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UT non-profit, students fight world poverty Wesley Mills News Editor Poverty is a hot-button issue in today’s world. While poverty exists in the United States, it can be difficult to see poverty out in the larger world if not exposed to it constantly.

Nourish International, a non-profit chapter at UT, was able to help start erasing poverty in a small community in Peru this past summer.

Nourish International started in Chapel Hill, N.C. in 2003 and came to UT in 2010 when five students came together for the purpose of stopping poverty.

The mission of the company is to empower people while engaging in communities to eradicate poverty across the globe.

Chief Operating Officer of Nouish International Allie Treske said that the non-profit focuses more on villages and towns than countries at large.

“We actually don’t do it based on a

country, but based on community,” she said. “We work in some countries where the country could be considered more developed, but the community that we work with has needs for their development.”

Across the world, poverty is considered to include those living on less than $2 per day. This past summer, UT was planning a trip to Peru but was unable to go because of a last minute change. They therefore sent $2,000 to a partner in Peru.

Moche, an anthropological research organization with a humanitarians focus, builds portable water systems and assists in the formation of a town water committee.

The process in picking out which communities to help is intense. The chapter goes through a rigorous process of doing background checks of companies they are working with in these communities, and ensures that the money is going where it’s supposed to be going.

• Photo courtesy of Nourish International UTK Chapter

Several students went to Uganda in 2011 for seven weeks to volunteer with Nourish International. More students recently returned from a trip to Peru.

See NOURISH INT’L on Page 2

Vols begin fall camp Friday Lauren Kittrell Editor-in-Chief With a new football season approaching, coach Derek Dooley said the Tennessee Volunteers look to be “active and distructive.”

Heading into their 121st season, the team hopes to bring the Vols back to their former glory. Sophomore linebacker Curt Maggitt said that the team, and specifically the Vols’ new defensive, is ready to take on the chal-

lenge.

“I feel like we know what to expect now to have that experience and especially with this new defense we have coming in, understanding the concept of it,” Maggitt said. “I feel like we’re ready to make plays as a defense.”

Senior tight end Mychal Rivera said the offense is shaping up as well.

Rivera said juniors Justin Hunter, Da’Rick Rogers and Cordarrelle Patterson are A-plus wide receivers, giving quarterback Tyler Bray many

golden opportunities.

“Bray is going to have a lot of options and when you give him options, he is dangerous,” Rivera said.

Injury-wise, Hunter said he’s recovered from ACL surgery early last season with little to no effects on his game. Hunter said he feels like he’s improved physically since the injury, but his speed hasn’t been officially measured.

See FALL PRESSER on Page 6

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Derek Dooley speaks with the media during his pre-fall camp press conference on Aug. 2.

Haslam buys Browns, price tag runs over $1 billion The Associated Press Here’s one to make Cleveland fans shake their heads: A partial owner of the hated Pittsburgh Steelers is buying the Browns.

Randy Lerner has reached a deal to sell the club to Tennessee truckstop magnate Jimmy Haslam III — a minority stockholder in the rival Steelers.

Lerner will sell 70 percent of the Browns to Haslam now, with the other 30 percent reverting to him four years after the closing date, a person with knowledge of the sale told The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because details have not officially been announced.

“This is a very exciting time for my family and me,” Haslam said through the team.

“To own such a storied franchise as the Cleveland Browns, with its rich tradition and history, is a dream come true. We are committed to keeping the team in Cleveland and seeing it get back to the elite of the NFL — something all Browns fans want and deserve.”

Haslam scheduled a news conference at Browns headquarters for Friday afternoon.

While the papers have

been signed, the NFL still must approve the sale.

Getting the nod from 24 of the 32 teams is required, and no date has been set for a vote because the sale has not been presented to the league yet. The person with knowledge of the sale said approval is expected by the end of September.

ESPN reported the sale price was more than $1 billion. For comparison, the Miami Dolphins sold at a value of more than $1 billion in 2009.

The Browns were valued at $977 million last year by Forbes magazine, 20th in the NFL. Asked if he was surprised by the deal, team President Mike Holmgren said: “On one hand, the surprising part was the time of the year. But in this business, I gave up being surprised a long time ago.”

Lerner, whose family has owned the franchise since it returned to the NFL in 1999, first announced he was in negotiations to sell the club last week. The late Al Lerner, Randy’s father, purchased the franchise from the NFL in 1998 for $530 million after the original Browns moved to Baltimore in 1996 and became the Ravens. The elder Lerner died in 2002.

See HASLAM on Page 2

Two UT colleges make healthcare learning tool Staff Reports A joint endeavor between UT’s colleges of nursing and engineering has been launched as a new product to help build a better workforce of health professionals worldwide.

Called Lippincott’s DocuCare EHR, the new product integrates electronic health records (EHR) commonly used in hospitals and medical offices into a simulated learning tool for students.

Proficiency using EHR is paramount for nursing students as the Obama administration has challenged health

care providers nationwide to transition to this new technology.

The device was developed by Tami Wyatt, associate professor of nursing, and her graduate student Matt Bell (now an alumnus), along with Xueping Li, associate professor in industrial and information engineering, and his graduate student, Yo Indranoi. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW), a leading international publisher for health care professionals and students, purchased the invention in 2010. It is now being marketed worldwide.

“Today’s new graduate nurses must

be adept in using this technology, including electronic health records, to comply with accreditation standards,” said Wyatt. “Relying on the limited exposure to EHR technology that nursing students get during their clinical experiences is just not enough.”

By integrating EHR technology into multiple courses across the nursing curricula, the product provides continuity in learning, and students begin relying on EHRs as tools to gather data and anticipate patient care.

See NURSING & ENG. on Page 2

• Photo courtesy of Lippincott DocuCare

From the Lippincott DocuCare website, the Lippincott's EHR Simulation Software is to help students to think critically.

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NOURISH INT’L continued from Page 1 It’s the job of the project leader to do a great amount of research to find organizations that they can partner with that will both effectively serve the interests of students and the needs of the community.

“The UT chapter went through the process that all our chapters go through, which is an intensive international development curriculum that helps them decide which communities they would have the most impact in based on their skills and their finances,” Treske said.

“The UT chapter looks at the skills and interests of students at large and saw they had Spanish teachers and those interested in public health and they went to try and find projects and organizations that were interested in that type of work where they could have the highest impact and so that’s when they decided to partner with Moche in Peru.”

Recent graduate Jennifer Smith was on the original team that helped Nourish International to become a chapter at UT. The chapter started in 2010 with Aaron Groh as the founder. Smith and five others got together and helped formulate the team to launch it.

Smith said that throughout the year, individuals in the chapter run small business ventures around the local campus and communities that go toward helping the development projects abroad over the summer.

One of the reasons they’re able to do this effectively is because of the motivation they get from knowing that it’s all student run, and if they don’t come up with the money, they can’t help stop poverty.

Smith said it started out slow because they

weren’t sure what they were doing, but it has picked up.

“How the chapters get started is people apply to found them and the national office will give you $500 to start up and you can use that money however you want to do your ventures,” Smith said. “The first year we did not really know what we were doing at all, and so we tried doing a couple different ventures around but it usually ended up trying to sell pancakes at the library. The ventures weren’t very successful but we managed to make enough to send $1500 to Uganda and send four people to help start the vegetable garden over there.”

The chapter chose communities in Peru because of the ability of the students to speak Spanish and their desire to work with water sanitation and similar issues.

“In the beginning we thought we were going down there to work with the water filtration system, and during the year while we were planning it, the community actually managed to fix the water filtration system on their own, and they contacted us and said they had several projects that they wanted us to work on and they thought the ones they needed most were latrines,” Smith said.

The houses in the community don’t have their own latrines, and so the team sent the money to Moche with expectations that they would start building latrines in the city.

Last year, Smith was one of the four students that went to Uganda. Her experience there has changed her life.

She works with Grassroots Uganda, a company, separate from Nourish International, she met while she was in Uganda which she decided to pursue and has been working with them since, and will continue to work with them in the future.

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A member of the NHPA competes during an invitational in 2010.

NURSING & ENG. continued from Page 1 The product includes more than seventy pre-populated simulated patient records and cases. Each case includes links to LWW textbooks, giving students access to diagnosis information, procedure descriptions and videos, and other evidence-based content that is used in over 1,200 hospitals nationwide.

Instructors can bring classroom case studies to life by creating simulated patient records, building assignments, and evaluating student documentation performance.

The program is designed to better prepare students for practice, in a fully realistic, yet risk-free, simulated environment. LWW will train faculty on how to use this new tool and integrate it into their curriculum.

As part of an ongoing partnership with

HASLAM continued from Page 1 Randy Lerner also is the owner of Aston Villa, a club in the English Premier League.

The expansion Browns entered the NFL in 1999 and have made the playoffs just once, a 2002 first-round loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers. They’ve had only two winning records in 13 seasons and are 68-140 since they returned.

Even with a string of failures on the field, the value of the Browns — like other NFL franchises — keeps increasing, boosted by broadcast income. The league agreed in December to nine-year contracts with CBS, Fox and NBC that run through the 2022 season and will boost revenue from the $1.93 billion last season to $3.1 billion by 2022.

The NFL reached an eight-year extension with ESPN last year through the 2021 season that increases the rights fee from $1.1 billion to $1.9 billion annually.

Haslam has been a minority investor in the Steelers since 2008, and is the president and CEO of Pilot Flying J, the largest operator of travel centers and travel plazas in North America. He is the older brother of

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Laerdal Medical — the top distributor of simulated mannequins for nursing education — the tool includes a variety of Laerdal’s patient scenarios and simulations.

The development of the tool, which began in 2007, has been a collaboration across UT’s campus. Law students offered legal advice for the startup company that marketed Lippincott DocuCare before it was purchased by LWW. Business students helped design a business plan. The UT Research Foundation copyrighted the technology.

Wyatt and Li are co-directors of the Health Information Technology and Simulation Laboratory (HITS Lab), an organized research unit at UT. The overall goal of the HITS Lab is to advance the science of health information technology and examine ways HITS enhances consumer health and professional health education.

Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam.

According to a 2010 profile on Steelers.com, Haslam has been a Dallas Cowboys and then an Indianapolis Colts fan.

But with the Pittsburgh investment, Haslam said he had become “1,000 percent a Steelers fan.”

The Haslam brothers are supporters of the University of Tennessee, where their father Jim Haslam played tackle on the 1951 national championship football team under Gen. Robert R. Neyland, who built the Volunteers into a football powerhouse.

The elder Haslam founded the Pilot Corp. in 1958 with a single gas station in Gate City, Va. He credits sons Bill and Jimmy with expanding the chain from mostly gas stations and convenience stores to a “travel center” concept of truck stops featuring branded fast food service.

As for Haslam possibly moving the franchise, Holmgren emphatically added, “The Cleveland Browns aren’t going anywhere.”

But the current staff might be if the Browns don’t do better than the 4-12 record of 2011, Pat Shurmur’s first season as coach.

New owners usually bring in their own management team, although Shurmur has impressed many people around the league.

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ARTS&CULTURE

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Saturday, August 4 What: Taboo Where: The Valarium When: 9 p.m.

Price: N/A Preston’s take: Valarium was voted the #1 Dance Club in Knoxville, so it has to be good. Parking is free, but entrance is available only for those 18+.

Friday, August 3 What: Summer Movie Magic presents “Casablanca” Where: The Historic Tennessee Theatre When: 8 p.m.

Price: $8 Preston’s take: Words literally cannot do justice to what is perhaps one of the greatest films of all-time. But I can always try. The film follows the cynical expat Rick Blaine (played by the great Humphrey Bogart) living in Casablanca in 1941, and ultimately his relationship with Isla Lund (Ingrid Bergamn), an ex-lover who reappears in his life.

The film won multiple Academy Awards and has inspire some of the most popular quotations in movie history, most notably the toast, “Here’s looking at you, kid.” “Casablanca” will also be shown Sunday, August 5 at 2 p.m.

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What: Midnight Voyage Live: Dieselboy, Hulk, Negitive Feedback Where: The Ciderhouse When: 10 p.m.

Price: $12 advance, $15 at the door Preston’s take: Dieselboy, or as he is known in the real world Damian Higgins, is a throwback to the days of live DJing, as unlike many in the industry today, he uses mixes tracks live on three different decks with precision and intensity. Dieselboy is a two-decade veteran of the underground scene, and has also seen some major success by becoming the first drum ‘n’ bass artist to land on Billboard’s dance chart.

Hulk is the combination of Claw and Richie August, who are a recent collaboration that are an up-and-coming name in the dubstep circuit.And Negitive Feedback is a local guy.

• Photo courtesy of Bryson Hunter

Sunday, August 5 What: Square People with Planned Parenthood Where: The Pilot Light When: 10 p.m.

Price: $5 Preston’s take: The Square People are a band out of Nashville with an eclectic style, whose selfdescribed “World Tour” includes stops at Atlanta, Athens GA., and Knoxville.

They’re talented and they’re clever. And the same can be said for Planned Parenthood.

Good venue, good price, good show.

• Photo courtesy of Square People

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OPINIONS

Editor’sNote Availability makes leap to obsession Lauren Kittrell Editor-in-Chief I dropped my life.

Only hours ago, I was sitting at my desk in the Beacon newsroom and I dropped my iPod Touch to its death.

Essentially, I dropped my music, my Twitter, my Facebook, my Instagram, my photos, my contacts, my camera, my voice recorder, my My Fitness Pal and my newsstand.

It was a crushing blow to my virtual activity.

I picked it up, caressing the scars of broken glass across its face and winced as a glass splinter entered the tip of my index finger. My immediate thoughts went to how quickly I could replace it and how I couldn’t live without it for long. Even driving to the Apple store would be painful without my “Joyride” playlist spilling from my car speakers.

What about my iPod is so important?

I have pondered that question on numerous occasions.

It could be the immediate access to the outside world at any moment. In fact, I’m pretty sure that's it.

I argue that my job requires constant availability, communication and information. Twitter, Facebook, my New York Times app and email are invaluable to my work as a journalist. Writers have to be able to contact me anywhere at any time, as well as my co-workers. I need to be available to my editors at my other job as well.

If something big breaks, I need to be the first to know so that we can bring our readers the most up-to-date information.

You cannot do that without the internet. Technically speaking, you could say it has the ability to make or break my career.

Unfortunately, what I really use my iPod for is much less glamorous.

Yes, I use it for my job, but much of what I use my iPod for is unimportant. I would still do it even if I didn't have a job.

When I’m bored, I respond to emails. When I'm antsy, I tweet incessantly. When I'm tired, I scroll down my Facebook newsfeed.

This present world is fixated on the internet. As more and more jobs go online and more and more people connect via Skype, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc., the importance of being connected becomes vastly greater.

In all honesty, I don't see a problem with it. As with

any other pastime or entity, there is nothing harmful about it, until misused or overused.

For me, the most important aspect of my job (availability/information) is also the most difficult part of my job.

Not having my iPod/iPhone/computer means that there is no way for people to get in touch with me and no way for me to get in touch with people. It means that if something important takes place, I won't know about it in time to write about it and inform others.

This would be a terrible position to be in as a journalist, but being available and informed at all times holds great drawbacks as well.

It means I'm available at all times. Whether I'm at the office or at home or at my friend's house or taking a nap or at a wedding, I'm on call 24/7.

This doesn’t just apply to journalists. More and more companies supply smart phones for their employees.

This might seem like a bonus, but the reality is, companies want to be able to get in touch with their employees at a moment’s notice and purchasing smart phones for them is a kind of insurance on that.

Dedication is important when you accept a position and it's important to be available at a moments notice (esp. in my line of work), but there are times when I see the gift and the curse that constant availability is.

As addicted as I am to the internet and cell phone service, there are those times when I'm in an important conversation with a dear friend and I hate that my phone is beeping, buzzing and ringing, loudly demanding my attention. Ignoring that message could make or break my career, but ignoring that conversation could make or break a friendship.

A close friend of mine recently told me that it's difficult to talk to me when I'm checking emails and texts and Twitter during our conversations. The comment affected me because I know how frustrating it can be to be on the other end of a distracted conversation. I never want to give the impression that an electrical device holds more important information than the human being sitting next to me.

Yes, any job I take is a commitment that I will honor, but relationships are a priority that I will not jeopardize.

The difficulty lies in discovering boundaries between availability and obsession. Am I checking my phone/internet because of a commitment I have made as an employee or am I checking it out of habit, with no concern for my job or my relationships?

That doesn't mean I won't be getting my iPod fixed in the next 24 hours.

— Lauren Kittrell is a senior in journalism and electronic media. She can be reached at lkittre1@utk.edu

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RHYMES WITH ORANGE • Hilary Price

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Political views arise with election C ommitee o f I n f ra ct i o n s by

Greg Bearringer As I learned this week, life in a swing state is far different around this time than it is in the solidly red Tennessee (serious question: why is it that everywhere in the world, red is the color of progressives, but here they get stuck with blue?).

Anyway, when I was at home in Ohio the last few days, the attack ads on TV — which were mostly directed at Romney from the Obama campaign, at least on the channels I saw — are far different in tone and frequency than they are here. Anyway, in the spirit of the season, I thought it would be interesting to look at the strategies I think the parties will employ as they try to win in November.

Let’s start with the easy one: as seen above, the Obama campaign is going with the long term strategy: hammer the swing states with a combination of ads and news which solidifies the base and calls into question Romney’s qualifications.

The ads I saw could be summed up in three words: Bain, Women, and two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Ok, so that’s not really one word. Give me a break. Anyway, the striking thing about these ads was the lack of balance; while there were a few antiObama ads, there were none that were both negative and “approved” by Mitt Romney.

In fact, that is the interesting question that’s come up so far in the election: where and who is Mitt? The European trip seemed a bit weird even if it wasn't all that bad — honestly, all the hullabaloo surrounding his comments regarding the Olympics were notable in that they managed to be slightly more than barely interesting. The recent Quinnipiac Poll, which seems to have a pretty strong lead for Obama in some key swing states — even if it is slightly misleading — seems to be so because the most consistent message about Romney comes from… well, Obama attack ads.

I think I understand what the Romney camp is going to do — while Obama is running the “ground and pound” strategy, Romney has to be thinking the blitz attack. I am guessing that, beginning with the Republican convention, the Romney camp is going

to be non-stop for three months. Is it a good strategy?

Well, that's the real question. With nothing of substance from their campaign being provided, they look a bit weak right now, even if I don't think any of the “controversies” surrounding the campaign amount to much, his work at “Bain” notwithstanding. There is the chance that they will try to let Obama get too negative for too long, but in reality Obama is the favorite, and barring something catastrophic — like Obama getting a divorce or running over a sack of puppies — Romney is going to have to both present himself for review and — and this is more important — make a pretty good argument that Obama shouldn't remain president.

I think that’s why you haven't heard anything about the “Obamacare” decision (which effectively turned funding for the healthcare bill into a tax) from the Romney camp. When he makes his final push, he’s going for the jugular. Similarly, Romney is going to be much more successful in presenting himself as a candidate if he knows in advance what he needs to respond to, and also if he waits for the onslaught to run out of steam. Even though Romney has probably been too patient — you are seeing the first wave of widespread negative ads on a TV or billboard near you — just remember that this race will look very different in mid-September.

Overall, I think this is probably the most efficient plan for Romney. Of course, even if it is the best way for Romney to squeeze out the most votes, there is a good chance that Obama will still have more. In fact, I doubt Obama’s campaign will react much if at all to Romney’s strategy — the slow and steady attack makes an incredible amount of sense for Obama, and varying from it too much probably won’t improve their strategy very much.

It will be interesting to see how these ads affect the congressional races — in fact, my unqualified guess is that, while Obama is the heavy favorite in the Presidential election, I don’t see how the Republicans don’t make huge gains in both houses.

While conservatives will take it, I don’t think that’s the best outcome for this election. Even if the market corrects and the economy improves, a tied up government doesn’t sound any better.

— Greg Bearringer is a graduate student in Medieval Studies. He can be reached at gbearin@utk.edu

Appearance overtakes body, soul Social Ra m b li n gs by

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Let’s talk about beauty.

Not beauty products or how drinking a green smoothie everyday will give your complexion a healthy glow (which is does, by the way). I want to talk about beauty ideals.

There are certain clichés surrounding people’s ideals about beauty, one of my favorites being “beauty is in the eye of the beholder.”

As I’ve gotten older, my standards of beauty have changed as my personal standard of myself has evolved. As I’ve grown to embrace how I am, sans makeup and other beauty amplifiers, my judgment of other people’s aesthetic value has softened, and it has taken a huge weight off my shoulders.

Today, many people, especially women, seem to be holding onto an unfair standard of beauty, and this self-deprecation often causes a myriad of issues.

One friend of mine is a brilliant writer and she has the resume to prove it. However, all of her achievements seem to fall by the wayside when she walks into a crowded bar. She feels men aren’t giving her the attention she deserves. She becomes meek and self conscious, a complete 180 from the gregarious, confidant woman I witness when sitting poolside without the loud music and drunk guys.

Suddenly, her brilliance became buried under all of her self-loathing. I noticed how defensive she was in conversation and I began to catch her envious eyes following other women when we hung out.

When beauty becomes the priority of a person’s worth, then that person becomes an object. It’s not something that’s pinpointed to women or an American standard of beauty. It’s simply the idea of placing too much value on a person’s appearance, and it’s crippling us from manifesting our dreams and simply living.

I don’t want to spotlight my friend as the victim.

Up until I turned 21, I had been the quintessential girl with the self-esteem issues because I didn’t feel pretty enough. I would feel uncomfortable when other people received attention or a compliment because I felt it was a passive-aggressive attack towards me. And I would whine when I didn’t return home at night with a certain amount of new numbers in my phone from a party.

Sounds petty, right? It’s because it is. In all honesty, the time I wasted wondering if my physical appeal measured up to other’s standards could have been poured into anything else, but instead I spent it lamenting on how my life would be so stellar if I was a 10.

We, as people, already have the perpetual tendency to focus on objects and glorify them (hold your horses, religious buffs — I’m talking about iPhones, not false idols). But when these expectations begin to transfer over to people, the result is often disastrous. The truth is, no one is perfect. People can’t be constantly upgraded and fixed to meet society's standards, but still we continue to push others and ourselves over the limit.

This is the same reason why so many women feel the need to inject themselves with silicon and other fillers to get larger posteriors, lips, cheeks, breasts, and why men feel pressured to become better endowed. It’s why you see people spending hours at the gym, not to keep heart disease at bay, but to look good on a beach. We’re hurting because we can’t meet the standards that society has pinned upon us, but to cover our wounds we continuously attempt to upgrade ourselves in hopes of reaching that impossible place on the pedestal.

I understand. It’s almost impossible to completely throw away the constructs we place people in, and like people in a completely open way of thinking where beauty doesn’t matter. But we can at least move toward a way where our priorities can shift.

There’s more to life, and people, than someone’s outward appearance.

— Victoria Wright is a junior in journalism and electronic media. She can be reached at vwright6@utk.edu

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SPORTS

Three Questions: Defense Preston Peeden

Who will play on the defensive line, specifically at nose tackle, which is essential in a 3-4 defense?

Managing Editor

Matt Dixon Sports Editor What will new defensive cordinator Sal Sunseri’s defense look like?

Tennessee coach Derek Dooley hired Sunseri shortly after he helped guide Alabama to the 2011 NCAA national championship. Sunseri, who served as the assistant head coach and linebackers coach at Alabama, was known for being a disciple of the 3-4 defense, a vastly different system than the 4-3 scheme that Tennessee has employed for decades. In the 3-4, there are three down lineman and four linebackers, thus creating a different look at angles and blitzing packages for defenders.

Before the spring, Sunseri stated that, while not all of his system had been picked up by the team, the defense was working hard to implement the new style of play as much as they could, with Sunseri’s previous stops being an example of the success that it could bring.

“We need to watch Alabama tapes to see the things we did at Alabama,” Sunseri said. “And they need to see Carolina Panthers’ tape, because that’s what we’re going to do.”

One thing that will help Sunseri’s transition is the personnel that the Vols have fit well into his system.

The Vols have an excess of depth at the linebacker positions with Freshman All-American A.J. Johnson, sophomore Curt Maggitt and senior Herman Lathers, who sat out all of last season with an ankle injury. All three have the talent to perfrom in the SEC and should thrive in the same system that produced All-American linebackers like Dont’a Hightower, Courtney Upshaw and Rolando McClain at Alabama.

Derek Dooley’s tenure as coach for UT has been mired by one consistent problem, lack of depth. And that lack has been most evident on the defensive line, where walk-ons and former offensive liners have become staples as rotational players.

This year, however, Dooley seems to finally have the necessary depth to not only implement a whole D-line, but also an effective one at that as he has publicly stated that he wants eight to ten guys to be in the rotation.

Returning starters on the defensive line include Jacques Smith, who has the speed necessary to come off the edge, and will probably see time as a stand-up rush linebacker as well, and Maurice Couch, who will probably man one of the other defensive end positions.

Two players to watch out for are junior college transfers Darrington Sentimore, who at 6-foot 2-inch, 288 pounds, is the perfect fit for the 3-4 defensive end position, and Daniel McCullers, who tips the scale at 380 pounds.

McCullers’ arrival comes at a key position for the Vols, who with their transition to the 3-4 need a lane-clogging nose tackle more than ever.

“It’s of great signifigance,” Sunseri said. “When you have a big body in there and you can force double teams, that allows the linebackers to run free. And that guy has to be able to dominate the center and make plays. That’s what we’re hoping for from him (McCullers).”

The Vols finished last season ranked twelfth overall in the country in pass defense, surrendering 177.8 yards through the air a game. But those numbers are wildly inflated. The truth of

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Fall Presser continued from Page 1 “I think I’ve gotten a lot stronger since I’ve been hurt,” Hunter said.

Also returning to the lineup is senior linebacker and team leader Herman Lathers.

Maggitt said he’s looking forward to Lathers’ return.

“Herman is a great leader and great person to be around,” Maggitt. “Last year we had Austin (Johnson) and now we have ‘Herm.’”

Offensive lineman Dallas Thomas said the team’s performance last season was selfish.

Thomas said the team’s goal this year is to focus on teambuilding and less on personal performance.

“Last year we all just fell apart,” Thomas said. “Everybody was trying to do their own thing and thinking about themselves instead of pulling it together. That’s what we’ve been doing. When we’re doing anything, it’s always going to be together. You will never see anybody by themselves.”

Dooley looks to a week of fall camp at Milligan College as a jump-start to the season. The team’s obvious lack of unity and leadership was a major concern for Dooley last season, but he said the team unity is paying off.

THESPORTSPAGE “This group is showing more signs of chemistry and leadership than any group since I've been here,” Dooley said.

But Dooley isn’t about to slack off. The upcoming four-weeks will be a challenge.

“As we all know, training camp is going to be harder,” Dooley said. “It's going to be a lot harder to have good leadership. It's harder to have good chemistry, because of how tough it's going to be on them. So, we're going to try and get them comfortable being uncomfortable so that they are ready for this season to handle all of the adversity that you are going to face over the course of 12 games.”

Dooley’s warning failed to unnerve sophomore offensive lineman Antonio Richardson. Richardson said he’s looking forward to training camp because it reminds him of one of his favorite movies, ‘Remember the Titans’. His confidence in his team is unwavering.

“We’re gonna be better. I promise you,” Richardson said.

But the season is when it all goes from talk to reality.

“All of that's great, but now we are at a point where none of that will pay dividends in the fall if we dont approach the next four weeks with the right kind of mindset,” Dooley said.

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Tia Patron • The Daily Beacon

Justin Hunter speaks to press on Aug. 2 before pre-fall camp. Hunter is returning to the field after an ACL injury and is back "better than ever".

Vols prepare to win, have fun in Italy Patrick MacCoon Staff Writer While the Tennessee men’s basketball team will be focused on winning all four games on its ten-day tour of Italy, which they leave for on Sunday, coming out victorious is very important but it is not the only thing on the coaches and players minds.

“You always want to win games, but you want to see guys get better,” said secondyear head coach Cuonzo Martin. “I think with some of the exhibition games, you want to win games, but you also want to see guys getting better, you want to see different lineups. I doubt if we’ll start the same lineup every game.”

In their exhibition games in Italy, they will face off against club and professional Italian teams. The Vols will be competing under FIBA rules, which is similar to the rules that the United States national teams are currently abiding by in the 2012 Olympics in London.

Against these teams, the Vols will have to adapt in ways to their opposition’s style of play. In the Italian style of play, the big men

have a tendency to play on the perimeter to space the offense out and they focus on dribble penetrating. The overseas trip will be the first time for many of the Vols, but not the first for Martin, who, while at Purdue as a player and assistant coach, played overseas in Italy and other parts of Europe.

“The competition is pretty good,” said Martin. “I’m not sure we won every game so it was great competition from that standpoint. There were some games where I think we might have won by 40 or 50 (points), but there were other games it was tough for us.”

With the Vols planning on using a great deal of different lineups in the exhibition games and Martin not wanting to use anyone more than 20 minutes a game, it will make room for some first time Vols to see consistent minutes such as incoming freshman Derek Reese and junior college transfer D’Montre Edwards. For all the younger players, it will be important that the older players set the tone and display their leadership on and off the court while they are overseas.

“That’s probably the biggest thing for us high level.”

On the other side of the ball, intensity in our program,” said Martin. “Our older guys have got to get better off the court will be a must.

“We’re getting to put a lot of stuff in leading young guys. Right now, I would say Jeronne Maymon is our leader without a before practices in October and November,” said junior point guard Trae doubt. He’s probably the Golden. “The new guys, they guy.” get a chance to see how we play It will also be important defense and how intense everyfor the team to make thing is.” progress on the offensive Despite one of the main and defensive sides of the goals for scheduling the tour of ball in the four exhibition Italy being to improve and win, games. the Vols will be able to sight see “I think the biggest key in their free time, as a tourist with the offensive progress will help show the team and our team pushing foraround. ward, even into the season, Matthew DeMaria “When we’re off the court, we’ve got to do a better job • The Daily Beacon we try to sight-see and do good taking care of the basketball.

We have to many turnovers Guard Trae Golden things and be as a team and as a team,” Martin said. prepares for a layup have some fun,” said Martin.

“The other thing is you have during open practice “But when you play the game, you try to put forth your best to be able to make perimeter on July 31. effort.” shots consistently. That’s A professor of a Renaissance class the just getting in the gym, real simple. Those are things that aren’t very complicated, just team took for class credit this summer will a matter of doing them and doing them at a also accompany the team.