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Sept. 11 survivor gives account of experience Jay Jonas, New York deputy fire chief, 9/11 survivor, advises students to be thankful Jamie Greig Staff Writer Deputy Fire Chief of the New York Fire Department and 9/11 survivor, Jay Jonas, told UT students on Tuesday night to make the most of their time at UT. “Seize the day,” Jonas said.

“There are a lot of people who would have loved to be in your shoes. Sons who will grow up without fathers, fathers who will grow up without sons. Mothers, sisters and brothers. This was your generation’s day of infamy.”

In a speech to UT students as well as local firefighters, Jonas told his emotional story of surviving the collapse of the North Tower of the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001.

Jonas was one of only 20 firefighters who went into the North Tower and survived to tell the tale.

“We paid a horrible price for our actions that day,” Jonas said. “But from the bravery of the people I saw and heard about, I also believe it was our finest hour.”

That day 343 firefighters and paramedics, 23 NYPD officers, 37 port authority police officers and eight emergency medical technicians lost their lives at the World Trade Center. Jonas wants people to remember their bravery.

“I saw the true spirit of altruism that day, in the stairwell of North Tower,” Jonas said. At the time he was captain of Ladder Company 6.

“People were scared but they were not panicking,” Jonas said. “People were handing us water as we went up the stairs, shouting encouragements, telling us how happy they were to see us.”

Of all the events of that day, the scariest moment for Jonas was when he heard, across his radio, that South Tower had collapsed.

Having reached the 73rd floor, he made the call to head back down.

“The guys in my team didn’t understand why we were going back down,” he said. “I assumed they knew what I knew.”

He wants people to remember the stories of the heroes of that day.

“Captain Paddy Brown of Ladder Team 3, my friend, was ordered to leave the build-

ing,” Jonas said. “He refused. I was shocked. He was on the 43rd floor trying to save badly burnt civilians. He and his ladder company never made it out.”

Jonas had words of advice for the firefighters present to hear his story.

“There was no script for this; you’re plugging your knowledge with procedures and working as you go,” Jonas said. “Act on your instincts. They’re usually pure.”

On the seventh floor, Ladder Company 6 was slowed by deciding to save the life of port authority bookkeeper Josephine Harris. She had made it down 50 flights of stairs, but due to an injury from a car acci-

dent could go no further.

“I just couldn’t leave her, so we took one of the guy’s tools and he carried her down the stairs,” Jonas said.

Around the fourth floor the building started to collapse.

“North Tower collapsed in a pancake for-

there must be someone worse off than me.

“Three and a half hours in the dark.

Then a pencil thin beam of light breaks through. We thought we were covered with 100 feet of steel. I was proud of my team that day. The things they did, without being ordered, were truly heroic.”

And that is when Ladder Company 6 managed to work its own way out and towards freedom.

Jonas finished his speech by reminding the gathered audience to never forget the men and women who lost their lives on that day, and especially the heroics of the people of the emergency service response teams.

“I saw fathers digging for sons, sons digging for fathers, brothers digging for brothers,” he said. “So please, every Sept. 11, take a moment to quietly remember them.”

He finished his speech by playing a short film displaying the faces of the men, his friends, who lost their lives helping to save the innocent victims of 9/11.

“I thought it was a very good event; he was a very compelling speaker,” said event • Photo courtesy of Jay Jonas organizer Robert Lumley, an Issues Committee chairperson mation, one floor after the other,” Jonas and senior in chemical engineering. “I was said. “Every time we were bounced up from pleased with the turnout of about 300. He where we sat. The noise got louder as it got was one of the best speakers we’ve had. It closer, the sound of bending steel crashing was a very interesting story, very comever closer.” pelling. It was a personal story.”

And then his team was engulfed in rubStan Sharp, Fire Chief of the Knoxville ble and dust. They were trapped inside the Fire Department, was touched by the tower, not knowing how much rubble was speech. on top of them.

“Firefighting is a very family orientated In the confusion of the day, despite Jonas environment, so when we heard about what telling the would-be rescue team of over a was going on in New York on Sept. 11, hundred people his company’s location mul- 2001, it felt like we were losing family tiple times, the mountains of rubble made it members,” Sharp said. “Jay did such a great almost impossible to pinpoint them. job on the day. It’s amazing to hear his “I felt humble,” Jonas said. “I thought story.”

Sig Ep chapter house opens new doors Graduate school seminar offered Members hope renovations will instill pride in fraternity, university

Wade Scofield Staff Writer

Lauren Kittrell Student Life Editor After a $2.5 million renovation and addition, the Sigma Phi Epsilon chapter house is officially up to 21st-century fire safety standards, something the rest of the university’s campus is also in need of.

The ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new chapter house was held on Saturday with support from many brothers and alumni of Sigma Phi Epsilon. As generation after generation of UT alumni were represented at the ceremony, enduring Volunteer spirit was on full display.

The 44-year-old house had served several generations of fraternity members before its closing in June of 2009. Alumni President Mark Sparkman said the renovation of the chapter house is something that is important to the fraternity as an encouragement for its students to work hard and to take pride in their ability and their school.

“Our students should understand that their alumni group wants them to be the best students possible while at the University of Tennessee,” Sparkman said.

“We believe that by providing a first-class and safe facility, it will continue to attract the best and brightest UT students.”

The same feeling applies to the university as a whole. Project manager Tim McKeehan represented the university during the renovation and said the project was a joint effort between the housing corporation and the university.

“We own the property and they own the building,” McKeehan said. “We have a mutual relationship. Given that we have a fraternity system, this is a natural way to do it. You don’t want to be at odds about it.”

Alumni of Sigma Phi Epsilon feel that

the renovation benefits the campus.

Sparkman speaks for his fellow alumni by communicating his heart for improvement through investment.

“The substantial investment that we’ve put into our house is due to the great experiences that our alumni have had over the years as UT students,” Sparkman said.

“We believe you are a Sig Ep and Volunteer for life, and many of our alumni still consider the chapter house as ‘home’ and take pride in having a top notch facility at UT.” While the renovation may not directly affect the campus, many feel that improvement to any facility or house on campus is important to the university. Sparkman said he hopes the building will affect the fraternity, fraternity row and the campus as whole by encouraging students to join the Greek system. The renovations to the house will hopefully spark other necessary renovations to the area and be an attractive quality to future students.

“In many instances, Greek students are the future leaders of our great country, and it’s our hope that recent upgrades to fraternity row and the addition of the new sorority village will enhance the UT campus and attract more students to consider joining a Greek letter organization,” Sparkman said.

Sigma Phi Epsilon chapter president Matt Yatsula spoke at the ribbon-cutting as a student and member of the fraternity and said that keeping the fraternity together during the renovations was important to the brothers. Yatsula said the opening of the house meant much more to the brothers involved than just a house to live in.

“It means everything,” Yatsula said.

“Our brotherhood’s back, we’re here in a massive facility. It’s one of the biggest houses on campus. It’s great and we’re very proud.”

For many, applying to graduate school can be a daunting task. Year after year, the most prestigious graduate schools in the Untied States receive tens of thousands of applications for their programs, and for most, admittance rates are low.

That is why on Wednesday evening, students have an opportunity to meet with Donald Asher, an internationally acclaimed author and speaker specializing in professional development and higher education.

Asher’s website, donaldasher.com, lists that he has contributed articles to various publications, including The Wall Street Journal’s online editions, CareerJournal.com and CollegeJournal.com; college.monster.com; careerbuilder.com; wetfeet.com; jobsmart.org; MSN home page and MSN Encarta (education columnist); USAirways Magazine (career columnist); The San Francisco Chronicle; The San Francisco Examiner; The Los Angeles Times’ career development web pages; NACE Journal; and many others.

From 4-5:30 p.m., Asher will present his graduate admissions seminar in the UC Auditorium for the 18th year. He covers a wide variety of topics, such as why to go to graduate school, how many graduate schools to apply to, how to better represent your grades and how to stand out in

the graduate school admissions process.

“For someone who has started applying to graduate school, I think the seminar will be very helpful,” Tyler Mitchell, senior in logistics, said.

“Getting into graduate school is getting more and more difficult. I’m looking for any advantage I can get.”

After the general session, a STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) session will follow from 6-7:30 p.m., also in the UC auditorium.

“I think students of all years (even freshmen) who are considering going to graduate school should attend this session,” Stephanie Kit, associate director of Career Services, said. “It’s a great way to start figuring out what it’s going to take to successfully apply to grad school.”

Last year, the Career Services department saw its largest ever turnout with over 300 students.

After his presentation, Asher receives feedback from the students to improve his program.

The Career Services department primarily assists with graduate school admissions, but this is just one of many services offered. The office houses individual advising available on the topic, a lengthy graduate school admissions guide, critiques of personal statements and other resources.

Students can view Asher’s presentation from last year at career.utk.edu/graduate.php.

• Photo courtesy of donaldasher.com

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Drum major Cody Stricklin, senior in mechanical engineering, struts down the field during pre-game before the Montana game on Sept 3. The drum major is an iconic sight for the Pride of the Southland Marching Band.

1955 — Little Richard records “Tutti Frutti” The question of who invented rock and roll will be never be answered authoritatively, but one of the handful of names that belongs in any discussion of the topic is Richard Wayne Penniman, better known as Little Richard. He has called himself “The Architect of Rock and Roll” — a title he has every right to claim by force of both his music, which played a critical role in moving early rock and roll toward its now-familiar sound, and his personality, which helped create our basic expectations of rockand-roll performers and performances. The combined power of those forces was unleashed upon the world as a result of the events that took place on this day in 1955, when Little Richard walked into a New Orleans recording studio and gave birth to a record called “Tutti Frutti.”

As a child growing up in Macon, Ga., Little Richard was exposed to great music by the likes of Bing Crosby and Ella Fitzgerald, but it left him wanting something stronger. “I knew there was something that could be louder than that,” he later said, “but didn’t know where to find it. And I found out it was me.”

“Tutti frutti, good booty...” was the way the version went that Little Richard was accustomed to performing in his club act, and from there it got into lyrical territory that would demand censorship even by today’s standards. It was during a lunch break from his first-ever recording session that Little Richard went to the piano and banged that filthy tune out for producer Bumps

Blackwell, who was extremely unhappy with the results of the session so far. As Blackwell would later tell it, “He hits that piano, dididididididididi...and starts to sing, ‘Awop-bop-a-Loo-Mop agood Goddam...’ and I said ‘Wow! That’s what I want from you Richard. That’s a hit!’” But first, the song’s racy lyrics had to be reworked for there to be any chance of the song being deemed acceptable by the conservative American audience of the 1950s.

An aspiring local songwriter by the name of Dorothy La Bostrie was quickly summoned to the Dew Drop Inn to come up with new lyrics for the un-recordable original, and by the time they all returned from lunch, the “Tutti frutti, all rooty” with which we are now familiar was written down alongside lyrics about two gals named Sue and Daisy. In the last 15 minutes of that historic recording session on Sept. 14, 1955, “Tutti Frutti” was recorded, and Little Richard’s claim to have been present at the birth of rock and roll was secured.

1965 — South Vietnamese forces and U.S. advisers conduct parachute assault ARVN paratroopers and several U.S. advisers parachute into the Ben Cat area, 20 miles north of Saigon. This was the first major parachute assault of the war by the South Vietnamese.

Although they failed to make contact with the enemy, they achieved their goal of driving the Viet Cong away from Route 13 (running between Saigon and the Cambodian border) at least temporarily.

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

Wednesday, September 14, 2011

NEWS

Leg. redraws districts against Rep. The Associated Press WASHINGTON — The first time the Republican-controlled Texas Legislature tried to get rid of Rep. Lloyd Doggett, they cut his district into three pieces. This year, they sliced it into five — and plopped him into a primary against an ambitious up-and-comer for good measure.

And the Legislature didn’t even have to. Texas was a big winner in congressional reapportionment, adding four new seats in 2012. But Doggett has long been in the sights of state Republicans, including Gov. Rick Perry, most recently for Doggett’s attempt to strip Texas’ federal education funding because he didn’t like the way the state was using it.

“I have no doubt in my mind there’s a direct relation to the governor,” Doggett said. “This is a radical plan. And this is not New York or Ohio, where they are losing seats.”

As states redraw congressional districts, the once-a-decade process can also be used to exact political revenge.

Political adversaries rarely make their efforts explicit. Texas Republicans, for example, maintain they have put forward a fair map designed to reflect the state’s conservative tilt. But the party in power rarely misses an opportunity to tweak old rivals.

“Given the choice you always want to make life more uncomfortable for your political opponent,” said Rich Galen, a Republican strategist.

Galen recalled the Democratically controlled Georgia Legislature conveniently recrafted district lines in 2000 to push two outspoken Republican incumbents, Reps. John Linder and Bob Barr, into the same district. And Doggett — who ran afoul of former House Majority Leader Tom Delay before he made a political enemy of Perry — has experienced it twice himself.

The first time, Republicans drew a district that circled Doggett’s house and stretched 350 miles south to the Rio Grande, meaning he had to traverse vast territory from the capitol to the Mexican border.

This time, Doggett’s been drawn into a district that further dilutes his Austin base and stretches down a narrow strip just wider than I-35 into downtown San Antonio. That’s put him in a primary with Joaquin Castro, a popular state lawmaker and the twin brother of rising star and San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro. The district is heavily populated by Latinos and includes the neighborhood where the Castros grew up.

Doggett is the only Texas incumbent to face such a drastic change.

Roughly half the states have finalized or are near finalizing their district maps. While some deliberately strip politics from the process, in plenty of states the maps are being used to settle scores.

North Carolina is maintaining its 13 seats, but Democratic Rep. Brad Miller either will have to run against fellow incumbent Rep. David Price in a primary or in a district that leans Republican. In 2000, Miller ran the process as a member of the North Carolina Legislature, recrafting House districts to make them more amenable for Democrats.

Miller says it’s a reflection of his work in Washington on the Democratic side of the aisle. North Carolina Republicans have said giving Republicans the majority in the house delegation — not upending Miller specifically — is their goal.

In Utah, Republicans long ago tired of Democratic Rep. Jim Matheson holding onto a seat in a state they otherwise dominate.

With the state gaining a seat in redistricting, the GOP-held Legislature is signaling it will favor a map that vastly dilutes Matheson’s Salt Lake City-area base, creating a congressional map that looks like a half of a pizza, with four slices that meet in and around Salt Lake City.

Cancer clinic charged with fraud The Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. — A former cancer clinic worker pleaded not guilty Tuesday to 11 federal charges alleging that old needles were used on multiple patients and they were given less chemotherapy or cheaper drugs than they were led to believe.

Prosecutors say the Rose Cancer Center in Summit, Miss., was involved in a multimillion-dollar Medicare and Medicaid fraud.

Between 150 and 200 former patients have been tested for HIV and Hepatitis since the clinic was shut down in July, and testing continues. Mississippi Department of Health officials say none of the patients tested so far have been infected with HIV or Hepatitis B or C. Some of the counts in the indictment allege that the care caused serious bodily harm, but investigators have not been more specific.

Mississippi Department of Health officials began investigating the clinic after 11 patients went to a hospital with the same infection.

When asked Tuesday if any patients died from the care they received, Assistant U.S. Attorney Scott Gilbert told The Associated Press: “At this point the indictment doesn’t make such an allegation, but the investigation continues.”

Prosecutors say 43-year-old Monica Weeks of Madison, who pleaded not guilty Tuesday in federal court in Jackson, did billing for the

clinic. She was released on a property bond on her home. Weeks said little in court other than giving short answers to the judge’s questions.

Weeks’ attorney, Cliff Johnson, said he would comment later.

Dr. Meera Sachdeva, the 50-year-old founder of the clinic, was indicted with Weeks and another woman last week. Sachdeva was arrested in August, but the case was sealed until the indictment was issued. She’s being held without bond.

It’s not clear when the other woman, 24-year-old Brittany McCoskey, described as the office manager, will be arraigned. She did not respond to messages Tuesday.

Sachdeva is a naturalized U.S. citizen from India. She’s a mother of two college students and a 14-year-old son, according to court documents filed by her lawyer. Her husband died in 2007.

Prosecutors asked for her to remain behind bars pending trial, saying her frequent travel to her native India and her wealth make her a flight risk. Authorities have seized nearly $6 million, but they say Sachdeva still has considerable assets. Court records said she made two wire transfers to banks in India in 2009 for amounts totaling $300,000.

Her attorney, Rob McDuff, argued in court records that she’s an established resident of Summit, where her family has lived for at least six years. McDuff says she’s not a flight risk, in part, because she surrendered the passports belonging to her and her youngest child.

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Montana museum claims dismissed The Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. — A federal judge threw out a lawsuit claiming federal agents illegally raided Montana’s Custer Battlefield Museum during an investigation into the alleged sale of fraudulent artifacts and eagle feathers.

The judgment was filed in U.S. District Court in favor of two dozen federal agents who participated in the raids in 2005 and 2008.

Judge Richard Cebull dismissed as frivolous claims by museum director Christopher Kortlander that the raids were illegal and the agents had violated his constitutional rights.

The investigation closed in 2009 with no charges filed.

Eagle feathers and parts seized in one of the raids by the Bureau of Land Management and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service have not been returned to Kortlander.

Kortlander said he needed time to review Cebull’s ruling before he could comment.

His lawsuit was considered a

test case of the government's handling of artifact crimes, including a 2009 raid on dealers in the Four Corners region of Colorado, Utah, Arizona and New Mexico.

Kortlander's lawsuit said his rights to free speech, bear arms, to be secure from unreasonable searches and seizures, and nearly a half-dozen other freedoms were violated in the raids.

The lawsuit targeted individual agents — rather than the agencies involved in the raids — as part of what is called a Biven’s action. Much like a civil rights case in state court, the rarely used federal legal measure allows private citizens to sue for damages against federal officials for violating their rights.

Judge Cebull said the vast majority of the claims by Kortlander stemming from the 2005 raid had to be dismissed because the statute of limitations had passed. He added, however, that even if those claims had been made in a timely manner, Kortlander had failed to show his rights were violated.

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Wednesday, September 14, 2011

OPINIONS

Editor’sNote Policy side bleak, Fed gets creative Blair Kuykendall Editor-in-Chief Last week, President Obama introduced the nation to his latest proposal for job growth. Initially Republicans seemed open to compromise, but that sentiment faded Monday when potential tax hikes were announced.

The president’s plan would roll out $450 billion in new spending, with around 75 percent of that money being distributed in 2012. Around $200 billion of this would go towards infrastructure support, while the rest would be devoted to tax cuts. Potential policies would be designed to ramp up hiring, likely the most appropriate allocation to generate growth in the jobs sector.

As for the nuts and bolts of the plan, the Social Security payroll tax for employers would be reduced up to $5 million. Social Security taxes paid by employees could be cut up to 2 percent. Infrastructure spending would be aimed at projects that put Americans to work, such as modernizing the school system. Hopefully these projects would be more “shovel ready” than the last.

Mark Zandi of Moody’s Analytics has estimated that the plan would add 1.9 million jobs to the economy, with the burst of growth fading quickly into 2013.

Various agencies have forecasted a 2 percent spike in GDP for next year under the plan.

Could the president’s new ideas actually deliver economic growth, or would the effects be largely debatable like the original stimulus? To ask that question, one would have to assume his bill actually makes it through Congress. Not to be the pessimist, but in this political environment, the version that passes will likely be watered down to virtual futility. No matter how many times the president repeats “pass this,” neither party is likely to settle in for a compromise.

Tax code changes suggested by the plan further undermine the likelihood of bipartisan cooperation.

New policies would include a limit on itemized

deductions for families generating income of over $250,000 a year. Tax breaks for oil and gas companies, along with hedge fund and investment partnerships, would also be on the chopping block. Investment gains from carried interest would be taxed as “ordinary income” instead of a capital-gain. Expect debate over such changes to turn nasty, especially when those same hedge fund managers learn they will be paying more in taxes to fly the Gulfstream.

Given current Congressional impotency, actual economic power sits largely in the hands of Ben Bernanke. He probably would rather it didn’t.

Nevertheless, the Fed seems to be an American’s most reliable hope for curtailing our economic nightmare.

The FOMC is batting about several different untraditional measures to promote and safeguard growth. As of late the Fed has downplayed its ability to affect change with interest rates already at rockbottom, calling for Washington to implement reform.

Publicly, the central bank may remain optimistic about America’s political system, but behind closed doors it’s searching for an alternative solution.

One strategy has been dubbed Operation Twist. In an attempt to extend postivie effects of its bond purchases, the Fed is likely to convert some of its shorterterm investments to longer-term funds. This would ideally keep interest rates lower longer into the future to stoke expansion. Banks have already taken a negative stance on this part of the plan, which could flatten the yield curve along with their profit margins.

The Fed may also choose to lower the 0.25 percent interest rate offered for storing cash with the central bank to 0.196 percent. That reduction would ideally encourage banks to make more loans, freeing up the credit markets. Rumors indicate a publicized interest rate target is also under consideration at the central bank. More transparent policy might instill confidence in consumers and markets, but when the Fed tips its hand there is always the possibility of backfire. Bernanke will tread lightly; today’s economic climate is particularly vulnerable to panic.

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

SCRAMBLED EGGS • Alex Cline

THE GREAT MASH-UP • Liz Newnam

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‘Goodwill’ not just for destitute Ac orns and Other Seeds by

Anna-Lise Burnette Even though I’m writing chiefly to college students, I anticipate that what I’m about to say will surprise some of you. I’d like to start this week by saying one thing: I really appreciate Goodwill.

When I was younger, my dad and I used to bag up the out-grown or rarely worn shirts and jeans that had collected in the back of my closet and drop them off at a local donation center. They vanished into thin air for all I knew, but I still hoped that at least a few of my things would go to some other little girl who needed them. Many years later, I still occasionally drop clothes into donation bins, only now I have a much different relationship with thrift store merchandise: I buy some myself.

I imagine some of you can sympathize, although, in my experience, most of the college students who prowl the racks come looking for theme party attire.

In other words, throw-away clothes. I certainly understand this (After all, didn’t someone throw these clothes “away” in the first place?), but it makes me a little sad to think that some of the more privileged Goodwill purchases are something to laugh about on the weekend.

Of course I’m no saint. There’s still a part of me that secretly worries I’ll one day find my own discarded clothes being held aloft by some scrutinizing customer while they verbally abuse the former owner for having such bad taste. When I was a kid, I was always horrified by the thought that I might one day see a classmate wearing my old sweater; today, I worry that a classmate might see me wearing theirs.

It’s complicated, you see, because our consumer society is always pushing us to buy the newest and shiniest products on the market. It is sad to say, but this attitude has seeped into our veins, making us chafe at the sight of ordinary people walking out of thrift stores, bags in hand. Part of this surely

comes from the idea that these hand-me-down stores are filled with garbage, unstylish, holey and outdated fashions. And sure, some of what you find looks like someone cleaned out a closet that hasn’t been touched since the ’80s, but plenty of what’s for sale is perfectly wearable. All of it is also perfectly affordable.

What really gets me is how outrageously expensive clothing has become for those who “can” afford it, and how ridiculously cheap clothing has become for those who “can’t.” Most clothing that’s for sale in this country is produced in third-world regions where the daily wage is hardly livable, meaning that while the $6.99 T-shirt may be a bargain for you, it equates to a meager living for someone in another country. The gap widens at both ends of the scale, with both the discount and high-end fashion industries fueling a system that benefits a small few. This is all for the sake of looking good.

And that’s why I appreciate Goodwill so much.

Even though it was founded in 1902 with the intention of making everyday goods available to everyone in order to help the disenfranchised find work and provide for themselves and their families, I think that every household, no matter its economic status, can benefit from the communal nature of going thrifty. By stepping (if briefly) out of the larger market, the average Joe or Jane can help make American consumption more sustainable and American society more solid.

Think of it as recycling. It is incredibly easy to take part in the cycle by donating clothes at various locations around Knoxville; just like sorting your paper from your plastic, it takes a burden off others when you make a small effort. And when you find that it’s time for something new yourself, stop at a thrift store and poke around before you rush off to the mall. It’s surprising what you can find at Goodwill if you just take the time to search the aisles. Hey, guys, don’t be embarrassed. You may even find that some of that good will rubs off on you.

— Anna-Lise Burnette is a senior in interdisciplinary studies. She can be reached at kburnet7@utk.edu.

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Webster’s dictionary defines “friend” as “one attached to another by affection or esteem.”

That’s a pretty shallow and incomplete definition.

The definition for a true friend is far deeper. So, what makes a friend and why do those things matter?

One of the most common statements about friendship is that you find out who your true friends are when you’re in a hard place. This is as true as gravity. (I know that they say gravity is just a “theory” but gravity is one concept they really should just accept as fact. If you don’t agree, drop this paper and see what happens ... see, gravity is real.)

Why do friends stick by each other in times of need and pain while acquaintances just disappear? Truly sharing someone’s pain is, well, painful. People aren’t going to put themselves in pain for something or someone they don’t value as a true friend. It’s far easier to just cooly say, “Sorry,” and then turn and walk away than it is to go to a hospital and sit by a bedside surrounded by the sights and smells of illness; but that’s what friends do: They suck it up and go to their friends, wherever they are, and stay by their side.

Friends are also there to share in each other’s joys. They are encouraging and happy for each other’s triumphs.

Another thing true friends do is stand up for each other. Whether that person is there or not, a friend will not allow someone to insult or speak lies about a friend. That is always a risk — one that can have drastic, painful and permanent repercussions. Acquaintances rarely have any motivation to stand up for another person, even if they do know the truth. Friends, on the other hand, will recognize and acknowledge that rumors and lies are harmful and they won’t let their friend be put in such a dangerous position

without a fight. This fight might succeed, but even if it doesn’t, a friend will never let someone face lies and rumors by themselves. They will stand by their side and be a shoulder to cry on or a shield to rely on or a fighter to count on or all of the above.

Point three: Friends listen. It’s just a cold hard truth that mere acquaintances are not going to care enough to sit down for over an hour and listen to someone’s troubles. If, by some social obligation, they do sit down for an hour, sooner or later (probably sooner) they will tune the speaker out and start nodding, smiling or frowning, depending on the body language of the speaker. Then, when it’s all over, they’ll walk out without a clue as to what just happened. Friends will be there in person, in mind and in heart to listen, really listen, to the pain and struggles a friend has. They’ll be there to let a friend cry or rant or vent or mourn or rejoice. Whatever it is they perceive their friend needing, they’ll try to be.

Next, a friend is honest. This is where many people fail. It’s not always easy to do, but it often needs to be done. Passing along certain bits of information can easily turn into gossip, but important occurrences should always be shared between close friends. It is important to remember that when it comes to other people’s criticism, friends stand up for each other.

Someone with at least one friend will never have to suffer alone, nor will he have to rejoice alone. He will never lack a listening ear or an honest tongue. Someone with even a single friend is blessed. “One attached to another by affection or esteem” isn’t an acceptable definition for “friend.” Sorry Webster, but Aristotle beat you on this one. He defined a friend as “one soul dwelling in two bodies.” Friends are two people who care enough about each other to suffer as the other suffers, to laugh because the other one is laughing, to listen when the other one is talking, to speak when the other needs to hear and to love because the other is their friend.

— Chelsea Tolliver is an undecided junior. She can be reached at ctollive@utk.edu.

Wednesday, September 14, 2011

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Album impresses with upbeat sound Liz Newnam Staff Writer The Kooks have done it again. They have come at the listening public with a wall of sound — filling your ears with the sunshiny music of bright guitars, upbeat drums and arguably one of the most distinct vocal lead men of modern times. They have managed once again to capture the tonal complexity of the jangley-pop stylings of The Format with the angst and Brit attitude of The Rolling Stones and the easy-goingness of Vampire Weekend ( just do not dare compare them to the Arctic Monkeys). And they managed to pull it all off in a simple 12-track album by the name of “Junk of the Heart.”

Originally hailing from Brighton, East Sussex, the Kooks have been an active part of the English indie-rock scene since 2004.

Frontman Luke Pritchard, with his fiery and abrasive vocals, has led the band to the popular “Inside In/Inside Out” album of 2006 and the more recent “Konk” album of 2008 through Virgin Records. Though much of their same jangle-pop-esque sound is maintained through their newest album, “Junk of the Heart,” they approach it with a newfound mellowness and a greater sense of maturity and refinement than before.

The B-side of the first single released on Sept. 4, 2011, was “Is It Me,” an utterance of the very phrase Romeo and Juliet should have considered long ago: “We’re both still chasing shadows in our hands/ It was all too soon.” Taking a step back and making such an assessment about a minor impetuosity seems to give The Kooks a little more depth than simply an attitude strutting around on the stage. They have grown up a little, taking on the world with a different set of rose-colored glasses.

“Taking Pictures of You” is about remembering a time when reunited with a love lost and a closing of the eyes, and going back to a time of shared secrets and taking pictures is the only method to remedy that feeling of loss. The Kooks have grown to be less angry at the world and more soft and welcoming of a hopeless romantic audience.

The “Junk of the Heart” album seems to be precisely that, an ongoing story of lifting the burdens of the heart.

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For instance, “Petuila,” the 10th track, is the token acoustic ballad song of this album. Not unlike its predecessors, “Seaside” and “Tick of Time,” this melody cements The Kooks’ position as the heart throbs of the British indie-rock scene. Pritchard’s crooning will do it every time.

Speaking of lady-pleasing, this time around, The Kooks pay more attention to the fairer sex and the softer side of love than in previous albums. “Rosie” is a high-soaring, room-filling song about feeling that one is falling in love too fast. “Eskimo Kiss” is the recollection of snippets of young love and the thought of running away. “How’d You Like That” is an attempt to get things right and make things work for once, because it would make the world a better place to live when we are together.

The title track (and first single) “Junk of the Heart (Happy)” is most definitely the c r o w d favorite.

Reaching No. 26 on t h e Billboard Alternative M u s i c charts in the week of the album’s release, this song is most defin i t e l y worth giving a listen. With the first sweeping guitar riffs • Photo courtesy of thekooks.com and synthesizer choir, the heart of the listener is transported to a different place and time — a jet plane coasting through the air to a notso-far-off-as-you-thought destination: happiness.

While skeptics may claim that The Kooks continually write the same album over and over again in structure and form (and while I may agree to a certain extent), this “eternal album” by The Kooks can be viewed as “Leaves of Grass” by Walt Whitman. Each time rewritten, the story gains a new sense of perspective. This time, The Kooks have found the softness and the tenderness of the heart, offering forth in their single: “I want to make you happy/ I want to make you feel alive …” And with their newest album, “Junk of the Heart,” they do just that.

Father, daughter graduate together Brittney Dougherty Staff Writer I’m graduating in December. I’m feeling all the typical emotions — excitement, fear, anxiety, ecstasy — but I also feel awkward. I have a good reason for feeling awkward. You see, I’m not the only person in my family who is finishing up a college career at UT. My dad is also going to receive his diploma on Dec. 9.

A little more than a year ago, my mom started pressuring him to make a career change. Being in the stressful business of advertising makes him grumpy.

He listened and is pursuing that career change.

However, he now needs to finish his degree in order to get the job he’s decided he wants.

Last summer, my father, at 41, returned to classes here. He had been to UT before but was lucky and hardworking enough to get a “real” job without his degree. He has had many successes as an advertiser and ran his own company for years. Now, he hopes to become a teacher. My mother is a principal and has been teaching for close to two decades. She loves her job and her passion has made the switch to teaching appealing. Dad gets to be the coolest teacher, too: an art teacher.

I know he’ll be good at it. Before UT, he attended art school in Atlanta. His paintings and sketches are all over our house, and he is currently doing well as a professional photographer.

It has not taken him long to get caught up to me. He really only had to take a couple general education requirements. He’s

finishing up Spanish classes finally this semester, along with the dreaded speech class.

The strangest part of this for me is when he asks me to help him study.

Before his last Spanish final he asked me for help because I’d just finished all the Spanish courses required to graduate. I’ve never been in a position to teach an adult like that before.

While I’m not embarrassed of him, I’m glad I have not run into him on campus. We are not in classes during the same times of day. Imagine seeing your dad walking around going to classes while you’re doing the same. Trust me, it’s weird to think about.

There are some plusses to being in college with my dad. He has a whole new appreciation for how hard I work. Every time he has a disagreement with a professor, makes an unsatisfactory grade or has a group member flake out on him, he understands what I’ve been going through on a daily basis for years.

My family lives in Newport, which is about an hour away from here.

Since my dad started taking classes, I’ve managed to have lunch with him a time or two and he’s often around town to help me out if I need him. It is nice to have a family member so near.

I find it hard to imagine what it will be like to sit next to my father waiting for our names to be called to walk. Really, I only know it will feel good. Both of us will have reached our goals and will be that much closer to the career we each want.

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THESPORTSPAGE

Lady Vols soccer continues to climb in national polls with big wins Staff Reports With four straight shutouts and a four-match winning streak in tow venturing into this Friday night’s 7 p.m. ET match-up versus Coastal Carolina at the Regal Soccer Stadium, the Tennessee Lady Vol soccer team (6-1) has continued its ascension up three of the national polls for the week of Sept. 12-18.

The Big Orange climbed one position to No. 13 in the latest SoccerTimes.com ranking, advanced three spots to No. 16 in the National Soccer Coaches Association of America ( N S C A A ) /C o n t i n e n t a l Tire poll and is up to No. 23 in the latest Soccer America listing.

Tennessee picked up its fourth consecutive shutout for only the second time in program history last Fri., Sept. 9, with a 5-0 rout of Charlotte in Knoxville. UT has now held its opposition scoreless over a stretch of 365:38 dating back to a Bruin goal at 84:22 during UT’s 2-1 loss to then-#8 UCLA on Aug. 26. The skein marks the fifth-longest in school history, just 91:57 off the Lady Vol program’s longest shutout streak of 457:35 that stretched from Sept.

7-21, 2007. The Lady Vols have also equaled the 2002 & 2003 Big Orange soccer squads for the best sevenmatch start in school annals at 6-1.

Sophomore Caroline Brown helped lead the romp over the 49ers on Sept. 9, delivering her second two-goal effort of the early season to raise her team-leading totals to six goals and 14 points. The Hershey, Pa., native’s score just 1:51 into the contest helped set the tone versus Charlotte and marked her fourth match-winner of 2011. The 5-9 forward beat her defender near the right end line, dribbled in towards the post and beat 49er keeper Alex Kubrick from six yards out.

Amazingly, of Brown’s nine career goals over 25 contests at Rocky Top, a staggering six of those have served as match winners.

Lady Vol senior forward Emily Dowd posted her second four-point night of the early campaign by registering her third goal of the season to go along with a pair of assists versus Charlotte. Senior forward Chelsea Hatcher picked up her second assist of the year, junior midfielder Amy Harrison registered her first goal of the season, junior midfielder Kylie Bono tallied her third helper of 2011, rookie midfielder Lexi Krause scored for the first time in

her brief career at UT and junior forward Alexis Owens and sophomore midfielder Sanna Saarinen were each credited with their initial assists of the campaign.

In goal UT freshman Julie Eckel combined with redshirt sophomore Jessica Rolfs (6:15 of playing time) on UT’s fourth straight shutout and has now stopped the opposition’s last 22 shots on frame while lowering her goals-againstaverage to 0.57.

Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Dooley, Vols prepare for Swamp Matt Dixon Sports Editor Playing on the road in football can be challenging, especially in the SEC. “I’ve been in six or seven stadiums in this league where you could make the argument this is the toughest place to play in college football,” Tennessee coach Derek Dooley said.

The Volunteers will travel to one of those stadiums on Saturday for their first road game of the season. Home of the Florida Gators, Ben Hill Griffin Stadium is better known as The Swamp.

“It is going to be a challenge,” Dooley said.

“All you can do (is) you have to go down there, you can’t be scared and you have to be prepared mentally, and you can’t be held hostage to anything that has happened in the past. That’s how we are going to approach it.”

Dooley said there is no real way to simulate the environment of playing on an opponent’s home field, noting that Cincinnati played Rocky Top throughout its practices last week in anticipation for last Saturday’s match-up with the Vols.

“You can’t really prepare for it,” sophomore quarterback Tyler Bray said. “It’s something you kind of just have to show up and just relax and go through with it.”

Young returns Freshman Devin Young practiced taking contact for the first time on Tuesday. The Knoxville native and Bearden High School graduate had been limited after returning from a broken collarbone he suffered just before fall camp began.

The 5-foot-8, 165-pound Young was expected to contribute in UT’s return game this year and also have designed plays out of the backfield and in the slot. Dooley did not dismiss the possibility that Young could

return punts against Florida.

“I told him I’d probably be called the dumbest coach in college football if I put him back there in The Swamp,” Dooley said. “I’m thinking about it, yeah. I’m not scared. I’m not the one who has to catch it.”

Thomas “on pace” Junior left tackle Dallas Thomas dressed out for practice Tuesday but was limited due to a sprained right knee.

“They helped me out just ’cause they wanted me to rest up and get ready for tomorrow,” Thomas said. “I’m feeling real good.”

Thomas was injured on an extra point attempt against Cincinnati.

“I just heard something go ‘pop’ and I was like ‘oh no,’” he said. “I was like ‘dang.’ But we did the MRI and the next day, I felt it was good. Everything just worked out for the best.”

Dooley said the veteran lineman was “on pace” to play Saturday against the Gators.