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Measure to raise tuition 12 percent approved Trustees claim hike to be only option, rising from state appropriations, health care pressure startup, salary increases, academic promotions, academic reinvestment and other initatives.

Citing data on 2010 fall dependent, in-state freshmen by News and Student Life Editor family income, he said the bottom quartile — or those households that make $45,643 annually or less — paid $0 in The UT Board of Trustees passed Thursday afternoon a tuition on average. In fact, they got up to $4,955 back as resolution approving a fiscal year 2012 budget that includes excess finacial aid. a 12-percent tuition increase.

Meanwhile the top quartile — For students at UT-Knoxville, it means those households that made an increase of $774 annually for in-state between $138,751 and about $1.3 undergraduates. million annually — paid $2,465 in In addition, students will pay $240 tuition on average, still far from more in fees annually, including a $200 the total tuition cost. increase in the facility fee, which will “A large part of this is the lotfund money to better classrooms and labtery scholarship,” DiPietro said. oratories.

“The HOPE Scholarship helps a In all, students will pay an additional great deal on making our educa$1,014 next year in tuition and fees. tion even more affordable.”

“It’s not popular to raise tuition, but if For the first time, this year, you look at what’s happened to state tuition fees have exceeded state appropriations, it’s the only way to mainappropriations, Peccolo said. But tain our quality,” UT President Joe if not for stimulus funding, he estiDiPietro said. mated that would have happened Stimulus funding runs out at the end two years ago. of the month, resulting in a $138.1 milGov. Bill Haslam addressed the lion reduction in state appropriations. question of why the state is proUT Board of Trustees Vice Chair Jim viding dwindling funds for the Murphy emphasized that raising tuition university. is not a move to raise revenue but to “It’s not discretionary, but make back some of what was lost. (higher education funding) is “We’re raising tuition to try to get part probably the most vulnerable spot of the cut back, and we’re still cutting,” in the budget,” Haslam said.

Murphy said.

He said as health care costs Murphy said there was no other rise, there is less money to prooption.

George Richardson • The Daily Beacon vide for higher education, but he “I’m very uncomfortable raising Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam speaks before the UT Board of Trustees meeting on Thursday, June tuition 12 percent,” he said. “I don’t 23. The board approved a 12 percent tuition increase for students, a step the board feels will is encouraged by recent state funding and revenue. think there’s anybody in this room that, help UT move closer to a Top 25 university.

“It is our strong hope that you if they had a choice, would want to vote won’t see those kinds of cuts to for tuition increase. I don’t want to vote for a tuition higher educationgoing forward, but everybody needs to “We’re past the stimulus money, so we will be a much increase, but the other side is, the other options are so much understand that the pressure to the state’s budget is from leaner, more focused institution by design,” Peccolo said. worse that I can’t vote for those.”

DiPietro said it is necessary to raise tuition for faculty the health care side of the budget,” Haslam said.

Even with the raise, many at the Board of Trustees meet-

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ing cited the availability of the HOPE Scholarship to help students afford UT tuition.

Chief Investment Officer and acting Chief Financial Officer Charles Peccolo likened the situation to paying the sticker price for a car. While the tuition might be raised to a certain figure, that is just the “sticker price.”

UT advancing toward top-25 goal Robby O’Daniel News and Student Life Editor

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Catherine Bartley, junior in political science and history, reads for themes in literature outside the Haslam Business Building on Monday, June 13.

At the UT Board of Trustees meeting on Thursday afternoon, Chancellor Jimmy Cheek outlined the university’s progress since the announcement of its goal to become a top-25 public research university last year.

In year-to-year changes, the university raised its retention rate from 84 percent to 86 percent and its six-year graduate rate up one percent to 61 percent.

“Six-year graduation rate is slow to move, but we did move one percentage,” Cheek said.

But he cited that recent fourand five-year graduation rate rises means good news for the six-year graduation rate in the future.

The five-year graduation rate went up from 56 percent with the class of 2004 to 59 percent with the class of 2005. The fouryear graduation rate rose from 34 percent to 36 percent from 2005 to 2006.

“The class of 2014 is our test case,” Cheek said. “We need a lot of them to graduate in four years.

We try to communicate that all types of ways, and that’s where we need major progress.”

Cheek blamed a lack of class sections for struggles in raising the graduation rate.

“One of the reasons our students have not graduated as they should is we haven’t provided sufficient courses for the semester they needed,” Cheek said.

“So we are targeting new resources to make sure we solve those course problems.”

In addition, he said the university needs to target salaries, graduate student financial support, endowed chairs and professorships, research facilities, instructional space, deferred maintenance and advanced information systems.

“Each time we help students graduate in a more timely manner, we are improving the quality of this institution,” Cheek said.

One way to improve graduation rate is to admit more students, but he said, with this budget, the university is looking

to graduate students faster instead.

Since last year, the university has added faculty, advisers and tutors; added graduate student teaching assistants; hired governor’s chairs; recruited high-quality graduate students and faculty for the Center for Interdisciplinary Research and Graduate Education; increased faculty diversity hires; established a partnership with Y-12 National Security Complex; expanded research support services; and revised the drop policy.

Cheek emphasized that the top-25 schools are not staying in the same place while UT pursues becoming one of them.

He said top-25 schools have increased in number of Ph.Ds awarded, number of master’s degrees, faculty awards and endowments per student in the past year, making larger the distance between UT and the top25 schools.

Program created; department merger takes place Also, the doctor of social work Ph.D program was created, a part-time program that is unique in the nation, Provost Susan Martin said.

“Social work is a very fastgrowing field, and there is a great deal of need, both in the state of Tennessee and nationally, for social workers prepared to practice at this advanced level,” Martin said.

She said it went with top-25 goals of improving the number of graduate degrees awarded.

“Everybody is enthusiastically in support of this program,” Martin said. “We really think this program will offer us the opportunity to contribute to the well-being of individuals in Tennessee, especially in the rural areas where there is a great deal of need.”

In addition, the Department of Pathobiology and the Department of Comparative Medicine were merged to create the Department of Biomedical and Diagnostic Sciences.

This will “open up potential national accreditation,” said Katie High, interim vice president for academic affairs and student success.

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Taylor Gautier • The Daily Beacon

Children paint at the East Tennessee Children’s Hospital as part of an exhibition for Dance Marathon on Wednesday, June 15. The exhibit, “Art for the Kids, By the Kids,” features art work by children from the hematology and oncology departments of the hospital and will be shown in the Knoxville Museum of Art through July and in the UC’s main hallway for the month of August.

1993 - Mail bomb kills Yale professor On June 24, 1993, Yale University computer science professor David Gelernter (1955- ) is seriously injured while opening his mail when a padded envelope explodes in his hands. The attack just came two days after a University of California geneticist was injured by a similar bomb and was the latest in a string of bombings since 1978 that authorities believed to be related.

In the aftermath of the attack on Gelernter, various federal departments established the UNABOM Task Force, which launched an intensive search for the so-called "Unabomber." The bombings, along with 14 others since 1978 that killed 3 people and injured 23 others, were eventually linked to Theodore John Kaczynski, a former mathematician from Chicago. Kaczynski won a scholarship to study mathematics at Harvard University at age 16. After receiving his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan, he became a professor at the University of California at Berkeley. Although celebrated as a brilliant mathematician, he suffered from persistent social and emotional problems, and in 1969 abruptly ended his promising career. Disillusioned with the world around him, he tried to buy land in the Canadian wilderness but

in 1971 settled for a 1.4-acre plot near his brother's home in Montana.

1997 - U.S. Air Force reports on Roswell On this day in 1997, U.S. Air Force officials release a 231-page report dismissing long-standing claims of an alien spacecraft crash in Roswell, New Mexico, almost exactly 50 years earlier.

The Air Force soon took back their story, however, saying the debris had been merely a downed weather balloon.

Aside from die-hard UFO believers, or "ufologists," public interest in the so-called "Roswell Incident" faded until the late 1970s, when claims surfaced that the military had invented the weather balloon story as a cover-up.

Believers in this theory argued that officials had in fact retrieved several alien bodies from the crashed spacecraft, which were now stored in the mysterious Area 51 installation in Nevada. Seeking to dispel these suspicions, the Air Force issued a 1,000-page report in 1994 stating that the crashed object was actually a high-altitude weather balloon launched from a nearby missile test-site as part of a classified experiment aimed at monitoring the atmosphere in order to detect Soviet nuclear tests.

Friday, June 24, 2011

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UT honors ‘Outstanding Forester’ Former Arboretum director celebrated after 39 years of dedication Jamie Cunningham Staff Writer Richard Evans, the man behind the UT Arboretum and UT Forest Resources AgResearch and Education Center for 39 years, was celebrated at his retirement celebration in Oak Ridge Tuesday evening.

A native of Nashville, Evans’ connection to UT goes back to his days as a student in the late 1960s. In 1968, Evans received his bachelor’s degree in forest resources management, and in 1970, he received his master’s degree in forest genetics.

“I always had an affinity for the outdoors,” he said. “When I came to school, I didn’t know exactly what forestry was, but the more I got involved in it, the more I realized how mind-expanding it was.”

After graduation, Evans started his career at Texas A&M University as a forest geneticist, but he didn’t stay far from UT for very long.

In 1972, he became the first superintendant for a new program called the Forestry Experiment Station, which combined UT Oak Ridge, Cumberland, Friendship and Highland Rim Forestry Field Station under one administration.

For Evans, coming back to UT was an exciting opportunity.

“I knew a lot of the folks that worked at the Forest Resources Center when I was a student and knew how students were able to come out to the center and use those valuable resources,” Evans said. “When I was offered the job at UT, I was eager to take it.”

While Evans served as director, he was still involved in various research projects that dealt with forestry and horticultural sciences. He was recognized by the local Society of American Foresters as an Outstanding Forester and was elected as a Fellow in the national SAF. In his 39 years at UT, Evans has witnessed the university and the program evolve.

“The business aspect of the university has changed,” Evans said. “They

relied on us to take care of the details.

We used to send copies of everything to UT, but now we do everything over the computer.”

After a long career, Evans is grateful for the level of trust and freedom that UT place in him.

“The university had a trust in me to develop the program,” Evans said.

“The university looks at results, but they had a lot of faith in me to move forward.”

William Brown, dean for research and director of UT AgResearch, notes that Evans’ legacy at the university and the forestry program will not go unnoticed.

“Richard Evans has impacted UT in many ways,” Brown said. “The research and education center is vital to the university, and Evans has done so much for the center, such as working with the faculty to help them conduct their research, helping with reforestation projects and helping with the formation of the UT Arboretum. I wish Richard Evans and his wife the best in their future endeavors.”

When looking back on his 39 years at UT, Evans has many fond memories.

“I enjoyed a lot of my colleagues and my responsibilities to the university as director,” Evans said. “The challenging parts of my work are some of my fondest memories. I can’t think of just one fond memory. There are a lot of them. It has been a very rewarding career. I thought this would be a job that would last my entire career, and it has. It’s been challenging and rewarding.”

As for his plans after retirement, Evans said he guesses he has to get used to the idea.

“I’ve never grown tired of exploring the forest, and I think that the forest is calling me back,” he said. “There is a lot of things to see and do that I’ve put aside for 40 years. I think it’s time to start doing those things.”

Evans also has advice for young students starting out in forestry.

“Embrace the profession, get involved and be a life-long learner,” he said.

“Throw your heart into the job.”

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Dr. Bill Bass, founder of the Body Farm, takes questions from middle school students during the Fun with Forensic Chemistry program on Tuesday, June 14. Dr. Bass gave students a brief introduction into the world of forensic science and signed copies of his books after the program.

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Friday, June 24, 2011

OPINIONS

Staff Column Seek a healthy catharsis for anger Sandra Wineinger Copy Editor Anger has a way of showing up in everyone at some point or another. We all suffer from stress and family members who think they know what is best for each of us. When the family and stress get too much, anger shows its ugly head. We lash out at anyone and everyone. What do you do when you get angry? Too angry to hold it in? You may be thinking, well, what does Sandra do when she is too angry to hold it in?

I had such an experience on Tuesday afternoon.

My mother told me something that just set me off. I did not want to yell at her or cause strife between my parents and myself. So, I calmly walked out of the room and went to my room. I steamed for a few minutes and then grabbed my baseball bat, which is completely metal and weighs 48 ounces. I took it outside and beat up a tree for about an hour until the storms came through and I could not see for the blinding rain. I was still seething mad but the exercise felt good to myself and it released some of the anger I felt.

I know not everyone has the advantage of living in the middle of nowhere. Therefore not everyone can take a bat and beat up a tree. However, there are other extremely productive tension and anger relieving things to do that also do not cost money and will just get you outside the house for a while. The worst thing you can do is let it boil or yell at the person with whom you are angry. One thing you can do is just go for a long run. Do not worry about what you are wearing as long as you are comfortable. I will run barefoot and in jeans. I do not like being told that I have to have wear specific clothes to go running. If running does not work, try to find something that will allow you to be in physical contact with something else. That is what I need. That is why I will beat up a tree. Yes, it hurts the tree but the tree can and will grow back its bark.

What can you do if running is not an option, nor is hitting something to relieve the tension? Yoga can be a good alternative. Meditation and breathing work wonders when stressed, but in my experience not so much when angry. In any event, do not stay in the same room let alone under the same roof as someone with whom you are angry. Do something physical to something inanimate to relieve the tension and calm down. Be weary when you come back to the person who angered you. If you need to talk things out, do so when you are calmer.

There is a song that we sometimes sing in church about anger. I would like to share some of it with you, and even if you do not go to church or believe, I think you can still benefit from these lyrics: “Angry words! O let them never, From the tongue unbridled slip, May the heart’s best impulse ever, Check them ere they soil the lip.

Angry words are lightly spoken, Bitterest thoughts are rashly stirred, Brightest links of life are broken, By a single angry word.”

This song helps to remind me to attempt to control my temper and to find some way to get rid of my anger without using words or beating up the person who angered me. I hope these lyrics will benefit you when you are feeling angry or just feel like you may loose your temper. I know most angry words are not lightly spoken but yelled at the top of our lungs. The point is, no matter how angry we get, we should not take it out on the next person we see (or an innocent animal). Some would include a tree into that statement but I disagree. Hitting a tree or throwing rocks into a river will not hurt anything or anyone beyond Nature’s capability to recover. It is a healthy release for us humans. I would personally rather do some kickboxing or punch a punching-bag, but I did not have access to those items. Improvising is best when you need to release steam.

So, next time you are angry, what will you do: yell at the next person you see or beat up a tree?

— Sandra Kaye Wineinger is a senior in Latin.

She can be reached at swineing@utk.edu.

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Signs abound in strangest places Ac orns and Other Seeds by

Anna-Lise Burnette Walk anywhere and you’re likely to find pieces of paper, brightly colored and heavily inked, tacked onto walls, benches, mailboxes and telephone poles. The signs vary from place to place, but always they are small reminders that humans are social creatures, and we like “selling” stuff. Usually, though, those little notices don’t work. We keep walking, ignoring the persuasive flotsam that litters our peripheral vision.

And sometimes the messages that we receive are not quite what the posters intended.

For example, public restrooms are full of interesting things. Automatic hand dryers that begin to blow mildly warm air as soon as you draw your hands back in disgust, slick metal stall latches that are invariably broken and squiggly phone numbers promising us a really, really good time — these are the hallmarks of a well-worn space. The uncomfortable nature of a restroom shared with strangers is somehow offset by the comfort of finding that, yes, this bathroom also has a toilet that is out of order.

But one of the last few times that I ventured into a ladies’ room I noticed something that I had never seen in any other restroom: a flyer taped to the back of the stall door which encouraged visitors to donate blood. Blood donation flyers aren’t really that uncommon, I suppose, but to see one posted in the women’s room of a movie theater was a little unusual.

“All blood types needed,” the paper read.

It was about that time that I realized I have no idea what blood type I am. If for some reason I found myself in a hospital about to receive a transfusion, I would be at a total loss; I can imagine myself shrugging my shoulders casually when the doctor says, “Quick! What are you?”

What am I, really? Looking at the blood donation poster helped to put into perspective my existence as a member of a not-so-diverse species. Because, when it comes down to it, the fact that I could donate

blood to thousands and thousands of people I will never meet helps me believe that I am essentially ununique. Blood is thicker than the Atlantic Ocean — isn’t that humbling? The thought certainly takes the edge off those times when the paper towel dispenser is empty.

Or another: For the past three years I let fate and University Housing decide who I lived with for most of the school term, and in a lot of ways I think I lucked out. The three roommates I have had have all been perfectly easy to get along with, and our differences in decorating taste were all but made up for by a joint love of tasty snacks. This, I think, is ideal. Rather than being worried about existing friendships disintegrating over a sink full of dishes, random roommate matching allows you to concentrate on new relationships without throwing everything else out.

Which is why I think roommate wanted ads are so wonderful. I’ve seen them in many buildings around campus, and they all read roughly the same way: “3-bedroom apartment, close to UT, no pets.

Utilities included, Internet extra. Females only, grad student preferred.” The number of rooms available and gender of preferred renters may vary from flyer to flyer, but the strips of telephone numbers hanging from the bottom all say the same thing: Call me.

Except for a notice I saw outside the University Center a few weeks ago. Included in the list of specifications was this caveat: “Please no crazies.”

That the roommate-seeking student was asking other college students to evaluate their own mental health struck me as an utterly silly thing to request of potential applicants. After all, do crazy people know they are crazy? I tend to think that those people who identify themselves as being a little off are probably just average guys and gals looking for attention. (The ones you really have to watch out for are the normal ones.) Drawing a line between you and your roommate before you even meet doesn’t make for domestic bliss in the long run.

Needless to say, I didn’t take a number.

— Anna-Lise Burnette is a senior in global and Asian studies. She can be reached at kburnet7@utk.edu.

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Remember those vending machines in high school that used to contain your favorite candy bar, chips or snack? Maybe your high school didn’t have vending machines and instead, opted for a store ran by students.

The store was always packed between class changes as students ran in to grab their favorite energy drink or soda.

Perhaps your school didn’t have a student-ran store or vending machines; well then think back to the high school cafeteria. Did you have some delicious drink that you allowed yourself to indulge in every day? Possibly it was a particular dessert that your cafeteria ladies made better than anyone else in the entire world.

Gone are the days of planning your own meals. Many of us were in high school when particular “unhealthy” foods were removed from the school, but now lobbyists and government agencies are working to develop guidelines for “junk food” ads that target 12- to 17-yearolds. Wednesday, a headline on NPR caught my attention.

It was entitled “Junk Food Fight.” The article highlighted measures that are being taken by the Federal Trade Commission and the Food and Drug Administration to stop junk food advertising to teens. Feeling that the internet, social media sites and other technological methods are being used to the manufacturers’ advantage, the proposal would limit the amount of advertising that could occur on these sites when the advertisements involved unhealthy food goods.

The other side of the story obviously involves the manufacturers’ response to the proposal. Many claim that if online advertising along with print advertising was to cease in their respective fields, more than just the teen population would be lost. Many of the ads are targeted to not only teenagers, but young adults who visit the specific sites as frequently as teens.

Questions about the specific appeal of advertisement and the specific age group targeted are not an old battle — just ask liquor and tobacco manufacturers. Party atmospheres, catchy cartoon characters and other gimmicks have all been under attack in the past 30 years for being too “child friendly” and encouraging kids and

teens to engage in behavior that is illegal at their particular age.

Here my problem with the issue arises. I somewhat agree with the companies that many more people than teens are targeted with online junk food advertisements.

I, for one, visit social media sites quite regularly throughout the day. I would be surprised if many other college students were any different than me. Not only is it that these particular ad campaigns target more than just teens, junk food is not illegal for any age group.

About 1/3 of American adolescences are obese, and this statistic is troubling. Obesity can lead to heart problems, cardiovascular problems, diabetes and, eventually, a shorter life span. People throughout the United States are aware of the issue. Whether it is from changes in school diets, shows on television, documentaries or simple news reports, the American obesity problem is known to many as are the consequences of such a diet.

Much of pre-17-year-old life is dictated by a parental figure, a parental figure I would assume is aware of the health effects that can happen when a diet high in fat is the norm. A mother who was interviewed for the article on NPR responded that she constantly says no to her child’s requests for pizza every night, a can of Monster energy drink every day and so on. So why can other parents not say no to their child’s request?

The fault ultimately lies with the parent. The inability to say no to a child is a problem. Unlike alcohol and cigarettes, which are illegal up to a certain age, junk food is completely legal and allowed to be consumed whenever, wherever. Responsibility, until the age of 18, lies with the parents’ ability to simply say no. Advertisement campaigns, if anything, take advantage of the child, not the parent’s ability to deny requests.

I agree with measures taken at schools and other areas where the parents are not around to monitor the child’s food consumption and eating habits. I agree with more physical education requirements at school. I just can’t agree with regulating advertisements that target Americans from the ages of 15-30. Even with regulations at school, specific foods, once in a while, are not harmful to the body or person. Moderation and the ability to reply with a simple “no” are the best responses to fighting America’s childhood obesity, not inhibiting junk food’s existence through advertisements.

— Brittany Vasquez is a senior in anthropology. She can be reached at bvasque1@utk.edu

Friday, June 24, 2011

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ENTERTAINMENT

Televisions at risk as networks shift focus Jake Lane Arts & Entertainment Editor For the last five or so years, television has not been a regular part of my life. Sure, I watch movies and play video games on a television set, but as far as network programming goes, I have little use for the majority of the offerings which usually fall into “reality” and “talk” varieties. Sadly, such programs are usurping the airwaves that used to have great sitcoms, compelling documentaries and unbiased news on a daily basis.

The true source of my ire is not the simple change of format. Curmudgeon I may be, but I can adapt to cultural evolution like anyone else. My beef with TV today is that not only are the puerile trainwreck “guidos” and rogue political poseurs becoming the idols of my generation, but that quality shows are being canceled to give them more time.

I don’t have the space to launch a fullblown attack on the network television industry and its priorities of programming, so let’s get to the heart of the matter — what makes a good show and why the networks want to get rid of said shows.

My definition of a good show is practically synonymous with that of the cult show — great writing, characters with more than one dimension and usually somewhat quirky. Notice I say quirky, not awkward, because the era of awkward comedy (see: the American version of “The Office” for starters, or anything with Steve Carrell, really) is just as awful. But the root of the shows I can get behind is their unintentional flaw, at least from the perspective of network executives: no marketability.

Take, for instance, the recently canceled “United States of Tara.” When I heard the concept for the show, I thought,

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petulant teenager, a pure id monster and several others over the course of the show, each with their own inner lives and appearances.

Answer honestly, who would you want to watch, A) the funny/crazy nurse, or B) the crazy/crazy lady trying to integrate her personalities?

I bet you chose choice A, and I might have at one time also.

But after watching “Tara” grow from a stock dramedy to one of the more touching viewing experiences in recent TV history, I have to say it’s cancelling left me outraged.

This is one example. Turn back the clock to 1991 and observe perhaps the greatest cult show in history, “Twin Peaks.” While investigating the death of homecoming queen Laura Palmer, Special Agent Dale Cooper uncovered numerous intertwined schemes and plots involving virtually the entire cast, leading to one of the mostly grievous unresolved cliffhangers in the history of human art.

Despite great ratings and critical acclaim, the show was moved to a weekend slot and subsequently canceled, followed by a prequel film which many viewed as David Lynch’s revenge for the show’s fall from grace and cancellation. Twenty years later more questions remain unanswered than those from “Lost,” questions which only a handful of people can answer and are probably still too angry to give out to the rabid public.

Is intellectual pop art dead? Yes, of course, it never truly lived. Anything which less than 75 percent of the population can handle is dead on arrival. But is it enough to let bygones be bygones? Never. The memory of potent works has to be trampled by vacant pap and oversexed snoozefests. It’s probably written in the contracts of every executive in the biz.

I’m fundamentally against the idea Edward Abbey had when he shot that TV set in the famous picture, because I feel that nature and television both can be wonderful. But for every “United States of Tara” and • Photo courtesy of ABC “Twin Peaks,” the entire television stock at Best Buy would not be enough. We are consumed by the need to keep up with rapidly evolving technology, just so we can statement which I use only for comedic effect).

Now, “Tara” on the other hand was about a woman living watch people parade their idiocy in higher dimension. Sooner with Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID), a condition once or later someone will realize that a mirror is cheaper and has confused for schizophrenia wherein the subject has multiple a longer lifespan. fully formed identities, each usually a total manifestation of a — Jake Lane is a senior in creative writing. He can be certain part of the subconscious mind. Tara manifested a Betty Crocker-style homemaker, a castrated Vietnam vet, a reached at jlane23@utk.edu.

“Great, it’s ‘Juno’ meets ‘Girl, Interrupted,’ how lame can you get?” After watching the first two seasons, I forgave Diablo Cody for her big screen transgressions and came to appreciate her casual hand in depicting incredibly complex issues.

Then before the thrid season ended, Showtime chose not to renew the show in favor of keeping the Edie Falco-led “Nurse Jackie.”

Here is why they did it. Though I have only watched a few episodes of “Nurse Jackie,” the formula of the show is one of the most successful and recognizable in TV today, the medical drama. Throw in a dark comedic edge and some f-bombs, shake and voila! you have an R-rated “Grey’s Anatomy” with a relatable lead character. It’s kinda like if “Rescue Me” were set in a “woman’s world” (quotes as that is an entirely sexist

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Friday, June 24, 2011

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Bergeron follows Serrano to UT Price named academic All-American Staff Reports Tennessee head coach Dave Serrano didn’t have to reach far to find the person he wanted to be his first hire, as he announced his longtime assistant Greg Bergeron will serve as the associate head coach of the Volunteers on Thursday afternoon.

“I’m sure there are people in Tennessee and the SEC who may not know much about Greg Bergeron because he has spent much of his coaching career on the West Coast, but believe me, that will change shortly,” Serrano said.

“They will know exactly who he is.

“Greg has been a huge part of any success that I have had over the last seven years as a head coach at both UC Irvine and Cal State Fullerton, and I don’t expect that to change at Tennessee. He is one of the best offensive strategists in college baseball and has done a fabulous job of developing infielders into firstround picks and gritty, grinding players.”

Bergeron, 41, has been Serrano's right-hand man for all seven of his seasons as head coach, including three at UC Irvine and four at Cal State Fullerton. He will be charged with installing his “pressure” offense, will lead the team’s on-field offensive efforts from the third base coaching box and will tutor the team’s infielders.

“My family and I are extremely excited to become part of the Tennessee tradition and the Knoxville community,” Bergeron said. “I was obviously honored and proud that Coach Serrano asked me to be a part of his staff at a special school like UT. I’ve been with him for every step so far, so it is neat for me to be able to continue with him on this journey.

“I’m really looking forward to meeting the guys on the team and am going to hit the ground running. We know we have a lot of work to do, but I’m looking forward to that. We hope to get Tennessee baseball back in the national spotlight sooner rather than later.”

In four seasons at Fullerton, the Titans saw their offensive output significantly increase, with their batting average jumping 60 points, up to .337 in 2010 (the second-highest mark in school history). CSF was a mainstay atop the

Big West statistical rankings, ranking among the top three schools in the league in on-base percentage, slugging percentage, runs scored, sacrifices and stolen bases in all four of his seasons at Fullerton.

This past season, Bergeron helped Cal State Fullerton finish eighth in the nation in sacrifice bunts and 20th in stolen bases. They also walked the fifth-most of any team in the country, while striking out the seventh-fewest times.

In 2010, the Titans ranked 17th in the nation in batting average and finished in the Top 10 in the nation in hits (9th) and sacrifice bunts (6th). In 2009, the Titans ranked third in the country in sacrifice bunts led by infielder Joe Scott, who totaled more than any Div. I player (25) and set a Fullerton school record in doing so.

Bergeron’s “pressure” offense continues on the base paths where his three Titan squads have paced the Big West in each of the last four years with totals of 126, 125, 112 and 98.

While at Irvine, Bergeron’s offensive strategy was also extremely proficient as the Anteaters led the Big West in every major category except doubles, home runs and walks. The Anteaters also shattered the school record for stolen bases and set new highs for sacrifices and sacrifice flies. Irvine’s 140 stolen bases in 2007 ranked eighth in the nation and nearly tripled the next best Big West competitor and helped them reach the College World Series for the first time in their program’s existence.

Prior to Irvine, Bergeron spent seven seasons (1998-2004) at El Camino College in Torrance, Calif., where he was eventually promoted to head coach in his final year. In his only season as the Warriors’ skipper, Bergeron led El Camino to a school record 30-7 finish and to within one game of a state championship.

During his tenure, he helped more than 50 players earn scholarships at four-year colleges, 30 of whom ended up at Division I schools.

Bergeron’s coaching career began in 1996 with a one-season stint at Loyola Marymount before moving over to Cypress College where he helped guide the Chargers to the California Community College State Championship.

Dooley discusses Vols with ESPN Matt Dixon Sports Editor Tennessee football coach Derek Dooley was at ESPN in Bristol, Conn. on Thursday to promote the Volunteer football program.

The second-year coach appeared on a variety of the network’s shows, including “First Take,” the Scott Van Pelt radio show and “College Football Live.”

Dooley addressed numerous topics, including “Rocky Top,” the ongoing debate whether student-athletes should be compensated more financially and his goals for the football team in the upcoming season.

Dooley began his day sitting down with “First Take” co-host Jay Crawford. Crawford asked Dooley about the school’s recent NCAA troubles and the instability within the athletic department.

“The good news is, we feel like with the steps we’ve taken up until now, the worst is behind us,” Dooley said.

Dooley was also asked about one of the biggest issues in college athletics today: paying players.

“I do think it’s a topic we need to examine,” he said. “I’ve always felt that they weren’t getting what they deserved. I think that the money they’re getting now has not been adjusted to what the reality of living a college life is like. The cost of living changes. I’m still for amateurism. I still understand the importance of that, but I do think that we can do a better job of making sure that they’re comfort-

able because of the service they give back to the university.”

That service, according to Dooley, involves a year-round commitment, a commitment Dooley expects daily from his players.

“All I’ve ever asked our team is they come to work every day. We have this sort of saying, “Relentless pursuit of continuous improvement,” Dooley told Crawford. “That they come to make the organization, make themselves better today than they were yesterday. We can’t ask them to be all-conference players right now. We can’t ask them to have great production.

“We’ve got to focus on getting better each day because there’s a tremendous amount of investment from being a kind of flashy, freshman player star to being an every-down, dependable player in the SEC, and that’s our goal.”

Dooley also joked with Crawford regarding UT’s unofficial fight song, which has become a trademark to the school.

“I knew the words to “Rocky Top,” believe it or not, before taking the job at Tennessee,” he said. “If you’ve grown up in the SEC, and been a part of the other side where Tennessee is whipping your tail all the time, you hear it a lot and I said when I took the job I can finally sing it and feel good about it when it’s being played.”

Later in the day, Dooley appeared on Scott Van Pelt’s radio show and addressed the Vols’ defensive line and linebacking units, both of which have major question marks heading into fall camp.

“The best teams on the defense have a good front seven,” Dooley said. “With your front four and a strong linebacker group, we’ve got to find that strong front seven because it’s going to be hard to win without it.”

Staff Reports Chanelle Price continued a very successful run of distinction for the Tennessee women’s track & field program on Thursday. The junior from Easton, Pa., was announced as one of 15 first-unit members of the Capital One Academic AllAmerica Track & Field/Cross Country Team.

Price became the fourth Lady Vol from track & field/cross country to be named a firstteam selection, following in the footsteps of Jackie Areson (2010), Sarah Bowman (2009) and Phoebe Wright (2009, 2010). She is UT’s ninth overall female Capital One Track & Field/Cross Country Academic AllAmerican, earning the 11th total award.

Combined, the Big Orange men’s and women’s programs have accumulated 22 awardees since 1989.

UT Director of Track & Field J.J. Clark’s Lady Vol squad now has produced at least one Capital One Academic All-American in each of the past five seasons, including firstteam choices in 2009, 2010 and 2011. Price will have the opportunity to join Wright as the program’s only two-time first-team honoree next season.

Price has produced a 3.92 grade point average while majoring in journalism and electronic media. Previously named the 2011 SEC Women’s Track & Field CoScholar-Athlete of the Year, the middle distance standout swept conference indoor and outdoor titles in the 800 meters this season and was part of Tennessee’s SEC meet-record-setting distance medley relay team indoors.

At the national level in 2011, Price finished third in the 800 at the NCAA O u t d o o r Championships and was sixth indoors.

She also ran the leadoff 1200m leg on • Chanelle Price UT’s eighth-place distance medley relay quartet at the NCAA Indoor Championships. Price garnered first-team All-America kudos for all three of those national efforts.

During her career, Price is a seven-time All-American, six-time NCAA scorer, fivetime All-SEC selection and 11-time league point-producer for Tennessee. She also has two world records and three American and collegiate records to her credit, and owns one SEC meet standard and four UT bests.

Price is currently in Eugene, Ore., where she is set to compete in the USA Outdoor Championships. She is scheduled to run in the first round of the 800 at 6:30 p.m.

Eastern time on Thursday.

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