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What happens when you attempt to fit 75 movies into four days? A first for the city of Knoxville.

The first film in the Knoxville Film Festival opens on Thursday. The festival, which will run from Sept.

19-22 at Regal Downtown West Cinema 8, will feature independent films with a variety of lengths and topics.

“We screen independent films from all over the country,” Keith McDaniel, executive director and co-founder of the festival, said. “There are narrative features, documentaries, short films. All over the course of one weekend.”

However, movies are not the only item on the festival’s schedule.

“In addition to the films, we also offer workshops on Saturday,” McDaniel said.

“We have four workshops that are free to the public that are about the different aspects of film-making.”

At the end of each feature film will exist an opportunity for a question and answer session with the filmmaker.

“It’s fun to hear filmmakers talk about how they went about making their movies, we don’t get a chance to do that very often,” Charles Maland, English and cinema studies professor, said.

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Professor Michael W. Berry of UT Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, speaks at the Constitution Day Panel on the Fourth Amendment at the Howard Baker Center on Sept. 17.

After 226 years, the Constitution remains as the nation’s governing document.

But some Americans question whether we still abide by its rules.

UT students and Knoxville citizens gathered Tuesday to celebrate Constitution Day in the Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy, where they could sign a copy of the Constitution and hear a panel discussion centered on Fourth Amendment issues.

The Fourth Amendment states that citizens and their property cannot be searched or taken without probable cause.

Glenn Reynolds, a professor of law and the creator of Instapundit.com, led a discussion about the Fourth Amendment, privacy, security and transparency. This amendment, he explained, is unique.

“The Fourth Amendment was actually unlike much of the bill of rights,” Reynolds said. “It was a big departure from the English custom in that it was specifically a response to the English custom of the general warrant.”

General warrants allowed English officers to perform unprovoked searches for criminal evidence. The Fourth Amendment repudiated this, allowing no search without substantial cause for suspicion.

In Reynolds’ opinion, the current government has returned to the ways of our British ancestors, citing the National Security Agency’s technique of gathering and storing masses of information for potential investigative use.

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Disability transportation a work in progress at UT Bradi Musil

Contributor Delicately placed amid mountains, going to class at UT is hardly a walk in the park.

This complaint holds particular importance for students with disabilities.

Established in 2012, Campus Disability Advocates seeks to voice this concern and make campus more user-friendly.

Founded by Lindsay Lee, a senior in math and science, CDA grew out of a longing to gather and empower students with disabilities, as well as their advocates.

“I’m a wheelchair user myself and I came to UT and saw that there were a lot of ways that UT could improve the ways it treated people with disabilities,” Lee said.

“There was a lot of room for improvement.

It lacked a forum where students with disabilities could meet. Other minority groups have that, but we don’t.”

On Tuesday at CDA’s weekly meeting, the group hosted Christina Moore, project manager for the grant on Inclusive Transportation Planning with the Community Action Committee. Attendees discussed what they found to be most challenging with Knoxville transit.

Knoxville is currently one of the only big cities without a taxi service specifically for disabled persons. Without this resource, students must rely on vans or buses that require reservations to be made at least three days prior to their ride, making scheduling around jobs and classes difficult.

“People’s lives don’t run like that,” Allison Gose, a junior majoring in history and political science, said. “But for some reason, these buses do.”

Beyond inconvenience, these buses pose even more challenges. One member stated that once she had been so poorly strapped into the bus that her wheelchair tire became unhooked from the floor and she went skidding across the bus aisle.

Another student mentioned she has not ridden the buses since a bad experience with the wheelchair lift.

“The lifts that you’re supposed to drive out onto, they were so old and not well maintained,” Gose said. “Most of them slanted downwards and it’s not a comfortable feeling driving out on midair onto something slanting downwards.”

As Moore noted, the Community Action Committee shares many of CDA’s goals.

“One bad experience and you’re never going to use public transportation again,” Moore said. “But, if that’s your only option of getting around that is a huge problem.”

Above all, the committee promotes a dialogue about these issues. Through discussion and collecting data though their survey, CAC hopes to apply for a grant, which would fund a yearlong project to improve Knox County transit for disabled students.

Not to discount existing options for disabled persons, CAC emphasizes the resources already at student’s disposal.

“I feel like someone should have told me a long time ago that there are all these

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options,” Lee said.

With the continued support of faculty, CAC has suggested several improvements, such as better sidewalks or more strategically placed ramps.

“The biggest problem is there being a lack of knowledge or a lack of communication about there being an issue in the first place,” Lee said. “But after you make that clear, everyone seems to want to fix things and every time I come back to campus they have always fixed some problems. It’s definitely getting better. They have been nothing but supportive.”

Stressing the importance of friendship, Lee said she believes the network developing within the committee provides more than advocacy.

“One of the things we really struggle with is that people with disabilities have a hard time seeing disability as something they should work with other people with, they see it as something shameful so that prevents people from working with other people,” Lee said. “We have been trying to grow for a really long time, but it’s a slow process because people with disabilities grow up not knowing other people with disabilities and hasn’t had these relationships.

So, it’s been really great.”

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Vols see importance of rivalry, SEC play Patrick MacCoon Staff Writer

While it is Butch Jones’ initial season in the SEC, the first-year UT coach understands what is on the line for his Tennessee Volunteers when they travel to Gainesville, Fla. on Saturday to take on the Florida Gators.

Not only does he realize the importance of starting off conference play on the right note, but also the great tradition that SEC play entails.

“It’s a great rivalry, but in order for us to continue to make this rivalry we have to start

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winning some of these football games,” Jones said of the Tennessee-Florida game, which the Vols have been on the losing side of for the past eight seasons.

This week Jones gave Team 117 an early look at what they will come up against in the Swamp this weekend.

Game week preparation at Haslam Field has consisted of not only the Florida fight song playing on the loud speakers, but of the scout team wearing blue jerseys with a Gators decal on their helmets.

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Thursday, September 19, 2013 News Editor Hanna Lustig

CAMPUS NEWS Rocket trajectory links Syrian military attack Associated Press The trajectory of the rockets that delivered the nerve agent sarin in last month’s deadly attack is among the key evidence linking elite Syrian troops based in the mountains overlooking Damascus to the strike that killed hundreds of people, diplomats and human rights officials said Wednesday.

The Aug. 21 attack precipitated the crisis over Syria’s chemical weapons. The U.S. threatened a military strike against Syria, which led to a plan negotiated by Moscow and Washington under which the regime of President Bashar Assad is to abandon its chemical weapons stockpile.

A U.N. report released Monday confirmed that chemical weapons were used in the attack but did not ascribe blame.

The United States, Britain and France cited evidence in the report to declare Assad’s government responsible. Russia called the report “one-sided” and says it has “serious reason to suggest that this was a provocation” by the rebels fighting the Assad regime in Syria’s civil war.

The report, however, provided data that suggested the chemical-loaded rockets that hit two Damascus suburbs were fired from the northwest, indicating they came from nearby mountains where the Syrian military is known to have major bases.

Mount Qassioun, which overlooks Damascus, is home to one of Assad’s three residences and is widely used by elite forces to shell suburbs of the capital. The powerful Republican Guard and army’s Fourth Division, headed

by Assad’s younger brother,

Maher, has bases there.

A senior U.N. diplomat, speaking on condition of anonymity because some of this material was from private meetings, said: “It was 100 percent clear that the regime used chemical weapons.”

The diplomat cited five key details, including the scale of the attack, the quality of the sarin, the type of rockets, the warheads used and the rockets’ trajectory.

A Human Rights Watch report also said the presumed flight path of the rockets cited by the U.N. inspectors’ report led back to a Republican Guard base in Mount Qassioun.

“Connecting the dots provided by these numbers allows us to see for ourselves where the rockets were likely launched from and who was responsible,” said Josh Lyons, a satellite imagery analyst for the New Yorkbased group. But, he added, the evidence was “not conclusive.”

The HRW report matched what several experts concluded after reading the U.N. report.

The U.N. inspectors were not instructed to assess which side was responsible for the attack.

“While the U.N. stuck within its mandate, it has provided enough data to provide an overwhelming case that this had to be government-sponsored,” said Anthony Cordesman, national security expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

The inspectors described the rockets used to disperse the sarin as a variant of an M14 artillery rocket, with either an original or an improvised warhead, which the rebels are not known to have.

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Hannah Baker, senior in arts, hula hoops outside of Humanities during her downtime on Sept. 12. Baker has been involved with the craft of hula hooping for five years.

CONSTITUTION DAY continued from Page 1 Brandon Prins, a professor of political science, spoke about the national and global issues of security and transparency.

Concerned about a cyber-attack on the U.S., Prins criticized the NSA’s plan to harbor all of this collected information in one location, claiming such data bases could be targeted for attack from foreign or domestic hackers.

With the ability to hoard information becoming commonplace, Reynolds lamented the lack of defense for average citizens.

“Privacy was actually a fairly recent innovation with architecture and technology where people were able to live separately enough and keep their affairs separate enough that they were able to keep some things secret from some people,” Reynolds

said. “There is lots of privacy for government leaders and officials, but much less for the rest of us.”

Suzi Allard, an associate professor of information sciences, explained that information entered on any website is recorded.

Internet activity history, too, is recorded while social networks like Facebook are in use. This data is stored and becomes observable by corporations, which use it to personalize advertisements.

The Director of the Center for Intelligence Systems and Machine Learning Michael W. Berry, who is also a professor of electrical engineering and computer sciences, suggested maintaining privacy in a highly connected world, however possible. When consumers make a purchase and are asked for a phone number, for example, they may refuse to provide this unnecessary information.

“Protecting your digital footprint is possible in some cases if you’re a little more in tune to what you’re doing,” Berry said.

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ARTS & CULTURE ‘This Is Us’ captures humanity in fame for One Direction Hannah Moulton

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With a tour that sold out in minutes, an album that reached No. 1 on the charts before its official release and now a 3D feature-film, it is no surprise One Direction sits atop the world of boy bands.

“One Direction: This Is Us” is a documentary that portrays the lives of the English-Irish boy band. They are comprised of Harry Styles, Niall Horan, Liam Payne, Louis Tomlinson and Zayn Malik, all of whom auditioned for “The X-Factor” as solo acts.

Just as they were all dropped from the competition, previous American Idol judge Simon Cowell made the decision to place the boys into one group, and One Direction was formed.

Although they came in third on “The X-Factor,” they vowed that it would not be the last anyone would see of One Direction.

It definitely wasn’t.

Morgan Spurlock — the man behind the film “Super Size Me” — directs the film, and does it well.

Half the film shows 3D concert sequences, which were shot at London’s famed O2 Arena during One Direction’s 2013 “Take Me Home” tour. The experience gives viewers the feeling that they are front and center, complete with shots of other screaming fans and waves from the boys themselves. In the movie, the group perform hits like “Kiss You,” “Little Things” and “What Makes You Beautiful” – their first single.

Although this film is every fangirl’s dream, those who are not as familiar with the group will enjoy it as well. The offstage scenes are what make the film relatable, as you see that these pop stars are just typical “lads.”

They take the audience back to their hometowns to see the places they grew up, meet their

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“One Direction: This is Us” is a 3D concert film centered around the pop sensations, following the members from their humble beginnings to their international fame. parents and even visit their previous work places.

It is evident that the boys have big hearts. They definitely break away from the “diva” stereotype one normally attaches to a famous pop group. In one of the most tear-jerking scenes, Malik buys a house for his mother and sisters, claiming that it was his turn to give back.

The film doesn’t completely shy away from One Direction’s celebrity image. There are multiple cameos in “This Is Us,” in the form of actor Chris Rock, director Martin Scorsese and soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo.

Rock and Scorsese both sing praises of the boy band when they bring family members to a performance at Madison Square Garden.

The film also shows the crazier side of the fame: the fans.

Thousands of screaming fans are shown standing outside of venues, sprinting across busy roads and even hanging out of moving vehicles, all for the

chance to catch a glimpse of One Direction.

In one scene, Tomlinson, Malik and Payne are forced into a shop to wait out the mob of frantic fans who spotted them walking down the street an incident almost like something from a zombie-apocalypse movie.

One Direction, however, does not chastise those fans for their frantic behavior. Horan even states, before opening a window to the roar of a hysterical crowd outside, “This is why we have the best fans in the world.”

“One Direction: This Is Us” is mostly a concert experience with some laughable and emotional moments sprinkled in.

Spurlock did an excellent job at capturing the boys’ personalities on camera, and the concert shots are beyond impressive.

This film will not disappoint its already massive fan base, and even those with reservations about it might find themselves enjoying the pop craze that is One Direction.

What: URHC’s Treasure Island Pool Party Where: TRECS Pool When: 7-8:30 p.m.

Price: Free Cortney’s Take: Ahoy, matey! It’s International Talk Like a Pirate Day and the United Residence Hall Council wants to celebrate.

Join them at the pool for free food and a Slip-n-Slide. Bring your eye patch and start the weekend shenanigans as a pirate.

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Sunday, September 22 What: Letters to the Earth: Songs and Poems of Conservation Where: Ijams Nature Center When: 3 p.m.

Price: Free Claire’s Take: Six acclaimed writers will be performing their Earth-related work at Ijams Nature Center, the perfect venue for this subject matter. The event will encourage environmental concern and provide quality poetry and song. Two of the writers are UT’s very own, Marilyn Kallet and Arthur Smith.

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What: Cheap Time concert Where: Pilot Light When: 10 p.m.

Price: $7 Cortney’s Take: A local rock band joined by two more rock bands and a girl band for less than a student movie ticket. Whether you need a place to let loose with your friends or you honestly enjoy rock music, this is sure to be a good time.

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Yellen represents responsible choice for Federal Reserve Dean’s List by

Katie Dean While following up on whether we are going to take away Assad’s chemical weapons is certainly more exciting than following what is happening at the Federal Reserve, it merits mention that Ben Bernanke’s term as the leader of the Fed is up on Jan. 31.

Although that may seem like a future issue, fervent discussion has already begun about who will take over and what consequences his or her selection will have, both politically and financially.

Additionally, up to nine members of the policy-making committee may leave within the next year. With this many changes occurring in such a short period of time, the future of Federal Reserve policies is fairly uncertain.

As the central banking system of the United States, the policies and regulations of the Fed have direct effect on the everyday lives of Americans. The Federal Reserve oversees monetary policy in the U.S. and is assigned with maximizing job creation and stabilizing prices.

Given how different economic policy can be, choosing a chairperson for this organization can be heavily influenced by the current political climate. The Fed is subject to congressional oversight and the chairperson must be confirmed by the Senate, so tons of different factors can come into play.

Up until this week, the two most likely candidates for the position have been Larry Summers, a former secretary of the Treasury and former president of Harvard University, and Janet Yellen, the current vice chair of the Federal Reserve Board.

Although both candidates are incredibly qualified and come touting impressive resumes, experience is hardly the only thing that matters when the position in question is so important.

Even the smallest comments from the chairperson can have great influence on our market, and Summers tends to have the propensity to spurt off and offend people at the drop of a hat. Needless to say, I was relieved when he announced he would no longer compete for the candidacy of Chairman of the Board.

His potential chairmanship was fairly controversial and exposed some dissent within the Democratic party. Several Democratic members of Congress opposed Obama’s choice and expressed that they would not confirm Summers. Some even went so far to say that his appointment process would be a “nightmare.”

Despite being slated early on as one of Obama’s favorite choices, several key players in the Democratic party have essentially told him not to bother. Summers continues to face backlash from several controversies, and his comments about women working in science and engineering have haunted him; in 2005 Summers stated that the reason for the lack of female representation in those fields could be related to “ a different availability of aptitude at the high end.”

How ironic that he is now being passed over for a woman.

While Larry Summers may be an incredibly intelligent individual with a flair for manipulating important people, he is both abrasive and egotistical. Not only was Summers a key player in repealing Glass-Steagall, a Great Depressionera law that separated the funds for commercial and investment banking, but he also has a reputation for being a little too buddy-buddy with Wall Street.

Representatives on both sides of the aisle have expressed disdain for Summers; Republican Sen. Pat Roberts stated that he wouldn’t want Summers to “mow his yard.” In a political climate where Republicans and Democrats have trouble agreeing on just about everything, it says quite a bit that at least some representatives from both sides feel Summers would be a volatile choice.

If Janet Yellen becomes the first female Chairperson of the Federal Reserve Board, it will represent a key crack in the glass ceiling. Summers was right to withdraw his name from the race, not only because he has a horrible temperament and people do not like him, but because he was really only in the running because of his relationship with President Obama.

For Yellen to be passed over for Summers would have been absolutely shameful. I am confident that she has enough “aptitude on the high end” to be an efficient, tactful leader of the Fed. Katie Dean is a junior in political science. She can be reached at xvd541@utk.edu.

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Power of music rekindles oft-forgotten memories Uncommon Sense by

Evan Ford Think of a song you heard all the time earlier in your life. Perhaps it was a song your parents played during the holidays, the sound of the stereo mingling with the smells from the kitchen in the warm air.

Maybe it’s a lullaby your mother sang to you when you were young, and your mind still wanders there when you’re falling asleep.

Maybe it’s a song you listened to with your high school crush, daring for the first time to touch her hand. You put it onto that mix CD you made to play in the car on the night of the dance.

I don’t mean to be sloppy and sentimental, but I quite literally can’t help it. This is what music and movies do to us. It takes us back, to memories, emotions and regrets we thought we had left behind. It silences the present, replacing it with some other experience.

Full disclosure: I’m a musician. In addition to the philosophy and economics degrees I pursue during the day, I moonlight with my band Cereus Bright, traveling around the Southeast to fill rooms with music.

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whole big feeling comes back up. Not just her face, and not just the dress she was wearing when we first played it, but the whole story, months long, all resurfaces in that little song.

I’m no longer in my car or between a pair of headphones, but in that story.

I’m glad that music is so tied to our memory. If not, I’m not sure we’d have any way to remember what it’s like to be a heartbroken kid, or a teenager just angry at the world. Our iPods are like an index to our personal stories.

“Want to go back to eighth grade? Here’s Damien Rice!”

It’s not how we always think of music, and perhaps we should leave ourselves room to just enjoy the music we hear, but it’s also amazing that music can simply summon up our past hopes and fears and loves. It’s something that only music and other stories can do.

If you have some time, revisit the old you.

Maybe she’s stuck inside those old playlists, or in a TV show you watched after school, or even in old pictures. This isn’t just nostalgia, it’s perspective. It lets us remember not just how we got where we are, but also why we wanted to be there in the first place.

Evan Ford is a junior in philosophy and economics. He can be reached at eford6@ utk.edu.

Stop rushing through your degree into uncertainty Knight Errant by

Victoria Knight “So what are your plans after college?”

We all seem to get asked about our future no matter what year we are as college students.

For many, the answer never really seems to get easier.

Some people answer with a surety and conviction that completely outlines the exact plan for their life. They are going to pursue this exact degree, with a focus on this exact thing, and they even have the school they want to go to for it picked out.

Other students seem to be on the other end of the spectrum, with answers such as, “I’m not really sure what I want to do yet,” or “I’m trying to figure it out.”

Throughout my own college career, I have swung between both of these kinds of answers, depending on the semester.

A New York Times article titled “Major Decisions” indicates that part of the reason for this indecisiveness stems from the handful of options made readily available to us, which makes it difficult to choose a major. A study by

the National Center for Education Statistics found that nearly 80 percent of American university students change their major at least once.

On average, students change their major at least three times during their collegiate career.

As the prospect of graduation in May looms ever closer for me, I have spent an inordinate amount of time talking to fellow upperclassmen about what we’re going to do with our lives, and I have realized I am not alone in my uncertainty.

So many others feel the same sense of unknown – as one of my friends recently told me, he feels like he’s walking down a long hallway lined with doors to opportunities. At each door he tests the handle, and into the unlocked doors he peeks inside.

Some doors he decides to close; others he leaves propped open to explore later.

If you, like him, have yet to find the correct door, don’t worry– even if you’re a senior in college and you’ve found that what you’ve been studying for four years is not something you want to pursue further, you are not alone.

We have this timeline set in our minds that arbitrarily demands we accomplish certain things by a certain time, but it is totally false.

A societal construct, the “timeline” deems you a social late-bloomer if you are not pursuing some form of higher education or have your career on track after college. The next goals to accomplish are marriage by your early 30s and

then having kids a couple of years later. If you have not found a soulmate before then, people begin to pity you. Career status ambiguity garners the same sidelong glances.

All of this panic needs to stop. Stop creating and then adhering to this timeline. Do things in your own time, whether that means taking a few more years to add on another degree, or just traveling and backpacking around the world for some time. Work a temporary job for a year while you do grad school applications. Not everything you want to do has to be accomplished during college. Oftentimes, what you want to do probably shouldn’t be constrained to your college years anyway.

We are never done growing as individuals, nor is it ever too late to start over. A crossroads will appear many times in our lives, forcing a choice between two roads: one continuing on the same pathway, possibly to a life filled with drudgery and regret, or another to a life filled with passion and purpose.

Most would choose the latter, an appealing ideal that nevertheless requires braving the ambiguity to become the author of their own lives.

Try that answer the next time someone asks, “What are you doing after college?”

Tell them you’ll let them know when you get there.

Victoria Knight is a senior in microbiology.

She can be reached at vknight4@utk.edu.

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Oh yeah, and I write super political rantcolumns every week, which I’m taking a break from to write on a more relatable topic — music.

We all have music in our lives. We have all had a song pop up on shuffle or Pandora, and been brought back to our childhood or some relationship or even a specific place. We have all been in the midst of terrible days that ultimately ended with the screaming of some pop song into the back of our windshields.

We all have songs that break our hearts each time we hear them, which is often.

For me, that song is “So Sorry” by Canadian songstress Feist – whom you may recognize for her song “1234” from the iPod commercial.

It’s a slow little song, just guitar and vocal, but the lyrics are devastating—“I’m sorry, two little words I always say … after you’re gone, and I realize, I’ve been acting all wrong.” I listen to it about once a month, and spend the rest of the day in a cloud.

I first heard “So Sorry” when a girl I knew asked me to help her play it at a party where she was dressing up as Feist. I played guitar, sang and fell in love with her all within those three sweet minutes.

We started dating a few months later; I ended up being jealous and immature. I lost her. There I was, saying those little words after she was gone.

Now, every time I hear that song, this

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Jenna Butz Contributor What typically serves as a chance for aspiring writers to showcase their work, this semester’s first “Writers in the Library� presentation found celebrated novelist Nicholas Delbanco paying an emotional tribute to his dear friend and fellow writer, the late Jon Manchip White.

White, who died in his home in Knoxville in July at 89, was scheduled to talk side-by-side with Delbanco.

The readings were coordinated by Chris Hebert, UT’s writer-in-residence, and Marilyn Kallet, the creative writing director at UT. This year marks the 15th anniversary of the “Writers� event.

In his introduction, Hebert expressed his condolences to White’s daughter, who sat in the front row. “While I am delighted that Nicholas Delbanco is here,�

Hebert said, “I am deeply saddened that White is not.�

Delbanco, who has written over 20 books ranging from novels to criticism to textbooks, was also Hebert’s teacher and mentor at the University of Michigan. “Nicholas Delbanco is a man of impeccable style and grace and wit,� Hebert said. “He published his acclaimed first novel when he was 23. He hasn’t slowed down since.�

Although White was not at the event in person, he was there in spirit and in Hebert’s and Delbanco’s memories.

Hebert emphasized White’s degrees in English, archaeology, ancient languages and anthropology from Cambridge, as well as the fact that he wrote the BBC’s first television screenplay. “What does a man do with such a wide range of expertise?

Whatever he feels like,� Hebert said with a laugh.

One of his most important accomplishments was White’s founding of UT’s creative writing program in 1977 – and more recently – his promotion to the title of professor emeri-

tus of English in the last years of his life.

When Delbanco took the stage, his main concern was not just talking about his work, but celebrating the life of White. “The vast bulk of what I what I want to do is honor our great, late master,� Delbanco said.

Delbanco and White had been close friends for years resulting in an “intimate correspondence,� as Hebert described it. “So substantial is the two mens’ correspondence, that for the past year, Nicholas Delbanco and White were working to compile it as a book for publication,� Hebert said.

During Delbanco’s reading, he read not only from his work, but also through the introduction of the compilation of his and White’s letters through their 30-year friendship. Although a somber occasion, Delbanco interrupted himself with quick, joking anecdotes about the two mens’ relationship, creating both laughter and tears in the audience.

Delbanco also read from his newest book, “The Art of Youth,� set to hit shelves this fall. In his excerpt, he described his journey into writing under the strict regimen of waking up and writing 500 words each morning. “All young artists, I think, must acquire their own systematic procedure,� Delbanco said.

As the talk closed, the air grew subdued as Delbanco again acknowledged the passing of White. “It grieves me sorely that but one of us has seen (the book of letters) to creation,�

Delbanco said. “To Jon’s enduring memory, I dedicate my book.�

Kallet, a long-time friend and colleague of White, presented a ballad of the late writer’s life to end the tribute. “You were our man made of words,� Kallet said. “Our writing students are your legacy, too.�

Take the heart of a classic rock band, mix the energy of a house party in the Fort and the result will be Johnny Astro and the Big Bang.

This local band, formed in 2009, is made up of Paul Wakefield, Mike Carroll, Patrick Tice and Nathan Gilleran. It was Wakefield, guitarist and lead vocalist, who compared JABB’s sound to that of old rockers. “If you take old rock, the feel and the balls from it – when you actually had people who were really good at music and they gave a (expletive) and all they did was play music – the mindset of those people,� Wakefield, senior in psychology, said. “We don’t want to do the same things they did, but we want to add to and contribute. Think about what they would do now, if they were alive. “We want to keep rock moving forward, but still stay on a good track.�

Andy Vinson, long-time fan of JABB and music director of UT radio station WUTK, said that this sound is what sets the band apart from others. “They put on a really great, typical rock show, which is kind of hard to find now days,�

Vinson said. “It’s loud, it’s high energy ‌ and it’s really well written. “People try to go super indie or folky or pop, and Johnny Astro is a conveyer of pure rock and roll.â€?

This feeling comes through in the way the songs are written, according to Tice, guitarist for JABB since 2011.

“We’re very music intensive,â€? the senior in public relations said. “We start writing songs with the music and add vocals in later, so sometimes it tends to get sort of intricate‌ there are a lot of layers.â€?

Carroll, the band’s bassist, said that the music starts with one idea and is written as a group, with each member contributing to the songs.

Wakefield adds that he uses his voice as an instrument, singing “gibberish� with the music until lyrics are pieced together to form a cohesive song. “For the people who really like music and are into what’s going on beneath [the surface] they can stop for a minute and look at it and see that there’s a lot going on if you have the ear for it,� Wakefield said. “We want to make music that people like, but we want to make music that music people like.�

Tice said that JABB’s music is conducive to the band’s love of audience interaction. Wakefield adds that the venue influences this interaction. “We played a house party in the Fort ‌ and that was one of the most fun shows we’ve played in a minute just because the lack of a stage is kind of a turn on for me musically,â€?

Wakefield said. “It’s so much better being right there with people in your face. I fell over a drum set in a show, which would never happen on stage.�

JABB won the 2011 Sound Off competition, and singles such as “You Got Me Confused� can be heard on WUTK. “(Hearing your song on the radio) inspires you,� Tice said. “Especially if you hear that it was requested and you didn’t

FILM FESTIVAL The festival also features films that are the result of two film competitions. The Seven Day Shootout challenged teams of filmmakers to create a seven-minute film in seven days. The Battle Cry of Freedom Competition was aimed towards high school and college students who competed to make films about the Civil War. Although this is Knoxville’s first film festival, east Tennessee is no stranger to such events. “I founded the Secret City Film Festival 10 years ago, and last year I moved it from Oak Ridge to Knoxville,� McDaniel said. “I

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Tice is not above self-promotion though, and laughingly adds that he frequently requests his own music on WUTK. The band has a chemistry that is hard to find in todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s music world, Wakefield added.

Nearing graduation for some members, this creates a desire to stay together as a band after leaving UT. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If I move to another city, no way am I going to find three guys that Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m going to mesh with better and be able to start a band thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s anywhere near the quality of this,â&#x20AC;? Wakefield said.

was approached by the folks at the Dogwood Arts Festival. They were interested in adding a film component to the things that they do.â&#x20AC;?

The Dogwood Arts Festival is now a full partner in the film festival. As part of that partnership, Downtown West was chosen as the location of the festival. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are lucky in Knoxville to have a theater that shows a lot of independent films, even ones that might be financed partially through smaller Hollywood studios,â&#x20AC;? Maland said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Downtown West shows mostly independent films, foreign language films or documentary films. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They usually donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t show the mainstream movies that will be at the Riviera or at Pinnacle or West Town (Mall). It is a perfect venue for it.â&#x20AC;?

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Golf plans comeback from slow finish Jessica Koralewski Contributor

Improvement is the name of the game in Tennessee athletics this week, from football to women’s golf.

Upon finishing ninth in their first tournament of the season, the Cougar Classic, the Lady Vols are looking to make adjustments mentally and physically to defend their turf when they host the Mercedes-Benz Championship this Friday at the Cherokee Country Club.

Last week, the Lady Vols gradually improved in the tournament’s three-day span, climbing from 13th to ninth place in the 20-team tournament.

“We came back a little bit the last day and had a solid round, which was nice to see, but we dug ourselves a little bit too big of a hole in that first round, so we just couldn’t climb up far enough,” Lady Vols head coach Judi Pavon said of last week’s performance.

The team eagerly anticipates

playing at home this week, and intends to learn from the rocky start to the season.

Tennessee finished fifth out of the eight SEC schools in the field in the Cougar Classic.

“We want to win and we always like to be really competitive at home and give ourselves a chance to win,” Pavon said.

“In the field we have, there are a couple tough teams coming, but I think that if we can play our best and not make the mistakes we made last week, we have a good chance to come out on top. In order to do that, we need to hit lots of greens, play the par threes well, and make some birdies on the par fives.”

In order to do these things, two of the players the Lady Vols will rely on this week are Chessey Thomas and Hannah Pietila, who both led the team in the Cougar Classic and are focusing on carrying the confidence into this week.

“I really didn’t do anything too poorly,” Thomas said of her opening tournament. “I played

FOOTBALL PRACTICE continued from Page 1 “It prepares you for the atmosphere we will see Saturday with the band noise, the gator chomp and the fans,” senior defensive end Corey Miller said. “I think our guys understand what is at stake here and we need to play hard.”

Junior defensive end Jordan Williams, a Gainesville native, has a deep understanding of what goes into the UT-Florida rivalry.

“There’s a lot of strong history,” Williams said.

“I remember growing up every time they played, it would be all over the TV. I feel like now that it’s here it’s time to get out there and get after it.”

Cy Young Under Center The starting quarterback job is up for grabs between Justin Worley, Nathan Peterman, Joshua Dobbs and Riley Ferguson.

Jones made it clear he will pick the starter based on who is most prepared and performed the most consistent in practice this week.

He is looking for a quarterback that can have an effectiveness running the football, but also provide leadership with a knack for victory.

“We’re in a performance-based business,” Jones said. “I told our quarterbacks that the starting quarterback is the equivalent of a starting pitcher

steady all week, so to finally get it going a little bit the last day brought just a little extra confidence.”

One thing the team admits needs improvement is performance in the short game, and attempting fewer putts will impact the team’s overall score drastically.

“My putting has always been my Achilles’ heel, and my game needs to improve,” Thomas said. “When you hit a lot of greens, you’ve got to two-putt, and that’s kind of been my weakness as of late, so a little extra focus on that the next few days and it should be good to go.”

The team is optimistic, knowing full well what they need to do in order to succeed.

“Positives to take into this tournament would be just to stay calm and try to play better the first day so we can all be in it, instead of putting ourselves out of it the first day,” Pietila said. “That, I think, is really huge and that’s what the coaches are telling us.”

in baseball. At the end of the day, you’re measured on wins and losses.”

Dobbs and Ferguson have a fighting chance, as Jones made it clear he is not afraid to give one of the highly touted newcomers snaps in the hostile road environment.

The last time the Vols started a true freshman against Florida happens to be the last time the Vols beat the Gators.

In 2004, Brent Schaeffer started and split time with Erik Ainge – also a freshman – as UT squeaked past Florida 30-28 at Neyland Stadium.

Emotional Game for Randolph In the Vols 37-20 home loss to Florida last season, Brian Randolph suffered a season-ending torn ACL in the third quarter.

A year later, the redshirt sophomore safety is back on the field and one of the difference-makers on the Tennessee defense. He ranks second on the team in tackles with 14 and leads the team with two interceptions.

“It’s a good feeling,” Randolph said. “I’m going to try and cheer like it’s any other game, not going to try to get too worked up about it. There’s definitely going to be something in the back of my head that will make me realize this is the game I got hurt in last year.

“I’m blessed to be able to go out there and play again.”

Coach gives freshmen ‘F’ for first tournament Garrett Ahmad Contributor

After having their first team collegiate tennis practice Friday, three true freshmen on Tennessee’s men’s tennis team stepped onto the court later that day to compete in their first collegiate tournament, the Southern Intercollegiate Championships in Athens, Ga. Freshmen Markus Kerner, Sean Karl and Sunay Bhat, along with senior Colton Norton, all suffered the same fate in their singles matches on the first day of the tournament: a loss.

Karl and Kerner later teamed up in the Division I doubles draw, winning their first ever college doubles match against McLean/Taylor of Murray St. However, the duo lost to Kentucky’s Ellefsen/ Pennington in the Round of 32.

Bhat and Norton were defeated by Samaai/ Segur of Liberty in the Division II Round of 32.

The following day failed to fair any better as Kerner, Bhat and Norton all played consolation singles matches, and all lost in straight sets.

Sunday proved to be a better day for the Vols.

Bhat and Kerner, both in their second consolation match, earned their first singles victories in straight sets, while Karl lost his first consolation match.

Coach Sam Winterbotham was not pleased about the way his new players performed. After taking some time to think about it, he came up with a grade for the tournament.

“I’d say it was an F, and an incomplete,” Winterbotham said. “You know, it’s very hard to grade these guys on their first draw. Every time I’ve seen the freshmen go out and play his first real match or his first tournament, they’re just very nervous and not relaxed and not able to play how they play.”

However, the tournament was not a complete disaster. Winterbotham will use it as a lesson to teach the young players.

“It’s not about winning and losing for us right now,” Winterbotham said. “It’s about preparing the way we want you to prepare so you can be successful. ... The great thing is that it’s their first tournament. They get to understand that. Now they know what the standards are, and we can move forward.”

The Vols will continue their season this Thursday in Nashville at the SEC Fall Classic – a tournament that normally takes place in the spring but has been moved to fall because of scheduling issues and a lack of attendance.

This will be the first action of the season for most of the team, including senior Jarryd Chaplin from Sydney, Australia, who knows it is a difficult

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“Well, effectively it’s the best in the SEC, and the SEC is obviously one of the toughest conferences,” Chaplin said, “so that gives a bit of an indication of the kind of people we’ll be playing this week. You don’t ease your way into a tournament like this.

You’ve got to be ready on Thursday.”

Winterbotham relishes the opportunity for his players to get elite competition this early in the season.

“What I’ve heard is most of the schools are bringing their players,” Winterbotham said, “so it’s going to be a great draw. It’s going to be a really, really good tournament. ... So you’re going to be able to go and get great matches, great competition in the fall – early in the year – which I think is awesome.”

Chaplin immediately denied the suggestion that there could be any sluggishness to start after not competing in a college match since May. “No, not at all,” Chaplin said. “This is what you hang out for over the summer. This is the fun stuff.

I’ve only got one year left so I’m chomping at the bit to get into it.”