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Program to teach students ‘real-world’ skills MBA students learn to tackle business issues from multiple perspectives beyond classroom about the MBA program one day and thought it was an opportunity to help students get practice in real-world business.

“When I retired, one of my objectives was to network in the local area and to give back after working 35 years in the industry,” he said.

“I have worked with faculty members in the past by helping provide students access to business technologies. UT approached me to help provide these technologies to MBA

learned beyond the classroom.

“You can never really learn what business is like by studyJamie Cunningham ing it in a book,” she said. “This program gives students a Staff Writer hands-on experience that allows students to apply what they are learning in their textbooks and use it in a real-life enviFull-time UT students in the master’s business adminisronment.” tration program will now participate in a program that gives While the program molds students’ business minds into students the chance to put their business skills to the test critical thinking, Fisher added that the program gives stuwhile helping out non-profits in East Tennessee. dents a competitive edge in the job market.

Innovation in Practice, which began as a pilot course in “Innovation in Practice gives students 2004, is now a requirement for all first-year MBA more credibility in the business world,” he students. The program, co-led by faculty members said.

Glenn Swift and Pat Richardson, gives students Stark said the process the students go the chance to consult non-profit organizations in through is a good example of a real conthe area on real-world projects, such as acquiring sulting project. new properties or increasing earned income.

“Swift and Richardson identify the nonThe program was created for UT’s MBA proprofit organizations and give the students gram as a means of giving students applied skills the organization’s problem statement,” he in business that will, in turn, give them an edge in said. “They have eight weeks to analyze the job market. the problem, prepare different solutions “Nobody is going to hire students just for what and finally make a recommendation and they know,” Swift said. “They are going to hire meet with the organization’s executives.” them for what they can do.”

Fisher said, while students must make The students are divided into teams of five and a recommendation to their non-profit have a faculty mentor to give the students guidorganization, the point of the program is ance and insight. Each team has its own non-profto develop their skills on coming up with it organization, and the team is solely in charge of recommendations, not necessarily what the direction of the project. the recommendation is.

While the program might work with social “There are no black-and-white causes such as museums and literacy programs, answers,” she said. “There are answers in Swift argued that non-profits still offer valuable this program, but they aren’t necessarily practice in business consulting. always right answers. This allows students “Non-profits have the same problems that forto operate in a state of ambiguity, which is profits have,” he said. something they will encounter in real life.”

George Richardson • The Daily Beacon Swift added that working with non-profit Stark said the eight-week deadline organizations is valuable to the organizations, the Students in UT’s MBA program will work with local non-profit organizations to offers students a glimpse into the time university and the East Tennessee area. give students real world experience with the issues of operating businesses and pressures of working in business. He “UT is a public land-grant university, so we to help give back to the community. believes that the program challenges stushould, and are, giving back to the area, and this dents to realize the true potential of their program is a great outreach to the community,” he said. students wanting to gain hands-on business experiences.” business minds.

Joy Fisher, a lecturer at UT’s MBA entrepreneurship proStark argued that the Innovation in Practice program “This program is a test of their own ability, and the feedgram working as a mentor for the Innovation in Practice projgives students a different learning environment that offers back they get from real-world clients is a great learning tool,” ect, agreed that Innovation in Practice compels MBA stumore hands-on learning. he said. dents to approach business problems from different perspec“It is not a lecture or a standard course with tests that you The program might be beneficial to MBA students, but tives. have to pass in order to pass the class. This is probably the Fisher said non-profit organizations also prosper from the “The program is a problem-solving method that can be only course they have that is not a traditional lecture environ- eight-week experience. used not only in developing business skills but life skills as ment,” he said. “They are put in an environment with a coach “The client gets to hear fresh new ideas and solutions to well,” she said. “It’s a process that takes you beyond your and a real-world problem situation. These students want to their business problems,” she said. “When the students gain comfort level to look for new ideas to solve problems.” get out in the real world and this program lets them practice valuable skills and the client gets value out of the recommenRaymond Stark, a retired executive of Honeywell that.” dation, the program is a success.”

Specialty Materials, was approached by co-founder Swift Fisher agreed, noting that some business lessons are

Summer classes aid students diversely as many as 12.

“I had to take four classes so I could get caught up on my hours,” Davis said. “Even As the second week in July comes to a close, though 12 hours is a bare minimum during the students taking summer classes are halfway regular school year, it’s a lot harder to complete four classes in one month.” finished with their second semester.

The mini “May-mester” ran May 11 through Many students choose to take summer classes during the mini May, June and July semes- June 1, the June session classes ran June 2 to July 6, and July session classes run July 7 and ters.

“This was the first summer that I had decid- will end Aug. 9.

One drawback to summer school is the ed to take classes,” Phillip Davis, senior in history, said. “I realized that, to graduate on time, amount students pay for classes.

Since scholarships do not apply to summer I would need to school until the take four more HOPE Scholarship classes this sumbecomes available mer to be able to next summer, the finish up next cost to students is spring.” much more than it Some students would be during like summer classthe regular semeses because they ter. don’t last as long “It cost me as classes during around $3,000 to the Fall and take four classes Spring Semesters. during the June “I personally semester,” Davis liked the fact that said. “That cost is my summer class more than I paid only lasted a for the 2010-2011 month,” Jake school year.”

Dorris, junior in Another great pre-med and advantage to sumSpanish, said. “It mer classes is the was nice to only amount of free have to worry time students have. about it for a “I love having month, but it was free time out of intense as well.

Joy Hill • The Daily Beacon class,” Dorris said.

Although you were in class Students lounge outside the front of Ayres “The hardest thing every day, you Hall on Tuesday, April 12. First session summer about having a had to do the classes came to a close last week with second summer class is work of a five- session classes just swinging into gear at the paying attention for an hour-and-amonth semester midpoint of the summer. half straight.” in a fifth of the First and second time.”

An additional perk of summer courses is let- session classes run an hour-and-a-half every ting students focus on one class at a time if day, and the mini session ran three hours every day. they choose.

“I had to take four classes this summer to “Since there wasn’t a minimum number of hours to take, I only took one class, so I could graduate on time, but I’m really glad I did,” Joy Hill • The Daily Beacon direct my time to focusing on one class,” Davis said. “I got the classes out of the way with and still have a month or so left of my Kati Rook, junior in deaf education, rests in a hammock along the Pedestrian Mall Dorris said.

Students can take as little as three hours or summer.” on a sunny Tuesday, March 22.

Rob Davis

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Carol and Reggie Hundley, season ticket holders for the upcoming football season, discuss seat locations with Julia Stump of UT Athletics during the Meet Your Seats event on Monday, July 11.

1965 — Mariner 4 studies Martian surface The unmanned spacecraft Mariner 4 passes over Mars at an altitude of 6,000 feet and sends back to Earth the first close-up images of the red planet.

Launched in November 1964, Mariner 4 carried a television camera and six other science instruments to study Mars and interplanetary space within the solar system. Reaching Mars on July 14, 1965, the spacecraft began sending back television images of the planet just after midnight on July 15. The pictures — nearly 22 in all — revealed a vast, barren wasteland of craters and rust-colored sand, dismissing 19th-century suspicions that an advanced civilization might exist on the planet. The canals that American astronomer Percival Lowell spied with his telescope in 1890 proved to be an optical illusion, but ancient natural waterways of some kind did seem to be evident in some regions of the planet.

Once past Mars, Mariner 4 journeyed on to the far side of the sun before returning to the vicinity of Earth in 1967. Nearly out of power by then, communication with the spacecraft was terminated in December 1967.

1888 — Volcano buries victims in fiery mud The Bandai volcano erupts on the Japanese island of Honshu on this day in 1888, killing hundreds and burying many nearby villages in ash.

Honshu, the main island of the Japanese archipelago, is in an area of intense geological activity, where earthquakes and volcanic eruptions are relatively common. The Bandai volcano is a mountain in northern Honshu with a very steep slope. It had erupted four times in the 1,000 years prior to the 1888 eruption, but none of these had been particularly deadly.

At just after 7 a.m. on July 15, rumblings were heard from Bandai. Only 30 minutes after that, an explosion on the north side of the mountain caused powerful tremors. Fifteen minutes later, there was another explosion and, in the next two hours, dozens followed. The explosive eruptions sent debris thousands of feet into the air. The resulting cloud of ash and steam was estimated at 21,000 feet wide.

The giant cloud sent a dangerous rain of burning mud down over the area. Several villages in the Bandai area were buried by a combination of the fiery mud and landslides caused by the tremors. At the Kawakami spa, 100-foot-deep debris covered the ground. Although 100 bodies were recovered there, many were never found.

—This Day in History courtesy of History.com

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CPU game lets users manage budget The Associated Press WASHINGTON — Think you might do better than President Barack Obama and congressional leaders in picking and choosing what government spending to cut — or taxes to raise — to stave off a debt showdown that could wreck the economy? A new computer game gives you, too, the chance to play “Budget Hero.”

“Budget Hero 2.0” is an update of an original version that came out in 2008. It shows players just how difficult it might be to carry out their grand policy objectives — universal health care, extending the Bush tax cuts or ending foreign aid — and still keep the government from either becoming irrelevant, or going broke.

“Our timing turns out to be perfect,” said former Rep. Jane Harman, D-Calif., who resigned this year to head the Woodrow Wilson Center, a nonpartisan think tank that developed the game with American Public Media.

Harman said the game is a valuable teaching tool, particularly now as the president and Congress butt heads over the future course of government. Players get insights into the “difficult choices involved in reducing the deficit and raising the debt limit,” she said.

Among the first players to test their skills at the unveiling this week of the new version were Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama, the top Republican on the Senate Budget Committee, and Sen. Mark Udall, D-Colo.

Udall said he had two kids in college and “I’ve been a real nag about video games,” but that “the point of this game is to educate, to empower us.”

The new version, updated to reflect the increasingly dire financial situation and such new factors as the House Republican budget's approach to Medicare, allows players to pick from some 100 policy cards as they try to earn “badges” that reflect their political leanings. Fiscal conservatives can try to earn a tea party badge, defense hawks a national security badge or environmentalists a green badge.

The game starts in the year 2021, based on Congressional Budget Office numbers showing what happens to the government’s budget if there is no change in current policy.

Players, by using their policy cards, change the course of history.

Before clicking on a policy, the player can check out the pros and cons. Raising the Social Security eligibility age to 70 for those born in 1973 or after would save $152 billion over 10 years but would also mean a 10 percent loss in benefits for those now in their mid- to late 40s.

Paul’s ad opposes raising debt limit The Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas — Republican presidential hopeful Ron Paul is using his first campaign television ad to promote his long-time opposition to raising the federal debt limit.

In the ad released Thursday and set to run in early primary states, the Texas congressman criticizes both Republicans and Democrats for striking deals in the past and says Congress should not compromise this time. Paul also notes that he always has voted against raising the federal George Richardson • The Daily Beacon limit on borrowing.

“In the ’80s, they did it to Workers toss leftover materials off an overhang of the Min Kao Electrical (Ronald) Reagan, a debt ceilEngineering and Computer Science Building on Monday, March 21. Thanks in part to ing compromise, Democrats a $17.5 million gift from the Garmin CEO and Chairman, the largest single gift in UT promising spending cuts, but history, the Min Kao building is scheduled for completion in fall 2011. delivering only tax hikes,” the

ad says. “The ’90s brought more compromises, more broken promises and more new taxes. ... Will our party’s leaders repeat the mistakes of the past?”

President Barack Obama has said that if a deal to raise the debt ceiling is not passed

by Aug. 2, the U.S. government could default on its loans, creating a financial crisis. Paul and some conservative Republican members of Congress reject that conclusion and have insisted on spending cuts. Negotiations are ongoing between Obama and Republican leaders in the House and Senate over a compromise that would ensure the debt ceiling is increased.

The scope of federal spending is an important issue to conservatives who make up the Republican Party’s base,

and Paul is seeking to use the debate raging in Washington on one of his signature issues to gain ground in his presidential campaign. He trails other candidates in national and state polls. A poll conducted for The Des Moines Register last month showed Paul running toward the back of the pack, with only 7 percent support.

The ads are to begin airing on both broadcast and cable stations in Iowa and New Hampshire on Friday and are to run through next week, said Jesse Benton, a spokesman for the Paul campaign. Benton said the campaign is spending more than $100,000 in each state. It’s a hefty sum for this early in the race. Other candidates are running ads, but at much lower levels.

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Editor’sNote Deficit time bomb keeps on ticking Blair Kuykendall Editor-in-Chief Despite an alleged recovery, America’s financial state refuses to rebound. The job market’s sour, the deficit continues to soar and our last hope rests with Washington. Lucky us.

It seems gray skies are still on the horizon for the limping American economy. The unemployment rate for June is up again, rising for the fourth month in a row.

With unemployment hovering around 9.2 percent, the fates don’t portend strong economic gains anytime soon.

And the grim figures don’t end there. Length of the average work week fell last month, and hourly wages were stagnant. Largely due to the abysmal situation of state and local governments, employment in the public sector fell.

According to the “Economist,” painstakingly slow growth has its roots in everything from the Japanese tsunami disaster to oil prices. The journal does, however, seem optimistic about the coming months. Oil prices seem to be letting up a bit, and Japan’s manufacturing sector seems to be on the rebound. Optimists claim that recovery will likely continue in fits and spurts, with inevitable periods of slack.

Commentators without such a rosy view of the world claim otherwise. In the nation’s past, periods of deep recession followed by little growth have tended to signal the dreaded double-dip. Given the expansive public and private debt held by Americans, any type of shock could tip the nation over the edge.

In the past few years, Europe has been painfully learning the lesson that Americans so desperately need to master. Greece has lived to fight another day, and Italy is still in the woods. EU nations have been scrambling to curtail government’s piece of GDP. It looks like the American government may be starting to catch on.

The Democrats, in a compromising spirit usually absent in Washington, are offering to make some stark spending cuts, with a spending cut to revenue increase ratio of roughly 3-to-1. This may stem from President Obama’s desire to appear moderate heading into the next presidential campaign, but regardless, the American

people might want to take the punt.

For some mystifying reason, the Republicans are refusing to budge on the budget issue. A few months back their ideal ratio for deficit correction was an 85percent cut to a 15-percent revenue increase. The Democrats are currently offering an 83-percent cut with a 17-percent revenue increase, which seems workable.

As a further nod to the right, the revenue increase would be taken from closing tax code loopholes rather than increasing marginal rates.

Why the resistance, then? Republicans in the House are taking a hard line on any sort of tax revenue increase.

David Brooks has already chastised the party for its reluctance to bargain while the country hangs in the balance. Its stalwart attitude may not be in the best interest of the economy long-term. With the sluggish growth to date, drastic spending cuts will be a hard blow.

Some form of a revenue cushion is likely necessary to keep the nation afloat.

This modern dilemma is at its heart classic: Right now the nation’s citizens need government spending.

If they get it, future generations will be on even shakier ground. What’s a legislator to do?

As the Beacon was going to press, negotiations on spending cuts and the debt ceiling had deteriorated even further. After President Obama walked out of negotiations Wednesday, doubts surfaced as to whether any type of deal will be reached. Republicans are now threatening to abandon discussion completely and force the president to raise the debt ceiling unilaterally.

The president will not take that blow sitting down.

Already Obama has threatened to stop retirement checks for the elderly, and it’s likely he won’t stop there. His aim is to stoke a fire under the American people, forcing the Republican hand in raising tax revenues. The president will force the GOP to play the hypocrite or take responsibility for a harsh government shutdown. Well played.

Even if the president is able to achieve a debt ceiling raise without cutting government spending, he may win the battle and lose the war. Cue Republican ads in 2012 with catch phrases like “it’s the deficit, stupid” and “AA Obama.”

No matter which party triumphs in this chaotic dance, the ceiling will undoubtedly be raised. With Standard and Poor’s threatening a downgrade in the U.S. credit rating, something must be done. Compromise or no, the government can’t kick the crutch out from under a crippled economy.

-- Blair Kuykendall is a junior in the College Scholars Program. She can be reached at bkuykend@utk.edu

SCRAMBLED EGGS • Alex Cline

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Rowling entertains with subtle morality Ac orns and Other Seeds by

Anna-Lise Burnette Even if you aren’t a fan, you probably know who Harry Potter is.

For the past 14 years, the fruit of Rowling’s labors has been available for purchase in written form; beginning in 2001 the wildly popular books have been released as equally popular movies.

But alas, most good things come to an end, and so: In honor of this week’s opening of “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part II,” I’d like to devote a little space to one of my favorite stories from J. K. Rowling’s wizarding world. If you’re practically a Gryffindor yourself, you are undoubtedly familiar with “The Tales of Beedle the Bard,” a collection of children’s stories from the magical world in hiding. Though all five of them are fantastic, the one I like the best — behind the story of the three brothers, of course — is “The Fountain of Fair Fortune.”

If you’ve read “The Tales,” I can guess what you’re thinking. Why in the world would I pick the lamest and cheesiest story of them all? And for those of you who haven’t read them, you’ll soon be wondering the same thing. The story goes something like this: Three maidens and one brave knight find themselves venturing up an enchanted bluff together. They toil mightily in order to reach a magical fountain that reputedly grants whoever bathes in the water a lifetime of good luck. In the course of their travels the three women find that their sorrows have already been relieved, and so they insist that the brave Sir Luckless take a dip in the fountain, and everyone lives happily ever after. The story even ends with the words, “none of them ever knew or suspected that the Fountain’s waters carried no enchantment at all.”

But what I really like about this story is the way that Rowling pulls it off so effortlessly. Instead of

turning “The Fountain of Fair Fortune” into some overbearing morality play, she follows up with pure lighthearted commentary from everyone’s favorite headmaster. The next few pages of “The Tales” are devoted to Dumbledore’s recollection of the infamous Christmas pantomime gone terribly awry, and there’s not so much as a whiff of paternalism.

He even manages to work in a jab at Lucius Malfoy, all the while ignoring skillfully the moral of the story.

It isn’t because the author is somehow blissfully unaware of the story’s utter predictability. That same predictability and the tact she showed in handling it the way she did only goes to prove that J. K. Rowling is as thoughtful a children’s author as we could ever wish for. It’s rare to find a book for young people with a lesson to teach that doesn’t say it outright or scream it, over and over, in the hopes that some wayward child will get the message.

Life is, unfortunately, much more nuanced than that, which is why subtle stories are so necessary.

As painfully obvious as some lessons might seem, anyone that’s ever been alive knows that the hardest ones to learn are the lessons that should have been the easiest to recognize and take to heart.

But we’ve been made soft. Instead of teaching our children to tease out the right and wrong in life, we simply say “This is good” and “That is bad” and “Don’t argue, it’s because I said so.” When a clearcut moral is handed to us on a gleaming pumpkin pasty tray, there aren’t many hard decisions to make.

Rowling knows this, and her writing shows it.

“The Fountain of Fair Fortune” isn’t in the business of preaching; it’s just a sweet story about the merit of hard work, perseverance and faith. And just as young children need to be reminded often that sometimes life just isn’t fair, all of us need the reinforcement of hearing that good and wonderful things can and do happen. Though the good times very rarely stand alone, the important thing is that they stand.

And friends, the last Harry Potter movie promises to be a very good time indeed.

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

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Today marks the last day of my childhood. Not only am I turning 21 today, but today marks the last big release of the Harry Potter series. Now I know for some of you this literally means nothing.

For a lot of people, though, it is quite a big change in life. Never again will there be the joy and anticipation that comes with a new release. We will no longer be able to eagerly guess and ponder what will happen next in the Harry Potter saga.

Questions will linger with no possibility of answers being found. For many of us, this marks a distinct change and turning point in our relationship with the series.

Harry Potter has been around me since I was 10. I can remember my mom buying the first books at TJ Maxx, her reading them, and then pushing me to read them as well. I can remember reading the first book and my Potter passion erupting. I devoured the next two books shortly after. From that point on, I never missed a midnight book release, and I have never missed a midnight showing of one of the movies. Last night was no different.

Whichever character you felt a kinship with as you read the novels didn’t matter. You grew up with them, explored the world through them and eventually learned their story by heart. You made friends with Harry, Hermione, Ron, Neville, Luna and Ginny. You cried when Sirius and/or Dumbledore died, and cried some more when you realized Snape’s true motives. The end of the series brought about a final sadness, but you knew that it wasn’t over quite yet.

The series garnered more followers as it branched out to movies. It reached for the young at heart who were not able to find the time to read the stories. It spread to children who may have simply been too young to read or understand the novels. The movies made the series bigger than ever. Young, new Hollywood stars blossomed,

aged and matured with their characters, while older Hollywood stars brought Hogwarts alive through their portrayals of the professors.

I distinctly remember reading a column by Anna-Lise around two years ago. It addressed the question of what will happen when the series is over. She asked whether the loyal followers of the series would pack their wands, robes and books back into the trunk and slowly allow the series to fade into obscurity. She questioned the dedication of a generation that had been “taught to read” on the Harry Potter books. This is my response to her.

Anna, the end of the series is not a loss of an icon. The end of the series just marks the end of anticipation, and that is all. As I grow up, I hope to share my love of the series with my kids, nieces and nephews. I will always argue that Dumbledore is greater than Gandalf and that Ron is better than Harry. I will reread the books throughout my life as a reminder of the joy a simple book can bring me. The series is not an escape from reality, it is about all the challenges life gives us. The one truth about the series that I will never give up is all the lessons it taught me. Sure, I could have learned a few from reality, but isn’t the concept of universal theme what makes a novel or story truly resounding?

The worst feeling is not forcing myself to come to the reality that it is all over. Rather, it is the sheer desire to give justice to a series that defined so many peoples’ childhood. It is the daunting task of having to write down all the feelings and emotions that are encompassed in the whole series and the feelings shared by its followers at its end. I thought that a quote from the series could properly end this particular column. I realize now that there is not just one quote that serves it justice. I decided to end the whole journey summing up the valuable lessons the series taught all of us.

Harry Potter is all about confronting fears, the importance of friendship, finding inner strength and doing what is right in the face of adversity. Let this be the lasting impression of such a great series, the means with which it resonates its first, loyal followers and truly stands the test of time.

- Brittany Vasquez is a senior in anthropology.

She can be reached at bvasque1@utk.edu.

Friday, July 15, 2011

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ENTERTAINMENT

Swerve delivers ‘hiptronic’ music experience Jake Lane Entertainment Editor Trying to classify Terry Tabors, the man behind the persona Swerve, is an exercise in folly.

From early singles like 2006’s “The Return” and his 2008 full-length debut “Anomaly,” one might assume he’s a manic future prophet with a dual mission to save and destroy the world. In conversation, however, Tabors projects a cool, collected and fully articulated sense of purpose and artistic aspiration.

A 2005 graduate of Knoxville West High School and a senior double majoring in religious studies and communications, Tabors began his musical career shortly after high school, recording a few tracks in the years before recording “Anomaly” with UT alum Evan Kodra. Though his main inspiration for creating music is Radiohead, Tabors said hip-hop giants like MF Doom, Ghostface Killah and Mos-Def have influenced his perspective and delivery of rap.

Only recently has Tabors entered the live arena, debuting his own fusion of hiphop lyricality and electronica euphoria.

“My set is a hip-hop/electronica set, which I call ‘hiptronic,’” Tabors explained.

“It’s a mixture of rap and hip-hop lyrics, with some dubstep. I’m on lyrics and a Micro-KORG synthesizer, and the guy I’m doing this with, Clabe, produces the beats.”

The first Swerve experience was at campus favorite the Hill, the second on an island in Norris Lake at the aptly-titled ‘IslandFest.’ On Monday, July 18, Tabors and

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“We’re doing 24 songs non-stop, and I’m going to go as hard as possible,” Tabors said. “If you want to see the best in hidden talent around, I’m pretty confident we bring it.”

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One ace up Tabors’ sleeve is Swerve’s alter ego, Reaper, who he promised would make an appearance during Monday night’s show. Debuted in “The Return,” the vengeful opposite of Swerve’s upbeat space MC gave that track a grimy edge with boasts like rivals “feeling more bullet-time than ‘The Matrix.’” When listening to tracks on “Anomaly,” one can hear traces of this trickster seeking release, yet the decidedly optimistic tone which is a trademark of the Swerve sound ultimately wins out.

Though Swerve is in name Tabors’ musical alias, Arnwine’s role in performance is key to getting the show off the ground and the crowd on the floor.

“It clicks a lot better with someone else behind the screen,” Tabors said.

Between course studies and his burgeoning hiptronic career, Tabors also hosts the podcast “DashFiles” with Chris Cruise. Commenting on everything from Tron to The Dude, the duo, along with frequent guest Brad Castle, project a chilled-out, yet intellec• Image courtesy of Swerve tual verve and fresh take on culture. Tabors and Cruise, childhood friends, also maintain a Facebook for the podcast and an official website, where listeners can download episodes.

Swerve and Dig Doug will perform at the Relix Variety Theater on Monday, July 18 at 11:30 p.m.

Clabe, also known as Caleb Arnwine, 2009 alumnus in logistics, will perform their third Hiptronic set at the Relix Variety Theater in North Knoxville with Dig Doug.

Tabors says the set will showcase songs from “Anomaly,” since “a lot of people haven’t heard it,” as well as the upcoming sophomore LP, produced with

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Friday, July 15, 2011

THESPORTSPAGE

Two Vols on coaches All-SEC team Lady Vols release golf schedule Defensive standouts Waggner, Jackson only UT players selected Staff Reports Tennessee senior defensive lineman Malik Jackson and junior defensive back Prentiss Waggner earned selections to the 2011 SEC Coaches Preseason All-SEC Team, adding to numerous preseason honors for the upperclassman standouts. Jackson was named to the first team, while Waggner notched a spot on the third team.

The defensive duo has also been recognized on multiple preseason award watch lists.

Waggner leads the team with his name on four watch lists (Chuck Bednarik Award, Lott IMPACT Trophy, Bronko Nagurski Award and the Jim Thorpe Award), while Jackson has been named to three (Bronko Nagurski Award, Outland Trophy and Rotary Lombardi Award).

Jackson led the Vols’ defensive line with 48 tackles in 2010, including a team-high 11 tackles for loss. The Northridge, Calif., native also ranked second on the UT squad with five sacks and third with four pass break-ups and five quarterback hurries.

Jackson’s production exploded after moving inside to defensive tackle at Georgia (Oct. 9).

In the final eight games, the senior recorded 36 tackles, 10 tackles for loss, all five of his sacks, three QB hurries, four passes defended and an interception.

Waggner, who earned Associated Press second team All-SEC and Scout.com second team All-America honors in 2010, broke the UT season record for interceptions returned for touchdowns, taking an NCAA FBS-leading three to the end zone.

The Clinton, La., native tied for seventh in the FBS and first in the SEC with three recovered fumbles last season, while also tying for the team lead with five INTs. His eight total takeaways were the most by a Vol since Deon Grant picked off nine passes in 1999.

Additionally, Waggner recorded 57 tackles, to rank fifth on the squad, along with nine passes defended, which was second among the Vols.

Tennessee opens up fall practice Tuesday, Aug. 2.

Amateur leads major after one round might just be a little bit more in me.”

Long after the Dane had completed his SANDWICH, England (AP) — Tom round — he was done by lunchtime — an Lewis shares a name with one of the British English phenom half his age surged up the board by taking full advantage of the afterOpen’s greatest champions. noon calm that had this place ripe for the The kid sure lived up to it Thursday.

Lewis, a 20-year-old amateur, shot a 5- taking.

Lewis posted the lowest round ever for under 65 to share the lead after the opening round of golf’s oldest major — a day that an amateur in the British Open, beating the was even more special because he played 66 posted by Frank Stranahan in 1950 and alongside the man he was named after: five- matched by Tiger Woods (1996) and Justin Rose (1998). The youngster also became time Open champion Tom Watson.

“I was more nervous not to embarrass the first amateur to lead a round at a major since 1976, when Mike Reid myself in front of him,” was up by three strokes headLewis said. ing to the second day of the No worries there.

U.S. Open.

Lewis pulled off some “We certainly have a new Watson-like shots at young breed out here, don’t Royal St. George’s, makwe?” Watson marveled. “We ing four straight birdies have a lot of young players coming down the stretch playing very good golf.” before a par-saving tap-in An older one didn’t do so at the 18th left him tied badly, either. with Thomas Bjorn.

Bjorn has struggled since “He could be my the death of his father two grandson,” quipped the months ago, breaking 61-year-old Watson, who down in tears when asked – Thomas Bjorn, needed seven more what effect the loss had on on his professional strokes than his namecareer him. sake to get around the “He meant a lot to me,” course. “I just had to the golfer said. “He would smile inside watching have been very proud of what him play. I didn’t play particularly well myself, but I certainly was impressed by the I did.”

Bjorn certainly isn’t dwelling on what way he played.” happened eight years ago, the last time the Lewis’ late-afternoon charge was defiOpen was held just up the road from the nitely impressive, but it didn’t totally overcliffs of Dover. shadow an early morning round by Bjorn, “A lot of people make a lot of things who was playing at this course on the English seaside for the first time since his about that, but the only way I can play golf is to concentrate on the shot in front of meltdown in the 2003 Open.

That Sunday, he threw away a two-stroke me,” he said. “It never entered my mind.”

Bjorn had some good fortune at the 16th lead in the final three holes — who can forget him needing three swings just to escape this time. He thought his 9-iron was headed the bunker at No. 16? — and allowed Ben for the bunker, but the ball took a fortunate Curtis to snatch away the claret jug with bounce and rolled down toward the cup. He made the putt for his third birdie in a row. one of the sport’s most shocking upsets.

“We all know what it’s like,” Bjorn said.

Two very different players.

Two hugely compelling stories atop the “A bounce here or there, and then it goes either wrong or right. Today, it went my leaderboard.

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opportunity to see the golf course that the national championship will be on.”

The Lady Vols will travel to North Carolina to compete in the UNC Tar Heel Invitational October 7-9 before returning home to play host to the Mercedes-Benz SEC/Pac 12

travel to Baton Rouge, La. where they will face off in the LSU Classic.

The Tennessee women’s golf The Big Orange is then team, led by twelfth-year head scheduled to make the trek to coach Judi Pavon, has Hawaii for the Maui Spring announced its 2011-12 schedInvitational, taking place ule as the Lady Vols look to March 26-27 at the Kapaula make a fourth-straight appearBay Course. “We haven’t been ance at the NCAA (to Hawaii) in five or Championships. The six years so the playseason schedule ers are really looking includes four fall tournaforward to that,” ments and four spring Pavon said. “Hawaii contests before entering put together a pretty postseason play. strong field so there “This year we have a will be two or three really competitive really good teams schedule,” Pavon said. there that we’ll face so “We are going to have a it will be another strong team, so we have opportunity for good put together a very chalcompetition.” lenging schedule so we The team will wrap can prepare ourselves up regular season play for postseason through with the Bryan the regular season.”

National Collegiate The fall season will Invitational hosted by open Sept. 11-13 with a U NC - Gre e n s b o ro trip to Charleston, S.C. April 6-8. for the Cougar Classic The 2011-12 champresented by Piggly pionship season Wiggly. begins in Fayetteville, After competing in where the South Carolina, the Matthew DeMaria • The Daily Beacon Ark., Lady Vols will not waste Nathalie Mansson walks across the Razorbacks will host SEC any time jumping into green during the Mercedes-Benz Classic the at rigorous competition as on Sunday, Oct. 10. The Lady Vols golf Championship they travel to Nashville squad comes off a fourth-straight NCAA Blessings Golf Course September 23-25 for the Championship appearance looking April 20-22.

The nation’s top 72 Fall Preview. The tour- toward the 2011-2012 season, which teams will be invited nament, hosted by features stops in South Carolina, to participate in Vanderbilt University, Louisiana and Hawaii.

NCAA Regionals boasts a field comprised from May 10-12. The of some of the most highly-toutChallenge. The Challenge, field will be divided into three ed teams in the country.

“The Fall Preview over at which will take place at regional sites hosted by Penn Vanderbilt will be a highlight of Holston Hills Country Club, State, Ohio State and Colorado.

A top-eight finish at a regionthe fall,” Pavon said. “The top- will wrap up the fall season.

Returning from a four-month al tournament will mark a 12 finishers from nationals last year and the top-10 ranked hiatus, the team is slated to return trip to the state of teams in the country get invit- begin spring competition at the Tennessee for the Lady Vols.

2012 NCAA ed so we are excited to be Darius Rucker Intercollegiate The going to that. That will be a Invitational in Hilton Head, Championships, hosted by really strong field and a good S.C. March 2-4. The following Vanderbilt, will be held May 22weekend the Lady Vols will 25 in Nashville.

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