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Friday, July 12, 2013

Issue 12, Volume 123

Nuclear security discussed on campus

Young adults struggle in job market 16 percent of twentysomethings face unemployment Gabrielle O’Neal

McCord Pagan Staff Writer

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On Tuesday, July 9, seven countries, including the United States, were represented at a Baker Center lecture with the mission of more cooperation and understanding in the field of security of nuclear materials.

Academic leaders from several countries briefed the audience about their respective hopes for nuclear power and answered questions about where each country stands in safety, whether it be the lock-down of materials or safe day-to-day handling of radioactive substances.

A total of nine academics in the field of nuclear sciences from Egypt, India, Indonesia, Morocco, Nigeria, and South Africa came to the Baker Center for a talk sponsored by Howard Hall of the Nuclear Engineering Department at UT. Hall also works as the inaugural director of the recently created Institute for Nuclear Security.

All of the above countries have or are working towards nuclear power, and their respective academics are in the United States for a conference in California next week for the Institute for Nuclear Management conference.

The stopover in East Tennessee is for a 30-35 person training class for nuclear insider threats at Oak Ridge, and Hall said he saw a ripe occasion.

“We took the opportunity to bring them out here, because we actually engage with some of these universities already, and in some cases we want to engage more with them,” Hall said.

Patrick Lynch, assistant director for International Outreach, was glad that UT was able to host an event such as this.

“This is a tremendous opportunity to engage with nine international academic leaders who are developing and cultivating the next generation of nuclear security leaders,” he said. “These participants are from a larger training program sponsored by the US Department of State’s Partnership for Nuclear Security.”

Over the course of about an hour, six speakers briefed those in the audience about the extent of their countries’ nuclear programs, what their plans are for the future, and how seriously safety and the security of materials are taken.

Both the representatives of Morocco and South Africa noted that their research in the nuclear field has been done with the cooperation of the United States.

Aubrey Nelwamondo of the University of Johannesburg noted that several of his colleagues have taken courses at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico to “develop the capability to handle illicit materials.”

Hoda Abou-Shady of Cairo University, a professor in Nuclear Science Studies gave an example of how those researchers in the field of nuclear sciences knew to take the proper precautions when handling unsafe materials, while those of the departments of pharmacy, agriculture and archaeology at her university knew almost nothing about the necessity for such items.

“Safety is a luxury in many developing countries,” she said.

With rising student loan debt, dwindling job positions and the steady threat of unemployment constantly in the news, it can be unnerving to college students on the verge of graduation.

“It absolutely terrifies me,” Rachel Downs, senior in journalism and electronic media, said.

“Ideally, a year from now I should be graduating with a degree and have a job and that is not promised at all.”

In a recent press release, a national, non-partisan youth advocacy organization known as Generation Opportunity announced its Millennial Jobs Report for June 2013. The release stated that the effective (U6) unemployment rate for 18-29 year olds, which adjusts for labor force participation by including those who have given up looking for work, is 16.1 percent (NSA).

After graduating, students will have to go out in the real world or continue on to higher education. Those who choose not to continue schooling will have to face obstacles such as finding a job, paying back student loans, rent, bills, etc. As if those things were not hard enough on their own, an uncertain job market makes them more daunting.

“I know a lot of people who are young and graduated and they’re still at Target,” Andrea Marquina, a senior in special education, said. “And they have to pay for their loans. When I think about that, it does freak me out a little bit.”

“Young people are finding fewer opportunities and are being saddled with the costs of our country’s unsustainable deficits,” said Evan Feinberg, President of Generation Opportunity.

The lack of job prospects causes some to give up on the search. According to the press release, the declining labor force participation rate has created an additional 1.7 million young adults that are not counted as “unemployed” by the U.S. Department of Labor because they are not in the labor force.

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Hidden between tennis courts and a parking garage, the Project V.E.G.G.I.E. garden creates a learning opportunity and food for students.

Community garden freshens up UT Melodi Erdogan Arts & Culture Editor The student organization Project V.E.G.G.I.E., Vols Educating about Growing Gardens and Inspiring Environmentalism, has benefited from the extra rainfall this summer. This provides for a green, healthy prospect for the young but growing organization that is UT’s first ever community garden.

The group was co-founded two years ago by students Candice Lawton, junior in sustainability, and President Neil Brown, junior in chemical engineering. By maintaining a small garden adjacent to Andy Holt Tower parking garage, the organization keeps up with maintaining their objectives: to educate students on sustainability, encourage community gardening and provide students with a healthier standard of living.

“It’s a way for students to save money while they’re eating and learn about gardening and sustainability and maybe when they go out into the real world they can start some community gardens in their neighborhoods,” Brown said.

The organization’s faculty advisor is Michael Mckinney. With help from Mckinney, the group is hoping to get more funding for future events and endeavors, as the member fee is a small contribution of $10. Brown is hoping for enough to create a mural on the asphalt section of the garden, have planter boxes and a worm composting bin.

Valentino Constantinou, rising senior in quantitative economics, said he first joined because he has a “passion and love for gardening,” but then began to see the group’s main objective.

“In the beginning it was because of my love of gardening,” Constantinou said. “Now it’s more of a sustainable economics approach. As an economist I see a lot of what goes on in the market, especially for food, but it’s not only good for the environment to farm yourself and grow your own vegetables.

“It’s good for your own pocket, but not only that, it helps weed society off of being completely dependent on our current food producers.”

In addition to new features to the garden, Brown said he hopes there is a prospect of a paid internship position at around 10 hours of work a week that can carry the basic responsibility of the garden itself.

“It’s almost like a full time job,” Brown said of maintaining the garden. “There’s a lot of things that need to be worked out and a lot

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Carter McVeigh inspects the broccoli in the garden. of delegating to go on since we can’t be here 24/7.”

During the summer, students can join the organization for a fee of $10. Members will have the opportunity to maintain the garden and have access to the fresh fruits and vegetables grown there. The membership fee will rise come fall semester to an undecided amount, Brown said.

“I hope [new members] learn a lot and get really involved,” Brown said. “If they can’t come work that’s fine, but I hope they come out enough so that they benefit from the organization. I would hate to see See V.E.G.G.I.E. on Page 2

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Bookstore has new look: Gabrielle O’Neal Staff Writer The UT Bookstore, a place where many students go to buy textbooks or supplies and fans find their Volunteer apparel, is essential to campus life at UT. But recently, something is different. Due to the seemingly never ending construction on campus, what students, faculty and Volunteer fans have come to know as the Bookstore is going under a few changes.

The bookstore has changed its name to Vol Shop.

The name change came in preparation to move into the new Student Union, set to be completed in late 2016.

“All of our resources, such as the technology shop and the other entities, will be under one roof,” Tommi Jamison, marketing manager at the Vol Shop, said. Places such as the Sweet Shop and Bookstore

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Technology Center will be combined with the former Bookstore and to consolidate anything a shopper needs into one center.

“There were a couple of ideas communications worked with,” Jamison said, adding that the name Vol Shop was eventually picked by the Chancellor’s Cabinet.

The change was initiated when construction on the new Student Union began in spring of 2012. “We were told by the directors that things would be changing when construction in the UC started,” said Caitlin Shu, a senior in English who used to work at the UT Bookstore. Shu worked at the store for a year and nine months from roughly fall 2010 to spring 2012.

“I don’t think I was ever formally told about the name change,” recalled Shu. “I noticed that the managers would answer the phone as Vol Shop.”

This name change, however, is not the only time the bookstore has undergone changes.

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“I think in the past it has been known as the University of Tennessee Book and Supply Store,” Jamison said.

According to the bookstore’s website, from 1892 to 1893 it was known as College Bookstore. At the urging of Professor Charles Ferris, a former UT football player, the store was moved from a room in the Y.M.C.A. building downtown to East College to become better established. The UT bookstore became incorporated and then moved to South College in 1901.

For more than 50 years, The UT Bookstore has been a part of UT community and tradition.

“I would definitely keep it as the UT bookstore,” Shu said. “I see the name as a part of our school’s legacy.”

It is university-owned and operated, meaning staff answer directly to UT administration. The bookstore supports Vision 2015: Pursuit of the Top 25. All profit goes back to the school and helps provide scholarships, student activities and campus activities.

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all the food go to waste.”

Brown said that many students can benefit from being involved with Project V.E.G.G.I.E., even though it may be more convenient for upperclassmen.

“We know that there aren’t many amenities for cooking in the dorms, but for instance, summer squash, you can throw that into pan and have it cooked in three minutes,” Brown said. “Dining doesn’t offer the most tasteful options and if you try and go off campus and buy your own groceries it can get really expensive really fast.

“Even if we were where we wanted to be, maxed-out working, freshman wouldn’t get the most benefit, but the people who would get the most benefit would be those who have access to kitchens.”

Ultimately, Constantinou said that his love for gardening has only broadened since joining Project V.E.G.G.I.E. “My favorite part about Project V.E.G.G.I.E. is not only coming here to connect with the earth, it’s kind of humbling, but the other aspect for me is just meeting with people and working and becoming closer to them,” Constantinou said. “We really encourage everyone to come out here and get their hands dirty, and everyone gets to take a little home at the end of the day.”

Project V.E.G.G.I.E. is always accepting new members and volunteers. You can like their page on Facebook at www.facebook.com/ProjectVeggie.

UNEMPLOYMENT continued from Page 1 Marquina, like many other students, plans to attend graduate school and will pursue a master’s degree in speech pathology.

“I feel like I don’t worry about it too much,” said Marquina, who hopes the situation will improve between now and the two and a half years she will be in grad school. “I don’t think it will be as bad but I don’t think there will be a significant improvement.”

The struggle to get a job is not just a post-grad problem.

College students are finding it difficult to find employment, such as part-time jobs, while they are pursuing a degree.

Downs said that after working at the post office in Andy Holt for three years, she applied for jobs in the mall – without success.

“No one called me back and I was jobless,” she said.

Some students manage to find jobs through connections.

“My first actual job was when I was 19,” said Marquina, who worked at Target thanks to a friend. Downs said she also found work by talking to her friends.

Those looking for work can visit UT Career Services at 100 Dunford Hall or online at career.utk.edu.

LECTURE continued from Page 1 Hall later emphasized the importance of the lecture, noting that more cooperation was necessary in today’s world. He also pointed out that India was not a signatory of the Nuclear NonProliferation treaty and that South Africa possessed a nuclear weapons program before scaling back.

Considering his work directing the Institute for Nuclear Security, Hall said he focused on the importance of the security of nuclear materials.

Many of the men and women in the field today are approaching retirement; it is important for a new generation to become more aware of what is going on and eventually take charge.

“Folks like our faculty here are the ones that will educate the next generation of practitioners,” Hall said, later adding that a class from the University of Florida was also able to be in attendance.

“It’s not just guns and guards and gates, there’s lots of challenges in seeing that nuclear materials are secure, that nuclear technology is secure.”

Hannah Cather • The Daily Beacon

Portions of the foundation of the 19th century house that belonged to Mayor Peter Kern have been discovered at a proposed parking garage street on the corner of Locust Street and Union Avenue.

THIS DAY IN

HISTORY

1389: Geoffrey Chaucer is named chief clerk by Richard II King Richard II appoints Geoffrey Chaucer to the position of chief clerk of the king’s works in Westminster on this day in 1389.

Chaucer, the middle-class son of a wine merchant, served as a page in an aristocratic household during his teens and was associated with the aristocracy for the rest of his life. In 1359, he fought in France with Edward III, and was captured in a siege. Edward III ransomed him, and he later worked for Edward III and John of Gaunt. One of his earliest known works was an elegy for the deceased wife of John of Gaunt, Book of the Duchesse.

In 1372, Chaucer traveled to Italy on diplomatic missions, where he may have been exposed to Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio. He also visited Flanders and France, and was appointed comptroller of customs. He wrote several poems in the 1380s, including The Parlement of Foules and Troilus and Criseyde. In the late 1380s or early 1390s, he began work on the Canterbury Tales, in which a mixed group of nobles, peasants, and clergy make a pilgrimage to the shrine of Thomas a Becket in Canterbury. The work, a compilation of tales told by each character, is remarkable for its presentation of the spectrum of social classes. Although Chaucer intended the book to include 120 stories, he died in 1399, with only 22 tales finished.

1861: Confederacy signs treaties with Native Americans Special commissioner Albert Pike completes treaties with the members of the Choctaw and Chickasaw tribes, giving the new Confederate States of America several allies in Indian Territory.

Some members of the tribes also fought for the Confederacy.

A Boston native, Pike went west in 1831 and traveled with fur trappers and traders. He settled in Arkansas and became a noted poet, author, and teacher. He bought a plantation and operated a newspaper, the Arkansas Advocate. By 1837 he was practicing law and often represented Native Americans in disputes with the federal government.

Pike was opposed to secession but nonetheless sided with his adopted state when it left the Union. As ambassador to the Indians, he was a fortunate addition to the Confederacy, which was seeking to form alliances with the tribes of Indian Territory. Besides the agreements with the Choctaw and Chickasaw tribes, Pike also engineered treaties with the Creek, Seminole, Comanche, and Caddos, among others.

1862: Medal of Honor created President Abraham Lincoln signs into law a measure calling for the awarding of a U.S. Army Medal of Honor, in the name of

Congress, “to such noncommissioned officers and privates as shall most distinguish themselves by their gallantry in action, and other soldier-like qualities during the present insurrection.” The previous December, Lincoln had approved a provision creating a U.S. Navy Medal of Valor, which was the basis of the Army Medal of Honor created by Congress in July 1862. The first U.S. Army soldiers to receive what would become the nation’s highest military honor were six members of a Union raiding party who in 1862 penetrated deep into Confederate territory to destroy bridges and railroad tracks between Chattanooga, Tennessee, and Atlanta, Georgia.

1998: France beats Brazil to win FIFA World Cup On July 12, 1998, France defeats favored Brazil 3-0 to win the FIFA World Cup at Stade de France in Saint Denis. This was the first World Cup France had hosted since 1938 and the country’s first-ever World Cup title.

The 1998 Les Bleus was a multi-ethnic squad that reflected the country’s diverse post-World War II make-up. Defender Lilian Thuram was from Guadeloupe, junior striker Thierry Henry was of Antillean heritage and brilliant playmaker Zinedine Zidane was descended from northern Algerian Berbers. Though from varied backgrounds, the players shared a common determination to improve on France’s performance in 1994, when the team failed to even qualify for the World Cup. At the team’s core was a stingy defense that allowed only two goals through its first seven World Cup games.

Even after a shootout victory over a disciplined Italian team in the quarterfinals and a 2-1 win over Croatia in the semi-finals, few believed France had a true shot at the championship, especially against world-renowned Brazil, led by Ronaldo, a precocious goalscorer and the 1996 and 1997 FIFA Player of the Year. Although the 21-year-old would go on to be named the Most Valuable Player of the 1998 World Cup behind four goals and three assists, he came into the final against France with a sore ankle and a headache that left him dizzy.

To the surprise of many in the soccer establishment, the usually prolific Brazilians were unable to crack France’s defense and went scoreless in 90 minutes of play. Meanwhile, in the 27th minute of play, Zidane scored his first goal of the tournament, heading the ball into the goal off a corner kick and sending an excited buzz through the mostly French crowd. Twenty-one minutes later, Zidane scored a second time, again on a header from a corner kick, and the 80,000 spectators at Stade de France erupted. In the 68th minute, however, French defender Marcel Desailly was given his second yellow card and ejected. Though the French were now forced to play down one man, they continued to attack and in the third minute of added time, midfielder Emanuel Petit scored to put the French up 3-0 and ensure the team’s first World Cup victory.

France was the first host nation to win the World Cup since Argentina in 1978.

This Day in History is courtesy of History.com.

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Summer Shakespeare Series: All the square’s a stage Hannah Cather • The Daily Beacon

Jeff Delaney, technical director, prepares to repaint the stage for an upcoming performance of Shakespeare’s ‘Twelfth Night.’

Parkhill. The average audience size is 350 people tone.

Shakespeare on the Square moved to Market spanning the space of Market Square.

Staff Writer “To put a good spin on things, we relate it to Square in 2003, after the original location in the how the environment for a play in Shakespeare Tennessee Amphitheater.

The environment is unlike any other for the time might have been,” Parkhill said. “We think Market Square’s stage has gone through a temporary makeover within the past month in audience, according to Lesley Cox, Shakespeare on that his crowds were not necessarily the respectpreparation for the annual Shakespeare on the the Square attendee. The audience does not have ful, sit in your chair and enjoy the play audience to plan ahead or dress up for this play, and it is still that we know today. They were pretty unruly.

Square play series that began Thursday July 11.

Shakespeare on the Square, presented by great Tennessee Stage Company, features “Twelfth Night” and “Richard III” for this year’s 23rd anniou can show up with your lawn chair, versary. It takes place in the heart of downtown have a little picnic or get something to-go Knoxville for anyone to enjoy free of charge, said Tom Parkhill, founding artistic director of the from one of the restaurants and enjoy the Tennessee Stage Company.

“It’s a different kind of performance [in the Shakespeare. ” square],” Parkhill said. “It’s non-musical, it’s a live -Lesley Cox event and it’s a theater event. Plays are tremendous fun to go and see. Live theatrical entertain“We have a great audience that comes and quality production, Cox said. ment is different from other entertainment.”

“It’s fun because it’s outside,” Cox said. “You watches the play, but it is a challenging environEach year, two Shakespeare plays are selected based on various factors. One play is a comedy get to enjoy the pretty weather. You can show up ment.”

Each play is cut down to around two hours and one is a darker play, according to Parkhill. The with your lawn chair, have a little picnic or get comedy of the two, “Twelfth Night,” directed by something to-go from one of the restaurants and long for the Market Square performances, Parkhill said. This is done to avoid long, poem-like parts of Parkhill, will supply the traditional Shakespeare enjoy the Shakespeare.”

While convenient for the audience, performing the play, which could become hard to understand, feel, with more humor. “Richard III,” directed

by Mark H. Creter, co-founder of the Tennessee in such an open space proves to be more chal- given the surroundings of the audience in the Stage Company, is a tragedy with a much darker lenging than in a controlled environment, says Square.

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Rucker joins the Opry Associated Press Darius Rucker’s surprise invitation to become a member of the Grand Ole Opry is a moment he says he will always cherish — and now fans will be able to share the experience with him over and over again.

The singer, who rose to fame as the frontman for South Carolina rockers Hootie & The Blowfish, began pursuing his lifelong passion for country music a few years ago. Now he is the video host for one of two new tours that have been added to the Opry’s backstage tour line-up.

The tours are the “VIP Behind The Opry Curtain Tour” and the “Opry House Post-Show Tour,” which Rucker hosts.

“They’re going to get to relive that night, and that moment” he was asked to join the Opry, said Rucker, who was inducted shortly after the invitation last October. “But they’re also going to see some other great things

behind the scenes.”

For the behind-the-curtain tour, a limited number of guests go backstage and get an intimate look at the inner workings of the Opry moments before the big curtain goes up.

“The Grand Ole Opry is a great show on stage, but it’s a whole other world backstage,” said Brenda Colladay, who has been the Opry museum’s curator for 16 years.

“It puts people right in the thick of ... all of those different artists, and musicians and square dancers, and everybody backstage. It’s an exciting time.”

Following Opry performances on certain nights, Rucker will share with guests some of his favorite backstage moments and memories as they visit areas occupied just minutes before by artists on that night’s show.

“Backstage at the Opry is awesome,” Rucker said. “You never know who’s going to show up, who’s going to be standing around; and all the great pictures

and all the great memories.”

Among the Rucker-hosted videos are “Opry home movies”, which share video footage of Opry debuts, including Vince Gill, Alan Jackson and Kenny Chesney, as well as vintage performances by George Jones and Dolly Parton. There’s also an array of Opry fashions and hairstyles through the years.

And then there’s that night the 47-year-old Rucker was asked to be an Opry member, the third black performer to hold Opry membership, joining Country Music Hall of Fame members DeFord Bailey and Charley Pride.

Rucker has had a multiplatinum, award-winning run since his decision to pursue country music. He performed at the Opry that night before receiving the visit from unannounced guest Brad Paisley, who surprised him with the invitation.

“That day is still one of those days that I remember like it was yesterday,” said Rucker, who

Shakespeare on the Square began with “Twelfth Night” Thursday at 7 p.m. and continues with “Richard III” tonight at the same time. The performances alternate the plays every weekend (Thursday-Sunday) until August 11 on the outdoor stage in Market Square. Each of these performances is free to the public.

Jonathan Thomas, UT alumnus in theatre, 27, is playing Sir Andrew Aguecheek in “Twelfth Night” and Lord Stanley and the Second Murderer in “Richard II.” Thomas said that his favorite part of performing the series is the distractions and the language.

“In normal theatres people sit in their seats and be quiet, no one does that on the square,” he said. “[The language] can be scary at first, but once you become familiar with the text and the rules of Shakespeare it does all the work for you.”

Blount County Public Library will hold a performance Monday, July 29 at 6:30 p.m. This performance is also free to the public.

Additional performances will take place Saturday, July 20 and 27 at 2 p.m. at the Square Room, located in Market Square. These performances are $10.

For more information on Shakespeare on the Square and for a compiled schedule, visit tennesseestagecompany.com.

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How advertising runs the world, even ours Fear and Hoping

in Knoxvegas by

R.J. Vogt

AMERICANS BUY because consumerism makes every one of us a buyer. And in order to buy anything, we need everything for sale.

Advertising, then, is the medium of communication that surround us in ways both obvious and hidden. In the case of Big Orange, Big Ideas, however, UT has made its own marketing campaign, one that, for once, isn’t trying to sell to us.

In a way, it’s actually selling us.

Before advertising ever reaches the level of inception under which Big Orange, Big Ideas operates, however, it starts in the flashy packaging and promises of low fat and high protein that we buy in the supermarket. When we do encounter food unencumbered by the wrappings of salesmen, they are served by restaurants draping themselves in marketing campaigns too.

Consider “healthy” fast food giant Subway and its darling Jared Fogle. After starring in 13 years of advertisements and growing his own empire of motivational speaking, Fogle can thank Subway’s Chicago advertisement agency for making his astonishing transition from fat guy to that guy worth an estimated $15 million.

Jared may have lost more than 200 pounds., but clever advertising made his wallet much, much fatter.

Advertising also runs more insidiously than the blatant commercials and billboards around us; look at those ads that may be screaming at you even now from a computer screen or smart phone app. Video shorts and digital animations drive websites like BuzzFeed to make doing anything online a veritable clicking extravaganza.

Surfing the web is a for-profit business; more screens means more ad space.

Obvious advertisements undoubtedly carry out their missions, but it’s the hidden efforts packing the biggest punch.

The Business persists into art and the news, not just alongside, by the principles of product placement and newsas-advertisement. (Anyone who’s read my column on ESPN knows my feelings on this latter model.) And sure enough, Miley Cyrus’s new “We Own the Night” video begins with a three-second close up on one of the Beats by Dre Pills, a shot which likely paid for the entire production.

Music video funding may not seem so bad, but the advertising does not stop in the world of hip-hop. Instead, intrusions into legislation abound in a world where political campaigns have multimillion dollar budgets. It’s not exactly a secret; political lobbying groups and large organizations fund our representatives’ campaigns, essentially buying advertisements in future legislation and bids for their own private interests.

Even in the wake of the brutal massacre at Sandy Hook, for example, a bill that would have expanded background checks for gun buyers died in the Senate in April. Not to point fingers, but gun rights lobbying groups in Washington boosted their financial efforts by 61 percent during January, February and March.

The pattern is nothing new; another frightening example of private sector dominance in public affairs goes by the names Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac. The two mortgage claim giants – started as government enterprises but turned into private companies in the 1960s – managed to protect massive subsidies from Capitol Hill for years by lobbying their own version of product placement.

If a private company has its hands in 90 percent of American homes, who is going to buy anywhere else? When the housing bubble burst in the mid-2000s, the executives at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were caught using the buyers of their mortgages as leveraged advertisements to the legislators who’d protected them.

Next time you watch TV, use a computer, drive on a road, or do anything else socially expected, pay attention to these symbols of influence. Know when you’re being subconsciously attacked. See your surroundings and what surrounds them; familiarize yourself with the power money has bought.

Big Orange, Big Ideas is an advertisement and we are its product placement – that’s the Big Idea. Next time you make fun of it with your friends, remember that at least it’s one of the few advertising campaigns not aimed at you. You, instead, are a part of it.

The Big Orange, Big Idea magnanimously envelopes our lives, including us in the brand it sells.

Sometimes we’re just too close to buy it.

R.J. Vogt is a rising junior in College Scholars. He can be reached at rvogt@utk.edu.

Columns of The Daily Beacon are reflections of the individual columnist, and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Beacon or its editorial staff.

Women’s rights deserve more than bad jokes Whispering Sweet Somethings by

Melodi Erdogan Want to hear a joke?

Women’s rights are an element of politics that is often disregarded in comparison to major controversial events, yet, it deserves just as much if not more attention. What once posed as an immature joke that unfortunately never gets old for the opposite sex is a major issue in a woman’s life. Since 1919 when the women’s suffrage amendment was passed, women have slowly but surely been proving their worth in every field a man thought she couldn’t. We have come to a point in history that is supremely more beneficial than anything previous. Yet we still run into problems that show how women’s rights aren’t taken as seriously as they need to be.

In international news, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been frustrating women with his plans to ruin their position in society. During his “reign” of Turkey, he has continually been fighting against women’s rights, once saying in an interview in 2010 that he doesn’t “believe in equality between men and women.” Having plans to crack down on abortions and encouraging women to give birth to three to five children, Erdogan infuses his religious beliefs into his decision-making, which is against Turkey’s secular nature. Yes he has restructured the country’s economic state into a stable position, but does that require that his wife be covered with a headscarf?

In national news, demonstrators for and against the Texas House Abortion Bill crowded the Capitol on Tuesday to eventually hear it’s approval which took representatives more than 10 hours to decide on. The bill requires doctors to have specific admitting privileges at hospitals, only permits abortions in surgical centers and bans abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy.

Women’s rights activists fought against the bill and demonstrated this with wire hangers, making the argument that once women cannot legally have an abortion, illegal abortions will become much more common. Rep. Senfronia Thompson, democrat, called for an exception to the 20 week rule in case of rape and incest.

But she was denied. In the meantime, over 50 women’s health centers have closed down, according to Cecile Richards, president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America in an article by the Associated Press.

What seems like it would only be a domestic problem within each country’s individual borders actually is a world-wide controversy that affects women all around the globe. Whether they’re not respected in their workplace or denied rights concerning their own bodies, these conflicts are relevant from Texas to Turkey. As a Turkish-American citizen, I have observed these controversies first hand, experiencing how I should be wearing a headscarf, avoiding birth control and having as many children as possible.

Passed in 1919, the 19th Amendment in the U.S. Constitution granted women the right to vote. Post World War II, while men were being drafted for war, women took their jobs.

They proved that they can not only maintain but flourish in a male-dominated workforce.

Commitee of Infractions by

Greg Bearringer Frank Rich recently claimed in New York magazine that Americans no longer care about privacy because people have become attention whores—well, at least that is sort of the idea.

Part of his argument is that attention is often profitable to the attention seeker, and is itself a symbol of status in these new United States.

I don’t disagree with what he’s saying, but something bothers me about this. As a reader of professionally done historical works, I always feel the term “status” is just off the mark. While it is technically accurate, the term feels empty, an abstract benefit equated with real benefits like water, food, or even money, which is (or at least was) both tangible and abstract.

The further back historians go in their rearview, the more they lament that most of what they study is an abstract economy of (what must be called) art; this economy is one of elites presenting their elite-ness over the nonelites using a sophisticated system of exchange where those in power use symbols like statues, paintings, philanthropy and architecture to extract more power. Historians often talk about the people inhabiting a certain place or participating in certain acts in two ways: either

as a part of this economy of power or, more vaguely, as masses of people searching for or attempting to establish an identity. In other words, most recent historical research has found either a specific group of elites trying to exert their power using symbols or a vague group (often including some elites) of people trying to separate or turn some “us” into an “us and them,” often with subtler techniques such as nomenclature.

Where Rich sees the mass of Americans trying to use exposure to gain status, I see quite a different process at work; I think it is simply the attempt of Americans to gain identity. If you buy his argument that Americans no longer care about privacy, the reason isn’t that people sit around hoping that someone will give them their 15 minutes; it is because there is so little to distinguish one person from the next.

Anonymity is the new privacy, and the sheer number of identifiers available to anyone means that any specific set of adjectives and adverbs used to describe someone usually makes them unique by chance.

I might only know one 5-foot-10, 210 pound male who is a runner, a baseball fan and conniseur of chicken strips who only drinks coke products. There are probably a few thousand people just like them. If you are one in a million in the United States, there are (give or take) three hundred people just like you; most people aren’t even one in a thousand from the perspective of others.

Only a small number of people are able to

turn a small moment of fame into anything close to lasting fame or temporary fortune; just enough to make misguided people think they can do it. The sad truth is that even the temporarily famous become re-anonymized once whatever combination of events and opportunity made them famous subsides.

When was the last time you thought of Elian Gonzales?

The rarest thing there is in the world is distinction. Becoming internet famous might mean a bunch to the famous person and to those who enjoy their work; it means little else to the millions of people who live perfectly happy lives not knowing who they are or seeing their YouTube video or reading their blog.

Even the Superbowl has more people in the world not see it than do.

I am not sure I have made a good enough case for “identity over status” as the impetus for the loss of privacy, but that is perhaps because I am drawing the wrong distinction.

Status and identity are, in many ways, the same thing now; simply having a group of people be able to distinguish who you are from the unimaginable amount of people in the world is worth something; occasionally, it is worth money.

Most often, the benefit is the satisfaction that comes with being a “you” instead of merely a “them.”

Greg Bearringer is a graduate student in history. He can be reached at gbearrin@utk. edu.

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This year marked the 50th anniversary of the Equal Pay Act. In 2008, a woman ran for presidency in the United States, and in 2016, the same woman, Hilary Clinton, will probably do it again.

Women’s rights have never been something to joke about and still lack proper understanding in today’s day and age. Beyond the specific rights women are fighting for now is the realization that women’s rights are still a controversy. Even with so many talented and ambitious women in the world, we’re still not being given full control over our own present and future.

One would think that with 94 years of suffrage women would have established all the rights they need to provide for an unrestricted future. Despite plenty of other conflict around the world, women’s rights are still a relevant issue that need attention. When the time comes to be an adult in the real world, I would like to see first-hand that I can control my future career and lifestyle as I please. I will not be wearing a headscarf and I hope to earn equal pay to my male counterparts. Women’s rights are a basic requirement, and as seen by the media’s concern over the topic recently, it needs a lot more sorting out in the political arena.

Women are fighting across the globe to make their place in a man’s world; legislation should focus more on giving a woman her true freedom and equality that she is entitled to, not only in the United States but across the globe.

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Friday, July 12, 2013

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ARTS & CULTURE

Arts & Culture Editor Melodi Erdogan merdogan@utk.edu

Fake bags hurt designers, economy Friday, July 12

• Photo courtesy of Cereus Bright

What: Cereus Bright When: 10 p.m.

Where: Boyd’s Jig & Reel (ages 21 and up) Price: Free Melodi’s Take: Who doesn’t like a free concert? Cereus Bright is a young, local band comprised of two talented frontmen and a strong rhythm section. After a week-long Tennessee Tour, with stops in Memphis, Nashville and Chattanooga, the band will play at Jig & Reel before heading to Johnson City. Their music is a fresh take on folk, which translates well to recording and live shows. Experience it for yourself this Friday night at Jig & Reel.

What: Chris Tucker When: 7:45 and 10:30 p.m.

Where: Side Splitters Comedy Club (ages 18 and up) Price: $35 - $37 Melodi’s Take: What’s better than Jackie Chan? Chris Tucker of course! Side Splitters Comedy Club once again pulls through for Knoxville and has invited Tucker to perform not once, but twice this Friday night, and again on Saturday night (7:45 p.m.). The “Rush Hour� actor is one of the funniest comedians around, and is sure to split some sides, if not slap some knees. This ticket is a bargain, as you’re guaranteed to laugh out loud.

Samantha Coley Staff Writer Charlotte: “That’s like 3,000 dollars!�

Samantha: “Or $150. Fake.�

Charlotte: “Oh my God, it looks so real.�

- Sex and the City, Season 3 Episode 14, Sex and Another City Samantha Jones is not the only woman who has committed the cardinal sin of fashion—carrying a fake designer handbag.

Fake bags are everywhere, from kiosks at the mall or hidden in creepy mens trunks like in this episode. Women everywhere believe that since a bag looks similar to the real thing that it is acceptable to purchase the counterfeit version.

Well it is not and it can actually get you thrown in jail. In New York, council member Margaret Chin is hoping to have a law passed to make it illegal to buy fake designer handbags. She relates it to the drug trade, which could not be more true. In a Harper’s Bazaar article published January of 2009, writer Dana Thomas said that people are shocked when she tells them that these counterfeit bags cause serious damage to the United States economy. Women think they are getting a good deal, when in fact, they are supporting the loss of American jobs to jobs overseas where many people are paid very low wages to plagiarize the innovation of the top designers and creative minds of our time.

Many women stare longingly at a $2,000 Louis Vuitton in the window of a high-end department store, and decide to resort to paying a fraction of the price for a bag that looks similar. I must ask, would it be

• Photo courtesy of Chris Tucker

Saturday, July 13 What: Wayne “The Train� Hancock When: 8 p.m.

Where: Barley’s Taproom & Pizzeria Price: Free Melodi’s Take: When Wayne Hancock released his first single in 1995, “Thunderstorms and Neon Signs,� he created a new genre of music. Thus, juke joint swing was invented; Hancock became king. His honky-tonk, rockabilly music will have the Old City on their feet and dancing. This creative Texas native will guarantee an exciting Saturday night.

Sunday, July 14

What: Toad the Wet Sprocket When: 8 p.m.

Where: Bijou Theatre Price: $25 Melodi’s Take: Formed in 1986, Toad the Wet Sprocket is an all-American alternative rock band consisting of four talented musicians who have a real passion for music. Picking up the unique name from a Monty Python sketch, this band met each other in high school and through breakups and conflicts, they have gotten back together and are now touring across the southern states. Considering the cheap ticket, this concerts seems like the perfect date night this Sunday.

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Because theses bags are not created by the original designers, they are not going to be well crafted. The fashion industry is a multi-million dollar business, and while some prices for these designer bags can be outrageous, they are, in turn, of the highest quality. These fake handbags, however, are usually made overseas where workers are in terrible conditions and are paid very low wages.

So not only does that mean that these bags are not carefully crafted like the real things, but this also hurts our economy. It is much more beneficial for people who can afford to purchase the real thing to do so, rather than supporting the cruelty that occurs in these sweatshops just to pay less for a bag of terrible quality. Any bag will have wear and tear after time, but these fake handbags will not hold up after little use, and are not even worth a penny.

Fashion is created by designers, but revolves around women wearing clothing and accessories to express themselves in a creative way. With the abuse and forfeiting that takes place in the sweatshops that produce fake bags, the appreciation for highquality design rises. Even if the $25 version of the Chanel bag is tempting, women shouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have to resort to them to feel like theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re on trend. Like most things in life, magazines and television programs have convinced women that not only do they need to look a certain way, but also they need to spend a certain amount of money to have style. But in the end, style is about creating looks that make a woman feel beautiful and portray who she is without ever saying a word.

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Friday, July 12, 2013

SPORTS Phenoms bring excitement back to baseball

Troy Provost-Heron Staff writer Growing up my dream was to become a professional football player. I loved the sport, I’d watch it every Saturday and Sunday and play it outside every day that it wasn’t on television. But as much as I loved football, it wasn’t the sport I was naturally gifted at. That sport was baseball.

Long story short, the football dream never worked out. I never grew. Well, that’s an understatement. I didn’t hit 5-feet tall until the summer before my senior year in high school. I’m not lying to you when I say my driver’s license says 4-foot 6-inches.

My grandparents and my mom are still disappointed in me that I didn’t pursue a career in baseball. And it wasn’t until these past two years that realized I was disappointed in myself too. But it really wasn’t my fault, I just feel in love with the wrong sport.

Now I’m not saying I would’ve ever made it to the major leagues, in fact, I know that I probably wouldn’t have. But if I had the chance to do it all over again, I’d definitely give it a try.

And the reason is because of what Major League Baseball has turned into.

No longer is it popular because players are pursuing records that were set generations before them. It’s popular because every month a phenom emerges.

It all started four years ago when Washington Nationals starting pitcher Stephen Strasburg took the mound for the first time in his career. We didn’t know it then, but that 14-strikeout performance from the Nats ace ushered in a new era of baseball.

Just last year, the era of the phenom came to fruition.

First came Mike Trout, who tore up opposing pitching all year and made impossible plays in center field look like routine fly balls. A .326 batting average, 30 home runs and 49 stolen bases made Trout the American League Rookie of the Year in 2012, and if Tigers’ slugger Miguel Cabrera hadn’t hit for the first Triple Crown (leader in batting average, home runs and RBI) since 1967, Trout would’ve added an MVP trophy to go along it.

Next was Bryce Harper, a kid who posessed myth-like stories around his game since he was in high school. And it didn’t take long for those legends to be proven true. The 19-year-old outfielder hit 22 home runs, most of which were moon shots, for the Nationals and flashed a new level of hustle that the majors had never seen before. He even stole home, which is no simple task for anyone. All of this earned Harper last season’s National League Rookie of the Year.

This year has given us even more young talent, and even more proof that this new era is here to stay. Orioles 20-year-old third baseman Manny Machado is on pace to destroy the single season records for doubles and is, in my opinion, the best fielding third baseman out there. Mets 24-year-old starting pitcher Matt Harvey has basically been unhittable since joining the majors last season, wielding a 2.42 ERA in 182.1 career innings.

And then there’s my personal favorite, Dodgers outfielder Yasiel Puig (it’s pronounced yah-SEE-el PWEEG if you were wondering). The 22-year old Cuban born slugger has taken the league by storm since his call up on June 3. He is currently batting .394 with eight home runs and 56 hits in just 35 games. And if you haven’t seen him play, he is a combination of lighting and chaos in a bottle.

There are plenty more who I don’t have the time to mention.

Personally, I think baseball is more fun than ever, and it’s because of these players.

It’s obviously too late for me, but for all

Sports Editor Steven Cook scook21@utk.edu

ESPN doc captures Pat Anthony Cespedes Contributor

“We Back Pat.” For those involved with the University of Tennessee community in recent years, that slogan is the one resonating factor when one thinks of Pat Summitt. For those who grew up bleeding orange though, Summitt stands for so much more.

That is why, when ESPN decided to feature Summitt in the film “Pat XO” on Tuesday night, the entire fanbase tuned in.

Co-directors Lisa Lax and Nancy Winters along with producer Robin Roberts, from ABC’s Good Morning America, sent cameras all across the country interviewing and documenting many who grew up with, played for and loved Summitt over the years.

Summitt’s son, Tyler, opened up the film by outlining how he felt like he grew up at Thompson-Boling Arena.

Justifiably so, the court that he remembers is now named ‘The Summitt,’ in honor of his mother.

One of the faces of the school alongside Summitt, former UT quarterback Peyton Manning, chimed in, commenting that even he would have loved to play for her in some capacity.

As the intro wraps up, you see Pat and Tyler sitting in a dimly lit living room where the two are reflecting on their memories by looking through scrapbooks and photo albums. As they talk, notable former players and coaches are shown, in first-person account, telling their stories on the living legend.

Reflecting on her early years, her brothers and sister talked about her “bossy” attitude, and how she was more like an older brother than a sister. Growing up in the country town of Henrietta, Tenn., Summitt and her

siblings would wake up, do chores, go to school, come home, do chores, play some basketball, go to sleep and do the same thing the next day.

When Pat began her career in Knoxville at the age of 22, she was barely a year older than the eldest member of her team. Starting off with an inexperienced team behind an inexperienced coach, the women’s team had multiple hurdles to overcome. As the years passed, Pat and the Lady Vols began to unify.

ABC’s Roberts, who played basketball in high school, told viewers that she desired to play at UT, but never committed. Instead, Roberts played her college ball at Southeast Louisiana from 1979-1983. Though she never had any interraction with Pat as a player, from her time as a reporter, she had the chance to meet Summitt in Knoxville after the 1987 NCAA championship. Since then, the two have become close friends.

Roberts, who has most recently overcome bone marrow cancer, noted the invaluable lessons Summit taught her about determination and resilience.

In the 90s, women’s basketball was starting to get national attention, and Summitt vigiorously attempted to gain television exposure for her Lady Vols.

Summitt began a yearly rotation to play the University of Connecticut, sparking the sport’s biggest rivalry.

The film promotes Summitt’s 100 percent student graduation rate, and highlights many of her illustrious accomplishments during her 38-year coaching tenure.

Emotions were high as the film drew to a close as press coverage from August 23, 2011 began to play. This was the day that Summitt went on-air announcing her diagnosis with earlyonset Dementia.

Vols self report minor violation

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The sports world was rocked. After this announcement was made, the Lady Vols dedicated that season to Pat. Soon after, the “We Back Pat” campaign kicked off, but players were uncertain of the coach’s future.

After the Baylor University beat the Lady Vols 77-58 in the 2012 NCAA tournament, Summitt’s players were shaken, teary-eyed and unsure of what would happen during Summitt’s final postgame talk as UT’s head coach.

On April 19, 2012, Summitt announced that she was retiring from the head coaching position. Her

38-year career culminated in eight national championships and a 1,098208 career record that makes her the winningest coach in NCAA history.

Anyone who spent time around the UT program in the past 40 years can remember Pat’s memorable stare. The ups and downs of Tennessee’s history can mostly be remembered with the love of the game and the school that Summitt had in Knoxville.

For a living legend, this film just scrapes the surface of a coach who managed to change the sport of women’s basketball forever.

Around Rocky Top

Staff Report Tennessee has self-reported seven NCAA secondary violations, including two in football.

The university’s compliance department posted the violations and subsequent punishments on its website.

One of the football violations involved a prospect making an unofficial visit before he had completed his first year at a junior college. In the other violation, a prospect making an unofficial visit attended an off-campus meal intended only for official visitors, causing the staff to exceed the permissible number of off-campus contacts.

The university also reported two minor violations in swimming and one each in women’s basketball, men’s tennis and women’s volleyball.

All the violations occurred since March.

Football announces media appearances Staff Report Seniors Ja’Wuan James and Jacques Smith along with junior Antonio Richardson will be Tennessee’s student-athlete representatives at SEC Media Days in Birmingham next week.

Along with head coach Butch Jones, UT will meet with the media on Wednesday, July 17.

For James, it is the second year in a row that he will represent Tennessee at the event. It is the first time for Smith and Richardson along with Jones, who was hired in December.

Three student-athletes and the head coach of each of the 14 Southeastern Conference football programs will participate in the three-day event, which runs from Tuesday, July 16 to Thursday, July 18.

The Vols are one of six teams to address the media on Wednesday, along with Texas A&M, Kentucky, Mississippi State, Auburn and Arkansas.

The event will be opened Tuesday by SEC commissioner Mike Slive, followed by Florida, Missouri, Ole Miss and South Carolina.

The event will conclude Thursday with LSU, Georgia, Alabama and Vanderbilt on Thursday.

Some of college football’s biggest names will also attend the event. 2012 Heisman Trophy winner Johnny Manziel will make the trip, as well as Alabama quarterback A.J. McCarron and Georgia quarterback Aaron Murray.

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