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Issue 7, Volume 121

Wednesday, August 29, 2012

CPC holds fall interest meeting

Renovations continue at Hodges

Graham Gibson Contributor The first interest meeting for the Central Program Council is coming up for any students interested in joining, starting tonight in the Shiloh Room of the University Center at 6:30.

The CPC is an organization of approximately 125 students whose main goal is, to quote CPC Press Secretary Sarah Kim, “to provide high quality programming for both the UT campus and Knoxville community.”

CPC organizes a wide array of student activities each semester, and it has several events already scheduled for the upcoming year, including a visit from writer Harlan Cohen on September 12th, a showing of the award-winning film “Hugo” on August 31st, and the Vol Challenge from September 11th to September 13th. It also runs some UT traditions, such as All-Sing and Homecoming.

“I have had the opportunity to experience some of UT’s oldest traditions in a unique way,” Jack Johnson, junior in political science and member of the All Campus Events committee, said.

All Campus Events is one of the seven committees that make up CPC, the others being the Women’s Coordinating Council, the Visual Arts Committee, the Issues Committee, the Film Committee, the Cultural Attractions Committee and the Campus Entertainment Board. Each committee has a certain aspect on which it focuses, and together they cover a wide range of interests. The diversity of interests within the CPC proves to be a valuable experience.

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Construction workers work in the Commons South during the summer. The Commons is being renovated to include more computers and study lounges for students and is estimated to be completed by September

Justin Joo Staff Writer Like much of the construction around UT, the renovations occurring on the second floor Commons area of Hodges Library continue as a new semester begins.

It was originally hoped that the renovations would be completed by early August. However, Dean of

Libraries Steve Smith said that “a variety of understandable factors” have caused the renovation completion to be pushed back to hopefully no later than the end of September.

Smith said that the many construction projects around UT’s campus were a big part of the delay.

“Both in terms of the university facilities folks as well as the construction crews, there’s only so many people to go around,” said

Smith. “The same guys who are hanging dry wall out in Sorority Village are often the same folks who are working (in Hodges).”

Smith also said that the current national economy for manufacturing also had an effect on the library’s renovations.

“Normally, orders that two or three years ago or a year or two ago would have only taken three or four weeks (to complete) are now taking

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Staff Reports More than 12 million Chinese rely on Lake Taihu for drinking water, but about twenty years ago the once pristine lake turned pea green. It had become overrun with toxic blue-green algae which can damage the liver, intestines and nervous system.

Two researchers from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, will be working on an international team funded by two new National Science Foundation awards totaling $2.5 million to resolve the ecosystem

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six to eight weeks,” Smith said.

And while the renovations may not be 100 percent complete until the end of September, Smith said that all of the library’s services, such as the OIT HelpDesk and the Studio, are still operational, and various new resources and features will gradually become available in the meantime.

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balance in the lake. Their work could help safeguard America’s water supply.

“China provides a unique opportunity to test ideas and management efforts in highly polluted and nutrient enriched lakes that we predict we will see in North America in the coming decades,” said Jennifer DeBruyn, an assistant professor in the Department for Biosystems Engineering and Soil Sciences.

DeBruyn and Steven Wilhelm, professor of microbiology, will team with an international group of researchers and students to combine molecular biology, ecological

analysis, and environmental remediation.

Their goal is to create mathematical models of how ecosystems function based on quantitative data generated by state-of-theart molecular biological techniques. They will then provide an informed strategy to Chinese government officials.

“Over the past three decades, industrial effluents, farm runoff, and sewage have besieged Lake Taihu, pushing its ecosystem critically out of balance,” said Wilhelm. “In the summer, when lake surface temperatures heat up, blue-green algae blooms with a vengeance.”

SGA members are hoping to get a running start on the issues this fall.

Members met in the UC Hermitage room Tuesday evening to discuss this year’s agenda.

“I’m excitied to see some new legislation come forth,” Adam Roddy, student body president, said. “We were a campaign that ran off of policy, so we need to pass that policy.”

Roddy challenged the senators to generate new policy this year.

“Please write a bill,” Roddy said. “If you need our help, we’re here. We want to set a precedent that when people run for office, they keep the promises they make.”

This year, SGA is hoping to institute a new system using clickers to take attendance and conduct voting. During the campaign, this measure was discussed in order to promote better senator participation.

The executive board had to take attendance the traditional way this Tuesday, though, as they worked out difficulties with the new system.

Maxine Davis, the Dean of Students, had been scheduled to provide an administrative update to senators at the meeting. However, she was unable to attend this Tuesday’s meeting, but will provide an update on a later date.

The vice president of the Graduate Student Senate, Alexandra Brewer, was present to update the undergraduate quorum on graduate issues. Brewer and GSS president Amanda Sanford have been actively working to renew UT’s membership in the National Association of Graduate and Professional

Vols move forward in preparation for Wolfpack

Students.

“We are asking SGA for a small portion of their budget to do so,” Brewer said. “It’s only $500 for the year, and this covers registration for all 6,000 graduate students.

Benefits will include discounts on insurance, travel expenses for conferences and networking.”

Both Roddy and SGA vicepresident, Terry Nowell, encouraged the senators to seek out other students to get involved in SGA. “We opened commitees up to the student body for applications for the first time this year...tell all of your friends to apply,” Roddy said. “We have a lot going on in SGA right now, so do your best to get the word out. If you ever need me, stop by the office, send me an email at sga1@utk.edu.”

Nowell gave updates on Freshmen Council, and encouraged the senators to engage the new members after they are selected.

“Reach out to them and let them know you’re there to help,” Nowell said.

He also gave the crowd updates on future plans for SGA’s website.

“As far as our website goes, it’s going to be changing,” Nowell said. “It will be a Wordpress site. Wordpress will make it a lot easier to edit...to go into, and make changes.”

Taelor Olive, the Student Services director, gave an update on Student Services and mirrored Nowell and Roddy in calling for increased involvement.

“We really want a lot of participation with SGA this year,” Olive said.

The senate elected Ryan Ray as the new parliamentarian before the meeting closed.

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Matt Walters, undecided freshmen, rushes along the sideline to get the ball from another student on the intramural fields on Monday.

1941 — Mass slaughter in Ukraine On this day in 1941, more than 23,000 Hungarian Jews are murdered by the Gestapo in occupied Ukraine.

The German invasion of the Soviet Union had advanced to the point of mass air raids on Moscow and the occupation of parts of Ukraine. On August 26, Hitler displayed the joys of conquest by inviting Benito Mussolini to Brest-Litovsk, where the Germans had destroyed the city’s citadel. The grand irony is that Ukrainians had originally viewed the Germans as liberators from their Soviet oppressors and an ally in the struggle for independence. But as early as July, the Germans were arresting Ukrainians agitating and organizing for a provisional state government with an eye toward autonomy and throwing them into concentration camps. The Germans also began carving the nation up, dispensing parts to Poland (already occupied by Germany) and Romania.

But true horrors were reserved for Jews in the territory. Tens of thousands of Hungarian Jews had been expelled from that country and migrated to Ukraine. The German authorities tried sending them

back, but Hungary would not take them. SS General Franz Jaeckeln vowed to deal with the influx of refugees by the “complete liquidation of those Jews by September 1.” He worked even faster than promised. On August 28, he marched more than 23,000 Hungarian Jews to bomb craters at Kamenets Podolsk, ordered them to undress, and riddled them with machine-gun fire. Those who didn’t die from the spray of bullets were buried alive under the weight of corpses that piled atop them.

All told, more than 600,000 Jews had been murdered in Ukraine by war’s end.

1996 — Charles and Diana divorce After four years of separation, Charles, Prince of Wales and heir to the British throne, and his wife, Princess Diana, formally divorce.

On July 29, 1981, nearly one billion television viewers in 74 countries tuned in to witness the marriage of Prince Charles, heir to the British throne, to Lady Diana Spencer, a young English schoolteacher. Married in a grand ceremony at St. Paul’s Cathedral in the presence of 2,650 guests, the couple's romance was, for the moment, the envy of the world. Their first child, Prince William, was born in 1982, and their second, Prince Harry, in 1984 — This Day in History is courtesy of History.com.

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CAMPUS NEWS LIBRARY continued from Page 1 Additional spaces and improvements that will be coming with the renovations will include 12 new group study rooms, a more open feel brought on by taking down the walls separating old areas such as the Studio and South Commons, relocated library resources such as the Circulation Desk and the OIT HelpDesk, and new or re-upholstered floors throughout the entire Commons.

Smith also says that some renovations will begin on the third through sixth floors of Hodges, commonly known as the Stacks.

The central corridors through the stacks in front of the elevators will be renovated to make them more spacious and to create a better line of sight. There will also be more electric outlets and tables to allow more students to study in the central area of each of the stacks.

Smith said that a big focus of the upper floor renovations is to make things more spacious and safe for students.

CPC PREVIEW continued from Page 1 “In addition to working with other CPC members, we also work with various other student organizations around campus,” Kim said. “Students will also meet and work with a large and very diverse group of UT students who are all passionate about bettering the campus and Knoxville community through programming.

Because CPC is comprised of such a unique group of committees that pursue different interests, it can be appealing to a wide variety of demographics.”

Johnson agrees, pointing to his involvement with CPC as integral to his college experience so far. “Seeing things like Carnicus and Homecoming from behind the scenes has made me really appreciate being a part of this university,” Johnson said. “It has helped me meet a ton of people.”

Representatives from each of the seven committees will be in attendance at the meeting, giving brief presentations on their respective committees. This will be followed

“The idea of these improvements is to give students and users more of a chance to study in the central corridor of the building where other students are,” said Smith, “rather than, say at 4 a.m., having to go off to a distant corner by yourself to find a seat or a plug.”

Smith added that there has already been improvement to the speaker system so that announcements made throughout Hodges will be easier to hear.

“I’m certain that the week after next the new circulation area will be ready,” Smith said. “Then other spaces will begin to roll out through September and into October.”

Caitlin O’Connell, a senior student library assistant, is one of several faculty members at Hodges who are looking forward to the renovations.

“It already looks good,” O’Connell said. She, like many of her coworkers, had to adjust when the renovations began. O’Connell works in Circulations and had to deal with the difficulty of moving all of the circulation resources from one spot to the next.

“It was a little difficult,” O’Connell said. “We had to get (a) room for the resources, and some people had a little trouble adjusting to the new space. But everything went pretty smooth.” by a question and answer session. Several of these committees are currently accepting applications and more information can be found on their individual webpages.

Those who get involved will have the opportunity to hone various skills not taught in a classroom. “Prospective members can expect to gain numerous invaluable skills and experiences that members can take with them into a workplace or real world setting. Some of these skills are large-scale event planning, marketing skills, interpersonal skills, etc.,” Kim said.

For those interested in learning more about CPC, the organization runs both a Twitter and Facebook account, as well the official CPC webpage, with information about specific committees and contacts for the organization.

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Students dress up for the 100th Anniversary of Carnicus, a yearly skit competition event held by the Central Program Council. The CPC will have an interest meeting tonight in the Shiloh Room at the UC at 6:30 p.m.

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Editor’s Note Life beyond completing your resume

Blair Kuykendall Editor-in-Chief Drafting a resume is a sobering experience.

This particular activity makes me feel like a beggar. It puts one in the awkward position of grasping an attempt to impress some faceless individual. This no-name will hold my fate, perhaps along with a stale cup of coffee, in his very hands. That’s unnerving.

I, like most everyone I know, have spent my last three years at UT hopping from clubs to class, preparing for this moment. Concerns over the actual content of my resume are long gone. Now that it’s time to put pen to paper, or, rather, hand to keyboard, I’m experiencing more than application anxiety.

Lately, I have been preoccupied mulling over the goal.

Lest you think me daft, I’m not talking about the stated goal. Whether it be graduate school or an entry-level job, the purpose of a resume is self-explanatory. My focus is on the motivation beyond.

Why do we labor so ardently to shape the content listed on our neat pieces of paper, like little children attempting to stay in the lines of a coloring book? Because that’s exactly what we are doing. We grab a little bit of community service, like blue, and put it next to a little bit of leadership, like yellow, and try to paint a sunny picture of our lives. As long as we pick the right colors, and put them in the right places, we are supposed to land acceptance into a great grad school or a cushy job.

My question is, why? Why is this form of

achievement our focus? I am not asking these questions to condemn at all. I’m asking this of myself as well. To explore my motivations, I have lately been engaging in a series of hypotheticals.

Think with me, for a moment. Imagine yourself being successful in whatever career you choose, with a steady income, the education you want, living wherever you choose. My question now is, then what?

It seems like we’re all striving for something that seems...well...boring. Not that I don’t want to achieve my career ambitions, but in my opinion, this should not be the focal point of one’s existence. We are constantly told to study, graduate quickly, nail the interview and settle into some safe position. Something tells me, though, that’s not the key to a happy life.

If we do that, we’ve arrived. But arriving at a bearable forty-hour work week, cycling on into forever, strikes me as more of a failure than a win.

So if resume building consumes your life, resume writing is painful, interviews are nervewracking and the final goal is ambiguous, why do we allow ourselves to be consumed by this?

Victory belongs to those who can manage to succeed without giving their lives over to any ‘master plan.’ I think the answer lies in the pursuit. In life, those with the ability to take joy in the present are far better off. Life, or at least real living, happens when we end up somewhere unexpected.

I think the answer is passion. Find one, and go after it. If that pursuit interferes with building the perfect list of achievements, let that go. Trust me. In the end, the corner office just isn’t worth it. No matter how nice your chair is, you won’t be comfortable unless you are doing what you love.

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

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SGA improves, still uses partisan symbols T he Fourth B ra n c h by

Eric Dixon

With this past summer came unusual signs of SGA life.

Having taken office in April, all three of the top SGA leaders have hefty SGA leadership experience.

They’ve all worked with student government during their entire tenure as undergraduates. I’ve both served with and run against them, and I can honestly say they have several good ideas to mend some of the inefficiencies and broken gears of the current SGA system.

Though it should have been done years ago, SGA seems to have finally begun to take its social media presence seriously. UT SGA has had a Facebook page and Twitter account for some time now, but they’ve been more for show than anything else the past couple of years. Over the summer, though, SGA’s social media presence saw some progress: SGA updates are now being issued on a reliable basis.

Of particular significance was a post in which SGA leaders noted their involvement with the Board of Trustees in June regarding UTK tuition raises.

What’s more, the SGA seems to be offering a text service for updates. Students can register their cell phone numbers on the SGA Facebook site.

Event and programming publications are indispensable to student life, but I think students would like to see and hear more about the efforts their SGA representatives are taking to address student concerns. At least at first blush, these efforts seem to be a responsible step in the right direction.

Students now have some reason to believe that SGA will continue to reliably deliver updates of substance.

The fact that leaders are taking the time and effort to develop an SGA recruitment video, which is now posted on the SGA website and social media outlets, is a bright spot. The content of the video,

on the other hand, does raise some concerns.

Most of the video is comprised of students dancing, singing, partying, etc., which certainly has its place. A recruitment video without something catchy and fun like this wouldn’t be a good tool for recruitment. Still, it is void of more substantial, insightful content. At least half of the footage, if not more, is taken from SGA election week. This perpetuates the myth that SGA only exists during a single week in March.

At least one interpretation of the video leaves the viewer with a sense that the current SGA administration is nothing more than “FUEL,” postelection (FUEL is the party platform on which the current administration ran). It highlights the past winning SGA party logos, with particular emphasis on FUEL. SGA parties serve an important function: they allow a collective of students to dynamically develop ideas for the betterment of UT student governance, and they are requisites for democracy to do its bidding.

But student governance is not a system of party politics. It is intended to be a system of utmost inclusivity. SGA leaders are no longer FUEL leaders, but, rather, leaders of the UT Student Government Association. SGA is most effective when it drops party identities and adopts a common identity.

Obviously, a recruitment video isn’t the end-all, beall on such a matter, but symbols can make a statement.

SGA has, however, made a very commendable stride in the process of appointing students to administrative committees. These are committees comprised of faculty, administration, staff, and students that, in some cases, make serious decisions for campus. The concerns of these committees range from the environment to cultural affairs. In the past, the SGA President simply appointed students to these seats with no nomination process.

This year, for the first time, SGA is taking open applications. As you consider what to do with your time this semester, I highly encourage you to apply for one of these committees, as well as for an SGA student services committee. The deadline is Friday.

— Eric Dixon is a senior in philosophy. He can be reached at eric.dixon@utk.edu.

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For anyone who knows me, they know that I love Tennessee basketball and football with a passion unrivaled by most. I’m a third generation UT student, and have been watching games since before I can remember. I devour recruiting news to the point where it’s almost creepy how much I keep up with the lives of eighteen-year-olds. I even cried when Bruce Pearl got fired. It’s safe to say that I have been ecstatic for this season since Cordarrelle Patterson and Daniel McCullers signed to fill two high impact positions.

I’ll be honest, a few weeks ago I even wrote a column set to run this week about how much optimism I had for this football season. I thought that for the first time in what seems like an eternity, UT fans could hope to compete for the SEC East title. I was sure that I would get to travel to a legitimate bowl game for the first time in my college career—then Da’Rick Rogers got kicked off the team.

For those of you who don’t know, Rogers was an All-SEC receiver last season who was expected to lead what should have been the SEC’s, and possibly even the NCAA’s, best receiving corp into the season. For reasons not yet known to the public, Da’Rick has been suspended for this season and, per Derek Dooley, is not likely to return to the team.

The saying goes that one player does not make a team. Personally, I think this is something desperate people tell themselves to try to feel better after an incident such as this occurs. Anyone who tries to turn this into a positive is fooling themselves.

Rogers, combined with Justin Hunter and Cordarrelle Patterson, would have put up videogame-like numbers with Tyler Bray tossing around the ball. Now, defenses can double-cover one receiver without sacrificing too much other help defense.

The effect of Rogers’ absence on this team is especially key for Derek Dooley, who is entering his

third season as UT’s head coach. At the end of year three, Nick Saban, Urban Meyer, Gene Chizik and Les Miles had all won national titles. The moral of that story is that by your third year in the SEC, you better be doing big things. If you aren’t, you probably aren’t the man for the job.

I want you to know that I’m not a complete negative nancy. I think this team has the talent and schedule to win nine games, and possibly even ten with the bowl game. My reasoning is that Bray, Hunter and Patterson are still a talented trio, with several young but capable wide receivers as reserves.

Similarly, our three JUCO players on our defensive line have shown a lot of promise in scrimmages.

Daniel McCullers seems to be as good as advertised, and at six-foot-six and 365 pounds, he will cause some damage to opposing offensive linemen. Our offensive line has one more year of experience, and Rajion Neal seems to have reinvented himself to restore the running game. We have depth where we haven’t the last few years in the secondary and defensive line, and that gives me reason to hope.

Heck, I even made a fairly sizeable bet with my oldest brother over the win total for this season, and I took the over for 7.5 games. In retrospect, that may have been stupid, but at the very least I want to believe. I want Derek Dooley to do well, probably more than anyone other than his family and the UT boosters. I want our seniors who have endured so much to leave on a good note. I want our fans to shed the bad luck and bad memories, and I want UT to become relevant again.

Remember, one player doesn’t make a team. We’ll be fine. Lather, rinse, repeat.

Shameless Plug of the Week: Hit up the Fort Sanders Yacht Club after home games for a smaller bar atmosphere with reasonably priced drinks. If you are like me, you hate being packed in places with people you don’t know. The Fort Sanders Yacht Club seems to do good business while maintaining adequate space for its patrons. For entertainment purposes, the FSYC also has nearly every video game system since the Nintendo Entertainment System and a few classic arcade machines. The FSYC earns the Hunter Tipton Seal of Approval.

It is located on 17th Street, between Chipotle and Goodwill.

— Hunter Tipton is a senior in Microbiology. He can be reached at jtipto10@utk.edu.

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Local band plays the Strip PSA to host Speak Up! Assistant Arts and Culture Editor Local progressive rock band Cerulia will be playing Longbranch Saloon on the Strip with Such Gold and On My Honor this Friday starting at 8 p.m.

Not only is the band local, but guitarist and vocalist Kuyper Cummings is a senior in music at UT. “I would definitely say that it is hard to maintain a balance between school and band,” Cummings said. “Every one of (the band members) are music majors so it also becomes difficult to split up practice times between different musical materials. However, we always make sure to encourage each other about putting school assignments ahead of things like band practice, and also try to schedule shows around our academic calendars.

That might sound weird to some, but being successful is very important to us. If we can’t succeed in other areas of our lives we don’t see how we can be successful in our musical endeavors.”

As a product of the University of Tennessee’s school of music, Asher Coker, senior in music and drummer for Cerulia, has used his classes to help hone his skills.

“I’m a jazz major, so it has helped tremendously with playing well with others, listening, writing, literally every aspect of music,” Coker said. “I don't think I’m a great jazz musician by any means, but what I’ve learned through the jazz program has made me much stronger in all other aspects of my playing.”

Cerulia is fairly new to the music scene, having only recorded their first tracks in January, and is currently working on releasing four EPs.

Although the band is described as being progressive rock, members confess that they don’t want to put the band into any single category.

“Right now we are in the process of releasing four EPs, all of which will be a slightly different genre of music,” Cummings said. “We are bluesy metal with classically influenced jazzy riffs that can break off into eerie passages more similar to Radiohead at times.”

Some of the biggest influences to the band’s music comes from a list of notable artists including Brian May from Queen.

“He is an incredibly underrated guitarist,” Cummings said. “Some more major influences on my playing style are Mike Einziger of Incubus, Jordan Buckley and Andy Williams of Every Time I Die, Casey Crescenzo of The Deer Hunter, and Joe Pass.”

Even though the band is fairly new on the music scene, they have already played several local shows.

One of the most memorable shows in the lifespan of the band came during Cerulia’s first performance, which was at the Birdhouse.

“There was no air conditioning near the stage, the PA was not working properly, and there wasn’t enough room at times, but the music fans that go to shows there make the Birdhouse a killer venue,” said Cummings.

“The people that came out to that show brought out our absolute best on stage.”

Both Coker and Cummings are excited about the show and look forward to support from their fellow students on the band’s return to Longbranch. The band plans on bringing a lot of energy on Friday night.

“We love receiving gifts in the form of Taco Bell,” Cummings said. “Also, we travel via lightening storm so get ready when you hear the thunder!”

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advantages they receive just because of their skin. Our administration is mostly white.

People who are in power are mostly white folks. I can even see it in classroom spaces.”

With the presidential elections approaching, issues surrounding race are still reflected in politics, said PSA secretary Sam Petschulat. He said the constant doubt of President Obama’s citizenship is more than a trending joke.

“It’s kind of a joke to most people, but people are still questioning Obama’s citizenship, but it’s still indicative of people questioning people of color as legitimate Americans,” Petschulat, senior in English, said. “We’ve never had an issue with any other president.

Taking an issue like that and bringing out how it is indicative of how (racism) is still present in our society.

“I definitely think affirmative action is an excellent program. I think something that students really lack when thinking about race is history. There are these very historical roots and the reasons why we have these race issues today. There’s this great disparity between black wealth and white wealth.”

Despite the heaviness of the topic, Malick thinks the event will ease students into thinking about race, as well as be a means of gaining more members.

“I would hope people will join PSA,” she said, “but I think having an understanding that race is a real experience for a lot of people is how people will get engaged with race.

We are not in a post racial world and we really need to be not thinking in those terms and being anti-racist and not just non-racist.”

Speak Up! will be held in the University Center this Thursday at 8 p.m. in room 225.

Victoria Wright Arts and Culture Editor The Progressive Student Alliance, an organization that focuses on various social and human rights issues, will host Speak Up!, which is a spoken word poetry event to create awareness about racism and white privilege on Thursday night as part of a series of events called Wise Up to White Privilege.

PSA members Kaitlin Malick, community liasion, and Melanie Barron, united campus workers liason, spearheaded the event.

Malick said the inspiration came after racist posts were made by students on the UTK Memes Facebook Page, which is dedicated to posting humorous pictures with captions about various aspects of UT culture.

“Almost immediately, people started saying and posting racist things,” Malick, senior in sociology, said. “When students called that out, it just became apparent that there were overt (racism) on campus and that no one really knew what racism really looked like.”

Malick said that discussing race relations has been a trending topic among students, but tackling the issue is the actual problem.

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“When you think about race, I think the conversation is always disenfranchised, but we (white students) never have to think about the other side of the racism coin,” Malick said. “I would say privilege is the

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Vols preparing for season opener Anthony Elias Staff Writer With North Carolina State just a few days away, the Tennessee Volunteers continued preparing for their Friday night showdown with N.C. State during its Tuesday morning practice.

Despite Da’Rick Rogers transferring to Tennessee Tech, the wide receiver core continued preparing itself for its non-conference opener.

The transfer hasn’t caused urgency in the players; instead, Vols offensive coordinator Jim Chaney said it can only benefit the players if they step up.

“There are a lot of opportunities out there,” Chaney said. “Those kids understand that if you’re going to earn the right to get (the job), you’ve got to demonstrate out here on the practice field. They’re out there doing a good job.”

One of those “kids” is returning receiver Justin Hunter, who suffered a season-ending ACL tear in his left knee, and who has shown UT’s offensive coordinator that he’s hyped for

Friday.

“He’s thrilled to death,” Chaney said. “He’s like a kid in a candy store.”

Hunter will be going up against one of last season’s best secondaries and, after watching N.C. State game film, wide receivers coach Darin Hinshaw is well aware of what his receiving unit will be up against.

“They’re very good,” Hinshaw said.

“They're a very good secondary. Obviously they have a lot of snaps. (They’ve) played a lot of games together. You can just watch them on film and understand they know they’re doing really well. They know their coverages really well and they know where they’ve got to be to make plays.”

The Wolfpack secondary is led by national interception leader David Amerson, who picked off 13 of N.C. State’s 27 interceptions.

It’s possible the Vols may use six receivers “depending on the situations of the game.”

UT’s running backs coach Jay Graham knows about the Georgia Dome atmosphere both as a player and coach, and has tried to help starting tailback Rajion Neal and the other

running backs focus.

“Calm down and think about every play and what you’re supposed to do,” Graham said.

The former Vols running back thinks because of the matchup, it won’t be just Rajion Neal seeing time on the field.

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Depends on how many plays, how much success we have, how many plays we have on offense.”

The offensive rushing attack will be looking for a little more success than it did last season when it averaged 90.1 yards per game and ran in 11 touchdowns. When asked if the running backs were involved, if any, in the passing game, Graham said, “it remains to be seen.”

It also remains to be seen if the Vols can shake off its bad luck, not just against N.C. State’s conference, but with the venue itself, heading into Atlanta on Friday. Not only has Tennessee not won a game in the Georgia Dome since 1997, but the Orange and White hasn’t had a victory over an ACC opponent since they beat Duke 23-6 in 2003.

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Justin Hunter runs with a football during practice on August 26. Hunter will return this season to encounter North Carolina State in Tennessee’s season opener on Friday.

Davis named coordinator Staff Reports

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Antone Davis, former Vols offensive tackle, watches former coach Phillip Fulmer during football practice on Sept. 30,1988. Davis was recently named Vol For Life Coordinator for the UT football team.

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Former Tennessee football All-American and longtime NFL offensive tackle Antone Davis has been named the Vol For Life Coordinator for the UT football team.

Davis returns to Tennessee more than two decades after he played with the Vols and earned the Jacobs Blocking Trophy in his senior season of 1990.

“I have gotten to know Antone and he is just an impressive person,” said Tennessee head coach Derek Dooley.

“Obviously, he was a great player at Tennessee, had a long NFL career and really turned what could have been a real negative situation in his life into a positive and he was able to be an ambassador for Tennessee for a while.

He’s excited and, hopefully, he is going to have a real positive effect on a lot of the guys on our team and I think he will.

“He fit all the criteria we were looking for, and, in addition, was really enthusiastic about the opportunity. We are trying to get that program to grow to not just positively influence the guys on our team, but also better connect our lettermen, which I'm hoping he'll do that too.”

Most recently, Davis received worldwide fame finishing as the runner-up on the television show, “The Biggest Loser.” Davis decided to go on the program after he saw several of his college and professional teammates suffer through trying times due to health issues brought on by weight gain and unhealthy eating. Davis lost 202

pounds during the show, taking his weight from 447 to 245 in the season finale in December 2011.

Davis has used his inspiring story on the show as a platform for speaking to others about health and life skills management, which he will continue to do in his role with the Vol For Life Program.

“It’s great to be back and it's great to be around what I consider family,” Davis said. “It’s good to be in a role where I will be able to have a positive impact on the players and their lives.

There are a lot of things that I have gone through in life and to be able to pass those experiences on to young players will definitely benefit them. I hope they receive it well and I believe they will.”