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Summitt heads to Marquette Pat Summitt’s son takes up assistant coaching job Matthew Keylon Staff Writer Tyler Summitt is learning how to adapt to life away from his mom, Pat Summitt, after accepting an assistant coaching position with Marquette’s women’s basketball team on April 19.

“Now we realize we have to have more quality time rather than quantity time,” he said.

“We talk at least twice a day on the phone every day.”

Tyler was on the ESPYs Wednesday night, as his mom Pat Summitt was honored with the Arthur Ashe courage award.

“It was an incredible experience that we were very blessed to be on,” Tyler said.

Tyler is looking forward to his future at Marquette. He thinks the opportunity is perfect for him.

“Teri Mitchell, the head coach (at Marquette), is very strong in her faith,” he said.

“And like my mom, she has always done things the right way. So I think those values and priorities, that's what you have to stick to when making these job decisions not the pay or where it is at or whatever.”

For Mitchell, the decision to hire the son of the all-time winningest NCAA basketball coach was an easy one.

“It only took me about 10 minutes for me to figure out I wanted to bring him in for an interview,” Mitchell said.

“The way he summed it up he said, ‘I'll bring a championship environment to your program every day.' That's what he knows, what he's been grown up in and I love that. I love his enthusiasm and the passion he has for the game.”

See TYLER SUMMITT on Page 6

NEW YORK — A new study has found that YouTube has become a major platform for news, one where viewers are turning for eyewitness videos in times of major events and natural disasters.

The Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism on Monday released their examination of 15 months of the most popular news videos on the Google Inc.owned site. It found that while viewership for TV news still easily out-

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Tyler Summitt smiles beside his mother, Pat Summitt, at her April 19 retirement press conference.

paces those consuming news on YouTube, the video-sharing site is a growing digital environment where professional journalism mingles with citizen content.

“There’s a new form of video journalism on this platform,” said Amy Mitchell, deputy director of the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism. “It’s a form in which the relationship between news organizations and citizens is more dynamic and more multiverse than we've seen in most other platforms before.”

More than a third of the mostwatched videos came from citizens.

Than more half came from news organizations, but footage in those videos sometimes incorporated footage shot by YouTube users.

The Japanese earthquake and tsunami was the most-viewed news event during the length of the study, which spanned January 2011 to March 2012. The top videos from Japan included footage from surveillance cameras, a news network and a Japanese Coast Guard vessel — a typical variety of sources.

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Two skylines dominate Cincinnati. The first is more of a 10-second glimpse of spectacularly aligned buildings that drivers see after coming up and over Interstate 71.

The second is their Skyline Chili. Scattered over and around the city, this specially made chili is decorated onto spaghetti, hot dogs and sandwiches. This chili is unique to Cincinnati, but it gave life to an idea Jake Rheude had.

A junior in management, Rheude is no stranger to starting up his own business.

Before he came to UT, he ran an exotic car detailing business in Cincinnati where he would go to client’s houses and detail their show cars or exotic cars.

Now he’s cooking up a buffalo chicken dip.

SummerSett Foods is the company that Rheude and Cedric Brown, junior in accounting and finance at UT, have started, and have just received $10,000 from

the Boyd Venture Fund to start investing in their company.

The recipe for the dip is simple enough that a highschooler could make it, yet no business has found any sort of cornerstone on the market for this snack pal.

“A product that my friends and I always used to make from scratch in high school was a buffalo chicken dip,” he said. “It’s similar in the fact that it’s a cream cheese base, but it’s usually got chicken and some sort of buffalo sauce and cheese.”

Thinking this was something unique to Cincinnati, Rheude came to Knoxville only to be pleasantly surprised to find everyone on football Saturdays making his or her own buffalo chicken dip.

Rheude ventured to Kroger one weekday afternoon to find a couple packs of frozen dip that he could stick in his dorm room refrigerator.

They didn’t have any, nor were there really any in existence after Rheude researched it. And so the idea was formed.

See SUMMER SETT on Page 2

House candidate deals with son’s tire slashing The Associated Press CHATTANOOGA, Tenn.

— An audiotape obtained by the Chattanooga Times Free Press contains new comments from a congressional candidate about a tire-slashing by his son.

Republican Scottie Mayfield said such actions had no place in campaigns when his 33-year-old son, Michael, was charged in April with vandalizing a car driven by aides of Mayfield’s opponent, U.S. Rep. Chuck Fleischmann of Tennessee’s 3rd District.

The newspaper reported Monday about a June audiotape with Mayfield telling the Nightside Pachyderm Club he was ashamed of his son's actions but not ashamed of his compulsion.

“Lord have mercy,” Mayfield said, according to the recording cited by the newspaper. “Who would have thought your son would have the passion that he had to lose his head after watching those guys follow us around for two days?

“I’ll tell you this,” he added. “I don’t like at all what my son did, and I’m ashamed

A member of the U.S. Olympic swim team watches on during practice at Allan Jones Aquatic Center.

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of it. But I’m not ashamed of why he did it.”

The Mayfield campaign did not respond to the newspaper’s question about whether the recorded statement was at odds with the candidate’s public comment.

Attempts to reach the campaign Monday were unsuccessful.

Fleischmann spokesman Jordan Powell said the utterance confirmed his belief that Mayfield said there was no place for such actions only because his son was cited by police.

“He doesn’t want to answer any questions about it,” Powell said, “but now these new remarks seem to shed a little more light on things.”

Jury convicts teen for violent attack The Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — A jury on Monday convicted a teenager of attempted murder in a vicious kicking and stomping attack on a girl outside a middle school in 2010, rejecting his claims of insanity.

The jury deliberated just over four hours before returning the guilty verdict in the trial of Wayne Treacy in the attack on then15-year-old Josie Lou Ratley. Treacy, 17, could get up to 50 years in prison for the conviction of attempted first-degree murder

with a deadly weapon — the steel-toed boots he used to nearly crush the girl’s skull.

The crux of the case was whether jurors would buy Treacy's defense that he was not responsible because he suffered from severe post-traumatic stress disorder resulting from his brother's suicide a few months before. The March 2010 attack happened after Ratley enraged Treacy by sending him a taunting text message about his dead brother.

Experts on both sides agreed Treacy has

PTSD. But prosecution psychiatrists testified that Treacy clearly knew right from wrong and understood the consequences of his actions.

Treacy showed no emotion, staring straight ahead as the verdict was read. His mother and other family members avoided the media by ducking quickly out a side exit.

Prosecutor Maria Schneider said Ratley’s mother, Hilda Gotay, told her “thank you” in a text message shortly after the verdict was announced.

“If there are any young people watching this, I hope they realize that because you are angry, because you are upset, because you have issues, it is never OK to take things like this in your own hands and to act in this way,” Schneider said.

Ratley’s family said in a news release that it was “not a day to rejoice.”

“Thank you to the jury for having the courage to make the right decision,” they said.

Circuit Judge David Haimes said he would schedule sentencing at a later date.

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SUMMER SETT continued from Page 1 “It’s about 30 percent cream cheese,” he said. “It’s got a little bit of ranch and blue cheese in it, and then it’s just shredded up chicken breasts and a special sauce that we’ve developed. It’ll be served in the frozen aisles of grocery stores in a 12 ounce container, and you’ll just be able to put in the microwave for 2-3 minutes, add cheese to it and you’ll be good to go.”

NEWS Rheude and Brown think that SummerSett Foods, and this buffalo chicken dip, have a real shot at getting some legs and making headway as soon as this December.

But they are not alone. Graduate of Chef’s Academy in Indianapolis, Ind., Marcie Douglass is the brains behind the bowl.

Last spring, SummerSett Foods hosted a recipe contest for the students of Chef’s Academy. Students signed up on their website, and SummerSett Foods would narrow down the recipes till they felt confident in one.

But Douglass said they felt like her recipe was superior to the rest.

“They were primarily looking for a buffalo chicken dip,” she said. “They were going to do a taste testing, but when they read my recipe, this is the way I understand it: compared to the rest of the recipes, it was far superior to the other recipes, so they just declared me the winner.”

Douglass had previously been making a version of this buffalo chicken dip using bottled sauces, but when the recipe contest came around, she made her own version of the hot sauce from scratch.

Rheude said that the money they received from the Boyd Venture Fund is now the launching pad for success of

SummerSett Foods and their snack dip delight.

“That money is going to go towards the packaging design, the nutrition label and trade marking some of the different things that are going to go on our actual packaging,” he said.

In December, Rheude’s goal is to travel through different states to see which grocery stores would be interested in their snack dip.

Rheude attributes much of the success of winning the Boyd Venture competition to Randall Mitchell, president of Smoky Mountain Cheese Dip, who really propelled them with some ideas and strategies.

“He was able to give us a streamline checklist of what we need to do, where we need to do it, who we need to do it with and how much it’s going to cost us to be able to start selling this to grocery stores,” Rheude said. “I think going into Boyd having such backed up numbers, and knowing exactly how much money we needed and where we needed it really helped us get the financing in order for that competition.”

Now that a plan has been set and the money has been provided, the steps are in order for SummerSett Foods to move into their next phase of business.

Douglass thinks that before long, the prod-

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uct could be a smash hit.

“I have a feeling Jake’s company is going to be a household name if this lands in the right hands,” she said. “I think it’s going to be really big. Every party I’ve ever gone to and anytime I’ve ever made it, people love it. People always want me to bring it, people always want a recipe.”

Rheude has done some studying of the product of Goldstar Chili and thinks after seeing what they have done, this buffalo chicken dip could really take off.

In comparison, Rheude said that Goldstar Chili produces $15 million of revenue a year just from their grocery store sells, only selling in the greater Cincinnati area, and in extremely high competition with Skyline Chili.

“So there’s a lot of money to be made by making 60 cents per units sold times several million units if you can sell that many,” Rheude said. “Our goal is to have a product that sits on the grocery shelves around $3.40.”

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Nick Lopes, junior in BCMB, plays badminton at the Georgia Games. He went on to take third place in Men’s Singles.

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‘Amazing Spider-Man’ retells same story be a normal 17 year-old. As for Stone’s Stacy, her talent seems to stay flat in her poorly written role. Unlike Dunst’s Mary Jane, a If you’ve heard this story before, let me character who was written in a way that made her not only interesting but also desirable, know.

A young, socially awkward, but terribly Stone’s character seems too shy and too awkbright, student, who lives with his aunt and ward around everyone to make any real lastuncle, is one day bitten by an irradiated spi- ing impression (though there has to be someder and through a series of trial and tribula- thing poetic about Dunst having to dye her tions becomes a masked-crusader swinging hair from blonde to red for her role in her from the skyscrapers of New York City pro- “Spider-Man,” while Stone had to do the opposite). And as for the villain, well it was tecting the innocent.

Those last 45 words serve as the summary slightly laughable to try and conceive the for not just one movie, but two. Because with slight and wiry Ifans as anything close to sinthe new film “The Amazing Spider-Man,” no ister. Unlike Dafoe, who almost seems like he viewer can leave the theater without the sink- is always one bad day away from a complete ing suspicion that they’ve heard that story sociopathic breakdown, Ifans is flat, unintimidating and at times just weird. He literally before. And they wouldn’t be wrong.

In 2002, Sony Pictures made headlines plays a giant CGI lizard. Not really more that with not only one of the best critically needs to be said besides that.

The look of the film is one received superheroes of its most redeeming sides. movies of recent times, Director Marc Webb and cinbut also with one of the ematographer John most financially successSchwartzman did an incrediful ones as well. That ble job at making this film “Spider-Man,” helmed by look as good as it can. While Sam Raimi and staring their tendency to overly rely Tobey Maguire, Kirsten on the point-of-view-swingDunst and James Franco, ing-through-the-city shot can spawned two sequels and at times be visually nauseata failed third. And it is ing, the duo do an incredible out of the ashes of job at making the movie as the planned “Spider-Man realistic and accessible as 4” that “The Amazing possible. With 3-D audiences Spider-Man” emerged. obviously in mind, “The Sony’s plan was simAmazing Spider-Man” is ple: reboot the franchise meant to put its viewers in completely with a new director, new faces, new •Photo courtesy of rottentomatoes.com with Peter Parker as he becomes Spider-Man, as characters and a new villain. Starring the rising talents of Andrew opposed to watching him from the sidelines.

Overall, “The Amazing Spider-Man” is Garfield and Emma Stone, who team up as doomed by its timing. The movie itself isn’t Peter Parker and Gwen Stacy respectively (one of a few alterations made to return bad. Sure, some characters are static and Spider-Man back to his Stan Lee roots), and trite, but there are truly redeemable qualities Rhys Ifans as their antagonist, “The Amazing about this film. Garfield is a better version of Spider-Man” at its core hopes to distance the web-slinger, the look of the film is good and the story is surprisingly enjoyable. But itself from its predecessor.

Unlike Tobey Maguire, Garfield wears the this appreciation can only come if the movie role of Peter Parker with a more deft ease. is viewed in its own context and not in the While Maguire’s Parker was overly shy, overly context of its predecessors. With that in nerdy and at times a little creepy, Garfield mind, is it even possible for the film to be portrays the troubled teen as the affable, intel- viewed that way?

Unfortunately, the answer seems to be no. ligent, yet socially distant young man that has recently become en vogue in all post- The 2002 “Spider-Man” made over 800 milChristopher Nolan superhero movies. lion dollars in theaters alone and is replayed Garfield’s Parker is still nerdy, but in a more constantly on television, so who hasn’t seen accessible way. He has his own eccentricities it? “The Amazing Spider-Man” is simply a like everyone else, but at his core he seems to retelling of a story we all know too well.

Preston Peeden

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Somewhere... Hopefully Coming-of-age a unique experience Preston Peeden Managing Editor I recently became a man in the check-out aisle of the Walker Springs Walmart.

By becoming a man, this does not mean I took part in some perverse physical act in public, nor did I have a coming of age ceremony in between the candy display and the Coke refrigerator. Instead, I bought my first vacuum and picked out my first couch.

To many, these purchases seem to be nothing out of the ordinary. Both are necessary items that everyone should have. It’s just uncomfortable and rude not to have a couch, and as for the vacuum, its worth lies solely in its hygienic qualities. So why, for me, do these banal objects signify my passage into adulthood?

The rite of passage from being a child to an adult is not only one of the most influential social experiences of one’s life; it’s also arguable the defining moment of the first half of a person’s life. It’s the starting point, the genesis of all things that come after it. And the existence of and the importance of this starting point is nearly universal. In Judaism it’s a Bat/Bar Mitzvah. For proper Southern Belles, it is their first Debutant Ball. And even the ancient Greeks marked a person’s ability to exercise their public rights and duties with the dokimasia. But for me, adulthood was marked by a receipt for a Hoover bagless and a cloth loveseat.

When I was a kid, most everything was done for me.

I had chores, of course, but I never really wanted for anything and was never really given too much responsibility. I had a roof over my head, a comfortable bed to sleep in and three home-cooked meals a day.

All I had to do to earn these things was make my bed, occasionally do the dishes, take the trash out and once every so often help dust away the obscene amount of dust mites that collected on everything wooden in my family home. There was nothing really at stake, and really nothing I had to do to keep it that way.

For many, this youthful stage starts to ebb away as one gets older. With each passing year, from driver licenses to moving out to college, more and more responsibilities are heaped on a person’s shoulder, until gradually, without even realizing it, he or she becomes an adult (willingly or unwillingly). Luckily for me,

however, for 21 years, I was almost unchanged in my state as a perpetual child.

It’s not like I never grew up; it’s more that I never took the one giant step forward. When I was a freshman living in the dorms, a time when most college students take that first true step towards adulthood, I preferred to remain idle. Instead of taking up the mantle of responsibility for my own messes, I decided to lie in fallow. In fact, more times than not, my side of the room was cleaned by my exacerbated roommate, who would reach his own personal threshold for dirt every so often. And in this way, I’ve spent the past three years at college. I’m not necessarily a slob, but rather, if I need something, I ask someone else for it.

I’m not lazy; I just never had the initiative to move forward, and why would I? Being taken care of isn’t necessarily a bad thing; like a child, all my needs were taken care of by an outside force. Why should I try and stand in its way?

This was my mentality until recently. But as I draw closer to graduation and the real world, I am starting to realize that no one can stay a child forever. And so in this way, I am brought back to my new vacuum and couch in the Walmart check-out line.

Both are signs of permanence for me. Not only do I need furniture for my first non-furnished apartment, but also for the first time I am investing myself in a place for the first time. I want a couch and vacuum not just because I need them, but because I want them. I want the responsibility of providing my own comfort and creating my own cleanliness. I want to be more like an adult.

I don’t know if my shopping spree can be considered a rite of passage. It’s definitely no Rumspringa, but I feel it’s a step in the right direction.

We, as a society, put so much emphasis on growing up. We ask each other what we will be, where we will be, and we expect others to reach a level of adulthood near the same time. We perceive growing up as natural and inevitable. But it’s not.

Growing up is an individual experience. It’s not something that should be forced upon someone (though, unfortunately, that’s the case for many), but rather, it’s something that needs to be done at one’s own time and with one’s own consent. Because without that, a person can’t fully grow up, they’ll just keep waiting for someone else to clean up their mess.

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

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Diners big part of American culture Shal l o w a n d Pe d a n t i c by

Robbie Hargett What is it about the diner that has infatuated Americans for decades? What is it about the stale coffee that sits on the burner for hours that keeps us coming back for cup after cup? What is it about the grease-and-sweat-stained griddle tops on which fat fry cooks sear everything from patties to potatoes that gets our mouths watering?

Or is it just me?

No, it can’t just be me. It can’t just be me if director David Lynch ordered the same lunch at Bob’s Big Boy diner every day for more than seven years. It can’t just be me if one of the main settings for the landmark sitcom “Seinfeld” was a diner/coffee shop called Monk’s Café, which was also named the favorite location from the sitcom in Guest of a Guest’s top 10 favorite “Seinfeld” NYC locations. And it can’t just be me if Edward Hopper’s “Nighthawks,” the painting depicting the inside of a street-corner diner and its occupants at night, has become one of the most iconic pieces of American art, even if we can’t always remember the author’s name or the title.

Diners have come to carry an incredible amount of cultural significance across the U.S. and even up into Canada. People flock to these establishments, whether for solitude or camaraderie. Diners may be to common Americans what cafés were to French and Spanish intellectuals, who gathered to discuss matters of love and the human heart — it’s what we Americans do at Waffle House around 3 a.m., smothered and covered at the end of an inauspicious night. In both instances, the objects of discussion were men and women, and the subjects were, on the whole, drunk.

These late-night diners have become a favorite of certain American subcultures—which in the end amount to teens who go for the isolation, even when they’re in groups. Where I’m from, Memphis, CK’s Coffee Shop will serve your needs. At all of the various locations, the place is filthy, the food is

marginal, and the ancient wait staff is never happy to see you. But this is what you came for.

The teens of old frequented another kind of diner: soda fountains layered in stainless steel and chrome.

These diners close early and specialize in burgers and shakes. We still love that kind of diner — the Fountain City Diners of the U.S., and even the franchised Steak 'n Shakes. These types were once an integral part of young dating life, and they still can be. They offer a sublime piece of nostalgia for some, even if the food is bad, which it often is.

Although it usually doesn’t, the relatively low food quality should deter at least some of the regulars at diners around the country. (For one thing, diners don’t normally attract health nuts.) Lynch enjoyed the silver goblet milkshake at Bob’s Big Boy, but after all those years he stopped going because one day he climbed into the dumpster behind the diner and found a carton of the premixed shake solution, and “noticed that all the ingredients ended in the letters -ate or -zine, and I figured I better stop with that.”

But I believe he’s in the minority on this issue. How could I stop going to Pete’s Coffee Shop in downtown Knoxville if I found out they used prepackaged home fries? I would still go. I have too much stake in that place; I’ve associated it with too many good memories. I can’t think of a better way to spend a Saturday morning, because, after Friday night in a college town, which is the pure and absolute departure from all things real-world, going to a diner in the early morning hours is literally a sobering act; it’s such a stark comparison to whatever was going on the previous night that you have to love life simply for that difference.

Although Lynch’s reasons for stopping his diner binge are important on some tier, his reasons for starting it in the first place are much more telling of the American cultural significance surrounding diners: “I liked to go to the diner to think and catch ideas,” Lynch said in an interview with The Washington Post in 2007. “And what I liked about the diner was that it seemed like a safe place, so if I went to darker areas mentally, I could always come back to the safety of the diner. And,” he added, “I like coffee, and I liked their silver goblet milkshake.”

— Robbie Hargett is a graduate in English. He can be reached at gharget1@utk.edu.

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A few weeks ago I began what I proposed to be a an exploartion of English academia, using genre studies to argue how the fractious nature of art in the modern world makes the boundaries between mediums somewhat irrelevant. It was a topic I was passionate in pursuing — and still am — but then last week before I could start the second installment, my house was broken in to and my laptop was stolen.

Thus, no new column.

This week I would like to make up for that by making a broader argument and for now abandoning mere genre studies and broaching a bigger underlying theme: Why do we tell stories? Why is it necessary to share anything with anyone else?

Anyone who has ever taken Bill Larsen's screenwriting course knows that at the top of his assignment sheets there is always a list of quotes from many sources, all usually relevant to that assignment. The first, however, without fail, is one

by Joan Didion — "We tell ourselves stories in order to live." Now, Didion is a literary author, yet her words appear in a film studies class. Why? Because the same basic truths regarding human interaction transcend the barriers thrown up between artist of one particular mode of expression from another.

Humans, above all other known species on this planet, possess a level of social hierarchy, and therefore social conditioning, unlike any other animal, vegetable or mineral. We often say, "Oh yeah, we're a social species," and leave it at that. But that doesn't account for the antisocial, sociopathic, or downright insane among us. We share things in order to relate, true, but for a person with no other consideration for others this seems wholly unnecessary. However, that isn't to say that those people cannot appreciate art or feel some emotion when watching a powerful work of drama or comedy.

Society as it stands now is both more united and more divided than at any other point in our history. With the world economy and the unions of power established by wars and treaties in the last three centuries, we now have the opportunity to communicate with, and either love or hate, more

people than any generation prior to ours'. But instead of embracing these capabilities and working towards something better for the species and perhaps even the planet, we squander the means of rapid communication that exist to bring us closer together.

I'm becoming sidetracked. Let's back up. Media's constant inundation with banal programming and Hollywood's proclivity towards shoddily contructed spectacles made to rake in money rather than build dreams, as was the original selling point of motion pictures, offer little incentive to rising generations to chase the wild visions and unbridled ambitions that for so long have moved and driven the world to push on through the slog of everyday life. Above filling some social obligation to interact with fellow members of society as per the social contract, art is the tool by which we reaffirm our wearwithal and through whose means we quell fears and anger to live another day and maintain some sense of sanity.

Perhaps my bias gets the best of me. There are other means of achieving the same ends — religion, competitive success in business, scientific inquiry — but art is the least abashed dealer in human emotions, the cogs which drive our ego and id and as a species, take over our biological imperative for survival and cause us to operate on whims. This blind subjectivity has been denounced by religion, by science, as a restraint on our potential, and perhaps this is true. But the utter callousness that exists on the opposite end of that spectrum is no better an alternative.

If you pick up a book of short stories from the middle of the last century and compare them to, say, Push by Sapphire, the contrast is extreme. A certain studiousness and deliberance exists in those older works, whereas in the newer book there is only innocence in the face of atrocity. We have thrown the reins under the hooves of the horses and no longer maintain the control of our emotions, As artists, we have that fault. That is not to say, though, that this is any reason to abandon the pursuit of telling human stories for that purest of reasons, not only to just live, but live well, to taste the bitterness and saccharine of life equally, to lament the pitfalls of living and laud the highs of being here at all, against all probable odds. We tell ourselves stories to remain human, when our most instincts would drive us to do otherwise.

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

Tuesday, July 17, 2012

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Dweezil Zappa carries on father’s legacy Gabe Quistorff Staff Writer Dweezil Zappa and his tour, “Zappa Plays Zappa,” came through the Bijou last Thursday in a performance that would have made his father proud.

The late Frank Zappa was a prolific songwriter and composer who produced over 60 albums in his 30-year long career. Zappa Plays Zappa was formed by Dweezil in 2006 with the idea of paying homage to his father and carrying on his somewhat obscure legacy.

Frank, known for his virtuoso guitar work, satirical and often humorous lyrics, and genius compositions left some big shoes to fill but as soon as the band opened with the familiar groove of “Montana” it was apparent they were channeling that strange Zappa energy precisely.

Joey McKee, senior in psychology, and a dedicated concert-goer and interns mixing sound at the WDVX radio station, placed Thursday in his top-five concerts.

“I’m sad I was too young to see Frank, but the band and Dweezil emulate all the shows I’ve listened to and DVDs I’ve watched,” he said.

ZPZ is a meticulously tight group. Every rhythmic challenge, such as the formidable melody in “Dirty Love,” was met with confident and energetic precision.

sion as “a tool of the government and industry too,” was soloed skillfully by the young Zappa.

The band, accompanied by an interesting anecdote of Eddie Van Halen paying a visit to the Zappa residence, pulled out a cover of Van Halen’s “Eruption” as well as “Somebody Get Me a Doctor.” The latter song entailed a character dressed in a blonde wig and spandex one-piece belting the lyrics and committing general acts of 80's hairband foolery onstage.

The band’s encore included the 1969 jam recording, “The Gumbo Variations” and the band said their goodbyes closing an impressive performance. And it’s safe to say the Zappa legacy is alive and well in Dweezil.

The band itself seemed to be having infinite amounts of fun onstage despite the slightly tamer seated arrangement, as opposed to the type of energy found at a general admission venue.

Bassist Kurt Morgan, who did an awesome job on the bass solo of “Apostrophe,” said of the performance, “Tonight it was so dialed in for me. It was an interesting experience.”

On guitar, Dweezil is definitely his father’s son. ZPZ performed “The Black Page,” a song noted for the extreme difficulty of its guitar melody. Dweezil said onstage that it took him over a year to learn the melody at tempo. “I’m the Slime,” a song written as a social commentary on televi-

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Tyler Summitt continued from Page 1 Tyler is pleased with how the new job has been going so far.

“Right now, they are giving me a lot of freedom,” he said. “So as far as it goes at Marquette, she (Mitchell) has given me the freedom to help run the offense, I'm kind of the offensive coordinator if you will. I'm in charge of the point guards. I'm not the recruiting coordinator, but I do have a lot of recruiting areas that I take care of for recruiting that I'm in charge of. They don't care how young I am. Coach Mitchell really trusts me.

She's incredible to do that.”

Summitt certainly thinks his playing days at UT will help him with his new job. He was a practice squad player for the Lady Vols his freshman year, then a walk-on under Bruce Pearl his sophomore season and Cuonzo Martin his junior year.

“It was great,” Tyler said. “I was there three years and every year I learned from a

THESPORTSPAGE different head coach. There were different philosophies, different styles, different x's and o's, different off the court things. There's so many different ways.

“I don't think I'm going to coach exactly like my mom, Coach Pearl or Coach Martin.

I'm going to have my own style and take the best from each.”

Summitt isn't sure what the future brings, but a return to Rocky Top could be on the horizon.

“Would I happily accept the head coaching job of the Tennessee Lady Vols? Absolutely. I mean who wouldn't?” he said. “But at the same time, it's not up to me. It's wherever God wants me and I'm also gonna put my family first. Even if the Tennessee job is open, maybe I'm not meant to be there. The one thing I have always wanted to be is a head coach. That's always burned inside of me.”

In the meantime, Tyler is still working on “the stare” his mom is so famous for.

“People tell me that I have the eyes, but I don't know if I have that piercing stare just yet,” he said.

Three kickoff times finalized Staff Reports The Southeastern Conference released the early-season television schedule Monday morning, and the kickoff times for the first three 2012 Tennessee football games have been finalized.

The Vols’ home opener against Georgia State on Sept. 8 is set for a 4 p.m. ET kickoff and is a pay-per-view broadcast. Additionally, the TennesseeFlorida game kickoff time has been set for 6 p.m. ET and will be broadcast on ESPN. Tennessee opens the season in the Georgia Dome against North Carolina State with a kickoff slated for 7:30 p.m.

ET. This game will be broadcast on ESPNU and marks the first time the Vols opened the season away from Knoxville since 2008, when UT opened at the Rose Bowl against UCLA. Information on pay-per-view ordering for the Georgia State game, as well as channel numbers, will be announced at a later date.

To order season tickets or individual game tickets, visit UTTix.com.

Bray on watch list Vols quarterback Tyler Bray is one of five SEC signal callers named to the Manning Award Watch List. The overall Watch List includes 25 of the top quarterbacks in the nation heading into the

2012 season. The winner will be announced after the bowls in January and will be honored at a ceremony in New Orleans.

Bray, who is on the Maxwell Award Watch List enters his junior year in 2012.

A native of Kingsburg, Calif., Bray has played in 16 games for the Vols in his career, including 12 starts, and already ranks among the school’s career passing leaders in touchdowns (7th, 35), completions (10th, 272), and yards (3,832). He has completed 272 of 471 passing attempts for his career (57.7 percentage), and in 2011, he completed 147-of247 passes for 1,983 yards, 17 touchdowns, and six interceptions, averaging 283.3 passing yards per game. Bray is 84 in his career as a starter and owns the UT records for consecutive games with multiple touchdown passes (10) and most passing yards in the first four games of a season (1,328).

The Manning Award will be recognizing its ninth winner this year. USC’s Matt Leinart was the inaugural winner of the award in 2005, followed by Texas’ Vince Young in 2006. Both went on to be top 10 NFL draft picks. In 2007, LSU’s JaMarcus Russell earned the award and was the NFL’s No. 1 draft pick. Boston College’s Matt Ryan claimed the award in 2008 and was drafted No. 3, quickly becoming the starting quarterback for the Atlanta Falcons.

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Tennessee women’s basketball head coach emeritus Pat Summitt and NASCAR driver Trevor Bayne stand in front of a “We Back Pat” race car on Friday in Thompson-Boling Arena. Bayne, a Knoxville native and 2011 Daytona 500 champion, will drive a similar car in the Nationwide Series Food City 250 at Bristol Motor Speedway on Aug. 24 to help raise money for the Pat Summitt Foundation, which helps raise money for Alzheimer’s research. Summitt announced last August that she had been diagnosed with early-onset dementia, Alzheimer’s type, and stepped down as the Lady Volunteers head coach in April. She will also serve as the grand marshal for the race.