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TRECS facilities help students stay healthy Kevin Letsinger News and Student Life Editor For incoming students trying to ward off the notorious “freshmen 15,” UT offers many outstanding athletic programs to assist with the fitness of students.

Kelsey Kinzy, sophomore in business, makes it a point to work out daily.

“It's important to go everyday to not mess up your regiment,” Kinzy said. “Once you skip one day, the next thing you know an entire week has passed.”

As for ideas on how to force one to wake up and enter the doors at TRECS, Kinzy said that working with a workout buddy on a daily basis serves as a great motivation to get out of bed and into the gym.

“Not only working out with a buddy is fun, but it keeps you motivated when times get rough,” Kinzy said. “It also helps when you are trying to continually increase your stamina when you have a friend yelling in your face telling you that you're fat.”

Kinzy also exclaimed that when you are alone, you feel more pressured by the others around you, but when working out with a buddy, you feel less self-conscious about what others think.

“You see people at the gym who are already fit, and it makes you want to turn around and go back home,” Kinzy said. “But you must realize that the way that they got fit was by going to the gym. They started where you are now at.”

Whether it is a job time conflict, family vacation or just a hectic weekend, Kinzy said it is important to keep a strict schedule in open communication with your workout buddy.

“If you have an early meeting or class one or two days a week, be sure to let your workout buddy know and make arrangements to go every day, five days a week, no matter what,” Kinzy said.

Kinzy said keeping a traditional exercise regiment is not the only way to burn some extra calories or build muscle.

“Playing tennis, running outside with a friend or swimming are great activities where you have fun and not even realize that you're exercising,” Kinzy said. “Most of the time, it isn't your actual physical limits that prevent you from exercising, but the thought that you can't do something. Force yourself to do something, and the second you're done, you'll feel better, both physically and mentally.”

As for keeping students active and moving, Tee Ezell, fitness director at TRECS, said the RecSports Department has a lot to offer students in terms of recreational activities in the areas of aquatics, fitness, outdoor, sports clubs, informal recreation and intramurals.

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TRECS has several options to help stay in shape during the year. Summer group classes end on Aug. 10 and resume for the school year on Aug. 18. Classes range from yoga to Killer Core to Body Sculpt.

Fiber-optic network goes global Staff Reports It circles the globe connecting the hearts, minds and work of people at universities and research institutions around the world.

The Global Ring Network for Advanced Applications Development, or GLORIAD, is a network of fiberoptic rings that circles the world to allow scientists, students and educators to collaborate in solving some of the planet’s biggest science problems.

“Climate change and environmental degradation and energy needs — these are problems that require us to work together,” said Greg Cole, director of GLORIAD. Cole is working this summer to expand GLORIAD’s reach internationally and in our own backyard.

Cole describes GLORIAD, which is housed at UT, as a separate Internet that has the technological advances and capacity to allow scientists to transmit entire libraries of information in seconds, permit thousands of simultaneous video-conferences, and, someday, even enable surgeons to operate on patients on the other side of the world.

GLORIAD grew out of the end of the Cold War, linking the U.S. with Russia. It later spread to Korea, Canada, the Netherlands, five Nordic countries, and this summer is adding Egypt, other parts of the Africa and the Middle East, India, Singapore …

and the list goes on.

The idea is to connect the U.S. with countries it’s currently not wellconnected to.

“The magic of the Internet for me was that it creates the possibility for people to engage in peaceful, productive work together and maybe enables us to collaborate, to get to know each other and to realize what is common about us as opposed to focusing, as we often do, on our differences,” Cole said.

Also this summer, GLORIAD is adding a social networking site, http://www.zeeba.net, that enables users to exchange ideas on how to use the advanced telecommunications services better.

“The idea is to let the community tell their stories of how to effectively use the technology,” Cole said. “And we are just trying to create an ecosystem in which those people can basically function as a sharing community.”

At first, GLORIAD only connected scientists, but now Cole wants to connect future scientists. He’s starting by connecting one local Knox County School, Hardin Valley Academy, to the network, so the kids can collaborate on science projects with their peers in China and Egypt.

“Tennessee is known, because of our GLORIAD network, for connecting much of the world of science and education, but one of the problems

that we have is that our young people of Tennessee have little access to these technologies,” Cole said.

Cole believes by connecting minds, GLORIAD may not only help conquer the challenges the world faces today but also change the world, one fiber optic ring at a time.

“I hope these communications networks enable us to build a — I know it sounds corny — more peaceful world,” Cole said.

GLORIAD partners with the EArena consortium of research and education networks in Russia, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information, SURFnet in the Netherlands, NORDUnet in the Nordic countries, CANARIE in Canada, ENSTInet in Egypt, SingAREN in Singapore, National Knowledge Network in India and Tata Institute for Fundamental Research and CNIC/CSTnet for cyber infrastructure deployment.

GLORIAD’s primary sponsor in the U.S. is the National Science Foundation, with more than $18.5 million committed since 1998.

It also is sponsored by Tata Communications, Telecom Egypt, National Lamba Rail, Internet2, ESnet for the U.S. Department of Energy, the NASA networks and the federal research and education networks for all U.S. research organizations.

UT professor awarded state hospitality education award Staff Reports Carol Costello, professor in the retail, hospitality and tourism management department at UT, has been named the 2010 Tennessee Hospitality Educator of the Year.

The award was presented to Costello earlier this month at the annual industry conference of the Tennessee Hospitality Association, held in Murfreesboro, Tenn. The association is the statewide industry organization representing industry professionals from the Tennessee Restaurant Association and the Tennessee Hotel and Lodging Association.

Costello was nominated by her peers at UT and supported by industry professionals in the Knoxville area.

The award was presented

by Susan Whitaker, commissioner of the state Department of Tourist Development.

Whitaker noted Costello’s outstanding contribution to hospitality education throughout her 23-year career at UT, including classroom teaching, community service, academic research and mentoring practices.

Costello recently was named director of the UT Culinary Institute’s Wine and

Beer Education Program, which offers popular public wine and beer education and industry training courses.

“We’re delighted to see Carol honored by the state.

Her contributions to the Culinary Institute have been tremendous,” said John Antun, founding director of the Culinary Institute and recipient of the 2009 Tennessee Hospitality Educator of the Year award.

The Culinary Institute is a 10-month intensive certificate program offered by the Department of Retail, Hospitality and Tourism Management of UT’s College of Education, Health and Human Sciences.

Costello said the award is wonderful, but the real reward has been the work itself.

“I have been associated with fantastic students and colleagues over the years and hope to continue to contribute to student’s lives,” she said.

In 2009 Costello was awarded one of the highest honors in the College of Education, Health and Human Sciences when she was recognized by her peers with the Jackie De Jonge Award, given to college faculty having superlative research, teaching and service.

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The UT sound art class had a performance at the A1 Art Space. For this piece the class placed a sound mic into a jar full of hornets.

TRECS continued from Page 1 “Aside from what is offered at the recreation facility, students have another great resource, our campus,” Ezell said. “Take advantage of developing their walking or running program through the campus. There are challenging hills, steps and flats on campus that make for excellent cardio and toning workouts.”

Ezell continued to say that taking the T should be a treat from time to time, but students should try to walk to class or activities as much as you can to tone muscles and condition the heart.

Doing something as simple as eating breakfast can greatly impact a student's health.

“Breakfast is the most important meal of the day,” Ezell said. “It's a myth that skipping breakfast can help reduce caloric intake and help you lose weight. Food that is consumed at breakfast is more easily utilized.”

Breakfast gets the metabolism going so that it can burn fat more efficiently the rest of the day, Ezell noted.

“Skipping meals usually leads to overeating later in the day,” Ezell said. “Breakfast improves concentration, mood and memory.”

Lunch should be a little heavier than dinner, and to avoid drops in blood sugar, Ezell suggests keeping nutritional snacks handy.

“Most importantly, get your rest,” Ezell said. “One contributing factor that contributes to the freshman 15 is lack of rest. Most freshmen will generally get less than seven to eight hours of sleep. A lack of sleep and rest can lead to more serious health problems such as high blood pressure, diabetes and heart disease.”

As for when to go to the gym, Ezell said early morning and right after lunch, from one to three, appear to be the least busiest times of the day.

Planned activities coming this fall to TRECS are Welcome Week RecFest that will take place on the plaza at TRECS on Aug. 17 from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. There will also be free fitness assessments on Aug. 17 and Sept. 1.

“Free fitness assessments will include heart rate and blood pressure measurement, body fat testing, flexibility testing, cardiovascular testing and muscular endurance testing,” Ezell said.

For more information on TRECS events and how to get a regiment started, log on to the RecSports website at http://recsports.utk.edu/.

'Major League' actor James Gammon dies at 70 LOS ANGELES — James Gammon, the gravel-voiced actor who played the manager of the Cleveland Indians in the 1980s comedy "Major League" and had a host of other movie and TV roles, has died. He was 70.

His agent, Merritt Blake, said Monday that Gammon had cancer and died Friday at his daughter's home in Costa Mesa.

The craggy-faced actor also played the father on the Don Johnson TV show "Nash Bridges."

In addition to dozens of TV and movie appearances, Gammon was a noted stage actor who co-founded the MET Theatre in Los Angeles. Gammon starred in several Sam Shepherd plays, receiving a Tony nomination for his work on a 1996 Broadway production of "Buried Child."

Gammon is survived by his wife, a brother and sister, two daughters and two grandchildren.

Instruments from Elvis' embalming to be auctioned CHICAGO — Instruments used in Elvis Presley's autopsy and embalming are going up for auction in Chicago, including the "John Doe" toe tag used after the original was stolen amid the chaos at the hospital following his death.

Leslie Hindman Auctioneers will hold the auction Aug. 12, four days before the 33rd anniversary of Presley's death.

The auction house said Tuesday that all of the items used in the autopsy and funeral preparations will be available, from rubber gloves and forceps to a comb and eye liner. Even the coffin invoice and the hanger used to hold Presley's burial suit will be sold.

The items were saved by the senior embalmer at the Memphis Funeral Home, which prepared the singer's body.

The items will be auctioned in two sets valued at up to $6,000 and $8,000.

Nashville studio musician Fred Carter Jr. dies NASHVILLE — Fred Carter Jr., a longtime Nashville studio musician and father of country musician Deana Carter, has died.

He was 76.

He died Saturday at Vanderbilt University Medical Center from strokerelated causes, according to an obituary and funeral arrangements released by a public relations firm Monday.

Born in Louisiana, Carter began his career as a staff guitarist on the Shreveportbased country music show known as the "Louisiana Hayride." He settled in Nashville in the late 1950s as a session player and worked with a steady stream of country artists, including Willie Nelson, Dolly Parton, Waylon Jennings, and Kris Kristofferson, as well as Simon & Garfunkel, Bob Dylan and Muddy Waters.

Funeral services will be held Tuesday. He is survived by his wife of 49 years, Anna; his sons, Ronnie and Jeff; his daughter, Deana; and five grandchildren.

Zac Brown Band releases 'defining record' in Sept.

NASHVILLE — "The Foundation," the major-label debut of the Zac Brown Band, was something special with more than 2 million copies sold and four No. 1 country singles.

Zac Brown says that was nothing compared to what's on the way.

The Atlanta band will release it's highly anticipated new studio album, "You Get What You Give," on Sept. 21, and Brown said it's "going to be amazing."

"Every step of it's done the right way and I expect people are really going to love this record and see the depth of our musicianship," Brown said Saturday in a

phone interview from New York City, where the band was opening for the Dave Matthews Band. "We're always growing. Not that we've arrived at any grand finale or anything, but the progress from this last record to this one, it's tremendous and I'm proud of it."

"The Foundation" remains at No. 2 on the Billboard country albums chart 86 weeks into its release. During the album's slow ride to the top based on the strength of songs like "Toes" and "Chicken-Fried" and a live show hailed in all quarters, the band has slowly gained a reputation for genre-defying music. The group won the Grammy for best new artist this year.

Brown promised "You Get What You Give" will take that rep to a new level.

He said there's a helping of country radio-friendly tunes among the album's 15 tracks. But the band also explores its other influences. There's a little Texas swing, some jam-band jams and lots of harmony along the lines of Crosby, Stills Nash and Young and The Eagles.

The Allman Brothers Band was an influence as well.

Brown said the album is marked by maturity.

"We write all the time and there's no way that we could record everything that we write, so this is the cream of the crop of the last three or four years," Brown said.

Brown acknowledged expectations are high for the album, and he believes the six-piece has reached them.

The album's title is "one of my biggest philosophies that I try to live by," Brown said. "Very simply stated this record is going to reap the reward of all the love we put into this music. It's a defining record."

Friday, July 23, 2010

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Nolan’s ‘Inception’ fails to live up to hype Robby O’Daniel

Editor-in-Chief Director Christopher Nolan’s latest film “Inception” had that best-movie-of-the-yeartype hype going in. Unfortunately, unlike “The Dark Knight,” “Inception” did not quite live up to that hype.

The film is about Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio), who is a master at extraction — stealing secrets while the marks are dreaming. This has made him a fugitive from justice.

Now he wants to get back home to the United States, but he needs to pull off one last job — ah, there’s always “one last job” for our tortured protagonists — in order to clear himself of charges and get back.

Cobb’s also a tortured soul, whose wife (Marion Cotillard) is dead. Cobb’s main impetus for getting back to the States is his two children, orphans with their mother dead and their father away.

The film certainly has all the ingredients of an all-time great. The cast is fully loaded — Leonardo DiCaprio, Marion Cotillard, Ken Watanabe, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ellen Page, Cillian Murphy and Michael Caine.

The only problem is that, despite all the acting talent involved, the script ultimately is not that demanding of its cast. Gordon-Levitt and Page perform adequately enough for what their roles called for, but the roles did not call for much.

Gordon-Levitt has proven he has the chops in starring roles in “The Lookout,” “500 Days of Summer” and “Brick.” So why is he just a smooth-talking sidekick? Gordon-Levitt, as Cobb’s pal Arthur, gets plenty of chances to swim through the air in one of the many visually stunning scenes in “Inception,” but he has much less chance to actually emote at any time.

Then there’s Page, who played Ariadne, Cobb’s team’s new architect. The best part of the movie is when Cobb is showing Ariadne the ropes of constructing scenes in dreams. As Ariadne’s mind works, the entire world of “Inception” changes, with countless laws of physics surely being broken in the process.

The buildings move from horizontal to vertical, and so do Cobb and Ariadne as they walk.

Mirrors are set up to create an endless loop of existence, all to be shattered with the flick of Ariadne’s hand.

Unfortunately this part of the movie ends abruptly, and we focus back on the main action of the movie — the inception. And all Page has to do for the rest of the film is relay expository information in a really quiet manner. And like Gordon-Levitt, there’s no emoting necessary, despite Page’s enormous abilities to do so (see: “Juno,” “The Tracey Fragments,” “Smart People,” “Whip It” and/or “Peacock”).

Perhaps “Inception” would have been a bit more engaging for its entire two-and-a-half hour duration if it would have played a bit

more with the conventions of the world of “Inception.” But instead, it took an unfortunate page from one of the worst genres of movies — heist movies. There’s a reason why the “Ocean’s Eleven” movies suck. It’s because it’s a dreadful action movie, whose entire existence is based upon the heist. There’s no character development, and it’s all focused on action, action, action.

The same can be said for “Inception.” Is there really much of a character arc for anyone involved? Taken at its most fundamental level, “Inception” is a math problem to be solved. It’s all about completing the inception and getting back home.

The closest we get to development is DiCaprio’s character, Cobb, but really he does not have some marvelous transformation.

Cobb is perhaps the most frustrating one in the whole movie because the viewer can see that Mal (Cotillard) is his downfall, but he just keeps falling into the same Mal trap throughout. And the ending to the film, involving DiCaprio, is immensely cheesy and enough to knock a half-star off the rating alone.

The actual attempt at completing the incep-

tion takes seemingly forever — at least 30 minutes to an hour of the second half of the film. After awhile, it gets tiresome to see time moving so slowly. It’s strange too, because the first half of the film has such breakneck pacing, complete with a confusing beginning in medias res.

This review might look like this writer hated “Inception,” but it just goes to show what high expectations there were for the film.

The film is actually an enjoyable thrill ride, even if it happens to be flawed. The main problem with “Inception” is that people are touting it as this great thinking man’s movie, when in reality, it is just the best of the beast — the bulky, action-packed blockbuster.

Ultimately “Inception” is confusing and a bit disappointing, probably requiring multiple viewings to completely understand. But, as can probably be guessed, this reviewer did not immediately feel the need to rewatch “Inception” after leaving the theater. And he does not know if he ever will.

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Friday, July 23, 2010

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Editors Note Freshmen should adhere to simple advice

Robby O’Daniel Editor-In-Chief As freshmen orientations continue to go on around campus, I would like to take this week out to give incoming freshmen some advice.

Now this type column has been done to death and in various ways, but it’s never been done by me and in a serious manner. And while it’s true that part of the college experience is learning these things on your own, if this helpful advice is taken to heart, your freshman year could be a lot smoother than mine was. So here’s a rough collection of advice that I would give any incoming freshman: 1. Do not sign up for morning classes. Just do not do it. A young, impressionable freshman might retort, “But I did it in high school!” Yeah, and in high school, did anyone ever give you the option to schedule your classes whenever you wanted at any point in the day? I didn’t think so.

That freshman might say, “But I’ll get done with classes earlier!” So what? So you can get ready for the party at ... 3 p.m. on a weekday? You will end up spending that time in the afternoon you have off doing just one activity — napping — because you did not get enough sleep last night, again.

Think about it: If you have an 8 a.m. class, you need to go to sleep at 11 p.m. (and not a moment later) to get the requisite eight hours of sleep. In order to have a no-need-to-set-the-alarm 10 hours of sleep, you would have to go to beddy by at 9 p.m.! It’s just not worth it!

2. Do not sign up for unlimited meal plan. Freshmen might say, “But I want to eat as much food as I want!” Yeah, well, read the fine print. Unlimited meal plan does not necessarily mean “unlimited.” You have to go during UT dining’s scheduled breakfast, lunch and dinner periods at UT dining’s specific locations. You cannot just eat whenever you want to. And some of those dinner periods end really early like at 7:30 p.m.

Besides, are you really going to want to eat dinner at Presidential Court on a Saturday, when all your friends are eating out? Plus, if you did like I said and did not get a morning class, you will not be awake early enough to catch breakfast every day. And every breakfast you do not eat is just money down the drain to the unlimited plan.

What a freshman needs is the Any Ten plan. With that plan, a freshman could eat lunch and dinner from Monday through Friday. And then you can go hang out with your friends at the Chili’s on Kingston Pike on Saturday night, guilt-free with the knowledge that you are using your meal plan to the fullest.

3. Live in a cheap dorm, or live at home. I do not think that freshmen really have a choice in this regard, since some dorms require freshmen live there or some such. But do not go for the expensive dorms until at least you are a junior. Would apartment-style living really be that important to you as a sophomore?

But all this is null if your home is close to campus. You will lose a bit of the college experience, but you will save loads by staying at home, and that may be more important when you’re thinking about graduate school later on.

4. Wait on getting the book. This is not as anti-scholarly as it sounds at first. Legitimately, waiting on the book simply makes smart fiscal sense. Not every class even uses the book. It’s like some classes put down a textbook just to sound more legitimate when really the book is ignored in favor of lecture notes or an online workbook or any other substitute. This rule is especially true for the big, introductory lecture classes that freshmen take. You can usually tell after a few class periods whether you really need it or not.

5. Buy books at McKay’s when you can. This is sort of an offshoot of the last piece of advice. If you are an English major, you should not be buying from the UT bookstore. There’s no reason to pay $15 for an F. Scott Fitzgerald novel when it’s been around for ages and is most definitely used for like $3 at McKay’s. Some other things like old textbooks or even guides, like say The Associated Press Stylebook, are on sale at McKay’s as well. Again, this is especially true for introductory classes where loads of people sell back this one book every semester.

6. Take advantage of free or cheap events the university offers. The Film Committee puts on recently run movies at the UC Auditorium all the time, and they usually cost between nothing and $2. Then there’s the Cultural Attractions Committee, the Ewing Gallery and the Clarence Brown Theatre. Plus famous speakers come to campus too like former presidential hopeful Howard Dean and “God is Not Great” author Christopher Hitchens did last year.

7. Explore campus groups, and find your niche. This is the most important one. At freshmen orientation, I sought out the campus newspaper and got involved with The Daily Beacon immediately. I’ve now spent over four years with the paper and count it as the best experience I’ve had at UT. It sounds cheesy, but go out and look at the campus organizations. Find something that interests you, whether that’s a fraternity, a sorority, Film Committee, All Campus Theater, or what have you.

And if it’s not for you, you can always drop out or not go to the next meeting. There’s literally no risk involved, and I promise you will not regret it.

— Robby O’Daniel is a graduate student in communication and information. He can be reached at rodaniel@utk.edu.

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

Nixon posses right values for 1960 54-40 or Fight! by

Brandi Panter

This morning, as I crawled out of the ditch I passed out in the night before due to an excess consumption of gin, and drug my semi-coherent self into the newsroom, I had the delightful task sprung upon me of filling column space that is usually occupied by someone else. Being too glazed over to actually realize that “Hey, Gabe didn't turn in his column, and you're a history major” means “Hey, guest column,” I currently find myself daunted with the task of writing 800 words about something that I have written at least two million about in the past two years or so. So here goes.

People of America, lend me your eyes (I would ask for your ears, but this isn't a spoken piece). Our precious country is currently at a crossroads of apocalyptic proportions. We're facing the biggest jeopardy to our values that we have ever known. This new guy, John F. Kennedy, we can't trust him. He's young; he has no experience. He is essentially a 42-year-old political virgin. A few short terms in Congress doesn't make you an expert on political policy.

He has a fashionista wife, who admittedly dresses super cute and looks fabulous, and a young family. He's going to be too preoccupied with his kids to run the country properly, or he is going to completely ignore his family in favor of jacking up our country. Take your pick, America — either way, someone's life is going to be ruined — our lives or the kids lives. No one wants to be put in that position, now do they?

Kennedy has this weird religion, Catholicism — what, is the Pope going to run the United States now? The Catholic Church is so secretive.

Catholics are still speaking Latin for crying out loud. And this guy is just going to come in, with his secret Catholic voodoo, and ruin our country and have us all worshiping the Virgin Mary before you know it. We've never had a Catholic president before, for good reason. Why change up the formula? American presidents are supposed to be Anglo-Saxon, Protestant. It’s called WASP, JFK, get with the picture!

Also JFK has these radical political ideals that are just going to run the country into debt. We don't have money for these social welfare programs. It isn't our job to feed everyone who doesn't want to go out and work hard! He also

has this big thing about “equal rights.” What is equal, Johnny? I want to live in a country where the values are set in stone. I don't know how you do it in the Catholic Church with all your Latin, but here in America, we are about the family!

That's a dad who works (not drawing welfare, that is), a mom who sits at home with the kids and well-behaved children.

Also JFK doesn't have the nerve to stand up to our foreign enemies. Think back to Pearl Harbor (JFK wasn't even old enough to be president then!) and how viciously we were attacked. It could happen again! Our enemies are all over the place, hiding in the darkest corners of the Soviet Union, which, let's be fair, is everywhere. We have to have a guy who is going to show these Reds what's what!

Obviously, Richard Milhous Nixon is the right man for the job; there is no other suitable choice. We've watched him slum for the great Dwight D. Eisenhower for eight years now. We like Ike, and obviously so does he.

Nixon is ardently anti-Communism and willing to take a stand. He threw down with Nikita Khrushchev over kitchen appliances and capitalism. He’d do the same thing for us again.

He isn't afraid to yell about a blender, and you shouldn't be worried about whether or not your president is going to be beating up on Commies with a giant wooden spoon, versus asking them whether or not they would like to be the big spoon.

Also Nixon is at the right age and maturity to be president. He isn't some young whippersnapper who is still wet behind the ears. He’s been in the Washington game for a while; he knows what works, and how we are going to stay on track. Nixon wants the America that our founding fathers saw, and he isn't out here trying to change everything. He is going to keep our values and morals in tact the way that it is supposed to be — and I'm all for a guy who is about values and morals!

Consider this my official backing of Richard Nixon for the office of 35th President of the United States. He has the right stuff to keep America going where we need to be! He's totally going to beat JFK in this televised debate that is coming up. I'm having some friends over for a watching party. Hopefully the transmission won't cut out; it's just a shame that we can't see it in color. (Boy, imagine a thing like that, color television. Oh well, I guess we can dream, right?)

— Brandi Panter is a junior in history and philosophy. She can be reached at bpanter1@utk.edu.

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Alright, fellow pollophiles, allow me to paint a picture: It's Wednesday night, your favorite ball team’s got a game on, and you’d like to spend the evening watching it with your pals in a friendly environment. You may have a few drinks, but who knows? Perhaps if you regularly drink in the middle of the week, you might be up for some trivia, as well. Where might these needs be met?

This week, that’s what I set out to do. I opted for the much-touted Rooster’s at Rocky Hill on South Northshore Road, just off Kingston Pike.

You read correctly, folks: this week’s plate special is … bar food.

And don’t give me nonsense about how all bar food is bad. The diversity and quality of Rooster’s edible offerings may surprise you.

Rooster’s menu bolsters a variety of offerings ranging from wings to fingers to burgers all the way up to full-size pizzas. And my team wasn’t the only one taking advantage of the food options. Nearly every table in sight had someone munching on Rooster’s food.

Upon first glance, Rooster’s chicken-finger options have an interesting variety. In addition to a couple of buffalo options, one may order his or her chicken smothered in mozzarella cheese and salsa for an extra-hearty chicken-finger dinner. Rooster’s also gives the uncommon courtesy of cole slaw as a side item, helping thwart criticisms from plate purists.

Unfortunately, Rooster’s Chicken Tender Dinner (CTD) does not offer Texas toast, banning it from consideration with plate.

Nevertheless, we gave it a try. Placing our order at the end of the bar, we paid $11 each for our CTDs and drinks. Luckily, free refills are included, but how much food did this get us?

Imagine our surprise when we received only four fingers and a handful of fries at our table minutes later. Granted, the fingers were enormous and very filling, but $11? Seriously?

Considering the price, the fingers weren’t even particularly good. For bar food, they definitely pass muster and then some, but the price demands a higher standard. Rooster’s fingers are literally large, flat servings of lightly breaded chicken cooked in a deep frier for a few minutes and shoved out the door to customers as quickly as possible. While relatively tasty, these puppies are hot to the touch for at least 15 minutes, and watch out for the piping hot oil that may drip on your fingers. Our particular fingers were also slightly burnt, possibly masking their true potential.

And the fries? Not too shabby! These babies were actually quite tasty with their slight crispiness and freshness. While certainly more could be offered in the CTD, Rooster’s definitely got this one right.

But what about the atmosphere and service?

Think Buffalo Wild Wings but without the spaciousness, good service, projection screens, sauce offerings, discretion, half-decent prices and comfort. Our visit was punctuated by questions literally being shouted through the loudspeaker for the night’s trivia game. Also, while the bartenders are courteous enough to bring out the food, they do not regularly check on customers or offer refills. This is all well and good until the cashier expects a $3 tip for taking my order. I’m familiar with bar etiquette, and I’m a generous tipper to waitpersons and bartenders. However, I refuse to tip $3 just for punching in my order.

Granted the high food prices, uncomfortable environment and sub-par fingers, I find it hard to recommend a visit to Rooster’s. Even if I were just having a few drinks and watching a game, the place wouldn’t fit the bill. It’s crowded, uncomfortable and offers a limited selection of games to watch. Their beer selection is even lackluster: 10 different kinds of Michelobs, Budweisers and Millers, but only Rolling Rock, PBR, Red Stripe and Sam Adams otherwise?

Clearly, Rooster’s isn’t aiming for an audience with taste.

— Cody Swallows is a senior in the College Scholars Program. He can be reached at cswallow@utk.edu.

Friday, July 23, 2010

The Daily Beacon • 5

ENTERTAINMENT

Entertainment editor ponders artistic personas Jake Lane Entertainment Editor Does the identity of a band or single musician really matter that much in the grand scheme of things? Does the personality of the performer in any way affect the virtue of their work, or are they two aspects of the ego which have no bearing on each other?

It would make no sense to say that personality holds no influence on the creative side of any given person, but when interpreting their work, is there a necessity to know who that person was?

Many people would argue the affirmative. When you take an art history class or the History of Rock, or any number of analogous surveys that touch on different movements in the evolution of human expression, the character of the artist is often called into question. Would Jackson Pollock have created his great blurs if he had not harbored tremendous anger issues and

a rocky relationship with a whiskey bottle? Would The Beatles have survived if John had not met Yoko? (No.) And without Riefenstahl’s indiscriminate eye for physical beauty, could Hitler have won over the masses, or without the Beats would we have counterculture movement, all bursting from a deeprooted desire to see the world, to live on the road free from the fear of the bomb?

However, most of these people fall into a grouping that seems to have died with our last century and the Analog Age. In the dawn of the digital era, two disparate views on ego and persona emerged: There are those who still adhere to the the self-important view that cocaine and the ‘80s yuppie boom threw upon the masses, and on the diametric pole stand those who no longer care about personal adulation and instead err on the side of making a statement on the part of humanity as a whole, rather than “woe is me” confessionals whose impact on the collective consciousness is virtually nonexistent.

One prime example of this new breed that has dominated the underground music scene in the last decade, while also achieving major mainstream success through their animated masks, are Gorrillaz, aka Jamie Hewlett and Damon Albarn.

Though they have achieved fame and the critiques that are inherent with it, the group’s most recent album, “Plastic

Beach,” and its predecessor “Demon Days,” are clever, conceptual pieces that highlight social decay and the danger of humanity’s impact on the world as a whole. Today the band announced a world tour, an incredibly rare opportunity to see Albarn lead a band through his songs as opposed to 2-D, Russell, Noodle and Murdoc and their meta-animated video world takes.

So the real question one should ask when they look at art is, why do I care what this person is telling me? Should I care that Lady Gaga wears ridiculous costumes to hide her Jersey nose and accentuate her ass, all because she has self-image issues? Does Stephanie Meyer’s inability to get laid merit millions of book sales? And why in the hell is it necessary for banal housewives in plushy climes far from our wonderous Appalachias to subject viewers to aural torture with the mundane, upper-middle class lives?

Every time some vain project that is as masturbatory as those mentioned above is loosed on the world, the author of the Great American Novel is aborted, Ernest Hemingway and Kurt Cobain dance the Shotgun Roulette Duet, and Hunter Thompson raises the middle finger of his memorial canon at us poor saps, the living.

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THESPORTSPAGE

Friday, July 23. 2010

Connolly, Folk rank internationally at meet Matt Dixon Staff Writer Several members of the UT Lady Vols swimming team recently competed at the 2010 Speedo Champions Series Eastern Section meet in Athens, Ga., from July 15 to July 18.

Jenny Connolly and Breanna Folk swam times that are currently ranked in the top 50 in the world in respective events.

Connolly won the 100-meter backstroke (1:01.76 seconds) with a season-best time and won the “B” final in the 200m butterfly (2:16.63) to place ninth. Folk placed second in the 100m breaststroke (1:09.59) and competed in the 100m butterfly (1.03.44), touching the wall with career-best times in both. She also swam in the 200m breaststroke and backstroke events.

Connolly, a rising junior, was pleased with her performance at the meet, especially in the 100m backstroke, after her coach challenged her to swim a low time in the event.

“I swam the 200m fly, and that was my best time and I was really happy with that,” Connolly said. “100m back, I was really happy with. I really wanted to win and get a best season time. In the 200m fly, I wasn’t really thinking about getting a best time, but in the 100m back, my coach challenged me to break under 1:02, and so I tried to take that challenge.”

The rising sophomore Folk was also satisfied with her success at the meet.

“It was just another chance to see where I was in the season,” Folk said. “It looks like I’ve improved from the last meet we had, so I’m pulling all my strokes together and going fast.

My coach just told me I’m sixth in the nation with that time as of right now and 43rd in the world (in the 100m breaststroke).”

Other Lady Vol swimmers also had notable performances at the meet.

Rising senior Martina Moravcikova took third in the 100m breaststroke (1:10.60).

Rising senior Tricia Weaner finished eighth in the 100m backstroke (1:04.56), 10th in the 400m individual medley (5:01.30) and 11th in the 200m backstroke (2:20.45). Rising sophomore Kelsey Ford placed sixth in the 100m butterfly (1:03.15). Floyd also joined rising senior Morgan Farrell and rising juniors Abbie Alton and Maddie Garrett to place fourth in the 400m free relay (4:00.61).

The success of members of the Lady Vol swim team out of the college season comes as no surprise to Folk. She believes the team is doing an excellent job working out together this offseason.

“We’re a great group that trains very well together,” Folk said. “Training in the out-ofseason is really good with the group we have here (in Knoxville) this summer. We all have just been able to connect very well and help each other in the pool and make our strokes better.”

Connolly wishes more people could see the hard work the team is putting in this year. She is eager for the Lady Vol swim program to dive in the pool and show off its hard work on a national and international stage.

“We work really hard, and we definitely prove something at practice,” Connolly said.

“It shows in the meets. That’s the road we are taking to get to (the 2010 ConocoPhillips National Championships), and I think a lot of people are going to be amazed with how well we will swim. I am really excited for nationals, because they are picking national teams at this meet, and I’m really hoping to make one of those teams and travel and represent the country.”

George Richardson • The Daily Beacon

Swimmers Breanna Folk and Jenny Connolly both placed in the top 50 of the world at the 2010 Champions Series Eastern Section meet in Athens, Ga. Folk got second in 100m breast, while Connolly placed first in 100m back.

Forward Field transfers to join Vols basketball program Staff Reports Tennessee basketball coach Bruce Pearl announced Tuesday that 6-9, 230-pound forward John Fields has enrolled at UT and will play his final collegiate season for the Vols during the 20102011 season.

Because Fields earned his undergraduate degree in communications studies at UNC Wilmington with a season of athletic eligibility remaining, he was able to transfer to Tennessee and gain immediate eligibility, pending a granted NCAA waiver, without having to sit out for a full academic year.

“Joining the Vols is an incredible opportunity that I’m blessed for,” Fields said. “I’m ready to help the team in whatever capacity I can and advance far in the NCAA Tournament.

“The relationship I’ve been able to develop already with Coach Pearl and the rest of the coaches has been amazing. I felt right at home and felt like I fit in perfectly.”

Fields spent last season playing as a junior for UNCW, averaging a team-best 8.7 rebounds per game while ranking second on the squad with 10.2 points per contest. He led the team in rebounding 19 times and scoring eight times while also shoot-

ing better than 53 percent from the floor in 26 games. Fields started 25 games last season and scored a career-high 22 points in a win over VMI. “I’m really excited about John joining our program,” Pearl said. “The fact that he already has his degree and is going to be working on his master’s speaks to his character and his priorities. He’s a terrific athlete for a man his size who blocks shots and rebounds and can score around the basket. The next step for John will be to develop his abilities on the perimeter on both offense and defense.”

Fields officially began his career as a Vol by attending second-session summer classes Monday. He is taking graduatelevel courses in the sport management concentration.

“I know the quality of our sport management program was a real advantage for us as John was making his decision,” Pearl said. “We’ve got one of the best sport management programs in the country.”

Before arriving in Wilmington, Fields spent two years at East Carolina, where he earned Conference USA All-Freshman honors in 2006-2007. As a sophomore, he averaged 9.6 points and 5.4 rebounds per game. In two seasons with the Pirates, Fields ascended to second place on the school’s career blocked-

shots list with 104 rejections.

Last year at UNCW, Fields set a single-game school record for rebounds with 21 against Towson. He also set a school record for blocks in a season with 59. And with Fields patrolling the low post, UNCW opponents managed just 47 total dunks on the season, while he led the Seahawks with 33 slam dunks.

Fields played his prep basketball at Jack Britt High School in his hometown of Fayetteville, N.C. He is expected to wear jersey No. 25 next season.