphia has only two paid employees, one of whom, the town recorder, is Stallings’ wife, Anita. She is paid $60 per month.

Audits for 2009 and 2010 criticized the town for not reconciling bank statements every month and on several occasions spending as much as $14,025 over the approved budget.

The 2010 audit also found that, due to the small town staff, certain duties were being performed that are not compatible. The person who handles cash receipts should not record the payments to the accounts receivable ledger, the report said. The 2011 audit indicated that accounting practices have been improved.

State embroiled in voter purge lawsuit The Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. — State elections officials and lawyers for Democratic plaintiffs in a voter purge lawsuit have agreed to ask a federal judge to appoint a special master to look into missing voter files.

The Chattanooga Times Free Press reports the request is being made as part of a lawsuit filed against the state by former Democratic U.S. Rep. Lincoln Davis, who says he was wrongfully kept from voting in the state’s presidential primary in March.

Plaintiffs’ attorney George Barrett told the paper that the two sides have agreed to ask U.S. District Judge Kevin Sharp to appoint the special master to investigate claims that 11,000 voters’ records contain partial or completely blank voting histories.

“We’ve asked the court to appoint a special master to investigate those facts and see what happened, if anything,” Barrett said.

Barrett said the issue is important because state law allows officials to remove people who haven’t voted in the past two federal elections if they do not

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respond later to an address confirmation notice.

State Election Coordinator Mark Goins said he wants to dispel claims that anything unusual occurred.

“We are confident the histories are there and want the court to appoint a special master to show the Democrat Party’s claims are unfounded,” he said in a statement. “We want a third party looking into this because we know the truth and want to show Tennesseans nothing is wrong with our voter data.”

Goins’ spokesman Blake Fontenay added that state law prohibits purges of inactive voters within 90 days of an election.

Meanwhile, a separate federal lawsuit was filed Friday alleging election officials improperly declared candidate John Bragorgos ineligible to run for the state House.

The lawsuit says Bragorgos was certified in 2010 to make a Republican bid run Fayette County mayor and alderman in Somerville. But Goins directed that he not be placed on the ballot as an independent candidate for state House and Fayette County school board this year over questions about his residency, according to the lawsuit.

Bragorgos lost his home to foreclosure and bankruptcy, but argues he never gave up his legal residency in the county.

He is represented by East Tennessee law firm of Shelley Breeding, who has also been declared ineligible to run for the state House as a Democrat.

Breeding’s property straddles the Anderson and Knox county lines, and Goins office determined that she should legally be considered an Anderson County resident. That position was upheld by a state appeals court last week, through Breeding has applied to appeal the decision to the state Supreme Court.

Davis filed his lawsuit in March after the former congressman and his wife were turned away from voting at their local precinct in the Fentress County community of Pall Mall after being told their names were not on the list of eligible voters.

“If we’re talking about a person's right to vote, those mistakes should not be allowed to be made,” Davis told reporters after he filed the lawsuit.

Goins said at the time that the lawsuit was politically motivated by the former's congressman's 19-point loss in the 2010 election to Republican Scott DesJarlais.

The responsibility of the town’s other paid employee is to mow the grass on the town-owned land. The position is being considered for elimination because of budget shortages, Stallings said.

“We’re hoping that we can get volunteers to help us with the mowing in future,” he said.The town tried hiring a police officer to provide a better response to local calls and to generate revenue through traffic tickets.

The plan backfired when most of the tickets that were written were thrown out of court, he said.

If there is one jewel in the crown of Philadelphia, it would have to be the municipal park. Taking care of the park's ball fields, tennis courts and wooded picnic areas was a big budget item, Stallings said.

The expense of maintaining the park led some on the town council to consider selling it or trading it for other property. Locals like retired Judge Bill Russell, who had worked to have the park built with government grants back in the 1970s, balked at the idea.

“We felt the park was the only tangible asset the town had. A lot of us have a lot of memories there,” he said.

Volunteers led by Russell and businessman James Purdy have agreed to maintain the park at their own expense.

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OPINIONS

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Somewhere... Hopefully Life imitates art in ‘Game of Thrones’ Preston Peeden Managing Editor I have an addictive personality.

When I find something I like — whatever it may be — I seem to always find myself becoming completely immersed into my new hobby or passion (which makes me wary of ever using bathsalts the next time I’m in the tub). When I was nine, the obsession was Pokémon cards. When I was 17, I became engrossed by a need to learn everything there was to know about the show “Lost.” And now that I’m 21, I find myself absorbed in the “Song of Ice and Fire” series by George R.R. Martin.

The series, which has five out of a planned seven novels released, is also the genesis of the popular HBO series “Game of Thrones.” Both the show and the books center around the twists and turns of the struggle for political domination in the fictional island of Westeros, with the focus being on the people who attempt to bend the flow of power and wield it. Unlike most fantasy novels, the epicenter of the story isn’t linked to the fantastical elements of it, but rather to the realistic political elements of intrigue, betrayal, lies and manipulation.

I started reading this series two weeks ago, and — this is truly sad to admit — I am currently on the fifth novel (as an unrelated side note, I am also much paler now). In this new obsession of mine, I have started to find real world applicability (something that was sorely lacking from my Pokémon days). The more I read Martin’s epics, the more similarities between his political landscape and that of our own past few election cycles emerge.

With that being said, I must first admit that our own political scenario lacks many elements and plot devices that are prevalent in Martin’s. First, we don’t live in a feudal society. There are no vassal lords, hedge knights or kings making up an intricate system of allegiances. There is also a lot less outward violence and sexual scandals, especially since John Edwards stepped out of the electoral spotlight. Most importantly — regardless of the recent reports out of Miami — reanimated corpses aren’t threatening the peace of our society.

The above differences are expected. Martin is writing for entertainment purposes; he wants to sell books and

tell a good story. Regardless of this loose licensing, it is eerie how similar the picture he paints is to that of our own.

Our politicians today seem to have one goal in mind, that of self-preservation. Much like the characters of Martin’s design, the Mitt Romneys, Rand Pauls, and Nancy Pelosis of our political world seem more than eager to fight tooth and nail through any form to not only keep the positions they have risen to, but also to try and reach a little higher.

This mindset at first might seem to be a good one; for example, how could an elected politician be good at his job if he wants to keep it? This self-interested mode of thinking takes people away from their actual responsibilities as those governing the governed.

Rousseau’s principle of the social contract becomes muddled and lost in this landscape, as the concerns for the rights of the governed are replaced by the government’s need and want for self-replication.

If our politicians aren’t self-centered, then why does every Republican lampoon Obama’s recent stands on same-sex marriages and immigration as a cheap ploy for votes in an election year? Both sides know they are. The left says nothing out of tact, while the right complains so as to draw attention from their own views and hope to draw more votes to their own cause. This event is even evident on the individual level, as the example of Rand Paul’s recent shift in support away from his father towards Mitt Romney demonstrates.

Paul and Romney share little in common, but Romney wants Paul’s father’s support base and Paul wants to try and keep his fleeting political career alive. Everyone is playing the game, and everyone wants to win.

A common saying throughout Martin’s series is, “When you play the game of thrones, you win or you die.” While our own system isn’t so finite, it is just as cutthroat and brutal. Our politicians have become obsessed with self-preservation. It seems that more and more, the people who take up the mantle of our government care more about their own careers then the livelihood of those that elected them (Art Pope, for example). Why else would our elections be such a spectacle of campaign fliers and annoying yet catchy ads? The issues no longer matter, only getting elected does.

“A Song of Ice and Fire” is not a representation of real life. It’s a fantasy series, but the characteristics and the machinations of its inhabitants are more than lifelike.

The series has painted a bleak picture of our own political system. I just hope both have good endings.

— Preston Peeden is a senior in history. He can be reached at ppeeden@utk.edu.

SCRAMBLED EGGS • Alex Cline

RHYMES WITH ORANGE • Hilary Price

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Dreams, stories go beyond fiction Shal l o w a n d Pe d a n t i c by

Robbie Hargett In John Gardner’s “The Art of Fiction,” Gardner tells us that Isak Dinesen (“Out of Africa,” “Babette’s Feast,” “Seven Gothic Tales”) begins one of her tales with the following: “After the death of his master Leonidas, Angelino Santasillia resolved that he would never again sleep. Will the narrator be believed when he tells the reader that Angelino kept this resolve? Nevertheless, it is the case.”

This introduction demonstrates a few key premises of fiction and points to parallels between fiction and dreams. Creating stories is like dreaming in that the mind creates a universe from past experiences and memories.

No one believes that Angelino could realistically stay awake for the rest of his life, but Dinesen wants to create a universe in which it is plausible.

In the dream stage of sleeping, our minds are actually active despite the fact that we are not awake. In the absence of external stimuli — sights, sounds, smells — while our senses are cut off, our active brains create their own stimuli from what they know, resulting in dreams.

Dreams are unstable because they are not based on real senses, only on a simulation of real senses. When we sense we are dreaming, our surroundings become vivid, the light swells, the ground shakes, and the dream world around us collapses in on itself.

A few years ago I had a dream in which I was walking through my middle school hallway, perhaps with the intention to visit old teachers. But something about the lighting — too synesthetic, as though the drone from the fluorescent lights had taken on that all-encompassing quality of radiant energy, causing the walls and ceiling to buzz and vibrate faintly — made me think I was dreaming, so I decided to look for signs. I checked my phone, and I noticed that I had a voicemail from a contact simply labeled as “Mouse deer.” (Apparently mouse deer are real animals, a fact I was not cognizant of at the time, formally known as chevrotains—small, eventoed ungulates of the Tragulidae family.) The voicemail?

The sound of an animal grazing. I should have known immediately that this was not reality, but my twisted dream logic told me that, in fact, that is what a voicemail from a mouse deer would sound like, so this couldn’t be a dream.

But I needed more proof, so I turned to the wall and noticed half a dozen clocks mounted side-by-side. In dreams, people often have trouble reading words on pages and hands on clocks, so I thought, very rationally, that if the clocks were awry, I must be dreaming. But the clocks hung inconspicuously, not melted or draped over branches, and the hands were visible. In fact, all the clocks read the same time, which I should have realized was the absolute last thing six clocks side-by-side would do, yet I took it as a sign that I was in the waking world.

Not satisfied, I wandered around until I found a person.

I asked this dream character if I was dreaming. “No,” he said. “Of course not.” I asked him if he were sure, and the guy actually got offended by my accusations. He even yelled and said I was insane for believing it was a dream.

But it was a dream. So why would my dream logic consistently fail, and why would a dream character get so miffed when I brought up dreaming? The answer lies in another parallel between stories and dreams. When you dream, the dream curiously wants more than anything for you to think it is reality. Such is the case with the story.

Writers toil to create a seamless experience for the reader. They make their style invisible and use vivid details to ground the story in reality (even if the story is not realistic) and to convince us of the story’s plausibility or at least engage us in its movements.

Dreams and stories want us to believe they are real because, for one thing, we are supposed to learn something from them. Many dream researchers believe dreams have a teaching purpose; they say we dream about certain situations so we can practice how we should respond to those situations. It’s not always so literal: we don’t dream about monsters to enhance our ability to defeat them in the waking world, but we learn something about fear.

One difference between dreams and stories is that everything in a dream comes from the dreamer’s brain with no outside influence—we are the writers and the readers—whereas readers of stories can only relate to those stories in a secondary way.

But that doesn’t change the fact that both dreams and stories have the power to move us, to change the way we think about things. It’s because dreams, like fiction, are made of our fancies, desires, memories, past experiences and, perhaps most of all, the things that make us tremble and stand agape in awe and horror.

— Robbie Hargett is a graduate in English. He can be reached at ghargett1@utk.edu.

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Stories are like the object word in that classic childhood game “Telephone” - they start out as a firsthand experience and through the generations become twisted and defused into wild abstractions with only a brief trace of actual events.

Blues is perhaps the most prolific genre in music, since all of the basic trends in popular music are in some form derivatives of blues in either ethic or performance. To then say one particular blues song is the best is almost to say that song is the greatest of all pop songs, a heady and contentious statement if ever there were one. My roommate would be likely to pick Mississippi John Hurt’s “Ain’t Nobody’s Business,” as performed by Wingnut Dishwashers Union. I would have to go with “Stagger Lee,” with Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds’ live version from “The Abbatoir Blues Tour” as the landmark performance.

Like many great blues songs who share the oral traditional of creation myths, “Stagger Lee” has roots in reality as it depicts a barroom brawl that ends in murder over a Stetson hat. Over the century and change since the fatal fracas between Stagger Lee Shelton and Billy Lyons in a St. Louis saloon in what was an act of drunken buffoonery, Shelton has become a singular American archetype embodying hot blooded rage and sexual ardor.

Take for example the earliest widespread recording of the song, once again by the prolific and often overlooked bluesman Mississippi John Hurt, called “Stack O’Lee” in the Delta tradition. Hurt’s rendition is a plaintive ballad from Billy Lyons’ perspective, begging for a stay of execution for the sake of the family he will leave behind. As a murder ballad it is fairly typical, if only significant for being a topical tune ripped from the headlines (though Hurt’s 1928 Okeh recording was still made thirty years after the events took place). A revival began in 1959 when Lloyd Price scored a Billboard #1 hit single and with it the farreaching mythos of the demonic pimp and bad motherlover called Stagger Lee. One of Price’s recordings of the song, amended for airplay on “American Bandstand,” smoothed out

the ugly truth of the song by replacing the hat with a woman and resolving with a fight and making up instead of a slug in Billy Lyons’ stomach. James Brown recorded a version that revolved around a craps game gone awry, and Stella Johnson’s “The Trial of Stagger Lee” tells the story from the perspective of Lyons’ wife.

Delia Lyon would later be the hero of the Grateful Dead’s take on the tale, emasculating Stagger Lee when Baio the beat cop refuses to bring the murderer in. In recent years, starting with the studio recording on the Bad Seeds’ 1996 collection “Murder Ballads,” artists from the Black Keys (“Stack Shot Billy”) to Samuel L. Jackson (“Stack-O-Lee” in the phenonmenal juke joint sequence of “Black Snake Moan”) have taken shots at the song with dynamic success.

Cave’s version is essentially a dramatic reading of the Johnny Otis version of the song, taken from a 1969 album the late radio personality recorded under the nom de smut Snatch & the Poontangs. In it we find the down on his luck hustler left with just his busted shoes and hat, scorned and evicted by his lover. So he trudges through inclement weather to a ominously monikered watering hole called the Bucket of Blood, where he kills the bartender for insolence and is about to have a tryst with streetwalker Nellie Brown when Lyons walks in. STagger Lee murders Lyons and when the devil creeps up to drag Stagger Lee to Hell, he also receives hot lead from Stag’s .38 revolver.

Given Cave’s penchant for all things Gothic and depraved, the references to sex and brutality are played up in a a way that mirrors pulp crime fiction as opposed to the frat boy lampooning of Otis’s recording.

Numerous videos document the brute physicality of Cave’s performance, including one from the Abbatoir Blues tour where Cave billows cigarette smoke and obscenity in equal proportion. Anchored by a walking bass line from Martyn Casey and shrieking violin from Warren Ellis, Cave switches from narrator to Stag himself, and the violence he channels through that persona is as palpable as a YouTube video can be.

Contrary to my previous thesis, I wouldn’t say “Stagger Lee” is the greatest song in popular music that honor belongs to either Roy Orbison’s “In Dreams” or “Be My Baby.” But for a statistical incident which could have easily fallen into obscurity like so many others, this American myth has come to say a lot about our cultural values - or lack thereof. Plus it’s got a great beat, and you can dance to it.

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

Tuesday, June 19, 2012

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Suu Kyi, Bono visit Dublin worldwide concert tour that highlighted demands for her freedom.

“Everybody’s here to sing for you tonight, but it’s your song that everybody wants to hear,” Bono said as he invited Suu Kyi on to the stage to a two-minute standing ovation.

“This has come as a surprise to me, and a very moving one,” said Suu Kyi, who got laughs by observing that the British used to consider the Burmese “the Irish of the east” — because they never gave the British any peace, both liked a drink and were very superstitious.

Bono, who also wrote the 2000 hit “Walk On” in praise of Suu Kyi’s long exile from her family, had never met her before. He admitted, during his first news conference alongside Suu Kyi in Oslo, that he found her a wee bit intimidating.

“I’m star-struck... but I’m managing to get over it,” said the 52-year-old Bono, who donned his trademark yellow-tinted wraparound glasses and high-heeled boots.

Suu Kyi, in turn, said Bono had hit the right note with “Walk On,” which was written from the point of view of her husband Michael Aris. Myanmar’s military rulers refused to let him see his wife from 1995 to his death from cancer in 1999.

“I like that song, because it’s very close to how I feel, that it’s up to you to carry on,” said Suu Kyi, who turns 67 on Tuesday. “It’s good if you have supporters, it’s good if you have people who are sympathetic and understanding. But in the end, it’s your own two legs that have to carry you on.”

Following the Dublin concert at an outdoor rally, Suu Kyi is to sign the roll of honor proclaiming her a Freewoman of the City of Dublin, an honorific title bestowed in her absence in 1999.

Amnesty officials also plan to give her a birthday cake and lead the crowd in a chorus of “Harry Birthday.”

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Bijou hosts film festival Gabe Quistorff Staff Writer On June 16 the Knoxville independent film community was represented in full force at the Bijou Theatre downtown. The red carpet was rolled out while film crews arrived, some arriving in limousines, and one even in a 1959 Rolls Royce Silver Cloud; some dressed wildly in top hats, one man showing a noticeable resemblance to Abraham Lincoln.

The event, The Third Annual Knoxville 24 Hour Film festival, is a competition in which local filmmakers are given twenty-four hours to write, shoot, and edit a short fourminute film. Filmmakers are presented with four elements that they must incorporate into their films at the beginning of the twenty-four hour period, this year’s elements being a hula hoop, 15 seconds of music, a lover, and the phrase “How do you like me now?”

The Festival actually began June 2, when filmmakers received these elements, their work being due the next day at 1p.m. This past Saturday, the films were shown and the awards were handed out. The event featured Nashville indie-rock band Heypenny, who kept things lively with their tight dance beats and infectious melodies, eventually leading the audience in a march down to the afterparty at Preservation Pub with a triumphant acoustic version of Elton John’s “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road.”

Michael Samstag, the executive of the festival who most notably directed and produced the special features for the first three Harry Potter DVDs as well as the features on

the 2004 film, “Van Helsing,” did some great promotion for the festival with the help of his staff and managed to do it bigger and better than previous years with the help of new sponsorship.

Awards ranged in categories from the unusual Pimpest Film Award, given to Team Fanboy for their film “White Dolemite,” a spoof of the 2009 spoof, “Black Dynamite” to Best Lead Actress, awarded to Amy Casterline who starred in the film “Beautiful Snow” and whose daughter just shot her first feature-length motion picture.

But one film stood out from the pack: Brandon Langley’s “Tonight We Are Born As Stars” which swept the Best Director, Best Lead Actor, Best Film, and Audience Favorite awards. The film followed the story of two young men and their attempt to rob a pawn shop and was delivered with a presentation that made it hard to believe the film was made completely in twenty-four hours.

Chusy Jardine, a member of the judges’ board and Award Winning director at Festivals such as Sundance, Cancun, and Strasbourg, said to Langley before presenting him the award, “Anywhere you want to go, the world is yours.”

Festival staff member Lance Gaido sees the festival as being up-and-coming.

“I gotta say this festival is really taking off,” Gaido said.

After Saturday it would be hard to disagree, especially considering the festival is only in its third year. But with a competition like this, you can expect some dedicated people who work well with time constraints, as the filmmakers and festival staff both demonstrated.

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DUBLIN — Aung San Suu Kyi and Bono joined forces Monday as the Myanmar democracy activist’s European tour moved from the home of the Nobel Peace Prize to the land of U2.

The pair spent more than an hour answering questions at an Oslo conference of peace mediators at the end of Suu Kyi’s four-day visit to Norway. Then they jetted together to the Irish capital, Dublin, for an evening concert in her honor.

Irish Foreign Minister Eamon Gilmore and a trio of children, two of them Burmese nationals, offered Suu Kyi flowers as she arrived at Dublin Airport. After meeting Irish President Michael D. Higgins, she arrived at a riverside theater to thunderous cheers and applause, with Bono and Nobel laureate poet Seamus Heaney walking alongside her down the red carpet.

Inside, Amnesty International organized a three-hour show of songs, poems and speeches in her honor featuring top Irish stars, and set against a backdrop of a wall of opened birdcages symbolizing her freedom from house arrest in 2010.

The Riverdance troupe got proceedings off to a foot-stomping start. Folk guitarist Donal Lunny led the audience in a soft musical chant of Aung San Suu Kyi’s name lasting several minutes. Irish actress Saoirse Ronan read a poem, followed by English actress Vanessa Redgrave reading one of Heaney’s, “The Republic of Conscience.” Dublin folk rocker Damien Rice sang his hit “Can’t Take My Eyes Off of You” to a spare cello accompaniment.

Redgrave and Bono then presented Suu Kyi with another of her long-postponed awards, Amnesty’s Ambassador of Conscience. Bono had announced the award at a Dublin U2 concert in 2009 during a

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UT divers vie for London Staff Reports

Rebeccah Vaughan • The Daily Beacon

Ryan Helms enters the pool during the first round of the SEC Diving Championships on Wednesday, Feb. 15. This Wednesday, June 20, Helms will compete at the U.S. Olympic Diving Trials in Federal Way, Wash.

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - Three divers with University of Tennessee ties will compete this week at the U.S. Olympic Diving Trials in Federal Way, Wash., for an opportunity to represent the United States at the 2012 Olympic Games in London.

Former Vols Ryan Helms and Michael Wright will both be in action in the 3-meter springboard competition on Wednesday, while Tori Lamp, a rising redshirt junior for the Lady Vols, will take to the platform on the same day. The top 18 finishers will advance to the quarterfinals, with the top 12 moving on to the semifinals later in the day.

“To get anybody qualified for the U.S. Olympic Diving Trials is certainly a huge honor,” Tennessee Head Diving Coach Dave Parrington said. “We have three divers who achieved the opportunity to be able to dive in the U.S. Olympic Trials, which is one of the toughest trials. I’m very proud of Mike, Ryan and Tori and the fact that they are vying for that opportunity is just an awesome thing.”

If any of the Tennessee divers finish in the top 12, they will advance to the finals on Sunday in hopes of finishing in the top two and traveling to London as members of Team USA. The scores of each round will carry over into the next, meaning the

scores will be cumulative and not reset after each round.

Wright, who exhausted his eligibility after the 2010-11 season ranks second alltime in Tennessee history on the 3-meter boards, while Helms, the reigning 2012 Southeastern Conference Male Diver of the Year, ranks fourth in the record books in the event.

“It is a really good and deep field so Mike and Ryan are going to have to be on their game,” Parrington said. “They are certainly not favorites to make the team because a few guys have kind of separated themselves, but they certainly have done enough to show that they are capable of making the finals. Anybody that makes the finals is a world-level diver and on any given day, something exciting can happen.”

Lamp holds the school record in the platform, won the event at the conference meet and finished runner up at the NCAA Championships. She is also the 2012 SEC Female Diver of the Year and represented Team USA at the Canada Cup with Helms.

“I’ve looked at the field and Tori has competed and beaten every single diver at one time or another,” Parrington explained.

“Now the trick is to get up and do it three times. She is certainly capable but some things have to go right and she has to be able to withstand some pressure she hasn’t had before. I expect Tori to be able to step up and I’m excited about her chances.”

Friends testify at Sandusky trial The Associated Press BELLEFONTE, Pa. — Friends and ex-colleagues of Jerry Sandusky testified Monday on behalf of the former Penn State assistant football coach as his defense sought to counter prosecution witnesses’ claims that he sexually abused boys in the shower on Penn State’s campus.

The testimony came on what was a truncated day in a trial that has moved at a brisk pace since testimony began last week. Judge John Cleland told jurors that the defense could rest its case by Wednesday, which would mean closing arguments could come Thursday morning.

“This is all very tentative, you understand,” he told the 12 jurors and four alternates, adding that since they will be sequestered in a hotel while they deliberate they should “pack appropriately.”

It was still unclear how Sandusky’s defense team, led by attorney Joe Amendola, would proceed on Tuesday. After the proceedings ended for the day, when asked if he would testify on his own behalf, Sandusky looked an Associated Press reporter in the eye and said nothing.

Cleland told jurors of the possible timeline after three defense witnesses testified that Sandusky was an admired local figure because of his ties to Penn State and the outreach of The Second Mile, the charity for atrisk youth that the defendant founded in 1977.

Former Penn State assistant coach Dick Anderson, who worked with Sandusky for several years, testified that he and other members of the football staff were present when Sandusky brought young boys into the team’s showers.

He said he never witnessed anything inappropriate.

Taylor Gautier • The Daily Beacon

Participants of Relay for Life gathered in World’s Fair Park on Friday, June 15 at 6:00 p.m. and stayed until 7:00 a.m. on Saturday, June 16. The all-night walk raised funds for The American Cancer Society.