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UTPD offers safety tips, courses to students Amanda Crider Staff Writer Don’t talk to strangers. Look both ways before crossing the street. Always use the buddy system.

These are all words of wisdom parents give their children to stay safe. Now students new to college, or just UT, have another set of guidelines they should follow to stay safe.

Officer Donnie Ross of the UT Police Department said, every semester, students need to be more aware of some general safety suggestions.

“The tips are always the same: well-lit areas, walk in groups,” Ross said. “Generally, the biggest problem we have on campus is theft, usually unattended items — faculty leaving their doors

unlocked, students in the library going to the bathroom leaving their things behind. They come back, and their stuff is gone.”

Those with cars on campus also need to be vigilant to prevent crime.

“If you leave stuff in your cars, you’re more susceptible to breakins,” Ross said. “Lock important things in your trunk, especially this time of year. Make sure your doors are locked, and the back windows are rolled up. People will have their windows down and forget to roll up the back ones when

they get out of the car.”

Ross added that students need to be careful all the time, and most students don’t take into consideration everyday activities that could put their safety in danger.

“Even during the day, you should take out your iPod while walking around so you can hear cars or bikes coming,” Ross said.

“At night, definitely take it out.”

Some students have their own ideas on how to protect themselves. Hannah Fisher, freshman in art, said, when she has to be on campus at night, she has a system she follows.

“I always talk to someone on the phone while I’m walking,” Fisher said. “Just in case something happens, someone will know where I am and can call for help.”

Ross said that, although many students might believe this is a good idea, he disagrees.

“Don’t be on your cell phone at night,” Ross said. “It’s a big dis-

traction. It’s a catch-22 — do you let someone know where you are, or do you keep your awareness?

Me, personally, I would try to maintain greater awareness of my surroundings.”

Ross said another bad idea is for students to carry Mace or pepper spray on them, especially if they don’t know how to use it properly.

“Any weapon you use can be turned against you,” Ross said.

“Something we suggest, especially with the spray, is take a course.

We’re offering a Recreation Defense Aerosol Option course on December 5th. It will cover many different types of sprays. If you don’t come to the course, at least test your canister. See what happens, so you’re better prepared.”

Ross encouraged every student on campus to learn more about how to keep themselves safe, especially women. The UTPD offers a course entitled Recreation

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The tips are always

the same: well-lit areas, walk in groups.

– UTPD Officer Donnie Ross

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and Defense for Women for credit.

In the class, students will learn about personal safety and go through various realistic scenarios to learn what to do in certain situations. To learn more, visit the UTPD Web site at http://web.utk.edu/~utpolice.

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Band endures enrollment drop

The Pride of the Southland Marching Band performs on their way to Neyland Stadium before the football game against Florida last season.

playing songs that keep the audience and team pumped up.

The Pride has held practices on the intramural fields to protect the grass on the field in Neyland and looks forward to breaking in the renovated stadium this year.

Sousa said there has been decreased freshman band enrollment with this year’s class. He said there could be many reasons for decreased band enrollment, including raised academic standards and a smaller freshman class.

With larger numbers of students being denied acceptance into the university, the band program has not been able to recruit the numbers it has in past years.

Drum major and nuclear engineering student Ben Farr has chosen to put the band first, while still keeping up with his academics.

“I decided I was going to dedicate myself before I came to college,” Farr said.

Also the recent economic downturn has affected the

Frank Wood Staff Writer The sights and sounds of Neyland Stadium on autumn Saturdays have become a cherished tradition to many in Tennessee. The Pride of the Southland Marching Band has been a leader in this tradition for many years and will celebrate its 140th anniversary this football season.

With twice as many home games as away games this year, Director of Bands Gary Sousa has high expectations for the Pride’s upcoming year.

Sousa said the schedule is an opportunity for more planning, preparation and an exciting halftime show.

“I’ve tried to identify the traditions while looking forward,” Sousa said of his time as band director.

Sousa, now in his 13th season, has encouraged the band to become more active during games. He said he encourages

UT scheduling provides enough seats with larger class sections 2008

2009

Course Sections

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Student Seats

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Jenny Bledsoe Editor-in-Chief This semester, in comparison to the fall 2008 semester, UT offers 2.8 percent fewer course sections, according to reports from the Registrar's Office. The total number of student seats available, however, is only down 0.39 percent from the fall 2008 semester.

“We do have fewer actual course offerings, but we seem to have exactly the same number of seats available for students,” Provost Susan Martin said.

In working with the deans of the colleges and the individual departments within those colleges, the provost’s office determined that increasing the number of seats in sections, while decreasing the number of courses offered, would allow students to enroll in classes necessary for graduation, Martin said.

“Naturally we need to get first- and second-year students through their general education and then get them into majors,” she said. “We’re looking very hard right now at where bottlenecks are for students, trying to see if

there are particular areas, courses, majors where students need extra capacity in order to graduate on time.”

With stimulus funds, UT is operating on the same budget as last year, Martin said. Martin said she is hopeful that students are getting into the classes they need.

“It’s looking pretty comfortable out there,” Martin said. “They really do monitor availability and capacity. It seems as though the students are getting into the classes and at least arts and sciences advising has been pretty tranquil. I think we may not have quite the exact number of seats, but it looks like things have really gone quite smoothly.”

When planning for this semester, Martin said there was always one goal in mind.

“Our number one priority is to make sure that students have great academic programs and the courses they need to graduate,” she said.

“With the stimulus (funds), the first priority there was to make sure that the colleges got the funding they needed to offer the courses that the students needed.”

Pride. Money is tight, and less expensive schools are more appealing.

Despite these obstacles, the Pride is determined to set the standard for marching bands nationally, Sousa said.

Farr shares the same goals as Sousa, saying that he wants the band to set high standards and become a national force on the marching band scene.

“Although (there) will be more work involved, it is the Pride of the Southland’s chance to show how hard they’ve really worked,” Farr said.

With many long hours spent together, Sousa said the band has formed a fraternal camaraderie, especially since incoming freshmen spent two weeks together at the end of summer practice.

“The Pride of the Southland becomes a home away from home for them,” Sousa said. “The band spends the best of times together and the worst of times together.

That makes its success.”

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Construction continues on the Min Kao engineering building as seen from the corner of Cumberland Avenue and Estabrook Road.

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Aug. 24 - Aug. 28, 2009

Monday, Aug. 24 — Last day to add or change grading options or drop a first-session class without a “W.”

1:30 p.m. until 2:30 p.m.

Benn Tannenbaum, an associate program director at the American Association for the Advancement of Science, will lead a nuclear engineering department colloquium titled “Nuclear Forensics: Science, Security and Policy” in the Toyota Auditorium of the Howard H. Baker Center for Public Policy.

Wednesday, Aug. 26 —

10 a.m.until 3 p.m.

The Part-time Job Fair gives students the opportunity to speak with a variety of employers about their opportunities both on and off campus.

Thursday, Aug. 27 — Last day to return books to the UT Book and Supply Store if not dropping the course.

3:40 until 5 p.m.

Ned A. Porter, chemistry professor at Vanderbilt University, will lead a chemistry department seminar entitled “Polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) and 7-dehydrocholesterol as targets of oxidative stress” in Room 415 of Buehler Hall.

Friday, Aug. 28 — Last day to register, add, change grading options for or drop a fullsession course without a “W.” 7 p.m. and 9:30 p.m.

CPC Film Committee will show the film “Star Trek” in the UC Auditorium.

Entrance is $2 with a UT ID and $3 without.

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A student bicycles past “A Startling Whirlwind of Opportunity” on the Pedestrian Walkway Tuesday afternoon. The sculpture was designed by artist Alice Aycock, who is based in New York.

THIS DAY IN

HISTORY

• 1572 — King Charles IX of France, under the sway of his mother, Catherine de Medici, orders the assassination of Huguenot Protestant leaders in Paris, setting off an orgy of killing that results in the massacre of tens of thousands of Huguenots all across France, in what is now known as the Saint Bartholomew’s Day Massacre.

• 1814 — During the War of 1812, British forces under Gen. Robert Ross overwhelm American militiamen at the Battle of Bladensburg, Maryland and march unopposed into Washington, D.C. Most congressmen and officials fled the nation’s capital as soon as word came of the American defeat, but President James Madison and his wife, Dolley, escaped just before the invaders arrived. Earlier in the day, Madison had been present at the Battle of Bladensburg and had at one point actually taken command of one of the few remaining American batteries, thus becoming the first and only president to exercise his authority in actual battle as commander-inchief.

• 1821 — Eleven years after the outbreak of the Mexican War of Independence, Spanish Viceroy Juan de O’Donojú signs the Treaty of Córdoba, which approves a plan to make Mexico an independent constitutional monarchy.

• 1875 — On Aug. 24, 1875, Captain Matthew Webb of Great Britain becomes the first man to successfully swim the English Channel without assistance. After the feat, Webb became an international celebrity, admired for both his prowess in the water and his penchant for risk-taking.

• 1938 — On this day in 1938, Clark Gable reluctantly agrees to play Rhett Butler in David O. Selznick's Gone with the Wind. Selznick had struck a deal with MGM to lend him Gable and co-finance the film in return for the rights to release the movie and keep half its profits. Gable hesitated to take the role because he feared the production's high profile would set impossible expectations for any actor playing Rhett Butler. The studio provided him a generous bonus, however, and he took the part, playing it with great success.

• 1942 — On this day in 1942, U.S. forces continue to deliver crushing blows to the Japanese, sinking the aircraft carrier Ryuho in the Battle of the East Solomon Islands. Key to the Americans’ success in this battle was the work of coastwatchers, a group of volunteers whose job it is to report on Japanese ship and aircraft movement.

• 1954 — Congress passes the Communist Control Act in response to the growing anticommunist hysteria in the United States. Though full of ominous language, many found the purpose of the act unclear. In 1954, the Red Scare still raged in the United States. Although Senator Joseph McCarthy, the most famous of the “red hunters” in America, had been disgraced earlier in the summer of 1954 when he tried to prove that communists were in the U.S. Army, most Americans still believed that communists were at work in their country. Responding to this fear, Congress passed the Communist Control Act in August 1954. The act declared that, “The Communist Party of the United States, though purportedly a political party, is in fact an instrumentality of a conspiracy to overthrow the Government of the United States.”

— Courtesy of History.com.

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The Associated Press Women assume roles in Italian mafia NAPLES, Italy — Move over, Don Corleone.

Godmothers are rising in the ranks of the Camorra, the Naples’ area crime syndicate.

Women have long played a strong role in Camorra crime families, muscling, sometimes murdering, their way to the top.

Now, as the state steps up its war against the Camorra, rounding up scores of mobsters, the women are increasingly taking over the helm from their men.

“There is a growing number of women who hold executive roles” in the Camorra, Gen. Gaetano Maruccia, commander of the Carabinieri paramilitary police in the Naples area, told The Associated Press.

“They are either widows (of mob bosses) or wives of husbands who have been put in prison. They hold the reins.”

In July, Carabinieri swept up 11 women for drug trafficking in a raid on Naples’ Sarno crime clan. In another blitz, a mother and her two grown daughters were arrested on organized-crime charges, including extortion.

Wildfire races to ancient Greek city of Marathon ATHENS, Greece — A raging wildfire raced down a mountain slope in Greece toward the town of Marathon on Sunday, nearing two ancient temples while despairing residents pleaded for firefighters and equipment that were nowhere to be seen.

Tens of thousands of residents of Athens’ northern suburbs evacuated their homes, fleeing in cars or on foot. Several houses were destroyed as the fire advanced across an area more than 31 miles (50 kilometers) wide.

More than 90 wildfires have ignited since Saturday across Greece, and six major fires were burning late Sunday. The Athens fire began on Mt. Penteli, which divides Athens from the Marathon plain and has spread down both sides of the mountain.

The mayor of Marathon said he had been “begging the government to send over planes and helicopters” to no avail.

“There are only two fire engines here; three houses are already on fire and we are just watching helplessly,” mayor Spyros Zagaris told Greek TV.

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Older parolees acclimate to times The Associated Press During the 40 years convicted murderer James LeRoy Iverson watched from his prison cell window, he saw a field transform from a nesting ground for geese to a Wal-Mart Supercenter site.

A week after being paroled as North Dakota's longest-serving inmate, the 70-year-old got his first look inside the Bismarck store.

“I’d never been to a WalMart before — they have oodles and oodles of stuff in there,” said Iverson, dressed in crisp new blue jeans and shirt purchased from the retail giant. “It took me three hours to walk all the way around that place.”

Four decades after his 1969 conviction for strangling two women in Grand Forks, Iverson is among a

growing number of senior parolees returning to communities nationwide.

He has taken walks and taxis around town since his release earlier this month and said he’s in awe of the changes. He likened it to having been in a time capsule.

“People dress different — I see a lot of people walking around in shorts and more men with beards,” said Iverson, who had to abandon his first attempt at figuring out how to use a cell phone.

The U.S. prison population has grown 500 percent to 1.5 million since the early 1970s, said Ryan King, a policy analyst with The Sentencing Project, a Washington-based group that supports criminal justice reform. The number of state and federal inmates aged 55 years and up more than dou-

bled from 32,000 in 1995 to 70,000 in 2007, the latest figures available.

“More people are in prisons, and they're staying for longer periods,” King said.

“And more than 90 percent of them will come out at some point.”

The first wave of people sentenced under stricter criminal sanctions established some 30 years ago are now being released, said Marquette University criminal law professor Michael O’Hear. And while long-serving inmates sometimes become dependent on prisons, cases of elderly ex-cons reoffending just to return are rare, he said.

“Most people who are in want to be out,” he said.

Jeremy Travis, president of John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York, agreed there is little

danger of reoffense from older adults.

“It’s not to say there is no risk, but statistically, they are long past the high crime years of their lives,” he said.

Iverson, who believed he'd die behind bars, said he sees life on the outside as a short second chance.

The former taxi driver was sentenced to life in prison for killing Dianne Bill and 25 to 30 years for killing Carol Mayers. The women’s bodies were found in Mayers’ Grand Forks apartment in November 1968 after they failed to show up for work at a restaurant. Calls to family members seeking comment on Iverson’s release were not returned.

Iverson said he was intoxicated and doesn't remember killing the women.

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Money manager fakes death in crash The Associated Press Authorities say the troubled Indiana money manager who tried to fake his own death in a plane crash to avoid financial ruin had built his investment businesses on the backs of people he knew — acquaintances, a friend of 10 years and even his own aunt.

But his clients didn’t know he had sold them a nonexistent foreign currency fund, created false account information and used their money for personal expenses, investigators say.

Marcus Schrenker, 38, was sentenced Wednesday to more than four years in federal prison on charges stemming from the Jan. 11 plane crash in Florida. But his legal problems are far from over — he faces 11 felony counts tied to his financial dealings in Indiana, and each carries a penalty of two to eight years in prison. Indiana authorities have not yet made arrangements to bring Schrenker back to Indiana, but they expect him within the next few weeks.

Indiana Secretary of State Todd Rokita,

whose office has been helping with the investigation, said Schrenker bilked friends and relatives out of about $1 million.

“It is especially heinous, but unfortunately this is a classic case of what we call affinity fraud — fraud that’s committed upon us by those we’ve come to love and trust,” Rokita said. “They’re able to separate us from our money because of that special relationship.”

Officials said Schrenker does not yet have an attorney in the Indiana cases but could be appointed a public defender once he’s back in the state for a court appearance.

A probable-cause affidavit says Schrenker’s victims include his aunt, Rita Schilling, who transferred $230,000 to one of Schrenker’s investment companies in August 2008. Schilling became suspicious of problems with her accounts in 2009 and found that more than $20,000 had been transferred in 2008 to an account belonging to another one of Schrenker’s companies — a move prosecutors say never should have happened. Schilling declined to comment.

Schrenker is also accused of taking money from a friend of 10 years, Charles Black, who had Schrenker manage his investment accounts starting around 2003.

In 2004, Schrenker moved $100,000 out of Black’s account without his consent, the affidavit says. When Black and his wife discovered it, they called Schrenker, and he moved it to a cash account.

The affidavit says Schrenker had Black write a check in 2007 as part of a transfer of money into what turned out to be a nonexistent fund. The Associated Press was unable to find a phone listing for Black. But he told Indianapolis television station WTHR that he lost “more than six figures” through Schrenker.

Many of Schrenker’s clients weren’t initially suspicious because they either knew Schrenker personally or heard about him through trusted colleagues or friends, prosecutors said. Schrenker’s alleged deception was made easier since he had all the trappings of success, said Jeffrey D. Wehmueller, administrative chief deputy for the Hamilton County prosecutor’s office.

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Rising — Sexism in the world of sports. (Or maybe it’s staying the same.)

Caster Semenya, a South African teenager, made a sudden appearance on the South African track scene, posting the world leading time. “Her dramatic improvement, muscular build and deep voice sparked speculation about her gender,” according to an Aug. 20 Associated Press article entitled “SAfrican in gender flap gets gold for 800 win.”

Women are not incapable of outstanding athletic achievement, as this unwarranted suspicion suggests.

When a woman sets records and performs outstandingly, she should not have to defend her gender.

The accusations certainly don’t go both ways in this arena. No men are accused of being women because of their athletic accomplishments (or lack thereof). These suspicions, based on such characteristics as a “deep voice,” are unwarranted, as is all sexism.

Rising (possibly) — Cases of swine flu at UT. While 10 UT students are exhibiting flu-like symptoms, it has not been determined whether or not these students have the H1N1 virus, known as swine flu, according to an Aug. 22 WBIR.com article entitled “10 UT students may have swine flu.” The CDC no longer recommends closing schools with swine flu outbreaks because the swine flu is normally no more severe than seasonal flu, so it looks like healthy students won’t be lucky enough to benefit from swine flu-induced class cancellations.

Rising — Soccer’s beginning-of-season success.

UT’s women’s soccer team conquered the ETSU Lady Bucs 2-0 in its season opener Saturday, starting the season on a high note. Let’s hope they keep their momentum up for the First Tennessee Lady Vol Classic tournament this weekend on Aug. 28 and Aug. 30.

Falling — Free time for UT students.

With classes back in session, summer 2009 fades in the rearview mirror of our lives. Weekends emerge as the islands of hope during weeks of classes, work and other obligations.

Falling — Chances of being arrested for drug possession in Mexico.

On Aug. 20, both houses of the Mexican Congress passed a bill to legalize possession of small amounts of previously illegal drugs, according to a Aug. 21 CBS News article entitled “Mexico Decriminalizes Small-scale Drug Possession.”

“The maximum amount of marijuana considered to be for ‘personal use’ under the new law is five grams, the equivalent of about four joints. The limit is a half gram for cocaine, the equivalent of about 4 ‘lines.’ For other drugs, the limits are 50 milligrams of heroin, 40 milligrams for methamphetamine and 0.015 milligrams for LSD,” according to the article.

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Large communities serve as fantasy Unbo t tl ed Wa te r by

Amien Essif

When the heat of August sets upon us like a midday sun, the great university growls, and 20,000 students pour out of giant dormitory complexes.

The feeling of walking in the middle of high tide — the peak of class change — can be a disturbing experience for those inept at psychological repression.

Every face, to my human perception, is more than just a composite of its parts. It is something that looks at me, a warp in physical space that is capable of judging me and influencing my desire. Oh, desire! So many beautiful faces, and I’m supposed to ignore it all. What do other people look at when they walk to class, if not the faces of every passerby?

The British anthropologist Desmond Morris addresses this problem in his book “The Human Zoo.” Humans are tribal, not solitary, animals, but our species evolved to function most effectively in relatively small clans, which until a few thousand years ago, were roughly equivalent to the population of a small high school. Although we are virtually identical to these clansmen biologically, our society has changed tremendously. During a typical class change, I am backpack-to-backpack with a herd of fellow humans about 10 times larger than what my psychology is designed to process.

And for the most part, the landscape of faces is foreign. I know or recognize almost none of them.

Morris explains that we are designed to respond to the form and features of another human with curiosity.

You know the canine sniff routine? Well, we have our own less obscene methods. We examine the stranger with our sight, consult our friends about his identity, and remain weary of him until he can be trusted.

The size of UT’s class-change population, reaching four-digit numbers, renders this precautionary ritual impossible. The student who looks into every face to make a record and evaluate for personal safety is doomed to psychological distress.

Morris posits that what the modern human has done to keep herself from complete psychological failure is to form a sort of false clan — a network of friends, family, acquaintances and even antagonists — with whom she regularly associates. She has managed to repress her urge to become familiar with

everyone and has begun instead to develop miniature clans that have taken on the functions and characteristics, albeit in modernized form, of the primitive clans.

The idea that we should get inVOLved is most likely good advice if we are talking about psychological wellbeing. Many students have found a way to slightly differ in their conformity so they can identify with a particular group and separate themselves from the hulking orange mass on Andy Holt Avenue.

I also wonder if the Internet doesn’t function to form virtual clans where one does not have to deal with an overload of faces. Facebook allows people to expand their scorecard of friends, yes, but it also allows them to avoid complete strangers. Avid Facebookers must still walk to class, but one trait of the Internet is that it reinforces mental conceptions of reality such that the virtual conception is more vivid than the actual world in which the chaos of strangers and smog can break a pedestrian down. The cell phone becomes a portable extension of the virtual world where friends are neatly organized and one’s clan is the only thing that exits. The iPod is the white noise that plugs up the senses so that the chaos cannot get in while the phone is silent. These are our crutches.

One of the contradictions of university life — which extends also to the host world — is the idea of a “national community” or the fresh concept of a “global community.” Even brilliant professors promote the idea of a global community knowing full well that it will not have the same functions as a primitive clan even though it will take on many of the same characteristics. They realize that we will still need local community to absorb our personal burdens.

The general implication, however, is that megacommunities are true communities. This is a modern fantasy. It can’t work. International communication, diplomacy and a concern for the global reaction to every action is honorable as well as necessary, but true community is unnecessary as well as impossible. We can form true and healthy communities with only as many people as we can sniff, so to speak.

The ideal modern citizen, wherever he exists — the non-conformist, the individual, the enlightened soul who is aware of the thousands or millions or billions of people that form his “community” — will experience anxiety walking in the thick of the mushrooming population unless he retreats to an inauthentic existence on the Internet or finds himself a clan and gives up on becoming an unfettered global citizen. Me, I’m going to find me a little commune to settle down on and waste my college degree. No, I’m serious.

— Amien Essif is a junior in English literature. He can be reached at aessif@utk.edu.

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Amber Harding We’ve all heard of it — that evil monster that creeps up on unsuspecting victims and unleashes its wrath upon the entire freshman population. It ensures that your high school wardrobe becomes obsolete and that you become mortal enemies with your full-length mirror. It’s the freshman 15, and it’s a nasty little devil.

But before you go kissing your favorite jeans goodbye, allow me to clue you in on some insights that can serve as defense mechanisms against those dreaded extra 15 pounds.

1. The TRECS is your friend.

I know many people with a million reasons why they don’t work out. They don’t have time. They don’t have the money for a gym membership. There’s no fitness complex within decent driving distance. Well, my young friends, you do have some free time, and your admission to all student fitness facilities is already included in your tuition. Not to mention the fact that if you live in Morrill, North Carrick, South Carrick, Humes, Reese or Andy Holt, the TRECS and intramural fields are literally right across the street.

The TRECS has every fitness machine you could want, plus some free weights. Don’t like lifting weights?

Play some racquetball, shoot hoops or join an intramural squad. Personally, I’d recommend taking one of the free fitness classes. You can try cycling, yoga, pilates and even kickboxing. The classes are for people of all fitness levels, and they are a lot of fun. You can find a schedule at http://recsports.utk.edu.

If you hate the gym scene, I’d suggest taking advantage of the greenway. It’s great for running, biking or just a scenic walk. Knoxville has over 41 miles of paved greenway, so the view never gets old.

2. On-campus cafeterias are not your friends.

No offense to the good people of UT Dining Services, but the all-you-can-eat cafeterias do not make it easy to maintain a healthy diet. Yes, the cafeterias and oncampus restaurants are incredibly convenient when

you live in a dorm and can’t cook your own food, but you have to be mindful of what you’re eating.

UT does offer some healthy options. Sure, the hamburgers and giant waffles in Morrill are delicious, but try to choose the salad bar or the Subway every once in a while. Also don’t fall victim to the unlimited ice cream. There’s certainly nothing wrong with having a cookies and cream cone every once in a while, but it’s probably not a good idea to eat one after every meal.

3. Oreos are not part of a balanced breakfast.

Waking up early is not fun. I understand that. When you have an 8 a.m. class, you want to roll out of bed at 7:45 and not a second earlier. As a result, your breakfast ends up being a handful of cookies or the cold pizza you have in your mini-fridge from three days ago.

I encourage you to wake up five minutes earlier.

Make a bowl of Cheerios. Drink some orange juice.

And if you really insist on having breakfast to go, how about investing in a box of granola bars or some bananas?

4. Walking won’t kill you.

Believe it or not, walking to class can actually be enjoyable. Find a friend who has class at the same time and walk together. Pull out your iPod and enjoy some music on the way. We have a beautiful campus (despite the construction), and you should take advantage of it while the weather’s warm.

Freshmen, I know what you’re thinking — “But Amber, there’s a BUS! It takes you to all your classes!”

Yes, I’m aware of the “T.” I’m also aware of the fact that it’s always late and that you will inevitably end up next to someone who smells awful. If you want to be on time to class (and get a little exercise at the same time), walk.

I don’t claim to be a health expert, but I do remember being a freshman. I know how tempting it is to get lazy or use your dining dollars to keep your dorm room stocked with Coca-Cola and potato chips. The freshman 15 is not a big scary monster; it’s just what happens when you get negligent. Remember all the things you did to keep yourself in shape before college, and, hopefully, with my four simple reminders, you’ll turn the freshman 15 into the freshman negative 5.

— Amber Harding is a junior in journalism and electronic media. She can be reached at ahardin8@utk.edu.

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British officers spend $20.6 million on plane tickets LONDON — British police say officers spent about 12.5 million pounds ($20.6 million) on first class and business class flights in the last three years.

Police said officers took thousands of long-haul trips to assist on investigations overseas. In recent years, Scotland Yard detectives have been called out on cases including the deaths of Benazir Bhutto in Pakistan and cricket coach Bob Woolmer in Jamaica.

The police department disclosed the figures Sunday following a freedom-of-information request.

Many other public servants travel economy class, including London officials who attended the Beijing Olympics.

Scotland Yard insists it books the cheapest plane tickets “bearing in mind operational demands.”

Fishermen return home after ordeal with pirates SUEZ, Egypt — A group of Egyptian fishermen who were kidnapped by pirates off the Somali coast four months ago and managed to overpower their captors sailed home to a hero’s welcome Sunday, but some details of their dramatic escape remained a mystery.

population has grown from about 400 in the 1970s to about 1,400. He could not say how many inmates were getting on in years.

Authorities cite a supportive family as crucial to a successful transition back to society. Iverson said he has eight siblings and two children. Only one of his siblings has refused to have contact with him over the years and since his release, he said.

Iverson said he suffers from diabetes and other illnesses and has been turned down for Social Security because he lacks a work history outside prison. But he hopes an associate degree in hotel and restaurant management earned in prison will help him land a job.

“I want to work, and I’ll do anything, even volunteer work,” Iverson said. “Attending Bible school wouldn’t hurt, either. I’m going to need all the luck I can get.”

declined to say whether the families had raised objections to Iverson’s release. But Iverson said they protested each time.

Iverson must wear a monitor and remain in Burleigh and Morton counties, though the former National Guard soldier may travel to Fargo for Veterans Administration services. He is barred from contact with the victims’ families.

He was released to the Bismarck Transition Center to help ease the transition. If he has no problems, his parole will end Sept. 16, 2010.

Without parole, his release date would have been Nov. 7, 2010.

“The object here is to provide some transition for his way back to a free society,” Olson said. “Good gosh, gasoline was 15 cents a gallon when this guy went to prison. He has some major challenges.”

Olson said North Dakota’s prison

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“I don’t know,” he said, looking away. “I wish they had DNA. I want to know for me and my family because this has been a stigma for them.”

Iverson served several shorter jail and prison stints for burglary before his murder conviction. He said he targeted upscale homes and, most times, he was drunk.

“I came from a poor family,” Iverson said. “It seemed like they had everything, and we had nothing.

There was a lot of anger there.”

Iverson said he attended Alcoholics Anonymous and anger management classes for decades in prison.

“I wouldn’t think of doing anything now because I’m sober and I’ve taken anger management, which has given me a feeling of more serenity,” he said.

The Parole Board granted Iverson’s 10th request for early release last year.

John Olson, chairman of the North Dakota Parole Board,

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n i s e s r u o c e k a t s t n e d u t s m s i l a n r u Cyprus Jo Flora Theden Assistant Managing Editor The hot, suffocating air of Cyprus blew through the door of the plane as a flight attendant said something in Greek and waved me out onto the sweltering tarmac.

I had just arrived in Cyprus with 16 students and two professors from UT for a study abroad program.

The nation of Cyprus is located in the Mediterranean between Greece and Turkey and just north of Egypt. The College of Communication and Information worked in conjunction with Global Semesters, a company based on the island, to create a program for journalism and electronic media majors who were looking to study abroad.

The month-long program was located in the capital city of Nicosia. Students were able to take JEM 446 with James Legg and JEM 494 with Naeemah Clark.

Clark said that she had taught JEM 494: Media, Tourism and Food for several summers in Knoxville, but that enrollment numbers had been low.

“We thought that if we gave students a chance to take this course in a unique environment where they could really travel and get experience with that type of journalism, there would be an added draw,” Clark said.

Liz Peacock, senior in journalism and electronic media, said she had wanted to study abroad for a long time so when she saw the flyer for the trip, she knew she had to go. Peacock said she enjoyed the trip and would recommend it to other students. Her only complaint was the living conditions.

“The apartments could have been a little better,” she said. “Some students had deluxe apartments with all the amenities whereas others, like myself, had far worse living conditions.”

Nicky Besuden, junior in public relations, said the time changes was the hardest adjustment to make when living in Cyprus.

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friends and family at home,” Besuden said.

In conjunction with the travel and food writing course, JEM 446: Film Studies offered students the opportunity to travel to various cities on the island to film a documentary about traditional Cypriot food. As part of the class, the 16 UT students visited a snail farm, a winery and a haloumi cheese farm. They also experienced a Cypriot “meze,” a family-style meal that can include up to 16 courses of food.

Peacock said one of her favorite parts of the trip was learning about the origin of the traditional food. She also enjoyed getting to know all of the students and being out of her comfort zone, Peacock said.

“We had fun filming the documentary. Someone got to milk a goat at the cheese farm, and I licked a snail on camera,” she said with a laugh.

Danny Sierra, junior in journalism and electronic media, said he enjoyed the trip but didn’t learn as much as he had hoped.

“I didn’t learn how to operate a camera,” Sierra said.

“I feel that in some ways, being in Cyprus and being there for such a short time really detracted from the actual learning,” he continued.

Situated in the eastern portion of the Mediterranean Sea, Cyprus is one of the most diverse and complicated countries in Europe. The variety and history of the island makes it an ideal place for exploring different ways of life.

Clark, who taught JEM 494, said one of the reasons she decided to go on the trip was because of the uniqueness of the location. “Cyprus is just different,” Clark said.

Cyprus gained independence from Britain in 1960 and joined the European Union in 2003, although 37 percent of the island is recognized as a Turkish military occupied zone and is not sanctioned by most countries. There is an area controlled by the United Nations called the Green Line, which separates the Turkish and Greek regions.

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Cyprus continued from Page 6 Besuden said that the Turkish occupation initially made her feel uncomfortable.

“However, once we traveled past the Green Line, it was rather underwhelming, not nearly as frightening as we had all thought,” Besuden said. “I ended up traveling to the occupied north multiple times during my stay in Cyprus.”

The majority of the population of Cyprus is Greek and is still hostile toward their Turkish neighbors due to the 11 years of violence that ensued between Greek and Turkish Cypriots during the 1963 invasion.

In this time, thousands of Greek Cypriots were displaced from their northern homes and now live as refugees in the south.

Besuden said that Cypriot people were friendly for the most part.

“Most of them seemed to speak a fair amount of English and were, in general, willing to provide help,” Besuden said.

Clark, however, had a different opinion when it came to the language barrier.

“When people were friendly, they were really friendly,” Clark said. “But because I couldn’t speak Greek, locals had a hard time being patient with me. If I did it again, I would try to learn some of the language, so I might experience more of the friendliness of the culture.”

Many of the students enjoyed Cyprus’ unique location because it allowed them to travel on their own. Peacock and other students took separate trips to Cairo and Athens, which were only an hour flight away.

Others, like Sierra, took a boat trip to Israel.

Sierra said he never even felt homesick because he was so busy making new relationships and exploring the island.

“I really enjoyed the kind of family we had there because we were all we had,” Sierra said. “We could never replicate that type of bond.”

Besuden said she also enjoyed meeting new students, but her favorite aspect of the trip was the nightlife.

“The Cypriot clubs and bars were far more exciting than those in the U.S.,” Besuden said.

Almost every student offered the same advice for those planning to go abroad: Be open to doing new things.

“Try everything, try the food, the drinks, talk to the people and experience all that you can,” Besuden advised.

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Monday, August 24, 2009

Busy band enjoys early success Sarah Wyland Staff Writer

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Comedian Vidur Kapur recalls funny anecdotes about his life growing up in India, living in New York and coming to perform in the South at the University Center Thursday evening.

Like all things in life, music evolves over time, reinventing the definition of its genre at the hands of a new generation of musicians. Hill Country Revue has aided in reinventing the blues scene by creating a unique blend of blues meets southern rock, a sound they will bring to Knoxville’s The Catalyst on Wednesday night.

“I love Knoxville,” vocalist Dan Coburn said. “The people are very nice, polite.

They’re real, genuine people.”

Hill Country Revue formed a year and a half ago by Cody Dickinson, a member of Grammy-nominated band the North Mississippi Allstars. Luther Dickinson had just left the North Mississippi Allstars to join the Black Crows, and Cody Dickinson found himself in need of a band. He pulled together Chris Chew and Kirk Smithhart but still needed a singer. Dickinson called up Coburn to offer him the spot.

“I was on top of the water tower, working this job with water pumps in Michigan in the winter when he called,” Coburn said. “It was miserable. He asked me if I wanted to be in a band. I told him I’d call him back because I had no free hand to talk.”

Coburn joined the band, and they added Ed Cleveland to the mix to form Hill Country Revue. The band hit the ground running and has been going ever since.

“Cody’s business ethic and the way he wants the band to go ... he wants us to stay busy, which is great because it keeps me from getting a job,” Coburn said. “He keeps us out of weekly gigs at a bar here in Memphis. Cody is definitely our leader

and founder.”

Busy is exactly what Hill Country Revue has been. The band has played coast to coast, releasing its debut album in May. The band has seen its music chart on both Billboard and Amazon. At one point, its debut album, “Make A Move,” was the No. 2 best-selling album on Amazon’s southern rock chart.

“It was something none of us have ever experienced before,” Coburn said.

“Looking at us on the computer and in magazines was amazing. Cody and Kirk were just featured in Guitar World magazine. The band has really come a long way in a year and a half — the album in May, we’ve already been coast to coast, hit some charts, Guitar World ... it’s amazing how fast everything has happened. I’d like to think we deserve it. We have been working hard and if you put in a lot of work, good things happen.”

Hill Country Revue is a band that enjoys what they do. Coburn goes as far as to say that he is finally in a band that he loves.

The band is already at work on its next album, which the band is hoping will have a live element — that is, the band playing together live in the studio more rather than taking the traditional route of recording a studio album. They play at Knoxville’s The Catalyst Wednesday.

Coburn urges fans to come out and says they shouldn’t be afraid to say hello.

“Come out to the show; come say hi,” Coburn said. “We’re not rock stars. I’ll definitely be out in the crowd before and after.”

Fans can learn more about Hill Country Revue by visiting its Web site, http://www.hillcountryrevue.com.

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Tarantino’s biggest opening weekend highlights box office

Students selected from the audience explore an alternate state of conciousness as Gabriel Holmes demonstrates the power of hypnosis during his performance on Saturday.

The Associated Press The war effort by Quentin Tarantino and Brad Pitt has paid off as their history lesson, “Inglourious Basterds” claimed victory at the box office with a $37.6 million debut.

It was Tarantino’s best opening ever, exceeding the $25.1 million haul for 2004’s “Kill Bill — Vol. 2.” Overseas, “Inglourious Basterds” added $27.5 million in 22 countries, giving it a worldwide total of $65.1 million.

Released domestically by the Weinstein Co. and overseas by Universal, “Inglourious Basterds” features Pitt and an international ensemble in a sprawling tale of Jewish commandos and a plot to take out Nazi leaders at a movie premiere during World War II. The film provided a muchneeded hit for Harvey and Bob Weinstein, who have managed only lackluster receipts at their new outfit since departing Disney-owned Miramax four years ago.

At Miramax, the Weinsteins balanced prestige and profit with a string of Academy Awards triumphs such as “Shakespeare in Love” and “Chicago” and hits such as Tarantino’s “Pulp Fiction” and the “Scary Movie” and “Scream” franchises.

“Tarantino helped build the house of Miramax. He’s proving right now that he’s helping to build the house of Weinstein,” said Paul Dergarabedian, box-office analyst for Hollywood.com.

So far, the Weinstein Co. has been unable to reproduce that Miramax success, its lineup burdened by box-office underachievers such as last year’s “Soul Men” and 2007’s “Grindhouse,” Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez’s B-movie double-feature.

Harvey Weinstein said critics continually write him and his brother off, including a magazine piece in 2002 “saying we were the flavor of the ‘90s, but we were kind of over in the new millennium.”

Weeks later, he noted, Miramax scored 40 Oscar nominations, among them three of the five best-picture nominees, including eventual winner “Chicago.”

Weinstein said his new company has a strong lineup ahead, including next weekend’s horror sequel “Halloween II” along with “Chicago” director Rob Marshall’s musical “Nine” and the post-apocalypse saga “The Road” late in the year.

Rodriguez, Tarantino’s “Grindhouse” partner, did not fare so well with “Shorts,” his Warner Bros. family comedy that debuted at No. 6 with just $6.6 million. The movie features William H. Macy, James Spader, Leslie Mann and a cast of kids in a series of loosely linked adventures centered on a magic rock that grants wishes.

Fox Atomic’s comedy “Post Grad,” with Alexis Bledel as a college graduate who moves back home with her eccentric family after she’s unable to land her dream job, tanked with $2.8 million, coming in at No. 10.

The previous weekend’s top movie, Sony’s sci-fi thriller “District 9,” slipped to secondplace with $18.9 million. With a domestic total of $73.5 million, the movie is on its way to becoming a $100 million sleeper hit.

Hollywood’s revenues were up for the third-straight weekend, a late-season surge that has helped the industry recover from a month-long slide in receipts. Overall ticket sales were $134 million, up 27 percent compared to the same weekend last year.

The weekend put Hollywood back on track to break last summer’s revenue record of $4.2 billion, though receipts this season are up only a fraction.

Factoring in higher ticket prices this year, movie attendance is running 3 percent below last summer’s, according to Hollywood.com.

Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to Hollywood.com.

Final figures will be released Monday.

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Men’s basketball coach Bruce Pearl coaches from the sidelines in a game against LSU last season.

Ryan Howard Staff Writer While the Tennessee men’s basketball team is preparing for the upcoming season, head coach Bruce Pearl is coming off a summer of coaching the Maccabiah USA’s Open Men’s Basketball Team in Israel. Pearl led the team to a gold medal with a 95-86 overtime victory against Israel in the 18th World Maccabiah Games.

“I had a tremendous cultural experience in seeing Israel,” Pearl said. “Winning the gold capped the trip off and made it that much more rewarding.

The chemistry that we had was really special, and the team was built over a two-year process.”

Pearl took the opportunity to gather ideas for UT basket-

ball in Israel, and he experimented with some new tactics on the fast break.

“I worked on my coaching,” Pearl said. “I tried a variation of things with the fast break that I want to try and implement this season.”

Before Pearl left for Israel, rising senior Tyler Smith announced he would forgo the NBA Draft and return to UT for his final year. Smith admitted the timing just wasn’t right.

“It wasn’t a good time for me to pursue my dream,” Smith said. “I always promised my mom I would graduate, and I think I have a chance to do something special with my teammates.”

Pearl said he has been extremely impressed by Smith and is grateful to have him on his team for Smith’s final year.

“He helps take a load off the younger guys with his experience and leadership, and he gives them more confidence,” Pearl said.

Pearl said sophomore Scotty Hopson has also been hitting the gym over the summer to improve his game.

“Scotty has continued to make progress,” Pearl said. “I think you will see him be more aggressive on the court. Scotty is one of the hardest working guys on our team, and he is also one of the most talented.

When you combine strong work ethic, talent and good character, you have the makings for a very productive player.”

UT recently announced the team’s 2009-2010 schedule.

The Vols will go up against Kansas, Southern California and rival Memphis to go along with 16 games of Southeastern Conference competition. UT will participate in The Paradise Jam tournament on Nov. 20 to Nov. 23 in the U.S. Virgin Islands and will also take part in an ESPN College GameDay meeting with Kentucky on Feb. 13, the Vols’ third consecutive College GameDay matchup.

Pearl said he knows the upcoming season will be a challenge, but he is also excited about his team’s potential.

“I think the SEC is as tough as it has been in my four years of coaching here,” Pearl said.

“There are probably five teams that are capable of winning the east, but we will compete for the league championship. If you’re good enough to win the league this year, you are good enough to compete for a national championship.”

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Monday, August 24, 2009

Busch holds off Martin at Bristol The Associated Press Kyle Busch was finally able to shake that anger.

Derided all week by rival Brian Vickers as a generally unhappy human being, Busch had reason to celebrate Saturday night when he held off Mark Martin over a frantic four-lap sprint to the finish at Bristol Motor Speedway. His fourth victory of the season put him back in contention for the Chase for the championship.

And that miserable existence Vickers described?

Perhaps he was confused by Busch’s passion for winning.

“I am a guy who loves to win,” Busch shrugged.

“There’s nothing else to me but the feeling of winning.”

Although he grabbed wins in the lower-tier NASCAR series — including Wednesday night in the Truck race at Bristol — he’d come up empty in 13 consecutive races in the premiere Sprint Cup Series. It was a healthy slump for a guy who won races at a rapid pace last season, 21 in all spanning all three series.

The struggle to accept defeat had been seemingly too much for Busch to handle of late.

“I hate that he lives in such an angry place. It must be miserable to live like that,” Vickers said Friday at Bristol in the wake of a feud that began on the final lap of last week’s Nationwide race at Michigan.

Busch knew his emotions

were getting the best of him.

His feedback during races had fallen off, his mood was often sour even outside the race car and it seemed to be affecting his performance. The top seed in last year’s Chase entered Saturday night’s race 15th in the standings and in need of a flawless run to save his season.

He delivered by smoothly working his way to the front, then holding off the veteran Martin in a series of restarts over the final 50 laps. It helped him climb off the ropes and keep his title hopes alive.

His fourth win of the season — tied with Martin for most in the Sprint Cup Series — jumped him two spots in the standings to 13th.

With two races to go before the 12-driver field is set, Busch trails 12th-place driver Matt Kenseth by just 34 points.

“No pressure on us yet!” his team radioed after he crossed the finish line. “This 18 is not going down without a fight!”

Busch was silent for a few seconds before celebrating with a smoky burnout on the frontstretch and his traditional bow to the crowd. He then grabbed the checkered flag from a NASCAR official but gave it to a fan through a hole in the fence.

“I hope this just isn’t a fluke to get in the Chase,” he said in Victory Lane. “We need to run well at Atlanta and Richmond.”

Martin, the pole-sitter, finished second in the 1,000th

start of his career. Just like Busch, he improved his Chase chances and moved up two spots to 10th.

But he could have moved Busch out of his way several times over the final 50 laps, including the dramatic fourlap sprint to the finish.

Instead, he raced him clean and defended his decision not to use his bumper on Busch.

“Anyone who thinks I was soft out there on the race track wasn’t watching,” Martin said.

“I raced my guts out.”

Martin led 240 of the 500 laps, and Busch could commiserate with his bridesmaid showing.

“Mark Martin, what a class act. He deserved to win this race,” Busch said. “I’m sorry he got second. I know how he feels. But man, I drove as hard as I could. He had a chance, could have done it, he raced me clean.”

It broke a 13-race winless streak in the Cup series, which is an eternity for Busch since he joined Joe Gibbs Racing last season. But he’s been struggling to regain the momentum he had most of last year, and his confidence at times has seemed shattered as he struggled to accept defeat.

“We didn’t have the best car but had a car capable enough to doing it if I can drive it hard enough,” he said. “I gave it everything I had. It’s crazy.”

Marcos Ambrose was third, while Greg Biffle and Denny Hamlin rounded out the top five. Hamlin came back from an early tire issue to grab his

top-five finish.

Ryan Newman was sixth and was followed by Kurt Busch, Jimmie Johnson, Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Kenseth.

It was a mixed night for the Chase contenders. Points leader Tony Stewart had an early radio problem, an issue with his power and a generally miserable night as he finished 33rd. Kasey Kahne was 28th, and Carl Edwards was 16th.

Juan Pablo Montoya moved as high as second on the track at one point, but a tire problem dropped him like a rock through the field and he lost six positions before he was finally saved by a caution.

“Good! What has changed on this thing?” Montoya asked. “We’re going to wreck.”

Fighting for his own Chase berth, he was urged to stay calm by crew chief Brian Pattie.

“Dude, you’re going to be fine. You’re still P8,” Pattie said. “Just get a top 10 like we talked about.”

But when racing resumed, Montoya continued to slide backward, finally heading to the pits to change what he suspected was a flat right-side tire. He finished 25th and fell to ninth in the standings.

Four-time series champion Jeff Gordon struggled and finished 23rd, while Johnson put himself in position to cross Bristol off the list of six active tracks where he has yet to win.

Instead, a loose wheel on a late tire change sent him back into the pits and he dropped from race-winning contention.

Divers snag high finishes at AT&T USA Championships Ryan Howard Staff Writer The Tennessee men’s diving team wrapped up two high finishes at the AT&T USA Diving National Championships Aug. 13 through Aug. 15 in Tallahassee, Fla. UT senior Michael Wright placed sixth overall in the one-meter event and sophomore Ryan Helms took ninth in the three-meter springboard event.

Wright posted a mark of 364.75 in his first-ever AT&T Diving Championships. Head UT diving coach Dave Parrington applauded Wright’s performance.

“I was very pleased,” Parrington said. “This was his first time to qualify for the top caliber of the U.S. diving and placing sixth in the country was an excellent performance. This is a big breakthrough for Mike, and we are all very excited for him.”

Wright, a Forest Park, Ill.native, is a National Junior College Athletics Association champion in both the onemeter and three-meter events. He attended Indian River Community College before transferring to UT in fall 2008. He was the only Vol competing in the championship round of the onemeter event.

Wright was pleased with

his performance, despite his relative inexperience in the meet.

“It was my first championship, and I didn’t really know what to expect going into it,” Wright said. “I was just looking to do my best and compete. I now have something to improve on and work towards in the future, but I am satisfied with how I did.”

Parrington said Wright’s performance came as no surprise.

“Mike is a guy (that) leads by example, “Parrington said.

“He is not a big rah-rah guy, but he is very popular. He lives his life the right way, and he brings a lot of leadership qualities to the program.”

Helms also finished highly in his first diving championships with a score of 484.75. The Moultrie, Ga.native finished one spot ahead of SEC rival diver Aaron Fleshner of Alabama.

Former UT diver and Olympian Jevon Tarintino also competed in the threemeter springboard event.

Tarintino finished second with a 484.75 mark.

With the SEC’s top-rated recruiting class on its way to Rocky Top, including Chattanooga diver Jordan Mauney, Parrington said the

men’s swimming and diving squad has a potentially impressive season ahead.

“We are coming into this season with a lot of depth and skill,” Parrington said. “I think we can compete with anybody in the conference, which gives us very high expectations for the upcoming season.”

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Favre limited in preseason debut The Associated Press In a meaningless exhibition as he began his 19th NFL season, Brett Favre felt the butterflies.

Camera flashes illuminated the Metrodome on each of his eight plays for Minnesota, and only one completed pass was captured on film. After an injury-free night without any major blunders, though, Favre declared his Vikings debut a success.

His predictably brief preseason performance was the obvious highlight of a 17-13 victory by the Vikings on Friday over the Kansas City Chiefs, preserved by a goal line stand by the third-stringers.

“I just didn’t want to fumble the snap,” Favre said. “Wanted to make sure I got the handoffs. If you complete passes, great. But I was nervous about that.”

Cheered loudly by the same fans who used to loathe him when he played for Green Bay, Favre played two series and went 1-for-4 for a whopping 4 yards. He moved around all right and his passes had zip, just no direction.

Tarvaris Jackson, whose job was taken when Favre ended another retirement this week, was the more polished quarterback for Minnesota: 12-for-15 for 202 yards and two touchdowns.

Favre’s night ended with a jarring hit by Chiefs linebacker Corey Mays, who buried his head in the 39-year-old’s chest as he drove him into the turf to force an errant throw. Favre got up and walked off fine, his purple No. 4 jersey — such a strange sight, for sure — pulled down and exposing his left shoulder pad.

“He did tell me that no one’s tackled him off his tractor,” Coach Brad Childress said.

“Good for him to get hit.”

Favre worked out at his local high school all summer as he built his strength back following arthroscopic surgery on his throwing arm, but after initially telling the Vikings no, he didn’t join the team until Tuesday.

Yet there he was, three days later, taking snaps with the first team and trying to find a rhythm with his new receivers.

“That’ll be an adjustment all year. It really will be,” Favre said.

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Starting quarterback Jonathan Crompton passes to a teammate in the game against University of Alabama Birmingham last season.

Crompton’s status as starting quarterback is still being decided for the upcoming season.

Friday, Aug. 28 — Women’s Soccer vs. Arizona State Knoxville 8 p.m.

Saturday, Aug. 29— Women’s Volleyball vs.Tennessee Tech Knoxville 12 p.m.

Women’s Volleyball vs.Western Kentucky Knoxville 7 p.m.

“I had a tremendous cultural experience in Israel. Winning the gold capped off the trip and made it that much more rewarding.”

– Men’s coach Bruce Pearl, on his success coaching the Maccabiah USA’s Open Men’s Basketball Team

Monday, August 24, 2009

The Associated Press A strong performance by Jonathan Crompton in Tennessee’s scrimmage wasn’t enough for him to lock up the starting quarterback job.

“It’s going to be interesting to see as we watch this out and make some final decisions as the week progresses and what coach wants to do in regards to that,” Volunteers offensive coordinator Jim Chaney said. “I think it’s been the best thing for our football program to keep the competition on.”

Crompton, a senior, was 17-for-31 with 266 yards passing, two touchdowns and an interception. His competition, junior Nick Stephens, finished 9-for-17 with 90 yards and no touchdowns.

Coach Lane Kiffin has said he likes how the competition has forced the two quarterbacks to improve but wants to have a starter chosen at least a week before the Sept. 5 opener against Western Kentucky.

Crompton, who lost the starting job in 2008 after four games only to regain it for the final two games of the 5-7 season, made a few plays on the run.

When an offensive play fell apart, Crompton scrambled and connected with fullback Kevin Cooper on a 46-yard pass.

He also found Brandon Warren on a 34yard pass and Marsalis Teague for a 27yard play.

“You don’t want to make a bad play worse,” Crompton said. “If you have to throw it away, throw it away. If you’ve got to run, then go ahead and run. It’s something we pride ourselves on, and I think

we’re doing an OK job of that right now.”

Stephens for a second week appeared to be the victim of more dropped passes by wide receivers than Crompton and had a few solid pass plays erased by penalties.

“I think I had a pretty good day, and I think the week leading up to this I had a pretty good week,” Stephens said. “It’s their decision, and whatever they chose, everyone has faith in them.”

A few other offensive players made their case for playing time. Warren, who caught a 6-yard scoring strike from Crompton, led all receivers with 67 yards on five catches.

Freshman David Oku finished ahead of other tailbacks with 45 yards rushing on 14 tries. Fellow freshman Bryce Brown had 28 yards on only four carries and a 5yard touchdown run.

Though Brown has earned plenty of

praise from his coaches for his performances in the Vols’ scrimmage, he may not be available to play in the season opener. The NCAA is investigating whether money was improperly raised for the Wichita, Kan., native to visit colleges during his sophomore year of high school.

Brown may have to repay the money and sit out a few games this season as punishment.

Kiffin wanted to create a gameday atmosphere for the Vols during the scrimmage to get a better feel for how they will perform during the season.

The Vols went through the exact same pregame schedule that they will keep throughout the season, warmed up to the same music they will use all season, played four quarters and even kicked off at 12:21 — game time for Western Kentucky.