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Friday, June 21, 2013

McClung opens doors for family event McCord Pagan Staff Writer The McClung Museum will host a family day for its ‘Birds in Art’ exhibit Saturday, June 22.

The exhibit, on loan from the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum in Wisconsin, will run throughout the summer. The family event, while open to the public, is part of the museum’s continued effort to reach out to an even broader audience.

Saturday is part of the series of hosting a family-friendly event for each new traveling exhibit.

This time, the museum is focusing on giving the children who come to visit a real educational experience, in the form of guides to East Tennessee birds, and the opportunity to construct a birdfeeder.

Abby Naunheimer, the museum’s new family programming coordinator, has high hopes that the event will lead to a new appreciation for birds and how they are depicted, as well as just more “awareness in the artwork.”

“Just to give people an idea of how birds are portrayed in the artwork, and also how birds are shown in nature, just to see any similarities and differences,” she said on the motivation behind the exhibit.

‘Birds in Art’ features many species of birds in different settings. Each year a variety of artists send in their work to Leigh Yawkey Museum and a committee parses through the entries to select the best works.

This summer, ‘Birds in Art’ was chosen thanks to a history of great success.

According to Naunheimer, the museum tries to maintain and bring in exhibits that appeal to several demographics.

Although located on a college campus, the curators strive to bring in diversity, trying to pick something that might appeal to all ages without focusing on one group. She said the goal

is to pick an exhibit generally interesting to the community, not just female college students focusing in one group.

The McClung Museum, currently celebrating its 50th anniversary, is also looking at ways to expand its reach and bring in more crowds. New assistant curator Catherine Shteynberg said the museum is expanding its efforts to make the public, and especially students, more aware of the opportunities the museum has to offer, whether it is the chances for learning, the traveling lectures or even just the ample study space.

Naunheimer even runs a monthly stroller tour for infants and their parents as a fun outing for young children and their parents.

“It’s a place to get inspired, a place to relax, a place to be social,” Shteynberg said.

In addition, the public is also always welcome to give its input as to what they would like to see in the museum. Shteynberg said she wants people to know they are welcome to contact her for any suggestions they might have.

The museum is especially looking to expand its reach with college students. McClung administrators have worked to establish a social media presence with new Twitter and Instagram accounts, as well as providing needed snacks for students during finals week.

Upcoming events include visits from the National Geographic photographer Chris Rainier and Egyptologist Salima Ikram.

“Let us know what types of programming you are interested in seeing as students, we welcome feedback,” Shytenberg said. “We are in the process of rethinking what types of programming we might have in our future, and so if anyone would like to email me personally, they are more than welcome to.”

Shteynberg can be reached at cshteynb@utk.edu.

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Joe DiPietro spoke Thursday afternoon at the Board of Trustees meeting where decisions on tuition and salary increases were made.

Board approves state-wide tutition hike Victoria Wright Editor-in-Chief The University Board of Trustees approved a 6 percent undergraduate tuition increase for UT Knoxville, UT Chattanooga and UT Martin campuses beginning in the fall, leaving some board members questioning if the raise would assist in reaching a Top 25 ranking in U.S. News and World Report.

The decision was made at the full board meeting Thursday and is a part of the overall University budget for the 2014 fiscal year, which is included in the overall revenue increases.

In-state tuition for UT Knoxville campus are to increase by $468 annually, changing the $7,802 in-state cost to $8,270.

The raises will go into effect in August.

New freshmen and transfer students entering fall 2013 will pay an in-state tuition of $9,780, These students will also be charged for 15 credit hours instead of 12 hours, and board members said these students can expect tuition increases of no

more than 3 percent annually for the next three years.

System President Joe DiPietro said other options were researched to avoid tuition raises and still garner funds.

“We’re always looking at that,” DiPietro said. “Knoxville is way behind it’s peers.

We receive about $6,000 or $7,000 per student and some of the schools, such as North Carolina where the tuition is lower than here, receives around $20,000. So we’ll always look at the state and say, ‘can you help replace the money that we’ve lost?’”

Board members also approved university administrators’ pay. DiPietro’s annual salary will increase from $445,567.56 to $465,618.12 and Chancellor Jimmy Cheek will experience a pay increase of 10 percent, increasing his base salary to $434,451.60.

Both changes go into effect July 1.

Board member Douglas A. Horne of Knoxville disagreed and said avoiding more action needed to take place to avoid raising the tuition cost.

“I personally feel we should show more initiative here and not raise the

tuition,” Horne said. “I’d personally not like to raise it.”

Horne said that the University should model other schools by cutting from other areas for funds instead of raising how much students pay. Other members argued that the raise was necessary in order to keep in line with the Top 25 initiative.

Chancellor Jimmy Cheek said the tuition increase is necessary to make improvements to the campus overall student life.

“We have to have a tuition large enough to keep our campus moving in the right direction,” Cheek said. “That is keeping the best faculty and hiring the best faculty and making sure we’re offering the courses students need, all those kinds of things that need to be done.

“If we don’t have those resources, than we can’t compete with other universities.”

Student fee increases were approved as well, including a UT Knoxville transportation increase fee from $52 to $120.

All meeting webcasts from the two-day event can be accessed at http://www.tennessee.edu.

Local watering hole keeps students cool, offers relaxation Gabrielle O’Neal Contributor

spring of 2012,” said undecided junior Dustin Shetley, a nine-time veteran of the quarry.

“There are always a lot of people jumping when I go.”

At the quarry, varying levels of rock cliffs offer the more adventurous swimmers a few cliff-diving options. Those who are brave enough can dive off the rocks into the water below, estimated to range from depths of 20 feet to 220 feet.

“I jumped off the smaller parts closer to the water but not the big one,” Shetley said.

“But watching my friends swim around was a great experience.”

The quarry also serves as a beautiful oasis of East Tennessee landscape. Alle Logan, a graduate student in veterinary medicine, chose to simply enjoy the view on her visit to the quarry.

“We just looked at the scenery,” Logan said, describing a trip to the quarry with a group of friends. Logan was impressed by the expansive panorama, noting

Over some old train tracks, through a gate, down a winding gravel road near Mary Vestal Park rests what most simply call ‘the quarry.’

The quarry off of Blount Avenue, located at heart of cityowned Fort Dickerson Park, has become a popular spot for those in Knoxville to go swimming and sightseeing during warmer weather days. The quarry seems more appealing to those who do not have their own pool or those who want to enjoy a change in scenery.

“My friend took me there my freshman year at UT,” said Sam Dodge, a junior in food science who has been to the quarry several times. “It was kind of a wellkept secret then.”

Considering the quarry does not have a formal address, its location is spread through word of mouth.

“I first heard about it in the See QUARRY on Page 2

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The quarry off of Blount Avenue offers a large swimming hole for adventure seekers.

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continued from Page 1 how far the water went out and around the corner, beyond sight.

Shetley agreed.

“I just loved the view of the water shining and the rock walls in the sunlight,” he said.

As the quarry has grown in popularity, there have been reports of people who have visited the quarry and received tickets for jumping.

Some rumors abound that helicopters patrol the area, although the Daily Beacon could not confirm the story.

“I don’t know anyone personally,” Dodge said when asked if she knew anyone who had been ticketed. “But I have heard from a few friends that they’ve had friends get tickets there.”

Neither Logan or Shetley could confirm the ticketing fears, but Logan admitted that the activity is prohibited.

“I know it is private property and people aren’t supposed to be there period,” she said.

The area made headlines as recently as 2009 when a swimmer drowned in the waters. Swimming at the quarry is technically trespassing, although there is an overlook at Fort Dickerson Park open to the public.

“I think they’ve cracked down on kids going there since,” said Dodge.

THIS DAY IN

HISTORY

1779: Spain declares war of the British Invasion with the harmonies and lyrical depth of against Great Britain folk to create an entirely new On this day in 1779, Spain sound.

Perhaps someone else could declares war on Great Britain, creating a de facto alliance with have listened to the bright guitar lines of the Beatles’ “Ticket the Americans.

Spain’s King Charles III would To Ride” and to Bob Dylan’s not consent to a treaty of alliance original “Mr. Tambourine Man” with the United States. For one and had the idea of somehow imperial power to encourage combining the two, but neither another imperial power’s colo- of those recordings existed when nies in revolt was a treacherous the Byrds’ Roger McGuinn game, and he was unwilling to devised his group’s new sound. play. However, French Foreign Newly signed to Columbia Minister Charles Gravier, comte Records, the Byrds had access de Vergennes, managed to nego- to an early demo version of “Mr. tiate a treaty with Spain to join Tambourine Man” even before their war against the British. their label-mate Bob Dylan had As the ally of the United States’ had a chance to record it for ally, Spain managed to endorse his own upcoming album. On the revolt at a critical diplomatic January 20, 1965, they entered the studio to record what would distance.

The American Revolution become the title track of their had already spawned a world debut album and, incidentally, war between the two interna- the only Bob Dylan song ever tional powers of Britain and to reach #1 on the U.S. pop France. Spain’s entry into the charts. Aiming consciously for imbroglio ensured that the a vocal style in between Dylan’s British would have to spread and Lennon’s, McGuinn sang their resources even thinner. lead, with Gene Clark and David King Charles wanted to reclaim Crosby providing the complex Gibraltar for Spain and secure harmony that would, along Spanish borders in North with McGuinn’s jangly electric America and the Spanish imme- 12-string Rickenbacker guitar, diately laid siege to Gibraltar at form the basis of the Byrds’ the mouth of the Mediterranean trademark sound.

That sound, which would Sea. The British managed to drive the Spanish from Gibraltar influence countless groups on February 7, 1783, having con- from Big Star to the Bangles structed an 82-foot-long tunnel in decades to come, had an into the north face of the rock of immediate and profound impact Gibraltar, known as the “Notch,” on the Byrds’ contemporaries, in order to supply it with can- and even on the artists who’d non. However, King Charles suc- inspired it in the first place. ceeded in his North American “Wow, man, you can even dance goals. The Spanish took West to that!” was Bob Dylan’s reacFlorida by force and attained tion to hearing what the Byrds’ East Florida by cession when the had done with “Mr. Tambourine War for Independence ended; Man.” Just days before the hugethey were also able to secure the ly influential album of the same name was released to the public Gulf of Mexico. on June 21, 1965, Dylan himself 1965: Mr Tambourine Man would be in a New York recordis released, and the folk-rock ing studio with an electric guitar in his hands, putting the finishrevolution is on ing touches on “Like A Rolling Released on this day in 1965, Stone” and setting the stage for the Byrds’ debut album, Mr. his controversial “Dylan goes Tambourine Man, marked the electric” performance at the beginning of the folk-rock revolu- Newport Folk Festival just one tion. In just a few months, the month later.

Byrds had become a household *This day in history courtesy name, with a #1 single and a smash-hit album that married of History.com the ringing guitars and backbeat

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Knoxville residents attend the Market Square Farmers Market.

Dow Jones suffers worst day of 2013 Associated Press There was no let-up in the flight from stocks and bonds Thursday as the Dow Jones industrial average plunged 353 points and wiped out almost two months of gains.

A day after the Federal Reserve roiled U.S financial markets when it said it could step back from its aggressive economic stimulus program later this year, financial markets continued to slide. A slowdown in Chinese manufacturing added to Wall Street’s worries.

The breadth of the sell-off was seen across global financial markets, from sharply lower stock markets in Asia to falling government bond prices in Europe and the U.S. Gold also plunged.

The Dow’s drop — which knocked the average down 2.3 percent to 14,758.32 — was its biggest since November 2011. It comes just three weeks after the blue-chip index reached an all-time high of 15,409.

The Standard & Poor’s 500 lost 40.74 points, or 2.5 percent, to 1,588.19. It also reached a record high last month, peaking at 1,669.

Small-company stocks fell more than the rest of the market, a sign that investors are aggressively reducing risk.

In U.S. government debt, the yield on the benchmark 10-year note rose to its highest level since August 2011.

A Fed policy statement and comments from Chairman Ben Bernanke started the selling in stocks and bonds Wednesday.

Bernanke said the Fed expects to scale back its massive bond-buying program later this year and end it entirely by mid-2014 if the economy continues to improve.

The bank has been buying $85 billion a month in Treasury and mortgage bonds, a program that has kept borrowing costs near historic lows for consumers and business.

It has also helped boost the stock market.

Alec Young, a global equity strategist at S&P Capital IQ, said investors weren’t expecting Bernanke to say the program could end so quickly, and are adjusting their portfolios in anticipation of higher U.S. interest rates.

“What we’re seeing is a pretty significant sea-change in investor strategy,” Young said.

As financial markets dropped, investors likely put the proceeds of their sales in cash as they waited for the dust to settle, said Quincy Krosby, a market strategist at Prudential Financial.

Investors “are raising cash right now, for fear the deterioration will continue,” said Krosby.

The yield on the 10-year Treasury note rose to 2.41 percent, from 2.35 percent Wednesday. It’s up sharply since May 3, when it hit a year low of 1.63 percent.

Government bonds are used as benchmarks for mortgage rates. The sharp increase in yields prompted investors to sell the stocks of homebuilders, whose business could be hurt if the pace of home buying slows down. Even an encouraging report on home sales Thursday failed to arrest the slide.

PulteGroup plunged $1.89, or 9.1 percent, to $18.87. D.R. Horton fell $2.13, also 9.1 percent, to $21.31.

Markets were also unnerved after manufacturing in China slowed at a faster pace this month as demand weakened. That added to concerns about growth in the world’s second-largest economy. A monthly

purchasing managers index from HSBC fell to a nine-month low of 48.3 in June.

Numbers below 50 indicate a contraction.

Earlier in other global markets, Japan’s Nikkei index lost 1.7 percent. The FTSE 100 index of leading British shares fell 3 percent while Germany’s DAX dropped 3.3 percent.

In currency trading, the dollar rose against the euro and the Japanese yen.

In commodities trading, gold plunged to its lowest point since September 2010, falling $87.80, or 6.4 percent, to $1,286.20 an ounce.

Traders sold the precious metal as its appeal as insurance against inflation and a weak dollar faded. Both became less of an issue after the Fed said it was contemplating an end to its bond-buying program.

The rising dollar pushed oil prices lower.

A stronger dollar makes oil more expensive for holders of other currencies. The price of crude oil fell $2.84, or 2.9 percent, to finish at $95.40 a barrel in New York, its biggest drop since November Some investors said the sell-off in stocks may be overdone. The Fed is considering easing back on its stimulus because the economy is improving. The central bank has upgraded its outlook for unemployment and economic growth.

The S&P 500 is still up 11.3 percent, for the year, not far from its full-year increase of 13.4 percent last year.

“People are overreacting a little bit,” said Gene Goldman, head of research at Cetera Financial Group. “It goes back to the fundamentals, the economy is improving.”

In other trading, the Nasdaq composite fell 78.57 points, or 2.3 percent, to 3,364.63.

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ARTS & CULTURE

Arts & Culture Editor Melodi Erdogan merdogan@utk.edu

Disney films grow old with students Cortney Roark Staff Writer Disney animation films have reached multiple generations, changing technically, but staying pure at heart to relate to their young, and now older, audience.

Disney is a name known around the world by children, adults and college students alike.

The first animated Disney film was “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,” released in 1937. Since then, the company has grown tremendously, while continuing to relate to the audience and sticking with family values, UT

students said.

“If people love a Disney movie, they always love a Disney movie,” Tyrel Prentiss said, junior in College Scholars studying film studies: history, theory, analysis and production.

“They age with us, which is what I think people like. They grow up with us.”

Before completely buying out Pixar Animation Studios in 2006, Disney released multiple films produced by Pixar.

By doing this, Disney captured not only the classic fairytales, but also took the audience into worlds of bugs, toys, monsters and cars. These movies trans-

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formed Disney into something more relatable than before, especially for college students in recent years.

In 2010, “Toy Story 3” was released. This film shows Andy going to college and giving his toys away. This portrays the message that growing up is inevitable, but it also shows students that it is okay to act like a child every once in a while, according to Dylan Moore, senior in computer science and UT cinema club president.

“There is a weird innocence loss from a person who grows up, they start learning more about the world, they get more cynical, or rougher with experience,” Moore said. “But with Disney movies it shows that childlike wonderment is still there, even though it’s not what we go through from day to day.

You can recapture something that you feel like you’ve actually lost.”

The film “Monsters Incorporated,” which followed Sulley Sullivan and his main man Mike Wazowski, hit theaters in 2001. Today, fans will experience college with the monsters they’ve grown to love in the film “Monsters University.”

“A sequel to Monsters Inc. is exciting enough as it is, but to see a prequel of Mike and Sully in college at the same time that

I’m at UT will be great,” Hayley Brantley said, junior in animal science.

The first Disney-Pixar release was “Toy Story” in 1995. Being the first full length computer animated film in history, “Toy Story” was a breaking point for Disney. Before this, Disney included hand drawn animation in every film.

“Toy Story is [one of] the greatest animated films of all time,”said Matthew Graham, UT graduate in journalism. “It’s an accomplishment to convey a story of that magnitude in only 80 something minutes.”

College students of this generation grew up during the second golden age of Disney.

This is what the time period between the release of “The Little Mermaid” and “Tarzan” became known as, according to Prentiss. Disney has continued to keep this audience in mind, while growing as a company and not straying from what this audience loved from the beginning.

“I grew up with Disney [movies]. They are close to my heart,” Brantley said. “Disney will never stray away from ‘A dream is a wish your heart makes.’ The films will always be inspiring, uplifting, you can accomplish anything if you believe type movies.”

‘Yeezus’ breaks lyrical boundaries Victoria Wright Editor-in-Chief

In possibly his darkest and most unapologetic album yet, rapper Kanye West pieces together a project that takes listeners down a mental spiral of audacious lyrics, true pain and a creative mash-up of modern musical genres in his sixth studio album titled “Yeezus.”

West has mastered soul in his album, released Tuesday, and that’s something that listeners haven’t heard since his fourth record, “808s & Heartbreak.”

Unlike his last album, “My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy,” which was more of a creative symphony of artist compilations than lyrically driven songs, “Yeezus” has been replaced with heavy, hip-hop beats and his signature sing/scream courtesy of autontune. And these two thing are something that Kanye does well. The Chicago rapper has found a good niche in between his production of good beats and abrasiveness in his lyrics.

Since “808s & Heartbreak,” the mellowness the world once knew of the rapper has gone. His heart hardened after a messy break-up from ex-fiancé Alexis Phifer, his mother passed suddenly undergoing plastic surgery and actions were seen as a nuisance to the public eye. Some blamed his misfortunes on the believed personality change and others had no mercy for the rapper.

The key to “Yeezus” is West’s ability to blend cleverness with mental chaos. In “New Slaves,” West makes an argument of metaphorically being a slave of labels— Prada, Gucci, etc. He raps, “What you want a Bentley? A gold diamond chain?

All you blacks just want the same thing.”

The irony here is that West may very well

be talking about himself. For the past few years, the 36-year-old has been turned into a fashion mogul/icon. He launched his own clothing line in 2012 called DW Kanye West, and can frequently be seen at fashion events, most recently being the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute Gala where he doted his now baby’s mother reality personality. The track is powerful with a hard, choppy hiphop beat. It’s possibly the most audacious track on the album, and that’s saying a lot.

Then there’s the track “I Am a God.” The song is a mix of distorted bass beats, techno influences and West’s distorted voice rapping for people’s respect and compliance as he tells those to “hurry up with those damn croissants.” The controversial song is not a direct stab at Christianity (though indirectly, it’s a hard jab) but instead West’s proclamation of finally “making it.” In the track, West’s cocky overtures are no longer apologetic, which is why the track falls short. What saved West on the other tracks were the grit in his lyricism, but screaming that he is a part of the Holy Trinity makes him just another rapper bragging about how his presumed greatness makes him immortal. What the track gives in great production becomes obsolete as the listener is bombarded with hollow lyrics of an ego gone too far.

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West redeems himself on “Blood on the Leaves,” a hip-hop heavy ballad that samples jazz legend Nina Simone’s song “Strange Fruit.” The track displays West’s best talents—taking a retro song, mixing it with a great beat and adding a gritty narrative. West raps, “We could’ve been somebody / ‘stead you had to tell somebody / let’s take it back to the first party when you tried your first molly.” His obscure tale of a love lost pairs well with his autotuned wails of heartbreak, making for an emotional piece.

For each lyrically, fine tuned line in “Yeezus,” there is West’s chaotic and abrasive proclamation of “God status” to bring it down. While the album is more synchronized production-wise than “My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy,” West still struggles with controlling his emotions. But perhaps that’s not his intention, and long gone are the days of a themed album that’s not so rough around the edges. Kanye West doesn’t care about any critic’s opinion of “Yeezus.” He’s just trying to take listeners to church.

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‘Superman’ diverges from typical blockbuster McCord Pagan Staff Writer Far too often, action films will get a bad reputation, arguably deserved, for continued attempts to move plots forward with only CGI-explosions and sound enhanced fist fights.

Many studios go towards high-octane movies guaranteed to bring in a large audience, spending more time blowing up sets than writing tight scripts.

Zack Snyder’s “Man of Steel” proudly attempts to defy this category and noticeably holds itself to a higher standard, but those who expect a Christopher Nolan-inspired philosophical quandary to take home may leave slightly disappointed.

Snyder, who is no stranger to the typical action movie plot, has helmed past films like “300,” “Sucker Punch” and “Watchmen.” He teamed up with Christopher Nolan, the man we all should thank for the recent Batman franchise, to return Superman to the respectable plot elements every action film should have.

The overarching themes, the Hans Zimmer score and even the cinematography and the camera’s capture of the light all grandly come together to give this reboot of the Superman franchise a noticeably different feel from its predecessors.

To what should be no one’s disappointment, Snyder and Nolan have done away with the traditional happy-go-lucky KalEl more well-known with audiences, and replaced him with a more realistic and withdrawn Henry Cavill. Cavill, the first English actor to play the traditionally patriotic American character, seems well accustomed to a life hiding his true identity and displays more of the human characteristics that make Superman a great character.

Cavill captures less of the traditional smile and contained confidence of Superman, and instead brings out a more human feel, one unsure of the

rightness of his actions, how to feel at place in society and a longing for a life of normality that was never his. He is less of a confident hero from outer space and more of a man from Kansas just trying to fit into his home. To college students, the more relatable character helps make this film great.

In addition to Cavill, the cast includes an ever-smart and capable Laurence Fishburne as the underutilized character Perry White, who is mainly relegated to yelling at Amy Adam’s Lois Lane. Somehow the role suits both of them well; at the least, neither actor visibly bears the weight of a company desperately trying to catch up to Marvel in its share of comic book adaptations.

Those who have come to appreciate the dark, grim nature of Christian Bale’s Batman will easily see Nolan’s hand at work, with even the lighting and costumes seeming to evoke the loneliness and sober thoughts of a man who lacks a real home and identity.

Rounding out the film is the master himself, Hans Zimmer, who creates a muchneeded epic score for a film dripping with the seriousness and worry that accompanies the films of Snyder and Nolan.

Zimmer, who also scored the recent Batman films, adds a respectable complement to the film. Walking out of the theater, one will immediately miss the driving force of the film’s soundtrack in his own life.

Make no mistake, “Man of Steel” is far from your typical action film, and will stick around for a long time.

At no point does the acting feel forced, even if the audience still wishes that the talented actors had been used for more than dramatic screams. In this sense, Snyder and Nolan fall short, but no more than what one should expect from a movie budget of over $200 million.

The era of the forgetfulness of big budget action films with no real plot is going away, and it is Nolan and Snyder who are leading the front.

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Friday, June 21, 2013 Editor-in-Chief Victoria Wright

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Sports channel lacks journalistic values

R.J. Vogt Managing Editor This isn’t the sports page, but I’d like to talk about ESPN. ESPN brings in more than $10 billion in revenue each year and is purportedly worth an estimated $40 billion, nearly half the value of the entire Disney corporation.

Despite all its money, ESPN is a shameful media presence.

Do you want to talk about sports reporting?

The media giant fails in most facets of reporting the news of the sports world. When Penn State coach Joe Paterno was fired by the Board of Trustees, ESPN failed to get a live feed of the announcement; later that night, when students rioted in the streets, on-site reporter Tom Rinaldi was inexplicably standing in front of a shrub, reporting “live, on-the-scene.”

Or take the sports analysis that ESPN has built its empire on, specifically the much-hyped Mel Kiper Jr. He is the foremost draft expert in the world, right? Not according to an infographic produced by deadspin.com, which details two top-20 draft classes he has predicted (2003 and 2008). Of 40 selections, 12 were in the top 20 and 11 were complete busts; he missed more future superstars than he predicted.

Maybe sports talk is where the channel truly succeeds. On the widely successful “First Take” morning program, cohosted by Skip Bayless and Stephen A. Smith, hot topics and buzzwords are tossed around the beautiful head of Cari Champion.

And by hot topics and buzzwords, what I really mean is Tim Tebow, the Heat and the Lakers. In a viral story on deadspin.com, John Koblin detailed how ratings drove ESPN to talk exorbitantly on Tebow, whether or not it was honestly newsworthy. The same goes for the Lakers. ESPN managed to make a team that might not make the playoffs into their top story every day for much of the NBA regular season.

Millions of Lakers fans watched; many more millions of sports fans suffered.

Imagine if ABC’s top story was about Mitt Romney’s almost-White House administration (oh wait, see Greg’s column). Or perhaps more

specifically, if the News Sentinel sponsored a meeting and then exclusively covered that meeting for days.

Disney’s golden child is a marketing campaign for its investments. When a company owns the rights of a product as well as the market in which that product is reviewed, that company is hard-pressed not to take advantage.

It’s no wonder college football has grown largerthan-ever. When the primary sports-TV network owns the licensing for most bowl games and the Southeastern Conference channel (set to debut in 2014) what else is going to get commercial time and Internet advertisements?

Certainly not ice hockey, one of the few leagues whose albeit rabid fan base fails to garner ESPN’s attention. As a result, an overtime thriller between the Boston Bruins and the Chicago Blackhawks scored a couple of plays on the top 10 amidst more NBA hype.

Contrast that with Tuesday’s overtime NBA Finals Game 6 between the Miami Heat and the San Antonio Spurs, a game immediately declared an “epic classic,” and “one of the greatest” of all time. Game 6 was followed by almost exclusive LeBron coverage for the next 36 hours.

Would hockey get more coverage if it too were broadcast on an ESPN network? Of course it would, that’s the business.

The problem comes when business runs media ethics into the ground. When the first active gay athlete comes out of the closet but the premiere sports network chooses instead to talk about Tim Tebow, again, because the ratings will be better.

They don’t care about the news.

Instead, they will continue to promote the stories that make them more money, heavily reporting on the NBA Finals because they broadcast the NBA Finals.

Another sports medium needs to rise up to challenge “The Mothership.” Fox is consolidating its resources, and NBC recently launched NBC Sports Network, which has swallowed The Golf Channel and Versus in its quest to topple Mickey Mouse.

Unless these upstarts gain enough ratings to legitimately threaten ESPN’s reign, “The Mothership” will continue to put out subpar material and laud itself while the world is forced to watch.

Breaking news: LeBron James just ate a sandwich.

R.J. Vogt is a rising junior in College Scholars.

He can be reached at rvogt@utk.edu.

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If, as many have predicted, civilization disintegrates into a post-apocalyptic nightmare, please remember that news media was the first domino to fall. How could a website, ostensibly about the current state of Politics in the United States, waste precious internet space—first by obfuscating something interesting, then by producing something not only useless but also uninteresting?

Please don’t confuse this with my accusing ABC of bias. I don’t give too hoots if ABC’s crack political division starts producing leaflets urging a communist revolution or if they are replaced by weird conservative survivalists living in the Smokey Mountains. They have the right to do so. However, actively making the interesting uninteresting while trying to pass off banal pieces as, well, anything else makes you both uninteresting and uninformative.

Sports journalism has experienced something similar. Deadspin, which is very often crude and offensive keeps its self semi-respectable by doing real investigative journalism from time to time.

Its one thing if, I don’t know, Jerry Springer or something starts to eat into the audience of legitimate news; while that would say something about whether or not legitimate news is connecting to its audience, legitimate news would still serve a purpose.

However, if Jerry Springer started to break away from “I slept with my cousin’s ex” to start breaking stories about government corruption, legitimate news would be in real trouble.

Of course, that is an exaggeration of what has happened to legitimate news—but only slightly.

Following UT’s own Instapundit on twitter is a much better way to access real news than being forced to listen to or read overly dramatic drivel.

If you’d like, you can easily find 20 people to follow who lean more to the right or left of Professor Reynolds; mix them up, and you can have a pretty good sense of what both the right and left is thinking at any moment.

You see, the real problem formerly legitimate sites have isn’t blatant bias; it’s that they are just not very good at doing the news. For all their supposed clout, Fox News and MSNBC combine for less than 3 Million viewers a day, which is less than one per cent of our population. If you didn’t realize it, that might be the best news you’ll hear for a while.

We are living in a time (hopefully brief) when conspiracy theorists seem credible, when headlines written by The Onion seem preferable to real life, and when the reaction to a story matters more than the actual story.

You see, for all the ink spilled and air vibrated over how biased Fox News and MSNBC are, 70 percent of what they do isn’t particularly interesting. It’s not that it isn’t biased, it’s just benign.

Their viewers simply want to feel comfortable, and people watching them don’t necessarily want to sound bombastic all the time; most of the time, news is relatively bland.

I also think that whatever their biases, most people at either network believe they are telling the truth and communicating it effectively. However gut-wrenching it can be to watch either network, their importance is unquestioned—having opposition is kind of the point of freedom of the press, even if it is poorly executed and assumed from the start.

The ABC politics page had three headlines this week, two of which were bizarre. One read, “NSA poll reverses Bush-era decision”. This is not only poorly written—a “poll” doesn’t reverse a decision so much as it reveals a reverse in opinion that has already occurred—but it also has little to do with what was an interesting article.

The actual story was about how liberals seem OK with surveillance in the name of national security while conservatives do not—which was the opposite of how things were during the Bush administration. The second headline, however, was a real doosie: “The White House that never was: A behind-the-scenes tour of the would-be Romney administration.” This article actually describes a video (I don’t understand how professionally run websites operate on principals antithetical to the Internet. Just show the freaking video!) in which Utah Governor Mike Leavitt fantasizes about what the first few months of a Romney presidency would Greg Bearringer is a graduate student in have looked like.

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ment, which lead to the Vogue article.

The article, written by editor Heidi Mitchell, surprisingly didn’t talk about the latest Gucci collection suited for a news anchor or the most comfortable shoes of the season. Rather, it focused on Al Jazeera’s main priority: to broadcast news in the most accurate and authentic form. They provide the most unscripted, genuine news in the media today and broadcast all news rather than just a specific region.

One example that really made me chuckle was the comparison of Al Jazeera’s channel to CNN, FOX or NBC in the case of Whitney Houston’s death that occurred last February. The latter spent hours covering the same event, essentially using every detail of the singer’s life to pick apart her sudden passing and turning one piece of news into a wasted three hours of air time. The former simply mentioned her death, reported what they knew about it, and continued to report on the bombings between Syria and Israel that were currently taking place in the Middle East.

It’s interesting to see how media gets fixed and contorted in this country of ours. No disrespect to Ms. Houston, but I would rather hear about serious, political conflict than her tragic passing.

Maybe I’m bitter over the news currently neglecting the Turkish uprisings, but wildfires happen very often. It’s always sad to see families left with no homes, but must we be reminded of them for five straight hours?

Al Jazeera is a breath of fresh air. Finally, a media station that knows exactly how to go about covering news. No, not obituaries or the weather, but news. This world is far larger than anyone can imagine, even though at times it may seem small. I am not expecting to know everything that is happening at every minute but I do want to stay updated on current world affairs.

American media just doesn’t cut it; there’s not enough substance or variety for me to be compelled to stay on the channel when watching television. In fact, sometimes I’m so uninterested that even Honey Boo Boo can be more informative.

Media platforms should take tips from Al Jazeera because if there is one thing this country doesn’t need more of, it’s uninformed citizens.

It’s funny how quickly people can forget.

Last Thursday all the news could cover was the Turkish uprisings that were and currently are making their way into beginnings of a civil war. Then wildfires started in Colorado, then NSA surveillance was prime time and now the only important thing worthy of front page news is whether the Heat will make an amazing comeback and win Game 7.

Anyone who has been reading my column for the past two weeks knows how strongly I feel about the conflict in Turkey. The Prime Minister’s authoritarian rule is slowly but surely ruining the country and disrespecting its citizens by undermining the secular and democratic government it was established, and promised, to be.

Not that I don’t think wildfires are news, or that the Heat deserve some credit on the front page of every national newspaper, but does international news really get pushed aside that much in American media?

Fashion magazine Vogue published an article in their May issue on the establishment of Al Jazeera English, titled “Playing it Straight.” The article revolved around the 24 hour, seven day a week television station that has recently been added to many American television menus and provides its audience with news from all around the globe. The article had a focus on one of the female news anchors, Lisa Fletcher, and as much as I adore stylish women in journalism, the article gave me a perspective on news coverage that I had never considered before.

Al Jazeera was established in Qatar in 1996 by a few media-interested business men who wanted to start reporting on Arabic current affairs via satellite television. The channel maintained its editorial independence and separated from Melodi Erdogan is a rising sophomore in jourthe government of Qatar in 2011, and since then has expanded and is being broadcast in multiple nalism and electronic media. She can be reached countries, including it’s latest English develop- at merdogan@utk.edu.

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ARTS & CULTURE

Arts & Culture Editor Melodi Erdogan merdogan@utk.edu

Friday, June 21

Saturday, June 22 What: Jim Avett with the Green Boys When: Noon Where: WDVX, Knoxville Welcome Center Price: Free Melodi’s Take: WDVX is constantly inviting musicians to their home at the Knoxville Welcome Center on S. Gay St., and it’s always a treat to see events unfold. As performers get ready, the radio host talks through a microphone that is broadcast live through airwaves that each almost all of East Tennessee. The concerts are small and intimate and always show off the best talents of the visiting musicians. Jim Avett and the Green Boys are this Friday’s visitors, and even if you don’t get a chance to make it out to the concert, make sure you catch them live on the radio.

Sunday, June 23

What: Emmure with Born of Osiris, Defiler, A Body Divided and Encouters When: 6 p.m.

Where: NV Nightclub Price: $13 - $15 Melodi’s Take: If these bands names don’t pique your curiosity, you probably aren’t that curious. Emmure, a Queens metal band, has five studio albums under their belt and just released “Slave to the Game,� last year. Their heavy metal sound will rock the NV Nightclub and probably shock the country music fans that may be present, but in the best way possible. They are joined by four other bands with equally as obscure band names and they’re sure to make every minute of your Saturday night worth it.

What: Jonathan Richman When: 10 p.m.

Where: Pilot Light (ages 18 and up) Price: $12 Melodi’s Take: Pilot Light is a great place to see an amazing concert for a super affordable price. Jonathan Richman is the 1970s artist responsible for the song “Roadrunner,� a fun loving. rock n’ roll throwback single that is coming alive again right here in Knoxville. Richman is sured to be joined by a few local artists as openers, as the venue always invites as many acts as they can. This concert won’t start until you walk in.

What: The Wordplayers: ‘You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown’ When: 7: 30 p.m.

Where: WordPlayers Theatre Price: $5-$15 Melodi’s Take: If you’re a fan of Charles Schultz’s “Peanuts� cartoons, this theatre adaptation with surely tickle your fancy. Charlie, Snoopy, Linus and Patty all come alive with this on-stage version of the classic cartoon that will most likely live on forever. As one of the best cartoon strip artists that ever lived, Schultz created a cast of characters perfect for stage and this performance will soothe and relax any Knoxvilliwain looking for a way to spent their Sunday.

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Friday, June 21, 2013

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Sports Editor Steven Cook scook21@utk.edu

Steven Cook

Pushing until the end

Sports Editor In the biggest moment of the 2012-13 season for Tennessee’s men’s tennis team, sophomore Brandon Fickey found himself in a familiar position.

With a spot in the NCAA tournament’s round of 16 on the line against Clemson on May 11, Fickey was the only Vol still on the court as the teams were knotted up at 3-3. His battle with Gerardo Meza, then entering its third set, would decide whose national title hopes stayed alive.

Earlier in the season against Wake Forest, Fickey found himself in that same exact scenario.

With both teams tied at 3-3, the entire match came down to his tennis racket. He would go down 5-3 in the third set before rallying to give his team the win.

Fickey said that experience from earlier in the season kept him from thinking about the moment’s magnitude.

“It really didn’t cross my mind that the season would’ve been over or not,” Fickey told The Daily Beacon. “I was just taking it point-by-point, playing the match and taking it for what it was worth.”

UT players lined up on the out-of-bounds line next to Fickey’s court with their arms draped around each other, anxiously waiting for a moment that wasn’t hardly set in stone.

“I was just enjoying the moment,” Fickey said.

“We had a pretty good crowd, too, the whole inside was pretty electrifying.”

As if that moment wasn’t big enough, it was his first match back since a shoulder injury that derailed his 0-7 SEC season and kept him out more than a month. A cortisone shot allowed Fickey to return for the NCAAs, to perform in a moment that an entire season depended on.

Fickey would go down 2-0 in the third and final set before taking off. His 6-4, 6-7 (3), 6-4 victory ended Clemson’s season.

“I like when the spotlight is on a little bit,” Fickey said. “I enjoy that, and I think that helped me get

Tennis player follows in teammates’ footsteps Matthew DeMaria • The Daily Beacon

Brandon Fickey of the Tennessee Volunteers celebrates after wining his match on May 11, 2013. through.”

The Vols would move on to beat SEC foe Mississippi State before losing to eventual national champion Virginia in the quarterfinals.

“We talk about being `Tennessee tough,’ and I think we’ve got a guy over there in Brandon Fickey who epitomizes that,” UT head coach Sam Winterbotham said after the Clemson win. “It had been a month out (since he last played), his shoulder has bothered him the whole year, and he comes through when we needed it the most.”

A native of Knoxville, Tenn. and graduate of Webb School, Fickey follows in the footsteps of royalty. Former Vol Rhyne Williams, also from

Knoxville, was the nation’s top-ranked player and now competes on the Grand Slam circuit at events like Wimbledon and the French Open.

“Rhyne and Taylor Patrick had a big influence on my decision to come (to UT),”Just seeing how well they did and how they thrived in the program.

How they loved wearing the orange, that was a big selling point to me.”

Fickey admitted it takes a reality check every now and then when he sees the success that Williams and John-Patrick Smith are having in their professional careers.

“It’s kind of surreal. One day you’re practicing with them and joking around, then the next day

they’re making pretty good money on the major level with Grand Slams,” Fickey said. “So it’s very cool that they’re doing well.”

After a promising 2012-13 campaign, the Vols look to continue as the top-ranked men’s team on UT’s campus. But next season, like seasons’ past, is all about winning it all.

“We always label that as our goal, winning the national championship, and we don’t really want to settle for less,” Fickey said. “We’ve got our top four back, and some great players coming in. We have to set the bar high and we’re going to look to do good things.”

Former Vol football player backs Jones for upcoming season Steven Cook Sports Editor

The jury is still out on new UT head coach Butch Jones, but the positive reviews have been pouring in and he received a notable one from a Tennessee legend on Saturday.

Eric Berry, two-time All-American defensive back with the Vols from 2007-09, chimed in on the newest addition to the UT coaching tree at his D1 Iron Sharpens Iron Camp in

Knoxville last weekend.

“I feel like he’s really trying to make a change in our university and our team, and anytime you’re doing that, I’m going to support it to the fullest,” Berry said. “I just feel like he’s a good person in general, not just a good coach. But I feel like he’s a good person. He’s trying to do things the right way and he’s trying to handle them to the best of his ability.”

The 24-year-old safety is entering his fourth season with the Kansas City Chiefs of the NFL, where he’s already

made two Pro Bowls. In addition to his time spent on the gridiron, he’s created the Eric Berry Foundation, which teamed up with D1 to put on two days of camps in Chattanooga and Knoxville.

Berry and Jones hadn’t met until UT hired the former Cincinnati coach, but they’ve kept in contact as of late and he’s been nothing short of impressed.

“We talk about football a little bit, but usually he’s pretty much just checking up on me, seeing how I was doing, and I talk to him about his family, he

asks me about mine,” Berry said. “I think it was more of us just getting to know each other, not more so of just talking football all the time. I appreciate that too as well.”

When Berry was on Rocky Top, coaching continuity wasn’t at its high point. A 5-7 season in 2008 resulted in the end of the Phillip Fulmer era, and the one-year-wonder Lane Kiffin bolted for USC as Berry declared for the draft as a junior.

Despite the struggles, Berry said he took a lot from his experience with the

respective coaching staffs.

“With Coach Fulmer here, I had a privilege of working with John Chavis, who I feel like is one of the best coaches I ever played for,” Berry said. “I feel like he pretty much taught me a lot of the things that helped me throughout my career.

“With Lane, I had Monte Kiffin, an NFL guy. I learned a lot of things from him as well. I definitely think I was privileged to play for both of those guys.”

Patriots player linked to homicide Associated Press New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez had a connection to a homicide victim found in an industrial park near the athlete’s home, but family and officials were mum on the nature of their relationship, two days after police first visited the upscale division.

The body found about a mile from Hernandez’s sprawling home in North Attleborough was that of 27-year-old Odin Lloyd, according to a prosecutor’s office. His cause of death wasn’t released.

Lloyd was a semi-pro football player for the Boston Bandits and had a connection to Hernandez, whose home was searched by police, his family said Wednesday.

Hernandez attorney Michael Fee acknowledged media reports about the state police search of Hernandez’s home as part of an investigation but said he and the player wouldn’t have

any comment on it.

“My son is a wonderful child,” said, Lloyd’s mother, Ursula Ward, as she cried outside the family home in Boston’s Dorchester neighborhood. “He’s a family guy. He hasn’t done anything to hurt anyone.”

Ward would not say how Lloyd knew Hernandez and did not say if police told her how her son died. An uncle said Lloyd had a connection to Hernandez but wouldn’t elaborate.

North Attleborough sits on the Rhode Island state line not far from the Patriots’ stadium in Foxborough. They referred questions about the investigation to the office of Bristol District Attorney Samuel Sutter.

Sutter’s office said investigators were asking for the public’s help to find a silver mirror cover believed to have broken off a car between Boston and North Attleborough.

Sports Illustrated, citing an unidentified source, reported Tuesday that Hernandez was not believed to be a suspect in

what was being treated then as a possible homicide.

Two troopers knocked on the door of Hernandez’s house Wednesday morning, but no one answered. The night before, police spent hours there as another group of officers searched the industrial park.

Later Wednesday, at least seven state troopers searched both sides of a road just off the street where Hernandez lives.

The officers used thin poles to pull back plants and search through undergrowth along the road.

Hernandez returned home during the early afternoon Wednesday. He did not speak to a crowd of reporters staked out about 100 feet away.

Sports Illustrated reported that the link between Hernandez and the case was a rented Chevrolet Suburban with Rhode Island plates that police had been searching for.

The Associated Press could not independently confirm the report.