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Retention rates of the TELS Scholarship Chris Bratta show that sophomores and juniors are more Staff Writer likely to retain the scholarship than freshmen.

Retention tends to rise with parental AGI, Much controversy surrounded the at least through the student’s first few terms, Tennessee Education Lottery Scholarship while patterns relative to a student’s own AGI around 2004. The cries in favor of lottery are mixed. funding for higher education ricocheted off of Higher unemployment in the student’s the voices condemning the moral considhome county is generally associated with erations imposed on such a system. lower retention probabilities during a stuAs the opinions of various Tennesseans dent’s first few terms. resounded on the radio, television, newsThe study also shows that retention paper and the halls of high schools, cititends to fall with the age of the student. zens waited for the polls to close.

As a result of close analysis from past The tangible results of this battle: funddata, Bruce and Fox are able to predict ing for higher education and a slew of lotthe TELS near-future expenditures. tery dollars awaiting a lucky winner.

Forecasts were explained in detail in So what happened with all of that, and the recent report. what research has been done to display Gender, age and race all impact takethe costs ensued and the students’ perup and retention, but the researchers do formance? not anticipate any trend changes in the Donald J. Bruce, an Associate distributions of these characteristics in Professor at the Center for Business and the Tennessee student-age population Economic Research, and William F. Fox, during the forecast period. the Director at the CBER, published “A Economic fluctuations could have Forecast of Tennessee Education Lottery important impacts on TELS expendiScholarship Expenditures” in August of tures. Specifically, an increase in income this year in an effort to estimate the yearinequality, which is reflected in a greater ly expenditures for 2010-2014. share of households in higher AGI cate“The forecast started because the gories, could lead to greater take-up and Tennessee Higher Education Commission retention. and the Tennessee Student Assistance Students from counties with higher Tia Patron • The Daily Beacon Corporation were too strong in their unemployment rates are less likely to expenditures projections, and we needed Brian Paul, a sophomore in computer engineering, talks to a financial aid worker about his retain their scholarships, and the report to come up with more reasonable num- FAFSA. Each student is required to fill out his or her FAFSA for each school year in order to suggests that an expected improvement receive his or her HOPE scholarship. bers,” Bruce said. in labor markets in the next few years He explained that it’s important to could lead to greater retention of TELS remember the gap between expenditures and revenue and expenditure.

Increases in parental AGI tend to lead to scholarships. revenue, which is smaller than was originally Any relaxation of eligibility criteria or This publication goes into vast detail and increases in take-up rates up until the highest thought. increase in scholarship amounts could lead to provides pertinent information regarding the parental AGI category — above $100,000.

“Changes are needed, but not in a way that past, present and future of the TELS. Students who are listed as dependents on greater enrollments and expenditures through would jeopardize the fundamental flavor of The article reveals many aspects of the rela- their parents’ tax returns are more likely to greater eligibility, take-up and retention. the funding,” Bruce said. “Alterations such as tionships between the lottery scholarship and take up a HOPE scholarship, as well as retain A general increase in parental education larger payments upfront, retention bonuses its recipients. one. Interestingly, students whose parents would also increase retention and, as a result, and completion bonuses might increase the When it comes to recipients accepting the went to college are less likely to take up a total TELS expenditures. amount of people going to college and, most TELS Scholarship, white males are more like- HOPE scholarship, possibly because they have The complete study can be found at importantly, staying in college.” ly than females or those of other races to take more out-of-state options for higher educa- http://cber.bus.utk.edu/.

The CBER’s report provides valuable information that aids in future projections regarding college funding.

“We will do another report a year from now and compare our previous forecast and the new data,” Fox said. “We hope to create an annual report for the first few years.”

These annual reports will further aid the THEC and TSAC to predict the differences in

up a HOPE scholarship for which they are eligible.

According to a report, students whose own Annual Gross Income is either low — between $0 and $10,000 — or high — above $50,000 — are more likely than those with AGI between $10,000 and $25,000 to take up a HOPE scholarship.

Fair to offer volunteer opportunities Kristian Smith

Student Life Editor UT students will have a chance to learn about opportunities to be a true “Volunteer” at the annual Volunteer and Service Corps fair today.

The fair, in its second year, is a joint venture between Career Services and Team VOLS. The organizations have partnered to bring more organizations to the fair than last year.

“Our goal last year was 25 organizations, but we ended up (with) 40, and this year we have 45 organizations,” Shawna Hembree, a career consultant who specializes in public service work at Career Services, said.

Hembree said organizations represented at the fair will include those that are strictly voluntary, as well as service corps organizations that offer paid employment to students after graduation.

Hembree said today’s fair is less formal than many of the other job fairs, and students do not need to register or RSVP to attend the fair.

“Students just need to show up,” she said. “I encourage students to look who is going to be there, but there is no heavy preparation needed.”

For those looking at job opportunities with service corps organizations, Hembree said a resume would be helpful, as would dressing just a little nicer than usual.

“I wouldn’t recommend students coming in suits,” she said.

“Students do not follow the same process as they would for our other, more formal, fairs.”

For students looking for volunteer opportunities, Hembree said the fair is more informal.

Hembree said many students are not aware of opportunities in public service, but service corps

organizations have provided many opportunities for UT students. “(Public service) is definitely an area we are working to create awareness for,” she said. “UT is actually a high producer of Peace Corps volunteers, and our applications for Teach for America have skyrocketed.”

Hembree said joining a service corps organization can be a great way to get started in a career in public service.

“There are not a lot of entrylevel nonprofit or governmental jobs, and (working in the) service corps is a great way to have independent job experience, network, and it could lead to another job later down the line,” she said.

Besides Peace Corps and Teach for America, Americorps, Boy Scouts of America, CASA of the Tennessee Heartland, the Catholic Volunteer Network, the Christian Appalachian Project, the Emerald Youth Foundation, Goodwill Industries, the Student Conservation Association and the United Mountain Defense are all service corps organizations represented at the fair.

For students specifically interested in service corps, a panel will be held at 5:30 p.m. in UC room 226 following the fair.

Hembree said six service corps organizations will be represented to answer specific questions about service corps.

Many volunteer organizations will also be represented at the fair.

“There is a wealth of opportunities for students to get involved on and off campus, and we wanted to get an aggregate of agencies together,” Drew Harvill, graduate assistant for Team VOLS, said. “It’s a one-stop shop for volunteering.”

Harvill said that most of the organizations will be communi-

ty-related as opposed to campusrelated.

“We have the inVOLvement fair for student organizations, so we wanted this to be geared more towards community involvement,” he said.

Though most of the organizations will be community related, Team VOLS will have a booth at the fair to promote many of its programs.

Hembree said the fair is not just for students interested in public service; it’s a good thing for every student.

“Volunteer work can set you up for work in public service or even in the service corps but is good for any profession and is always going to be a resume builder,” she said.

Besides future career benefits, Hembree said volunteering is simply a good way to give back.

“We are Volunteers after all,” she said, “and our campus is really coming together around the idea of service.”

Some of the volunteer organizations represented at the fair include March of Dimes, Safe Haven Center, The Florence Crittenton Agency, Volunteer Ministry Center, YMCA, Ijams Nature Center, the Boys and Girls Club, the American Red Cross and the American Cancer Society, among many others.

Hembree said that, while student participation was lower than she would have liked last year, students seemed to enjoy the fair.

“Students were very excited about the new opportunity and the variety of the employers, which has been furthered this year,” she said.

The fair will be held in the UC Ballroom from 2 to 5 p.m. today.

For a full list of organizations attending the fair, visit http://utkcsm.symplicity.com/events/.

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Majorettes are a recognizable sight while watching the Pride of the Southland Band perform. Katie Roach, senior in Journalism and Electronic Media, enjoys the spotlight at the Salute to the Hill before Saturday’s game.

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Students Yi Sun and Sue Lee study in the Korean Language Lab in the International House on Monday. The lab will be open every Monday at 3 p.m. in the I-House.

Cultural snacks will be provided.

This Dayin History 1978: Ali defeats Spinks to win world heavyweight championship On this day in 1978, boxer Muhammad Ali defeats Leon Spinks at the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans to win the world heavyweight boxing title for the third time in his career, the first fighter ever to do so. Following his victory, Ali retired from boxing, only to make a brief comeback two years later. Ali, who once claimed he could "float like a butterfly, sting like a bee," left the sport permanently in 1981.

Born Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr. in Louisville, Ky., on Jan. 14, 1942, the future world champ changed his name to Muhammad Ali in 1964 after converting to Islam. He earned a gold medal at the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome and made his professional boxing debut against Tunney Husaker in Oct. 1960, winning the bout in six rounds. On Feb. 25, 1964, Ali defeated the heavily favored Sonny Liston in six rounds to become heavyweight champ, after which he famously declared, "I am the greatest!"

During the Vietnam War, Ali refused to be inducted into the U.S. armed forces and in 1967 was convicted of draft evasion and banned from boxing for three years. He stayed out of prison as his case was appealed and returned to the ring in Oct. 1970, knocking out Jerry Quarry in Atlanta in the third round. On March 8, 1971, Ali fought Joe Frazier in the "Fight of the Century" and lost after 15 rounds, the first loss of his professional boxing career. In June 1971, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Ali's conviction for evading the draft.

At a January 1974 rematch at New York City's Madison Square Garden, Ali defeated Frazier in 12 rounds. In October of that same year, an underdog Ali bested George Foreman and reclaimed his heavyweight champion belt at the heavily hyped "Rumble in the Jungle" in Kinshasa, Zaire, with a knockout in the eighth round. On Feb. 15, 1978, in Las Vegas, an aging Ali lost the title to Leon Spinks in a 15-round split decision. For Spinks, who was born in 1953 and won a gold medal in boxing at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, the fight was just the eighth of his professional career. However, seven months later, on September 15, Ali won the title back, in a unanimous 15-round decision.

In June 1979, Ali announced he was retiring from boxing. On Oct. 2, 1980, he returned to the ring and fought heavyweight champ Larry Holmes, who knocked him out in the 11th round.

After losing to Trevor Berbick on Dec. 11, 1981, Ali left the ring for the last time, with a record of 56 wins, five losses and 37 knockouts. In 1984, he was revealed to have Parkinson's disease.

Spinks retired from boxing in 1995 with a record of 26 wins, 17 losses and 14 knockouts.

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

Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Baker Center celebrates Constitution Day with immigration forum Panelists and participants will discuss current events and controversies surrounding immigration issues in the context of the U.S. Constitution during a panel discussion today at 3:30 p.m.

The event is titled “Border Crossing: Immigration, States’ Rights and Civil Rights.”

It will be held in the Culture Corner on the first floor of Hodges Library.

The panel discussion is being hosted by the Baker Center and the University Libraries.

Panelists will include Roberto Martinez, Hispanic Chamber of Commerce; Karla McKanders and Otis Stephens, UT College of Law; and Jon Shefner, UT Department of Sociology.

The event is free and open to the public.

UT Professor appointed to Race to the Top advisory council Susan Riechert, a biology professor at UT, has been appointed by Gov. Phil Bredesen to an advisory council that will guide the state’s efforts to improve science, technology, engineering and math education.

Riechert came to UT in 1973 after receiving her doctorate in zoology at the University of Wisconsin. A Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Riechert is internationally recognized for her research in behavioral ecology focusing on spiders. She has been named a fellow of both the Animal Behavior Society of America and the Society for the Advancement of Science.

Riechert will be part of the governor’s Tennessee Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Advisory Council, which will help direct Tennessee’s strategic plan regarding placement of STEM initiatives and resources across the state. The council will help promote the state’s aggressive and comprehensive public education reform plan, which is part of the federal “Race to the Top” initiative.

NATION&WORLD American history teaching and learning.

The $285,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Education will be used for highquality professional development for selected middle school and high school history teachers in Anderson, Sevier and Union counties.

The project, titled “Enduring Visions,” is a series of day-long academic mini-institutes during the 2010-2011 school year, longer training opportunities during the summer of 2011 and follow-up coaching for the teachers who participate.

A total of 63 American history teachers in fourth, fifth, eighth and 11th grades will attend at least one of the sessions.

Designed to spur improvements in state and The UT history department will provide the local district K-12 education, Race to the Top traditional American history content instrucincludes a competitive grant program for tion during the mini-institutes and longer states. Only Tennessee and Delaware were selected in the first round of the grant competition. Tennessee received $500 million to implement its comprehensive school reform plans during the next four years.

Associated Press The STEM Advisory Council will oversee an Chattanooga’s city-owned electrical utility initiative called the STEM Innovation Network, which seeks to promote and expand the teach- has started offering an Internet service that is ing and learning of STEM disciplines in K-12 among the fastest in the world, and it is hoping the move will attract businesses looking to public schools across Tennessee. The relocate.

Innovation Network is established as a project The Chattanooga Electric Power Board’s within the Tennessee Department of Education new Fiber Optics network will provide a 1 and will coordinate with local agencies on gigabit-per-second Internet service. The utility said the service is more than 200 times faster teacher development and curriculum.

The state will also work with the Battelle than the average national download speed today.

Memorial Institute. The network involves K-12 At a cost of $350 a month, it’s also much education and the professional development of more expensive than the typical residential teachers. plan. Harold DePriest, the Chattanooga Riechert has demonstrated considerable Electric Power Board’s president and CEO, investment in K-12 STEM education as director said residential customers don’t really need of Biology in a Box, an outreach program that that fast a service, but businesses might.

He said the high-speed service won’t be has provided more than 80 school systems sets costly for EPB to operate, yet it should put the of 10 thematic units of hands-on materials for Chattanooga community at the forefront of science instruction. Riechert is also a National attracting businesses — possibly Internet Academies Education Fellow and the College of providers — that can benefit from having it.

“Chattanooga represents the next frontier Arts and Sciences co-director of the new VolsTeach program to improve the quantity and in communications technology, with limitless potential for new applications for education, quality of mathematics and science teachers. entertainment, health care, industrial developThe STEM Advisory Council consists of the ment and more,” DePriest said in a statement.

Commissioners of Education and Economic The Chattanooga utility is working with and Community Development, the chairper- telecom equipment maker Alcatel-Lucent SA sons of the Senate and House Education on the project.

DePriest said the fast Internet service is Committees, a representative of the State Board of Education, a representative from the immediately available.

DePriest said providing the high-speed Board of Regents, five representatives from difInternet service is part of the utility’s $37 milferent industries in Tennessee related to STEM disciplines, two K-12 Tennessee public school educators and Riechert.

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training sessions. The East Tennessee History Society will provide a project director, academic facilitator and support staff, handling the day-to-day administration of the program.

Additional partners will provide resources including materials, work space and other assistance as needed.

The project has four goals: to improve teachers’ knowledge, understanding and appreciation of traditional American history content; to increase local school systems’ ability to offer professional development for American history teachers; to increase teachers’ use of the founding documents of the U.S., as well as other educational tools and strategies; and to increase students’ understanding of, and proficiency in, American history.

Chattanooga boasts best Internet in US

UT to help improve U.S. history education in East Tennessee schools UT will help “teach the teachers” in three East Tennessee public school systems, thanks to a federal grant to improve the quality of

lion fiber-optic network venture.

EPB provides electricity, television, telephone and Internet service to more than 169,000 residents in a 600 square-mile area in southeastern Tennessee and northwest Georgia.

In a community with a new Volkswagen new assembly plant and the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga’s SimCenter computational engineering lab, Mayor Ron Littlefield said the Internet service announcement has helped put Chattanooga “on the short list of progressive communities in the world.”

“It’s a great place to imagine the future,” Littlefield said at a news conference Monday.

He said Chattanooga would “welcome Google or any other technology company” that would be interested in using such a highspeed Internet system.

Google Inc. earlier announced plans to select one or more communities for a 1 gigabit network by the end of this year and spokesman Dan Martin said there have been about 1,100 responses. Martin declined comment about the planned service by Chattanooga’s EPB. “We’re excited to see enthusiasm for ultra high-speed broadband,” Martin said in an email statement. “It’s clear that people across the country are hungry for better and faster Internet access.”

Verizon Communications Inc. in August said it had tested 1 gigabit service on its network but the company hasn’t announced any plans to sell it.

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Editor’sNote Pearl’s actions prove no program ‘clean’ Zac Ellis Editor-in-Chief Not many people saw it coming.

When UT basketball coach Bruce Pearl admitted on Friday to lying during an NCAA investigation surrounding Tennessee athletics, jaws dropped and eyebrows raised. It seemed blasphemous that this man, the same Bruce Pearl who orchestrated the Vols’ welldocumented basketball Renaissance, could tumble so dangerously from the top of the PR mountain.

Alas, there sat Pearl, fighting back tears, tapping his hand with each word and admitting to the Tennessee family that, yes, he lied. The man with the infectious personality, bigger than the basketball program he’d inherited, had not told the truth; in fact, he’d knowingly provided misleading and inaccurate information to the NCAA, the governing body of collegiate athletics.

But the initial reaction shouldn’t have been one of surprise. It should have been one of belief.

Friday’s news was hardly indicative of Pearl’s ethics as a coach. He is not the first whose bout with skullduggery caused smoke, and he won’t be the last.

Instead, Pearl’s fall from the peaks of good graces solidified the reality in today’s era of collegiate athletics: No one is totally clean.

College coaches today subscribe to a Machiavellian theory: success overshadows any and all rules trampled along the way (see: Lane Kiffin). But it’s disappointing when such a scorched-earth mindset blankets college coaching circles, and it’s even worse when coaches once thought to be above such actions get pulled into the fray.

Once upon a time, Pearl was the apple of the NCAA’s eye. As an assistant at Iowa, Pearl taped a conversation with a recruit detailing bribes offered by the University of Illinois, then drop-kicked Illinois by submitting the tapes to the NCAA. Pearl’s name was nixed within coaching circles; he’d broken the coach’s unwritten code of conduct.

In short, Pearl was blacklisted from big-time head coaching jobs. Despite notable charisma and overflowing coaching potential at Iowa, a 231-46 record and a Division II national championship at Southern Indiana led Pearl to the most high-profile job he could

find — Wisconsin-Milwaukee, four years before he made his way to Knoxville.

Granted, Pearl succeeded at all his stops, including his five seasons in Tennessee orange. But when premiere programs shun potential coaches because of essentially doing the right thing, as is Pearl’s case, it becomes obvious how programs prefer to operate (Jimmy Collins, a former assistant at Illinois, reacted to Pearl’s mea culpa in a Sept. 13 USA Today article by saying, “What goes around comes around”).

Pearl’s reputation will take the biggest hit; the issue is not what he did — rumors are swirling in that regard — but that he lied about it. The Vols will bounce back despite off-campus recruiting restrictions set forth during the next year. But fans shouldn’t shake their heads at Pearl more than at any other coach. This is the way of college athletics, where recruiting is literally the lifeline of a program.

On Friday, one reporter asked Pearl if the need to stay competitive was the driving force behind the decisions he suddenly lamented. Understandably, Pearl downplayed that notion.

But that’s exactly what it was. Why else would he lie about contact with recruits? Why else would Lane Kiffin commit secondary violations at Tennessee, then turn around and immediately self-report them? Because the threat of consequence is only overshadowed by the rights to a prized high school phenom, the proverbial light at the end of the recruiting tunnel.

Though Pearl was noticeably distraught as a result of his admission, his actions were no different than those of college coaches around the country. Those caught in the act are made examples by the NCAA, while the vast majority of others take the prize and run until they, too, fall under the axe.

This doesn’t serve as a defense for Pearl’s actions, but until a flawless program graces the college landscape, I’ll assume it was just another day at the office.

—Zac Ellis is a senior in journalism and electronic media. He can be reached at rellis13@utk.edu.

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US must acknowledge foreign perceptions Off the Deep End by

Derek Mullins Over the weekend, I uttered a phrase that made my skin crawl, my head ache and my ideological core shudder to my very opinionated foundations: Ron Paul was right.

What was so bad about saying that, you might ask?

During his campaign for the presidency in the 2008 election cycle, there was no candidate that made my eyes roll or made me want to go shove needles into my eardrums in response to opining and campaigning more than the congressman from Texas. However sweet his isolationist, libertarian, back-to-basics rhetoric might have sounded to some, I could just not resolve myself to give this man any credibility as a potential choice for president because of some of the incongruities that existed between his stance on many issues versus my personal beliefs, such as government assistance to impoverished individuals, foreign relations and abortion.

There was, however, one solitary from Paul that resonated with me: Blowback.

“Blowback” in international relations is a pragmatist or realist concept that insists that actions taken by a nation or group will have effects down the road because of impacts they have on others. Most of the time, Rep. Paul was assailed, because he insisted that the terrorist attacks of 9/11 were directly linked to the U.S.’s actions and policies in and around the Middle East. Any notion of his opinions having any measure of validity or a factual basis was quickly dismissed, and he was routinely bashed by the slew of Republican candidates on stage with him, who, in all honesty, knew he had no chance of attaining the party’s nomination or election to the White House.

There is little doubt that Paul’s declaration was unpopular. Why? Because it stood in the face of everything we initially believed in the weeks and months after the attack and all of the star-spangled rhetoric being delivered by our leaders in the years that composed the War on Terror. Instead of the terrorists “hating us for our freedom” as President Bush put it, a large number of the populace of the Middle East have a problem with our presence and the existence of military bases in Saudi

Arabia, where many of Islam’s holy sites are located.

Instead of joining terrorist organizations because of a hatred for apple pie, baseball or “Jersey Shore,” enraged extremist Muslims are aligning themselves with these organizations because of the U.S.’s continued meddling in what they consider to be internal affairs. Though their actions are deplorable and indefensible, there is little doubt that their motives are a bit less simplistic than we have been led to believe.

What is worse is the fact that we are not helping matters.

Remember at the start of the occupation of Iraq how we made it a point to try to win “hearts and minds?”

However laughable it may have seemed, its premise is a good idea, because there is a lot of cultural confusion on both sides. Extremist Muslims believe we are a society constantly living in hedonism and hell-bent on spreading our imperialistic authority. Some Americans, on the other hand, believe that all Muslims are jihadists who want to kill Americans and bring down the infrastructure of our great nation. There is little evidence to substantiate either mindset beyond some extreme fanatics.

Though we should not be constantly trying to make ourselves look perfect or friendly in their eyes, we should be mindful of the perception that others have of our nation. I am not telling you to hug every Muslim individual you see, but I am saying that it’s probably not a very good idea to parade around, burning the Quran in Gainesville, Fla., or anywhere else for that matter. We also do not need to be screaming out in anger against the building of a mosque in New York City by Muslims who had absolutely nothing to do with the 9/11 attacks and have nothing in common with the attackers, other than a shared religion.

Oh, and the consequences of continued apathy about our image and the hatred and discrimination? It is already being felt. There are riots and demonstrations in Afghanistan and elsewhere in protest of our actions against American Muslims. More importantly, it sours the disposition Muslims hold towards American troops stationed in the Middle East, potentially making the chances of attacks more likely and perhaps lessening the probability that the regular Muslim will be willing to cooperate with the U.S. or its troops.

Ron Paul was right … and we, as a nation, need to be careful.

—Derek Mullins is a senior in political science. He can be reached at dmullin5@utk.edu.

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Looking ahead to the coming November election, I am very excited. It appears as if the Republicans are going to sweep into Congress with a majority, which will help lead America out of the economic recession.

However, this will only happen if they abandon the biggovernment conservatism of the past, which helped create the current economic crisis and debt, though it was not their policies alone. Here are a few suggestions for policy alternatives to help Republicans create more effective policies than what they proposed in the past.

First, although the Republicans wish to extend the Bush tax cuts, they are completely missing the problems with the American tax system. Americans hate paying taxes — that’s a given. However, what is more important than paying taxes is for Congress to mainstream the tax situation. It is entirely too complicated. I would suggest looking back into England's past to my favorite prime minister: Margaret Thatcher. She successfully led the U.K. out of an economic recession by decreasing direct taxation and increasing indirect taxation to balance the budget.

America needs to do the same. I suggest creating a flat tax of 10 percent for all income levels, with the exception of poor households, and there would be a flat tax of 10 percent on businesses. Why 10 percent?

I don’t think the government should take more than God. This would streamline direct taxation, making it far less complicated and easier for people to run their lives.

This means that the government is taxing GDP twice; tax revenues will be roughly $2.8 trillion, hardly enough to run a household, let alone a country.

Therefore, America would also need to leave all sin taxes in place, perhaps adding a few, as well as creating a Value Added Tax for the purposes of lowering the debt. For the first 10 years of the existence of the VAT, the government could only use it for paying off the debt. A 1 percent VAT will generate roughly $1 trillion over 10 years, only $900 billion if food is excluded. I propose a 10 percent VAT on everything except food so it will not affect the poor negatively on this account.

The VAT will raise $9 trillion over 10 years to pay off part of our current $13-trillion debt.

Next, the Republicans should go along with President Obama’s proposed infrastructure bank. The bank will give out $50 billion in loans to help rebuild the country. Admittedly, jobs that will significantly lower unemployment will not be created immediately from this fashion . However, this is not just about the present; we need to think about the future.

If America wants to maintain its economic competitiveness, we must have the infrastructure to contend. This includes high-speed rails, next-generation air traffic control and reconstruction of bridges that are falling apart. This organization needs to be politically independent, and concern will arise over long-term funding. Yet, it is a good policy idea the Republicans should support.

Finally, the Republicans need to be vociferous in their support of domestic energy. Not only is there a link between energy and security, but more importantly between energy and economic prosperity. Any bill that deals with energy needs funds for nuclear energy, domestic drilling (oil, coal and natural gas) and research into new resources like shale oil from the Rockies.

One might wonder why this will help the economy, but imagine if gas was only a dollar per gallon. Energy prices affect the costs of many different goods. If we can lower the price of energy, consumer products’ prices will also decline, creating consumer confidence and a stronger market. Any energy bill, though, needs to instantly abolish corn subsidies for ethanol. They make gas less efficient, so people have to consume more of it, driving up the cost. It also forces food prices to increase and hurts foreign aid by preventing the use of cheap grains.

When the Republicans gain control of Congress, they need to endorse policies for easing taxation, lowering the deficit and the debt, supporting an infrastructure bank and domestic energy reform.

Conservatives have the ideas to get America out of the recession; they just need to be the innovators they have been in the past. The people took power from the Republicans and gave it to the Democrats because of the former’s failures. They failed because they espoused non-conservative policies. The time has come for Republicans to reclaim their conservatism and create policies that will support America’s economic reinvigoration.

—Treston Wheat is a senior in political science and history. He can be reached at twheat@utk.edu.

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Robert Plant follows muse on ‘Band of Joy’ Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Some things in Robert Plant’s record collection are completely predictable.

Others might surprise you. Like that copy of Low’s “The Great Destroyer.”

“It's great music,” Plant said of the Duluth, Minn., indie band known for its often slow, atmospheric songs. “It’s always been in the house playing away alongside Jerry Lee Lewis and Howlin’ Wolf, you know. There’s room for everything.”

That could be the theme of Plant’s new solo album, “Band of Joy,” an eclectic collection mostly of covers and reinterpretations that showcase the former Led Zeppelin frontman’s range in ways you wouldn’t expect from a singer in his fifth decade at the edge of the stage.

The album — named for a band Plant was in with John Bonham before the two joined Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones — opens with a cover of Los Lobos’ “Angel Dance,” then jumps in several equally unpredictable directions. There are versions of Richard Thompson’s “House of Cards” along with the Low songs “Silver Rider” and “Monkey,” folklorist Bascom Lamar Lunsford’s recording of “Cindy I’ll Marry You Some Day,” “The Only Sound That Matters” by Milton Mapes and Townes Van Zandt’s “Harm's Swift Way.” Plant and co-producer Buddy Miller rework the traditional “Satan, Your Kingdom Must Come Down,” put a funky edge on the 19th-century poem “Even This Shall Pass Away” by Theodore Tilton and provide an original, “Central Two-0-Nine.”

It’s an interesting record — and something completely different than what Plant fans were expecting. Plant seemed to put Led Zeppelin reunion plans on hold to work with Alison Krauss on “Raising Sand,” the Grammy-winning surprise smash produced

by T Bone Burnett. And then it appeared he would do a “Sand” follow-up with Krauss.

Instead, he put together an ace band of old Nashville, Tenn., hands and went somewhere else completely. Plant, as he’s proven time and again, is much more interested in seeing new vistas than covering old ground.

“You can’t tell the same story for 40 years and think it's going to be convincing,” Plant said, “because when I was 19 I met Jimmy Page, and I’ll soon be 62. So really I’ve got to be able to move that story round a little bit, change its colors and also believe in it. It’s not a production line. So these adventures are challenging.”

Plant and Miller met when the guitarist came on board during the “Raising Sand” tour. As he has with many of country and Americana’s biggest names, Miller caught

Plant's attention with his versatility and color.

Plant brought the material he wanted to do and Miller selected band members he thought had the range required. He recommended multi-instrumentalist Darrell Scott, bassist Byron House and drummer Marco Giovino — a group that could run the obstacle course of rock, pop, blues and gospel that Plant threw out.

“It’s like a gathering of friends,” Miller said.

He was sure there was something missing, though, as they started to flesh out the songs.

“I don’t know what to call it but there was definitely a hole there,” Miller said.

“You just needed a girl, that’s all,” Patty Griffin said.

Miller’s longtime friend planted that idea when she first heard about “Band of Joy.” “I said, ‘Hey, I’m a fan you know,’” the singer-songwriter said. “I said, ‘I’ll come and I’ll whistle.’ I was making whistling audition tapes for Buddy, ‘Play that for Robert.’”

Eventually she made her way into the room and everyone took notice.

“I knew early on their voices would sound great together and, I don’t know, there’s really something cool about the songs that they sing together on the record,” Miller said.

That’s especially true of the two Low songs, which feature Plant and Griffin reproducing the sometimes harrowing harmonies of husband and wife singers Alan Sparhawk and Mimi Parker. But Griffin’s not on every song and she doesn’t share the marquee with Plant, as with Krauss on “Sand.”

This was his project and Miller said Plant knew exactly where he was going at all times.

Plant packs it with interesting touches throughout.

There’s his Muddy Waters phrasing on “Central Two-0-Nine,” the bass line right out of Junior Kimbrough’s juke joint on “You Can’t Buy My Love” and, yes, he does sound like a young Mick Jagger on “The Only Sound That Matters.”

“It’s a great song, but that’s the way to sing it. What an underestimated singer,” Plant said of The Rolling Stones frontman, whom he jokingly called “the old crow.”

“It was just so beautiful and delicate,” Griffin said of Plant's vocal. “His singing on it is delicate in this way I’ve never heard, and I’m a fan and I go way back.”

And that surprise is exactly what Plant is aiming for.

“I’ve got to sing the song,” Plant said. “I’ve got to craft, move around, get into people’s heads and into their gifts and bring it out so that you can revisit this stuff. ... You have to revisit these things and you have to give them some dignity, these songs, because they don’t last forever. It’s not ‘White Christmas,’ you know.”

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Best Coast gives stellar performance Brian Conlon Staff Writer If you managed to escape the monsoon that was Neyland Stadium to avoid watching the Vols get pulverized by the Oregon Ducks, consider yourself lucky. If you fled to the Pilot Light in the Old City, you made two great decisions.

If you’ve been to the Pilot Light before, you know that the spectacle last Saturday night was extremely unusual: It was exceptionally crowded, admission exceeded the cost of a fast food value meal, and the show started close to the time advertised.

A sign at the entrance of Pilot Light read: “Tonight: Cults and Best Coast SOLD OUT,” though nothing actually inhibited anyone from entering and attempting to cleanse his or her sorrows of the Vols’ loss with dancing to the beachy, fuzzed-out pop music that Best Coast plays so well.

Best Coast took the stage, and lead singer/guitarist Bethany Cosentino walked to the microphone, wearing a floppy, black glitter-covered hat, which she bought in the Old City. The band

immediately plowed through a set that included most of Best Coast’s excellent full-length debut “Crazy for You,” as well as selections from its previous singles and EPs. Not only did the group play a comprehensive set list, but it also executed these songs in a manner that live shows should always be. The band remained faithful to the original recordings and still added the energy and gusto of a live setting. Best Coast did not merely play a recital of their choice repertoire, but it tweaked its songs, so it sounded even better live.

Although the touring lineup consists of singer/guitarist Cosentino, guitarist Bobb Bruno and drummer Ali Koehler, their sound was even richer Saturday evening than it is on record. Bruno’s Danelectro electric baritone guitar provided an apt substitute to the bass guitar, the staple of typical power trios. The baritone’s deep chords provided a much fuller body to the music than its single note bass counterpart. Cosentino’s vocals were heavily laden with reverb and other effects, making her voice seem not of this world. Combining these elements with Koehler’s heavy use of toms and cymbals

produced a huge sound, which was absorbed by the bodies packed into the Pilot Light.

The problem is that the bodies in the Pilot Light seemed like lifeless, upright corpses. Although Best Coast put on an exuberant show, few members of the audience dared to make any rhythmic movement whatsoever, which may have been caused by a variety of reasons.

Disregarding the lifeless crowd, the show was nothing short of incredible.

Another recent upstart band, Cults opened for Best Coast.

“Their sound was fun, and I actually found it somewhat reminiscent of the Jackson 5,” Ruthie Coleman, junior in English literature, said. “I had listened to their 7-inch beforehand and wasn’t blown away by it. However, after seeing them live I’ve got it on repeat, specifically their single ‘Oh My God’ for an Adult Swim project. They are so much better live, especially the lead singer’s vocals.”

The Pilot Light has been known as one of the best venues in Knoxville for bringing in great lineups, and Best Light is no exception to that, despite the inanimate crowd.

• Photo courtesy of Best Coast

Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Blues magazine marks 40 years Associated Press OXFORD, Miss. — As the Vietnam War raged and rock ‘n’ roll reeled from the breakup of the Beatles, a ragtag group of enthusiasts put out the first edition of what they hoped would become a showcase magazine for the blues music they loved.

The 1970 debut issue of Living Blues was peddled at a popular Chicago record store, at nightclubs and from the trunks of cars.

Living Blues, now owned by the University of Mississippi, is the country’s oldest magazine dedicated to the genre. Its current 40th anniversary issue features images from more than 90 past covers, including some of the biggest names in the business.

The magazine, published every two months, has an international distribution and circulation of more than 25,000. Many fans are hardcore traditionalists who like their blues tinged with the grit born of the Delta region.

Brett Bonner, the magazine’s fifth editor in four decades, attributes its longevity to a formula from which it rarely strays: allowing the artists to describe how their culture drives the music.

Bonner said it’s a style that works whether they’re profiling a legend, such as Honeyboy Edwards, or a relative newcomer like Marquise Knox.

“We’re far more interested in telling the life story of a musician, the culture that created him, than we are in telling the kind of guitar that he plays or the strings that he uses,” Bonner said.

“People who don’t live in Mississippi are fascinated with the culture.”

Blues music arose under the South’s plantation system, fueled by the poverty-plagued existence of many of the early black artists who sang about their condition.

In the magazine’s first quarterly issue in 1970, Howlin’ Wolf said he chose to play the music because, “I never could make no money on nothin’ but the blues.”

Bonner and the writers travel across the country and abroad, but it’s a skeletal crew. He operates from his home about 20 miles east of the Oxford campus.

Writers and photographers get paid, but not much, Bonner said. He said the other national blues magazine is Blues Revue which, according to its website, this month began celebrating its 20th year in business.

Blues historian Jim O’Neal, one of Living Blues’ founders, said he and a few others borrowed $300 from Bob Koester, owner of Chicago’s Jazz Record Mart, to get started. The record store was an information center for blues lovers.

The concept was to publicize music that had been popular in Chicago nightclubs in black communities, said Bruce Iglauer, another magazine founder and who is also founder and president of Alligator Records.

Iglauer had just moved from Wisconsin to Chicago to be near the blues scene and he worked at Jazz Record Mart.

“The first meetings were at my little apartment,” Iglauer said.

“We had this passion for blues and we were frustrated because there were British blues magazines and French and Swedish magazines, and here in the home of the blues, there was no magazine.”

O’Neal recalled that Iglauer once told him, “in five years, we would have published all the information people would need to know about blues and that would be it.”

Four decades later finances are still an issue, said Bonner, but that hasn’t stopped the presses.

Ever since the magazine was acquired by the university in 1983 for $1 from O’Neal and his then-wife, Amy, it’s been classified a not-for-profit entity.

O’Neal, who lives in Kansas City, said he decided to transfer the magazine to the university after talking with Bill Ferris, who was director of the university’s Center for the Study of Southern Culture. O’Neal said he recognized the potential of the magazine at Ole Miss. But there was another motivation: The magazine would be housed on a campus where a landmark civil rights battle was fought when the first black student, James Meredith, enrolled in 1962.

“Just because of the history of racial tension at Ole Miss I thought that it would be an important statement if the university could publish a magazine about African-American music and show how much things were changing in Mississippi,” O’Neal said.

Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Rainey arrested after ‘death text’ Associated Press GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Florida receiver Chris Rainey has been charged with aggravated stalking, a third-degree felony.

Rainey was released from the Alachua County Jail on his own recognizance Tuesday and ordered to have no contact with the alleged victim.

The alleged victim was also in court with her mother and sister. The woman told Judge Denise R. Ferrero she does not fear Rainey but was concerned about retribution from the public following all the media attention.

She also asked for the charges to be dropped.

“I did not want to have him arrested,” she said. “When the police came, I signed papers to not press any charges. I don’t fear for my safety. ... People all over the country have been calling my cell phone. I’m not afraid of him. I’m more afraid of all the repercussions.”

Florida has not announced what disciplinary action it will take against Rainey, though Gators’ offensive coordinator Steve Addazio said Tuesday, “Chris Rainey is not a part of

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our team right now. That’s really all I have to say on that.”

The Gainesville Sun first reported Rainey’s arrest.

According to Gainesville Police, Rainey sent the woman he dated on and off the last three years a text message that read, “Time to die,” after leaving her home Monday night.

Officer Jesse Bostick said the woman fell asleep and missed a call from Rainey. Rainey went to her home, they talked and she told him to leave. According to Bostick, the woman got the text a short time later and called police.

The 10th-ranked Gators will likely be without their starting receiver at Tennessee on Saturday.

Rainey, a junior from Lakeland, Fla., has six receptions and a touchdown this season. He's also the team's primary punt returner. He missed the second half of Saturday’s game against South Florida with a concussion.

Rainey also missed practice Monday.

Coach Urban Meyer could suspend Rainey for Florida’s Southeastern Conference opener. Meyer has suspended other players, including defensive end Carlos Dunlap last season and receiver Frankie Hammond Jr. this summer, immediately following arrests.

SEC Network to air UAB game Staff Report The SEC released Monday that Tennessee's Sept. 25 game against UAB is being televised by the SEC Network and kicks off at 12:21 p.m. Eastern time.

The Vols and Blazers are meeting for the fourth time, all in Knoxville. Tennessee won the most recent contest against the Conference USA member squad by a 35-3 count in 2008. UT meets another C-USA foe, Memphis, Nov. 6 at Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium.

Tennessee appeared on the SEC Network twice last season in wins over Western Kentucky and Georgia.

Other conference games being televised that weekend are Alabama at Arkansas on CBS (2:30 p.m. Central), Kentucky at Florida on ESPNU (7 p.m.

Eastern), Georgia at Mississippi State on Fox Sports Net (6 p.m.

Central), Fresno State at Ole Miss on Comcast Sports Southeast (6:30 p.m. Central), South Carolina at Auburn on ESPN (6:45 p.m. Central) and West Virginia at LSU on ESPN2 (8 p.m. Central).

‘All Your Might’ shirts The Official 2010 Tennessee Football Shirt presented by Dish Network is available at the Adidas store inside Neyland Stadium’s Gate 20 or at the UT Bookstore. Fans are being asked to help the Vols create an orangeout for Saturday’s UT-Florida game. That’s the Official 2010 Tennessee Football Shirt with the slogan, “All Your Might,” presented by Dish Network.

‘Life is Orange and White’ video contest Tennessee fans, what does it mean to live orange and white?

Fans that produce a 60-second video demonstrating their passion and dedication for the team can win a weekend extravaganza for the UT-Kentucky football game. The grand prize includes lodging at the Parkside Cabin Rentals in Gatlinburg, pregame sideline passes, four skybox tickets and a behind-the-scenes tour of Neyland Stadium.

Go to bigorangecontest.com and submit your “Life Is Orange and White” video.

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The UC’s Down Under has three different bowling leagues for students to choose from: a beginner File Photo• The Daily Beacon Monday Bowling League, Tuesday Intramural League and a Tuesday Unified Bowling League in the spring, Chris Rainey runs the ball against the Vols last year. Rainey was arrested Tuesday morning on charges of aggra- which pairs UT students with Special Olympic athvated stalking. Florida hasn’t announced what actions it will take against Rainey letes.

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Wednesday, September 15, 2010

THESPORTSPAGE

Poole shines in big ways for Vols All-American Pluskota living dream

Get to know a Lauren Kittrell Staff Writer

Preston Peeden Staff Writer The storm may have stopped the game in the first half, but for those first 30 minutes on Saturday, neither the weather nor the Ducks could stop Tauren Poole.

For the game, Poole posted an impressive 162 yards on 23 carries and scored the Vols’ only touchdown on a one-yard run in the second quarter.

Through two games, Poole is the leading rusher in the SEC and ranks eighth nationally with 272 yards on the ground.

From the opening play, it was obvious that Poole was in line for a special first half. Taking a handoff from quarterback Matt Simms, Poole gouged the Oregon defense for a 31-yard gain on the game’s first play. Not to be outdone on later drives, Poole also had carries of 39, 23 and 17 yards, all of which, except for the last, occurred on scoring drives for the Orange and White.

On his running back’s performance, coach Derek Dooley was pleased.

“He was great, and we needed him to be,” Dooley said after the game. “He ran hard.”

Unfortunately, Poole’s performance, as with the rest of the team’s, went downhill in the second half.

In the third and fourth quarters, Poole had trouble finding success. Poole was no longer able to

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ing cards and watching movies with friends. She is also interested in many sports and enjoys participating in them, thanks to the influence of her older brother, twin brother and athletic roommates.

Basketball is a definite favorite, and Pluskota enjoys both playing for fun and keeping up with the Lady Vols. She is a fan of the team and is looking forward to this coming season. She even lists Pat Summitt as one of the people she most admires.

In her tennis career, Pluskota was named ITA All-American for the second consecutive time at the end of her sophomore year.

In the summer of 2010, she finished the season as part of the No. 1-ranked doubles duo in the nation, along with her teammate, Caitlin Whoriskey.

Pluskota’s goals for this year are to be ranked in singles, as she was her freshman year, and to be ranked in doubles as well. She would also like to make it to the

NCAA singles tournament and do well.

The Lady Vols season started this past Friday with a stellar performance in the 2010 SEC Fall Coaches’ Classic at the Yarbrough Tennis Center in Auburn, Ala. The team performed well and is now preparing for the Furman Fall Classic in Greeneville, S.C., in a few weeks.

“They need to work on learning how to build points and not self-destruct out there,” co-head coach Mike Patrick said. “We’re looking for some real basic, highpercentage stuff like first serves and making good returns. We’ll see how we do.”

With the help of a few new freshmen, Whitney Wofford and Millicent Nichols, the team is looking at a bright future.

Pluskota will be working with her teammates to reach the goals they’ve set for this season and reaching her own dreams and personal goals step by step.

Upon graduating high school in 2008, junior Natalie Pluskota joined the Lady Vol tennis team and began her collegiate career.

Pluskota has dreamed of playing for the Lady Vols since she was 9 and has now achieved her dream and is enjoying college life. She has big dreams for the future but is content to enjoy life right now and keep up with her many extracurricular activities.

Pluskota is majoring in sports management and would like to coach women’s tennis when she graduates in the summer of 2012. While she has no specific school that she would like to break the long runs that the fans had grown accus- coach for, she is set on Division I tomed to in the first half. tennis, if at all possible.

This slowing down can hardly be attributed sole“Definitely Division I,” ly to Poole, though. In Dooley’s press conference Pluskota said regarding her after the game, he said that a lot of the troubles for coaching career. the running game could be traced back to the inefIn her free time, Pluskota has ficiency of the passing game. many interests, including play“I think that affected us running it late,” he said.

“I said going in, ‘We’re going to have to hit some shots down the field because that’s how they play.’

We just didn’t get enough of them.”

Going forward, though, it is important to focus on the bright spots of that first half, especially Poole's performance. Against one of the best defenses in the Pac-10, and with an inexperienced offensive line, Poole had a banner day for the Vols.

It’s performances like these that are capable of being built upon in the season going forward.

Poole’s performance should come as no shock to those who have been watching the back lately, though. Known for being a hard worker, Poole was even voted by his own teammates as the most likely among them to have a breakout season, and it’s examples like his first half against Oregon that back up those predictions.

Poole’s success comes from his drive to be better.

“I just know that I have to work hard," Poole Andy Westbrook • The Daily Beacon said. “I’ve always had a great work ethic, but now it’s getting in the film room and knowing what I can Natalie Pluskota, an ITA All-American, finished the 2009 season with partner Caitlin Whoriskey as the No. 1 ranked doubles duo. She plans to graduate in 2012 do better and continue to do better every day.” and would like to coach Division 1 tennis.

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