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Student Affairs welcomes new administrators Blair Kuykendall Staff Writer In keeping with the interests of apprising the student body of UT’s current administrative actions, UT has announced that the student body will now have three new administrators, all filling key positions in the Division of Student Affairs.

This fall, UT welcomes Frank Cuevas, Jeff Cathey and Melissa Shivers to its administrative staff in an effort to meet student needs.

Jeff Cathey arrived in the spring semester of last year and has taken up the post of associate dean of students.

Melissa Shivers is the new assistant vice chancellor for the Division of Student Affairs, while Frank Cuevas will be tackling the trying task of housing UT students as the department’s new director.

Cuevas, director of University Housing, hails from Naples, Fla., and is a graduate of the bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral programs at Florida State University.

Appropriately, his degrees are in education and international affairs.

Frank Cuevas is seasoned in coordinating large-scale housing projects.

Previously, he held the position of associate director of administrative services for university housing at FSU, where he was recognized as an outstanding member of the university staff.

Cuevas grew up as a migrant worker and fulfilled his ambition of attending FSU. He spends his time now enjoying life with his wife Cathy and their children, Alyssa and Brandon.

“My family and I are excited to be part of the UT community,” Cuevas said. “Everyone has been very warm and welcoming, and we are enjoying learning about all that

Frank Cuevas, executive director of University Housing, Melissa Shivers, assistant vice chancellor for the Division of Student Affairs, and, not pictured, Jeff Cathey, associate dean of students, are new staff members in the Division of Student Affairs this year.

Knoxville and its surrounding communities have to offer.”

Cuevas has such a well-rounded track record that most would consider him ready for the responsibilities of his new job.

“I have been fortunate to spend my entire professional career working at large public institutions that were both rich in tradition and campus pride,” he said. “The UT executive director position was a wonderful professional opportunity that would allow me to continue working at a large public institution with a strong commitment to students. After visiting the campus and meeting with university staff and students, the decision was an

easy one.”

The new associate dean of students, Jeff Cathey, received both his undergraduate and master’s degrees from UT, studying college student personnel.

Cathey’s wife, Maureen Verba, is also a UT alumna, making the return to Knoxville ever more fitting.

“This position was an opportunity for me to move back home and to be able to work for my alma mater,” Cathey said. “It’s great to be back. I have both friends and family in the area.”

As associate dean, Cathey hopes to serve as an advocate for every student and an ally for students faced with difficult circumstances.

Cathey also hopes to enhance the UT student’s experience outside of the classroom while keeping graduation his or her ultimate goal.

“One of my passions is my opportunity to be a part of providing new experiences,” Cathey said. “I consider a student’s time in college to offer more abundance of potential new learning experiences than any other time in life. To take full advantage of all that is available here at UT is such a remarkable opportunity, and I consider it a privilege to be a part of this experience for some of our students.”

Melissa Shivers joins UT after receiving her master’s degree from Clemson University in education.

This May, she will receive her doctorate from the University of Georgia in college student affairs administration, where she served as director of the Department of Intercultural Affairs.

Currently, Shivers serves the LeaderShape Institute in Champaign, Ill., helping the organization impact youth to become better leaders.

Shivers is also the president of the Southern Association for College Student Affairs.

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The Campfire Grill, run by Jason Thurston, is a small hotdog stand that sits along the Pedestrian Mall between the Clarence Brown Theater and Hess Hall. Thurston offers students on the go an affordable snack that can help save time between classes.

Pre-health society to host awareness night Donesha Aldridge Staff Writer The arts and sciences department will host the first ever PreHealth Awareness Information Night tonight.

The event will start at 5 p.m. in the UC Shiloh Room. After a brief meeting and overview of the night, the event will be moved across the hall to rooms 225 and 226 with opening remarks from some of the participating student organizations.

The purpose is to provide students with a concentration and interest in pre-health the opportunity to meet and gain information about the different groups on campus with that interest.

“Over the last few years, several organizations related to the health professions have been added to UT’s list of organizations,” said Mary Anne Hoskins, chapter adviser for Alpha Epsilon Delta, the pre-health honor society at UT. “Last year, I got the idea to create an event for all the organizations to have a forum to publicize their activities to new students.

“It’s the first time for trying to bring all these pre-health groups together at one place.”

Blake Day, vice president of AED, said the information night provides students with a better idea of what UT has to offer.

“There are organizations here that are willing to help,” he said.

“Our goal at the information night is to inform students on what awesome opportunities AED can bring to them and what we have planned for this semester.”

Day said his organization serves the needs of all pre-health students, including medicine, dentistry, pharmacy and allied health.

“The goals of Alpha Epsilon Delta are to support these prehealth students by recognizing excellence, honoring them with election to membership, imposing on them the obligation of lifelong excellence and working with them and their faculty advisors in promoting activities,” he said. “This will provide useful information, guidance, encouragement and contacts with professional schools to aid the members and other interested students with activities of the chapter and society.”

Hoskins said, along with AED, several organizations have been invited to come.

The American Medical Student Association, Clinic Vols, Student Dental Association, the Association of Student Pharmacists, Minority Association of Pre-health Students and others will all be attending.

Clinic Vols allows students to be placed in inner-city school clinics where they can administer help to children with small injuries or pain.

Hoskins said representatives from Clinic Vols will also tell about their mission statement and how to join their group.

The event is mainly for freshmen and students just entering UT. “It’s a way our freshmen students can come together in one place that is related to their career interest in pre-health,” Hoskins said.

She said the fair is for all students.

“Even though it’s geared toward freshmen, any students can come,” she said. “It’s for those (who) most likely are planning to be in a health profession.”

According to Hoskins, if students are still interested in joining pre-health organizations and are not able to attend information night, they should look up more information on AED’s website.

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Hannah Allen, senior in art history, examines a figure by Thaddeus Erdahl in the Ewing Gallery’s current exhibition, “Continuare: The Figurative Tradition in Contemporary Art.” The exhibition, which features works from a number of works, seeks to show contemporary artists who feature the human form in their pieces.

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First televised Major League baseball game On this day in 1939, the first televised Major League Baseball game is broadcast on station W2XBS, the station that was to become WNBC-TV. Announcer Red Barber called the game between the Cincinnati Reds and the Brooklyn Dodgers at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn, N.Y. At the time, television was still in its infancy. Regular programming did not yet exist, and very few people owned television sets — there were only about 400 in the New York area. Not until 1946 did regular network broadcasting catch on in the United States, and only in the mid1950s did television sets become more common in the American household.

In 1939, the World's Fair — which was being held in New York — became the catalyst for the historic broadcast. The television was one of the Fair’s prize exhibits, and organizers believed that the Dodgers-Reds doubleheader on Aug. 26 was the perfect event to showcase

America's grasp on the new technology.

By today's standards, the video coverage was somewhat crude. There were only two stationary camera angles: The first was placed down the third base line to pick up infield throws to first, and the second was placed high above home plate to get an extensive view of the field. It was also difficult to capture fast-moving plays: swinging bats looked like paper fans, and the ball was all but invisible during pitches and hits.

Nevertheless, the experiment was a success, driving interest in the development of television technology, particularly for sporting events. Though baseball owners were initially concerned that televising baseball would sap actual attendance, they soon warmed to the idea, and the possibilities for revenue generation that came with increased exposure of the game, including the sale of rights to air certain teams or games and television advertising.

Today, televised sports is a multi-billion dollar industry, with technology that gives viewers an astounding amount of visual and audio detail. Cameras are now so precise that they can capture the way a ball changes shape when struck by a bat, and athletes are wired to pick up fieldlevel and sideline conversation.

—This Day in History is courtesy of History.com.

Thursday, August 26, 2010

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UT students host benefit for Pakistani flood victims A benefit will be hosted at the I-House on Friday from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. Dinner will be provided for $5. Any money collected will be given to the American Red Cross.

Tauseef Mutwahir, a dentist from Pakistan and a graduate student in public health at UT, will give a short presentation at the benefit. Mutwahir left Pakistan 15 days before his family’s village and ancestral home was flooded. He will share pictures of the damage sent to him by his uncle, who is still in Pakistan, during the presentation.

Hundreds of people have died, 2 million have been displaced and 14 million lives have been disrupted by exceptionally heavy monsoon rains.

For more information about how you can help with the Pakistan flood relief efforts being led by the I-House, call 865-974-4453 or find them on Facebook.

Emergency Management Director Named UT has named Brian Gard the director of emergency management for the campus. Gard began his new position Monday, Aug. 23.

Gard was formerly director of special events for the UT system. Gard will work closely with a variety of people and groups to prepare for man-made or natural disasters and emergencies, including training in emergency procedures. He also will seek additional sources of funds to improve the campus’s emergency preparedness infrastructure. Gard also will work with the Knoxville-Knox County Emergency Management Agency, the Tennessee Emergency Management Agency and the Department of Homeland Security to coordinate campus preparedness with state and national security efforts.

In his 23-year career in the U.S. Marine Corps, Gard rose to leadership positions in combat engineering instruction and logistics and was selected as section leader of the White House ceremonial security detail, receiving a Presidential Service Badge for his work.

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Arlene Felipe, a first-year graduate student in theatre, paints a pair of shoes for the play “Amadeus.” The play will be featured at the Clarence Brown Theater Sept. 819.

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Thursday, August 26, 2010

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Columnist ignores aspects of wealth While Amien Essif’s Aug. 23 column raises several interesting points about the nature of poverty and happiness, he blatantly ignores some important aspects of the film, “El Norte,” and empirical evidence of links between wealth and happiness.

First, in his idyllic description of the lives of the Guatemalan family, Essif fails to mention that the father is beheaded by federal troops for attempting to form a labor union and that the mother is abducted. These events, not only the dream of more money, provide an impetus for the children in the family to flee to the U.S. Second, Essif incorrectly claims, “Quality of life ... has no real connection to wealth.” Although it is true that studies have shown increasing wealth offers diminishing returns in happiness as one moves up the economic ladder (for several sociological and psychological reasons), moving from abject poverty to a middle-class life generally offers a significant increase in happiness and quality of life. So, while Essif might dismiss me as “someone steeped in capitalist values,” I think he should be a little more attentive to social-scientific facts in articulating his arguments and should check out Sharon Begley’s 2007 Newsweek article, “Why Money Doesn’t Buy Happiness,” for a balanced discussion of studies of income and life satisfaction. In sum, while Essif is right that more stuff does not always mean more happiness, he is incorrect in claiming that “poverty is a state of being that has little to do with money.”

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‘Fight Club’ provides insight to student life

Luke Waring Junior in College Scholars lukewaring@gmail.com Unveiling of class rings represents questionable “tradition” In reference to Tuesday’s frontpage headline, the updated UT rings are not being unveiled as new traditions — they are being marketed as new traditions. Traditions are not unveiled, they are practiced for years and years before being recognized as such.

The key to this entire change: Jostens becoming the exclusive provider of the new official class rings.

So what’s the difference in defining a new tradition and awarding an exclusive contract?

Samuel Mortimer UT alumnus, Class of 2010 samuel.allen.mortimer@gmail.com Professors passing duties to computer-based learning As I begin my third semester at UT, I find myself confronted with an occurrence which I have found to be commonplace at this university, and I am sure it is similar on campuses nationwide. I am referring to WebAssign and other such computer-based homework forums. Such programs leave me with one primary question: What am I paying my professor for again?

For starters, it is important that I point out that I am a non-traditional student and put off my education for a few years after graduating high school to follow other endeavors. During my high school career between 2000 and 2004, there were no online homework forums. Everything was done on paper, given to the teacher and returned covered in red ink. Some might call that feedback, something a computer is not able to give to you.

Now this, of course, doesn’t apply to all courses of study; professors of English, for example, still take homework on top of preparing lessons for the following class.

What I am trying to say is that it would be interesting to see an article comparing the work that professors had to put into teaching five years ago compared to how much they now pass on to online assistants which we students have to pay $35 to $90 extra for. Why are we paying more so the professors can do less?

Matthew Burlingame Senior in business mburlin1@utk.edu ---COFFEY & INK • Kelsey Roy

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An A l ternate R o u te by

Leigh Dickey

Broken record that I am, I constantly ask my roommates and friends what I should write about for my columns. The answers they give me vary, depending on whom I ask and where we are when we have the conversation: For example, the answers given in grocery stores differ from the answers given while walking to class, just as answers given at the beginning of a night out differ from the answers I receive at the end of the night (for one, the former are usually coherent).

After sifting through some quite interesting suggestions, I’d like to go with this one, which one of my roommates suggested as we drove back from church Sunday morning: She told me I ought to write about “‘Fight Club!’ And … I guess … how it relates to life at UT?” You may blame her for this five-minute distraction before your lecture starts.

For those of you unfamiliar with the film, “Fight Club” is a 1999 movie based on the book of the same name by Chuck Palahniuk. (Reality check: you freshmen were eight or nine when the movie came out.) The plot superficially revolves around men bare-knuckle fighting, thus the title.

This is also one of the main reasons to watch the film: Brad Pitt and Edward Norton star, and one of the rules of fight club is that you fight without shirts or shoes. (And I have a foot fetish. Just kidding.) I say “superficially revolves around fighting” because both Palahniuk, in his book, and the producers and director of the movie were making a deeper point about social interactions and cultural values than just that it’d be cool if men could fight each other and get all bloody, but because of marketing, the violent “fight” aspect of the storyline was heavily pushed.

“This is all fine and dandy,” you may be saying to yourself, “but how does ‘Fight Club’ relate to my life at UT?” That’s a good question.

I was hoping we could skip right by that question, because I’m not really sure, but here’s a few things to start with:

First, the obvious ways. I’m not referring to the bare-knuckle fighting matches that sometimes occur in basements throughout campus and the Fort. because, you know, that doesn’t happen. I’m not even referring to the odd punch or two thrown as you try to escape the guy trying to mug you, which does happen. I just mean that lots of people in the UT community make their own soap from ... well, never mind.

But how else can you and I relate to this movie?

Well, lots of people around here either can’t or don’t get enough sleep. I’ve recently joined these ranks for some unknown reason, and this month I’ve had more productive mornings before 10 a.m. than I had productive days last semester. It’s like I’m another person. I don’t want to ruin the movie for you, but Pitt’s character also had productive days (and nights) on little sleep. We all have our coping mechanisms I suppose; some of us drink coffee to get through life, some of us … you really need to watch the movie.

Also, as two of my roommates pointed out on separate occasions (so I feel I have to include it), most people, both in college and in life, have different personas, changing their personalities to fit the situation at hand. Please raise your hand if you’re a different person when you meet your friend’s parents than you are at Tin Roof.

(Actually, don’t do that, unless you either want people to stare at you or are alone in the room.)

I can’t decide whether having different personas for different situations is good or bad.

To an extent, adaptability is a useful skill; life is chaotic and unpredictable at best, and one needs to learn how to roll with the punches (literally, if you’re either at a fight club or walking around the Fort). Learning to read people and to tailor your message to best communicate your meaning is useful. Where, though, is the line between adapting yourself to your situation and losing your sense of self? It’s all fun and games, as “Fight Club” teaches us, until someone shoots themselves in the mouth.

There are more profound similarities we could discuss, but that would be hard, and I’m sadly out of space. Rent the movie, and you’ll never want to eat in a restaurant again.

Hope your first full week of classes has gone swimmingly! Until next time.

—Leigh Dickey is a senior in global studies and Latin. She can be reached at ldickey2@utk.edu.

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I never understood fads to save my life, though, God knows, throughout the course of my life I tried so hard to use them to fit in.

I remember when those black sandals with straps across the front were the hottest things ever, followed by baby-doll dresses a few years later. I also remember Birkenstock sandals, ones that looked like moccasins with no back at all. I had to buy knockoffs because those things were $100, and that was a stupid decision anyway, because my feet were too awkward and flat-footed to stay inside them.

The most recent of fads include the ones I know from college, mainly aviators, RayBans, Wallabies and the most annoying ones of them all: leggings WITH EVERYTHING, Uggs and Toms.

I’m not sure who authorized a mass substitution of leggings for jeans, and how the rest of the intelligent populace missed the memo, but I wonder how girls think they look wearing nothing but leggings under a shirt or a pair of shorts in sub-zero weather. These, matched with Uggs, are a glaring sign for those annoying denim wearers who don’t care. It is just one more fad, but one that has stayed throughout my college years with consistent fervor.

The other trend in college that I simply cannot understand (How do people know about these trends before everyone else?!) are Toms shoes. First of all, I cannot rationalize paying $44 for glorified colored bandages, something I could do by stealing gauze from a doctor’s office and applying RIT to it.

Secondly, while I think it’s great that the Toms mission is to give a pair of shoes to a child in need for every pair that is bought, I cannot help but ask why these shoes are not free-trade certified, not that it matters to most of us. The company also sponsors the “One Day Without Shoes” event in which everyone walks around barefoot to raise awareness. I’m not really sure how they raise awareness about children in developing countries by making us walk on paved, and relatively nice, roads and getting cuts and scrapes, but the point stands.

Their shoes are also rumored to be constructed in third-world countries and, by a process of pure conjecture, probably sweatshops. Since the shoes are sweatshopmade and obviously inexpensive, the profit for the company is enormous, even after giving a pair away.

Finally, the shoes that Toms gives away to children are cheaper and very basic pairs, unlike the kind one can purchase.

And they say that corporate altruism is dead.

Still, the view stands that trends are interesting, albeit expensive, from a psychological point of view. I especially enjoy watching scores of identical girls walk by, making a compelling argument for a “fittingin” mentality, something I suppose all of us feel. However, I wonder if people who follow trends are really following them for the benefit of others or because they don’t know how to think for themselves, so I urge you, at my behest, to please consider doing so.

If you can’t stop dressing like each other, at least consider dropping the leggings and the Uggs or start wearing name tags because none of us geniuses can tell you apart.

—Yasha Sadagopan is a senior in economics. She can be reached at ysadagop@utk.edu.

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Authors too reliant on rain for drama Jake Lane Arts & Entertainment Editor So many stories start with rain.

For the first assignment for my fiction writing class, I read the opening to each short story in the anthology we will analyze over the semester, roughly 55 of them, and was to choose the best and least effective. Then, to validate or negate my view, I was to read the rest of the story and discuss.

Well, the ones that begin with rain have to immediately be exempted. No fewer than 10 mentioned precipitation in the first paragraph or sentence, the majority citing rain or dampness, with Hemingway’s “In Another Country” playing snow against the hides of various animals, coated with loose powder as symbols of death.

But why weather at all? Narrative usually relates first to character, that is, when reading a story, we follow a character, whose central conflict may or may not relate to the surroundings or even the world around the protagonist. Yet so many choose to introduce their piece in a shroud of nighttime, depression and/or gloom with downpour or drizzle.

Once again I ask: Why? Isn’t it considered to be so taboo in dating to bring up the weather that one might compare it to the veritable kiss of death? Do we not resort to this mode of discussion only out of desperation or fear of the conversation hitting a game-losing lull?

For many writers, some of whom are held to be our greatest and most beloved, apparently such was not the case. Far be it for me to sit in judgment of the works revered by many or to negate how weather affects our lives. Indeed, an entire plot may revolve around the inability to go outside: Some tryst forms when a woebegone visitor is taken in during the downpour, a cat in a hat wreaks havoc on a conservative suburban home, or alternatively, a child races a newsprint boat down a flooded gutter after a storm relents, only to have his arm

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However, that is no excuse not to find a more original approach to begin your work. I am only pursuing a bachelor’s degree in creative writing and may not be as learned as lifetime academics, but I found out at an early age not to use the kitchen sink as a toilet simply because the alternative was less convenient. After all, one of the reasons the printed word hangs above the abyss on a tenuous fiber at the moment is because of an inability by our current crop of wordslingers to provide the eyeball kicks of digital media or the instant gratification of internet videos and games.

One example that I have yet to see, likely since we as writers are discouraged from utilizing the technique, is to start in the middle of a sentence.

In Bret Easton Ellis’s “Rules of Attraction,” the book both begins and ends in such a way, a clever idea for pacing that throws the reader into the heat of narrative and then yanks them right back out.

Robert A. Heinlein, the late “dean of sci-fi,” also used the idea some 40 years earlier in a number of stories, a catalyst for introducing his cast and its motives, all the while moving the plot through conversation.

But what can I say, I didn’t write stories in the 1920s, as so many of the stories’ authors did. Perhaps the historical context, in a time following World War I where humanity was caught in a simultaneous blanket of uncertainty and hope, fits their work. Rain can make the crops grow or rout the fields and assure starvation. Weather means something in this period of time, when we don’t know what the skies a world away look like except through words, grainy photos or works of art.

Today, though, writers owe their readers something new, something relative to our time.

I’ve heard it said the path to lasting popularity as a writer relies on sticking to universal themes, even keeping the setting vague to avoid becoming dated. That may be a bit of a stretch, but it’s true enough that one way to be forgotten is even to encourage readers to flush out your work, to define it by the world of today. Anything written in print will not be read by the masses until the next day, even though bloggers can flood the ‘Net stream as often as they desire.

Make tomorrow the goal, not yesterday.

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FOR RENT 1803 White Ave. Apartments. 2BR apt. 2 blocks from campus. Ready for immediate occupancy. Hardwood/ tile floors; private entrance. 12 month lease.

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THESPORTSPAGE

Walsh ever-improving in pool ming.

By the season’s end, Walsh had achieved one of his preseason goals: Make honorable mention All-American. While this accomEd Walsh has had a busy summer. plishment might have been enough for While most college students were either some people, Walsh’s favorite moment enjoying a hard-earned break from school came during the NCAA Championship or working a monotonous summer job, when he swam anchor on the men’s consoWalsh was swimming. lation heat-winning, free relay.

Walsh, a sophomore, competed in two But despite all of these achievements, events this past weekend in the British Gas Walsh is not willing to rest on his laurels.

ASA National Championships.

“There’s always improveCompeting against ment for me,” Walsh said. swimmers from as far “I have loads to improve away as Hong Kong and on.”

Brazil, Walsh held his This hard-working attiown. tude is reflected in the In the 50-meter praise given by head coach freestyle on Friday, John Trembley.

Walsh snagged the “(Walsh) is very combronze medal with a mitted and very focused,” time of 22.9 seconds. His Trembley said. “He’s kind performance was good of relentless in training.” enough to land him on His hardworking attithe World University tude is something that Team to represent Walsh traces back to his England next year.

Ed Walsh• Photo couresy of UTsports.com upbringing. Raised by a In his other event, the single mother, Walsh was 100-meter freestyle on not recruited by UT until he won nationals Saturday, Walsh finished the race fifth in England at the age of 18. Trembley says overall with a time of 51.05 seconds. that of all the team members, Walsh most However, Walsh said he is striving to do appreciates the opportunity he has been better. given to compete.

Things did not always go this easy for And his decision to come to UT has Walsh. Before he ever swam a race for the proved to be beneficial to both parties.

Volunteers, Walsh had a run-in with local Going into the new swim season, one traffic. In his first week of school last year, certainty can stand out.

A passing vehicle ran over Walsh’s foot Walsh is planning on swimming fast and while he was walking to class. He chalked working hard. After coming to America as his misfortune up to the fact that in “undersized and inexperienced,” Walsh has England the roads are reversed, with grown in one year into an All-American oncoming traffic in the right lane, not the swimmer with a bright future ahead of left. But after this minor misstep, Walsh him. seemed to easily adjust to college swim-

Preston Peeden Staff Writer

Smokey says: “Pay attention in class!”

Tennessee to host first GameDay doubleheader Staff Reports The Tennessee basketball program’s meteoric rise in prominence under coach Bruce Pearl continued Wednesday, when ESPN announced that the Vols will be featured in one of its popular College GameDay matchups for the fourth straight season.

What makes this season’s GameDay broadcast especially historic, however, is that it will precede the franchise’s first-ever, same-school doubleheader. The Vols host the Commodores Jan. 15 at noon EST, and then the Tennessee Lady Vols, led by coaching icon Pat Summitt, will play the Vanderbilt women at 8 p.m. EST. “With the fan passion and dedication for its men’s and women’s programs, Tennessee was a natural fit to be our doubleheader site,” said Nick Dawson, director of ESPN programming and acquisitions. “We are confident the university and coach Pearl and coach Summitt will have the fans fired up and ready to go for GameDay and the national game telecasts.”

This marks the second time in three years that College GameDay will broadcast live from Thompson-Boling Arena. And with North Carolina and UCLA not taking part in GameDay matchups this season, Tennessee now owns the nation’s longest active streak of GameDay appearances with four.

“The opportunity to host GameDay and share the national spotlight with Pat Summitt and the Lady Vols is really going to draw attention to a combined basketball program that’s as good as any in the nation,” Pearl said. “Our rivalry with Vanderbilt often flies under the radar — in comparison to Kentucky or Florida — and this will be an opportunity for ESPN to demonstrate the rich traditions of both schools here in Tennessee.”

Summitt echoed Pearl’s sentiments about the impending historic doubleheader.

“The opportunity to have ESPN GameDay in Knoxville is tremendous for the University of Tennessee,” Summitt said. “It will be an ‘All Vol’ day taking on SEC and cross-state rival Vanderbilt. This will be a treat for Tennessee basketball fans and great exposure for both the Lady Vols and the Vols.”

The Volunteers previously hosted the GameDay crew — which included Rece Davis, Hubert Davis, Digger Phelps, Bob Knight, Jay Bilas and Erin Andrews — for a home win over Florida on Jan. 31, 2009.

“They were enthusiastic and proved that Tennessee is a legitimate basketball school,” Bilas said after experiencing the electric atmosphere in Thompson-Boling Arena.

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HAPPENING IN SPORTS

Aug. 26 - Aug. 29

Friday, Aug. 28 — Women’s Volleyball Xavier Knoxville 7 p.m.

Women’s Soccer Maryland Knoxville 8 p.m.

Saturday, Aug. 29 — Women’s Volleyball Chattanooga Knoxville 12 p.m.

Women’s Volleyball Virginia Tech Knoxville 7 p.m.

Daily Quote

“We’ve got all these new faces on our team, so we’ve just got to try to simulate the environment as best we can.”

– UT football coach Derek Dooley on Wednesday night’s “Mock Game” held inside Neyland Stadium