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Candidate says technology transfer benefits university in diverse ways

Students gain in atypical program

tical applications of research.

“Any time they can point to a practical application of their research and how it improves a process or how it improves society, it makes another product faster, better, cheaper, I think that’s what academic researchers are really looking for when they engage in the technology transfer process,” he said.

Plus it helps with gaining research funding, he said, because companies want to partner with a university and a researcher.

“But one of the key factors in that relationship is how will intellectual property be handled?” he said.

“Because if a researcher is working with a company, chances are, they are working on a more practical application on a piece of research than they would if they had an NSF (National Science Foundation) grant.”

For industry, it’s simply more cost-effective for a company to license research from university researchers with experience working in the field, rather than hire a new team of researchers to embark on a new endeavor.

It also reduces the time of product development, grants access to research resources and offers research flexibility for companies, he said.

Tolbert’s presentation was not meant to critique UT’s past or present, he said.

“I have been on campus for five or six hours now,” he said. “... So when I talk about what tech transfer can do or what tech transfer should do, in no way am I trying to say what the University of Tennessee should have done.”

He described his current university, the University of Rochester, as providing him with a rich background with medical technologies.

“If you’re not familiar with the University of Rochester, the way I describe it is we’re a very large academic medical staff, with a small liberal arts college attached,” he said.

He said he knew the technologies at Rochester and at UT would be different.

“But we do have a history of success at tech transfer,” he said. “Normally we’re in the top 10 or top 15 in terms of licensing revenue, and that’s allowed us to try some things that are slightly different, to think out of box sometimes, and come up with some new strategies for tech transfer.”

He affirmed his strength as a candidate by pointing out his experience at Rochester.

“Maybe even if we don’t have varying strategies for tech transfer because I know it’s not a one-size-fits-all approach, we do have a very sound basis in technology transfer and commercialized technology, and I think those skills are applicable in any environment,” he said.

Mary Ann Warwick Russell, UT Research Foundation staff attorney, said the final four candidates are strong.

“We have some very wellqualified people,” she said.

“So I think we’ll be able to make a good choice.”

Studying abroad in Uganda broadens cultural, historical horizons

Robby O’Daniel News and Student Life Editor Harl Tolbert, assistant technology transfer director at the University of Rochester Medical Center, said successful technology transfer — or the process of ensuring technological developments reach a wide range of people — can bolster a university’s reputation.

“At Rochester, we’ve been fortunate to have quite a few biomedical technologies, but we also have some engineering technologies that have been big,” Tolbert said. “But as a university, if you can say that technology developed at the University of Rochester prevents dozens of cases of deafness each year, that’s important to society. That’s important to anyone you make a pitch to that the university is important and relevant.”

Tolbert is one of the final four candidates for the position of vice president of the multidisciplinary office at the UT Research Foundation.

The other three candidates include Michael Dilling, technology transfer director at Baylor College of Medicine; Eugene Krentsel, assistant vice president at the State University of New York in Binghamton; and James Zanewicz, technology transfer director at the University of Louisville.

All four candidates spoke at the Haslam Business Building this week on the promise and challenge of university technology transfer, with Tolbert speaking last on Wednesday afternoon.

Tolbert said universities can leverage successes in technology transfer in many different ways.

“You can use that in your fundraising efforts,” Tolbert said. “You can use that in your grant solicitations, alumni relationships. If you make an approach to the state for more funding, or if you have to justify your existence to the state, being able to say that we have success commercializing technology — and it affects people’s lives — can go a very long way toward accomplishing that.”

Another way, he said, that technology transfer is important to the university is that it enables better researcher-faculty recruitment.

“Researchers who we hire at the University of Rochester, new faculty members, very often, they want to talk to the tech transfer office,” he said. “They want to know who are the people that will be managing my technologies, who will be reviewing my invention disclosures, what have they done? Do they know what they’re doing? What can I expect if I work with your office?”

And those interactions with the office beforehand can influence their decision to pick the university to join, he said.

Tech transfer also provides for the university fairly unrestricted revenue, he said, among other things.

For researchers, while he said generation of personal income is “a plus,” the real fulfillment comes from prac-

McMillan said students will benefit from studying abroad, no matter the location.

“We are very supportive of initiatives for non-traditional and traditional study abroad programs, and we encourage stuWhile most students are enjoying the last weeks of their summer break, 12 UT students are volunteering in Uganda as dents to utilize any opportunity to broaden their horizons,” she said. part of the new Gulu Study and Service Abroad Program.

Though Johnson had never been to Africa before, she knew The program, a branch of the Jazz for Justice Project, is that going to Uganda would be a tremendous opportunity to running from July 8 to Aug. 12 and exposes students to a grow culturally aware. country affected by war and human rights abuses.

“I am striving to develop a more thorough understanding The students will first tour Entebbe and Kampala, as well as the Ugandan Parliament. After meeting with faculty at of the people, culture, conflict and needs — medically and othMakerere University, the students will travel to Gulu. They erwise — of Uganda and the surrounding areas, so that I am will live in Gulu for a month while listening to speakers from able to apply my awareness as a student, a person and eventuhuman rights agencies and attending classes and lectures at ally a doctor,” Johnson said.

The program is also proGulu University. viding Johnson with a better Sally McMillan, vice understanding of Uganda provost for academic affairs, and its conflicts. thinks the program in Uganda “The Lord’s Resistance is a unique adventure for stuArmy and the stereotypical dents to learn about an unfaAfrican conflicts are somemiliar culture with a group of thing that I heard about in peers. school but never fully under“I think it is a great examstood, and the GSSAP ple of a program that is offered an opportunity to designed to help make stuspeak with many insightful dents ready for the world,” people about the grassroots McMillan said. “Students are sources and surrounding not only stepping outside of forces that have shaped the their own culture and expericurrent environment,” she encing a different culture, but said. they are also traveling with a While the program has group and a professor who given Johnson new insight will really help them study into the country, she said and understand what they are there is still much left to doing.” learn about Uganda and its Erika Johnson, senior in people. biochemistry cellular and “I have learned so much molecular biology and aspiralready about the culminaing to become a surgeon for tion of religious, social, politDoctors Without Borders, ical, economic and military came to learn about the proforces that have shaped gram through a UT study • Photo courtesy of Drex Rockman Uganda into the country it is abroad fair.

Kampala, Uganda is seen under construction on today,” she said. “I can’t wait “After meeting some of the Saturday, May 2. Twelve UT students traveled to wonderful people involved in Uganda to perform volunteer work as part of the Gulu to learn more and hopefully be able to apply that learning the GSSAP and hearing more Study and Service Abroad Program. in an effective and enduring about peace-building in postmanner.” conflict Uganda and the Summer breaks usually consist of sleeping in and taking it unparalleled learning opportunities, I decided that GSSAP easy, but not for these students, who get up early and learn was something I wanted to be a part of,” Johnson said.

While many students usually choose study abroad pro- about Uganda through a variety of lectures, discussions and grams in Europe, McMillan said there are valuable study events.

“We typically wake up at 7:30 and eat a breakfast of juice, abroad opportunities in places students might not initially bananas, toast and eggs,” she said. “We then walk to Gulu consider.

“There is great value in exploring other cultures no matter University — about a 15-minute walk — and attend a mornwhere they might be; however, European culture is somewhat ing lecture. We will walk to a nearby restaurant for lunch, have similar to American culture, so the depth of understanding on discussions and either go to a cultural event or attend an addicultural differences would be different than when you go to a tional lecture. Once we transition into our internships, we will go to our internship instead of Gulu University.” place like Uganda,” McMillan said.

While Uganda is considered a non-traditional program, See UGANDA on Page 3

Jamie Cunningham Staff Writer

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Workers and equipment line the first floor hall of the Humanities Building on Monday, June 13. Construction on the building, which began at the end of the Spring Semester, has continued through the summer to be completed for the return of students in the fall.

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Students walk to class under stormy skies on Tuesday, April 27. Storms threatened campus Monday, but things stayed fairly dry given the amount of storms in the area.

1987 — Gorbachev accepts ban on intermediate-range nuclear missiles In a dramatic turnaround, Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev indicates that he is willing to negotiate a ban on intermediate-range nuclear missiles without conditions. Gorbachev’s decision paved the way for the groundbreaking Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty with the United States.

Since coming to power in 1985, Gorbachev had made it clear that he sought a less contentious relationship with the United States. His American counterpart, President Ronald Reagan, was a staunch anticommunist and initially harbored deep suspicions about Gorbachev’s sincerity. After meeting with Gorbachev in November 1985, however, Reagan came to believe that progress might be made on a number of issues, including arms control. In subsequent summit meetings, the two leaders focused on the so-called intermediate-range nuclear missiles that both nations had massed in Europe and around the world. In late 1986, it appeared that the two nations were close to an agreement that would eliminate the weapons from Europe. Negotiations stumbled, however, when Gorbachev demanded that the elimination of the missiles be accompanied by U.S. abandonment of its development of the strategic defense initiative (the “Star Wars” plan). The talks broke down while Reagan and Gorbachev traded accusations of bad faith. On July 22, 1987, Gorbachev dramatically announced that he was ready to discuss the elimination of intermediate-range missiles on a worldwide basis, with no conditions. By dropping his objection to the strategic defense initiative (which was one of Reagan’s pet projects), Gorbachev cleared the way for negotiations, and he and Reagan

agreed to meet again.

Gorbachev’s change of mind was the result of a number of factors. His own nation was suffering from serious economic problems and Gorbachev desperately wanted to cut Russia’s military spending. In addition, the growing “no-nukes” movement in Europe was interfering with his ability to conduct diplomatic relations with France, Great Britain, and other western European nations. Finally, Gorbachev seemed to have a sincere personal trust in and friendship with Ronald Reagan, and this feeling was apparently reciprocal. In December 1987, during a summit in Washington, the two men signed off on the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, which eliminated an entire class of nuclear weapons.

1977 — Elvis Costello’s debut album, My Aim Is True, is released A suburban family man with an office job, Declan Patrick McManus was somewhat removed from the revolution being staged in late-night clubs in 1977 London by punk-rock pioneers like The Sex Pistols, The Clash and The Damned. “All these bands were playing in the middle of the night,” he later recounted “so I couldn’t go. I was married with a son.” Unlike most of the other wage-earners he rode the tube with, however, Declan McManus was about to become a star himself, though not under his given name. After three years living in London and trying to balance his day job with his musical ambitions, the man now known as Elvis Costello finally made his breakthrough with the release of his debut album, “My Aim Is True,” on this day in 1977.

— This Day in History courtesy of history.com

Friday, July 22, 2011

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Town tries to save itself with scholarship The Associated Press SPARKMAN, Ark. — The signs of decline are everywhere in this tiny timber town. Most of the gas stations are abandoned metal skeletons left to rust under the Arkansas sun. Empty storefronts and vacant lots mark the graves of other long-gone businesses.

Sparkman has been dying for decades, losing more than half of its population since 1950. It has virtually no jobs. And its lone school is on the brink of closing. Now the community is trying to save itself by tapping into the economic-development potential of its most precious resource: its children.

Parents and teachers have launched a scholarship program that goes beyond offering money for college. It also aims to draw new families to town to keep the school system alive — and with it the once-thriving village 90 miles southwest of Little Rock.

“We know there’s not much here to bring people into our town,” said fourth-grade teacher Stephanie Harmon.

“We just want to keep our school so that our town can stay.”

The idea is not entirely new. Other districts have waged similar campaigns to stir interest in their schools.

But Sparkman’s efforts and those of other Arkansas towns have taken the practice to a new level, with communities practically competing for each other’s children and the state revenue that comes with them.

When nearby Arkadelphia announced plans last fall to help its high school graduates pay for college, the news reawakened fears in Sparkman that surrounding towns would steal students away, perhaps forcing the school to close and dealing the town a final, fatal blow.

“We’ve already lost so many kids to other schools,” Harmon said. “This was going to be the straw that broke the camel’s back.”

So Sparkman residents passed around the collection plate and scraped together thousands of dollars to counter Arkadelphia’s millions and launch scholarships of their own.

With their first scholarship recipients preparing to leave for college, both communities are writing checks — and praying that the kids return with degrees, but not requiring them to.

Arkadelphia, a growing town of 11,000, wants to use the scholarships to attract even more people. Sparkman would settle for keeping its population stable at slightly above 400.

Prospects in Sparkman weren’t always so dim. The town boasted nearly 1,000 people in its heyday in 1950.

You could buy clothes, a car or a ticket to watch a Western at the movie theater. Sawmill jobs were as plentiful as the trees that fed the lumber industry.

UGANDA continued from Page 1 These students are not only learning about the culture and history of Uganda but also lessons about disproving stereotypes. Johnson said getting to see Uganda as not just a stereotype has made a profound impact on her life.

“In Uganda, stereotypes have been taken too far, falling back on colonial stereotypes labeling the tall, athletic people as military, the shorter group of people as farmers, et cetera,” she said. “The only difference between the groups of people was whether they farmed or raised cattle.”

Johnson said American stereotypes of Africa is often distorted from reality.

“We think that Africans have no shoes or clothes, but they are selling hundreds of pairs of shoes in the markets and we are passed on the streets by Ugandans better dressed than we are,” she said. “Taking the time to listen, ask questions and seek viable solutions is crucial if we are to move forward and avoid conflict. While the ‘developed world’ has excellent educational opportunities, we are not as wise as we often assume.”

The program gives students the opportunity to learn about a foreign country, while at the same time, allowing them to learn about themselves and their prejudices.

“I have been learning a lot about differing perceptions and how strong a role perceptions play in our beliefs, values and actions,” she said. “I am also learning a lot about forgiveness. It is astonishing how the survivors of the April 1995 and May 2004 LRA massacres that shared their stories just wanted truth and reconciliation, not revenge.”

Then more and more people abandoned rural life for larger cities, leaving crumbled buildings behind like cicada shells stuck on a screen door. Now the town has been reduced to a sit-down restaurant, a small grocery store, a handful of churches and the school.

Surrounded by forests, the town’s lone industry is still timber, and the air smells like Christmas year-round as trucks piled high with tree trunks rumble down two-lane highways.

Of the 13 high school seniors who graduated from Sparkman this past spring, only eight pledged go to college. Kathryne Bosley was one of them. She says her father, who works at one of the three sawmills, wants her to get out.

“He doesn’t want me living like the rest of everybody else, living from day to day,” Bosley said. “He wants me to have something.”

So she plans to study nursing and then leave her hometown behind.

“Sparkman just ain’t the place,” Bosley said. “It’s boring. There’s nothing to do. I’ve been here my whole entire life, and I’m ready to get onto better things.”

Aside from gatherings at local churches, the school is one of the last sources of entertainment and community spirit. Parents flock to basketball games to cheer on their children and visit with neighbors. But the school is a shadow of its former self.

Dandelions and buttercups sprout across the football field, where cleats once shredded the earth. Boards cover the windows of the press box and concession stand because there aren’t enough students to form a team.

Inside the school, a poster of a fancy car reminds students, “In an average lifetime, a person with a college degree makes $1.1 million more than a person without a degree.”

There’s no guarantee that the new scholarship will ease the school’s woes. So far, the program has raised about $53,000, barely enough to send a single student to a top-tier university for one year. But in Arkansas, the most expensive state school rings up at just over $7,000 per year in tuition and fees, so school officials suspect the fund will last for a few years.

To be eligible for some of those dollars, high school seniors must earn good grades, qualify for the state’s lottery-funded scholarship and apply for financial aid. Sparkman will then pick up the rest of

The 12 students are gaining important experience as global citizens, and Johnson argued that this connection to the world makes for better solutions to global issues.

“Everything is interconnected,” she said. “I feel that it is increasingly important to examine both local issues as well as the overall system, to better gauge how to help the smaller problems in ways that support the larger system as well, especially over time.”

While the students will not finish their program until August, McMillan said their time in Uganda will stay with them long after they come home.

“One of the benefits of this program is that students will bond while they are traveling,” McMillan s a i d . “ W h e n they come back to the U n i t e d States, they will have this s h a r e d experience that they can share with other students about all the things t h e y learned in Uganda.”

the tab for tuition and fees, up to the cost of the most expensive public school in the state.

It’s not clear how long they’ll be able to dole out cash without help from some wealthy benefactor. Unanswered, too, is the question of whether the added money will change attitudes toward higher education in Arkansas, where fewer than 19 percent of adults earn bachelor’s degrees. Only West Virginia ranks lower, at 17 percent.

“The program doesn’t seem to be any kind of guarantee that the kids will come back,” said John Gaber, a professor of political science and public policy at the University of Arkansas. “It’s a really good investment in the people but not necessarily a great investment in the community.”

Plus, scholarship programs carry the burden of not only getting students to college, but getting them to finish.

“I do think the community needs to be prepared for students going off to college and not succeeding there,” said Michelle Miller-Adams, who wrote a book about the Kalamazoo Promise, a Michigan program that has paid out millions of dollars to help high school graduates afford college.

That program’s been successful so far, attracting more students to the school district and inspiring other communities across the country to launch similar scholarships of their own. But it remains to be seen if a model designed for a city can produce similar results for a map dot like Sparkman.

Jennifer Daniell hopes it will. So, she enrolled her daughters in school there and went back to work full-time as a nurse in Arkadelphia. For her, the scholarship is a way to finance her dream that they become doctors, lawyers, maybe politicians, before coming back to Sparkman — a town without a hospital, courthouse or statehouse.

“It would be great if some of these kids could go to college and come up with entrepreneurial ideas to help the town thrive,” she said. But “it will probably stay as is.”

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Friday, July 22, 2011

OPINIONS

Editor’s Note British Parliament faces Murdoch Blair Kuykendall Editor-in-Chief There are few things that can rival the humiliation of a custard pie to the face. Being summoned for a live parliament inquiry into the integrity of your life’s work might qualify. Survive the two, and you can swap war stories with Rupert Murdoch.

As far as healthy doses of humility go, Murdoch’s long fall from grace these past few weeks has been particularly brutal. News Corporation serves as the latest reminder of the severe consequences waiting for journalists who abuse the faith of their readers.

Travesties in the News Corp. scandal seem to blossom daily. “The News of the Worlds” closing only temporarily pacified British citizens, who have been pushed to the brink and are now out for blood.

On Tuesday, Murdoch and his son James went in front of the British Parliament’s Culture, Entertainment and Sports Committee. To put a fine point on things, it wasn’t pretty. The committee meeting had to be temporarily suspended when one Englishman attempted to cover Murdoch in cream filling.

The questioning was led by committee chairman John Whittingale, who had James Murdoch scrambling to run interference for his father. The two were peppered with questions regarding their competency, the integrity of their newspapers and their relationships with politicians.

James Murdoch apologized to the committee, regretting journalist infringement on various private voice-mail accounts. Rupert Murdoch looked ashenfaced as his son accepted the corporation’s full responsibility for multiple privacy breaches.

To save face, both men highlighted the massive size of their organization to justify their ignorance regarding its day-to-day operations, namely choices made by certain employees. “News of the World,” the epicenter of the scandal, comprises only 1 percent of the media giant’s holdings.

James admitted the media conglomerate’s liability to the victims, apologized “unreservedly,” and pointed to a compensation scheme set up to deal with victims’ claims.

Even amidst the caustic waves emanating from the MPs, Rupert Murdoch refused to appear outgunned.

If anything he gave off an air of manifest superiority, as if he were far too important to be questioned. His nonchalant demeanor left one to wonder whether events at “The News of the World” are an exception, or rather the rule.

When questioned as to whether it would be fitting for him to resign, Rupert Murdoch quipped, “I feel that people I trusted, I’m not saying who, I don’t know what level, have let me down. I think they behaved disgracefully and betrayed the company, and me. It’s for them to pay.”

The mogul’s flippant attitude did little to settle the rage building among the English. They will likely have a hard time accepting a plea of ignorance from the notorious mogul and his well-coiffed son.

At this time police investigations into News Corp. are ongoing, and will likely continue for quite some time.

Both Murdochs emphasized their desire to restore trust and move forward, but victims of privacy intrusions will be less inclined to shrug this off. The question on everyone’s mind is how far debauchery stretches into the rest of his organization.

While the outlook this week was rather bleak, Murdoch’s empire will likely survive this onslaught. His iron will alone seems to indicate that, at least while he’s still breathing, he will “captain the larger ship.” In the hearts and minds of the British people, however, his reputation is largely beyond repair. Patrons of “BSkyB,” “The Washington Post,” “Barron’s,” “The Sunday Times,” and countless other publications will forever take pause in contemplation of the sources and credibility of their news. The Murdoch name no longer shines as a hard-hitting bastion of media control. It rings more sinister now.

Several important lessons can be gleaned from the Murdoch mess. Chiefly, news publications have a responsibility to deliver unabashed truth, removed from political and bureaucratic influence. Additionally, any media outlet must be loyal primarily to its readership.

Tactics risking a publication’s credibility border on suicidal.

Wise news media both within the News Corp. empire and outside it should learn from the demise of the Murdochs. Readers vote with their feet, and, as in any good democracy, new leaders can always be chosen.

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

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‘Hamlet’ mitigates modern woes Ac orns and Other Seeds by

Anna-Lise Burnette It was more than three years ago when I first wrote about my kinship with Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. No blood relation actually exists between us (as Denmark’s not exactly the Far East), but I remember poring through the pages of my copy with a sense of real wonder. It was later that I revealed to other people the strange feeling that we were characters of the same sort, something that can’t be easily explained considering that none of my uncles have yet to murder my father. And at some even later point, I forgot what exactly it was that made me feel like Hamlet and I were caught up in some transdimensional romance together, brave souls searching for fulfillment.

But after I finally finished up my last few new novels, I cracked open a book I hadn’t really touched in years. It’s called “The Nightstand Reader,” and it’s a little hard-back with a shiny spine and a black ribbon marker that makes it all the more endearing when you see it in the light of day. The book has lots of short stories and poems by familiar names, but I was still surprised to see an ultra-condensed version of “Hamlet” mixed in with the rest; the surprise was mainly due to the fact that this particular “Hamlet” is a retelling while the rest of the volume is chiefly original, but short.

Still, it was good enough to stir up all my old memories of sitting in bed with Shakespeare’s words spread out before me like the feast that they are. Though the words “mortal coil” never appear in this abridged prose version, some of those desperate feelings came back as I read of Hamlet’s anguish. And when the traveling acting troupe entered the story, I recalled the moment when Hamlet and I felt as one, which is to say that neither of us felt anything at all.

Part of me thinks that summer melancholy is like a summer cold: unexpected, sudden and more miserable than the kind that descends like a cloud in winter. Reading something like “Hamlet,” though, has an almost soothing effect; it may be that misery loves company, or it may be that seeing someone else’s misfortunes make yours look less depressing by comparison. As I read I realized that most of the teen angst that characterized the time when I first read “Hamlet” had dissolved, and reformed into something different, though perhaps slightly less dramatic.

And so, though I may not be having the time of my life at the moment, at least my lover hasn’t drowned in the river — that I know of. I can say with some confidence that I’m not about to be shipped off to Great Britain with a pair of pantaloon-ed cronies, and I know for a fact that I haven’t been run through with a poisoned sword, yet. I may not have a Horatio to tell my story for me, but I also don’t need one at this point. There are some things for which we can be easily grateful.

But even though I was able to talk myself out of some of the bluer literary empathy, I’ve found that after all these years I still want to cling to the prince’s words. Full of passion, of love, a sense of justice, Hamlet inspires in me a twisted desire to prove myself in the face of horrible circumstances. Fortunately my subconscious wish has not been granted, and so my life remains blessedly wonderful in more ways than I can count.

There’s still a tug there, though, and it worries me. It’s easy to be a hero when times are rough, and Hamlet proves that even royalty can pull it off. But how to be a shining light in the face of so much fortune? I don’t know if I have the best answer now, but I do know that the prince and I have lived with some of the same sentiments in our hearts. Maybe that’s enough to carry us through.

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

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I drive a 1991 Jeep Cherokee. El Jeepo, as I have fondly named him, has over 300,000 miles and, this year, he turned 20. About a month ago, the speedometer and the odometer stopped working. Two days ago, the air conditioner also stopped working. In lieu of all these newest failures, my dad informed me that I would be getting a new car in the next couple of months.

Needless to say, I have spent a lot of time making a list of cars I want to drive. This last week, I began the arduous task of going out to different dealers, seeing if they actually had the car I wanted to drive, push the salesman away whenever he got too clingy wanting to make a sale, and then subsequently leaving the dealership to venture to the next.

The whole ordeal is totally normal when buying a car, but the car salesmen drive me insane. Not only do they latch on to you the minute you walk onto the lot, but then they keep pushing and pushing trying to make the sale. I know that they work off of commission and obviously, they need to make a sale if they want to make any money, but if you don’t have the car I am interested in, I really don’t want to spend more time on the lot.

Then, there is always the male salesman who seems taken aback whenever I know the slightest bit about cars. He reels back, thinks for a minute to himself and answers with caution. It never fails that I am subsequently asked how I learned anything about cars. I always smile and tell them that I love this one car show, “Top Gear,” and my best girl friend knows quite a bit about cars as well.

If you ask me, men function on this idea that so many women do not know about anything that they actually care about. Whether it is sports, cars or video games, men want to believe that they have superior knowledge about any and all “manrelated” topics. So many guys who spend time with my inner circle of girl friends spend half of their

time arguing with one of us about such a topic.

Whether it is two of my friends who are video game nerds, or it is my friend who loves cars, they each know quite a bit about what they are talking about. In my circle of girl friends, I am the sports girl. I love watching Sports Center, the NFL, NCAA basketball, tennis, golf, NBA, etc. I would never go so far as to say that there is no other person in the world who knows more than I do about sports, but, for the most part, I can hold my own in a sports conversation.

An interesting study was brought to my attention this week by a close friend in regards to male-female relationships and interactions.

Earlier this year, a study on gender behavior found that more American, adult men are interested in commitment and attachment than women. More women responded that they would rather preserve some of their independence in a relationship. I think this ties in exactly with more women knowing about “men’s spheres” of knowledge.

Whenever my friends get together, there is always an argument on the topic of cars or sports.

That argument is always spurred on by the girls.

Knowing that I can talk with a man who loves sports on a level comparable to a man’s changes so much of my behavior. It sparks a moment of independence.

Women learning about a man’s sphere of knowledge profoundly changes gender behavior.

No longer does she have to hide behind her significant other’s brain. She can step onto a platform of her own knowledge and stick up for her opinions. Independence is gained, but that does not mean that all desire of attachment is gone.

A woman functioning in a male-dominated world just opens up many possibilities in the realm of gender and her relationship with her counterparts.

That’s why I will never be able to stand the gawking car salesman. Yes, I know a bit about cars.

Yes, I have questions that are related to the car and no, they are not solely related to the car’s interior.

Yes, it’s a bit strange I know this, but get with it, sir. So many other women in the world know so much more than I do about cars, and that’s just the start of this evolution of knowledge.

--Brittany Vasquez is a senior in anthropology.

She can be reached at bvasque1@utk.edu.

Friday, July 22, 2011

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New “Pooh” still brings wonder to screen Robby O’Daniel News and Student Life Editor These days people need bang for their buck, especially when it comes to their entertainment.

Nowadays it is downright foolish to buy a new movie on DVD, considering how quickly the price plummets and how easy it is to snag a used copy at a place like Blockbuster or Ingles for half the price or less, just roughly six months or so after the DVD release.

And for those who just want to see a movie once, the proliferation of Redbox and Blockbuster Express machines at places like Wal-Mart and Walgreens have made $1 newrelease rentals a standard.

Movie theater prices seem glaringly expensive in comparison to all this. A matinee will run a moviegoer about $7, and a night showing, God forbid, costs about $9.

People have to get more and more selective when choosing which movies to go to when they cost that much, and when the price to see — and even own — said movie drops so drastically by the time it is available on disc.

So how could anyone possibly give a good review to “Winnie the Pooh,” a movie barely over an hour? And that includes a short before the main feature.

Quite simply, “Pooh” is more fun than some of those more blustery, cash-filled, droning summer movies of the year. More people will end up having seen the fourth

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Unfortunately, just to see “Pooh” is a little bit of an adventure. Despite being a new movie about a beloved children’s character, released in the summer, UT student movie lovers cannot see it at the Regal Riviera.

In fact, it is only available at three theaters in Knoxville and others in Maryville, Oak Ridge and Sevierville.

“Pooh” is a strange case in general.

Despite being technically a summer film, it manages to straddle the line between blockbuster that everyone has heard of and indie movie that nobody has heard of. It actually falls much closer to the latter category. When inviting others to join on The Great “Pooh” Watch of 2011, three different people did not even know it was coming out.

Of course, “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2” coming out to a record-setting $169-million opening weekend has a lot to do with that.

Debuting “Pooh” here was a pretty horrible idea, especially considering that both movies go after roughly the same demographic.

With just a $30-million budget, “Pooh” opened in just sixth place with a little over a $7-million take. “Cars 2” in its fifth weekend made more. That is amazing. Also for reference, what movie in the top 12 films also has

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But despite it being like finding Bigfoot to a.) hear about “Pooh” and b.) actually see it, the movie is worth the experience, even on a Tuesday afternoon at 12:40 p.m. in a theater with a row of children in front of you.

Before the main feature, a short called “The Ballad of Nessie” slowly dips the viewer into the pool of classic Disney nostalgia.

Nessie loves playing hide and go seek with her rubber duck in the water, but when someone comes into town and vastly changes the area, Nessie’s lifestyle is drastically shook up.

The beginning of the short feels a lot like “The Lorax,” down to the rhyming Dr. Seuss-like narrator, but it soon goes in its own direction until Nessie finds her water paradise once again. The short does not compare to most Pixar shorts but still was good for what it was.

The actual “Pooh” feature provides a pleasant dose of classic whimsical Pooh.

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Owl, voiced by the hilarious Craig Ferguson, is the best example. His constant diatribes, using difficult words often only found on Scrabble boards, only betray his inner need to feel like the smartest person in the room — or Hundred Acre Wood, as it is.

If Owl was really truly intelligent, he would understand quickly that Pooh is not understanding at all. And this character flaw provides much of the movie’s hilarity.

Tigger, as he so often does, also steals the show. His infectious energy and hair-brained scheme to turn Eeyore into a second Tigger, provide laughs when things get a little too static.

Despite being only a 69-minute overall movie, the film does lag a bit in its final act.

So much of the film revolves around Pooh aching to eat some honey, and after 40 minutes, that is still his main goal. It is an unfortunate reminder of how long he’s been complaining.

But much of the movie’s best jokes come from Pooh’s fixation on the golden goo.

More than once, Pooh zones out as other characters talk, with his mind turning words into “honey” or people into honey pots.

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An hour with this silly old bear is worth more than two hours with the god of Asgard or Jack Sparrow, after all.

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Friday, July 22, 2011

THESPORTSPAGE

Vols focused on ‘turning the page’

Slive proposes SEC, NCAA changes

Senior tailback Tauren Poole, one of only 10 seniors on the team, understands how tough the conference is, and knows preparing for an SEC schedule extends The annual SEC Media Days signifies into the off-season. the upcoming college football season is “This is a hard league to play in and quickly approaching. we’ve definitely got to be professionals as But before Tennessee coach Derek Coach Dooley reiterates every single day,” Dooley could begin his second year with Poole said. “We’ve got to be prepared to the Volunteers, he wanted to dismiss any win. Winning doesn’t start in notions that inexperience would August, it starts in the summer.” be a reason the team struggles With so many new faces arrivthis fall, noting around 70 percent ing this summer, becoming a winof UT’s players this season will be ning team has involved bumps in freshmen and sophomores. the road, according to senior “What I felt like was important defensive lineman Malik Jackson. when we turned the page from “It makes it really tough last year was we had to present because a lot of the young guys this data to our football team and don’t know what to expect, so make a decision from the beginwe’ve got to get them going and ning that we weren’t going to get them in place,” Jackson, a preallow youth to be an excuse for season coaches’ All-SEC first failure,” Dooley said Thursday. team member, said. “They’re “And we’re not going to do that.” learning as fast as they can. The After starting last season 2-6, seniors and older guys are trying the Vols rallied to win their last to teach them. Until they get to four regular-season games, earnthe first game they probably won’t Wade Rackley • The Daily Beacon ing a bid to the Music City Bowl know how hard it is. But they’re where they suffered a controverDerek Dooley laughs during the post-game press coming along well.” sal overtime loss to North conference after the Tennessee-Alabama football But even with the season’s kickCarolina. Coupled with the fact game on Saturday, Oct. 23, 2010. Dooley talked at off a little over a month away, that Dooley was the Vols’ third the SEC Media Day on Monday, offering his Dooley just wants the young Vols different head coach in three seathoughts on the past season, fan response and to focus on one day at a time. sons, the sense of pride UT upcoming opportunities.

“I think at the end of the day all teams once had seemed to be I’ve ever asked this team, once we lost. turn the page, was to come to work every Champions, but Dooley said he can’t be “I do believe that we lost our way a litday and try to make the program, the focused on what the other teams in the tle bit in understanding what it means to organization, themselves better today than league are doing. play for Tennessee and what ‘Power T’ it was yesterday.”

“What I can’t do is concern myself with represents,” Dooley said. “So we have where the other programs are,” he said. spent an inordinate amount of time edu“We have to concern ourselves with where Matt Dixon is a senior in journalism cating our team, talking to our young we are as a program, and each week try to and electronic media. He can be reached players about what Tennessee stands for figure out a way to beat that team because at mdixon3@utk.edu and followed on and what the standard is. There’s a high we only have to be better than them on Twitter at @MattDixon3. standard of winning, there’s a high expecone day of the year.”

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Southeastern Conference Commissioner Mike Slive is well aware of the recent criticism of the NCAA — complaints about prolonged investigations and rulings that leave coaches and administrators scratching their heads.

He thinks change is coming.

“I have a sense that there are several of us that feel like change is important and addressing these issues from a national perspective is important,” Slive told The Associated Press. “And I fully expect that we will do that, and I fully expect that the SEC will make every effort to contribute to that discussion and hopefully the appropriate action following those discussions.”

The influential commissioner of a league that has won the past five national titles in football is more diplomat than maverick, but he also acknowledges there’s a “growing perception that things aren’t exactly as they ought to be in some ways.”

Slive wants to see quicker turnarounds for NCAA investigations, something that has been an issue in his own league, and supports beefing up the annual value of scholarships. He stops short of supporting paying players.

The issue of lengthy investigations bubbled up at SEC meetings in June, when Tennessee coach Derek Dooley and Auburn’s Gene Chizik reportedly peppered NCAA vice president of enforcement Julie Roe Lach with questions about the conclusion of investigations at their respective schools.

Tennessee is awaiting a ruling following a 22-month investigation into the football and men’s basketball programs.

Slive said he’s optimistic that “positive changes” will be made in enforcement and other areas under NCAA President Mark Emmert.

Matt Dixon

Sports Editor

tation in how we represent the program. “(Former UT tight end) Jason Witten was just in town the other day and he made the comment that ‘Power T’ to him was a symbol of excellence. I think that summed it up.”

The SEC has certainly been the symbol of excellence in college football in recent years, claiming the past five BCS National

Kickoff set for UT season-opener Staff Reports For the second year in a row the Tennessee football season will open under the lights at Neyland Stadium as the Vols will host Montana at 6 p.m., on Sept. 3. The game will be televised on a Pay-Per-View basis with details to come.

The SEC released the early-season television schedule on Wednesday with the start of SEC Media Days. The Vols will play on national TV in their second game of the season, taking on Cincinnati on Sept. 10 at 3:30 p.m., on ESPN2.

In week three, the rivalry with Florida continues as the Vols travel to Gainesville for a 3:30 p.m. showdown on CBS.

The Montana game will mark the 31st time Tennessee has played its home opener at night, dating to the first time on Sept. 16, 1972. In the first-ever night game at Neyland Stadium, the No. 7 Vols beat No. 6 Penn State, 28-21.

UT was won its last 10 home openers played at night, dating to the 1995 opener, a 27-7 win over East Carolina on Sept. 2. Last season, the Vols downed UT-Martin, 50-0 in the home opener at night.

Information on pay-per-view ordering for the Montana game, as well as channel numbers, will be announced at a later date.

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

Associated Press

“I think what everyone wants — and this wouldn’t necessarily be restricted to coaches — is that when issues arise, that they be handled in a timely way,” Slive said. “And that’s not always easy when you’re dealing with a process that doesn’t have subpoena power and power to compel answers to interrogatories.”

As for paying athletes, Slive doesn’t support essentially putting them on a university payroll, but thinks they should get the full cost of an education.

“Each institution through its financial aid office has a number that is the full cost at their campus,” Slive said. “I’m hoping and fully expect that that national discussion will take place and I for one hope that it will be adopted.”

Other issues facing Slive and the SEC include.

The SEC’s groundbreaking 15-year, $2.25 billion TV deal with ESPN — not to mention a $55 million-a-year pact with CBS — signed in 2008 has been overtaken. The Pac-12’s new 12-year deal with Fox and ESPN is worth about $3 billion, which might prompt a renegotiation for the SEC. The talk of expansion has died down since last summer, when Oklahoma President David Boren said the SEC offered his school and Texas A&M spots in the league. Slive doesn’t dismiss the possibility of future expansion but said nothing is in the works.

He had previously said the SEC wouldn’t make such a move unless there was a “significant shift in the conference paradigm.”

The SEC also submitted proposals in June, in a letter obtained by AP, to relax some of the rules governing contact between coaches and recruits.

That includes allowing coaches to text recruits and eliminating the rule against incidental contact by combining the recruiting periods for having contact with prospects and evaluating them.