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Issues Committee looks for more notable, fiscally agreeable speakers Malek, who will talk on Aug. 30 at 7 p.m. at the UC Auditorium.

News and Student Life Editor “She’s going to be talking about American society In the past, the UT Issues Committee has put on events through the perspective of Arab-Americans, and we don’t that have packed the house to see the likes of former U.S. think that maybe the idea of Islam or Muslim-Americans presidential candidate Howard Dean, author Christopher are considered or talked about enough,” Dixon said.

An example of the former is the gay marriage rights Hitchens or Noam Chomsky, and the committee seeks the same kind of attendance for its events this upcoming fall debate, which will take place on Oct. 10 at 7 p.m. at the UC Auditorium. semester.

“We’ve seen small pockets of some LGBT programming In fact, it was events in the past like seeing Dean and Hitchens that got Issues Committee Vice Chair Eric Dixon on campus,” Dixon said. “But we haven’t seen any real large-scale events that first interested in jointarget campus-wide ing. attention.”

Issues Committee fall 2011 events “I was attracted to the Maggie Gallagher, Issues Committee just chairman and co-founder because my freshman All events take place at the UC Auditorium at 7 p.m. of the National year I’d been interested Organization for in all the events they Aug. 30 — Alia Malek on Arab-Americans’ perspectives Marriage, and John hosted,” Dixon said. “I Sept. 12 — New York Fire Department Deputy Chief Jay Jonas Corvino, philosophy projust thought the people Sept. 22 — C. L. Lindsay on rights on the Internet fessor at Wayne State who must be making Oct. 10 — Gay marriage rights debate University, will do the these decisions must be Oct. 13 — Black Panthers co-founder Bobby Seale debating. a great group of stuNov. 16 — Jim Keady on sweat shops Another of the year’s dents.” events grew out of Dixon said the Issues remembering the 10-year Committee as a group works well together because, even though they frequently anniversary of a tragedy, the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, disagree, they are all open-minded and with varied inter- 2001.

New York Fire Department Deputy Chief Jay Jonas will ests. speak the day after the anniversary, Sept. 12 at 7 p.m. at “What’s great is we can work through it and find what’s best,” he said. “So we’re fortunate that not all our members the UC Auditorium.

Other events include C.L. Lindsay talking on Sept. 22 are alike.”

First and foremost, he said the committee wanted to be at the UC Auditorium about people’s rights on the Internet and Jim Keady speaking on Nov. 16 at 7 p.m. at the UC responsible with the students’ money.

Phillip Smith, assistant director in the Office of Student Auditorium about sweat shops and their connections to Activities and Issues Committee adviser, said the events shoe manufacturers.

But the event Dixon is most looking forward to is an are funded through the student activities fee that each UT evening with Bobby Seale, the co-founder of the Black student pays.

The Issues Committee is one of seven committees that Panthers, on Oct. 13 at 7 p.m. at the UC Auditorium.

“His name might not be as known widely as other civil get a portion of the student activities fee money from the rights and black rights leaders, but he is such an important Central Programming Council, Smith said.

So, Dixon said, the committee is trying to be fiscally figure in American history and the Civil Rights responsible by looking not just at great speakers but great Movement,” Dixon said.

Smith said Seale’s inclusion also plays into the universpeakers at great pricetags.

Smith said the Issues Committee also factors in com- sity’s year-long celebration of the 50th anniversary of ment cards gathered from attendees who come to the African-American integration at UT. For those that have never been to an Issues Committee events, and the committee presents ideas at a planning event, Smith said it is a great way to learn new things and retreat.

The Issues Committee focuses on events that either engage with people with similar ideas.

“It helps keep students here on campus in a higher speak to issues UT students are talking about or issues that are not talked about on campus enough in the commit- learning environment,” Smith said. “And it’ll challenge people because there are so many wide varieties of topics tee members’ eyes.

One example of the latter is this year’s first speaker, Alia that can be discussed.”

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Program aids local firms, students alike Rob Davis Staff Writer UT has partnered with businesses in the area to form the Greater Knoxville Area Consortium of Employers (GKACE).

GKACE was organized to help Knoxville-area employers attract students from the university.

“We deal with two very distinct and different types of recruiters,” Russ Coughenour, director of UT Career Services, said. “The first type of recruiter that we deal with more of would be the national type of recruiter, whose company has a formal college recruiting team. There are people that are dedicated to focus on recruiting at major college campuses across the country. ... That’s the main type of employer we work with. We also have the local type of recruiter that would be in the greater Knoxville area, East Tennesseebased employer, that does not have a team of recruiters or deep recruiting pockets or budgets.

It’s that second type of employer that we are focusing the GKACE project on.”

The goal of GKACE is to attract students to local businesses that they normally would not have heard of and level the playing fields between local and national recruiters.

“We know we have a lot of students that come to the University of Tennessee that want to stay in the area after graduation, but the recruiter isn’t as sophisticated in knowing how to recruit that student as say, by recruiters from Enterprise,” Coughenour said.

As of now, 13 businesses within a 75-mile radius of Knoxville are members of GKACE, including the Knoxville News Sentinel, Jewelry TV and First Tennessee Bank.

“As a recruiter in the Northeast Tennessee area, I believe that this is an excellent

program to encourage students to stay in the area after graduation,” Tina Davis, who is a recruiter for a large company based in Northeast Tennessee, said. “I’ll have students that come up to me, and after talking to them for a while, I will tell them they must stay in the area after they graduate for this job.

A lot of times, students will say they don’t want to stay here.

GKACE would greatly help us reach students more effectively.”

When students sign up for the Hire-A-Vol service on the Career Services website, they are prompted by the question, “Which of the following best identifies your post-graduation employment preferences?”

Students then have three options, two of which make the student searchable to the GKACE members.

Students can also change their minds and update their preferences.

Local employers can sign up and pay a fee of $299, part of which will go towards a scholarship fund.

“GKACE will be run on a yearly subscription of $299,” Coughenour said. “We are going to take either 30, 40 or 50 percent and put it in a scholarship fund. The scholarship fund will be available for students from the greater Knoxville area to apply for.”

The scholarship does not require the student to return to the area after graduation.

Upcoming events for GKACE include a showcase on Nov. 2 from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. in the University Center.

“What we want to do is feature the members in job fair format where they can talk to our student body about the opportunities that their company has,” Coughenour said. “So if you’re a student interested in staying in the area, you can come to this event and know that every company is from the Knoxville area and would not ask you to relocate at the point of hire.”

For-profit colleges answer criticism The Associated Press ST. LOUIS — They gather in a generic suburban office park, working-class students chasing a fast track to success: a college degree.

But the message at the University of Phoenix orientation is not quite what these secretaries, mental health aides, working moms and single dads expect.

“We want you to decide if this is right for you,” says Sam Fitzgerald, director of academic affairs at the school’s four St. Louis campuses. “We’re here to help you figure it out.”

That candor would have been anathema not too long ago in the lucrative world of forprofit colleges, where recruiters received hefty bonuses and often oversold career prospects.

Yet these are new times for the industry that now accommodates one in every eight American college students, either in class or online. Lawmakers in Congress are probing its excesses, from high loan default rates to reports of exploitative sales pitches to wounded veterans.

The Obama administration in June unveiled new rules that could cut off government aid for programs where too few students repay their loans or acquire decent-paying jobs. Disenchantment — and lawsuits — continue among both former students and skittish investors.

“They have a huge bulls-eye on them,” said Kevin Kinser, an associate professor at the State University of New York at Albany who studies the industry. “They can’t risk business as usual anymore.”

The for-profit industry, which prefers the term “career colleges” or “proprietary” schools, grew rapidly over the last decade amid renewed calls to increase the nation’s college graduation rate and a need to help laid-off workers find new careers. The private sector’s slice of federal aid money grew from $4.6 billion to more than $26 billion between 2000 and 2010.

Now, the industry will see if it can still

make healthy profits from its challenging demographic — low income workers, older students and those with spotty academic backgrounds — while being much more accountable for its results.

The changes are most apparent at the University of Phoenix and its corporate parent, Apollo Group Inc., which, with nearly 400,000 students, ranks atop the industry.

The school has created its own social network, PhoenixConnect, to better link its farflung students as well as 600,000 alumni who could help those students and graduates find jobs. It boasts of new alumni association chapters, hundreds of student clubs and mentorship programs.

The three-week orientation program is now required of all prospective students with fewer than 24 college credits. The program is free, but those who don’t pass can’t continue.

The company scrapped its financial incentive program for enrollment counselors and there’s less reliance on outside sales companies to generate leads, and more emphasis on finding corporate partners willing to help pay for their employees’ education.

The results have been dramatic. New student enrollment has declined by nearly half, and the company reported $159 million less in net revenue after the first three quarters of fiscal year 2011 compared to the previous year.

Officials expect further enrollment declines and more short-term financial pain but insist the approach will pay off with fewer dropouts, higher graduation rates and lower federal loan default rates.

“We have made a conscious decision to make sure the students coming through the door are more likely to be successful,” said Mark Brenner, senior vice president for external affairs.

Change is also afoot at Kaplan University, which is owned by The Washington Post Co. and serves about 62,000 students. Another 50,000 students study at Kaplan Higher George Richardson • The Daily Beacon Education career colleges, which focus more on specific trades.

The Torchbearer statue looks out into the night sky on Friday, Nov. 12, 2010.

Although the design of the official symbol of the university was created in 1932, the See COLLEGE on Page 3 statue was not placed on campus in Circle Park until 1968.

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Members of the band perform at the groundbreaking ceremony of the new music building on Wednesday, Nov. 9. As the upcoming football season draws closer the Pride of the Southland Marching Band gears up for another season of continued tradition.

1945 — Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki On this day in 1945, a second atom bomb is dropped on Japan by the United States, at Nagasaki, resulting finally in Japan’s unconditional surrender.

The devastation wrought at Hiroshima was not sufficient to convince the Japanese War Council to accept the Potsdam Conference’s demand for unconditional surrender. The United States had already planned to drop their second atom bomb, nicknamed “Fat Man,” on August 11 in the event of such recalcitrance, but bad weather expected for that day pushed the date up to August 9th. So at 1:56 a.m., a specially adapted B-29 bomber, called “Bock’s Car,” after its usual commander, Frederick Bock, took off from Tinian Island under the command of Maj. Charles W. Sweeney. Nagasaki was a shipbuilding center, the very industry intended for destruction. The bomb was dropped at 11:02 a.m., 1,650 feet above the city.

The explosion unleashed the equivalent force of 22,000 tons of TNT. The hills that surrounded the city did a better job of containing the destructive force, but the number killed is estimated at anywhere between 60,000 and 80,000 (exact figures are impossible, the blast having obliterated bodies and disintegrated records).

General Leslie R. Groves, the man responsible for organizing the Manhattan Project, which solved the problem of producing and delivering the nuclear explosion, estimated that another atom bomb would be ready to use against Japan by August 17 or 18 — but it was not necessary. Even though the War Council still remained divided (“It is far too early to say that the war is lost,” opined the Minister of War), Emperor Hirohito, by request of two War Council members eager to end the war, met with the Council and declared that “continuing the war can only result in the annihilation of the Japanese people...” The Emperor of Japan gave his permission for unconditional surrender.

in a television address, declaring, “My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over.”

Ford, the first president who came to the office through appointment rather than election, had replaced Spiro Agnew as vice president only eight months before. In a political scandal independent of the Nixon administration's wrongdoings in the Watergate affair, Agnew had been forced to resign in disgrace after he was charged with income tax evasion and political corruption. In September 1974, Ford pardoned Nixon for any crimes he may have committed while in office, explaining that he wanted to end the national divisions created by the Watergate scandal.

1995 — Jerry Garcia dies Like his band the Grateful Dead, which was still going strong three decades after its formation, Jerry Garcia defied his life-expectancy not merely by surviving, but by thriving creatively and commercially into the 1990s — far longer than most of his peers. His long, strange trip came to an end, however, on this day in 1995, when he died of a heart attack in a residential drug-treatment facility in Forest Knolls, California.

A legendary guitarist and true cultural icon, Jerry Garcia was 53 years old.

Jerome John Garcia was born on August 1, 1942 and raised primarily in San Francisco’s Excelsior District, about five miles south of his and his band’s famous future residence at 710 Ashbury Street.

Trained formally on the piano as a child, Garcia picked up the instrument he’d make his living with at the age of 15, when he convinced his mother to replace the accordion she’d bought him as a birthday gift with a Danelectro electric guitar. Five years later, after brief stints in art school and the Army, and after surviving a deadly automobile accident in 1961, Jerry Garcia began to pursue a musical career in earnest, playing with various groups that were part of San Francisco’s bluegrass and folk scene. By 1965, he had joined up with bassist Phil Lesh, rhythm guitarist Bob Weir, organist Ron “Pigpen” McKernan and drummer Bill Kreutzman in a group originally called the Warlocks and later renamed “the Grateful Dead.”

From their early gig as the house band at Ken Kesey’s famous Acid Tests, the Dead was a defining part of San Francisco’s burgeoning hippie counterculture scene. They would go on to play at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967 and at Woodstock in 1969, but as big as they were in the 60s and 70s, the Grateful Dead 1974 — Unusual succession makes Ford president grew even more popular and successful as the decade they helped to define slipped further into the past.

In accordance with his statement of resignation the previous evening, Richard M. Nixon officially ends Indeed, during the final decade of Jerry Garcia’s life, following his recovery from a five-day diabetic coma his term as the 37th president of the United States at noon. Before departing with his family in a helicop- in 1986, the Dead played an average of 100 to 150 live shows per year, frequently to sold-out audiences ter from the White House lawn, he smiled farewell and enigmatically raised his arms in a victory or peace that included a significant proportion of tie-dye-wearing college students who were not yet alive when the salute. The helicopter door was then closed, and the Nixon family began their journey home to San Grateful Dead first made their name.

Clemente, California. Richard Nixon was the first U.S. president to resign from office.

Minutes later, Vice President Gerald R. Ford was sworn in as the 38th president of the United States — This Day in History is courtesy of History.com in the East Room of the White House. After taking the oath of office, President Ford spoke to the nation

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School’s alert lifted after no leads The Associated Press BLACKSBURG, Va. — Memories of the worst mass school shooting in U.S. history at Virginia Tech came flooding back when the campus locked down after reports of a man with a gun, although some who were told to stay indoors treated the warnings with a shrug.

The university on Thursday issued the longest, most extensive lockdown and search on campus since the 2007 massacre.

It came after three teenage girls attending a summer camp on campus reported to university police that they saw a man with a possible gun as they walked to the dining hall.

The school lifted the lockdown more than five hours later after a search for such a man was unsuccessful and police had no real leads.

Mohammed Al-Halali, a sophomore taking a summer architecture design lab, said the shootings that killed 33 people were “the first thing that came to mind” when he got the emergency alert and he received many texts from friends to make sure he was all right.

Still, he said he never felt unsafe and he thought the police would have things under control. He said the news media was hyping it.

University spokesman Larry Hincker said all voicemail, text-messaging, e-mail and social-media alerting systems worked without a hitch, and that issuing such a warning was necessary. Still, some continued to stroll about the 2,600-acre campus,

despite requests to stay indoors. Several thousand students and the school’s 6,500 employees were on campus for summer classes.

“People have the right to do what they want to do,” Hincker said. “People have their own free will.”

Police searched some 150 buildings on the square-mile campus and issued a composite sketch of a baby-faced man who was said to be wearing shorts and sandals, but they found no sign of him. They continued to patrol the grounds as a precaution even after the lockdown was lifted.

“We’re in a new era. Obviously this campus experienced something pretty terrible four years ago,” Hincker said. He added: “Regardless of what your intuition and your experience as a public safety officer tells you, you are really forced to issue an alert.”

It was the first time the entire campus was locked down since the shooting rampage by student Seung-Hui Cho, and the second major test of Virginia Tech’s improved emergency-alert system, which was revamped to add the use of text messages and other means besides e-mail of warning students.

The system was also used in 2008, when an exploding nail-gun cartridge was mistaken for gunfire. But only one dormitory was locked down then and it reopened two hours later.

Peggy Newsome was driving her 17-yearold daughter, Paige, and two of Paige’s friends, Emily Oliver and Lauren Mackey, to Blacksburg for an afternoon admissions tour when the group started getting text messages from friends about the lockdown.

COLLEGE continued from Page 1 Stung by a series of whistleblower lawsuits by former employees and a Florida attorney general’s investigation, Kaplan created a program that allows new students to attend classes for four or five weeks at no cost before deciding whether to continue. Kaplan also stopped paying incentives to recruiters.

The company reported a 48 percent decline in new enrollments as of April and an attrition rate of 25 percent.

Of the latter group, 60 percent are dismissed by Kaplan for lack of academic progress.

The for-profit industry’s staunchest defenders include Donald Graham, chief executive officer of The Washington Post Co. “If we are to be guided only by those factors — student graduation rates and how much debt they incur — we

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Power Ts line the gates leading into Neyland Stadium’s plaza entrance on Monday, would probably close down Sept. 13, 2010. all, or almost all, of the institutions of higher educadefaults. tion — whomever they may be run by — that serve poor The Senate committee found an average dropout rate of students,” Graham said at the company’s annual meeting in 57 percent within two years of enrollment at 16 unnamed May. for-profit schools. More than 95 percent of students at twoA committee led by Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, has held year proprietary schools, and 93 percent at four-year multiple hearings on for-profit colleges over the past year — schools, took out student loans in 2007, the committee most recently in early July, after the Obama administration found. That compares to fewer than 17 percent of communiissued its new “gainful employment” rules. Those rules ty college students and 44.3 percent of students at four-year require schools to meet at least one of three conditions to public schools. Students at for-profit schools also account continue receiving Pell Grants and other federal paidfor nearly half of all student loan defaults, the committee tuition: a loan repayment rate by former students of least 35 found. percent; annual loan payments of no more than 30 percent “Some for-profit schools are efficient government subsidy of an average student’s discretionary income; or annual loan collectors first and educational institutions second,” the payments that don’t exceed 12 percent of a typical graducommittee concluded in its report. ate’s salary.

In contrast to most nonprofit colleges, proprietary colRegulators say those conditions are needed to ensure leges have emphasized expanding their student rolls, that for-profit graduates won’t face crippling debts, which regardless of the academic prospects of those enrolled. combined with low-paying jobs could lead to more loan

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Editor’sNote S&P sullies Uncle Sam’s credibility Blair Kuykendall Editor-in-Chief Americans have come to depend on oil, Social Security and a triple-A credit rating. These pillars of American society have all been threatened as of late, but the credit rating is the first to fall.

Standard & Poor’s has docked Uncle Sam’s triple-A to double-A-plus, putting the U.S. economy on par with New Zealand and Belgium. The announcement came after a week of debt talks took a savage toll on the market.

S&P dropped the news just as Wall Street suits were cozying up to their first scotch on the rocks Friday evening.

Instead of an “extremely strong capacity to meet financial commitments,” S&P now rates the U.S. economy with “very strong capacity to meet financial commitments.” But what does that actually mean for the economy’s future?

An easy answer simply doesn’t exist. Most of the usual authorities are reluctant to make a wager, but instead are offering up different scenarios that could possibly take place, depending on investor dispositions.

The Wall Street Journal’s “Review and Outlook” offered predictions depending on government response to the news. Denial of the S&P warning, its editorial asserted, will put the U.S. on a crash course chasing after Greece. Increased government spending and thus increased inflation would further undermine the integrity of the dollar. The only course of action endorsed by the paper is a return to “classical, pro-growth economic ideas” to re-establish the credit rating.

Some international investors have expressed concern over the downgrade, with most outspoken criticism coming from China. The Chinese are calling for the U.S. to “get its financial house in order,” nervously eying U.S. securities it holds. Most investors are worried S&P’s actions could spark an international panic. This is truly ironic, because in incidents of world panic, investors usually come running to the U.S. Treasury.

That’s exactly what they did on Monday morning.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped around 600 points on the day, while investors simultaneously scrambled to purchase U.S. Treasury bonds. Yields on the 10-year note fell sharply to 2.3 percent, and yields on the two-year note reached a low of 0.27 percent.

Bond prices move inversely to their respective yields, so prices for treasury bonds saw a great upswing. When the global economy is in jeopardy, money runs for the highest ground.

Investor behavior thus makes perfect sense. Europe is facing its own crisis, with Italy and Spain threatening the sanctity of the euro, necessitating another Germanbacked bailout. China and Japan have yet to garner a reputation of stability in the minds of investors. The influx of demand for U.S.-backed securities indicates that investors are less rattled by what the S&P downgrade means for the U.S., and more concerned about the collective future of the global economy. The problems faced by the U.S. and Europe coupled with troubles in Japan signal a broader economic slow down.

Even with the credit downgrade, the U.S. is likely still the fastest horse in a Grade III race.

That doesn’t mean Uncle Sam won’t suffer with the best of them. The Dow has lost over 1280 points in the last eleven sessions, not even taking into account Monday’s bloodbath. All signs indicate nothing but trouble on the horizon for the U.S. economy. Politicians are scrambling to lay blame on any doorstep but their own.

The Obama administration has taken an interesting course in its response to the downgrade. In the wake of S&P’s announcement, the president chose not to address the nation until Monday. He acknowledged the downgrade was based on S&P’s lack of confidence in Washington, but cited Warren Buffett’s confidence in the American economy as proof that the market’s foundation is still strong. While admitting that the U.S. needs a long-term plan for deficit reduction, he indicated that most plausible spending cuts have been made already. The president seems to think that increased tax revenue will be the answer to America’s debt woes.

The S&P, though, has refused to back down. In a cable interview Monday morning, the head of S&P’s sovereign-debt-rating committee, David Beers, cited politics as one of the two main reasons the U.S. credit rating was downgraded. He pegged Washington as a dysfunctional system that allowed the nation to come within 10 hours of shutdown, making it inferior to the governments of other nations abroad. Beers also cited Washington’s refusal to make $4 trillion in budget cuts as a sign of insufficient government action. With lingering threats of another downgrade in the next 6 months, America’s future remains uncertain. Our only hopes for reform right now lie in Washington compromise. Godspeed, America.

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

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Jake Lane It’s the end of the summer, the heat is devastating, our credit rating has dropped and stocks are in the toilet.

Instead of giving you some advice that will either go unheeded or lampooned, I think I’ll just expound on some conspiracy theories that have been rattling around my head. If you have little tolerance for fringe ideas or views formed more on instinct that concrete evidence, feel free to tune out now and hit 100.3. They are waiting for you.

O.K., now that they’re gone, let’s talk shop. I’m not really going to start pointing fingers at people or questioning the motives of the Illuminati or the Freemasons. No, I’m going to talk about a series of video games, because that’s what I do well. Like a good Socialist, I know my place in society and will now attempt to perform my single task lest the High Comrade find me unfavorable.

In all seriousness, I’m trying to thin out the audience so I can geek out on something some of you will also know a lot about. The game is “Assassin’s Creed,” and the story is simple. Since the dawn of civilization, two factions have warred for control over humanity’s future.

The Knights Templar, under their many guises, have always striven to control through indoctrination and involuntary conscription. The Assassins, on the other hand, live by the maxim “Nothing is true, everything is permitted.” They naturally seek for each person to find their own path and decide on their own version of “the Truth.”

This idea of Truth pervades the series, especially the latter two console entries in which players must decode encrypted files in the simulation program construct through which most of the storyline is told. A key concept which drives the series is DNA memory, the idea that the lives and experiences of ancestors up to the birth of a child is encoded into that child’s DNA and passed to descendants. The Templars seek to harness these memories by kidnapping descendants and forcing them to relive the often violent, if historically significant, lives of their ancient ancestors in a neural interfacing machine dubbed “the Animus.” Think of it as “Forrest Gump”

meets “The Matrix.”

Why am I waxing pedantic about something as old news as these games?

The idea of world domination in literature and art is nothing new. What developer Ubisoft does with “Assassin’s Creed,” however, sets the series’ game world apart from many other contenders in the field. Another personal fave, “Fallout,” imagines a post-nuclear world destroyed by militant capitalists and unflinching Socialists bombing each other to the Dark Ages over oil. Again, two sides ultimately decide humanity’s future without a mass vote, but simply by setting off a catastrophic nuclear holocaust.

“Assassin’s Creed” offers a more intuitive approach, stepping back in time and creatively finagling in the lives of such titans as the Borgias, rivals Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison, and even former President George W. Bush. Such caressing of history has been performed admirably in the past, most notably by Konami’s “Metal Gear” series. However, by intertwining in-game rendezvous with influential figures and intense cryptography, aided by some ace Photoshopping, one is left with a prevailing sense of Truth in this alternate reality, and must for a brief moment question whether they are in on some vast conspiracy or simply reveling in well-crafted fiction.

This is perhaps the pinnacle of post-modern storytelling. While the games are rampant with plot-holes and erroneous chronology, the sense of total immersion in the storyline, thanks in no small part to the loading screens in the Animus which offer helpful tips and give the sense of sitting in a next-gen virtual reality simulator with never-ending lines of binary code and C++ fragments flying past in a stream, coupled with in-game multimedia puzzles offers a nonlinear story in a sandbox world which eschews the random ephemera of “Fallout” or “Grand Theft Auto” for quality of experience.

I love conspiracy theories for the simple fact that for a moment, they make you feel as if you are in on a worldwide joke or a crucial secret whose integrity is more valuable than your own life. In an age where information is considered a right instead of a privilege, such phenomena are likely to die out with our generation.

“Assassin’s Creed” captures this final moment as an apocalyptic signifier, a message which tells the world “Ignorance is no excuse for mindless conformity, and in the end, it will not save you.” Fiction, sure, but in the end, you have to wonder if the creators are trying to tell us something deeper.

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

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I am a huge Harry Potter fan. I haven’t always been a die hard Potter follower. In fact, I had only seen two of the movies and hadn’t read any of the books up until two summers ago. It was then that a friend of mine rather forcefully suggested that I watch another one of the movies. The next thing I knew, I had watched all the movies that were out at the time and had ordered the whole series of books off Amazon. Once my books arrived, it took me two and a half weeks to read all seven of them. Yep, I’m a fan.

Naturally, (well, I certainly found it natural) I have re-read some of the books and must have reread the last few chapters of “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” at least half a dozen times. Suffice it to say, I know how the book ends, and it ends magnificently.

We all know that Hollywood is notorious for messing up books. Well, that is exactly what they did with the ending of “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part II.” All through the movie, I was so excited because they were pretty much sticking to the book, and then, the battle came. That’s when the writers came to the completely insane conclusion that they could write an ending better than J. K. Rowling. Don’t get me wrong, I loved the movie, and the ending made for a good movie. It just was not nearly as good as the last few chapters of the book. Basically, I was ticked. Well, I still am.

So the question is, why? Why is it that Hollywood screen writers and directors think it is wise to rewrite things that were obviously wonderful to begin with. Books are only made into movies when they are really good, popular, successful books. That, in and of itself, should inform writers that the story in the book worked. So why mess with it?

“The book was better,” “it was nothing like the book,” and “they messed up the story,” are probably three of the most repeated phrases when it comes to movies. “The Chronicles of Narnia,” for example,

were beautiful books with timeless messages. They were widely popular and were, therefore, made into movies. Surprise! Hollywood rewrote a masterpiece into decent, but not excellent movies. All right, I happily admit that the movie version of “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe” stayed pretty close to the book. Its sequels, however, did not. In the great books, Prince Caspian is closer to 12 than he is to 20. He is described as “a very young boy.” He and Susan Pevensie had no silly romance, nor romance of any kind for that matter. Prince Caspian, being a small child, looked up to Peter Pevensie with ardor.

Peter mentored him, whereas, in the poorly written movie version, a 20-something-year-old Caspian and Peter have a dangerous power struggle. The struggle is only illuminated by the totally awkward and unnecessary romance between Caspian and Susan.

In the third installment of “The Chronicles of Narnia” movies, “Voyage of the Dawn Treader,” they took the name and characters from the books but wrote a story all their own; a story that, of course, pales in comparison to that in the beautiful book.

The entire movie is based around an evil green mist.

Well, here’s the problem: The book contained no green mist. So, the movie was truly nothing like the book. I was furious about that one. My dad read me “The Chronicles of Narnia” when I was little. I loved them then and I love them now, and I hated seeing them twisted and warped into movies that tried very hard to cloud the messages that were so beautifully clear in the books by strange story changes and what some people mistakenly call “entertainment.”

I find it almost insulting that Hollywood feels they can and/or should change stories I love. I also think that it is downright foolish on their part.

Although I understand that some things need to be shortened or combined and, in rare cases, left out of movies to keep the time under five hours, Hollywood writers would do well to remember the sayings “don’t fix what isn’t broken” and “don’t mess with a good thing” in mind. I honestly believe that they would make more money if they stayed true to the books and in the good graces of those who love the books.

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

Tuesday, August 9, 2011

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‘Wilfred’ pleases, struggles with old tricks Robby O’Daniel News and Student Life Editor Watching FX’s new comedy “Wilfred,” based on the Australian television series of the same name, is a bit like watching some Charlie Kaufman-penned, surrealistic movie.

In many ways, “Wilfred” should not work, and yet it manages to, somewhat.

The story follows depressed Ryan (Elijah Wood), who is planning perhaps the most delicate suicide of all time. When viewers first see Ryan, he is tapping away at his computer, revising a file that reads “Suicide Note — Third Revision.” He then downs a bunch of pills his sister prescribed him and carefully lies in the center of his well-made bed.

But nothing is happening. He chugs a bottle of cold medicine. Nothing. In order to get sleepy, he tries jumping rope. He takes a cold shower. But Ryan is not dying tonight.

After all this, it’s now daytime, and his neighbor asks Ryan to take care of her dog, Wilfred. But while everyone else sees a dog, Ryan sees a man (Jason Gann) in a brown, furry dog costume.

The central question at the heart of “Wilfred” is how long can dog jokes work? A follow-up question: How long will a dog smoking marijuana work?

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For at least the pilot episode, the answer to those zany-actions premise. questions is, about three-fourths of an episode.

Still, the pilot episode has its laughs. The initial Toward the end of the pilot, “Wilfred” delves into a introduction to Ryan, in the midst of a well-thoughtschmaltzy area, equating living life with using the out suicide, is hilarious. Wood makes the comparibathroom in someone’s shoes. Granted, “Wilfred” is son between “Wilfred” and a Kaufman work not taking itself too seriously here, but the idea even more obvious, considering his of a depressed protagonist doing zany turn in “Eternal Sunshine of the things to learn that life is worth living is a Spotless Mind” as someone been-there-done-that premise. attempting to recreate a The character of the sister, while wellcourtship through notes. played, comes off more as just a plot While much of Wilfred’s device. She is there to drive Ryan humor comes from dog jokes, toward pursuing a job and being a Gann’s laid-back demeanor “normal” person, but she also and delivery provide an serves as an obstacle excellent foil to the toward Ryan’s new somewhat uptight path of self-fulfillRyan. ment by essentialAt times, the ly doing whatevdog jokes seem er he wants to too played out, do, no matter while at other how socially times, the show unacceptable that comes up with a may appear to an new way of thinkoutsider. The sister ing about the situis essentially the living ation. A great embodiment of the tired example is when plot, the coming-of-age-byRyan and Wilfred are

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talking at a restaurant, and Wilfred is describing a relationship with a dog named Buck. Wilfred says, he knew him, but, bam, they lost touch. Saying “bam” made it sound to Ryan like Buck was run over by a car or killed in a similar, dramatic fashion, but to Wilfred the dog, “bam” just meant the exact moment they lost touch.

Perhaps the main area where the dog jokes already do not work is the idea that no one else can see Wilfred in the manner that Ryan does. The viewer sees three or four instances of this misunderstanding just in the pilot, with Ryan having to readjust to make up for what everyone else is seeing. The scenes are never that funny, and the repetition just makes them less so.

“Wilfred” fits in well with FX’s other comedic offerings. It strikes that same raunchy, devil-maycare attitude of “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia,” with a dash of the lowbrow humor of “The League.”

In the same way, while “Sunny” is brilliant and “The League” is horrible, “Wilfred” fits in the middle as just all right. It’s worth a try, and if it grabs you, “Wilfred” is a nice, vacuous distraction in the middle of your television watching for the week.

But “Wilfred” is nothing must-see.

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Jackson injured,Vols look to mature

Lady Vols duo named to USA team

“Probably the most important thing we can do is learn how to endure and overcome adversity when it hits us, whether it’s Sports Editor in a game, in a practice or every day,” he said. “And that’s a sign A week into fall camp, one of Tennessee’s few returning of a real mature football team. That’s going to be a real challenge for this team being so young that when bad things happen, how starters on defense is injured.

Senior defensive tackle Malik Jackson sprained his right knee do we handle it?”

One player who has matured this off-season is sophomore and will be out “only a couple of weeks,” according to UT coach wide receiver Da’Rick Rogers.

Derek Dooley on Friday.

“As a human, as a person, I’ve matured a lot,” he said. “I’ve With Jackson out, buckled down with along with linebacker school and just life in Herman Lathers who’s general. Like Coach sidelined with a broken Dooley said, the attifoot, the Vols won’t tude outside shows a have a returning starter lot on the in-here. So from last season’s front when I have a good seven, a point Dooley attitude out there and joked about possibly things are clicking, I being a good thing. roll in here and it’s “We are now zero just I’m playing footout of seven, that’s ball.” right,” he said. “But we Rogers said he and weren’t very good in fellow sophomore the front seven last receiver Justin Hunter year, so some people needed to take on bigwould say that’s the ger roles as leaders on best news we’ve had all the team this year season. Think about it. now that both of them You heard that saying, are starters.

‘The good news is “It’s not just getting we’ve got everybody George Richardson • The Daily Beacon serious and making it back.’ The bad news is we’ve got everybody Da’Rick Rogers participates in a drill during practice on Thursday, a business about us,” Aug. 4. Rogers looks to return for his sophomore season in a bigger Rogers said. “We’ve back.

“The bad news is role as a starter alongside teammate and fellow sophomore receiv- got to get serious and make it a business we’ve got zero out of er Justin Hunter. about the rest of our seven, the good news is we’ve got zero out of seven. No, we want Malik back, and we team as well. Everybody wants to try and go to that next level so I feel like as a team, us young guys, we’re not giving our senwant Herman back. We want two out of seven.”

While losing Jackson for most of fall camp is a blow to a iors our all if we’re not buckling down and getting serious. Just defense that has so many question marks right now, Dooley little things like sitting in the front of special teams meetings.

Last year, as a freshman, you sit in the back but nowadays you’ve wants the team to spin it into a positive. got to step up ’cause we’re leaders now.”

After three days of practices with 14 USA team finalists at the U.S. Olympic Training Center (USOTC) in Colorado Springs, Colo., the official 12-member 2011 USA Basketball Women’s World University Games Team was announced Wednesday morning by USA Basketball and it included Tennessee Lady Vols Glory Johnson and Shekinna Stricklen.

The U.S. squad will look to defend the USA's gold medal at the 2011 World University Games, Aug. 14-21 in Shenzhen, China, and it features talented international veterans and some of the nation’s top collegians.

In addition to Johnson and Stricklen, also named to the 2011 USA World University Games Team were Elena Delle Donne ( D e l a w a re / Wi l m i n g t o n , Del.); Skylar Diggins (Notre Dame/South Bend, Ind.); Jacki Gemelos (USC/Stockton, Calif.); Keisha Hampton (DePaul/Philadelphia, Pa.); Lynetta Kizer ( M a r yl a n d / Wo o d b r i d ge , Va.); Natalie Novosel (Notre Dame/Lexington, Ky.); Chiney Ogwumike (Stanford/Cypress, Texas); Nnemkadi

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O g w u m i k e (Stanford/Cypress, Texas); Devereaux Peters (Notre Dame/Chicago, Ill.) and Odyssey Sims (Baylor/Irving, Texas).

“I am so excited for Glory and Shekinna,” said University of Tennessee head coach Pat Summitt.

“When they found out they had made the team, they both sent me texts and you could feel the excitement jumping out of their words.

“This is a tremendous opportunity to put them in a leadership role and to gain some valuable experience they can share with their UT teammates. I know they will both benefit from a basketball standpoint but it is also a great educational and cultural ‘once in a lifetime’ experience,” said Summitt.

The USA team will remain at the USOTC to train through Aug. 7, before traveling to Shenzhen for its final World University Games preparations. The U.S. opens play on Aug. 14 against Brazil, will face Slovakia on Aug. 15 and caps preliminary round action against Great Britain on Aug. 16.

Quarterfinals are slated for Aug. 18, medal semifinals will be played Aug. 19 and the finals will be held Aug. 21.

Tennessee to face Duke in Maui ing teams playing in the Championship Round are called the “Island Teams.”

With expansion comes four additional The EA SPORTS Maui Invitational, hosted

by Chaminade University announced the Division I teams known as the EA SPORTS bracket for the 28th edition of Basketball In Maui Invitational “Mainland Teams.” Each of Paradise® Thursday. Tennessee is slated to the eight Island Teams (excluding Chaminade) face Duke on Monday, Nov. 21. Pending the will play one game against a Mainland Team — outcome of that day’s games, the Volunteers seven games in total — before traveling to will be matched up with either Memphis or Maui for the Championship Round. The four Michigan on Tuesday, Nov. 22. All eight teams Mainland Teams are Belmont, Middle also will play a third game on Wednesday, Nov. Tennessee, UNC Greensboro and Towson.

The Mainland Teams conclude their partic23. ipation in the tournament by playing each The EA SPORTS other in the Maui Invitational has “Regional Games” put together arguably — a four-game its most challenging event at Middle field ever in 2011. The Te n n e s s e e ’s opposite side of the Murphy Center bracket features Nov. 19-20. perennial host school Tennessee’s Chaminade playing mainland oppoUCLA on the opening nent is UNC day of the Greensboro, and “Championship that game takes Round,” while place Friday, Nov. Georgetown squares 11 at Thompsonoff against Kansas.

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This year’s bracket – David Odom, Tipoff time and also includes a new Maui Invitational chairman, television coverformat, which reflects on the upcoming tournament age for that conthe tournament’s first test have yet to be expansion since 1986. determined.

“We are excited to kickoff the expansion The Nov. 21 clash with the Blue Devils with such stellar matchups,” tournament chairman David Odom said. “Expanding the tourna- serves as a tiebreaker of sorts for both proment provides more student-athletes, schools grams, as the all-time series is deadlocked at 7and conferences the chance to show their best 7, dating to the first meeting 100 years ago at the premier early-season college basketball (Duke defeated the Vols 48-25 in Durham on Feb. 20, 1911). The programs have not met tournament.”

The bracket format includes the traditional since UT posted a 90-69 win at the Sugar Bowl eight-team, three-day event played at Maui’s Classic in New Orleans, La., on Dec. 29, 1980.

The Volunteers previously competed in the oceanfront Lahaina Civic Center during Thanksgiving week, which will now be known EA SPORTS Maui Invitational in 2004, finishas the EA SPORTS Maui Invitational ing fourth at the event after defeating Stanford Championship Round, and the eight participat- and falling to North Carolina and Texas.

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We are excited to

kick off the expansion with such stellar matchups.

George Richardson • The Daily Beacon

Dontavis Sapp lunges forward during a drill at practice on Thursday, Aug. 4.

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