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Staff Writer When the Fall Semester commences on Aug. 17, pharmacy students will be busy working for their doctor of pharmacy degree. With a new dual-degree program at UT, they now have an opportunity to add another title to the end of their name: master of business administration.

The dual-degree program, approved by the Board of Trustees in June, is part of an effort to provide pharmacy students with the business savvy that can help solve problems in today’s pharmacy industry.

Peter Chyka, vice chair for the College of Pharmacy’s Knoxville Programs, is excited to offer pharmacy students marketable business skills that can be applied to the world of pharmacy.

“The program is tailored for the pharmacy graduate who sees a career path in both pharmacy and business,” he said. “The entire business aspects of pharmacy and drug therapy are increasingly more complicated than they were in prior years.

Therefore, there are a lot of opportunties for students with skills and knowledge in business and pharmacy to make a big impact in the industry.”

Amy Cathey, executive director for the MBA program, concurs that pharmacy students with a background in business will be able to fix problems in pharmacy and improve the industry as a whole.

“There is an important need from employers in the pharmacy industry for people who are both clinically trained and understand business,” she said. “Students who have skills in business can become leaders in the pharmacy industry. We expect our dualdegree students to have a com-

petitive advantage in the job market.”

The program, which will take approximately five years to complete, is available to pharmacy students on both the Knoxville and Memphis campuses. After students finish their pharmacy degrees, they will continue on to the College of Business Administration in Knoxville to pursue their MBA. Chyka recommends that pharmacy students interested in the dual-degree program not procrastinate on declaring their path towards an MBA. “It is important for them to declare early in their curriculum that they are interested in the MBA pathway,” he said. “This way, we can give students electives in business that will help prepare them for the MBA program.”

Since the program was approved in June, Cathey said there has been an enthusiastic response from pharmacy students.

“There has been a great response from students,” she said. “Some have told us that they had expressed an interest in getting an MBA after they were finished with pharmacy.”

This dual-degree program is a new addition to the College of Business Administration’s multitude of dual-degree offerings.

Cathey said this is the sixth dualdegree program for the college.

“We offer MBAs with a variety of different programs at UT, including law, economics and engineering,” she said.

While the dual-degree program will require hard work and diligence from its students, Cathey said she knows that an MBA complements many different degrees.

“The MBA is a great degree to pair with technical knowledge and gives our students an advantage in their careers,” she said.

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sue graduate degrees in business by helping them offset those additional costs.

Amy Cathey, executive director for the master’s in business administration program, is confident the scholarship will provide more financial assistance for tuition costs and fees.

“We are very fortunate that as a public university, our costs are lower for veterans than other institutions,” she said. “The Yellow Ribbon Program provides a little extra help for those costs.”

The College of Business Administration at UT is giving back to U.S. military veterans by providing financial support for any of the college’s master’s or Ph.D. graduate programs.

The scholarships are a part of the Yellow Ribbon G.I. Education Enhancement Program, which provides institutions such as UT with the ability to fund Implemented t u i t i o n after Sept. expenses that 11, 2001, the exceed the inY e l l o w state tuition R i b b o n costs. UT will Program is a be able to part of the waive up to Post-9/11 G.I. 50 percent of Bill that the costs, and became law t h e in 2008.

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War II veterThe Yellow ans with colR i b b o n lege and P r o g r a m vocational gives 10 eligiScott Martineau • The Daily Beacon education. ble veterans a Students in the UT Army ROTC program practice drills in World’s Fair Park on Kate maximum of Friday, Feb. 29, 2008. The College of Business Administration will begin provid- A t c h l e y , $3,000 a year ing financial support to veterans of the U.S. military seeking master’s or Ph.D. director of through the degrees. the executive university MBA program and is matched with another $3,000 from the Department of Veterans Affairs. While the financial support will not at UT, thinks that giving back to veterans is part of the exceed the full cost of tuition and fees, veterans will be university’s spirit.

“These men and women have voluntarily put their lives able to use the money to pursue any master’s or Ph.D on the line for the United States,” Atchley said. “We are degree in the College of Business Administration.

The current G.I. Bill provides 100-percent funding for the Volunteer State, and the university prides itself on a public four-year undergraduate education for eligible their name, the Vols, so to recognize their service by givmilitary veterans. However, graduate programs in UT’s ing veterans this opportunity goes well with our volunCollege of Business Administration often have fees that teer spirit.” are not covered by the G.I. Bill. Now the Yellow Ribbon Program is giving some veterans the opportunity to pur-

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Students take a break between classes on the main floor of the Art and Architecture Building on Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2010. The commons draw in students due to the building’s interesting elements, including indoor foliage and exposed offices.

Professor honored for work in hate comm.

Rob Davis Staff Writer UT communications professor John Haas won the Franklyn S. Haiman Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Freedom of Expression for a recent book that he coauthored.

The award recognizes outstanding scholarship in the areas of free expression and freedom of speech and was awarded to “The Communication of Hate” co-authors John Haas and Michael Waltman of the University of North Carolina.

“Michael and I have been friends, and both of us have been part of academia for a long period of time,” Haas said. “I met Mike when I was working on my master’s degree, so I have known him for about 30 years.”

Each of the co-authors’ interest in the topic was sparked by different events in their lives.

Waltman’s interest in how and why people broadcast hate messages was kindled when his son was very young.

“Mike was very, very interested in how messages affected people, and after he had his first son, he was increasingly concerned about the messages youngsters were exposed to, and in particular, on the Web,” Haas said.

“Mike brought to this a personal interest of learning why it is people are trying to promote, in this case, hate and the ways in which they are trying to do that.”

Haas learned from a very young age the effects that hate speech can have on society, especially if a large amount of people believe in the hate speech being transmitted.

“My path to it was a little bit different,” Haas said. “My mother lived in Germany during World War II. For me, growing up, I heard stories of the awful consequences of hate and what people are capable of doing to each other and the ways in which they defended or explained or tried

to promote those ideas. So that, for me, sparked an interest in why does the people promote hate and how it is they go about doing it, and how some are able to persuade a large number of other individuals to engage in behavior which, on the surface, appears to be horrendous.”

“The Communication of Hate” covers different aspects of how hate speech affects people and how people broadcast hate speech.

“We do several different things,” Haas said. “We start out by explaining how we might think about hate speech and the role hate plays in this.”

Haas said sometimes in society people use hate as a way to show anger or frustration against something that has happened in everyday life.

Hate speech focuses on turning an entire class of individuals into a class of sub-humans, he said.

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Cars race down the Strip on Tuesday, Nov. 2. Whether behind the wheel or on foot, paying attention while moving through the Strip can make the difference between a good night out and a trip to the doctor.

1939 — Einstein urges U.S. atomic action From his home on Long Island, New York, German-born physicist Albert Einstein writes to President Franklin D. Roosevelt, urging “watchfulness and, if necessary, quick action” on the part of the United States in atomic research. Einstein, a lifelong pacifist, feared that Nazi Germany had begun work on an atomic bomb.

Einstein’s theories of special and general relativity drastically altered man’s understanding of the universe, and his work in particle and energy theory helped make possible quantum mechanics and early atomic research. As a German-born Jew, Einstein fled Germany for the United States after Nazi leader Adolf Hitler seized power in 1934.

In the summer of 1939, fellow expatriate physicists Leo Szilard, Eugene Wigner and Edward Teller, profoundly disturbed by the lack of American atomic action, enlisted the aid of Einstein, hoping that a letter from such a renowned scientist would help attract Roosevelt’s attention.

Einstein agreed to the venture because of his fear of sole Nazi possession of the deadly weapon, a possibility that became especially troubling after Germany ceased the sale of uranium ore from occupied Czechoslovakia. After reading Einstein’s letter, Roosevelt created the Uranium Committee, and in 1942 the highly secret U.S. and British atomic program became known as the Manhattan Project. Einstein had no role in the Allied atomic bomb program.

On July 16, 1945, an international team of scientists successfully tested the world’s first atomic bomb in the New Mexico desert. Three weeks later, two U.S. atomic bombs were dropped on Japan, one on August 6 and one on August 9, resulting in the eventual deaths of more than 200,000 people. Albert Einstein deplored the use of the deadly weapon against the population centers of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and after the war he urged international control of atomic weapons.

1939 — Freddy Krueger creator Wes Craven born On this day in 1939, Wes Craven, the man responsible for terrorizing millions of moviegoers with his Nightmare on Elm Street series and Scream trilogy, is born in Cleveland, Ohio.

Craven, who graduated from Wheaton College in Illinois and received a master’s degree in writing and philosophy from Johns Hopkins University, began his directing career with 1972’s The Last House on the Left, a violent teen horror film for which he also penned the screenplay. He went on to direct a string of low-budget scary movies, including The Hills Have Eyes (1977), before cementing his reputation as a master of blood and gore with 1984’s Nightmare on Elm Street, about teenagers in the fictional town of Springwood, Ohio, who are terrorized by nightmares of the gruesomely disfigured child killer Freddy Krueger, played by Robert Englund. The movie was a box-office success and spawned multiple sequels. Freddy Krueger became an iconic villain and even did battle with another big-screen horror icon, the hockey mask-wearing Jason from the Friday the 13th series, in 2003’s Freddy vs. Jason. Nightmare on Elm Street also marked the feature-film debut of a then-unknown Johnny Depp. After going on to starring roles in CryBaby (1990) and Edward Scissorhands (1990), the actor made a cameo appearance in 1991’s Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare.

Craven went on to direct The Hills Have Eyes Part II (1985) and The People Under the Stairs (1991) before making his blockbuster film Scream (1996). Scream, about a serial killer stalking a group of teenagers, poked fun at slasher-film conventions while still managing to frighten audiences. The film’s cast featured Courteney Cox, Drew Barrymore, David Arquette, Neve Campbell and Skeet Ulrich. Craven also helmed two hit sequels to the film, Scream 2 (1997) and Scream 3 (2000). In 2005, he directed the well-reviewed horror film Red Eye. Craven has occasionally set aside the gore and stepped out of the horror genre to direct such films as the 1999 drama Music of the Heart, which starred Meryl Streep as a music teacher in the New York City public school system.

--This Day in History is courtesy of history.com

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Dr. John Bradford, professor of sociology, is instructed by Jay Ramirez in the art of Capoeira. This Afro-Brazilian art combines elements of dance and martial arts and is often practiced with traditional instruments providing a rhythmic beat for the dancers.

MILITARY continued from Page 1 While this program has been around since 2008, Atchley notes that the Yellow Ribbon Program is new to UT this year.

“The Yellow Ribbon Program has been around since post-9/11, but UT has not participated in the program until now,” she said.

“We decided that it was important for the university, and the College of Business Administration in particular, to help post-9/11 military veterans continue their education.”

Cathey said the 10-year delay came down to finding sufficient funding.

“The reason why it has taken us a little while to start this program is because each college is responsible for finding money to support the Yellow Ribbon Program,” she said. “Since we are currently working with the U.S. Air Force, we found some of that

money to help pay for the program and provide this service to veterans interested in coming to the university.”

While the scholarships will certainly encourage veterans to pursue degrees in business, Atchley said the program will benefit the college by adding quality students to the roster.

“We have found that our strongest students are often military veterans,” Atchley said.

“We certainly hope that the program will improve diversity in the college, and we believe the Yellow Ribbon Program will encourage these bright minds to come and study here at UT.” Cathey agrees that veterans are a special addition to the MBA program.

“We consistently have a small number of veterans who come through our program, and they are excellent students,” Cathey said.

“These students are very mature, very hard workers and are motived to succeed. We think

it will improve the quality of discussion in the classroom. Most of our vets have spent time overseas, so they have a global perspective that they bring in to the class.”

Veterans will have to be deemed eligible by the Department of Veterans Affairs in order to receive the scholarships.

According to the Yellow Ribbon Program website, a veteran must be a College of Business Administration graduate student in good standing and must have a Post-9/11 G.I. Bill (Chapter 33) Certificate of Eligibility, showing Yellow Ribbon Program eligibility.

Veterans who qualify for the program will not only improve their education, but they will also assist in improving the university’s services to its military veterans.

“This program will help us be a little more military friendly and help us reach the needs of people in the military, who are looking for the next step and moving into a business career,” Cathey said.

“Human beings tend to think in terms of categories,” Haas said. “We literally can’t not think about other people, unless we’re thinking about them in terms of categories: liberal, conservative; old, young. For many people, if we have a negative association to some group, we are able to suppress it. For some segment of the population, they are really not able to suppress those beliefs, for whatever reason, and they feel very comfortable making clear they think this one class, or several classes, are not the equivalent of the in group they are part of.”

Although the book covers various aspects of hate speech, it also looks at domestic, as well as foreign hate speech.

“The electronic corner has changed the way that people who are engaging in hate speech will operate,” Haas said. “For example, in Germany, it is illegal to use swastikas or any other symbols that are associated with Nazis or to openly engage in hate speech. What ends up happening is that those people that are proponents of a particular belief — and they are using hate speech to advance their cause — will get service in the United States.”

Towards the end of the book, Haas and Waltman make the argument that, although they are against the dehumanization that hate speech seeks, they are not against a person’s First Amendment right to be able to say what he or she believes is correct.

“The Communication of Hate” was published in January 2011, and the co-authors were informed of receiving the award in early July 2011.

“John Haas and his coauthor have produced an outstanding work of scholarship on a very important topic,” said Mike Wirth, College of Communication and Information dean. “As the college and the university strive to encourage and promote civility on campus and throughout the community, this book makes us more aware of the problems associated with hate speech and helps us learn how to combat it.”

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Editor’sNote Deficit: old issue, new generation Blair Kuykendall Editor-in-Chief Former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker hit the nail on the head earlier in July, when he begged Congress to let “common sense” reign in the debt negotiations. He obviously wasted breath.

As the Beacon was going to press on Monday evening, a potential debt deal had been brokered between congressional leaders and the president. Plans under congressional negotiation consisted of a $2.4 trillion debt ceiling increase through 2013, with $917 billion in spending cuts over the next decade. A special committee would also be called to negotiate $1.5 trillion in additional cuts, with automatic cuts kicking in if compromise cannot be reached. Looking at the success rate of Washington compromise, let’s hope they choose the automatic cuts wisely.

Intense political struggle focused on the deficit is nothing new in the arena of American politics. Politicians have historically opposed enormous deficits and experienced varying degrees of success in reducing them.

The federal government has been completely debt free only once in American history, when President Andrew Jackson cleared government debt in 1835.

He managed to keep America in the green for a little over a year.

Jackson’s temporary accomplishment came with a heavy price. He financed his triumph by selling off government owned lands in the West and ambitiously vetoing any and all spending projects. He also abolished the national bank.

With the government running a surplus, state banks were inundated with money, which they proceeded to print. In a doomed attempt to forestall the land bubble crisis, Jackson mandated that government lands be bought in specie as opposed to currency. Hindsight’s 20/20, but that was a stupid move. The economy crashed and the government went right back into debt.

While Jackson was obviously no economist, he had good intentions for deficit reduction. Keynes pioneered the usefulness of government debt as a force of stabilization for the economy, but too much debt has

historically been destructive. When debt reaches a level where default is possible without increased borrowing, any nation can become trapped in a downward economic spiral. Once a deficit reaches critical mass ... see Wiemar Republic.

The trickiest question of all, however, is what exactly constitutes critical mass. Today the total debt is hovering around 98 percent of U.S. GDP according to the U.S. Treasury. That figure is startling to say the least, but bear in mind that debt was around 130 percent of GDP after WWII. Like a grassy lawn, the deficit naturally tends towards unkempt sprawl. Mowing is never fun, but it is still periodically necessary.

Essentially, the U.S. deficit has inched its way into the danger zone. Moody’s and Standard and Poor’s have threatened to call the neighborhood association. This is not the time to panic or to nay-say about economic collapse, but rather a time to change course. If significant spending cuts are not made, the nation could be setting itself up for an unstable future.

Lawmakers still don’t seem to entirely understand the gravity of this situation. According to Stuart Varney, the proposed solution still adds $7 trillion to the already exorbitant debt. Standard and Poor’s has suggested that in order to maintain a AAA credit rating, Congress would need to drastically reduce entitlement programs and make $4 trillion in spending cuts. Even if automatic cuts are triggered, lawmakers have exempted Social Security and Medicaid from any decreases in funding.

This is perhaps the most grievous error in the entire plan, considering that these two allocations comprise 43 percent of the federal budget. With Social Security only years from bankruptcy, lawmakers are once again skirting the important issues to bring meaningful reform.

Throughout America’s history, politicians have generally stepped up to keep expenses in check when neccesary. After the Civil War, WWI, and WWII, lawmakers made it a priority to bring the debt down to a manageable level. There is no magic number for the deficit, but there are some rules of thumb. When the credit rating is threatened, so is national economic security.

Like previous generations who battled large deficits to protect U.S. solvency, our nation’s leaders must now make some tough choices. The American people must trust Congress to preserve our nation’s economic future.

We’ll see how these guys stack up to Jackson.

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

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Reflection on UT career well spent T he Social N etwo r k by

Elliott DeVore When I started my journey at UT this time in August of 2007, I had no clue what the next four years had in store for me. All I knew at that point was that I wanted more than anything in the world to be an Orientation Leader so I could do the rocky top dance, and that I needed to finish reading some book and write a paper about it. Academics, majors, post-graduation, really any solid life plans were missing from my mind at that time.

But I was excited, and I wasn’t going to be living with mommy anymore!

For me college was the place where I thought I could truly be me. It was the place where I was going to sit around and have random intellectual conversations. I was going to be accepted for me, and I could find others who shared my experiences. That first year was such a whirlwind of emotions, experiences and opportunities.

From those experiences I began to learn so much about myself and through that learning process was made aware of my surroundings.

What I was expecting from college was also what disappointed me the most. At first the hurt and disappointment was overwhelming, but I found people at the university who supported me, people who helped me find my voice. I found people who valued the authentic me.

Finding your voice and your passion will truly make your college experience. Granted we come to get a degree and to focus on a specific area of study, but without a sense of authenticity and self-worth how driven will we be after graduation? I think that is a mistake a lot of people make when they come to college; they have these grand ideas of what life will be like and how college will fix them. But they don’t realize that they themselves must play a crucial role in creating their own experiences, being an active agent in their own stories.

My disappointment with campus support for LGBT people served as a catalyst in identifying my values and goals as an individual. I had to critically analyze how

my thoughts and emotions fit in with my environment, and how I could best express and articulate others’ and my experiences to my peers and administrators.

Doing so was not easy, and I owe many thanks to student affairs professionals at UT for enabling me to find my voice. Using the voice that we find in ourselves isn’t always the easy thing to do, especially when you’re the lone voice in a big room. It can be disheartening most certainly, but it can also be the most rewarding thing.

The reward is the feeling of authenticity, because we realize that what we are doing is what is right. We’re doing it because our heart calls us to do so, not because we want to be perceived a certain way.

If I could give the freshman class any advice it would be to stop seeking false validation. Stop seeking praise for accomplishing things others want of you.

Accomplishing others’ goals for you to receive personal validation is incredibly inauthentic. And at the end of the day, are you happy because others are happy with your completion of their desires, or are you happy because you achieved what is most important to yourself?

It’s a fine line that we dance upon when we obtain our freedom from our parents. Branch out, meet new people, explore yourself and your values, question everything — even what your parents say. Just because your parents hold certain values doesn’t mean they are yours. I believe we learn the most valuable lessons when we make ourselves vulnerable by stepping outside our comfort zones.

The University of Tennessee’s motto is Veritatem cognoscetis et veritas te liberabit: “Know the truth and the truth shall set you free.” That phrase is apropos to the college experience. The personal journey we endure isn’t a mere four-year experience but a lifelong venture for authenticity. College is merely the beginning.

So wherever you are in your college experience: Pursue your own dreams, not those of your parents.

Seek personal joy, ditch validation of the inauthentic self and strive for the genuine self. You can do it, I promise.

Just let yourself free and find a mentor. There are so many amazing people at UT who are cheering for you, just open your ears and listen.

— Elliott Devore is a graduate in psychology. He can be reached at edevore@utk.edu.

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This week, I decided to go search the Internet for excellent examples of human stupidity. Well, it wasn’t hard to find such examples. So, here are a few newspaper headlines and stories that I found particularly amusing.

Headline: “County to pay $250,000 to advertise lack of funds.” The sad thing is, it probably worked.

Headline: “Volunteers search for old Civil War planes.” All right, if you don’t get it I’ll tell you two things. One: there were no planes in the Civil War. Two: I’m very sorry.

Headline: “Caskets found as workers demolish mausoleum.” Really? Imagine that! There were caskets in a place that was designed to hold caskets!

What a big surprise.

Headline: “An Australian Army vehicle worth $74,000 has gone missing after being painted with camouflage.” Well, at least it worked.

Headline: “10 Commandments: Supreme Court says some O.K., some not.” Ten laws written by the same God, they’re all equal. I can promise you that.

Headline: “Utah Poison Control Center reminds everyone not to take poison.” Really? If they felt the need to remind people of that, they might be under the influence of some poison themselves.

Headline: “Breathing oxygen linked to staying alive.” Maybe those people who needed to be reminded not to take poison also needed to be reminded to breath.

Headline: “Federal agents raid gun shops, find weapons” This is even stupider than being surprised at finding caskets in a mausoleum.

This one may be my favorite: “Statistics show that teen pregnancy drops off significantly after age 25.” Well, that’s just stupid. Teen pregnancy makes that drop off at age 20.

Headline: “Study shows frequent sex enhances pregnancy chances.” I wonder if that is before or after age 25?

Headline: “Deer kill 17,000.” Maybe they found that gun shop that had weapons in it.

Headline: “Man struck by lightning faces battery charge.” I don’t even know what to say to that one.

Add for a used mower: “Lawn mower tends to catch on fire but put out easily with garden hose: $30.” I commend the honest idiot who tried to sell it. I condemn the idiot who actually bought it.

Headline: “17 remain dead in morgue after shooting spree.” The story that should have been covered is why on earth someone ever started a shooting spree in a morgue.

Headline: “Worker suffers leg pain after crane drops 800-pound ball on his head.” Something is definitely wrong here. That guy must have had one thick head.

Quote within an article: “Laure said he started a small fire in the car to keep warm but put the fire out when he started getting dizzy ... The car, a rental vehicle, was heavily damaged, according to firefighters.”

Headline: “Anthony’s Dry Cleaners has been working on the same spot for 15 years.” I think that the general public would be better served if they went to another cleaner.

This one is great: “Lawyers back despite use of bug spray.”

Headline: “People think aliens must be more smarter than us.” Well, I’ll be surprised if we ever find any that are dumber.

Headline: “Total lunar eclipse will be broadcast live on Northwoods Public Radio.” I want to know how that worked.

Quote within an article: “Debra Jackson said she likes shopping at the Dollar Palace because it is convenient and causal. ‘I don’t have to get all dressed up like I’m going to Wal-Mart or something,’ she added.”

Headline: “Bill would make it illegal to break rules.” I think that bill was already passed.

Headline: “Hospitals resort to hiring doctors.”

I hope that wasn’t their last resort.

Don’t you just love those? Stupid headlines are proof of several things. One word can have great power. Misinterpretations can be hysterical, or dangerous.

— Chelsea Tolliver is a junior in the College Scholars Program. She can be reached at ctollive1@utk.edu.

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“Web Therapy” promising, needs guidance Robby O’Daniel News and Student Life Editor The sheer lack of advertisement for Showtime’s new halfhour comedy, “Web Therapy,” might suggest there is nothing special about it.

Its timeslot goes a step further. Much of Showtime’s original programming fills up the spots on Sunday nights and Monday nights, but “Web Therapy” is at a bit of a death slot, Tuesday nights at 11 p.m.

But like her fellow “Friends” cast mate Matt LeBlanc on “Episodes,” Lisa Kudrow has found new comedic life with her jump to Showtime.

Potential viewers need to know up front: This is not a show for everyone.

HBO’s “In Treatment” is a hard show to recommend because it is physically demanding on the viewer to stay enraptured by an episode of just a single conversation between two people.

“Web Therapy” uses the same basic philosophy, a series full of bottle episodes in one setting with just people conversing, but it tries to vary things up by having multiple three-minute conversations between Kudrow and the various supporting characters.

The show centers on Fiona Wallice (Kudrow), who comes off as a rich, narcissistic, hostile, yet bored, woman. She endeavors to fill her time by starting up a kooky enterprise, three-minute therapy sessions over the Internet.

The sessions are held to three minutes because when she did 50-minute sessions, Fiona says, they were full of superfluous things like memories and feelings, which add up to nothing in her mind.

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For people who call “In Treatment” daring for its format, the “Web Therapy” creators deserve even more points for their guts because viewers only see Fiona’s computer screen.

On her Mac, viewers see Fiona and whoever she is video chatting with. It remains to be seen whether “Web Therapy” will stick to this claustrophobic hook or stroll off the path like “In Treatment” occasionally does.

Eventually the show will have to expand its characterization a bit more to remain entertaining, but for the pilot, this status quo provides laughs.

Another potential series difficulty is how much exposition to include in the therapy sessions. Since it is the pilot, some exposition to set the stage is expected. But that opening conversation with Fiona and her husband screamed exposition from time to time. More conversations that serve basically to give viewers information instead of to simply serve as scenes might prove a misstep. It is an easy mistake to make when writers are confined to a computer screen, which could be an interesting hook for the pilot but more limiting than funny later on.

The show also has got to stop titling segments. Before each conversation, the series shows a black screen with white text that serves as the title to each segment. More than once, the title either gives away the point of the segment or the segment’s funniest line.

Ultimately “Web Therapy” is an amusing half hour, but it will be interesting to see how the show decides to grow from here. If it stays stuck in gimmick mode, it should not move • Image courtesy of sho.com past a first season. But the potential is certainly there for humor.

The show’s series premiere is available for free via YouTube The main series strength is, ironically, its star. Kudrow, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1r-bjD2y95M or who puts on an amusingly fake-sounding elegant accent for at official website at the role, dives into the bumbling character’s persona, while Showtime’s http://www.sho.com/site/order/preview.do#/Web_Therapy_s01 everyone else on screen plays the straight man.

Phoebe was easily the most annoying cast member on _e01.

“Friends” back in the day, so it’s a relief that Kudrow has embraced an entirely different character here.

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THESPORTSPAGE

Tuesday, August 2, 2011

Dooley wants Vols focused as camp begins Fall practices critical for young UT team as coaches evaluate players with season near Matt Dixon Sports Editor August is here, and that means football is on the horizon.

“I know everybody is excited, I certainly am,” UT coach Derek Dooley said Monday. “One thing that I always think is important any time you turn the clock and there is a new phase where you have some specific goals for what you want to accomplish in training camp as we always do with our team, there are a whole bunch of them but the gist of it is we want to first establish a foundation of core values that define how we compete and how we work together as a team.”

The Volunteers kickoff fall camp today, with two sperate sessions — one for newcomers, one with veteran players.

Splitting up the team allows the freshmen and other underclassmen to adjust to the tempo of a college practice and also allows them more one-on-one time with coaches.

“I don’t care what team you have, every year you have to start over on those things such as attitude and discipline

and toughness and effort — it’s the same stuff,” Dooley said. “We aren’t reinventing the wheel. We always want to improve fundamentally and learn all of our technical aspects on offense, defense and special teams. This will be especially important this year given how young we are. This is going to be a very important training camp to evaluate our personnel across the board.”

Running back leaving Running back Toney Williams, a junior who has played a reserve role the past two seasons, is transferring. Williams impressed coaches during spring practice after enrolling early in school in January 2009, but suffered a torn ACL soon after and never seemed to return to his pre-injury form. He carried the ball five times for 11 yards last season.

Feet and shoulders Sophomore defensive end Jacques Smith broke a bone in his foot the last week of spring practice, but Dooley said he is a “full-go” for fall camp.

Junior linebacker Herman Lathers is “still a couple of months away” from being able to play after also breaking a bone in his foot during the summer.

Freshman offensive lineman Antonio Richardson had shoulder surgery in the spring, but is not 100 per-

cent and is listed as day-to-day, according to Dooley.

Freshmen defensive backs Tino Thomas and Geraldo Orta underwent shoulder surgeries over the summer and are not currently listed on the team’s roster. With new SEC rules, schools can only bring in a certain number of newcomers each year, and with the players already on the team, only one more spot is open for either Thomas or Orta, meaning one could potentially want to enroll in school in January, a practice called “grayshirting.”

Austin Johnson Dooley also announced senior linebacker Austin Johnson would not be suspended for his arrest on July 25, and his punishment would be handled “internally.”

“We were all disappointed when we read the news and we are disappointed any time a player makes a bad choice that puts a negative light on our program,” Dooley said.

More than a deep threat Sophomore wide receiver Justin Hunter made the most of his 16 receptions last year, scoring seven touchdowns.

Now weighing 192 pounds, Hunter is looking to become a more complete wide out for the Vols after inheriting a starting role with the departures of Gerald Jones and Denarious Moore to the NFL. “I just don’t want to be a deep-ball guy,” Hunter said. “I want to make catches across the middle.”

Wade Rackley • The Daily Beacon

Austin Johnson makes a diving tackle on a UT Martin runner during a game on Saturday, Sept. 9, 2010. Johnson will remain on the team despite off-the-field activities with punishment being handled “internally.”